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Committee whose function will be to assist employees in need in matters 

 of obtaining medical advice, hospital treatment, etc. The members of 

 the Committee are: Mr. A. Perry Osborn, Chairman; Dr. Walter B. 

 James; Mr. Warburg: Mr. Pindar. 



At the latest meeting of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, Dr. Marjoric O'Connell, who has been doing research 

 work in invertebrates for the Department of \'ertebrate Palaeontology, 

 was elected a Fellow. 



Dr. Gregory will leave New York on the 24th of May, and expects 

 to arrive in Australia about the last week in June. Before going into the 

 field he will endeavor to .secure the cooperation of the Australian mu- 

 seums and individual zoologists in obtaining a representative .series of 

 mammals, birds, ethnological and other natural history material for this 

 Museum. 



From Carthagena, Colombia, comes the following letter, which will 

 probably be of general interest : 



"^ "Director of the Museum of antiquities. 

 "New York. 



"Estimated Sir: 



" Have the present for ol)ject to manifest you that I am in possession 

 of the old head of an indigenous, petrified and, consequently, with 

 reduced large ; and surely conserved by singulars proceedings employed 

 by the barbarous indians in order to conserve the trophy of theirs 

 rares achievements. I send you two portraits, one in profile, and the 

 other in fore part, with a design of its dimension. 



"Such a head conserve its hair intact, some hoary. Its face have a 

 wound in the left side, which, no to doubt, its received during life. 



"I offer to sale this mummy, which was obtained at Centro-america 

 by a good price. You may offcrt, by the way you prefer. . I will give 

 certificates of its legitimacy. 



"I should thank you, if in your Museum is not necessary, you deign 

 yourself to offer it to whichever scientific stal:)lishment in your country. 



"As you will note in the portrait, the liaed have a j^ilaster of tortoise- 

 shell. 



"Please to answer me as soon a.«< you can. 



"At vour orders." etc. 



