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One of the fishes coUeetcd for the Museum by Dr. L^verinanii last 

 summer in Hawaii turns out to belong to a new race, and is being named 

 in his honor in the first fish article in Novitates. 



The suggestion has been made that the Museum ought to open a 

 Department of Natural Diseases, in connection with its educational 

 program. 



Five very fine pieces of batik from Java have been purchased by the 

 Department of Anthropology, and will soon be placed on exhibition. 



Mr. ]\liner and Mr. Granger are in a fair way to become moving 

 picture idols. They figured recently in films made in the Museum by the 

 Bray Studios. Mr. Miner shared the honors with some radiolarians, in 

 one film, and, in the other, Mr. Granger and the ground sloths in our 

 laboratory and Age of Man Hall were featured. 



On their recent visit to Mr. Burroughs, Dr. Fisher, Mrs. Smith and 

 Miss Wiley were so indignant at finding the cabin, Slabsides, badly de- 

 faced by visitors writing on the building and tearing off the bark, that 

 they and Dr. Barrus, who was also present, prepared the following sign, 

 which was read and approved by Mr. Burroughs and placed in the 

 window : 



"Will each visitor who appreciates and loves John Burroughs kindly 

 obliterate at least one name with which some thoughtless person has 

 disfigured Slabsides. 



"Signed, Smilodon Tribe, 



"Woodcraft League of America." 



Mr. Nichols will spend the first three weeks of February cruii^ing in 

 southern waters. 



The Second International Congress of Eugenics, which will be held 

 in New York City September 22-28, 1921, has opened an office in the 

 Museum. Professor Osborn is President of the Congress, and Mr. C. C. 

 Little, of the Laboratory for Experimental Evolution, at Cold Spring 

 Harbor is the Secretary-General. 



The First International Congress was held in London in August, 

 1912, under the auspices of the Eugenics Education Society and 

 presidency of Major Leonard Darwin. 



