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Mr. Browcr rainier has roturned to work after an al)sen('e occa- 

 sioned l)y painful illness. 



Professor Osborn's Proboscidean Memoir is receiving the undivided 

 attention of members of his department and is making good {progress. 



Mr. Sherwood would be the first to admit the efficiency of our Police 

 Department in enforcing traffic regulations— such as the laws against 

 speeding. On March 10th he was given another evidence of police 

 activity in this direction. 



Dr. Carlotta J. Maury, of Hastings-on-Hudson, brought her usual 

 charm and cheerfulness with her on a surprise visit to the Museum on 

 March 24th. Her friends were delighted to see her. Dr. Maury has 

 been asked by the Carib Syndicate to write a Memoir on the Gastropods 

 of the Gulf and Colombian Tertiary Fossils. She is leaving shortly for 

 Ithaca to begin the work. 



The carpenters are much in need of a blower to eliminate the dust in 

 which they are at present forced to work. 



John Finn has been made an assistant in the Department of 

 Herpetology. 



On March 23rd, Dwight Franklin, formerly of our Department of 

 Preparation, called at the Museum to get data for some European cul- 

 ture groups which he is working on for a Western museum. 



The Department of Archaeology is, and for a whole year has been, 

 house-cleaning — working over the storage collections and putting them 

 in order, so that if possible more space may be made available for the 

 use of the Department. The work is going on under Mr. Nelson's 

 direction. 



Patrick Molloy has been given a six- weeks' furlough, which he will 

 spend in Ireland. 



Miss Helen H. Roberts has just returned from a visit to Jamaica, 

 where she spent three months studying native music. 



