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Miss Hazel de Bcrard, an artist, has been engaged to work on the 

 PHoccne and Pleistocene collection from Southern California, which 

 Mr. Frick has brought together during the last year or two, and on which 

 he has l)egun active work. Miss Bcrard has just returned from a year 

 in devastated France. 



Mr. Thomson, of ^^ertebrate Palaeontology, has been ill. 



Mr. Knight's last mural of the Neanderthal Grouj) — the third of the 

 human group — has been hung in its place, where he will work on the re- 

 touching. He has l:>egun work on the Rancho La Brea group. This will 

 occupy the wall s})ace in the southeast corner of the Age of Man Hall, 

 and will include several ])ictures. 



Miss Levy recently directed a pageant given by the members of a 

 club for young girls in which she is interested. 



Mr. A. E. Anderson, who has been ill for nearly a year, drojis in at 

 the Museum occasionally. He spent last summer at his home in the 

 Catskills. 



The new large cutting machine recently installed in the binder}' is 

 in operation. It is the finest model obtainable. This, with the large 

 folding machine and the Smyth book sewer which has also just been put 

 in place, provides the bindery with valuable equipment which will 

 greatly expedite the work of the dei)artment. 



Miss ALirtha Miller has returned to her work after an absence occa- 

 sioned l)v the tearing of ligaments in her foot. 



The Sixth Annual Meeting of the American Society of Ichthyolo- 

 gists and Herpetologists will be held at the Academy of Natural Sciences 

 in Philadelphia on March 8th. Mr. Nichols, the Secretary of the 

 Society, will be present, and other Museum representatives will also 

 ))r()bably attend. 



Mrs. Peters, an instructor in Entomology at the New York State 

 School of Agriculture at Farmingdale, Long Island, has made arrange- 



