MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



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Nathan D. Bill continues to enrich the collections with timely and 

 well-selected specimens. The department of archasology has received 

 from him, recently, a number of articles of pottery from the cliff 

 dwellings of Arizona. These specimens supplement the large collec- 

 tions of Indian and pre-historic material already in possession of the 

 museum. This addition has made necessary the installation of three 

 new cases. Mr. Bill has also given many Colonial relics. 



The department of zoology has received from him a finely-mounted 

 specimen of a bull moose, shot by the donor at the hunting grounds 

 of the Iroquois Club, 75 miles north of Quebec. 



Mr. George S. Lewis, Jr., has added largely to the material in 

 botany. So extensive and varied are the collections in this field that 

 the space allotted for their exhibition is by no means adequate, and 

 the need of additional cases must soon be recognized. 



The collection of galls gathered by Miss Fannie A. Stebbins in 

 the preparation of Bulletin No. 2 has been presented to the museum. 



Prof. J. H. Emerton of Boston has given a number of spiders, 

 identified as belonging to 16 species, all of local habitat. 



Miss Mary A. Booth, to whom the museum is indebted for so 

 many valuable gifts, has presented it with fossils from Barbadoes, 

 and with a number of Colonial relics. 



Mr. Waterman S. C. Russell, director of science in the Central 

 High School, brought back from Iceland last fall a series of minerals 

 and rocks illustrating the geology of that island, and these have 

 been added to the collections in the Science Building. Many of the 

 specimens are volcanic or igneous in nature, and they constitute a 

 suggestive approach to the study of the rem.arkable country whence 

 they came. Probably few museums in the United States possess such 

 an extensive range of illustrations of Icelandic formations. 



The City Library Association has purchased three pieces of 

 apparatus for making certain tests in psychology. It is intended to 

 use these instruments in supplementing the data secured by the 

 department of physical training in the public schools, in the hope 

 of reaching conclusions of value in educational methods. 



Three new cases have been placed in the archsBological room; 

 one of these is set apart for the Russian and Scandinavian relics and 

 curios, collected and given to the museum many years ago by 

 Mr. Daniel L. Harris; another contains pottery of the Arizona cliff 

 dwellers; and the third is allotted to the Indian implements and 

 pottery presented by Mr. Clarence B. Moore of Philadelphia. 



