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Dr. ( Iregory expects to .sail for Australia next May, a('('oini)anied by 

 Mr. H. C. Raven, to make a tour of the collecting grounds and labora- 

 tories of New Zealand and Australia, for the l)enefit of several of the 

 departments. He will probably return by the end of September. 



Miss Percy and Mr. Chubb have both returned to tlieir work after 

 sight illnesses. 



Mrs. Sterling is exhibiting a statuette and a series of reliefs at the 

 Exhibition of Women Painters and Sculptors being held at the Anderson 

 Galleries. The Exhibition will continue until March loth. Admission 

 is free, and everyone is welcome. 



Dr. H.N. Coryell, formerly of the University of Chicago and now of 

 Columbia University, has been engaged for ten weeks of the coming 

 summer as special assistant on the Bryozoan exhibits. Dr. Coryell will 

 address the March '21st meeting of the Section of Geology and Mineral- 

 ogy of the New York Academy of Sciences, giving a resume of 

 the geology of Spitzbergen. 



On February 3rd, a daughter — Constance Rogers Hovey — was born 

 to Dr. and Mrs. Hovey. 



The Smilodon Tribe, Woodcraft League, took an ol)servation trip to 

 I>ong Beach on February 27th. They paid special attention to winter 

 birds and the life of the ocean beach. 



Mrs. Smith, of our Department of Public Education, was recently a 

 guest of John Burroughs at La Jolla. She obtained a number of excel- 

 lent snapshots of the veteran naturalist. 



Mr. Burroughs, according to newspaper reports, is at present ill 

 in a California hos})ital. 



Programs and tickets for the Museum's Spring lecture courses have 

 been issued. 



We greatly regret the death of Mrs. Smyth, mother of our Mr. and 

 Miss Smyth, which occurred on February 15th, and that of Frank 

 SchaefTer, our form.er packer, which occurred on February 19th. 



