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Mr. Liiko O'Neill has boon suffcM-iiifj; from a ijoculiar injury to the 

 lip;anKMits of his loft arm. The injury was for a time Imlievod to 1)0 a 



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Mr. 'i'hornton W. Biu'jioss, author of " Bodtimo Stories, " spent part of 

 April Uth at the Museum. 



Members of the Department of Invertebrate Zoology are busy re- 

 arranging the spider collection, which is being placed in the new type of 

 racks for storing alcoholics recently devised by the Department's in- 

 ventive genius. 



\A'e shall be glad to welcome back to our ranks Mr. Karl P. Schmidt, 

 who will take up again, early in May, the duties of Assistant Curator of 

 the Department of Herpetology, which he resigned last July. 



On April 16th, Dr. IMurphy lectured at the University of 

 Toronto on "Explorations among the Islands of Peru." On April 

 21st, he spoke in Philadelphia at the opening session of the American 

 Philosophical Society convention, on "The Influence of the Humboldt 

 Current on the Distribution and Abundance of Marine Life." 



The Fur Seal Group is being remodelled, and new material received 

 from the Bureau of Fisheries is being incorporated. The new specimens 

 include a male, three females and nine pups. The newly arranged group 

 will be placed on the second floor, Centre Pavilion, in front of the ele- 

 phant. 



Mr. Anderson, who has been at the Museum only very irregularly 

 for the last year or so, because of illness, has recently been able to give 

 most of his time to Mu.seum work. 



The Department of Invertebrate Zoology has received the inverte- 

 brate material collected in 1911 in Lower California by the Albatross 

 Expedition. The collection is interesting in that it is largely made up of 

 deep-water material, of which the Museum has comparatively little 

 and contains a number of species not heretofore represented in our col- 

 lections. 



