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(Changes in the scientific stuff", announced at the Annual Meeting 

 of the Board of Trustees, included the following: Dr. J. A. Allen, former 

 Curator of jMammals, was made Honorary Curator of his department; 

 Mr. Carl E. Akeley was made Associate in Mammalogy; Dr. Henry E. 

 Crampton, former Curator of Invertebrate Zoology, was made Honorary 

 Curator of Lower Invertebrates; Dr. Willard G. Van Name was made 

 Assistant Curator of Lower Invertebrates; Dr. F. E. Lutz, former 

 Associate Curator of Insects, was made Curator of Entomology; Dr. 

 Robert Cushman Murphy, former Curator of the Department of 

 Natural Science at the Brooklyn Museum, was made Associate Curator 

 of Marine Birds; Mr. Ludlow Griscom was made an Assistant Curator 

 of Ornithology; Dr. Herbert J. Spinden, former Assistant Curator of 

 Anthropology, was made Associate Curator of Mexican and Central 

 American Archceol ogy ; Mr. N. C. Nelson, Former Assistant Curator of 

 Anthropology, was made Associate Curator of North American Archae- 

 ology. Appointments as Research Associates included; Dr. George F. 

 Kunz, Gems; Frank J. Myers, Rotifera; Dr. A. L. Treadwell, Annulata; 

 Charles W. Leng, Coleoptera; Herbert F. Schwarz, Hymenoptera; 

 Dr. William M. Wheeler, Social Insects; Dr. E. W. Gudger, Ichthyology; 

 Clarence L. Hay, Mexican and Central American Archaeology; Ales- 

 sandro Fabbri, Physiology. 



A new department was instituted, to be known as the Department 

 of Comparative Anatomy, of which Dr. William K. Gregory was ap- 

 pointed Curator and Mr. S. H. Chuljb was made Assistant in Osteology. 

 Dr. J. Howard McGregor, of Columbia, was made Research Associate 

 in Human Anatomy. The Departmtent of Anatomy and Physiology 

 was converted into a Department of Comparative Physiology, with Dr. 

 R. W. Tower as Curator. 



Mr. George H. Sherwood, former Assistant Secretary of the Museum, 

 has been created Executive Secretary. 



President and Mrs. Osborn sailed on the "Mexico '" on February 2Gth 

 for a two weeks' sojourn at Nassau in the Bahama Islands. They expect 

 to return by March loth. 



On February 21st, Mrs. Garrett, the sister of Edward Drinker Cope, 

 lunched at the ]\Iuseum and was conducted through the exhibition halls 

 l)y Mr. Granger. 



