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ISSUED BY THE PUBLICITY COMMITTEE
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AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

THE MOTIVE
At who have meant good work with their

whole hearts have done good work.— Every
heart that has beat strong and cheerfully
has left a hopeful impulse behind it in
the world, and bettered the tradition of
mankind.

RoBert Louis STEVENSON

THE MUSEOLOGIST

This little magazine is devoted to the internal affairs of the Museum. It
exists for the sake of all the Museum workers, and offers itself as a ready
medium through which they may come into closer touch with each other and
with the Corporation.

It is issued by the Publicity Committee.

Volume I June, 1920 Number I

MUSEUM EMPLOYMENT

In these days of universal economic disturbance, when the
relations between capital and labor have narrowed to such a
sharp antagonism, and when all the circumstances of the
times seem to call the grasping instinct to its fullest expres-
sion, it is refreshing to find an occasional working community
where notably insufficient compensation and hampered
facilities have yet not impaired the enthusiasm of the workers
nor robbed the work of its inspiration. It is to be remarked
that this cheerful acceptance of hard conditions is character-
istic of the men and women whose toil bestows the largest
benefits on mankind. It isa part of the selflessness of their
purpose; a manifestation of the vision that looks over the
little, near things and dwells on wider, finer prospects. It
is the symptom of an ideal.

Such is the spirit of our Museum community. Science,
in her application so lavish of benefits to mankind, has
generally rewarded only slenderly the individuals whose lives
have been devoted to her service. And of all scientific fields,
Museums have perhaps least of all to yield, in the way of
financial return, to their workers. The reason for this is the
fact of the dependence of such institutions for the greater

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part on a few, uncommon men endowed with liberality of
purse as of mind. There is generally cooperation—often
whole-hearted—on the part of City or State authorities.
But frequently, as in our own case, this takes the form of
contributions for general maintenance. It is to open-
handed men of means that present day progress in the prose-
cution of Museum aims and ideals is very largely due. And
none more than American Museum employees can appreciate
this fact. For over the entire course of our history it has been
strikingly demonstrated. This sincere goodwill of Corpora-
tion for employees, and vice versa, is one of the strong, under-
lying factors in the Museum employee’s philosophy. But a
very few, however lavish in their benefactions, cannot finance
so vast and intricate an organization as a big Museum. And
a system which depends for the support of such enterprises
on the philanthropy of a limited class savors too strongly of
the paternalistic to be reconcilable with our democratic
culture.

In view of the scope of their service, it is a condition not
to be viewed with indifference that Museums receive such
shght material recognition from the average person. That
men of science and those allied with them in their endeavor
carry on unfalteringly and with little complaint of their
hardships in the face of living conditions today, does not
relieve of responsibility the larger and better compensated
body of men who enjoy the fruits of scientific labor. As a
sign of genuine progress will come the layman’s livelier appre-
ciation and more generous support of scientific research.
Such an ideal may perhaps be realized, as President Osborn
has already suggested, through the payment of a direct
educational poll-tax. Taxes of this sort are already in force
in seventeen of our States. But whatever form its expression

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may take, a more vivid public consciousness of the worthiness
of such institutions as Museums must eventually come.

Meanwhile, we are grateful to our Trustees and private
benefactors and to the members of the City Administration
who have contributed their earnest support to the Museum
and its projects. And as matter for special gratification we
receive the news of the salary increases for City employees
recently voted by the Legislature at Albany.

It is a great privilege to have an opportunity many times
a day, in the course of your business, to do a kindness which
is not to be paid for. Graciousness of demeanor is a large
part of the duty of any official person who comes into contact
with the world. Where a man’s business is, there is the place
for his religion to manifest itself.

THE NEWS

An attempt is being made to rush through the Yellowstone Park
Irrigation Bill (House Bill No. 12, 466). A protest against the passage
of this bill, which would destroy much of the beauty of the great natur-
al wonderland in the interests of private business, was signed by a
number of our staff members recently and forwarded to our Congress-
ional representatives in Washington.

The Museum’s portion of the first font of movable metal type ever
cast has been loaned to the National Arts Club for display in connection
with their Printing Exhibition. A demonstration of the method in which
it was used was given on May 13th. The type was made in Korea in
1403. Although a Korean invention, it bears Chinese characters. Half
of the font, which consists of 100 pieces of type, is the property of the
American Museum, the other half belongs to the British Museum.

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President and Mrs. Henry Fairfield Osborn recently returned from
an extended trip to Hawaii and adjacent islands. President Osborn
reports a very delightful trip, and returns much impressed with the
beauty of the islands.

Dr. Louis R. Sullivan has gone to Hawaii, where he will remain for
a year doing anthropometric work in connection with the survey of
Polynesia which is being conducted under the direction of Dr. Herbert

E. Gregory of the Bishop Museum.

A number of our employees have recently suffered bereavements.
Mr. Granger has lost his mother, Mr. Sniffin his sister, Mr. Nichols his
father, Mr. Thomson his mother and Mr. Donovan his daughter. To
all of them we extend our deep sympathy.

Colonel John C. F. Tillson, of Governors Island, has deposited in
the Museum a valuable collection of cinnabar, jade and porcelain vessels
from China, some of which are very fine pieces. It is to be hoped that the
greater part of this material will become the permanent property of the
Museum.

The Giant Panda lately acquired by the Museum has been placed
on exhibition in the Synoptic Hall, third floor, east.

Many visitors to the Hall of Fossil Mammals inquire how many
years ago the various prehistoric animals represented there ved. As
an aid to those interested, it has been suggested that the extent of the
geological epochs be indicated on the chart at the entrance to the hall.

Mr. Leonard Marthens has moved to the quarters lately occupied
by the printing force, which has in turn been far more adequately in-
stalled in the East Basement. It is to be hoped that the office which
Mr. Marthens vacated will be turned over to the use of the Adminis-
trative Staff, especially of the bookkeepers’ force which continues to
grow—although some of it is pretty well grown already.

Dr. Lucas and family are to become residents of Flushing, Long
Island, in the fall. We trust that transportation difficulties will not
interfere with the Director's daily attendance at the Museum.

Dr. Chester A. Reeds recently moved into his new home at Lowerre,
New York.

Dr. G. Clyde Fisher and Dr. F. E. Lutz assisted in the educational
work at the annual conference of the American Camp Directors’ Asso-
ciation held last month at Greenkill Camp, near Kingston. The con-
ference was held under the auspices of the Woodcraft League of America.

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Mr. Albert Thomson, who was called from the field by the death of
his mother, has resumed his work in Agate, Nebraska.

Mr. Charles H. Rogers will take up new work in the fall as Curator
of Birds at the Princeton University Museum.

Vacations have started. Mr. James A. Provenzale, of the book-
keeping department, has already come back from a week’s leave. Mr.
Charles Falkenbach, of Vertebrate Paleeontology, is now away.

Dr. A. L. Kroeber, of the University of California, spent a few days
at the Museum last month, after attending a meeting of the National
Research Council, of which he is a member.

Mr. Benjamin Connolly, who has been placed in charge of the wire-
less telephone exhibit (installed in the West Assembly Room), has
proved himself the right man for the place. His unvarying courtesy
and intelligent explanations of the workings of the various pieces of
apparatus have been greatly appreciated by visitors. The exhibit will
continue through the present month.

Remarks have been heard in criticism of the figures of the polers
and oarsmen in the big Haida canoe in the North Pacific Hall on the
ground that they are exerting force in opposite directions. According
to the label, the canoe is being held inshore, which justifies the positions
of the figures. But the label is the last thing in this exhibit to attract
the attention of the visitor, and frequently remains unnoticed altogether.
It seems unfortunate that so conspicuous an exhibit should be so set up
as to create a wrong first impression. Why not let the canoe be repre-
sented as being propelled through the water?

Those attendants who have indicated a desire to familiarize them-
selves with the collections in the various halls under their charge will
find helpful aids in the Handbooks and Guides published by the Mu-
seum. We have no hesitancy in stating that the Administration will
welcome inquiries for these books from those interested. Observation
shows that the attendants are frequently questioned by visitors. Let
each attendant be a docent of his hall.

If any change necessitating a change of beneficiary has occurred 1
your family relations since you became a member of the Pension Fund,
we hope you will not delay in notifying the Secretary of the Fund. He
will supply you with the proper form for recording change of beneficiary.

Among the big moving picture corporations which are turning to the

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Museum for information and assistance are the Bray Film Company and
the Robertson-Cole Corporation.

Mr. Christopher Schroth and his French bride have recently gone
housekeeping, and judging from Chris’s cheerful countenance are en-
joying the experience. We are ready to vouch for his regularity at
meals.

Mr. Joseph Zuckerman has just been married. Here’s wishing hap-
piness to him and his bride.

Mr. Thomas Hines recently underwent an operation for the removal
of tonsils and adenoids.

_ Weare sorry to report that Mr. Charles P. Moyer recently suffered
severe cuts on both hands in a fall incurred while carrying a bottle of
water. (We feel that he would like us to specify the contents of the
bottle.)

A fire-proof storage room for paper stock has recently been erected
in the East Basement.

A large collection of Egyptian archaeological material has been
donated to the Museum by Mr. August Heckscher, of Huntington,
Long Island. It contains about 4,000 specimens of flint implements
of which a few are from the New Stone Age, but the great majority from
the Old Stone Age of Egypt. They represent nearly the entire result of
fifteen years of collecting by Mr. Robert de Rustafjaell, being nine-tenths
of the collection made by him. The balance has been placed in the
Huntington, Long Island, Museum.

Dr. Lowie has moved from the office he formerly occupied in the
West Wing to a room in the Southwest Wing.

Mr. Robert Nimmo has completed some very excellent reproduc-
tions in tin of various plants and flowers. It will be recalled that some
time ago Mr. Nimmo made a sufficient number of musical(?) instru-
ments of tin to equip a fairly large orchestra known as the All-American
Museum Tin Jazz Band. Those who have attended their concerts will
remember the experience. We don’t know what has become of the
A-A. M. T. J. Band, but there is a rumor that it was forced to give up its
activities for fear its vociferous noon-time strains might reach the ears
of the timid okapi and send him, in a few terrified leaps, back to his
native rain-forest in the Belgian Congo. That would make Messrs.
Lang and Chapin face the music with a vengeance!

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We are glad to note that Mr. John Walber is greatly improved in
health. In spite of his affliction, he seldom misses a day at the Museum.

Mr. George Fitzpatrick, we think, must be in better health than
usual, for he was recently seen running across 77th Street at a sprinter’s
pace. We wonder what he was after?) Or was it after him?

Wedding bells will soon ring for one of our most popular employees.
We are not at liberty to say who it is, but would advise those interested
to watch for the face with the smile.

And speaking of smiles—have you noticed the broad one being worn
by the Associate Curator of Public Education? Another bird has re-
cently flown into his nest. Congratulations, doctor!

Mr. Coleman, Dr. Hovey and Dr. Miner attended the American
Museums Association convention in Washington, May 17th to 19th.

Mr. Frank C. Schaeffer, who has been absent on sick leave for
some time, is able to sit up during a portion of the day and to take the
air on the roof.

We are glad to welcome a number of new employees tc our midst.
They are: Miss Milligan, who is assisting Miss Perey; Miss Ward, who
is assisting Dr. Spinden; Miss Van Valkenburg, of the Department of
Publications; and Mr. T. Donald Carter and Mr. George G. Goodwin,
both of the Department of Mammalogy.

If a demand is found to exist for it, we shall be glad to open a
“Communications”? department in which letters from employees will
be published.

IN THE FIELD

Dr. Henry E. Crampton is starting on an extended expedition to be
gone eight months. He will give his attention chiefly to zoological col-
lection and research, but certain anthropological subjects are also to be
considered. Professor Crampton is accompanied by Mrs. Crampton,
and his son and daughter who will aid in his work. Leaving San Fran-
cisco, June 5th, the party will proceed to Guam, the Philippine Islands,
Hongkong and Southern China, Singapore, and the interior of Siam, and
Java and other islands of the Dutch East Indies. They will return to
America by way of Australia and New Zealand.

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Mr. James C. Bell has been delegated to go to Morehead City,
North Carolina, to obtain casts and specimens of the sharks of the North
Carolina coast. The expedition was proposed by Mr. Russell J. Coles,
who is to collect extensively for the Ocean Leather Company, which
organization has offered generous cooperation. It is especially hoped
that Mr. Bell will be able to obtain large examples of the Hammerhead
Shark and the Tiger Shark, as well as specimens of the smaller varieties.

THE BOOK SHELF

A new book by Dr. Frank M. Chapman, which will undoubtedly
prove of great interest to bird lovers, has just been released by D.
Appleton & Company. It is entitled ‘“‘What Bird is That?”’

Boni & Liveright have just issued Dr. Robert H. Lowie’s “ Primi-
tive Society.”

Dr. Wissler contributed an article on “The Antiquity of Man” to
a recent number of The Mentor.

Dr. Whitlock has recently had a number of articles on erystallog-
raphy, precious stone cutting and similar subjects published in Science,
The Jewelers’ Circular, The American Mineralogist, The American
Journal of Science, and other periodicals.

ON THE CALENDAR

June 2—Meeting of the Keramic Society of Greater New York,
Academy Room.

June 3—Trip through the exhibition halls, and motion pictures of ex-
peditions, for crippled children of the New York City
Schools.

June 15—Meeting of the Horticultural Society of New York, Audito-
rium.

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GRIN AND BEAR IT

It’s easy for some people to be good. But some have to struggle for
goodness all their lives. Mr. Chubb, for instance, has for years had al-
most daily to wrestle with the flesh.

If you are not already aware of the shortage of cloth, your attention
is called to the new uniforms of the attendants. We would suggest
overalls for comfort.

A little boy who was showing great enthusiasm over the wonders of
the Museum, suddenly attracted considerable attention by pointing
across one of the halls and exclaiming: ‘Oh, look at that funny thing!
What is it?’’ An obliging attendant who was standing nearby looked
in the direction in which the child was pointing, and explained: ‘‘That’s
a member of the staff.”

(We refuse to divulge the name of the attendant—or of the member
of the staff.)

Henry Hundertpfund’s cheerfulness is unflagging, in spite of his
many ups and downs.

HEARD IN A RESTAURANT
“Ruth, your left ear shows.”’

Waitress: “How did you find the roast beef, sir?”’
Dr. “Why, I just pushed the potato a little to one side,
and moved two or three of the peas, and there it was, right underneath.”’

PERSONALS

(Messages sent in for this column will be considered strictly con-
fidential. They may be contributed anonymously.)

To R. W. T.—Why do you pay so little attention to me, these days?
Answer through this column. Your loving Ducksie.

To F. H. S.—Can’t you do a little better for me next month?
N. E. Won.

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Dear One—When you feel downhearted, just remember that in a
short time now we’ll be sharing that “log cabin’’ on Broadway. You
Know Who.

$.1,000 IN PRIZES!

Following the lead of one of our popular dailies, THe MusEoLoGcistT
announces a prize limerick contest. Two limericks, each lacking the
last line, are printed below. The large money prize will be equally
divided, one-half going to the contributor of the best last line in each
case.

The results of the contest will be published in our next issue.

A FOSSILIMERICK

Don’t be lke the hungry Dinichthys
A creature who had the mean trick, this,
Of depending for chow
On his buddies, I vow,

A SOCIALIMERICK

The youth was a terrible dancer,

But he’s managed, somehow, to entrance her;
And when he murmured: “Gee,

How can you dance with me?”’

All contributions to the Musrouoaist should be ad-
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world, the man who looks for
the crooked will see the
crooked and the man who
looks for the straight will
see the straight.

RUSKIN

DR. JOEL ASAPH ALLEN
Dean of the Scientific Staff

THE MUSEOLOGIST

This little magazine is devoted to the internal affairs of the Museum. It
exists for the sake of all the Museum workers, and offers itself as a ready
medium through which they may come into closer touch with each other and
‘with the Corporation.

It is issued by the Publicity Committee.

Volume I July, 1920 Number 2

July 19th will mark the eighty-second birthday anni-
versary of our honored and beloved Curator of Mammalogy,
Dr. Allen. For thirty-five years the head of his Department,
he has directed its development from its early and hampered
beginnings to its present gratifying attainment.

When Dr. Allen first came to the American Museum, in
1885, it was as Curator of the Department of Ornithology and
Mammalogy. At that time the mammal collections consisted
of about 1,000 mounted skins and 300 mounted skeletons,
all on exhibition. There was not even the nucleus of a study
collection. There were about 10,000 mounted skins and
several hundred mounted skeletons of birds on exhibition,
and a study collection of about 3,000 mounted skins. Very
largely through his efforts, the collections, both exhibition
and study, have been built up to their present vast propor-
tions.

For his first three years here, Dr. Allen had only casual
volunteer assistance. In 1887, moreover, on the death of
Dr. Holder, he took over the care of the invertebrates, fishes
and reptiles, remaining in charge of the invertebrates until
1890, and of the fishes and reptiles until 1901. In 1888, Mr.
Frank M. Chapman came to assist him, and at once they

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entered into that effective and enthusiastic cooperation
which has continued ever since.

In addition to his departmental work, Dr. Allen edited
the Bulletin and the zoological series of the Memoirs from
1889 to the end of 1917. And throughout his entire career
he has been a prolific writer, the list of his publications (in-
cluding those in book form, monographs, ete.) numbering
well over 1,500.

But while he has been such a vital force in the American
Museum, his work and influence have not been limited to this
institution. On coming here, he left behind a fourteen years’
experience as Assistant at the Museum of Comparative
Zoology in Cambridge—almost a career in itself. This had
been preceded by nine years of work as a special student under
Agassiz, the first and principal guide and adviser in his in-
vestigations. Undoubtedly, in their long years of associa-
tion, the spirit of the ‘‘great teacher”? entered into and pos-
sessed the young man who was to become so illustrious a
student, and he, in turn, has been able to pass on the in-
spiration to many others.

From 1876 to 1882, he divided his time between the
Agassiz Museum and the United States Geological and Geo-
graphical Survey, of which he was a ‘‘special collaborator.”

One of the five incorporators of the first Aubudon Society
for the Protection of Birds of New York, founded in 1886,
he was also a Founder and Director of the Audubon Society
of the State of New York (1897-1912), and a Founder,
Director and Member of the Executive Committee of the
National Association of Audubon Societies since 1905, as
well as its Second Vice-President from 1908 to 1912.

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For seven years he was President of the Linnaean Society,
and he has served as Vice-President of the New York
Academy of Sciences.
| A Founder of the American Ornithologists’ Union, and for

its first seven years successively its President, he was also,
for twenty-seven years, editor of its journal, ‘The Auk.”
Through this publication he was a potent factor in arousing
and keeping active ornithological interest throughout the
country. Always, since its organization, a member of the
Union’s Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of
North American Birds, he has played an important part in
shaping the course of zoological classification. The work of
this Committee resulted not only in a new check-list of North
American birds, standardizing their nomenclature, but also
in a new and elaborate Code of Zoological Nomenclature
which has had a very far-reaching influence in standardizing
the rules of nomenclature the world over.

Today Dr. Allen is an elected member of all the leading
academies of science in this country, and holds honorary or
corresponding membership in an impressive number of
foreign societies of affiliated interests. His honorary degree
of Doctor of Philosophy, conferred by Indiana University,
dates from 1886.

But after the remarkable story of his achievements and
distinctions has been told, there still remain to be described
his generous sympathies, his consideration for others, his
gentleness and his ready helpfulness. Perhaps he derived
these high qualities from his own experience—remembering
the limitations and lack of assistance, the formidable difficul-
ties and the exhaustingly hard work through which he
struggled as a boy, but in spite of which his passion for scien-

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tific research was born and grew and finally came to rich
fruition. It is a long cry from the boy, living and working
on the farm in the summer, and studying at the little red
country school during the winter terms; collecting, weighing,
measuring and describing in his notebook such birds as he
could secure, giving them provisional names of his own, and
never dreaming that they all had names both English and
Latin; finding a new world in the borrowed copy of the
Brewer edition of Wilson’s ‘‘ American Ornithology’’; build-
ing up a little ‘““museum,” the sale of which to Wilbraham
Academy later helped to solve the problem of his tuition ~
there; and at length, in his contact with Agassiz, at the
Lawrence Scientific School, at Cambridge, finding the first
real encouragement and guidance that his aspiring mind
and heart had received.

Besides his other handicaps, Dr. Allen has had that very
severe one of ill health. But in spite of all, he has earned pre-
eminence in his profession and a place in the hearts of his
associates such as is only rarely attained. We can, with
unusual appropriateness, congratulate him on the richness
of his years. And it is with deep earnestness that we hope for
his continued cherished affiliation with us.

He who would not struggle in this world should not be born
ento it.

(GQOLDONI

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THE NEWS

The Museum has just received from Mr. Frederick F. Brewster a
gift of great value—a collection of 3,200 specimens of land-birds collected
by Rollo H. Beck in the West Indies and South America, under the
direction of Dr. L. C. Sanford. A very large part of this material is new
to our collections, and much of it is of a sort to be found in no other
museum in the world. The collection includes 1,500 birds from the
West Indies—chiefly the high mountains of Santo Domingo, from which
little-known area there is included a series of the recently discovered
Crossbill and Patagonia Sparrow, known heretofore only from a few
specimens in the National Museum in Washington; a large series of two
distinct new species known only in the Brewster eollection; and the
unique type of a new genus of Goatsuckers. There are also 500 birds
from Bahia—of great value, since this is a type locality for many species
described by the older writers; and s*mewhat over 1,000 specimens from
the extreme southern part of South America, including a representative
series from Tierra del Fuego and the Falkland Islands, from which
localities the Museum was wholly without material. Dr. Chapman is
greatly delighted at the acquisition, and feels that the department has
never received a more valuable donation.

As a result of tireless effort, the opponents of House Bill No. 12,466,
which provides for the building of two irrigation reservoirs in the Falls
River Basin of Yellowstone National Park, have succeeded in preventing
the passage of the bill in this session of Congress. In a recent letter
addressed to President Osborn, however, Eleanor E. Marshall, Secretary
of the American Civic Association, writes:

“The amount of pressure that was brought to bear on the Speaker
of the House and upon many members of Congress might have turned
the scales at any moment, and in the next Congress we shall have an
even harder fight, because in all probability the State of Montana will
be thoroughly organized to back a similar bill. A definite program of
education of not only the Congressmen of our nation but their constitu-
ents to the importance of maintaining our national park policy, is neces-
sary. Weshall call upon you for help in carrying out this program.”

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President Osborn has received from Governor Smith an appoint-
ment to membership in the commission to examine into plans for a
State Roosevelt Memorial.

Among recent visitors to the Museum was Franz Ernst Blaauw, a
prominent ornithologist of Holland, who is an authority on aquatic
birds. He is the author of a monograph on the Cranes, and is now
particularly interested in keeping and breeding exotic water fowl in
captivity, at his large and splendidly equipped aviaries in Holland. He is
a frequent contributor to The Avicultural Magazine, and has also con-
tributed notes to The Ibis for many years, chiefly on questions pertain-
ing to aquatic birds and also regarding the capture of rare species in
Holland. His visit to this country is a short one. It includes a trip
across the continent on the Southern Pacific, with a return by a more
northern route. He will sail for Holland in August.

Dr. Tower and Mr. Sherwood have taken up their summer residence
in Clinton.

Mr. Knight has completed his central mural for the Hall of the Age of
Man.

Mr. R. C. Andrews and family are now living at New Canaan,
Connecticut.

Mr. Leslie Spier has received the appointment of Associate Curator
for the year 1920-21 in the Museum of the Department of Anthropology
of the University of California.

Mr. William W. Graves, of St. Louis, visited the Museum in June
and examined and measured the scapul in our collec tions. He has been
making a study of the human scapula for a number of years, and has
written numerous papers on the subject.

Mrs. H. J. Volker, of Gorumahisani, India (formerly Miss Florence
Schwarzwaelder, of the Department of Ichthyology) is a faithful corre-
spondent. In her latest letter she mentions having journeyed to a neigh-
boring mine by motor over ‘‘what they called a road.’’ She enclosed

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several interesting photographs, including one of her very charming
daughter, Virginia, aged 64% months,

A machine for stenciling name-plates for use in the addressograph
- machine has been purchased and placed in Mr. Marthens’s room. Joseph
Cassen has been appointed engineer, and is proving a very efficient one.

A new folding machine has been installed in the bindery.

We are glad to say that Miss McCoy has recovered fr>m the a‘tack
of tonsillitis which necessitated her absence from the Museum for a
short time.

Plans are under wav for the erection of a tablet in Memorial Hall in
honor of the Museum employees who served in the war.

On June 20th Miss Hattie Zwoboda, of the Museum, was married to
Mr. Edwin R. Hawes, a former employee.

Mrs. Katherine Smith, slide-colorist, is at Chautauqua for the summer.

Dr. Fisher will spend the months of July and August at Camp
Wigwam, Bear Lake, near Harrison, Maine, where he will teach a class
of boys.

Miss Ida R. Hood, Assistant Librarian, is away on a three-months’
leave of absence.

Mrs. N. C. Nelson, formerly of the Museum, is now doing editorial
work with the Y. M.C. A.

Mr. A. E. Anderson, we are sorry to report, is ill. He is staying at
Big Indian, in the Catskills.

Mr. Adam Hermann dropped into the Museum for a little visit, a
short time ago.

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Mr. Chubb is on vacation at Woodland, New York, and is obtaining
some additional nature photographs. A bleaching platform is being
erected on the roof, during his absence, for his use on returning to the
Museum.

Mr. Barnum Brown is in London.

1t is not generally known that Dr. Jonathan Dwight has the largest
bird-collection extant illustrating plumage phases. It numbers over
50,000 specimens. It is as yet confined to land-birds.

Dr. Joseph Simms, the donor of a number of specimens to the Mu-
seum, of which the most valuable and important are the mummied re-
mains of a Chinook Chief and Chieftainess, exhibited in the North Pacifie
Hall, died recently. He bequeathed his body to Dr. Spitzka for scientific
purposes.

Mrs. Ziska resumed work at the Museum on June Ist, after having
spent several months in Omaha.

Among the temporary exhibits on view at the Museum in June was
a self-installed one consisting of a pair of robins living in apparent
comfort on a step of a fourth floor fire-escape, where they had built their
nest in full view of one of the Mineral Hall windows. In time three
infant robins were hatched. They made their first timid flights along the
ledges of the building, but rapidly learned to make longer flights, and the
fire-escape nest is now empty.

A still more striking instance of bird vagaries, however, is cited in
the Children’s Newspaper, of London, which publishes a photograph of a
nest built by a pair of thrushes on the brake-lever of a wagon in a North
Stafford siding. The nest contained four eggs.

Fred Christman has been commissioned to overhaul the car of our
blacksmith-farmer, Charlie Allgoever. It is rumored that Charlie is
planning to climb the Woolworth Tower, as he has successfully scaled
practically every fence and tree in the vicinity of Northport.

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The attendants are eager for information concerning the exhibits
in their halls. Short, informal talks given to them by the members of
the scientific staff ought to be very helpful.

Dr. Mook has purchased a home in Metuchen, New Jersey.

Mr. Whitlock has installed his laboratory apparatus in the room
vacated last month by Mr Marthens.

!

Mr. Nichols’s brother, Commodore Nichols, is in command of the
“Vanitie.”’

It is a pleasure to say that on the occasion of the visit of the several
hundred crippled children, the attendants were highly commended by |
observers for their kindness to the little sight-seers. |

Mr. Hegeman has taken up his residence in Bogota, New Jersey.

The Department of Parks has greatly improved the appearance of our
grounds by repairing the fences and sodding the bare spaces on the green.

It is an unwritten rule of the institution that attendants shall not
force their attentions on members of drawing classes, or on other visitors.

The old storage house for whale skeletons has been torn down and
new shelters erected.

Dr. David Starr Jordan, of Leland Stanford, was a welcome visitor
at the Museum last month.

Mr. J. M. Vandergrift has presented to us his mounted English
Bull-dog, Champion “‘ Katerfelto,” who in his life-time won 113 principal
prizes. ‘‘Katerfelto”’ has been placed on exhibition on the second floor,
near the elevators.

A concrete wall has been built separating the driveway from the coal
bin. The purpose of this, some one has explained, is to provide a place
for Tom Henessy’s flowers.

SS

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The Construction Department Sends an
Expedition into the Field

(From our Special Correspondent)

The wave of rising prices which has been sweeping all over the
country has not spared, in its mad course, even the lowly sand. That
sand is much more expensive now than it was before the war is to most
eople a matter of small concern, but it presents a vexing problem for
those who have occasion to purchase this commodity.

In order to combat the high cost of sand, the Construction Depart-
ment decided to send out an ‘‘expedition”’ of three men to locate and
bring back fifty bags of this precious material, suitable for use in the
sand-blasting machine. Andy Putnam, Jack McGrory and Joe Tyson
were selected.

Half-Moon Cove, a little sandy spot just beyond Cow Bay on Long
Island Sound, was the objective of the expedition which left Judge’s
Beach early one morning. After about an hour’s sail in Andy's little
motor-boat, the destination was reached. The anchor was heaved and
the three explorers went ashore in a row-boat, armed with shovels and
cement-bags. The search for sand that was gritty without being full
of gravel was begun at once, and it was not long before the three were
working as if under fire to fill the bags.

A bag of sand ordinarily ought to weigh about 115 pounds, but these
seemed more like 300. They were lugged down to the water’s edge,
lifted into the skiff, and rowed out to the motor-boat and placed on
board. This operation was repeated time and again until there were
about 24 bags on the little craft. That was all it could safely hold, so
the voyage homeward was begun.

The party arrived at Judge’s Beach at about half-past four, so
another trip that night was out of the question. The fact remained
that fifty bags was the quota, and at a soviet meeting it was decided that
another day should be spent in obtaining the balance.

The next day dawned nice and murky, and the prospects for a pleas-
ant trip were conspicuously absent. Of course this did not daunt the
veterans of the day before. They cheerfully (?) donned their oilskins
and made their way through the thick fog to the scene of operations.
The bags were much heavier than they had been the day before, accord-

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ing to the observations of the expedition, and the rain came down in
torrents. But even good things have their ending, and so it was with the
work of the self-styled sand-hogs. They began their return, three tired
but happy men, cheered by the thought that just assoon as they could
unload and stack the bags at the end of their journey their trials would
be over.

Captain MecGrory and his Admiral were on deck dreaming of the
warm baths and hot suppers that awaited them at home, while young
Tyson sat in the cabin removing and throwing overboard footwear that
had been ruined during the day. But these pleasant occupations were not
to last long. A hidden rock or sunken buoy was in the path of the heavily
laden little craft, and she struck it heavily. She took a little water, but
not enough to cause any discomfiture, and as it was only a short run to
Judge’s Beach the trip was continued. After the sand had been unloaded
and the boat beached and examined it was found that the crank shaft
had been badly bent and the stuffing-box was damaged. The mariners
separated with the knowledge that thev would have something to occupy
their minds and hands on their next day off.

A propos of dignity, and, incidentally, honor, neither is compatible
with malice or anonymity. The latter are boomerangs that, while they
fly wide of their target, yet return unerringly to the hand of the sender.

IN THE FIELD

Mr. Anthony and Mr. Cherrie left for South America on June 18th,
for a six-months’ expedition to Peru and Ecuador.

Dr. Wissler has left the Museum on a vear’s leave of absence. Sail-
ing for Honolulu on June 30th, after having spent the month of June
at the Pueblo ruin at Aztec, New Mexico, he will spend two months in
Hawai. On September Ist he will assume the Chairmanship of the Divi-
sion of Anthropology and Psychology of the National Research Council,
in Washington, to which office he was elected in April last.

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Mr. Mahonri M. Young has been sent to Mexico and Arizona to
make studies for the figures in the new Navajo Indian Group.

Dr. and Mrs. Hovey will leave about the 8th of July for Hawaii.
They will be gone until about the Ist of October.

Dr. Lutz has started on the third of a series of expeditions planned to
trace the distribution of insect life in the western part of the United
States. He will work through the regions north and west of Colorado,
in Wyoming, Idaho, Utah and Oklahoma.

THE BOOK SHELF ~ ©

Among the publications being sent to the Publicity Committee are:
‘“‘Copeia,”’ ‘Boys’ Life,” “Scouting,” ‘‘The Totem Board,” and “The
Children’s Newspaper” of London. These are being placed in the
Reading Room.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

A Bone-Dry Episode

Through the Museum halls there strode
A stranger grave and “‘college-y’’:

He earried on his neck a load

Of highest class phrenology;

He was in truth (in modern code)

A “nut”’ on paleontology.

Before the giant dinosaur
This wise man hesitated;
- Back o’er a million years of yore
His big mind ruminated—
He wished that he might see once more
This monster animated.

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‘As if in answer to his thought,

‘The big beast said: ‘Professor,

You are the man I long have sought,
ll make you mv confessor:

Could miracles these days be wrought,
Of beasts I’d be a lesser.

“T’ve often gazed out o’er the park

And envied that small creature

That greets a friend with joyous bark,
_ As saying: ‘Pleased to meetcher,’

And as a special friendly mark,

Wig-wags his caudal feature.

‘What good are my proportions vast?
The canine has'’me beaten.

A million years of my long past

I’d' give—yes, twice repeatin’—

To wag my tail of plaster cast

And bone in friendly greetin’.

“T’d make some people throw a fit
In this here quiet sector;
I'd stir things so-they’d notice it,

My worthy kone collector,

Yould I but wag my tail a bit
At our affable Director.”

S f ' ¢ Written by J. L. Beers,

for The Museologist.

RESULTS OF THE LIMERICK CONTEST

It gives us pleasure to announce the awards for the limerick contest,
as follows: }

Winner of the Fossilimerick: Mr. William J. Buckley.

Winner of the Socialimerick: Mr. James A. Kiesling.

The limericks, with the last jines supplied by the winners, are given
on the next page.

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Fossilimerick
Don't be like the hungry Dinichthys—
A creature who had the mean trick, this,
Of depending for chow
On his buddies, I vow:
But from now on, be a Philanthropist.

Socialimerick

The youth was a terrible dancer,

But he’d managed somehow to entrance her;

And when he murmured: “Gee,

Tlow can you dance with me?”’

She said: “On my Trilbys I’m taking a chance, Sir.”

Visitor (entering Department of Anthropology Office): ‘Can you
tell me where I can find a good specimen of armadillo?”

Dr. Goddard: ‘Certainly. Go right to the end of the hall there
and ask to see Mr. Noble.”

Mr. Robert McAnuff, who presides over the fourth floor, was ap-
proached by a stranger who had seen the picture hanging over the Chief
of Construction’s Office, and who asked in a timid manner: “Please,
Mister, can I go in and see the Home of the Elk?”

The late Mrs. Vaughan was taking a number of small boys through the
Hall of Fossil Mammals. She went to some pains to explain that what
they saw was only the bony skeleton of the great dinosaur, and that the
metal tubes had been placed as support for the great weight of the bones.
When she had finished speaking, a boy asked: ‘“ Please, missus, how did
he eat?” At which another boy cut in quickly, ‘Ile et through the
tubes.”

Visitor: ‘‘Meester, meester, where are the trenches?”’
Attendant: ‘‘ What trenches?”
Visitor: ‘‘The ones they used in the war.”’

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Two colored gentlemen were looking at an alligator. A member of
the staff who was standing nearby overheard the following comments:

Ist man: “Is he ’phibious?”’

2nd man: ‘’Phibious! Man, he ’phibiovs as ——————.. Bite yuh’s
soon as look at yuh!”

Says the San Diego Sun, a propos of Mr. Anthony’s suggestion, in
a newspaper interview, of the possible existence, far back in the geological
age, of a large Antillean continent lying in the Gulf of Mexico and the
Caribbean Sea: “It is reported that geologists making a survey for the
American Museum of Natural History have discovered a lost continent
at the bottom of the Altantic, east of the Panama Canal Zone. Boy,
page John D. Rockefeller and ask him if he has lost a continent lately.”

We can’t vouch for their truth, but the following rumors are afloat:
That Mr. Chapin defines a millennium as the same thing asa centennial
except that it has more legs, but desires to obtain further information
from Mr. Miner.

That Dr. Bequaert has a thorough practical knowledge of potatoes.

That Mr. Schmidt holds that the best way to preserve alligators is to
keep them in Florida water.

All contributions to the Musrouoaist should be ad-
dressed to the Publicity Committee.

Help to make this your paper.

Pec Eh a. Nila ~ + Page 1 i90 dos

“Most roosters wear their crows too long

and their spurs too short.”
From ‘‘The Trotty Veck Messengers’’

| MUSEOLOGIST |

AUGUST 1920

|

haven't got to make over the
universe; I’ve only got to do
my own small job, and to look
up often at the trees and the
hills and the sky and be
friendly with all men.

Davip GRAYSON

THE MUSEOLOGIST

This little magazine is devoted to the internal affairs of the Museum. It
exists for the sake of all the Museum workers, and offers itself as a ready

- medium through which they may come into closer towch with each other and

with the Corporation.
It is issued by the Publicity Committee.

Volume I August, 1920 Number 3

The June visit of the crippled children, which enlisted the
services of a large number of employees as guides, gave
prominence to the fact that few of us Museum folks have even
a casual general familiarity with the exhibits. How many
times, on the day of the children’s visit, were heard varia-
tions of the remark: ‘‘I’ll be glad to help all I can, but I
don’t know anything about the exhibits!”

Members of the several departments are in touch with
the displays in their own halls, naturally. But they seem
rarely to make a point of visiting the others. One employee
was delighted, while acting as guide, to discover a ‘‘new
group’’—the Timber Wolves! There are those who have
never visited the Pygmy Group. And we venture to say that

very few indeed have yet seen the Bryozoan Group.

There is nothing novel about the condition. It is the old
story of the New Yorker who has never visited the Statue of
Liberty or ascended the Woolworth Tower—although he has
made a great point of mounting the Washington Monument
and the Eiffel Tower, on his holiday trips. It is less a case
of acute indifference than of chronic inertia. ‘‘They’re
always there; we can go any time.”’ And herein the Museum
we air that other formula: ‘There ’s so little time, and so

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much always to be done in one’s own department.’ It’s
true, of course. And a deep interest in one’s work is not
only commendable, but essential to any achievement. On
the other hand, our own affairs should not act as blinders.
Absorption in one subject need not mean oblivion to all
others. And he is a poor astronomer who has no time to give
to mathematics.

We manage to make time for so many other things that
an occasional glimpse at our immediate surroundings ought
not to be beyond accomplishment. Not all of us have the
background or the impulse to a keen scientific interest. But
we are all able and should be eager to profit by the very
unusual cultural opportunities so nearly presented. That
Museum people do not largely benefit by their contacts is
evident from the fact that they are so rarely seen in the ex-
hibition halls. Atleast, we rarely see them. But that may be
partially explained by our own infrequent presence there.
It would be well worth the while of us all to make a point of
hunting up new exhibits and of making pilgrimages, now and
then, to some of the old ones we have never seen.

To make the most of dull hours, to make the best of dull
people, to like a poor jest better than none, to wear a threadbare
coat like a gentleman, to be outvoted with a smile, to hitch your
wagon to the old horse if no star is handy—that is a wholesome
philosophy.

Buiiss PERRY.

— eee eras eaeeor

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IN THE FIELD

the most wonderful yet—in the form of a

Another big discovery

_ sealed-up room, has just been made at the Pueblo Ruin in Aztec, New

Mexico, which is in course of excavation by the Museum.
Dr. Wissler recently reported by letter to his associates in New York:

“The room is in perfect condition. The interior is plastered and
painted in a brilliant white with dull red side borders and a running
series of triangular designs. No room approaching this in beauty and
perfection has ever been discovered in America. There are several ad-
joining rooms that seem to have some relation to this, but it will be
some time before they can be dug out.

“What we have is obviously the holiest sanctum or shrine of these
prehistoric people. There isnot much in it, all the sacred objects having
been removed from the altar. But a sacred serpent is carved in wood on
the ceiling. It is 2% feet long ard of the fisest workmanship. Nothing
like this has ever before been found, to my knowledge. On the ceiling-
beams are imprints of har ds made by rubbing white paint on the palms
and fingers and then pressing down upon the beams. Several strands of
beautifully made rope har g from the ceiling, presumably for the support
of hanging objects. Ona the floor were a large number of nicely cut stone
slabs, o-e of which was 21% by 1% feet and 11% inches thick.

“This room will be carefully protected from visitors and will be
one of the best exhibits here.

“There is a painted room in ore of the cliff houses in Mesa Verde
Park that has some resemblance to this, but does not compare with the
one we have just found. This room is, however, ore more suggestion
that the people who lived in the cliff houses were the founders of the
culture at Aztec and Bonito.”

Dr. Wissler writes that the ruin is row most impressive, a large
part of it havirg been uncovered by the Museum excavation party which
has for five seasons past worked under the direction of Earl H. Morris:

‘Since the greater part of the west side is now uncovered, one can
get a full sweep over this immense complex of stone walls and quaint
doorways. This west side of the ruin was occupied las‘, for here all

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the rooms are well filled with objects left behind, whereas on the side
first excavated and apparently long unoccupied we found little.

“Our excavations have revealed one calamity that befell this city.
The greater part of the east and north sides were swept by fire. We can
not be sure that this was due to one big fire, but it was most likely so.
The ceilings were of wood, supported by great logs of cedar and spruce,
overlaid by split cedar and bark. These fell down upon each other and
lay in the lower rooms in great charred masses. No doubt many precious
objects went out in this great fire. As I have said before, we found the
bodies of several unfortunates caught in the rooms.

“As the fire did not reach the west side we find a large number of
rooms with their ceilings still intact and household utensils on the floor
just as they were left.

“T have spent some time estimating the amount of timber used in
building this city. There were the logs of some 200 pine trees 30 feet
long and about 12 inches in diameter. About 600 cedar logs of the same
size, but averaging 10 feet in length. (The cedar here rarely produces a
longer trunk.) About 1200 straight beautiful poles of pine and cotton
wood. Finally there are not less than 100 cords of split cedar splints
for covering the ceilings. All this wood was worked with stone. From
this it is clear that these people were good lumberjacks.

‘“‘A Mexican who has been working for us just came in to report that
he has uncovered a skeleton. Upon examination we found that the body
had apparently been buried in a fallen room at the edge of the ruin. A
little lower down we came upon the skeleton of his grandchild (?) prob-
ably about five years old.

“This reminds me that we have named the extreme southwest corner
of the ruin ‘Potters’ Field.’ Among the bodies buried here no utensils or
implements have been found, and they are not wrapped. This was also
a poorly built section. The rooms contain very little. Further back the
rooms have fine stone walls and the burials show every sign of wealth.

“A few days ago at the west side of the ruin the digging of a post hole
brought to light the stone wall of a kiva below the level of the ruin.
This seems to belong to a small but much older ruin that preceded.”

The season’s plan is to work out the main remaining portion of the
west side of the ruin.

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ON THE CALENDAR

August 3—Pennsylvania Teachers.
August 11—Teacher’s College Club.

THE NEWS

A recent visitor ts the Museum made the following comments:

“Your exhibits on the fourth floor are the best labeled; the exhibits
on the third floor the mosi attractive; those on the second floor attrac-
tive and instructive but in reed of labels; the first floor the hottest but
the exhibits the most instructive; your elevators the poorest, and your
attendants the most polite in any museum I ever visited.”’

President Osborn has been kept from the Museum for several weeks
as the result of being thrown from his horse. The injury sustained
proved more serious than was first realized.

Professor and Mrs. T. D. A. Cockerell of Boulder, Colorado, have
been welcome visitors at the Museum for a few days. Professor Cock-
erell spent the past month in Washington and is now on his way to
England to work up the bees in the collections abroad.

Mr. Nichols recently took an interesting trip with Dr. Townsend on
the Aquarium’s new boat and secured some new specimens.

Mr. Crocco is in the hospital for a few days after undergoing minor
operations.

Mr. Sniffin had the misfortune to fall, injuring himself quite seriously.
A subsequent nervous attack has placed him on the sick list for a few
days.

Dr. Chapman has been observed wearing gloves—Cause—Poison ivy:

There are rumors that one of our carpenters who went on a fishing
trip on the Fourth had a most unpleasant experience.

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Mr. Sievers is the possessor of a young crow which is now kept in his
rabbitry. Perhaps he is holding it until after election for some of his
political opponents.

Accountants from The Audit Company of New York have been
engaged in making their semi-annual examination of the Museum’s
accounts.

A storage room for ice is being constructed in the central basement,
and bins for the storage of whale skeletons have been completed in the
north wing basement.

Mr. Andrews lately experienced a complete “knockout” from the
deft hand of a prominent surgeon. R. C. says it took gas to do it though.

Mr. Hyde is in charge of a Boy Scout Camp at Central Valley during
the summer.

Mr. Julian A. Dimock, a son of the late Anthony W. Dimock, the
well known writer of hunting and fishing articles and books of adventure,
has recently donated to the Museum upwards of 4,000 negatives which
he made on trips while accompanying his father on his many expeditions.
Without doubt this gift is one of the most valuable and distinctive of its
kind ever received in the Museum.

Classes from the summer school at Columbia are frequently noticed
about the halls. They are most enthusiastic over the Habitat Bird Groups
and exhibits in the Darwin Hall. As to Dinosaurs, a student was
heard to repeat the old farmer’s statement concerning the camel—
“There ain’t ro such animile.””. And speaking of Dinosaurs, Mark Twain
once remarked to President Osborn, after looking at the Brontosaurus,
that if he (Osborn) hadn’t run out of plaster he would have made him
seventy-five feet lorg.

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The elephants in the Akeley studio are now in such a stage of com-
pletion that by removing the curtains in the East Gallery Hall these
truly remarkable examples of modern taxidermy could be made avail-
able for public appreciation.

Donald B. MacMillan, leader of the Crocker Land Expedition, is
building a protected motor schooner for service in exploration of Baffin
Land in 1921.

President Osbora sent the following letter of greeting by airplane to
Roald Amundsen at Nome, Alaska:

“The American Museum of Natural History welcomes your return
from your great jour-ey through the Northeast Passage and incidentally
the circumnavigation of the Northern globe. We serd our heartfelt
corgratulations on this the third great achievement of your life as an
explorer. We trust that this firds yourself a~d members of your valiant
party in good health avd strergth, ard that you have rot suffered any
losses. As soon as we learn the details of your route, we shall map it
on our Polar globe. With best personal wishes and those of my
scientific colleagues in the American Museum.”’

John T. Davis, formerly employed as a carpenter, and who retired
March Ist, 1917, died at the home of his daughter at Blawenburg,
N. J., July 16th.

With the exception of one or two men, the entire force of the Con-
struction Department will be away on their vacations during the last
three weeks of August.

“Vic” Devoto intends to spend part of his time with his parents at
Hillsdale Maror, N. J., and the rest at the Garibaldi Castle on Staten
Island.

Jake Shrope will resmue his piratical operations with his house-boat

on Princess Bay ard the Sound.

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Joe Rowell will spend his vacation at his country home in Fort Lee.

Instead of going to Newport this year, Mr. Blomberg intends to
tour the Berkshires in a flivver.

Elmer Daugherty will go to the old homestead’in Newfield, N. J.

C. Moyer and B. Palmer expect to spend most of their time at home.

R. Nimmo expects to take a trip up to Atley’s farm in Dutchess
County.

C. Allgoever will remain on his farm at Northport.

Joe Tyson will spend the first couple of weeks of his vacation on a
farm near Albany, and the res: on the Hudson River in his canoe.

Chief Beers is going to stay at Bushkill, Pa., for two weeks and use
the remaining two for a tour through Maine in his car.

Things have been pretty quiet in the Museum since Frank Vitolo
went away on his vacation. He is at present staying at Bushkill, Pa.

MUSEUM SPECIMENS:
What And Where Are They?

Pteranodon

Beetle Spectrum
Tree Oysters

Paper Bread
Cloisonné

“Caliph”

Mountain Leather
Fossil Aquarium
Life Mask of Lincoln

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Bird with Teeth

Bird without Wings
Knot Records
Kakemono
Seismograph
Ramshorn. Lanterns
Panama Canal Model

The point of view has much to do with one’s opinions, and a skyline
is often mistaken for the horizon.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

Lady, to Joseph Cassen: “Will you please tell we where to find the
Hall of Horrors?”

Visitor: ‘‘Where is the machine that makes earthquakes?” (the
seismograph).

Said a sightseer in the Shell Hall, to an attendant, giving a knowing
wink of the “you can’t fool me”’ significance: ‘I should really like to
know just how much of the brilliant coloring on these shells is natural
and how much is due to artificial means.”’

We mortals have to swat and shoo
The flies from dawn to dark,
Because Noah didn’t swat the two
That roosted in the ark.

]

“T believe in exercise,’ said the old mule, ‘‘but I must confess I
never enjoyed taking it on the tow-path.” “Ah!”’ exclaimed his bright
young son, ‘‘that’s where you draw the line, eh?”’

Mr. Belanske, the other day, was the victim of an individual who
protested in strong ternis against the presence of an African chieftain

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and a Chinese coolie in the same case with a white woman (Types
exhibit, Hall of Primates).

James McGrath, who operates the elevators, complains that some
oxe is always pickirg on him. No sooner does he get his car on the upper
levels than some one calls him down.

The Way We Feel About the Museologist Jokes:

“How did you like that joke I just told you?”

“Fine! I always did enjoy that joke.”

All contributions to the Musrouocist should be ad-
dressed to the Publicity Committee.

Help to make this your paper.

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Mr. Beers has made arrangements with H. Kamber & Co. whereby
employees may secure clothing according to the details given below.
Those wishing to take advantage of the offer must have the detachable
card validated by the Bursar, Mr. Smyth.

H. Kamber & Co., Wholesale Clothiers of No. 708 Broadway, have
agreed to deal with the employees of the American Museum of Natural
History on the same basis as with department stores and retail clothiers.

The manufacturer offers a selection of over 100 patterns in thirteen
‘ranges.’ Each ‘range’ includes a number of sample cloths in various
textures and colorings which make possible a satisfactory selection.

All patterns in No. 1 range cost $22.50 a suit. Each succeeding range
carries an increase of $1.00 a suit until the finest grade is reached (range
No. 13) at $37.50 per suit. At the prevailing retail prices this means a
saving of from 25 to 33%43%.

The suits offered are this season’s fabrics and styles. A choice of six
different styles offered is subject to the following conditions: double
breasted, $1.00 extra; stouts, 5% extra; silk linings, .75 per suit extra.

The suits are stock size ard cut to standard measurements. Minor
alterations necessary for a satisfactory fit are furnished free of charge.

An identification card of introduction will be furnished to each or
any employee, who then can call at the salesrooms and _ personally
make his purchase.

H. KAMBER ©, CO.

708 BROADWAY
New York City

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THE MUSEOLOGIST

This little magazine is devoted to the internal affairs of the Museum. It
exists for the sake of all the Myseum workers, and offers itself as a ready
medium through which they may come into closer touch with each other and
with the Corporation.

It is issued by the Publicity Committee.

Volume I October, 1920 Number 4

The peculiar quality of Thoreau’s mind lay in its happy
blending of the spirit of precise investigation with the genius
for beauty and the inspiration of. wonder. These, with his
illuminating imagination, swift humor and_ philosphical
bias, gave to all his observations an essential originality.

Not formally trained in science, but minutely observant
and keenly responsive to the manifestations and moods of
nature, he saw with the eyes of a naturalist and the wonder of
anovice. And always he showed that intimate attraction for
his subject that defines the amateur.

“Henry talks about Nature just as if she’d been born
and brought up in Concord,” said Madame Hoar.

His bent for the life of outdoors, emphasized by an un-
social disposition, made inevitable his revolt against the
struggle for existence, so exacting, in organized society, and
leaving so little leisure—sometimes, even, so little impulse—
to carry on spiritual growth.

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What
is called resignation is confirmed desperation,” he said;
and:

“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life
which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the
long run.”’

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So, for the sake of finding a closer and uninterrupted con-
tact with nature, and to demonstrate that the exertion of
maintenance need play only a very minor part in life, he
retired, at the age of twenty-eight, to the hut he had built
at Walden. From there, after two years filled with adven-
tures in natural history, he returned to Concord, having
shown that the struggle for existence can be subordinated to a
broader living, but evidently content not to prolong the ex-
periment into custom. Perhaps, in spite of himself and un-
consciously, he was drawn nearer to his kind.

Curiously, his study of Indian ethnology fired to en-
thusiasm his human sympathies, left strangely cold by casual
association with his neighbors. Apart from such notable ex-
ceptions as his friendship with Emerson, he seems never to
have acquired the facility—as he did not possess the instinct
—for social intercourse. His remark may be taken literally:

“T should not talk so much about myself, were there
anybody else whom I know as well. Unfortunately, I am
confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience. ”’
It is doubtful, on the other hand, whether he had any larger
self-knowledge than most of us.

His humor, oddly exuberant in view of his solitary habits,
reflected his social detachment. Although reverent, in the
truest sense, to an unusual degree, his witticisms were fre-
quently of a superficial flippancy giving an initial effect of
irreverence. But they were actually, for the most part,
shrewd satire directed against nothing more lofty than the
artificialities and smallnesses of humanity. Wider human
relationships would surely, in a mind so fundamentally genial,
have mellowed this pungency to a more philosophical tole-
rance. But he was not a misanthrope, who said:

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“T never asked thy leave to let me love thee,—I have a
right. I love thee not as something private and personal,
which is your own, but as something universal and worthy of
love, which Ihave found. . . . The Friend asks no return
but that his Friend will religiously accept and wear and not dis-
grace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other’s hopes.
They are kind to each other’s dreams.”

Nor does he deserve the charge—sometimes made against
him—of provincialism. If is true that he never felt the urge
to travel, and that his journeyings were not of great dis-
tance or duration. It is true that he said, when urged to
visit Paris:

“Paris could but be a stepping-stone to Concord,” and,
on returning from a short trip to Canada:

“What I got by going to Canada was a cold.”

But he had come to realize, through his gift of extensive
and penetrating observation, that in and about Concord there
was more of nature to be seen and studied than he could hope
to include in several lifetimes of investigation. And he
was averse to dissipating his energies.

Thoreau was a layman who went through the world with
wide-open eyes, eagerly examining into the ways of nature;
he was a naturalist who never lost, in his passion for exact
knowledge, the glamour of beauty, the thrill of mystery.

Life is a place of service, and in that service one has to suffer a great deal
that is hard to bear, but more often to experience a great deal of joy.

But that joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service,
and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal hap-
piness.

ToLsTot.

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““TRAMP IRON”?

Prior to the smelting and refining of certain materials a device is
used to remove what is known as ‘‘tramp iron’’—hbits of scrap, nuts,
broken bolts, rusty washers, nails, all the wandering riffraff of machinery,
that comes from no one knows where. If it should remain, it would,
at the best, lessen the purity of the finished product; at the worst, it
would do irreparable damage.

To extract all this harmful foreign matter, simply and thoroughly,
requires—merely a magnet in the right spot. Placed above the crusher
feed it draws aside all the dangerous bits of metal and drops them into
the scrap heap where they belong.

In the process of every human institution and of every mind, there
is “tramp iron.” Its effects are the slowing up of business, errors,
human explosions; at the best, waste—at the worst, disaster; and the
remedy is as simple as a magnet. It is the use of a mechanism with
which we are all equipped. The human will, given its chance to control,
can eliminate the “tramp iron” in our characters and in our daily work.
Give it its opportunity to ‘“‘pull,’”’ and the tricks of thought and action,
all the trifling bad habits that lessen the value of our finished product,
will promptly and automatically go where they belong—into the scrap
heap.

A great capitalist and business man—Andrew Carnegie—was
recently asked what he considered to be the most important factor in
modern industrial life, the contribution of labor, of capital, or of brains.
He answered the question with another: ‘‘ Which is the most important
leg of a three-legged stool?”’

Reprinted by courtesy of The Guaranty News.

THE NEWS

The Swedish scientific expedition to Canada and the United States,
composed of Baron de Geer, his wife and two other of his most ex-
perienced assistants, Drs. Ernst Antevs and Ragnar Lidén, was cone
ducted through the Museum by President Osborn shortly after their
arrival in this city.

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The object of the expedition, as described by Baron de Geer, is to
execute in Southern Canada and Northern United States a comprehen-
Sive series of measurements in order to test the international utility of his
theory of determining the chronology of the past 12,000 years by ob-
‘Servations of clay laminations. Since 1878, he has worked out and util-
ized a method of de‘ermining, by actual counting of certain seasonally
distinctly laminated clay-layers, the chronology of the past 12,000 years,
or the period that witnessed the evolution of man as well as of the whole
fauna and flora of those parts of Northern Europe and North America
which during the Ice Age were barren deserts covered by extensive ice-
sheets, but have since that time become changed into the very centers of
civilization.

By the new method of investigation it has been shown possible,
Baron de Geer believes, to determine, step by step, how the large ice-
sheets receded and melted away, this being registered from the melting
season of every year by the annual deposition of melting water sediment
and especially of seasonally laminated clays.

The annual lamina from warmer years being thicker and from colder
ones thinner, the chronological self-registering is at the same time a
thermographical one. In the same way ihe annual means of the recent
temperatures of the air show very similar changes all over the same
clima’ic zones of the earth, and especially over the named large regions
which from the same cause were glaciated during the Ice Age. In the
same way the ancient normal variation of the annual temperature of the
air, as regis‘ered by the lamina of the clay, has been found to be astonish-
ingly coincident, not only at a great number of places in all parts of
Sweden even at dis‘ances of more than a thousand kilometres and, where
inves‘igations hitherto have been carried out, in the adjoining countries,
but, what is still more remarkable, the same identity of variation seems
to occur also be‘ ween several different points in North America and cor-
responding parts of the continuous Swedish time-scale, now worked out
without interruption for the last 15,000 years.

Baron de Geer expects to establish through the application of his
theory the laws regulating the whole recession of the great ice-sheet, the
accurate dating of the time-periods, and the amount of time which the
plants and animals have had at their disposal for immigration and settle-
ment throughout the northern part of America, as well as the time re-
quired for the development of the soil and the vegetable mould, for tke

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rivers and the lakes in their erosional work, and for the evolution of our
prehistoric ancestors.

The theory has aroused great interest, and will without doubt be
very far-reaching in its consequences. Geologists from Canada and the
United States are keenly interested in the investigation.

The British Delegation to our Pilgrim Tercentenary arrived in New
York on September 20th. They will be entertained by the Museum
during their stay.

Dr. Wissler has returned from Hawaii and taken up his residence in
Washington, where he has entered upon his duties as Chairman of the
Division of Anthropology and Psychology of the National Research
Council. He is continuing to edit the Museum’s Anthropological Papers.
Miss Weitzner is in Washing‘on assis‘ing in both phases of his work.
During his short stay in the Museum after returning from Hawaii, he
stated that the conference there was very successful, work having been
planned for a comprehensive survey of the Pacific Islands which will
cover a period of years and in which a number of countries will partici-
pate.

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Miss Hood has returned to her work after a three-months’ leave of
absence which she greatly enjoyed.

Mr. Thomson writes from Nebraska that he has been successful in
obtaining a number of specimens of fossil Rhinoceros and Moropus.

Dr. Van Namé is enjoying a two-months’ trip to the coast. He has
visited some of the National Parks, and is now in California.

———

Dr. Hikoshichiro Matsumoto, Assistant Professor of Paleontology
in the University at Sendai, Japan, is spending several months at the
Museum, where he is s‘udying the fauna of the Late Tertiary and Glacial
Periods in Japan and prehistcric human remains in Japan. Dr. Mat-
sumoto has published a monograph on the brittle starfish of Japan, and
papers on the fossil mammals of China and other subjects.

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The new editorial room of Natural History has been comple ‘ed,
including the installation of a number of very neat cabine‘s. The office
is a great improvement on the former edi‘orial room.

Mr. and Mrs. F. H.Smyth spent part of September at Indian
Lake, in the Adirondacks.

Mr. Sniffin is recovering from his illness resulting from a fall. We
are all glad to see him looking so much better.

President Osborn has just returned from a three-weeks’ camping
and fishing trip in the Lauren‘ian Highlands northwest of Quebec, in
the game reservation of the Tourilli Club. It is interesting to note that
Comp '‘reller Craig is spending his vacation in the adjoining preserves of
the Triton Club.

We understand that Mr. Ramshaw is building a bungalow. He
expects to need it some time next spring—so rumors say.

Miss Remmey has just comple'ed a vacation in Canada, during
which she enjoyed a trip on the Saguenay River.

While away in the mountains, some two hundred miles from New
York, Joe Tyson had the temerity to try to hold back a rapidly moving
Ford. He came out second-best in the contest and spent nearly two
weeks with his leg swathed in bandages. His respect for Fords has gone
up 200% since he picked himself up out of the dirt.

The public lectures of the City’s Department of TE to be
given at the Museum s‘art early in October.

As one ins‘ance of the Museum’s growing success in interes’ ing
school children in natural his‘ory, comes the gift of a bit of bog-iron
found by a Long Island boy who believed it to be a meteorite. He was
wrong, this time. But he may be right ano‘her time.

And speaking of interes ing the children, Mr. Hyde’s work with the
Boy Scouts is getting on famously and assuming gratifying propor’ ions.

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Mr. Hyde was originally invited by the Interstate Park Commission,
and later by the Boy Scout organization, to develop a permanent local
natural history museum for the Scouts of the encampment at Kohana-
wake Lakes, near Bear Mountain.

The object of the movement is to stimulate among the Scouts an
intelligent love of nature, and to impress upon them the fact that they
do not need to make long hikes to find natural history specimens of
interest. Building accommodation has been provided for the purpose by
the Bear Mountain authorities, and the Museum has loaned collections
of mounted birds and other specimens, while the Zoological Park has
loaned examples of the poisonous snakes of the locality. This was done
in order to give the work a start. The boys themselves, however, will
collect the specimens for permanent exhibition in their museum.

There are eighteen camps situated on the three lakes, averaging
about one hundred boys to a camp. About one-tenth of the boys stay
in camp for the summer, but the personnel of the other nine tenths
changes about every two weeks. On the basis of these figures, it is
estimated that some 10,000 boys attend the camps each summer. These
boys are now receiving talks and practical training in field collecting,
the preparation, mounting and exhibiting of natural history specimens.

Work has already been commenced in organizing groups of Scouts,
each with its curator, assistant curator and chief collector. A library
has been provided, and to one group, which became interested in dis-
secting, a microscope was given for use in its observations.

The program for next year includes at least four additional scientific
workers, and six assisting instructors chosen from among the boys them-
selves. Work in the collection, study and preparation of specimens will
without doubt be added to the list of Boy Scout requirements, and credit
will be given for it. The boys have responded with great enthusiasm
to the new appeal.

Nor did the return from the camps put an end to their interest.
Winter hikes to the Scout Museum have already been planned. And the
number of Scouts to be seen about our own halls and laboratories testi-
fies to a lively present interest.

Among other members of the Museum’s staff to take part in the
movement, are Messrs. Lutz, Chapin and Noble, who during the ten-
day conference of Scout Executives held in September conferred with
the Scout leaders on methods of presentation, and led hikes for the

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purpose of initiating the officers of the Scout organization into the
pleasures and advantages of field work,

The workers in the Construction Department wish to express
through the Museologist their appreciation of the generous increase
which they received. Coming as it did just after the vacation period, it
was doubly welcome. The Department has received additional equip-
ment funds and has added four new names to its roster. They are G.
Coughlin, a painter; H. Otto, a machinist; and C. Schwarz and C.
Zabriskie, carpenters.

Henry Hundertpfund, as delegate of the Wallace A. Downs Post
(No. 26) of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, attended the national con-
vention of the organization recently held in Washington.

Miss Vreeland and Miss Mook were among late vacationists.

On his recent visit to Morehead City, Mr. Bell was successful in
obtaining a large number of excellent casts. The species secured include
the Tiger, Black-tip, Sandbar, Bonnet-nose, Hammerhead, Nurse and
Cub Sharks, and a very large Whip Ray. <A small devilfish was also
obtained. On opening up one of the Tiger Sharks, Mr. Bell found the
undigested remains (in five or six pieces) of a shark which must in life
have measured between eight and nine feet. The casts will soon be
placed on exhibition.

James McGovern, our head night watchman, who has been on a
three-months’ leave of absence following his breakdown, has recovered
his usual health, and returns to the Museum the first of October.

A new small group showing four coyotes on a typical bit of prairie
sparsely dot‘ed with buffalo grass and rose-mallow has just been placed
on exhibition in the Hall of North American Mammals, near the Timber
Wolf Group.

Dr. O’Connell has returned to the Museum. She is working on a
collection of Jurassic ammonites from Cuba which were obtained by
Mr. Barnum Brown.

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Mr. Pe‘er McDermott, who recently underwent an operation at the
Presby‘erian Hospi‘al, is recovering.

Among a number of interesting and valuable new acquisi ions, the
following are especially to be noted: a collection of pho‘ographs, mainly
of racial types, from Transcaucasia, the gift of Mr. Copley Amory, Jr.; a
collection of phonographic records of African and North American Indian
music, the gift of Miss Natalie Curus; 37 American and Oriental pearl
Shells containing pearlaceous grow chs, the gift of Mr. George W. Korper;
650 birds collec_ed by Mr. Watkins in Peru; a collection of 232 ethno-
logical specimens from Peru, ob ained through funds supplied by Mr.
Morgan; and 303 herpe‘ological specimens from Colombia, obtained
through exchange. The Museum has also under‘aken the purchase of
twelve objects:of gold from Peru, believed to be of great age and value. —
They include breas'pla‘es, collars and plumes and vessels.

One of our number—William Cos'‘ello, of the boek-keeping de-
partmen'—was near the corner of Wall Street and Broadway, on his
way to J. P. Morgan’s office, at the time of the explosion on Sep*ember
16th. Not knowing the cause or location of the dis‘urbance, he con-—
tinued to the Morgan building. When martial law was declared a
short time afer the explosion, Mr. Cos ello was caught in the dis ric‘,
and de‘ained until half past three in the af:ernoon. He was grea‘ly
impressed wi h the des ruction and suffering caused by the explosion.

Mr. Langham has returned from Milwaukee, where he attended the
Na‘ional Convention of Stationary Engineers.

Some time ago a model of a full-formed, long-horned s eer, one and
a half feet high, was displayed in connec‘ion wi‘h one of our heal:h food
exhibi s. The model has since been lost, and diligent search has failed
to find it. It was an unusually fine model, the work of Roswell Flower
Baerman, afterward killed in France, and was made when the boy was
only sixteen years old. His parents are mos! anxious to secure the piece
if it is s‘ill in existence, and have asked the Museologist to announce
that they will pay a reward of $25.00 to any one who will help them to
recover the model.

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On Sunday, September 26th, Mr. Benjamin Connolly was married.
We offer our congratulations and all good wishes.

On September 21s:, Dr. A. K. Haagner, Director of the National
Zoologi+al Gardens at Pretoria, showed some remarkable lan‘ern slides
and motion pictures of South African animals.

The American Museum baseball nine will play the Metropoli‘an
Museum team on Saturday, October 9th, at 1:15 Pp. M., on the Central
Park Sheep Meadow. All welcome. No admission fee. Team willleave
here at 12:30.

Mr, Clarence A. Hough, who on behalf of the Chicago Art Ins‘i-
tute is inves‘igating various methods of propaganda for institutions of
art and science, visited the Museum in September and was given a
complete survey of the publicity methods employed here. He ex-
pressed great surprive at the scope of the work, in which the American
Museum holds the position of pioneer.

Owing to the absence of a very large number of employees on vaca-
tion, no September number of the Museologist was issued.

Those men who try to do something and fail, are infinitely better
than those who try to do nothing and beautifully succeed.
JENKIN Lioyp JONEs.

IN THE FIELD

We take pleasure in quoting from a letter of Augus! 1st, sent us by
Mr. Anthony, in Ecuador:

“We had a very comfortable passage down, making excellent con-
nections at Panama and arriving at Guayaquil on July 1s*. We spent a
week about that city getting things lined up and doing a little collec‘ing
too. We took a side-wheel steamer then for about 23 hours down the
coast to Santa Rosa where we got eight mules, six for our equipment
and two saddle mules and then crossed over the wes‘ern range of the
Andes to Portovelo where the mines are located. This is a wonderful
trail, one of the most difficult for travellers in Southern Ecuador, but
at this time of the year it is dry and so it was merely a ques‘ion of hard

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riding. We were two days getting in, the second day being 13 hours in
the saddle and arising at 3:00 a. m. to start by moonlight.

“We have made our base at Portovelo and an ideal base it makes.
We were very graciously received and given a house to ourselves, a
concrete structure with elec‘ric lights, running water, shower bath,
distilled water and ice delivered daily, and not at all what one might
expect in the wilderness of Southern Ecuador. It is all the result of the
push and initiative of the Americans, however, and the company deserves
great credit for their model mining camp. There are twenty-odd Ameri-
cans employed there and several hundred na‘ives. The mines were first
opened by the Spaniards in 1540 and have been worked off and on ever
since. By the way, my address will be, care of the South American De-
velopment Company, Guayaquil, Ecuador, all the time Iam down here.

“Things are very expensive at Portovelo because everything must
be carried in over this steep trail, a trail that fords the Rio Santa Rosa
twenty times in the first six hours out and climbs up to 6,300 feet before
twelve hours are passed. I saw steel cable go in to the mine, one piece,
loaded on thirteen mules, single file, each mule with a few coils on its
back. Local products are not so dear; we get sugar for $.07 to $.10 a
pound, while a bottle of aguardiente is about $.17 gold.

“We worked about Portovelo for a week and then made our first
camp in the coast range at 5,400 feet where we have now been for some
twelve days. We return to our base this next Thursday. We are getting
a fine lot of specimens and if we are as fortunate during the remainder of
the trip we shall have a wonderful collection. Wish you could have sat
down to dinner with us the other evening, the day I got into a troop of
howler monkeys and bagged four. The ones we ate were delicious.

‘“‘Cherrie is a dandy to be in camp with and we get along fine. Our
hours are a little long on the front end, that is we get up about 5 each
morning and help lift the sun up over the mountains; but then on the
the other hand 8 p. m. is scandalously late for us to be up.”

Apropos of Mr. An‘hony’s remarks concerning the South American
Development Company, the feeling of appreciation seems to be mutual. -
Officials of the Company, on receiving acknowledgment of the Mu-
seum’s gratitude for their splendid cooperation with the Ecuador ex-
pedition, sent a warm expression of esteem for the members of the
expedition. They s‘a‘ed that excellent addresses made by Mr. Cherr-e
on Roosevelt’s trip to South America and Mr. Anthony on mammals
had heen greatly enjoyed by the Company’s employees.

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Mr. Nelson and Mr. Hyde have left on a 6-weeks’ expedition. They
have gone to Grand Gulch, Utah, where twenty years ago an expedition
was conducted by the Wetherills under the direction of Mr. B. T. B.
Hyde who, with his brother, was at that time financing expeditions in
the Southwest. The present trip is planned to locate definitely the caves
and ruins from which the collections were taken formerly. This region
was occupied by the cliff-dwellers who built the many-roomed houses
often placed in caves, and also by another people of quite distinct physi-
cal type who are known particularly for their baskets, of which a large
collection is owned by the Museum. The party now in the field hopes
to determine the relative ages and times of occupation of these peoples.
The expedition is financed and accompanied by two friends of the Mu-
seum.

Dr. Matthew has left on a visit to Europe, where he will remain
until about the first of December. He is accompanied by Mrs. Matthew.
His primary object is to examine a large private collection of vertebrate
fossils, recently offered to us for purchase, in Esthonia. Incidentally he
will visit museums in Stockholm, Upsala, Frankfort, Munich, Basle,
Lyons, Paris, Brussels, London, and other cities. He will probably also
go to Italy.

Dr. Reeds and Mr. Hill spent the month of September collecting in
New York and Pennsylvania. Judging from the amount of material
already arrived at the Museum, they have been very successful.

THE BOOK SHELF

The latest Bulletin of the New York Zoological Society is given
over entirely to a paper by Mr. Lang on the White Rhinoceros of the
Belgian Congo.

Dr. Crampton has an article in the current National Geographic on
South American field-work.

Arucles by Mr. Andrews will appear in early numbers of Asia and
Harper’s.

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The leading article in September’s Country Life is by Messrs. Lutz
and Watson, on our brilliant butterflies.

The Museum Library has just purchased the first twenty-seven
volumes of the Anatomische Hef e. This comple’es our se* to date.
Another important recent accession is the seven’ y-volume se! (complete)
of Zei‘schrift der Deu‘schen Morgenlandischen Gesellschaft.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

“Gee! It must have been some job to bury that bone!”

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Says one of our entomologists: ‘‘A man had been in several times
saying that he wanted a collection of dragon flies identified. Finally I
told him to bring them in the next Sa‘urday afternoon when I should
have a little leisure time and I would identify them for him. ‘Ob,’
said the man, ‘I haven’t caught them yet.’”’

Is the objection to any increase of fare a sign that everybody is
feeling fed up?

Visitor (interes‘ed in the Tide Pool Group): ‘‘What is that little
ereen spiny animal there?” :

Mr. H.: “That? Oh, that’s only the Strongylocentrotus droeh-
bachiensis.”’

Woman to Attendant: ‘Will you be good enough to tell me what
the word paleontology means?”

Attendant: ‘Begorra, Mom, that’s more than I know meself.”’

A sailor on leave was heard to say to his companion who was s‘and-
ing spellbound before the model of the malaria mosquito: ‘‘Aw, come
on. It’s a fake. Never was a mosquito as large as that.” . He was less
credulous than the lady who exclaimed, on seeing the same model:
“Gracious! In what pari of the world do mosqui‘oes grow to that size?”’

Printers’ errors are often funny. There was the printer who, in
se:ting up an eloquent tribute to our soldiers, used, in his first proof, the
term “‘bottle-scarred veterans,” and who, through some accident, cor-
rected his final copy to read ‘‘battle-scared ve'erans.’’ But no: all the
credit for the mistakes we see every day belongs to the printer. Care-
less writing accounts for many. We quote a few gleanings from English
papers, collected by an English paper:

“To be let. Charming little gentleman’s pleasure farm.”

“There was one summer when he lived by himself in a lonely old
houseboat on the Thames, from which he paddled himself ashore every
morning in a top-hat.’”’ (This called for‘h a comment from Punch to the
effect that the only drawback to this kind of craft is that it accommo-
da'es only a single skull.)

“Wild Animals. I have been told that when men are attacked and
killed by wild animals there is no sensation of pain. Can anyone who
has had experience confirm this?”’

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“Try our 2s. butter. No one can touch it.”

As a result of bad arrangement in an Irish newspaper, the following
note appeared:

“In a collision between his vehicle and a tramear yesterday a pas-
senger was injured and removed to a hospital. For other sporting news
see page 6.”

‘‘Why are the days longer in summer than in winter,’ asked the
teacher.

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expand.” ee

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THE MUSEOLOGIST

This little magazine is devoted to the internal affairs of the Museum. It
exists for the sake of all the Museum workers, and offers itself as a ready
medium through which they may come into closer touch with each other and
_ with the Corporation.

It is issued by the Publicity Committee.

Volume I November, 1920 Number 5

~DO THE MOST IMPORTANT THING FIRST”

The new year of the Museum opens in the autumn when
the men return from explorations in the field and when those
who are not so fortunate as to explore return from their
vacations. It is a time for the interchange of experiences,
for the renewal of the ideals of Museum life, and for plans
and resolutions for the next long spell of Museum work.

Conditions have entirely changed in several depart-
ments, because it has been necessary to decrease the number
of the working force in order to bring the pay of those who re-
mained up to a point adequate to meet the high cost of
living and the high rentals. In brief, it costs twice as much
to operate’ the Museum as it did ten years ago, and the
question with every officer and with every curator is whether
it is possible through greater energy and more intelligent and
intensive effort to speed up the work so that the Museum will
not sufier through this inevitable thinning of our ranks. In
every branch of our activity it is desirable to consider every
moment of time as affording the golden opportunity for
getting something done, whether it be a bit of preparation,
a line of manuscript, or the finishing of an exhibition case.

“Getting things done” is a prosaic motto for the year
1920-21, but not an ill-timed one. The number of half-
finished pieces of work in the Museum is countless, work

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begun with high hopes and great promises. Thirty years
ago, when I began my work in the Museum, I sought the
advice of one of the most effective men in our public life as to
how to get things done when there were so many interrup-
tions on every side. He gave me a motto which has been
priceless. It came from Samuel J. Tilden, one of the great
governors of the State of New York, who was in the habit of
writing it on a small piece of paper and reading it over every
morning while he shaved. It was this:
“Do the most important thing first.”

This I have found to be one of the secrets of an effective
year. Consider all the things before you and select the one
which is most important to do first. You will not thus follow
the line of least resistance, but often the line of greatest re-
sistance and the line which presents the most obstacles. I
have found it far easier to attend to my correspondence and
clean up the details of my office, than to do a bit of hard re-
search work. I have no doubt it is easier for every curator to
arrange for a coming meeting or to dispatch all the many
details of daily administration, but suppose that in response
to this daily question the still small voice of conscience
dictates,—-the most important thing in my department is to
write labels, or, the most important thing in my department is
to finish up a long-delayed piece of literary work, or, the most
important thing is to take the disorder out of certain exhibi-
tions. I believe that Samuel J. Tilden’s motto repeated
every morning by every member of our staff, high and low,
would have wonderful results throughout the entire Museum.
Let the artists apply this rule no less than the painters: the
preparators no less than the masons; the high curators no
less than the youngest of their assistants.

Thus, two years hence, when the enlargement of the
building so long hoped for becomes a reality, we shall be

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able to enter on the arrangement of the new exhibition halls
with a feeling that the old exhibition halls are all up to the
concert pitch of their public educational value.

The Administration of the City of New York has re-
cently shown its confidence and even enthusiasm for the
great educational work which the Museum is doing in the
public schools. We have won the confidence and esteem of
the entire present municipal administration, not through
political means, but through a clear and _ straightforward
exposition of what we are actually doing; not through prom-
ises, but through performance. We believe that this offers
the brightest augury for the long-delayed extension of our
building, for which we have new been waiting for fifteen
years. In the next number of THe Musrouoaist we shall
say something about new building plans.

In the meantime let every one of our small army of 330
workers consider every morning what is the most important
thing and proceed to do it with all his might. Let us work
together with good-will. Let us work as rapidly as is con-
sistent with perfect results. Let us produce each day as
much as it is possible to produce.

Mitetilsicdbou

Bh Saari President

Who of us could endure a world, although cut up into five-

acre lots and having no man upon it who was not well fed and well

housed, without the divine folly of honor, without the senseless

passion of knowledge outreaching the flaming bounds of the

passion, without ideals the essence of which is that they never
can be achieved.

OLIVER WENDELL HoLMEs

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COOPERATION

‘Action and reaction are equal and in contrary direc-
tions,’ Sir Isaac Newton declared in one of his three famous
laws of motion. Restated as a law of human behavior, the
rule would be:

“Action and reaction are equal and in the same direc-
tion.”

That is why there is a distinct practical value, as well as
a personal satisfaction, in carrying into one’s business life
the same consideration, good will and sincerity that one offers
one’s friends. It brings a substantial return in the form of
cheerful cooperation. It makes things move more easily
and rapidly. |

An automobile can be cranked into action if it has no
self-starter; it can fuss along even if not all its cylinders are
in condition; and it can cover the ground on flat tires. It
may not ride well nor rapidly under those conditions, but it —
will get there. But however fine its type of motor, and in
however excellent condition it be otherwise, if for any reason
its oil stop flowing, the folks inside had best walk home. For
serious trouble, and expensive trouble, is bound to result from
driving a motor that is getting no oil. And, similarly, any
business that is being driven without regard for the lubrica-
tion of its parts will have frequent burn-outs.

Courtesy and good fellowship make the most effective
lubricating oil for the machinery of business. They keep the
bearings rolling freely, and prevent discordant noises and the
discomfort and damage of friction-produced heat. And they
promote the condition that makes for the highest efficiency—
the smooth coordination of all the parts in accomplishing the
purpose of the whole. In business, that condition is called
cooperation.

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Initiative, organization, equipment, are all invaluable.
But where many people are working together, none of these
is more important than cooperation. It is the degree of co-
operation that determines whether. a project is to advance
steadily and in a straight line, or spasmodically and with fre-
quent indirections. And cooperation or its lack grows out of
all the trifles of every day’s intercourse. Cooperation is a
general attitude of mind. It may be the prevailing disposi-
tion, and, if so, will be the greatest motive force, of any
undertaking in which a number of people are associated.

Every man has two educations, one which he receives from
others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself.
GIBBON

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AMONG THOSE PRESENT

Walter Granger

Mr. Granger came to the Museum on the last day of
September, 1890. He was attached to the staff of Superin-
tendent Wallace, but spent most of his time in the Taxi-
dermy Department. The following Spring he was entered as
a regular member of the Department of Taxidermy.

His first field work was done in the fall of 1893 under Dr.
Chapman’s direction, in the vicinity of Englewood, N. J.
His first expedition came in 1894, when, as a collector for the
Department of Mammalogy, he joined the Museum’s paleon-
tological party under Dr. J. L. Wortman, and spent the
summer in Kansas, Nebraska and South Dakota. In the
following year, 1895, he was again with the fossil collecting

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party, in Utah and Wyoming, devoting half his time to the
collection of mammals and half to the collection of fossils.
The next year he became permanently connected with the
Department of Vertebrate Paleontology, but continued for
some years to collect small mammals, from time to time, as
opportunity offered, for Dr. Allen. In all, he has made
twenty expeditions to the Rocky Mountain Region, the last
one in 1918, and has been in charge of these parties since
1899. In 1907, he accompanied the expedition which, under
President Osborn’s leadership, explored the fossil fields of
Fayam, Egypt.

Mr. Granger’s work in the fossil fields of the West has
covered a considerable range, geographically from New
Mexico to Montana, and geologically from the dinosaur beds
of the Jurassic down to the sands of the Glacial Period. For
the past fifteen years his special work has been the thorough
exploration of the Eocene deposits of the Rocky Mountains,
in which are found the remains of animals which represent
the beginnings of our North American mammalian life. As a
result of this work, the American Museum now possesses an
unequaled collection of Eocene mammals. Mr. Granger’s
activity in this field has been of great profit to the Museum.
Throughout this particular work, he has had the constant
assistance of Mr. George Olsen, to whom he attributes much
of the credit for his success.

In 1910, Mr. Granger was appointed Assistant Curator
of his department. In 1911, he became Associate Curator,
in charge of mammals. His publications have been principally
upon the stratigraphy and fauna of the American Eocene.

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Adam Brickner

Since July, 1897, Mr. Brickner has been engaged in the
service of the Museum. He first worked in the Department
of Vertebrate Paleontology, but after a short time was as-
signed to the Department of Geology, then under the direc-
tion of Professor R. P. Whitfield.

His knowledge of geology, which he has acquired since
| undertaking work in’ that department, together with his
familiarity with the Museum’s geological collections, has
made his services greatly appreciated by his department.

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Isaac B. Sniffin

More than twenty-seven years ago, Mr. Snifha came to
the Museum as an Assistant in the Library, and has remained
with us in that capacity ever since. Coming especially
equipped for the work he was to do, he has given generous
and valuable service throughout his employment.

Mr. Sniffin is thoroughly acquainted with the history
and development of New York City for the past generation,
having watched its growth with close interest from the time
when the present site and surroundings of the Grand Central
Station were open fields. Besides indulging this interest, and
following the literature of the day, he has also found time for
the study of music, and has served as organist in various
churches.

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Helen M. Vreeland

It is with a great deal of regret that we learn of Miss
Vreeland’s approaching resignation, which will become effec-
tive at the end of the present month. For over eight years
she has served with great success as the Secretary of the De-
partment of Public Education, in which position she has
dealt with many perplexing problems of education. We know
that she carries with her from the Museum the warmest
good wishes of all who know her for success and happiness in
the life position which she is about to take up in Washington,
AC:

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John Seim

Mr. Seim, our popular Custodian, came to the Museum
in 1890, as an Attendant. At that time, the building con-
sisted merely of the South Transept and Central Section of
the South Faeade.

Mr. Seim’s energy and efficiency brought him to the
attention of the Administration, and in 1910 he was promoted
to the position which he now holds.

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Michael F. Hanley

After a service of twenty-five years with the firm of
John Warren and Son, bankers and -brokers, Mr. Hanley,
when that firm went out of business, in- November, 1898,
came to the Museum as an Assistant to the late Dr. Anthony
Woodward, formerly Librarian of the Museum. In this capa-
eity he served faithfully until 1914, when he was placed in
charge of the sale of publications, which pesition he con-
tauues to occupy.

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THE NEWS

On October 14th, the Museum was honored by a visit from General
Marie Kmile Fayolle, the distinguished French officer, who, as Foch’s
representative and the official delegate of France, attended the recent
convention of the American Legion in Cleveland. He was received by
President Osborn, and then escorted by Mr. Madison Grant and Dr.
Lueas through the Hall of the Age of Man and the Dinosaur Hall.

It will be recalled that General Fayolle played an important réle in
French military activites from August 14, 1914, until the close of the
War, successively leading France’s newly organized Seventieth Division
of Infantry which met the Germans before Paris in the early days of the
War; commanding the Thirty-third Army Corps and later the Sixth
Army; leading the French troops sent to relieve Diaz in Italy; and
finally directing the Group of Armies of the Reserve which France was
holding ready to meet Ludendorff’s threatened great offensive of 1918.
General Fayolle won lasting fame by his share in France’s military
achievement. But Americans think of him primarily as the man under
whose supervision our first combat divisions received their baptism of
fire.

He has frequently and with emphasis expressed his admiration and
warm regard for the American forces. Of the First Division he said:
“Ah, that was a division, that one! I shall never forget its early chiefs,
General Bullard and General Liggett. At Cantigny they went forward
with the dash of men playing football. After that I would have liked
to keep them with me always. But then all your divisions were good
in their degree. It was a new army, an army of splendid health, good
physique, excellent morale.”

At the second Battle of the Marne, General Fayolle was associated
with five of our Divisions. He has referred especially to the work of the
First, Second, Third, Twenty-sixth and Forty-second, but has also ex-
pressed himself as loath to seem unjust to such other Divisions as did
not happen to come under his direct observation.

It is interesting to note that General Fayolle, a professional soldier
and a great general, is keenly interested in the evolutionary history of
man, his antiquity and the lines of his development. After that, his
scientific interest lies in the evolution of the horse, and then in the
subject of dinosaurs. Although his program while in this city was of

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course very full, he was unwilling to return to France without having
inspected the Museum’s halls of vertebrate paleontology, and made room
for his visit on the eve of his departure.

Museum employees ought all to make a point of seeing the new
Bryozoan Group, in the Darwin Hall, which shows reproduced in glass
and wax a two-inch section of sea-bottom, with its characteristic plant
and animal life, magnified more than 15,000 times. The group takes its
name from the tiny sea-animals, popularly called sea-mats and sea-
mosses, which it principally depicts.

The shells of these minute organisms form encrustations on sea-
weeds and pebbles and on the shells of larger animals. They are ex-
tremely beautiful in both intricate form and coloring. The “‘ plumed
worm” has especially lovely colors. Other strange microscopic creatures
and marine plants combine to make this group of especial interest.

The glass-blowing was done by Mr. Herman Mueller, and the color-
ing by Mr. Show Shimotori, while the wax portions of the group are the
work of Mr. Chris. E. Olsen. The entire exhibit was prepared and
assembled under Mr. Miner’s expert direction.

On October 22d, there was shown at the Museum a fine motion
picture reel descriptive of the Amazon River and its bordering country.
It was produced by the Eureka Pictures Corporation, which has ac-
quired what it believes to be the largest single collection of educational
and travel pictures ever brought together. Part of the collection will be
rearranged to supplement the work of public and private schools as
part of their regular courses. The pictures were shown at the Museum
in order that they might receive the endorsement of the institution.

President Wilson has set aside November 14th as Armistice Sunday.
On that day flags will be hung at half-mast, and special church services
will be held ‘‘as a token of the nation’s participation in the memorial
services held for the heroic American soldiers, sailors, marines and
others who gave their lives to their country in the world war.”’

Benjamin L. Smith, who had been ill for so many months, died at
his home in West Englewood, New Jersey, on Saturday, October 2d.

Page Seventeen

George Costello, formerly of our bookkeeping staff, has embarked
on a career as trapdrummer, and will play the Keith circuit this winter.
His place in the bookkeepers’ office has been taken by John F. Clark,
Jr., the son of our switchboard operator. He is welcome both for his
own sake and for that of his father.

Joseph McGarty, of our Administration Department, has left the
Museum to become a member of the New York Fire Department.

All our old Museum employees will remember Howarth Boyle,
formerly of the Department of Ornithology, and will be interested in
reading the following extract from a letter recently received at the Mu-
seum. Mr. Boyle is at Gorham, New Hampshire, with E. B. Estes &.
Sons, the box-makers.

“From the day I arrived and for many days to come I have been
and will be as busy as a whole hive of bees. Except for the South
American trip, I had never put to test my ability to work hard, long and
often. The hours here are from seven in the morning until five at night,
with Saturday afternoon off. I never leave the mill before 5:30, while
I work Saturday afternoon more often than I play.

“What do I do? Everything. At present I am stores keeper,
shipping clerk, time-keeper and foreman of two departments. I have
hauled cement, vats, lumber and iron by the car-load. I ran a fleet of
ten trucks for a month. Put in a peach of a card system. I buy sup-
plies, sweep out the office, etc.

“The mil is just large enough (and growing) to demand adminis-
tration, and just small enough to prevent one man from being in charge
of a single department. Therefore the multitude of duties.

“Gorham is not so much of a town, but we are connected by trolley
with the city (?) of Berlin, just five miles south. The hills and mountains
about are magnificent. The Presidential Range is near-by, while Mount
Washington and Mount Madison are but a few miles away. It has been
a very cold and nasty week, but this morning the sun came out and
played on the snow-covered peaks of those two mountains. I was up
Mount Washington last Sunday. It was bitter coldandraw. The leaves
are falling and the coloring of the hillsides is beautiful. Birch wood is
predominant, and is the wood which we use mostly at this mill. The
mill itself is very busy. There are at present some three hundred em-

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ployees, while two new additions will provide work for as many more
when completed.

“T like it immensely. You should see me working. I imagine it
would be quite a treat. 1 wish there were twenty days in a week. I
have so much | want to study and so much work to do I ean’t seem to
catch up.

“T feel as fit as a prince. I sleep like a ton of brick and eat accord-
ingly. I have lost weight, but that is because I have put off fat and
taken on real strength. I expect to be home Christmas. Send me all the
news. Regards to Dr. Chapman, Rogers, Miller, and all the rest.”

Mr. Chapin has recently been elected a Trustee of the Staten Island
Museum.

Early in October, the members of the Long Island City Chapter No.
410 of the Order of the Eastern Star made a visit in a body to the Mu-
seum, and spent an afternoon among our exhibits.

The month of October brought us a number of imporant acces-
sions. These included thirteen fur seals from St. Paul and St. George
Islands, Alaska, which will be used im a group, and which are a gift
from the Alaska Department of Commerce, Bureau of Fisheries; a fine
crystal sphere mounted im bronze, from Japan, the gift of Messrs. Sydney
and Victor Bevin; a Mexican blanket which formerly belonged to a
notorious Mexican bandit named Vidaurit, who was killed by United
States troops in 1857, the gift of Mrs. August Kirkham;, and, by gift
from John Marshall, the horn of an Indian Rhinoceros, with leather
case worked and stamped in color, said to have been presented to Pope
Gregory XIV in 1590 by the Prior and Brothers of the Monastery of
Saint Mary of Guadalupe, Spain. By purehase, a large collection of
Peruvian textiles and twenty Peruvian pottery vessels were secured;
and by exchange with the University Museum of New Zealand, we have
acquired two carved wooden slabs worked by old Arawa carvers of
Rotorua.

On October 19th, Lady Kathleen Scott visited the Museum and was
entertained at lunch by Mr. Akeley and Mr. Sherwood. Lady Scott,
who is the widow of Robert Falcon Scott, the explorer, was once a pupil
of Rodin and is well-known as a sculptor. During her stay im this city,
she is making a portrait of Mr. Akeley.

Page Nineteen

Mr. Pindar has received notice of his election to his fifth term as
Vice-President of the Schoharie County Historical Society. The collec-
tions of the Society are kept in the old Schoharie Fort, which was built
for a church in 1772 and transformed into a fort in 1777.

Mr. Nichols, who with Mr. Heilner, recently compiled records of the
weights of various fishes,—a piece of work which occupied some months’
time—is now busily engaged in explaining to many correspondents
where the fishes and weights were secured.

Mr. Charles H. Rogers, who left the American Museum in Sep-
tember, reported on his visit of a few days ago that the specimens belong-
ing to the Princeton Museum, of which Mr. Rogers is now Curator, are
gradually emerging from the years’ accumulation of dust, and assum-
ing order.

Miss Summerson has returned from Georgia, where she was called
by the serious illness of her mother. We are very glad to learn that her
mother’s health is now much impreved.

Our engineers’ force is badly handicapped owing to the absence of
Peter McDermott, who is reeovering from a major operation, and Fred
Kilpatrick, who is ill with rheumatism.

Dr. Chapman spent a few days during October duck-hunting in
Minnesota.

The Horticultural Society of New York will hold an exhibition 4n
the Museum from November 4th to 7th, inclusive. The exhibit‘on will
be open on the evening of the first day from 7 to 10 0’clock, especially
for the members of the Society, the Museum and affiliated erganiza-
tions; on Friday and Saturday, from 9 a. m. to 5p. m. and frem7 to 10
p.m.; on Sunday, from 1 to 5 p. m.

Mr. Frank C. Schaeffer is now a grand-dad. Congratulations!

Mr. Ernest Harold Baynes visited the Museum a few days ago to
complete lecture arrangements. .

Page Twenty

On her visit to the Museum in October, Mrs. E. M. House showed
great interest in the Hall of the Age of Man.

President and Mrs. Osborn hydroplaned to the Museum one morn-
ing last week.

The Bray Studio Motion Pictures Company is showing an exposi-
tion of ‘‘two inches of fairyland,” in which Mr. Miner, Albert Hoe!zle
and a number of students make up the cast, and the new Bryozoan
Group furnishes the most important scene.

Dr. Goddard has been appointed Lecturer on the Columbia Uni-
versity Anthropology staff.

‘““Duxie,’’ whose mention in the Society Column of an early number
of THe Muvsrouocisr aroused a good deal of comment, some of it
disapproving, was a welcome visitor last week. When we saw her, she
was with her usual cheerfulness and energy chewing a puppy biscuit.

Museum employees who so desire may secure either clover or buck-
wheat honey at $1.25 for five pounds, through Mr. Schaeffer, by leay-
ing their names in the Registrar’s office.

On October 6th, centennial exercises commemorating the hundredth
anniversary of the birth of Andrew H. Green were held in the Audi-
torium of the Museum under the auspices of the Andrew H. Green
Memorial Committee. A number of addresses were made. Music
was furnished, through the courtesy of Mr. E. F. Albee, of B. F. Keith’s
Theatre, by the B. F. Keith’s Boys’ Band and Miss Grace Nelson.

Personal to G. N. P.: ‘“‘Who paid for the flowers?’’—Duxie.

Our Assistant Curator of Anthropology, Mr. Charles W. Mead, and
Mrs. Mead, celebrated their 52d wedding anniversary on October 26th.
Mr. Brower Palmer, of our Department of Construction, expects to
celebrate his 54th wedding anniversary next month.

Mrs. Sterling has returned to the Museum after an extended vaca-
tion spent in Jay, New York.

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Museum people are among the many who felt real regret on hearing
of the death of Jacob Schiff, who, in his active life, not only called forth
wide recognition as a banker and financier of great achievements, but
won the deep regard and appreciation of a large public as a man of
native kindliness and broad philanthropy.

Mr. Schiff’s gifts to the Museum included: a collection illustrating
the use of the cocoanut palm by the Melanesians, and a collection illus-
trating the use of iron by the Africans; large collections from China,
including antique bronzes and pottery, household utensils, costumes
kites, ornaments, embroideries on silk, cloisonné work, masks, etc., all
of which material was collected by Dr. Berthold Laufer, on the East
Asiatic Expedition.

Dr. Carl Lumholtz, who has been in Europe for some time, drop ped
in at the Museum this week to renew acquaintances.

A memorial oak-tree to the late Theodore Roosevelt was planted
by The New York Bird and Tree Club in the cemetery at Oyster Bay on
October 27th. Mr. Pindar represented the Museum. Dr. Kunz, Lord
Rathereedan, Mr. Pindar and others made addresses.

Dr. Raymond A. Dart, an assistant of the comparative anatomist,
Professor Elliot Smith of the University College, London, has been
spending two weeks in the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology
studying the collection of natural and artificial brain casts of fossil
mammals and reptiles. Dr. Dart is on Rockefeller Foundation work and
is to spend the winter at Washington University, St. Louis. He plans
to return to the Museum next summer for more extended studies on our
collection.

We are glad to welcome Mr. Richard Cutler, who is acting as vol-
unteer assistant in the Department of Geology.

Museum baseball enthusiasts have been greatly interested in the
games between the American Museum and the Metropolitan Museum.
A healthy rivalry has grown up between the two teams and the two
groups of “‘fans.”’ We ‘‘Americans”’ of course feel that our team has
more than justified our faith in it by its successive victories of October

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9th and October 23d over the ‘‘Metropolitans.”’ Records of the two
games are printed below:

October 9th—

Metropolitans Americans
Player Position nS. | Player Position HR
Marano Cc. 1 0 |H. Schmitt 3B. ov '2
_ (Printer)
McLean 3B. 1 0 |A. Peinecke 1B. 22
(Printer)
Fitzpatrick 1 B. 1 O |J. Schmitt C. &SS. a8
_ (Printer)
Maguire Re FE. 0 0 |J.Connolly 2B. 5 ar
(Asst., Inv. Zool.)
Barrow 2 Bs: 1. 1° A: Belly L. F. ess.
(Attendant)
KXulins LF. 1 1./D.McGarty SS.&R.F. 2 1
(Attendant)
Kennedy Ss. 0 O (A. Talbot C.F. Saas |
(Asst., Storeroom)
Enright c. 0 O |J. Tyson r.. ras |
(Office Asst., Construc-
tion Dept.)
McAdams >. 2 1 |J3. Wagner RF. Se
(Printer)
W. Killeoyne C. ee
(Chauffeur)
T° <29 19 14
Score by Innings
t. 2 Sa 4055 6k Te
Metropolitans O° -O OY (30 Oa) 40 eee 3
Americans 2 YE Be SU Oa ee aS eee 14

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October 23d—

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Official scorekeeper: Ernest H. Patrzer, Fort Worth, Texas.
Cheerleader for the Americans: George A. Warther

Masect: Joseph Cassin.

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IN THE FIELD

Dr. Crampton is in the Philippine Islands.

Mr. Beebe, who is Director of the Tropical Research Station of the
New York Zoological Society in British Guiana, writes from Kartabo
that he has been having good weather and getting in some good collect-
ing. He adds: ;

‘Wheeler got 64 species of ants on one tree. My movie pictures are
coming out well, and we are doing good work in all directions.”’

From Mr. Anthony, whose letters are always interesting, we hear:

‘“‘T have been getting a fine lot of specimens with prospects of bring-
ing back quite a large collection at the close of the trip. We work out
from a base, a mining camp here at Portovelo, and after each side trip
return here, pack our specimens and get a new lot of supplies. Our
work is all in the mountains and indeed in Southern Ecuador it is diffi-
cult to find a spot that isn’t in the mountains. The trails are very
steep, and we use mules, riding, and carrying our supplies on
pack saddles. Just now it is the dry season and the trails are firm and
hard but they go up so steeply that you wonder how they ever got the
trail to stay on the mountain-side at first. To climb 6,000 feet in six
hours is a usual practice, and to make matters worse some of the trails
are worn so deeply that they pass between high banks, ten or fifteen
feet high, and are so narrow that a mule with a large pack often gets
stuck in the tight places and has to be shoved through. Sometimes the
| trail winds along a slope where you can look down for 500 feet or more
almost at your feet, and once one of our mules fell off the trail where it
was so steep that he could have rolled on down into the river nearly 200
feet below, but he lodged against a tree and several of us got on a rope
and pulled him back up.

‘“However it is worth all the effort it costs to get into these moun-
tains for there is much interesting life here. Mile upon mile of dense
tropical forest clothes the lower slopes, and the vegetation is of a wonder-
fully rich character. Ferns galore and palms make the forest unlike
any up north, and just now beautiful orchids, purple, yellow and white,
are in bloom, and are a common sight. Huge butterflies, brightly
colored birds and monkeys also add elements that are unknown in
northern woods.

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“Mammals are very difficult to secure in the tropics for some un-
explainable reason, because one would think there must be lots of them,
and I run big trap lines, ninety or more traps, to get even as few as ten
specimens. It is not very often that one can shoot mammals, and I go

- out at night with a searchlight on my hat and shine the eyes of any night

prowlers that may be moving about. In this way I have secured some
things that I have not seen at allin the daytime. This sort of hunting is
most fascinating, as you see eyes shining of all sorts of creatures. The
eyes of the big spiders sparkle like diamonds, those of the nighthawks
like pools of fire, and murderous little prowlers like the opossums have
red smouldering eyes set close together.”

GRIN AND BEAR IT

At an afternoon. tea:

Hostess: ‘‘Miss Blank, let me introduce Dr. X, from The Ameri-
can Museum of Natural Historv ”

Miss Blank: ‘‘Oh, I missed seeing you when I was there. What
case are you in?”

Dr. X: “A sorry case, apparently.”

Old lady, looking at the great stela from Quirigua: ‘Sir, do you
mean to tell me that such things ever lived?”’

In the Public Health Hall:

Visitor to Attendant: ‘‘Please tell me where the bacteriological
exhibit is?”

Attendant: “This is it right here, Madam.”’
Visitor: “If you don’t understand me, say so. I said bacteriological
exhibit.”’

Attendant.: ‘“‘ You mean germs, bugs.”

Visitor: ‘‘ Yes.”

_ Attendant: “This is the only exhibit of the kind that I know of.”
Visitor: (turning away disdainfully): ‘‘That’s for children.”’
(There happened to be an instructor with his class in the hall at the

time.)

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Overheard in front of the Sandhill Crane Group:
“It’s a shame that these people who call themselves scientific leave
this dirty water here; it can’t be healthy.”

A messenger was sent out to call for and deliver to the Department
of Herpetology a jarful of rare frogs. On his way back to the Museum,
he had a mishap. He dropped and broke the jar, and the frogs were
scattered over the pavement. He picked up several and duly delivered
them to the department.

‘“Why, there are only half a dozen here, and there were thirty in
the jar. Why didn’t you pick them all up and bring them here?” he
was asked.

‘““ Aw, they were only little bits of things. I didn’t think they were
worth picking up. I can find bigger and hetter frogs ’n that right around
home.”

Visitor, admiring Sturgis Collection: ‘‘What beautiful birds!
Where do they all come from?”
Attendant, eyeing label (Sturgis Collection of Birds of Paradise):

‘These birds come straight from Paradise, Ma’am.”’

‘“ Bull-dog for sale; will eat. anything—very fond of children.”
Newspaper Advertisement.

Overheard in the subway:

Stout old gentleman, seated, to- boy, seated: “‘Boy, why don’t
you give vour seat to one of those ladies?”’

Boy: ‘‘Why don’t you give yours to both of them?”

Heard after the play:

He: ‘Did you see that woman crying all through the death scene?
I can’t understand that sort of thing. She knew all the time the actor
was only acting—he wasn’t really dying.”

She: ‘‘ Perhaps that was what upset her.”’

Landsman: ‘‘Why do you speak of ‘knots’ at sea, instead of
‘miles’?”’
Sailor: ‘‘ Because we have the ocean tide.”

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A: “Is your brother out of danger yet?”

B: “No. The doctor is going to make three or four more visits.”’

From Punch, London:

Special Correspondent: ‘‘When they released me they said that if |
showed my face in Ireland again I would be shot.”’

Fearless Editor: “Tl show these Sinn-Feiners that I’m not to be
intimidated. You'll go back by the next boat.”

The Survey comments:

Last month the Buffalo Charity Organization Society received a
gift of one dollar, with the information: ‘“‘You are welcome to this;
I can’t buy anything with it.”’

All contributions to the Musronocisr should be ad-
dressed to the Publicity Committee.

Help to make this vour paper.

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ISSUED BY THE PUBLICITY COMMITTEE ¢
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Live with the gods.
Marcus AURELIUS

THE MUSEOLOGIST

This little magazine is devoted to the internal affairs of the Museum. It
exists for the sake of all the Museum workers, and offers itself as a ready
medium through which they may come into closer touch with each other and
with the Corporation.

It is issued by the Publicity Committee.

Volume I December, 1920 Number 6

Watt it is time for us to make

you the old greeting that

has been given millions-of times

in exactly the same words. But

we mean it as sincerely as it

was meant the first time it was
spoken:

A Merry Christmas
ann

A fiappy New Uear

As a sort of Christmas gift comes a message from Presi-
dent Osborn regarding something that lies close to the hearts
of each of us:

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THE THREE NEW BUILDINGS NEEDED

Our Founders presented us with a plan of building of
Herculean proportions, larger, we believe, than the Escorial
of Spain, which enjoys the reputation of being the largest
building in the world, and larger than the Louvre, that magni-
ficent pile of buildings in which are housed the great art
collections which contribute so much to the glory of Paris.
The original plan for the Museum was a great square inter-
sected by a cross, which, counting the central section or
rotunda, included twenty-one sections. To these have been
added two court buildings, making twenty-three sections
altogether, which we have designated as pavilions and wings,
the term hall being reserved for each of the several great
interior divisions of the respective floors. The building now
consists of eight and a half sections, erected during the first
half-century. The last of these, the SOUTHWEST WING,
was completed in 1908. |

Eleven years ago the City approved the plans for a new
SOUTHEAST WING AND COURT BUILDING, for which
very beautiful and careful plans have been prepared by our
present architects, Messrs. Trowbridge and Livingston.
These buildings were designed to include:

HALLS AND COURT OF OCEAN LIFE AND OF
OCEANOGRAPHY (Ground Floor),

HALL OF ASIATIC LIFE (Second Floor),
GALLERY OF MOLLUSCS (COURT BUILDING),

HALL OF REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS (Third
Floor), : 7
HALL OF JURASSIC DINOSAURS (Fourth Floor).

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NEW LABORATORIES AND STORAGE ROOMS for
the Departments of Fishes, of Reptiles, of Amphibians, of
Insects, and of Ocean Life (Top Floor).

The Trustees subscribed more than $600,000 towards the
erection of these two essential buildings and $200,000 was
appropriated by the City, and they would now be completed
and full of their beautiful and radiant contents had it not
been for the Tyrannosaurus rex of Potsdam and his followers.
It is hard to realize that one group of men in far-distant Berlin
could send out a withering blast on the scientific progress of
the whole world, from which it will take half a century to
recover; but such is actually the case. The American Mu-
seum as an integral part of world progress in science has felt
the check. The museums of Germany, of Austria, and of
France are fairly prostrated and present scenes of poverty,
destitution, and neglect which are too pitiful to describe.
Our Curator Matthew will have some impressive stories to
tell when he returns from his wonderful tour of all the mu-
seums of Europe, excepting those of Russia.

In this long intervening period since the last wing was
completed, just at the beginning of my administration, the
Museum has redoubled its activities, with its exploring and
collecting parties in all parts of the world. No continent,
excepting Australia, has remained unvisited. No oceanic
waters have not been traversed by our hardy and enter-
prising explorers. The result is that our storerooms are con-
gested with wonderful collections which we have no space to
display. But this in our opinion is not the worst. We are
teaching false science and false natural history by placing in
juxtaposition in the same halls specimens and exhibits which
belong very far apart. If a Permian reptile is placed near a
group representing the evolution of the horse, the innocent

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visitor may Jump to the conclusion that the reason the horse
became extinct in North America is that these Permian
monsters fattened upon the Eohippus. Small wonder that
dinosaurs and mammals are made contemporaneous in the
moving pictures, when we show dinosaurs and mammals
side by side in the same hall! These are but one or two in-
stances of the seriousness of the present situation. Others are
the crowding of the collection of fishes into the gallery of
birds, and of collections of reptiles and amphibians into a
gallery filled with Antarctic birds, sea mammals, Florida
scenes—an educational hodgepodge.

Brighter days are coming. We have at last gained the
friendly interest of our Municipal Trustees, of the Mayor, of
the Comptroller, and of other members of the Board of
Estimate and Apportionment, and there is some prospect
that “‘Father Knickerbocker” will come to the rescue and
give us our two new sections, the SOUTHEAST WING and
the great COURT OF OCEAN LIFE; also that some lover
of boys and girls will present us with a SCHOOL SERVICE
BUILDING which shall fill the space in the southwest court.

Quite recently a meeting of the Roosevelt State Memorial
Commission has been held in the Museum. The Commission
includes two members of the State Senate, two members of
the Assembly, and two from the State at large, appointed by
Governor Smith. Of this Commission I was appointed chair-
man and Mr. Pindar secretary. The five Commissioners,
representing the people of the various parts of the State, all
agreed that Theodore Roosevelt was a really great man, far
above the confines of politics,—a great American whose
memory should be honored and whose example should be

_ kept alive, especially for the benefit of the younger genera-

tion. Various plans for the memorial were suggested, with

a a

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locations proposed for up State, at Albany, andin New York
What form the memorial will take it is hard to say; that
which was presented from the Museum for the consideration
- of the Commission was a great Roosevelt Memorial Hall facing
Central Park, with a Roosevelt African Hall adjoining,—
a plan already somewhat familiar to the members of the Mu-
seum. The Commission was unanimous in desiring the
memorial, but naturally as yet have reached no unanimous
opinion as to what form it should take. We may hope that
the members will consider the building where Theodore
Roosevelt spent his boyhood and the last eight years of his
life as an explorer, to be an appropriate place to perpetuate

his memory.

President
He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but

he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances.
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AMONG THOSE PRESENT

Robert Devine

Mr. Devine was born in Brooklyn on October 11th, 1850.
His first employment was with the firm of D. 8. Hammond,
manufacturers of railroad bags and satchels. For a time he
was in charge of a plant of this firm in Connecticut, but with
the panic of 1890 this work stopped. He remained in Con-
necticut for several years, and came to the Museum on Labor
Day, 1895. Here his service has been faithful and cheerful,
and he has called forth the appreciation of those with whom
he has been associated.

William A. Sabine

Mr. Sabine was born on the 29th of May, 1856, in the
city of London. He attended national and private schools
there, and later went into the employ of his uncle, a merchant,
and then that of his father, who had taken over the manage-
ment of a London hotel.

On the death of his father, Mr. Sabine visited Belgium,
then came to Philadelphia, where he remained working in the
Baldwin Locomotive Works.

In 1890, he joined the School for Male Nurses founded at
Bellevue Hospital by the late Mr. D. O. Mills. He graduated
in 1892, and followed for some time the vocation of nursing,
for which he was especially well qualified, and in which he
was very successful.

In May, 1897, Mr. Sabine came to the Museum and was
assigned to the Department of Anthropology, where he has
been ever since. During the years he has spent there, many
changes have taken place, all the former Curators and assis-
tants having left the employ of the institution. Mr. Sabine

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is therefore the oldest employee, in point of service, in his
department, where his services are valued, and where he has
earned the esteem of his associates.

George F. Fitz-Patrick

Mr. Fitz-Patrick was bornin Worksop Notts, England,
on May 18th, 1860. He graduated from Worksop Academy
and Clee College, Lincolnshire, in 1878. Later joining the
Scots Guards, he served with his regiment in Egypt, partici-
pating in the Battles of Kass-assin and Tel-el-Kebir. In
1887, he came to New York, where he at first went into the
insurance business. He became an employee of the Museum
in September, 1894. Here his services have been a credit to
himself and profitable to the Museum, where he has made his
own place in the regard of his fellow employees.

Robert McAnuff

Mr. McAnuff was born on April 5, 1859, at Rathfryland,
County Down, Ireland.

He came to America in June, 1887, and worked for two
years as shipping clerk for the Pennsylvania Railroad,
Philadelphia.

On December 1, 1889, he joined the force of this Mu-
seum under Superintendent Wallace, being reeommended by
President Jesup.

For the first two years his work around the building was
general. The next two were spent in the capacity of night
watchman, and the following seven as an elevator man.
From this position he went to work in the exhibition halls as
an attendant, and in the summer of 1910 was appointed
sergeant over the fourth floor, which position he now holds,
filling it with credit.

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THE NEWS

President Osborn has been elected Vice-President of the Hispanic
Society.

The thirty-eighth stated meeting of the American Ornithologists’
Union was held November 8 to 12, at the U. S. National Museum, in
Washington. The American Museum was represented by Dr. Chapman,
Dr. Dwight, Mr. Miller, Mr. Chapin, Mr. Griscom, Mr. Murphy, Mr.
Nichols and Mrs. Reichenberger. Dr. Witmer Stone, of the Philadelphia
Academy of Natural Sciences, was elected President, and Dr. Dwight
was elected one of the two Vice-Presidents. A vacancy in the body of
Fellows of the Union, which is limited to fifty, was filled by the election
of Mr. Murphy. New York has reason to be proud of its representation
at this meeting, the papers by New York members being greater in
number and importance than those of members from any city other
than Washington, D. C. Those of our Museum staff to read papers
were Dr. Chapman, Mr. Chapin, Mr. Miller, Mr. Griscom, Mr. Nichols
and Mr. Murphy. Last year’s meeting of the A. O. U. was held in New
York; next year’s will be at Philadelphia.

Last month the Smilodon Tribe of the Woodcraft League was
organized, and officially recognized, from among members of our Depart-
ment of Public Education. The Smilodon has been adopted as totem.
Bi-weekly meetings are held, at which reports of natural history ob-
servations are made, and games are held. At the last meeting, Miss
Wylie reported 27 wild flowers seen in bloom on November 7th, and Miss
Vreeland described seeing a chipmunk eat a worm. Dr. Fisher told of a
recent visit to John Burroughs’s home, when Dr. Fisher and Mr. Bur-
roughs cooked briggan steak. On this occasion Mr. Burroughs wore a
coat made of the skins of seventy woodchucks, which he had caught.
The next meeting of the tribe will be held on December 5th, out-of-doors,
when the council ring will form around a campfire.

Dr. Gregory and Mr. Henn are studying some fossil fishes brought
from Cuba by Mr. Barnum Brown. These fossils occur in hard nodules
of shale which are weathered out of the limestone cliffs and fall to the
talus slope below. The material is fragmentary and difficult to work

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with, but of considerable interest and importance, as no such Jurassic
fishes have previously been studied from Cuba.

On November 24th, Mrs. Smith left for California, to be gone until
March 4th.

A goniometer, for determining the angles of crystals, has been
purchased for the Department of Mineralogy.

A number of new employees came to us during November, all of
whom we are glad to welcome. They are: Miss Grace F. Thomson,
Ornithology; Miss Anne E. Bacon, Public Education; Mr. Arnold H.
Olsen, Preparation; Mr. John J. Curry, Printing; Mr. Herman J. Weber,
Construction; Mr. Walter H. Kerr, Heating and Lighting; and Messrs.
Edward 8. Smith and Emanuel Rodriguez, Administration.

More blind classes than ever before are coming to our Department
of Public Education, and the demand for slides for the schools is from
two and one-half times to three times as great as it was this time last fall.

The Museum observed Armistice Day by placing a laurel wreath
over our roll of honor. On Armistice Sunday the flag was hung at half-
mast.

On November 22d, Miss Vreeland gave a luncheon to the Depart-
ment of Public Education, in return for the shower which they gave her
on October 21st. Chris Lenskjold took a group flashlight of the festivi-
ties.

A committee of drawing teachers representing the art departments
of the city high schools visited the Museum a short time ago and selected
a quantity of material for use in their classes. They expressed great
appreciation of the Museum’s cooperation along this line.

Mr. Peter McDermott, who is taking treatment at the Presbyterian
Hospital, is slowly recovering, but has so far been unable to resume work
owing to complications.

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Thirteen boxes of fossils, secured from Agate, Nebraska, by Albert
Thomson and George Olsen, have arrived at the Museum.

Major Allan Brooks, of Canada, recently visited the Museum as the
guest of Dr. Dwight. He spent several days looking over our bird col-
lections, especially Dr. Dwight’s shore birds, and was shown the Barnes
motion pictures of Africa. Members of the Department received from
him some expert advice, graphically given, on ammunition suitable for
use in collecting. It will be remembered that Major Brooks contributed
an article to NaturaL Hisrory a few months ago which described post-
war bird life on the Artois plain.

An organization meeting of the Roosevelt Memorial Commission,
appointed by Governor Smith to investigate proposals for a New York
State memorial to Roosevelt, was held in the Board Room of the Mu-
seum on November 18th. Professor Osborn was elected Chairman, and
Mr. Pindar, Secretary. Discussion and consultation were held, and the
Commission visited Mr. Akeley’s studio where they were shown the
work on which Mr. Akeley is engaged for a national memorial. The
next meeting will be held in Albany.

During the war, and until the present time, Museum employees, con-
tributing through the American Museum War Relief Association, have
supported a number of European war orphans. At present, seven
children are being maintained with funds supplied in this way. Several
of the annual subscriptions for these children, however, will shortly
expire. The War Relief Association has disorganized, and the money
left in the treasury has been used up for orphan relief. But a number of
employees have voluntarily spoken to the former chairman of the orphan
relief work in regard to undertaking the care of some of the children for
another year. This can be done if enough Museum people are interested
to the extent of making small contributions to an orphans’ fund. With
$40.00, we can support for another year our little Belgian girl (Helene
Van Hove, eight years old); and with $36.50 we can keep for one more
year our French boy (Jean Hureau, nine years old). Just now our
family of god-children numbers, in addition to these, a Polish, an
Armenian, a Roumanian, a Serbian and an Italian child. Anyone

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interested may obtain further information or send in contributions

through The Museologist.

Dr. C. H. Eigenmann, Dean of the Graduate School, University of

-Indiana, spent several days in New York attending a meeting of the

Association of American Universities which was held at Columbia.
Dr. Eigenmann, who is engaged in a comparative study of the fresh
water fishes of South America, called a couple of times at the Museum’s
Department of Ichthyology. He was particularly interested in the skin
of a big armored catfish recently received from the Zoological Society’s
tropical research station in British Guiana. This specimen is entirely
encased in heavy spined plates. The completeness of its armor is per-
haps due to its having reached a large size; but even so, Dr. Eigenmann
thought this fish probably represented an undescribed species.

Dr. Russell J. Coles, of Danvilie, Virginia, spent a few hours in
the Museum several days ago, when passing through New York en
route to Canada. This last summer Dr. Coles cooperated with the
Ocean Leather Company of Cape Lookout, North Carolina, in furnish-
ing Mr. J. C. Bell, of the American Museum, with material for a series
of casts of sharks and rays.

New material received at the Museum includes: a group of Colorado
wildcats purchased from Jonas Brothers; various forms of lava and
coral and lava carvings, presented by Commendatore Bartolomeo Mazzo,
of Naples; Japanese bow and quiver with ten arrows, presented by Mr.
Marshall C. Lefferts, of New York; a 1463-carat cut topaz from Japan,
presented by Mr. Mengo L. Morgenthau, of New York; a specimen of
hornblende in calcite, the gift of the New York Mineralogical Club;
and a Maori kumete, or ceremonial food vessel, purchased from the
Hon. F. M. B. Fisher, of London.

The skeleton of a young girl, found in the Aztec ruin a number of
weeks ago by Mr. Morris, has arrived at the Museum. This skeleton is
especially interesting in that it presents an example of prehistoric
Pueblo surgery. The left hip had been badly fractured, in life, a portion
of it having been broken away as a unit. In the neighboring regions
there were other breaks and dislocations. In addition, the left forearm

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showed two breaks and extreme displacement. Mr. Morris’s description
of the skeleton as found, follows:

‘At least six splints surrounded the broken arm. The top two of
these were removed to give a better view of the region beneath. Since
it is to be assumed that there are two or three more splints hidden by the
undisturbed earth beneath the bones, the probable total number is eight
or nine. These splints are of wood, and average 7 inches in length, %
inch in width and *4¢ of an inch in thickness. They are of fairly uni-
form size throughout their length, being not mere splinters, but pieces of
wood dressed to the desired form. Each is flat on its inner surface, and
curved on the outer side. All the bindings which had held them in place
were decayed beyond recognition.

“From the condition of this skeleton, the conclusion may be drawn
that the treatment of the fracture of the pelvis, if it was recognized at
all, was beyond the skill of the primitive surgeon. The treatment of the
broken arm, however, was within his province. As death resulted before
sufficient time had elapsed to permit healing to begin, the skill of the
surgeon must remain in doubt. The bones overlap, at the points of
fracture, in a way to leave unsolved the question of the accuracy with
which they were set. In an ordinary fracture of ulna and radius, the ten-
sion of the muscles would not retract the extremities a full two inches.
But in a fracture resulting from a fall from a considerable height where
the force of impact was received by the palm of the open hand so that
the shafts of the bones might be driven out through the flesh, such ex-
treme displacement would not be unexpected. If the accident was of
this character, and the bones were left in their present position, they are
eloquent of a crude and bungling technique.

“There is equal probability, however, that the overlapping took
place after death. The body reclined more or less upon the left side
when laid away, and in the course of disintegration of the soft parts
much of the trunk settled so far to the left that a distance of four to five
inches separates the ends of the ribs which articulated with the sternum.
As this settling was in progress, there may easily have been a downward
thrust upon the bones of the arm which forced them past their extremi-
ties, since the hand was weighted down by the pressure of the thigh.

“Desirable as it would be to know definitely whether or not there
was an attempt to place the ends of the bones in apposition, in order that
an estimate might be made of the skill of the surgeon, uncertainty in

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regard to this point does not detract from the major fact established,
namely, that the Pueblo practitioner of the Stone Age had already
learned to use splints in the treatment of fracture.”’

Two mounted specimens of Pre-Cheneosaurus have been placed on
exhibition in the Dinosaur Hall.

Mr. Chauncey J. Hamlin, President of the Buffalo Society of
Natural Sciences, visited the Museum last week. Mr. Hamlin has done
valuable work in connection with the new museum which the Buffalo
Society is opening.

Mr. Paul M. Rea, for seventeen years Director of the Charleston
Museum, lunched with President Osborn on November 23d. Mr. Rea
has now left the Charleston Museum, which was founded before 1777
and is the oldest museum in North America, to go to our youngest
Museum, in Cleveland. The Cleveland Museum has as yet no building.
Mr. Rea is to help in the organizing of the new museum. Miss Laura M.
Bragg, who for a number of years assisted him in Charleston, is now in
charge at the Charleston Museum.

Have you renewed your Red Cross membership?

Tommy Hines will be married on December 5th.

On November 13-15, Mr. Akeley, Mr. and Mrs. Andrews, Mr.
Lyman Underwood, Dr. Lumholtz, John Burroughs, Henry Ford,
Thomas Edison and Harvey Firestone were the invited guests of Mr.
Frank Seaman, at Yama Farms, no one else being present during their
stay. They spent a delightful time together. Mr. Burroughs, hale and
hearty at 84, had a tree-chopping contest with Mr. Ford, and came off
victor.

The Museum will give a dinner on December 7th, at the University
Club, to the patrons of the Third Asiatic Expedition and others in-
terested in Asia. Mr. Andrews will present a general outline of the work
planned for this expedition, and a detailed plan of the work as laid out
for the first two years.

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Passage for Mr. and Mrs. Andrews has already been booked for
February 5th, on the Ship Colombia, of the Pacific Mail Line, which
sails from San Francisco. The staff will probably follow about March
19th, on the Golden State,—one of the five big ships now being built by
the Pacific Mail Steamship Line. The Museum’s party will be sailing
at just the right time to travel on the first trip of what will he the finest
and most modern ship afloat on the Pacific.

Chris Schroth is the father of a little boy.

We regret to report the illness of James McGrath, one of our
elevator force.

The Museum 1s in need of larger garage space in order to enable it to
accommodate the automobiles of our employees who drive in to their work.

Among new accessions in this department may be mentioned: Mr.
Schneider’s Buick, Mr. Hoover’s Overland, and Chief Beers’s Oakland

sedan. As further motor news, we are told that Charlie Allgoever, who
recently gave his car a thorough overhauling, “‘fixed’’ her up so well that
now she can’t be made to run at all, but has gone into hibernation. We
know how he feels about it. Mr. Blaschke’s ‘“‘old Henry,’ the Ford
that’s been making the run from Cold Spring, New York, and given
hard service for the past four years, still holds title as “the best of the
Tot.”*

Dr. G. Clyde Fisher spent Thanksgiving at his old homestead in
Sidney, Ohio, where he carved the turkey.

Initiative has become a rare virtue; when man lived in a cave he had
initiative or went without his dinner.

,

IN THE FIELD

In a letter dated September 28th, Dr. Crampton wrote to President
Osborn, from Hongkong:

“In two hours my son and I leave for Bangkok, from which place I
shall send a full report of accomplishment in Guam, in Manila, and here.

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I am writing this personal word now to you to report unexpected success,
and to state that we are all well. It may be that reports of my injuries
have reached the United States, as the papers here carried alarmist
reports of severe injuries to me while on an expedition in Luzon to the
‘Negrito country. A vicious horse did kick my leg badly, and the wound
is not yet healed, but I have kept at work.”

Dr. Crampton reports very successful collecting during his two
months in Guam, and arrangements made for securing a full series of the
birds of Guam for Dr. Chapman. His work in the Philippines was de-
layed by the terrible typhoon there—the worst in fifteen years. He
made valuable ecological observations, however, and did some collect-
ing. By the Dean of the College of Agriculture he was offered—and he
accepted—a complete collection of the named reptilia and amphibia of
the Philippines, and a full collection of the named insects. He has also
taken up the matter of exchanging material with the Canton Christian
College, which has complete collections of all South China—hbirds,
mammals, reptiles, amphibians, etc., and has been able to establish
close relations with this institution.

We quote from the latest letter of Mr. Anthony:

“We got back from a side trip to the south, going almost to the
Peruvian border, into the toughest part of the republic, on the 14th of
October; left on September 10th. We were nine days in the saddle and
saw lots of country and lots of people—too much of the latter. We slept
with our doors locked when it was cool enough, and with them open and
our guns at hand when it wasn’t, letting this fact get noised about town
in order to save ammunition. Before this was known to the townspeople
we had to hold the door against the efforts of a drunk, one night, but
afterward we weren't bothered. Our last night before we started north
a man was murdered just below the town, and another night we shared
our quarters with a prisoner who was being taken to prison escorted by
eight men. The prisoner was a sick man, had his hands tied to his sides
and a long rope around his neck, which explains the meagre numbers
of his escort.

“We have been going along at a pretty fair clip and have over 1,800
specimens now, some 1,200 birds and 625 mammals;—as many: as 600
means that I have had unusual luck. I hope before we finish to set up a
record, as I shall be able to do if nothing unforeseen happens. We

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haven’t secured anything so very startling, although we undoubtedly
have birds and mammals new to science. I have been fortunate enough
to secure specimens of the rare Cenolestes, a very primitive marsupial, a
specimen of the even rarer fish-eating rat, [chthyomys, a fine Yapoh or
water opossum and big series of “‘foxes,’’ squirrels, monkeys, coati-
mondis, etc. I haven’t shot any large game yet, we have not been in
any good game country yet, but I have a native-killed specimen of the
Spectacled Bear, which is quite a rarity, and a good skull to go with it.

‘“‘T have some excellent pictures, both of the country and of the
people, who have some very interesting industrial pursuits, such as
spinning, weaving of wool and cotton, threshing wheat and other grain,
peas, ete., by driving horses or oxen round and round over the piled-up
sheaves, winnowing the chaff from the grain by aid of the wind, ete.

“Pigs are given the freedom of the city streets and enter the houses
at will and so far as I could see we were the only people that paid any
attention to it. The pigs carty ‘‘chiggers,’”’ a kind of small flea with a
propensity for going right into any subject he takes up, and it needs a
sharp pen-knife and I don’t know how many damns to get him out. I’m
wrong there, it is a her, and that explains the obstinacy,—a her because
it lays eggs. We have dug numberless chiggers out of our feet and even
now after having left the swine-infested regions we still feel the tingle
in our toes that tells us we have overlooked something.

‘“Yesterday we spent the day at the hospital and took the hook-
worm treatment, as we have both had some minor stomach trouble and
the doctor suspected hook-worm, as about 90% of the natives have it
at one time or another. The treatment certainly ought to make the
hook-worm sick; it did us, I know. But we didn’t have any after all
was said and done!

‘‘But I mustn’t give you the impression that such disagreeable
features as I have been enumerating are the predominant thing here;
they are not; it only means that they are of such recent occurrence
that they loom up out of all perspective.

“The scenery is beautiful everywhere we go, and one never tires of
looking out across such a wilderness of mountains. The trails lead off—in
unbelievable numbers when one stops to think what it means to get a
well-worn trail across some of these mountains—stretching away in
long snake-like patterns to disappear, twenty miles away, into the blue
distance, dropping down to ford rivers and then ascending the steepest

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slopes to gain the ridges again. If one has a curiosity to know what lies
just beyond the next ridge, he does not need to go there to know—he
‘an be certain that it will be a canyon and another ridge, a canyon and
another ridge, and so on.

“We leave Sunday for Loja and the Oriente, where we shall work
in the forests of the Upper Amazonian drainage and where we come into
contact with the Jibaros or headhunters. We are looking forward to this
part of our trip with much interest and expect to get some valuable
material, and, we hope, some good pictures of the aforesaid h.h. We
have been told some most interesting things about them by people who
have been a short distance into their territory.

‘“‘Cherrie joins me in sending very best regards to vou and to those
of the Museum who may ask after us.”’

Of his impressions of the European cities and museums which he is
visiting, Dr. Matthew writes to President Osborn. We quote a few ex-
cerpts:.

“Vienna.—I spent three days there, of which the first was mostly
devoted to going through the formalities incident to getting away from
the city. I have not made much note of this, but the passport and ticket
business has been made excessively difficult; I am told in order to dis-
courage travel, which the various governments do not want on account
of the universal scarcity of coal and consequent difficulty in running
enough trains to take care of the traffic. E. g., to get a ticket from Vienna
to Venice I had first to apply at the ticket-office in the city, was referred
thence to another ticket-office, thence to the Italian consulate, thence to
an Italian military mission, where I obtained authority to buy a ticket,
thence to a third ticket office where I bought it. All these in different
parts of the city, all involved waiting in line, and none had anything to
do with the visé which I had already obtained after a similar series of
delays. No one knows much about these regulations; you have to go
from place to place to find out; and they are not always consistent. The
German consulate in Stockholm assured me that I would have to pay a
certain sum—$10.00 per week—to get my leave extended in Germany;
but I applied at the Frankfort police station and got leave for ten days
extra at a cost of 15 marks ($.25).

“Dr. Schaffer at the Museum and Dr. Abel at the University of
Vienna were most cordial. The Museum building is a magnificent one.

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I never saw fossils so luxuriously installed before.—At present they are
ina very bad way. Schaffer told me that for his department he had an
allowance of 700 kronen, equal to $20.00 at present exchange, for the
year, outside of salaries, and it is impossible to carry on the ordinary
running expenses on such a sum, and no prospect that the state will in-
crease it. They have succeeded after great efforts in getting salaries
raised to equal $500.00 per year each for himself and his assistants, and
on that he says they can get along. But they must have aid to meet the
necessary maintenance charges. He thinks that with $480.00 per annum
for this purpose his department can keep up their work and keep the
collections in order, setting aside for the present of course all thought of
‘purchasing any new material. Five thousand a year would similarly
provide for the whole museum.

‘“T saw a melancholy example of the eons of lack of funds in the
present condition of the magnificent meteorite collection (which they
regard as the finest in existence). Owing to the lack of coal for heating
the museum buildings last winter, the protective varnish covering all
their sectioned surfaces was badly checked, and the damp got in at the
iron and has rusted it very badly. All these sections will have to be re-
ground and polished at a heavy expense. Other damage by the cold to
alcoholic and other preparations is irreparable.

“They have a new collection from Samos at the museum, purchased
shortly before the war, and none of it yet on exhibition. It is beyond
comparison the finest Samos collection.”’

Of the Munich Museum, Dr. Matthew writes:

“In Munich I found the collections vastly increased from the old
Zittel days. I think one can say without question that it is the finest
museum for fossil vertebrata in Germany. There is a very fine series of
reptiles, and far more mammals than elsewhere.—The material is so
uniformly distributed that it is difficult to pick any one line for commen-
dation.”’

Dr. Matthew spent the end of October in Italy. He visited the
museum at Padua, and made acquaintance with Professor Giorgio Dal
Piaz, head of the Department of Geology, who is doing active work in
collecting Tertiary mammals, etc., has published a number of valuable
memoirs on the geology and paleontology of Venetia, and has brought
together a small but valuable series of fossil vertebrates, mostly Vene-
tian. From Padua Dr. Matthew went to Bologna, where he met Pro-

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fessor Capellani, in whose honor the museum there has been officially
named and dedicated. From Bologna, he planned to go to Florence,
Rome and Naples, Genoa, Turin and Milan. He is successfully estab-
lishing relations with the institutions and scientists he is visiting, and
arranging for exchanges of material.

Mr. Hyde gives us the following notes on his six-weeks’ trip among
the caves and cliff-houses of Grand Gulch:

“Crack! Another pack saddle to the discard! For ‘Skipperty Ann’
had reared and thrown herself heavily on the pack—an old trick of
hers, and but one of the many provided by our pack train, which was
a circus in itself until feed became scarcer, and the animals became
gentled.

“From Flagstaff, Arizona, to Kayenta—a distance of 155 miles—
usually takes 10 hours in the dry season, but with water in the washes
and the ear slipping sideways two days might be needed. In our case it
took twelve hours—a strong south wind providing a sandstorm on the
distant Painted Desert and filling our road so that the going was slow on
sand-swept flats.

“The thriving Hopi village of Moenkopi and Tuba City with its
Indian school and stores were passed en route, but no stop was made
until we came to the Little Colorado. This we crossed by bridge, and
made our next stop at Red Lake.

“Arrived at Kayenta, a hearty welcome awaited us at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. John Wetherell, where we were made comfortable while
the pack mules and horses were brought in for the trip north. Here we
found—imagine it!—a bathtub in the wilderness! Mr. Wetherell is the
Government Custodian of the Navajo National Monument, which in-
cludes the most interesting cliff houses, Kitsiel and Betata Kin, which
were visited by our party. The Wetherells located at Kayenta some
seventeen years ago and established a trading store near the springs,
which they owned. At first the Indians of the locality were hostile, but
they soon came to look to the Wetherells for assistance of various kinds.
Through long association, Mrs. Wetherell has become intimately ac-
quainted with the Navajo language. In time a second trading store
developed. For the Government built an Indian school at Kayenta.
The white population of the place consists of nine people, but this
number is augmented in the season by tourists to the Rainbow Bridge,

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that wonderful natural formation first brought to general notice by
Colonel Roosevelt’s visit. At one time this last season, some forty
tourists en route to the Bridge were housed with the Wetherells.

‘When we set out from here, our party consisted of John Wetherell,
guide; the horse wrangler, Albert; cook and general handy-man; a
Navajo Indian; Mr. and Mrs. C., Mr. Nelson and myself. Three
camps brought us to the San Juan River at Piute Farms, the plan being
to ford the river west of the point where Grand Gulch meets it. The river
was fortunately in a happy mood, and after testing carefully for quick-
sands the crossing was made safely. Of course the only pack animal
to fail to make the opposite bank properly carried the perishables, so
we had to dry our matches and make the best of well soaked macaroni
and sugar.

“Some sixteen camps in all were made during our entire trip, and
we were able to place on the map three short canyons entering into the
San Juan River which had heretofore been unrecorded.. In fact, en-
countering these delayed our reaching Grand Gulch itself, but of course
it simplified the work of another expedition.

“The Gulch is very tortuous, practically doubling the distance
from its head to the mouth. A short run was made down the canyon,
which showed that the caves located there had not been excavated, and.
many colored pictographs of the Basket People were found in caves.
Red, yellow and green were the colors most often seen. We moved
slowly up the Gulch, located many caves and cliff dwellings which had
apparently heretofore not been reported, and reached the upper end,
where the early exploring was done in the seasons 1893-4 and 1894-5.
We were able to identify caves and cliff dwellings from the early records,
manuscript, drawings, and photographs, some of which had been made
by myself.

“Even after the unusually dry season, plenty of good water was
found in the canyon, some of the springs up the side canyons providing
water as pure as one could want. Due to the fact that there were many
side canyons to be explored and caves and cliff houses to be entered,
progress was naturally slow, some twenty days being consumed before
we found the old original trail of which mention is made in the records.
When it was found, it took us two days to rebuild it. Afterward,
instead of climbing Elk Mountain, we went west and made a visit to
White Canyon with its three natural bridges. From here we went again

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across the head of Grand Gulch to the east, and then south, in two hard,
all-day marches, following the Comb Wash until we reached the San
Juan, which we crossed by bridge, and then down the Gypsum Wash to
Kayenta.

“A novel form of entertainment for camp life was provided by the
phonograph, whose strains sounded queer indeed echoing among the
caves and cliffs when one returned to camp at night. Perhaps the most
unusual happening we had was the bringing into camp of a live full-
grown badger, which John Wetherell had captured single-handed—a
most difficult feat. After roping the creature and getting a strap around
its body, he had bound its feet with a handkerchief, which it promptly
ripped off, and as he had still further to go on his trip, he suspended it
from a small tree by the strap so that its feet Just touched the ground.
On returning a couple of hours later, he managed to wrap it in his saddle
blanket. In camp he held it by the strap, 'ift‘ng it into the air as it
made dashes at his feet, until, after about 10 minutes of this intimate
acquaintance, he released the animal, which, like a good western gun-
man, backed out of the area lighted by the camp fire and disappeared
into the brush.

‘“‘ After returning to the railroad, we visited the ruins at Phoenix,
which had been excavated many years previously by Frank Cushing,
and then went on to Tucson, where we were welcomed by Professor and
Mrs. Cummings at the University. Here we examined the material
taken from the Sagi Canyon by Professor Cummings, which had a direct
bearing on the life of the Basket People, the Slab House culture and the
Cliff Dwellers, evidences of all three having been found in one cave. In
Grand Gulch, also, we had found evidenced a Slab House culture, first
separated from the other cultures in the region by Messrs. Kidder and
Guernsey.

“The expedition was successful in securing information and material
which will be available in further excavating. We did a little digging in
the cliff: houses and in two eaves, finding the burials of three Basket
People in a cave which had previously been dug over. In the cliff dwel-
ling we cleared two kivas. On the bench of one of these we found skin-
ning knives, sandals, dice, and working implements. In the caves,
where the Basket People buried, we uncovered two adults and a child, a
basket, part of a baby carrier, the fore-shaft of a spear, well-tanned
deer-skins, woven haircloth and yucca sandals. We also found here and

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elsewhere interesting collections of potsherds. All this material
told the story that further investigation would be profitable.”

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A recent visitor to the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology,

The sergeant was having a bad time with a squad of recruits on the
rifle-range. He had tried them on the 500-yard range, but none of them
could score a hit. Then he tried them in turn on the 300-yard, 200-yard
and 100-yard ranges, but with no better success. Even on the shortest
range, not a hit was scored. At last, in despair, he commanded:

“Squad, attention! Fix bayonets! Charge!”’

One day, when there were about 5,000 visitors in the building, a lady
said to one of our attendants, to whom she was a stranger:

“Will you please tell my husband that I'll meet him on the ground
floor, north wing?”’

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Lady, to Attendant: ‘‘ How do you go upstairs?”’
Attendant: ‘One step after another, ma’am.”’

From the Boston Transcript:
A portly Dutch woman applied at the post office for a money order
to send to her son in the Far East. She told the clerk she had left her
son’s letter at home, but said he was ‘“‘some place out by China, dot
sounds like der noise an automobile makes.”

The clerk smiled, and turning to another nearby, asked: ‘‘ What
kind of a noise does an automobile make, Joe?”’

‘Honk, honk,”’ the other suggested.

‘“Dot’s it!”’ exclaimed the woman, her face brightening. ‘‘ Honk
honk, dot’s der place.”’

So the clerk made the order payable at Hongkong, and the woman
went away happy.

Only a few months ago we heard on every hand of long waiting lists
for various commodities. Manufacturers could not fill their orders, but
kept customers waiting weeks or months. Now things are different.
Recently a retailer wired to his manufacturer:

“Kindly cancel all our outstanding orders at once.”

The answer came back promptly:

“Impossible, You must wait your turn,”

The Frenchman did not like the look of the barking dog barring his
way,

“Don’t be afraid of him,”’ said the host. ‘‘ You know the proverb—
‘barking dogs never bite.’”’ .

“Ah, yes,” said the Frenchman, still hesitating. ‘I know ze pro-
verbe, you know ze proverbe; but ze dog—does he know ze proverbe?’’

From an English paper:
“California’s earthquakes chiefly come in dry years. This is as
good an argument as any we have heard against prohibition,”

Of Course
“What does a golf ball do at the end of a drive?”’
“It stops and looks round.”’

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There is increased depression in Germany. We hear that people
are not looking up to the mark there.

Not wanted in the library: a volume of sound.

From the Raleigh, N. C., Times:

‘“The American Museum of Natural History is sending an explore
to Asia to search for the missing link. Why not comb Socialist head-
quarters thoroughly before going to so much expense?”’

Can any one tell us—
If the old boys in the Metropolitan Museum play with the Greek
marbles?

Sandy had been staying with some friends for a month, and while he
and his host were out for a walk one day they called at a wayside inn for
a drink. His host was about to pay for the order when Sandy stopped
him.

“Na, na,”’ he said. “I'll not allow it. Ye’ve been keeping me in
everything at yer hoose for a month, and ye’ve treated me to the
theatres, and cab fares, and paid for all the drinks. I tell ye, I'll hae na
mair of it; we'll toss for this ane.’”’—Tid-Bits.

A visitor asked one of our elevator operators which elevator she
should go up in.

“Go up with the good-looking elevator-man, madam,” he replied
courteously.

The visitor looked around, and asked:

“Are there any more elevators?”

The Children’s Newspaper of London tells us:

‘The War Museum is said to be a great success. If we must have
wars, that is certainly the proper place for them.”

“A restaurant manager announces that, owing to complaints, a
watch is kept on his premises. A stop watch, of course; otherwise it
would go.”

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“Why do they call that barrister ‘ Necessity’?”’

“Because he knows no law.”

A school-child, being shown a snow-shoe in one of our Department
of Public Education demonstration classes, exclaimed: ‘‘ Those Indians
must have had awful big feet to need such big shoes!”

Was She Referring to Its Age?
A child was overheard to remark, in our elevator: ‘This is a
classic elevator.”

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Te AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

There 7s no wealth
but life.
JOHN RUSKIN.

THE MUSEOLOGIST

This little magazine is devoted to the internal affairs of the Museum. It
exists for the sake of all the Museum workers, and offers itself as a ready
medium through which they may come into closer touch with each other and
with the Corporation.
~ Tt is issued by the Publicity Committee.

Volume 2 January, 1921 Number 1]

The sayings of Theodore Roosevelt are frequently quoted,
and many of them have become well established in the Ameri-
ean household, but one of his utterances, which seems just
now especially worth recalling, has lain quiet for a long time.
It is his definition of the kind of man who should hold public
office:

“The man who counts is the man who is decent, and who
makes himself felt as a force for decency, for cleanliness, for
civic righteousness.

“First he must be honest.

“Tn the next place he must have courage; the timid man
counts but little in the rough business of trying to do well
the world’s work.

“Tn addition, he must have common sense. If he does
not have it, no matter what other qualities he may have, he
will find himself at the mercy of those who, without possessing
his desire to do right, know only too well how to make the
wrong effective.”’

Those of us who have lately exercised the greatest of our
rights as American freemen—the right of suffrage—are
responsible for the election of a new Administration, both
Federal and State. It is to be hoped that the men whom we
have chosen to represent us will display in fair measure the

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qualities of honesty, courage and common sense. But not all
the responsibility lies with the new Government. Our own
responsibility did not end with the selection of a set of new
officials. To those whom we have selected we owe our hearty
support of their proper performance of the affairs with which
we have charged them. And it is our further obligation to
protest if they prove guilty of narrow vision or mismanagement
of public affairs. Because when we cast our ballots on No-
vember 2d last we voted not for a man or a set of men but
for certain policies the fulfilment of which was promised
in the platforms of our respective political parties, it is in-
cumbent on every American citizen to stand steadfastly for
those policies throughout the new Administration.

Apathy on the part of the citizenry is the forerunner of
incompetence and corruption in the government. And surely
the charge is just that we have been, as a nation, inexplicably
apathetic toward the problems and emergencies that have
been crowding upon us for the past few years.

For the new year and the new Administration let us make
personal application of Roosevelt’s rule. Let us have the
honesty to face public issues squarely; the courage to cherish
ideals and formulate opinions; and the common sense to
make our ideals and opinions effective.

Limited in his nature, unbounded in his aspirations, man
is a fallen God who ts ever mindful of his divine origin.
LAMARTINE.

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AMONG THOSE PRESENT

Mabel Rice Percy

Miss Perey came to the Museum on August 1, 1902, to
give secretarial assistance to Director Bumpus. She was
associated with Professor Putnam and Professor Saville in
the Department of Anthropology for several months, and
then for about three months worked with Dr. Bandelier,
who was labelling the collections in the Peruvian Hall.

She had charge of the Printing Department, under the
Director, for about two years. In the meantime she was in
readiness at any time to assist secretarially both President
Jesup and Director Bumpus. In 1911 she was given the posi-
tion of Secretary to Director Lucas, where she remained until

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December, 1918, when she was appointed Secretary to
Professor Osborn. In this position she has remained to the
present time, and we hope she will long continue her connec-
tion with the Museum in that capacity.

Miss Percy’s long and varied service in the Museum, and
her helpful, sympathetic and generous personality have made
her as highly regarded throughout the institution as her
services are appreciated.

James A. Kiesling

Mr. Kiesling was born in San Francisco. He spent the
early years of his life farming in the western states, and later
entered the employment of the “ Acme,’’ R. H. McCormack,
Harvest Company in Illinois. In 1893 he came to New York,
and was for a time employed in the planing mill of H. E.
Stevens & Son. He entered the service of the Museum in
May, 1897, as an Attendant. After working in various de-

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partments, he was in May, 1915, placed in charge of the mail
desk, where he continues to efficiently discharge his duties,
and where his cheerful helpfulness is appreciated by every
one.

Brower Palmer

Mr. Palmer spent his early days in Nyack and Clarkstown.
In the spring of 1862 he went as an apprentice to learn the
trade of sash, blind and door maker, at which trade he worked
until 1878, when he came to New York and entered the em-
ployment of B. & B. W. Smith, makers of fine show-cases
and store-fittings. Mr. Palmer was with this company for
twenty years. At the end of that time, the firm went out of
business, and Mr. Palmer spent several years with the firm
of James C. Hoe’s Sons. From there he came to the Museum
in September, 1901. Here he has become one of the valuable
assets of the Construction Department.

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Andrew J. Mutchler

Mr. Mutchler was appointed to the Museum force in
March, 1895, by Superintendent Wallace. He acted as clerk
in Mr. Wallace’s office, for the greater part of the time until
1901, when he was transferred to the Department of Ento-
mology.

In April, 1918, he was appointed to the staff of the De-
partment of Invertebrate Zoology, as an Assistant in Coleop-
tera. He has accompanied expeditions to Florida and Porto
Rico, and has published scientific papers in collaboration with
Mr. C. W. Leng.

Of industrious and accommodating disposition, he has ren-
dered valuable service to his department and acquired many
friends.

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John H. Seip

Mr. Seip was born in New York City on January 13, 1858.
Here he attended school and later worked at various posi-
tions until he came to the Museum on May 7, 1896. He
was placed on the Attendants’ staff, and in time became a
Sergeant. In his strict performance of all duties entrusted to
him he has shown himself to be one of the Museum’s most
reliable employees; and his genial disposition has won him a
wide circle of friends. As young as he was twenty years ago,
he is never at a loss for a gay word or a good-natured Jest.

Dn, “lM thn i Big nian hee

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THE NEWS

On December 14th, at a dinner given by the Trustees of the Cleve-
land Museum of Natural History, the organization of the museum was
effected and Paul M. Rea was inaugurated Director. The guests at the
dinner numbered about one hundred.

The scope and aims of the museum were presented by Lewis B.
Williams, President of the Trustees, and by Director Rea. The other
speakers were Frederic Allen Whiting, Director of the Cleveland Mu-
seum of Art; Chauncey J. Hamlin, President of the Buffalo Society
of Natural Sciences; and our own President Osborn.

A step toward inter-museum cooperation has been taken by the
Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, which has recently issued a small
announcement card reading as follows:

“Your membership in the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences
entitles you, in addition to our local service, to the courtesy of the mem-
bership privileges of every Museum of note in the United States and
Canada.

“On the inside of this card you will find a list of these Museums
arranged by cities. In case you visit any of these cities all that is
necessary for you to do in order to avail yourself of your opportunity is
to present this membership card at the office of the Museum you desire
to visit. The same privileges as are accorded to their own members will
be extended to you, including tickets for any lectures that are to be
given under the auspices of the cooperating Museum, during your
visit to their city.”’

The American Museum is listed among the cooperating museums.
It is to be hoped that this precedent will be followed by other allied
institutions.

From Captain D. W. Phelps, of our Navy, comes a very gracious
note of appreciation of the Museum’s hospitality to visiting parties of
sailors and naval officers, and its cooperation in the Navy’s campaign
of education for young blue-jackets.

The Board of Directors of the New York City Federation of Women’s
Clubs has placed on the list of permanent committees a new one to be
known as the Conservation Committee.

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This Committee has formulated a well defined plan of action, cov-
ering a broad field but placing special emphasis on the conservation of
the natural resources of the country.

The first meeting was held at the Museum on Friday, December
16th. Plans for future work were made, and it was decided to hold a
meeting on Thursday, January 27th, at the Museum, at 2 o’clock. All
members of the federated clubs are invited to attend this meeting and to
take part in the discussions.

The December number of the Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago
was especially interesting. On the cover was reproduced in color a
beautifully illuminated page from a manuscript of the Renaissance
period. The original was the Periarchon of Origen, decorated by Fr. de
Chierici, one of the greatest of Florentine illuminators.

A recent visitor to the Museum, as a guest of Dr. Lucas, was Colonel
A. N. Kaznakoff, formerly Director of the Museum at Tiflis in the
Caucasus, and now of the American Central Committee for Russian
Relief. Colonel Kaznakoff, during many years of travel and explora-
tion, formed a considerable collection of objects pertaining to Buddhist
iconography, Mongolian and Tibetan, as well as of various ethnological
specimens from different parts of Central Asia, Turkestan, Bokhara,
ete.

On December 7th, two thousand children, representing every public
school in Manhattan, were the guests of the New York Tuberculosis
Association at a health symposium held in the Museum. The message
of the Christmas seal, the chief means of support of the Association’s
work, was given the children in moving pictures, addresses and dramatic
recitals.

A pintail duck, wearing one of the Museum’s metal identification
bands to show that it had been released in New York, was recently shot
in Camrose, Alberta, a point 2,500 miles distant from New York. It
was shot in the newly settled area along the Canadian National railways,
which is a meeting ground for wild geese and many varieties of ducks.
These fowl had already begun their migration southward when the pin-
tail was killed. How far north this particular bird had been is not

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known. The summer habitat of the pintail extends as far as the Arctic
Ocean.

But the direction of this duck’s flight from New York is interesting.
In their spring migrations, aquatic fowl, it has been thought, fly straight
north. If the pintail had lived up to this tradition, it would have gone
from New York into the highlands of Ontario or Labrador. The fact
that it winged its way westward half across the continent has upset
existing theories and may lead to new discoveries regarding the migratory
habits of wild fowl.

Miss Olive T. Harris, Director of Manual Training in the Boston
High School, was the guest of Mr. Pindar at the Museum on December
27th.

On the morning of December 15th, the Department of Geology was
closed in respect for the memory of Adam Brickner, its late valued
member who died on December 12th after a long and sad illness.

A new plan of night-watch is being tried out in the Museum. This
arrangement provides that a force of nine men be constantly on duty,
one force working from 12:00 m. to 10:30 p. m., another force from 10:30
p.m. to 7:30 a. m., and a third watch from 7:30 a. m. to 12:00 m.

George Reuther took an enforced vacation of several days during
December owing to a slight accident to his finger, which came into con-
tact with the knives on the joiner.

Pension Fund members are again requested to make sure that their
designations of beneficiaries are up to date.

On January 8th, Dr. Chapman will leave for a month’s vacation at
Ormond Beach, Florida.

In the recent canvass for the Red Cross, eighty-one Museum people
took out membership at $1.00 each. Owing to the failure of the Red
Cross to get the work started in the Museum in good time, many of those
who would have joined here had already become members elsewhere.
Otherwise a much better showing would have been made. Dr. Van

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Name wishes to express his thanks to those who assisted in securing
members and to those who supported the work by their subscriptions.

Progress is being made in the Department of Ornithology on the
work of rearrangement of the bird collections. Up to the present, the
birds secured on each of the South American expeditions have been
kept separate from each other and from the old general collection which
dates back fifteen years. Asa result, there were some eighteen separate
groups. All these are now being combined into one large collection,
which is divided into a first and second series, the first series consisting
of a pair of each species and subspecies, and the second series comprising
the balance of material. The object is of course to facilitate and expedite
the comparison and identification of new material. This piece of work,
which was begun last June, will probably take up the best part of a year.

Mr. Maunsell 8. Crosby, of Rhinebeck, New York, is assisting Dr.
Dwight.

The Museum’s sick list for December was rather long. Among the
employees whom colds and other illness kept away for a few days were
Miss Greene, Miss Marks, Mrs. Ziska, Mr. Foulke, Mr. Coleman and
Dr. Fisher.

Dr. Ernest Skeats, Professor of Geology in the University of Mel-
bourne, visited the Museum twice during December. Dr. Reeds took
him through several exhibition halls and to Mr. Akeley’s studio. Dr.
Skeats, who is a petrologist, is making a tour of the universities and mu-
seums of this country and of Canada, and making the acquaintance of
fellow-members of his profession. It is interesting to note that some of
his students of the University of Melbourne who were sent to Africa on
various commissions discovered some manganese beds which proved
very valuable during the war, as the insurrections in India had cut. off
that country as a source of supply of this valuable commodity.

The offices of the Department of Anthropology have just been re-
painted.

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Miss Mallory, formerly of the Department of Anthropology, visited
the Museum in December, on her return from Eastern Russia, where she
has been engaged in Y. M. C. A. work. She will sail for Europe on
January 25th, and will for a time be stationed in Berlin. From there she
will probably later go to European Russia.

Mrs. Nelson will return to work in the Museum this month, in the
Department of Anthropology. Mr. Nelson has just completed an inspec-
tion of the anthropological collections from the Southwest in the Uni-
versity of California. After his field work in the cliff dwellings of the
Grand Gulch region, he visited the Aztec ruin and then proceeded to
San Francisco. He will be back at the Museum within a few days.

Captain George Comer has been elected to the Legislature of the
State of Connecticut.

Dr. Robert C. Murphy will take up work at the Museum as an
Associate Curator of the Department of Ornithology. He will have
charge of the work on the birds of the South Pacific Expedition of which
announcement will be made later. Dr. Murphy will also work on the
Brewster-Sanford collection of South Pacific water birds.

Mr. Beck has reached Tahiti. His latest adventures will be recorded
in the next number of Natural History.

On January 10th, Dr. Lucas will go to Washington to take part in a
conference on the fur seal question. The conference will be particularly
concerned with the discussion of plans for the conservation and develop-
ment of the fur seal herds of the Pribilof Islands.

Mr. and Mrs. Andrews have postponed their sailing for Asia to
March 19th, when they will leave San Francisco on the ‘“‘ Golden State.”
The staff will follow about a month later. The Pacific Mail Steamship
Company has been very helpful in the handling of freight for the expedi-
tion, and has made various concessions, including a reduction of the
passenger fares for the party. The Fulton Motor Truck Company has
also cooperated, having presented the expedition with two of its one-
ton trucks especially designed for rough work. These trucks are

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equipped with pneumatic tires, and have a speed of forty-five miles an
hour. They have already been shipped to Mongolia. There they will be
used as movable bases for field work.

The American Anthropological Association held a convention im-
mediately after Christmas, at Philadelphia, where the members present
were the guests of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Wissler, Dr.
Goddard, Dr. Lowie and Dr. Spinden attended. Dr. Goddard presented
a paper entitled ‘‘ Notes on the Wailaki of California,’? and Dr. Lowie
spoke on the ‘‘Cultural Relations between the Plateau and the Cali-
fornia Indians.”’ Dr. Wissler, the retiring president, went on from Phila-
delphia to the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science, held in Chicago. Dr. Wissler is Chairman of the
Committee on Reorganization of the Anthropological and Psychological
Section of the A. A. A. S. Dr. Hovey and Dr. Lutz also attended the
meeting in Chicago.

Dr. Spinden, Vice-President of the Maya Society, presented a
paper at the meeting of the Society held on December 29th at the Uni-
versity Museum in Philadelphia.

Mr. Andrews made a short lecture trip during December to Buffalo,
Cleveland, Oberlin and Detroit.

On Tuesday afternoon, January 4th, members of the Intercollegiate
Cosmopolitan Club were entertained at the Museum at a lecture, a short
tour of the Museum, and tea. Dr. Fisher was the lecturer, and the sub-
ject was “How Life Begins,”’ in connection with which the very fine
motion picture illustrating the lecture was shown. The Intercollegiate
Cosmopolitan Club, a society made up of representatives of many dif-
ferent nationalities, is directed by Mr. Frederick Osborn, a nephew of
President Osborn.

Captain Bartlett has been appointed to the command of the U. 8.
Transport “Buford,” and will sail for foreign ports in the near future.

Dr. Winslow has been given a leave of absence for the period Febru-
ary 1 to October 1, in order that he may carry some of the Museum con-

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ceptions of public health education into new and wider fields as Director
of the Public Health Activities of the League of Red Cross Societies. This
is an organization created on the initiative of Mr. Davison to assist in
the organization of the National Red Cross Societies throughout Europe
and to develop through them effective public health programs in the
various countries. There are now twenty-nine national Red Cross
societies in the League, and its financial support for the next three years
is insured by a gift of two and a half million dollars made by the Ameri-
can Red Cross. Dr. Richard P. Strong of Harvard was in charge of the
public health work up to last spring, and during the summer months
Dr. Herman Biggs was in Geneva as Acting Director.

Photographs owned by the Government, portraying the customs and
habits of the non-Christian tribes of the Philippine Islands, are to be
sold hereafter only to anthropologists and ethnologists at the discre-
tion of the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources. The limita-
tion of the sale of such pictures has been decided upon to prevent the
scattering over the United States of photographs which may be taken as
portraying the usual mode of life among the Filipinos, causing a wrong
impression of the state of progress and culture among the inhabitants of
the country.

An attempted robbery of the Museum took place early in the evening
of December 28th. The object of the attempt was a collection of bills,
of which $3,361.00 were “fake,” and $4.00 were ‘‘real money.’ The
bills were part of a Public Health Hall exhibit which indicated the
annual cost per thousand people for, purifying water and the annual
money loss per thousand people from diseases due to the use of impure
water. The would-be robber, who had taken off his shoes in an evident
desire to avoid any unseemly noise, had removed from the wall the case
containing the bills and was in the act of prying it open when he was dis-
covered by one of the night watchmen, who fired his revolver but did
not wound the man. The exhibition case and the shoes were hastily
abandoned, and the man made his escape down the stairs and out of the
window near the seismograph. While, of course, we do not condone the
man’s wicked attempt on our exhibition money, we cannot help feeling
sorry at the severity of his retribution—the loss of his shoes.

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Mr. Akeley is giving lessons in modelling to three young ladies—Miss
Helen Brite, Miss Margaret Colgate, and Miss Martha Miller.

A good many Museum people have felt that they would like to know
more of Museum work in general and of our own institution in particular.
Recently, on the suggestion of Miss Remmey, it has been decided to try
out a series of informal talks, supplemented by visits to the exhibits,
to be given by members of the scientific staff at 12:45 every other
Wednesday in the East Assembly Hall. Every one in the Museum is
included in the invitation to attend.

The entire time spent will not exceed a half-hour, and because the
matter is considered of importance the President and Director have
most kindly decided that the time so used shall be considered as given
to part of regular Museum work, and shall not infringe on the lunch
hour.

The first lecture will be given on January 19th, by Dr. Lucas. The
subject will be ‘“‘ The Service of the Museum to the Public.”” The second
lecture will be given on February 2d by Dr. Reeds, and will take up the
geological collection and its place in the Museum scheme. It is believed
that this innovation is the fulfilment of a real and felt need in the Mu-
seum and that every employee who can possibly be spared will attend.
Meetings will be announced in advance through The Museologist.

The Ninth Annual Dinner of the Construction Department, held
under the auspices of the ‘‘ Bean Club,” was given on Friday, December
24th, in the Museum. The guests and members numbered about thirty-
five. After the diners had attended to the main business of the occasion,
there were speeches by Dr. Lucas, Mr. Miner, Mr. Granger, Mr. Operti,
Mr. Beers and his brother, Mr. Belanske, Mr. Ramshaw, Mr. Shrope,
Mr. Blomberg, Mr. Dill, Mr. Crocco, Mr. Allgoever and Mr. Walber.
It was pointed out that while in many museums it is necessary for a
preparator to do all the constructive work in the preparation of exhibi-
tions, those in our institution are able to devote their entire attention to
the construction of a perfect model or group, and do not have to delay
the progress of their work by themselves handling the details of the set-
tings for their exhibits.

Great credit is due to Mr. McCormack and Mr. Belanske for their
work in producing the caricature used on the menu card for the dinner.

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It was strikingly effective, both as a cover design and as a mirth pro-
voker.

Mrs. Osborn paid a short visit to the Department just before the
dinner began, and expressed admiration for the arrangements and
decorations.

John Schmitt of the Printing Department has a second little daughter,
Helen.

Mr. Harry Ramshaw has not been observing union hours since be-
ginning work on his own house.

A solemn file was seen wending its way into Charlie Allgoever’s
blacksmith shop before the Bean Club dinner began. We wonder what
the attraction was.

And speaking of such things, Mr. Chubb recently had a platform
constructed on the roof, upon which he caused to be placed some very
large and suspicious-looking tanks. His excuse was that all this appara-
tus is necessary for degreasing bones for his horse case. But it seems
queer that he didn’t discover the necessity before the Eighteenth Amend-
ment went into effect.

All this time we have been saving the note on the President’s luncheon
—as we used to save the chocolate part of our cake for the last, because
it was the best. This year being President Osborn’s thirtieth anniver-
sary at the Museum, the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology gave
him a luncheon, instead of letting him give his annual luncheon to the
Department.

It seemed as if every one in the Department did something to make
the affair a success. There were favors and menu cards; and cartoons,
by Mrs. Fulda and Mr. Christman, for all the Department members;
and verses, by Dr. Matthew, Dr. Gregory, Mr. Granger and Mrs.
Fink—especially Mrs. Fink; and speeches by Dr. Matthew and Dr.
Gregory and President Osborn. And an engraved bronze desk set was
presented to the President, together with a photograph of the entire
Department.

And there was a hairy mammoth—a most engaging hairy mammoth—
and an equally hairy and engaging Neanderthal Man who carried a stone

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hammer. There were some present who hinted that Charlie Leng and
Fred Kessler, as the front legs and trunk, and the hind legs, respectively,
were responsible for the antics of the most satisfying mammoth, and that
Charlie Christman and the Neanderthal Man of pleasing personality
had much in common. But those were mere rumors, and the beast and
his gentleman friend conducted themselves with a convincing realism
which won the hearts of the fortunate ones who attended the luncheon
and of the assembled throng that looked on from the outside.

Mr. Belanske has caught with his ingenious pen a few expressions
of the H. M.andthe N. M. And we are printing four of the very clever
poems addressed to Department members. The first three were written
by Mrs. Fink; the last is by Dr. Matthew.

Miss Percy

The gentle Lady Percy

(Who doesn’t hail from Quercy)

We think it is a mercy

Hasn’t worked herself to death.

We hear a little clatter

Of dainty heels that patter

And we wonder what’s the matter
As she gasps for lack of breath:

“Oh, don’t you hear the titanotheres
“Weeping over their wasted years?
‘“‘T must hurry them on to their great careers.
“Hinder me not!’’ Miss Percy saith.

William Beeth

Who hustles out each day for eats

Some hungry mouths to filliiam

With bread and butter, milk and cheese?
Who is it but our William?

He carries water in a pail,

Like Jack and also Jilliam,

And mops the floor and shines the brass,
And makes things neat, does William.

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He fills the icebox, carries chairs,
And does things harder stilliam,
And always with a cheerful smile;
A willing lad is William.

Could we do without his helping hands?
Come! do not be so silliam!

Vert. Pal. could not exist at all

If it hadn’t any William!

Dr. Matthew

We once did know an F. R.S. named Matthew, William Diller,

Of palzontology a prop, of society a pillar.

But theories weird of natural rafts obsessed this mighty scholar,

To hint that beasts could walk across made him warm beneath the
collar.

Now everywhere that William went his wife was sure to foller—
‘Whither thou goest I will go if it takes my bottom dollar.

“You cannot treat me like a worm or humble caterpillar,

“Tl string along with you, my dear,” said Matthew, Kitty Diller.

“You know full well that far from you my joy would be but holler,

““So pack your bag, we’ll blithely go and heed nor sow nor thaler.

“With me you need not fear to sail upon the rolling biller.”

“But I wish there were a land bridge,’ sighed Matthew, William
Diller.

President Osborn
(Excerpts)

When all of us were little boys—
(Excuse me, I’d forgotten for the moment
that some of us never were little boys.
My apologies to the ladies who grace our
circle. )
When all of us were girls and boys,
The greatest of our childhood’s joys
Was when our aunts and uncles took us
Each year to visit Barnum’s Circus.

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There was the Greatest Aggregation
Of wonders culled from every nation:
Ferocious beasts whose size gigantic
Would make you squeal with terror frantic.
The lion and the unicorn,
Rhinoceros with frightful horn,
The hippo and the dromedary,
The tiger and the cassowary,
The tapir and the tall giraffe,
The zebra and two-headed calf,
The polar bear from Arctic snow,
And the Wild Man of Borneo.
All these and many more you'd see
In Barnum’s great menagerie.

But now old Barnum is outclassed,
A greater showman’s come at last.
* * *
For thirty years of strenuous days
He’s labored in all sorts of ways
To make this Unique Aggregation,
Unparalleled Agglomeration
Of mammoths huge, and dinosaur,
And lesser beasts that never saw
The light of science on them shed
(Because they’ve been a long time dead).
He’s searched the bounds of time and space
To find each noble vanished race,
From Permian to Pleistocene
Each geologic period’s been
Profoundly searched with pick and hammer
To reveal its actors in the drama
Of Evolution and the History
Of Life on Earth, to solve its mystery,
To show controlling all its actors
The Four Inseparable Factors.

From Egypt’s desert strands he brings
Arsinotheres and other things,

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From Patagonia’s wintry coast
The Pyrotherium and a host
Of creatures strange, of times long past,
Perished beneath the Antarctic blast.
From far Australia’s shores remote
Diprotodon is hither brought.
From famous deserts of Karroo
The Moschops strange has come to view,
A Plesiosaur from English seas
Whose graceful form is sure to please.

But all these look like thirty cents
Beside the rich magnificence
Of Mastodons and Dinosaurs,
Of great Titanotheres and scores
Of creatures scarce inferior
That came from our interior—
From South Dakota and Nebraska,
Texas, Alberta or Alaska—
The beasts that once in grand procession
Of this our country held possession:
The Permian reptiles strange and wild,
Fit bogies for a nervous child,
The dreadful Dinosauria
Which red in tooth and gory are,
The mammals from Paleocene
With tritubercular teeth are seen,
The many horned Uintathere
With horns instead of brains, I fear,
Titanotheres, the theme romantic
Of Osborn’s monograph gigantic,
Trilophodons and Mastodons
And giant Megabelodons
Upon which the Professor scheme :
To publish soon a dozen reams,
Describing them in learned style or
Dividing them in twenty phyla;
And finally the Age of Man

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Where our ancestral tree we scan,
Its fossil fragments glorified
With plaster liberally applied,
And all around the murals splendid
Whereon Knight’s genius is expended.
A fitting crown this hall shall be
For Osborn’s immortality,
Its text, as said that wise old elf,
“Gnothi scanton”— ‘Know thyself.”

* The great obstacle to progress ts prejudice.”

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IN THE FIELD

When last heard from Dr. Crampton had practically finished his
work in Siam. Ina short note sent from Bangkok, he wrote as follows:

‘“My son and I have been five hundred miles inland, and have made
collections there [Siam] that are satisfactory, while the study of the
ecology has been profitable also. Tomorrow we start by rail down the
Malay Peninsula to Singapore, collecting at two places, and then we go
to Java for a time.

“The contacts that have been established with many men, and
several institutions, out here, will prove valuable for the enrichment of
our departmental series. The authorities have been most helpful in all
places.

‘“‘Various lots of material have been shipped back from time to time,
including the Mariana Islands collections, which were the most ¢com-
plete.”

Mr. Chubb has given us a few notes on the week-end visit which he
and President Osborn paid to ‘‘Man o’ War” recently:

‘At the beginning of the racing season, when reports began to come
in of the wonderful achievements of the great horse, ‘Man o’ War,’
our President began to feel a subtle longing for the ‘track.’ As these
reports became more and more marvellous, he openly declared his in-
tention of seeing the great horse run. But, alas! whenever the race was
announced and a trip was planned, matter even more pressing doomed
the President to disappointment.

‘“‘T followed the steed to Saratoga, where I had hoped to see Professor
Osborn measuring with accurate eye those twenty-five-foot strides, and
watching the action of powerful muscles, but he received only meager
reports and photographs of a rather disappointing quality.

“Tater, when performances were repeatedly given quite near home,
the fates were unchanged, except that I did succeed in getting a number
of good photegraphs of the great horse during his races. But it was very
desirable to get close range photographs, showing structural features,
as well as carefully made portraits of this wonderful speed mechanism.
This it was not practicable to do while the horse was in training. Finally,
after ‘Man 0’ War’s’ season was closed and he had retired to his home
stable on the eastern shore of Maryland, we were invited by his owner to

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spend a week-end at the farm, where we were royally entertained by
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Riddle.

“*Man o’ War’ was exhibited, put through his paces and posed for
portraits. Various studies, measurements, and about three dozen
photographs were made. The negatives have since been developed and
have proved to be very successful. It is planned to present to Mr. and
Mrs. Riddle an album of ‘Man 0’ War’ photographs.

“Professor Osborn was duly impressed at first sight of the great
horse and was loath to leave the stables. He evidently enjoyed his
short outing extremely. Indeed, the hearty hospitality of our host and
hostess, the almost summery weather, typical of the ‘eastern shore,’ the
singing of bluebirds, and the interesting errand in hand, made a week-end
long to be remembered.”

Mr. R. D. O. Johnson, who has been collecting for the Department of
Herpetology, writes from his camp on the Rio Quesada:

“Tam now in a camp at a point that is much richer in herpetological
material than any I have been in before this. * * * I have a beautiful
specimen of a blind burrowing snake. He is about three feet in length,
cylindrical in form, perfectly smooth and of a dark blue color. He can
travel forward or backward with equal facility, and, since there is little,
to the casual observer, to distinguish the head from the tail, he bears the
reputation of being two-headed. I am sorry that the color is fading
under the effects of the formaldehyde.

“T found a small, blind, snake-like animal under dead leaves in the
jungle. He had been cut in two in the operations of sinking a shaft,
and only the fore part of him was preserved. Perhaps I should say that
his tail was cut off short and was lost. He has four very tiny feet. They
are ridiculously small, but are actively used. His color is dark gray and
the scales are very smooth like those of a burrowing snake. I am sorry
that I did not get him perfect.

“The first night I stayed in camp and had a good bright light burning
I received the visits of nine tree frogs from the surrounding jungle. Like
the little and innocent children who wandered to the castle of the giant
ogre, these frogs were promptly killed (for the benefit of science). They
came in in their sombre garbs of night, their eyes bright and shining,
to see this new and wonderful exhibit. They were of a purplish brown
color without other color except a faint green stripe under each eye.

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There were darker mottlings on the back. When I held one of these
visitors near to the light, there appeared small, irregular patches of moss-
green color always within the borders of the darker parts. After pro-
longed exposure to the light, in some instances, these darker patterns
became roughly edged with green.”’

We quote from a clipping from a Hawaiian newspaper, received
from Dr. Sullivan:

‘Professor Louis R. Sullivan of the Bishop Museum has returned to
Hilo from IkXona, where he has been making a study of the Hawaiians
for the purpose of preserving their race characteristics in the museum
archives. Professor Sullivan has been in Kona for several weeks.
Previously he made exhaustive studies in Oahu.

“*T am convinced,’ said Dr. Sullivan, ‘that there are at least 20,000
Hawaiians in the territory who will pass for representatives of the
ancient stock. More than half of them are pure bloods, if we mean by
that the race as it was discovered here by the Anglo-Saxons. The gen-
eral gossip and even the scientific statements that the Hawaiian race is
disappearing are erroneous. The Hawaiian is becoming more and more a
mixed blood, but I do not think he is going faster in that direction than
the people of our own race. It is pretty difficult to find a pure blooded
American any more. We are compounded of all the races in the world
north of the equator.

“*T found 3830 pure blooded Hawaiians in Iona, for instance.
When the people knew I wanted to get their racial characteristics and
history they presented themselves willingly enough. Out of all those
who came to be examined, claiming to be pure blood Hawauans, more
than half so far have proved to be so, from the careful tests we make.’

‘Professor Sullivan said that aside from the historical interest which
these records will have for future historians and antiquaries, they would
no doubt prove of value in the present attempt of the Bishop Museum
to trace the origin of the Hawaiian race.

‘Professor Sullivan says the most pronounced features which dis-
tinguish the Hawaiians are the eyes, color and shape; the hair, color
and texture; and the teeth.

“*T find the teeth the best test,’ he said. ‘There is no mistaking the
Hawaiian teeth. Among the pure bloods the molars and incisors have a
distinguishing shape. It is too bad that the teeth of the Hawaiians are so

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badly neglected. It is that which is causing them to die of disease,
rather than anything else. If the people of this island wish to do any-
thing for the Hawaiian, let them look after the teeth of the natives.’

* * *

“In a comparative chart of average height compiled by Dr. Sullivan,
the Hawaiian stands next the head, only the Scotch being taller with an
average of 5 feet 8% inches, the Hawaiian averaging 5 feet 814 inches.

“Dr. Sullivan is going to work through East Hawaii for several
weeks. He will continue his researches indefinitely.”

BARNUM’'S TRAINED ELEPHANTS
72. ARE IN NO WAY SUPERIOR
mn TO THE MUSEUMS MAMMOTH

5 \F ONE COULD JUDGE BY ITS
; ANTICS

THE QUESTION REMAINS —
WHETHER THE MAMMOTH
OR THE MUSEUM STAFF
HAD THE MOST FUN

TIME TURNED BACK 500,000, YEARS WHEN
THIS MAMMOTH AND CAVEMAN
y ae PAID THE PRESIDENT A VISIT.

THE PRESIDENT
WAS VERY MUCH
SURPRISED AND
PLEASED

SOMEONE SUGGESTED THAT MR.
ROY C. ANDREWS MEET THE OBJECT
OF HIS EXPEDITION— PRIMITIVE MAN

W.E.6ELANSCE

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GRIN AND BEAR IT

Ata recent lecture given at the Metropolitan Museum, Miss Duncan,
the lecturer, told of meeting a Maori chief who had been visiting New
York and who described a trip to the Metropolitan Museum, which he
called the building ‘‘ with its face turned toward the East,” and a visit to
the American Museum. Of the latter he spoke as the building which
had in its ‘front hall”? a number of ‘‘stones from Heaven.” And he
asked: ‘‘What did the people of that building do that Heaven should
cast down stones upon it?”’

The Poet: ‘Oh, see the dancing snowflakes!”
The Cynic: ‘‘H’m. They’re practising for the snow-ball, I suppose.”’

Two Seandinavian visitors asked one of the attendants to show them
the bears. The attendant conducted them to Mr. Beers.

There is a tradition that a short time after Professor Bumpus be-
came Director of the Museum he made a trip through the basements of
the building, accompanied by an attendant who is still with us. On
coming to one section that was badly crowded with papers and other
rubbish, Professor Bumpus said that he was afraid there was danger of
spontaneous combustion there. He was reassured by the attendant,
who told him, ‘‘that specimen isn’t down here any more.”

The Original Mother-in-law Joke
Ist Cave-man: ‘‘Come here! Quick! A sabre-tooth tiger is about
to devour your mother-in-law!”
2d Cave-man, indifferently: ‘‘What do I care what happens to a
sabre-tooth tiger?’

One of our scientific staff gives the following explanation of the
origin of an adaptation:
Said the gentle Pterodactyl
To the Plesiosaur one night,
‘“My dear, your long and snaky neck
“Does give me such a fright!”

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The Plesiosaur grinned horridly
And said: ‘‘ No doubt you're right;
“But take your fingers off my neck
“And use them, quick, FOR FLIGHT!”
So it did!
And that’s why.

“What do you work at, my man?”

“At intervals, lady.”

The newspapers say that the cost of living has decreased 2% within
the last few months. What a lot of things we would never know, if it
weren’t for the newspapers!

Clergyman: ‘Peace hath its victories.”

Irreverent one: ‘‘What we want nowadays is a victory with its
peace.”

From The Brooklyn Daily Standard Union:

“Justice Faber, presiding in the Queens Supreme Court, hearing
petitions for citizenship, has secured some interesting responses to some
of his questions. Yesterday an Italian came before him.

~ “Who makes the laws?’ asked Justice Faber.

“George Washington,’ answered the man.

“““Who is President now?’

“*Woodrow Wilson.’

‘““Who was elected President recently?’

“* Harding.’

““Who ran against him?’

“Nobody.

99)

Tue Mvuseo.uoacist regrets to have to announce that it cannot print
any jokes relating to yeast. This is because we are convinced that there
are no jokes about yeast which are not already known to everybody,
and that owing to the diligence of the yeast researchers there are no
possibilities left for new jokes on this subject.

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The New Physiology

From the December Musrouoaist:

‘*___. close to the hearts of each of us.”

Curiously enough, the unscientific we, of all our scientific community,
were the only ones, so far as we have discovered, who noticed it.

Another helpful suggestion for the Third Asiatic Zoological Expedi-
tion has been reported to us:

An attendant, being asked by a bright young visitor where the mis-
sing link could be seen, replied:

“T don’t know. Go and see the elevator man.”’

That limits the field of investigation pretty closely.

Joshua Johnson was being tried for manufacturing whiskey. The
judge, being in jocular mood, asked:

“Joshua, are you related to the Joshua of old who made the sun
stand still?”’

“No, sah, yo’ honah, Ah am no relation of his’n, but Ah’m de real
an’ ’riginal Joshua wat done made de moon shine.”’

We are informed that George Crocco has recently been given the
title of House Physician. When it comes to curing the ills of the build-
ing, George is there with the plaster.

It is said that Frank Vitolo’s ability as a draughtsman showed to good
advantage when he acted as waiter at the Bean Club dinner.

All contributions to the Musrouocist should be ad-
dressed to the Publicity Committee.

Help to make this your paper.

ao

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fs

More valiant is he who
conquers himself than he
who takes the most strongly
fortified city.

CICERO.

THE MUSEOLOGIST

This little magazine is devoted to the internal affairs of the Museum. It
exists for the sake of all the Museum workers, and offers itself as a ready
medium through which they may come into closer touch with each other and
with the Corporation.

It is issued by the Publicity Committee.

Volume 2 February, 1921 Number 2

The first talk of the series planned for Museum employees
was given by Dr. Lucas on Wednesday, January 19th, in
the East Assembly Room. It was well attended, especially
in view of the fact that, as it was the first meeting of the kind,
the date was overlooked by a number of people who had in-
tended to be present. In many cases, too, both the poster
and the notice in last month’s MusEouoatst escaped atten-
tion. It is hoped, however, that news of the talks will soon
be general knowledge, and that employees of every depart-
ment and status will look on attendance at them as part of
their regular work and will quickly form the “every other
Wednesday at 12:45” habit.

The Administration is anxious for a large and general
attendance because a real need exists for the dissemination of
the sort of information which the talks will give. There are
certain important Museum regulations which are recognized
only in the breach. There are many features of our inter-office
system which should be known to every one, but which are
apparently known to scarcely any one. Employees should be
better informed about the Pension Fund and the Employees’
Benefit Association; the work of departments other than
their own; what is being accomplished by the Museum in the
outside world; how the departments may best codperate

——

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with each other and with extra-Museum agencies.

Whatever our work or rank, it is safe to say that none of us
is completely advised on all these subjects. Our value to
the Museum is greatly affected by the breadth of our under-
standing of Museum aims, methods, accomplishments and
needs. These talks are an opportunity. They may be fol-
lowed by general discussion. Any or each of them may be-
come a lively forum where opinions may be exchanged and
real ideas stimulated and developed.

Their success, of course, lies with the employees, of whom
each is urged to give hearty support to the experiment. Half
to three quarters of an hour once in two weeks—perhaps, a
little later, once a month—isn’t much to give; but it may
give much.

THE WORKS OF PEACE

There remains to us a great duty of defense and preserva-
tion; and there is open to us also a noble pursuit, to which
the spirit of the times strongly invites us. Let us advance
the arts of peace and the works of peace. Let us develop the
resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its in-
stitutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we,
also, in our day and generation, may not perform something
worthy to be remembered.

DANIEL WEBSTER.

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THE NEWS

The December Musrouoaist contained a note to the effect that the
funds contributed by employees, through the American Museum War
Relief Association, for the relief of war orphans, had been used up, and
that further contributions might be made. Several gifts have since been
sent in, but the general impression seems to be that individual subscrip-
tion forms are to be distributed, as formerly, and that contributions are
to be held until receipt of the forms. It is not planned to distribute such
forms. Contributions may be made now, and sent in care of the MusEoL-
oaist. Checks may be made payable to J. H. Davies. Questions have
also been asked regarding the average amount of subscription. The
range so far is from $1.00 to $10.00, but either smaller or larger amounts
will be welcomed. We show below how the money already received
($1,111.92) has been apportioned:

Fund for the Fatherless Children of France......... $114.50
Committee for the Relief of Belgian Babies......... 125.00
Polish Children’s Relief Fund... . 2.0... . 6c. i ws 165.00

American Committee for Armenian and Syrian
pe ee ice IN Pn te er nea = in ete als rks s 150.00
Roumanian Relief Committee of America........... 160.00
Home Service Department, American Red Cross... 100.00
Serbian Relief Committee of America............... 164.42

Comitate Nazionale per la Protezione e |’ Assistenza
BeMliveriaial Ot GUCTEARS: Jobcbin Ss. Les ecks aes os 133.00
$1,111.92

This comparatively small sum has supported sixteen children for a
period of one year each, and supplied $100 for the relief of families of
American soldiers in need. The work has been made possible because
each of a number of employees gave a small amount.

Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has offered to contribute $7,500 per
year for five years to the Third Asiatic Zoological Expedition.

Mr. Ichikawa has sailed from Japan to Hawau, where he will assist
Dr. Sullivan in securing accessories and material for ethnic groups.

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Dr. Carl Lumholtz, who has recently returned from a two-years’
expedition in Borneo, has brought his collection to the Museum and is
busily engaged in unpacking it for the examination of the Museum
authorities. He plans an expedition to New Guinea for the near future.

Dr. Crampton, Mr. Anthony and Mr. Cherrie are expected back at
the Museum in February.

Mr. Palmer, of the Construction Department, has been confined
to his home for the last few weeks by a severe attack of inflammatory
rheumatism.

Miss Martha Miller recently made an aeroplane flight from Mitchell
Field. The trip was enlivened by a loop and tail spin.

Miss Evans is back at work after an illness of almost three weeks.

On Wednesday afternoon, January 19th, from 3:00 to 5:00 o’clock,
the teaching staff and the graduating class of the New York Training
School for Teachers were entertained at the Museum. The visit was
arranged in order that the graduates of the Training School might have
an opportunity to personally inspect the ways and means by which the
American Museum is prepared to assist them in their profession, and
might become acquainted with the members of the Museum’s staff—
especially those in our Department of Public Education, with whom they
will later come in contact.

The guests, of whom there were about a hundred and fifty, gathered
in the large Auditorium at 3 o’clock, where slides and motion pictures
were shown. A short tour of the Museum was then made under the
guidance of cooperating members of the Museum staff, and exhibits of
special interest to teachers were pointed out. Tea was served in the
Hall of the Age of Man.

That the afternoon was a success was shown by the enthusiasm of the
teachers and the appreciative letters which have since been received
from a number of them.

It is planned to make the entertainment in this manner of newly
graduating teachers a regular feature of Museum service, to the end
that in time the city’s entire teaching staff may be thoroughly familiar

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with the advantages which the institution offers them, and may come
to use these advantages to the full.

Dr. Winslow sailed for France on January 25th.

Mr. Andrews will strart for the East on March 19th.

The Burroughs Nature Club of Newark spent the afternoon of
January 15th at the Museum.

Mrs. Fink is to have an assistant beginning February Ist.

The number of Sunday visitors to the Museum during January
ranged from 12,000 to 15,000.

The list of Museums cooperating with the Buffalo Society of Natural
Sciences in the exchange of membership privileges for visiting members
includes forty-five institutions in the United States and three in Canada.

Mr. Beers has been suffering from an attack of neuritis.

The Annual Meeting of the Board of Trustees will be held on
February 7th.

President Osborn’s article on the ancestry of man which appeared
in the May—June number of Natural History, was used in abridged form
in the Jllustrated London News of January 8th, with photographs of the
Knight murals and the exhibits showing the ascent of man material
which includes the McGregor restorations.

Dr. Wissler made a brief visit to the Museum during the last week of
January.

Former associates of Charles Connolly will be interested to learn
that his mother has received by Act of Congress a considerable sum as
extra compensation.

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Clarence Halter called at the Museum last week.

The auditors are busy on our books again. —

Museum calendars are being mailed to the Directors of all the Mu-
seums listed in the Directory of Museums.

David Greenberg, formerly of the Department of Public Health,
was a welcome visitor at the Museum on January 17th. He had not
been back for a long time, and renewed acquaintance with members of
various departments. He is now a student at Columbia University.

Mrs. Fulda was kept away from the Museum for several days during
January by tonsilitis.

A choice skeleton of Gorgosaurus has been installed in the Tertiary
Hall.

New installations and rearrangements are being made in the Hall of
the Age of Man, in connection with the proboscidean exhibit.

Dr. Dean returned during the first week in January from his ex-
tended trip abroad. Although very busy at the Metropolitan Museum,
he finds time to make frequent hurried trips to our Department of
Ichthyology, where work on the Subject Volume of his Bibliography of
Fishes is going forward at a rapid pace.

Dr. Hrdlicka of the National Museum visited the Museum on
January 24th.

Mr. Irving B. Kingsford, a graduate of Princeton, class of 1913,
joined the Department of Vertebrate Palzeontology on January 26th as
volunteer assistant. He will assist in the work on fossil specimens, in the
laboratory. He is also taking Dr. Gregory’s course on mammalian
paleontology.

Arrangements are being made for the transportation, from the Cauca-
sian Museum in Tiflis, to this institution, of the collection of Thibetan

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and other ethnologica made by Colonel Alexander V. Kaznakoff, to-
gether with several hundred volumes of scientific works in many
languages. Colonel Kaznakoff, who was formerly Director of the Mu-
seum at Tiflis, has presented all this material to the Museum.

Dr. Marjorie O’Connell is continuing her work on the collection of
Jurassic ammonites made in Cuba in 1918 and 1919 by Barnum Brown.
The material consists of a fauna most of the species of which have not
been found before in the western hemisphere, and some of which are new
to science. They are species similar to or identical with forms found in
France and Germany. Their discovery in Cuba makes it possible to
define more clearly the shore lines of the Jurassic ocean—the more ex-
panded Atlantic Ocean of that time, an ocean which covered the site of
the present loftiest mountains of Europe—the Caucasus, Alps, Jura and
Pyrenees—and spread over all the Mediterranean countries, having
extensions into western Russia, southern Germany, France and eastern
England, while in the western hemisphere its shores are found in Mexico
and Cuba.

Ammonites were the dominant marine invertebrates of the Mesozoic
era, as the reptiles were the dominant form of life among the verte-
brates. A few ammonites had been collected by a Cuban in 1910, but
had not been described, nor was their exact age known. In 1918 and
1919, Mr. Brown made extensive collections in the Province of Pinar
del Rio, traversing the mountains in seven different places. From those
collections it has been possible to determine a succession of faunal zones
for the Middle and Upper Jurassic which is the same as that found in the
Jura Mountains and elsewhere in Europe. Some fifteen million years of
organic evolution are represented in the ammonites collected. Biologi-
cally the specimens are interesting because they throw new light on the
broader problems of organic evolution and the laws which control it.
Geologically the collection is valuable because it marks the only occur-
rence of rocks of Jurassic age in the West Indies and makes possible the
establishment of a geological column of rock formations which can be
compared with those of Mexico and Europe. By combining the
palzontological and geological data, a paleogeographic map can be
constructed showing the extent of the ancient lands and the boundaries
of the shorelines of the oceans. Through the study ot the fossils, the
rocks can be correlated with those of the same age from Europe, Asia

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and Mexico, thus filling in another of the gaps in the scientific data upon
which are based our reconstructions of the lands and seas of the past.
Dr. O’Connell has already published in the Bulletin, Volume XLII,
a first paper on this collection (“Jurassic Ammonite Fauna of Cuba’’)
in which she describes several of the species studied. She is now prepar-
ing to present in collaboration with Mr. Brown a paper which will
correlate the Cuban formations with synchronous ones of Europe, Asia
and Mexico, and will include a paleeogeographic map and field notes.

The new aquarium at Miami, Florida, is now officially opened, with
Mr. L. L. Mowbray, a member of the Museum, in charge as Director.
It is hoped that both the Museum’s Department of Ichthyology and the
new Aquarium will benefit from friendly cooperation.

The most desirable specimens in the collection of mounted fishes
made by the late Jacob Wertheim have been donated to the Museum.
One of these is a tuna measuring seven feet two inches in length, and
which weighed 286 pounds,—the largest ever taken with rod and reel
off the New Jersey coast.

Miss Austin, the nature study teacher of the New York Institute for
the Blind, brought a new class of ten small children to the Museum re-
cently to study mammals.

Mrs. Katherine Smith has sent several specimens of California
flowers and leaf sprays to the Smilodon Tribe, Woodcraft League, as
scout reports.

On Friday, January 21st, a party of one hundred from the Brooklyn
Training School for Teachers made a tour of the Museum.

Mr. C. C. Willoughby, Director of the Peabody Museum, spent
Monday, January 17th, at the Museum.

Mr. Nichols had an article on the Florida fishes of the Miami
Aquarium in the January number of the National Geographic. He has an
article now in press in the Bulletin describing a new genus of Flounders,
the type of which, now deposited here, was taken at Turks Island in the
Bahamas by Mr- Mowbray.

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One of the fishes collected for the Museum by Dr. Evermann last
summer in Hawaii turns out to belong to a new race, and is being named
in his honor in the first fish article in Novitates.

The suggestion has been made that the Museum ought to open a
Department of Natural Diseases, in connection with its educational
program.

Five very fine pieces of batik from Java have been purchased by the
Department of Anthropology, and will soon be placed on exhibition.

Mr. Miner and Mr. Granger are in a fair way to become moving
picture idols. They figured recently in films made in the Museum by the
Bray Studios. Mr. Miner shared the honors with some radiolarians, in
one film, and, in the other, Mr. Granger and the ground sloths in our
laboratory and Age of Man Hall were featured.

On their recent visit to Mr. Burroughs, Dr. Fisher, Mrs. Smith and
Miss Wiley were so indignant at finding the cabin, Slabsides, badly de-
faced by visitors writing on the building and tearing off the bark, that
they and Dr. Barrus, who was also present, prepared the following sign,
which was read and approved by Mr. Burroughs and placed in the
window:

“Will each visitor who appreciates and loves John Burroughs kindly
obliterate at least one name with which some thoughtless person has
disfigured Slabsides.

“Signed, Smilodon Tribe,
“Woodcraft League of America.”

Mr. Nichols will spend the first three weeks of February cruising in
southern waters.

The Second International Congress of Eugenics, which will be held
in New York City September 22-28, 1921, has opened an office in the
Museum. Professor Osborn is President of the Congress, and Mr. C. C.
Little, of the Laboratory for Experimental Evolution, at Cold Spring
Harbor is the Secretary-General.

The First International Congress was held in London in August,
1912, under the auspices of the Eugenics Education Society and
presidency of Major Leonard Darwin.

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When the term ‘eugenics’’ was first used by Francis Galton, in
1883, he defined it as the “study of agencies under social control that
may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations, either
physically or mentally.” The question has been raised in several
countries as to whether the world war has not so depleted the finest
racial stocks that they are in danger of extinction. It is therefore very
appropriate that a second congress of eugenics should be held at this
time.

According to the preliminary announcement, the Congress will be
divided into four sections, of which the first will be concerned with the
results of research in the field of pure genetics in animals and plants,
and with the study of human heredity. The second section will consider
factors which influence the human family, and their control. In this
connection will be brought forward facts of improved and of unimproved
families and of the persistence, generation after generation, of the best
as well as the worst characteristics. In the third section will be presented
the topic of human racial differences, with the sharp distinction between
racial characteristics and the unnatural associations often created by
political and national boundaries. Racial mixtures will be considered
in relation to human history. Also the topics of racial differences in
disease and psychology will be taken up. The fourth section will discuss
eugenics in relation to the state, to society and to education. It will
include studies on certain practical applications of eugenic research and
on the value of such findings to morals, to education, to history, and to
the various social problems and movements of the day.

The announcement also states: “It will be the design of the Congress
to advocate no revolutionary changes, but to discuss the whole subject
of pure and applied eugenics fairly and temperately in such a manner as
will make clear the beneficent effects of the application of eugenic stand-
ards among men and women, as we have long since learned to apply
them to the improvement of races of animals and plants. The spread of
eugenic principles must be through education of proper sentiment con-
cerning the responsibility of parenthood. In a world where artificial
civilization has interfered with the order of nature there is need for the
revival of eugenic ideals in marriage.

“Tn each section the Congress will present carefully worked out facts
and the immediate and practical conclusions to which they lead. Special
stress will be laid on the results of experimental and statistical research.
The importance of the intellectual, sociological, and economic aspects

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will, of course, be pointed out in the section devoted to these various

fields.”’

Chancellor David Starr Jordan, of Stanford University, the greatest
living student of fishes, celebrated his seventieth birthday on January
19th with a poem, a copy of which follows:

Men Told Me, Lord
(1851-1921)

Men told me, Lord, it was a vale of tears
Where Thou hadst placed me, wickedness and woe
My twain companions whereso I might go;
: That I through ten and three-score weary years
Should stumble on, beset by pains and fears,
Fierce conflict round me, passions hot within,
: Enjoyment brief and fatal, but in sin.
When all was ended then should I demand
Full compensation from Thine austere hand;
For, ’tis Thy pleasure, all temptation past,
To be not just but generous at last.

Lord, here am I! My three-score years and ten

All counted to the full; I’ve fought Thy fight,

Crossed Thy dark valleys, scaled Thy rocks’ harsh height,
Borne all Thy burdens Thou dost lay on men

With hand unsparing, three-score years and ten.

Before Thee now I make my claim, O Lord!

What shall I pray Thee as a meet reward?

I ask for nothing! Let the balance fall!

All that I am or know or may confess

But swells the weight of mine indebtedness;
Burdens and sorrows stand transfigured all;

For Love, with all the rest, Thou gav’st me here,
And Love is Heaven’s very atmosphere!

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Employee Lecture Schedule

February 9—A trip around the Hall of Geology.
February 16—Dr. Matthew: “Paleontology in a Museum.”

March 2—Mr. Granger: “Remarks on Vertebrate Paleontology Field
Work,” or a trip through one of the Vertebrate Palzon-
tology halls.

March 16—Dr. Lutz: “Entomology in a Museum.”

IN THE FIELD

The Department of Anthropology has been kind enough to give us
the following report prepared by Mr. Nelson, who was in charge of the
recent field work in the Southwest. Mr. Hyde and friends of the Mu-
seum who financed the work in Grand Gulch, accompanied Mr. Nelson
during the Grand Gulch phase of the investigation.

“The archeological reconnaissance investigations carried out in the
Southwest during the interval from September 19, 1920, to January 8,
1921, ranged over portions of California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and
New Mexico, but were centered chiefly upon the Grand Gulch region of
Utah and the Mimbres Valley region of New Mexico. These two locali-
ties were represented in the Museum by valuable purchase collections,
both of which lacked complemental data; and the chief purpose of the
expedition was to supply this want. Explorations beyond the Grand
Gulch and Mimbres Valley limits were largely incidental, or simply parts
of a much needed general reconnaissance in progress for several years
with a view to determining all the ancient Pueblo centers as well as the
extreme limits to which Pueblo influence has carried.

“The Grand Gulch phase of the investigation occupied approxi-
mately five weeks, two of which were spent in the great gorge itself.
Information was obtained here relative to the canyon as such; the
number, nature, and condition of its antiquities; the extent of former
excavations; and the prospects for future scientific work. In all, some
sixty to seventy miles of the canyon and its principal tributaries were
mapped and about 110 archeological sites definitely placed. These

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sites comprise several large groups of unusually interesting pictographs,
a number of rock-shelters showing evidence of ‘Basket Maker’ occu-
pation, and for the rest cliff-houses ranging in size from one to thirty
rooms. Brief descriptive notes, measurements and photographs were
obtained as far as practicable. A small amount of excavating was also
done, sufficient to afford examples of the physical type of the former
inhabitants, as well as of the principal features of their culture.

“In the Mimbres Valley the reconnaissance extended from near the
Mexican border northward to the Gila National Forest, a distance of
about seventy miles. Within these limits thirty-five ruins were exam-
ined, particular notice being taken of those from which the Museum’s
collections were derived. Descriptions, plots, measurements and photo-
graphs were taken of all the outstanding features. A few skulls were
secured, and broken pottery, suitable for study purposes, was gathered
from every site. Of general interest was the fact here observed that the
Casas Grandes culture of Chihuahua formerly extended over a consider-
able portion of southern New Mexico.

“The incidental reconnaissance work done in the region of Solomon-
ville, Globe, Tucson, Phoenix, Kingman, Flagstaff and Kayenta, Ari-
zona; in the Needles and Barstow region of California; and in the Las
Vegas region of Nevada, yielded several important results. Thus, in
addition to the study collections obtained from these localities, the work
extended the known western limits of the old Pueblo culture into south-
ern Nevada and helped to fix the geographical location of several
ceramic centers, as well as their chronologic position in the time scale.

“To sum up, the season’s field work has helped to fill a large gap in
our preliminary survey of the Southwest; it has resulted in the recogni-
tion of fifteen or more ceramic centers; and it has tended to confirm the
view that two great sedentary culture groups formerly flourished in this
area, one of which groups exhibits much closer affinity with the culture
of northern Mexico than does the other. This last fact should make it
clear that the archeological problem of the Southwest cannot be cleared
up until a large portion of northern Mexico has been brought under
observation.”

Under date of December 14th, Mr. Anthony wrote to Dr. Chapman,
from Portovelo, Ecuador:

“We returned trom our Loja-Oriente trip day before yesterday and a
mail goes out tomorrow so I am writing you first of all my correspon-

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dents—none of whom has heard from me now for nearly two months—
in order that you can be posted on our progress.

“This last trip has not been up to our expectations in many ways, and
speaking for the mammal department I am greatly disappointed in it.
We left Portovelo October 24 and made Loja without mishap or delay
on the 26th, and then our difficulties began. Fairly free from delays
and annoyances on all our other trips we began to make up for what we
had missed. Animals were very hard to get and we lost a week in Loja
getting away because the people are afraid to hire out their mules for the
Oriente. Cherrie was under the weather a day or two, nothing serious,
on top of it all. We were so low on ammunition that Cherrie collected
only a few birds about Loja, reserving his stock for the Oriente. Finally
we crossed the divide and went two days east to a place called Sabanilla,
about 2,500 feet above Zamora (pueblo). The trail was bad and we
stopped to work here until it should dry up before going farther. We had
almost a week solid of rain during which little could be done and thena
week of good weather which demonstrated to us that Sabanilla wasa
very poor station. Calling a trap set for a night as one trap night, I had
upwards of 900 trap nights, and caught not one rodent, a murine opossum
being the sole bag for all this trapping. We were disgusted and wanted
to move but one of our arrieros failed us and we were stuck there for a
week longer than we wished. Birds were far more common than mam-
mals of course but Cherrie wanted to move also.

“Eventually we got down to Zamora and stayed there two weeks,
arriving just in time for a continuous series of rains the entire two
weeks. This put a crimp in any moves down the river and I had to
give that part of the plan up although most of my interests were there.
When we came out the trail was fierce, mud every step the first two days
and nothing to brag of the third. I had walked every foot of the way
going in because we could not get mules enough, packing bed, ete., on
my saddle mule, while coming out we walked much of the way because
of the condition of the trail. You bet we were glad to see Loja again!
Our one piece of luck in the Oriente was the fact that the rains stopped
on the day we started and we came all three days dry. We were lucky
in securing animals for the return to Portovelo, the next day after we
made Loja, so we lost no time getting back here. Our last camp at
Zamora was not so bad and with good weather we could have piled up a
pretty fair collection. As it was Cherrie got a lot of birds and I managed

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to get a few mammals to retrieve the poor start I had made but at that I
am away behind my schedule now for I hoped to get at least 159 to 200
specimens and count myself lucky that I got 100 under the circumstances.
We found out just where Richardson collected, etc., and that informa-
tion should be of value for a move of half a day up or down the river
means a big change in the fauna.

“Cherrie got better than 400 specimens all told, bringing his total
up to about 1700 while mine is 740. I had been holding my numbers up
to 50% of his, but I fear he has too great a lead on me, now.

“T did not deem it advisable to make any more moves out of Loja
as we were about out of supplies, cotton, arsenic, etc., (although some
shells had been forwarded on to us at Loja per instructions I left at
Portoyelo), and our time is drawing short. I saw a great deal of country
and shall have a lot to tell you about it.

“What I want to do now is to make the trip to Shingata, near Natién,
which will give us a representation of the fauna of the Central-eastern
Andean forests, which strip we have not as yet sampled. The company
has a dredging proposition in that region, have explored there and have
men there now so I am well posted in advance and it sounds good for
large mammals. Our Loja trip showed me what appears to be the south-
ern limit of the central Andean forests and there is a body of heavy
virgin forest a short day from here, the southernmost forest between the
western Andes and the eastern range. This looked so good to us and I
heard such good reports of it that we are going to run over there for a
week beginning this Thursday before we go to Shingata.

“Enough ammunition has arrived—all except the express shipment
and it is in Guayaquil and should arrive here shortly—to make us rest
easy on that score, but now it is a question of time. Cherrie is impatient
to get a steamer north not later than the first week in February. We
finish up by the end of January and that gives very little time for all I
had hoped to see accomplished. If possible I shall come north with
Cherrie, but it may be that I may have to take a later steamer to finish
out my several errands to Quito and several paleontological sites—Dr.
Matthew has staked me to a small reconnaisasnce fund.

“T fully appreciate what remains to be done in Ecuador and hope
with you that this is only the start of a clean-up job. Sorry that we
can’t do more of the cleaning up now! I have so many localities in mind
here, well worth all of the time that a collector could give them.

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“ All the high officials of the South American Development Company
are here now, and we received a royal welcome when we got in, dirty,
unbathed for I don’t know how long, and without a bit of clean clothing
to our backs! We are enjoying the comforts of Portovelo to the utter-
most and thank the destiny that has made it our base of operations.

“We saw a little of the Jivaros and have some good photos. We are
bringing back no heads, except our own.

“The rains will be upon us before we finish up here and with all the
time we could ask for at our disposal it would be foolish to work longer
in this immediate region until the next dry season.”

The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will.
EPICTETUS.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

Vestryman: ‘‘ Your sermon on thrift made an extraordinary impres-
sion on the congregation.”’

Clergyman, gratified: ‘“‘Do you think so?”’

Vestryman: ‘Oh, yes. I could tell from the collection.”

Sir Gordon Hewart says: ‘‘ There never was such a war as this.”’
What an unfortunate illusion we have all been under, then!

A Hebrew visitor to the Museum asked an attendant on the third
floor: ‘‘ Meester, vare iss der Vahl-feesh?”’

The attendant showed him the Sulphurbottom Whale, and re-
marked: ‘‘ You know, it is really an animal.”

‘A anemahl? Denn vare iss his foots?”

Farmer: ‘‘So you've had experience, have you?”’

New Man: “Yes, sir.”

Farmer: ‘‘ Well, which side of a cow do you sit on to milk?”

New Man: “The outside.”

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An army officer, out to see how his sentries were discharging their
duties, overheard the following conversation:

“Halt! Who is there?”

“Friend—with a bottle.”’

“Pass, friend. Halt, bottle.”’

From the Dodge News:

The Englishman boasts he is a self-made man, and he worships his
maker.

The Scotchman keeps the ‘‘Sawbeth”’ and everything else he can
lay his hands on.

The Welshman prays to the Almighty on Sunday and on everyone
else for the rest of the week.

The Irishman doesn’t know what he wants and won't be happy till he
gets it.

First young lady: ‘‘These are fine apples.”’

Mr. Akeley: ‘Of course. They came from the same soil I was
raised on.” .

First young lady: ‘‘Then they’re Pippins.”’

Second young lady: ‘‘ No, they’re Baldwins.”

From The Home Sector:

“Do you think, dearest, that you could manage on my salary?”
the fond youth asked.

“T think I could, darling,” the sweet girl responded; ‘but how would
you get along?”’

No matter how quiet things may be in other departments of the
Museum, John Clark is always plugging away.

It has been reported that the manufacture of Ford machines has been
suspended. But one observant employee tells us that this must be
another of John Seip’s “‘rumors,’’ as judging from the apparently ever
increasing numbers of Fords to be seen running about, the things are still
breeding.

According to one of our reliable city dailies, a Western man has just
been arrested by the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. He
left his Ford out in a blizzard with no blanket on it.

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The cleaners were finishing their work on the third floor, when one
of the men asked John Larsen: ‘‘ Did you do the landing?”’
John answered: ‘No. Columbus did the landing.”’

In these days of slow sales and no sales, shoemaking is an excellent
trade to be in, as the goods are always soled before they are finished.

We have been mistaken for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the
Aquarium, and the classic Eden Musee (gone but not forgotten); and
now the Zoo. Absurd as it may seem, a visitor recently asked one of
our attendants: “Isn’t there anything alive in this Museum?”

The following useful bit of information has been volunteered us:
that the first tune ever whistled was “Over the Hills and Far Away;”’
and that it was whistled by the wind.

Visitor, in Osborn Library: ‘I am interested in the Equidze and
should like particularly to study the asses.

Miss L. eager to render first aid: ‘‘Oh, yes. I will have some one
take you right up to Mr. Chubb.”

(Mr. Chubb himself gave us this).

Uncle Eben says: “ Bein’ contented wif yoh lot am no excuse foh not
hustlin’ to git de mortgage off’n it.”’

Romance in the Old Families

In the great Art Museum, Sixth Egyptian Room,

Lay Ukh-Hotep’s mummy, afar from its tomb.

In the same gallery, also lying in state,

The once lovely Nephthys had met a like fate.
Sand-covered for centuries, they here found a place

Of serene rest and peace—each in a glass case.

With their sightless eyes turned to the ceiling above,
Who'd guess here were subjects of Romance and Love?

The facts are obscure, but it’s safe to assume
Hotep had sensed Nephthys the length of the room,
And noted that she, while not youthfully curved,

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Was, in spite of the ages, quite well preserved.
And then through his well-embalmed noodle there ran
The ‘‘come-back”’ idea, so common to man.

Now spirits of those long and thoroughly dead
Find means to communicate—so it 1s said—

And so, in a manner which mortals ken not,
These two planned a tryst in a well-chosen spot—
In fact, in the tomb of one Ra-Em-Kai—

In the Third Egyptian Room, near by.

‘“Meet me, dear Neppy,” the swain possibly said,
“At the stroke of midnight; too long we’ve been dead.
“Let us have a good time and shake off our gloom

“By reading the ‘glyphs’ on Ra-Em-Kai’s tomb.
“And mayhap if no mortal is spying on us,

“We can shout into Har-Khebit’s sarcophagus.”’

And thus it was planned—or so we suppose;

A frivolous program, kind Heaven knows.

Well the night came around, as nights always do,

And Hotep prepared his fair lady to woo.

Just at midnight exactly—tlight-saving time—

He emerged from his case, with spirit sublime;

He dodged through the gloom to the scene of the tryst,
Serene in the knowledge he’d never be missed.

He eagerly waited for Miss Nep to arrive,

Which she quite failed to do up to twelve forty-five;
Then, patience exhausted, he frowned in disgust,

And stiff'y sneaked back—and, possibly, cussed.

Toward the case of Nephthys he scowled darkly, too,
And remarked with much feeling, “‘It’s all off with you.”

“You were a game kid in the land of the Nile,

“But a dead one y’are now, and you'll stay dead awhile.”
Then with care he adjusted himself in his case,

And of that night’s adventure left never a trace.

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Now our fair heroine (are all heroines fair?)

At twelve o’clock—standard time—came up for air;
Her reflection she glimpsed in the glass as she rose,
Made an unconscious move meant to powder her nose,
Then away to the tomb of the late Ra-Em-Kai,

But no Ukh-Hotep around there did she spy.

She waited and waited till patience gave out,

Then returned to her room with an unlovely pout.

For a moment she paused by Ukh-Hotep’s side,

And in the soundless speech of spirits she cried:
“Some sport wert thou, Hotep; I oft heard of thee,
“But now thou’rt a dead one and always will be.”
Disgusted the lady returned to her place,

And wanders no more from her comfy glass case. “

Moral

Dear reader, this moral I here freely give:
When dead try no “‘come-backs,”’ but live while you live.
Or, if you insist upon bucking the fates,

Be very explicit in timing your dates.
J. L. BEERs.

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THE MUSEOLOGIST

This little magazine is devoted to the internal affairs of the Museum. It
exists for the sake of all the Museum workers, and offers itself as a ready
. medium through which they may come into closer touch with each other and
with the Corporation.

It is issued by the Publicity Committee.

Volume 2 March, 1921 Number 3

One of the most familiar figures in the Museum is that of
Dr. Frank M. Chapman, who, next to Dr. Allen, has been
longest in the Museum’s service. It was in March, 1888,
that Dr. Chapman came as Assistant Curator to the Depart-
ment of Ornithology and Mammalogy. In 1901 he became
Associate Curator of the same department, and in 1908,
Curator of Ornithology.

Before coming here, Dr. Chapman had made an expedition
to collect and study the birds of Florida. During his thirty-
odd years at the Museum, he has organized and conducted a
number of exploring trips in temperate and tropical America,
has published frequently, has edited Bird-Lore since helping
to found it in 1898 and has been Associate Editor of The Auk
since 1894.

It was Dr. Chapman who originated and directed the
making of our habitat bird groups and seasonal exhibits of
birds. These—particularly the habitat groups—have _ be-
come widely famous, and justly; for apart from their interest
as the first groups of their kind, they combine beauty and
realism with great educational effectiveness.

A Fellow of the American Ornithological Union and of the
New York Academy of Sciences, Dr. Chapman has been Vice-
President of the former since 1907, and was Vice-President of

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the latter in the years 1908 and 1905. Since 1897, he has been
President of the New York Linnean Society, and from 1910
to 1918 was Vice-President of the Explorers’ Club. He holds
Honorary Membership in the New York Zoological Society
and the Sociedad ornitologica del Plata, and Foreign Mem-
bership in the British Ornithological Union. In 1912, he was
awarded the first Linnzan medal, by the Linnzean Society of
New York, and in 1918 the National Academy of Sciences
bestowed on him the first Elliot medal, in recognition of his
work on Colombian birds. In 1913, the Honorary Degree of
Doctor of Science was conferred on him by Brown University.

During the war, Dr. Chapman acted for a year (1917--
1918) as Director of the Bureau of Publications of the Ameri-
‘an Red Cross, and for another year (1918-1919) served as
American Red Cross Commissioner to Latin America—an
office for which he was peculiarly fitted by his extensive South
American travels and the affluations which he had formed in
the South American countries. |

Those of us who know Dr. Chapman only casually, appre-
ciate his genialitv. Those who have worked with him admire
his splendid executive ability. his professional enthusiasm
and his apparently unlimited capacity for accomplishment.
Those who know him only by reputation value his contribu-
tion to ornithological research and his achievement in broadly
popularizing natural history—especially ornithology—with-
out sacrificing his serious investigations or losing the scientific
spirit. Those Museum folks whe know Dr. Chapman both
professionally and personally can give all these reasons and a
number of others for the high esteem in which they hold him.

as to acknowledge and correct their mistakes, and especially the
mistakes of prejudice.
BARROW.

THE NEWS

At the Annual Meeting of the Museum’s Board of Trustees which was
held on February 7th, Messrs. George F. Baker, Jr., A. Perry Osborn
and George D. Pratt, of New York City, and Dr. Leonard C. Sanford,
of New Haven, were elected to fill vacancies on the Board. Mr. Adrian
Iselin, after serving for eight vears as Secretary of the Museum, resigned,
and Mr. Percy R. Pyne was elected his successor.

President Osborn stated at the meeting that he regarded the year
1920 as one of the greatest vears in the history of the Museum, inasmuch
as the institution’s educational value had been for the first time fully
recognized by the present City Administration, and, despite the hard
times, gifts, collections and funds for expeditions presented to the Mu-
seum during the year represented a total of $500,000.

Commenting on the financial condition of the Museum, he announced
that the year’s work had been concluded without the necessity of re-
questing the Trustees to make their usual personal contributions to
supplement the budget. That this was possible, he explained, was due
to the enforcement of the most rigid economy and to the fact that the
City authorities, after a searching investigation of its affairs, recogniz-
ing the importance of the institution as a vital and ever developing
adjunct to the City’s educational system, had increased the annual
maintenance allowance by $150,000 over the appropriation for 1919.

Visitors to the Museum during the past year numbered 1,040,000.

At the Annual Meeting of the Museum’s Pension Board, held on
February 9th, Mr. A. Perry Osborn was accorded a «ordial welcome
as the new Trustee member of the Board. Mr. Osborn succeeds Mr.
Pyne, who had served since the establishment of the Pension Board.

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Changes in the scientific staff, announced at the Annual Meeting
of the Board of Trustees, included the following: Dr. J. A. Allen, former
Curator of Mammals, was made Honorary Curator of his department;
Mr. Carl E. Akeley was made Associate in Mammalogy; Dr. Henry E.
Crampton, former Curator of Invertebrate Zoology, was made Honorary
Curator of Lower Invertebrates; Dr. Willard G. Van Name was made
Assistant Curator of Lower Invertebrates; Dr. F. E. Lutz, former
Associate Curator of Insects, was made Curator of Entomology; Dr.
Robert Cushman Murphy, former Curator of the Department of
Natural Science at the Brooklyn Museum, was made Associate Curator
of Marine Birds; Mr. Ludlow Griscom was made an Assistant Curator
of Ornithology; Dr. Herbert J. Spinden, former Assistant Curator of
Anthropology, was made Associate Curator of Mexican and Central
American Archeology; Mr. N.C. Nelson, Former Assistant Curator of
Anthropology, was made Associate Curator of North American Arche-
ology. Appointments as Research Associates included; Dr. George F.
Kunz, Gems; Frank J. Myers, Rotifera; Dr. A. L. Treadwell, Annulata;
Charles W. Leng, Coleoptera; Herbert F. Schwarz, Hymenoptera;
Dr. William M. Wheeler, Social Insects; Dr. E. W. Gudger, Ichthyology;
Clarence L. Hay, Mexican and Central American Archeology; Ales-
sandro Fabbri, Physiology.

A new department was instituted, to be known as the Department
of Comparative Anatomy, of which Dr. William K. Gregory was ap-
pointed Curator and Mr. 8. H. Chubb was made Assistant in Osteology.
Dr. J. Howard McGregor, of Columbia, was made Research Associate
in Human Anatomy. The Departmtent of Anatomy and Physiology
was converted into a Department of Comparative Physiology, with Dr.
R. W. Tower as Curator.

Mr. George H. Sherwood, former Assistant Secretary of the Museum,
has been created Executive Secretary.

President and Mrs. Osborn sailed on the ‘“‘ Mexico”’ on February 26th
for.a two weeks’ sojourn at Nassau in the Bahama Islands. They expect
to return by March 15th.

On February 21st, Mrs. Garrett, the sister of Edward Drinker Cope,
lunched at the Museum and was conducted through the exhibition halls
by Mr. Granger.

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Dr. Gregory expects to sail for Australia next May, accompanied by
Mr. H. C. Raven, to make a tour of the collecting grounds and labora-
tories of New Zealand and Australia, for the benefit of several of the
departments. He will probably return by the end of September.

Miss Perey and Mr. Chubb have both returned to their work after
sl'ght illnesses.

Mrs. Sterling is exhibiting a statuette and a series of reliefs at the
Exhibition of Women Painters and Sculptors being held at the Anderson
Galleries. The Exhibition will continue until March 15th. Admission
is free, and everyone is welcome.

Dr. H. N. Coryell, formerly of the University of Chicago and now of
Columbia University, has been engaged for ten weeks of the coming
summer as special assistant on the Bryozoan exhibits. Dr. Coryell will
address the March 21st meeting of the Section of Geology and Mineral-
ogy of the New York Academy of Sciences, giving a resumé of
the geology of Spitzbergen.

On February 3rd, a daughter—Constance Rogers Hovey—was born
to Dr. and Mrs. Hovey.

The Smilodon Tribe, Woodcraft League, took an observation trip to
Long Beach on February 27th. They paid special attention to winter
birds and the life of the ocean beach.

Mrs. Smith, of our Department of Public Education, was recently a
guest of John Burroughs at La Jolla. She obtained a number of excel-
lent snapshots of the veteran naturalist.

Mr. Burroughs, according to newspaper reports, is at present ill
in a California hospital.

Programs and tickets for the Museum’s Spring lecture courses have
been issued.

We greatly regret the death of Mrs. Smyth, mother of our Mr. and
Miss Smyth, which occurred on February 15th, and that of Frank
Scheeffer, our former packer, which occurred on February 19th.

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Dr. Lowie’s Primitive Society is in its second edition.

Mrs. Nolan, who was at the Presbyterian Hospital recovering from
illness caused by a slight shock, is making rapid progress. We hope she
will be able to return to her work after a few days.

The Department of Ichthyology recently purchased from Dr. L.
E. Smith, a missionary sent by the Presbyterian Board of Missions to
Rio Benito, Spanish Guinea, a collection of fossil fishes, including several
species, from that locality. The collection, which has just arrived, is
the first large collection of fossil fishes from that locality which has ever
come to any museum. The only specimens hitherto recorded from this
region were a collection containing just one species, studied by the late
Dr. Charles R. Eastman, and a later collection from which Dr. W. G.
Holland, Director of the Carnegie Museum, re-figured the species.

Miss Smyth is suffering with a broken wrist.

At the February meeting of the New York Academy, Section of
Geology and Mineralogy, Dr. George I. Finley, of New York University ,
spoke on Egyptian rocks and gems in the Metropolitan Museum. He
had a very interesting series of slides and motion pictures showing the
wonderfu! carvings in the massive sandstone formations along the Nile
near Cairo. Dr. Finley spoke of the interesting fact that on the fore-
heads of some of the huge figures in the Nile carvings appear incisions
similar to those faintly showing on the forehead of the Sphinx. It was
formerly believed that the lines were caused by erosion, but in view of
the similarity of the lines in the two cases, it is now thought that they
were carved by human hands.

At the same meeting, Dr. Hovey gave an interesting talk on Hawaii
and its voleanoes, showing a fine series of slides.

Dr. George Adams, of MeGill University, lectured at Columbia
University on February 25th and 26th, on the Flowage of Rocks. Dr.
Washington, the famous petrologist, will lecture at Columbia on March
4th.

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At the February meeting of the Galton Society, Dr. Little read a
paper on *‘ The Effects of Hybridization,” and Dr. Davenport read one on
“Some Racial Traits.”’ The papers were followed by lively discussion,
as usual.

Dr. O'Connell has returned to her work in the Museum after an
absence of three weeks during which she was engaged in editorial work.

The Committee which is arranging for the Second International
Congress of Eugenics is holding weekly meetings in the Osborn Library
to plan the program of speakers and arrange for exhibitions. It is
proposed to arrange the exhibits in the Hall of Fishes.

Officials of the Biological Survey are reported to have stated that
the passage and enforcement of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, which
prevents Spring shooting and the marketing of migratory game birds, is
now producing excellent results. Reports are being received from all
parts of the country to the effect that with the protection now enjoyed
by the birds their numbers are increasing each year and they are re-
turning in Spring to numerous breeding grounds which they had deserted
for several years.

The January 7th issue of Science contamed a review by Dr. Reeds
of Theodore Arldt’s ‘‘Die Ursachen der Klimaschwankungen der Vor-
zeit, besonders der Eiszeiten”’ (‘‘Causes of Climatic Oscillations in Pre-
historic Times, Particularly in the Ice Age.’’) Dr. Reeds also had an
article (“Mounting Geological Specimens with Sulphur’’) in the No-
vember number of Museum Work.

Dr. Crampton has returned from his extended trip. Messrs.
Anthony and Cherrie are also back.

On February 16th, at 3:30, Museum employees were present at the
first public showing of the remarkable six-reel motion picture film, ‘‘The
Living World,” made by Mr. George E. Stone, the author of the film
“How Life Begins.”

The location of the earthquake recorded by our seismograph on
December 16th has been determined to have been the province of Kan-su

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and three neighboring provinces of China. According to information
received by The London Times from the China Inland Mission, the de-
struction covered an area of 40,000 square miles. The province of Kan-
su was the greatest sufferer, in some places nearly half the houses being
destroyed. Probably many thousands were killed. Landslides buried
whole villages and hundreds of persons were engulfed. Towns 150 miles
away from the centre of the earthquake were badly shaken.

The current number of World’s Work contains an article by Dr.
Spinden entitled: ‘Shall We Intervene in Cuba?” and an article on the
Water Buffalo by Mr. Akeley.

A Micmac wigwam from Nova Scotia has been erected in the Wood-
lands Indian Hall under the direction of Professor Speck, of the Depart-
ment of Anthropology of the University of Pennsylvania, who sold the
wigwam to the Museum.

Miss Bond, the new assistant in the Department of Vertebrate
Paleontology, had the misfortune to injure her arm in a fall. The
accident necessitated her absence for a number of days.

Mr. Andrews left during the last week in February for Beloit, Wis-
consin, where he will stay a short time before going to San Francisco
for his sailing on March 19th. Mr. Granger and Mr. Olsen will leave
about the middle of May, to join him in the Far East.

According to figures supplied by the United States Department of
Agriculture, there has been an alarming shrinkage in the Yellowstone
Park elk herd during the last five years. In 1914, the herd was reported
as numbering 25,000. In 1917, 17,500 were counted. Estimates for the
past year give well under 8,500. The supervisor of the Absaroka Na-
tional Forest reports that, in 1919, 3,300 head were killed in the Yellow-
stone band. These figures point toward early extermination—unless
prompt protective measures are taken.

Mr. Nichols is just back from a short trip to Florida and Nassau in
the Bahamas. At Florida he found the new aquarium at Miami of

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especial interest. He made a trip with Director Mowbray on his col-
lecting boat, the ‘ Allisoni,”’ which is especially built for this purpose, as
is the ‘‘Seahorse,”’ the collecting boat of the New York Aquarium. Both
boats are equipped with wells wherein the fishes are brought back in
good condition. The capturing of fishes for the Miami Aquarium is
done almost entirely by means of fish traps, which are placed in likely
places where the desired species have previously been seen swimming in
the clear water. This method of taking fishes is particularly adapted to
tropical waters, where the coral rock would make it very difficult to
draw a net.

At Nassau, some interesting material for the Museum’s research col-
lection was obtained in the market, and fishes were studied on the reef
from a glass-bottomed boat which regularly plies to the so-called sea-
gardens with tourists, as is also done in Bermuda and at Santa Catalina.

The tropical fishes are very much alike over a very wide stretch of
western Atlantic, but at no two places are exactly the same species com-
mon, and several unexpected ones were found at Nassau. The laws
which determine the abundance and distribution of species are at present
only seantily understood. They are doubtless in some way bound up
with ocean currents

A fairly large collection from the Samoyed of Northern European
Russia, comprising fur clothing and household implements, has been
sent by the Museum in Dresden in exchange for Alaskan Eskimo material
sent from our collections.

In return for the carved Maori house-posts which we received a
short time ago from the Dunedin Museum of New Zealand, our Depart-
ment of Anthropology has sent a fair-sized collection of Tlinkit and
Haida carved art objects. This material is of interest to the Dunedin
Museum because of its general similarity to Maori carving.

Through the courtesy of Mr. Ogden Mills, the Museum library has
recently received a very generous donation of books from the Gallatin-
Vail library.

We hope that we may some day all have the pleasure of listening
to the Attendants’ Quartette, composed of Messrs. John Finn, John
O’Neill, John Larsen and Henry Ruof.

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Miss Hazel de Berard, an artist, has been engaged to work on the
Pliocene and Pleistocene collection from Southern California, which
Mr. Frick has brought together during the last year or two, and on which
he has begun active work. Miss Berard has just returned from a year
in devastated France.

Mr. Thomson, of Vertebrate Paleontology, has been ill.

Mr. Knight’s last mural of the Neanderthal Group—the third of the
human group—has been hung in its place, where he will work on the re-
touching. He has begun work on the Rancho La Brea group. This will
oecupy the wall space in the southeast corner of the Age of Man Hall,
and will include several pictures.

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

The new large cutting machine recently installed in the bindery 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 department.

Miss Martha Miller has returned to her work after an absence occa-
sioned by 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
probably attend.

Mrs. Peters, an instructor in Entomology at the New York State
School of Agriculture at Farmingdale, Long Island, has made arrange-

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ments to bring her class of sixty wounded soldiers to the Museum to visit
the Insect Hall and attend a Museum lecture early in April.

On February 21st, the Clio Club of New York studied the exhibits
in the Darwin Hall, and the Museum’s collection of gems from South
America. Later they visited Mr. Akeley in his studio.

Dr. Lucas was kept away from the Museum for several days last
week by a heavy cold.

On February 4th, Dr. and Mrs. J. B. Angell, Mrs. E. H. Harriman,
Dr. Max Farrand and Mrs. Osborn lunched with President Osborn at the
Museum.

At a meeting of the New York Bird and Tree Club held at the Mu-
seum on February 11th, Miss Hilda Loines, of the Woman’s Horticul-
tural and Agricultural Society, spoke on ““English Gardens,”’ illustrating
her talk with slides taken by her last summer; Mrs. James Metcalfe
told of the work of the ‘‘City Garden Club;”’ and Honorable F. D.
Gallatin, Park Commissioner, reported on the Shakespeare Garden.

During the absence abroad of Curator Winslow, Dr. W. H. Park,
Director of the Laboratories of the City of New York, will give the staff
of the Museum’s Department of Public Health the benefit of his advice
and counsel.

We are sorry to note the recent death of the fathers of two of our
employvees—Mr. McGrath and Mr. Wolfe.

On February 4th, a series of fine pictures of ‘“‘The American Battle
Fields of France”’ was shown by Mr. James B. McCreary to an audience
of Museum employees.

It is reported that the elephants at a London circus were terrified
recently when they saw a mouse sitting in their hay, and ceased their
loud trumpetings only when the attendants rushed up and drove away
the pert little intruder.

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Dr. George Grant McCurdy, of Yale University, was a visitor to the
Museum on February 3rd.

On February 15th, Dr. Spinden sailed for Yucatan where he will
conduct a three months’ exploration for Harvard University.

On February 11th and 12th, Dr. Gregory gave the Darwin Lecture
at New York University, speaking on ‘‘The Evolution of the Human
Face.’ On February 12th he gave the same lecture before the Royal
Canadian Institute, in Toronto. Popular interest in this subject seems
very strong just now.

On February 21st, Mr. Sherwood spoke in Boston to 200 members of
the New England Woman’s Club of Boston, on the American Museum’s
service in the way of public education. He outlined briefly the nature
of organization and the resources of the Museum, and its relation to
the City. He spoke of the staff’s feeling of obligation to the public,
and of the aims and methods of fulfilment of this obligation. He pro-
ceeded with a detailed account of the work of the Department of Public
Education, and mentioned Museum cooperation with commercial mo-
tion picture concerns in the production of educational films. His talk
was illustrated with lantern slides. The address was given eager
attention, and without doubt will bear fruit both in the way of publicity
for the work of the Museum and of demonstrating ways in which similar
institutiors in other localities can help in educational work.

On February 15th, the Department of Entomology celebrated the
twelfth anniversary at the Museum of Dr. Lutz and Mr. Wunder.
The party was held at 4 o’clock. Those present were: Dr. Lutz, Mr.
Wunder, Mrs. Timonier, Miss Callahan, Dr. Lucas, Mr. Leng, of the
Staten Island Museum, Dr. Bequaert, Mr. Mutchler, Mr. Watson, and
Mr. Schwarz. Coffee, cake, candy and cigarettes were served by Mrs.
Timonier and Miss Callahan. The coffee, which was made by Mr.
Wunder, called forth the enthusiastic praise of Dr. Lucas and others.
The most popular cake was that baked by Dr. Lutz’s eldest daughter.
Dr. Lucas and Mr. Leng told some of their interesting stories, and
everyone had a good time. Mr. Mutchler says he has lost count of the
number of people who later registered protests because they had not
been invited.

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Mr. Kaisen is busy with the mounting of the new bird-like dinosaur .

Miss Dunst was a welcome visitor at the Museum on February 28th.

Joseph Tyson has been transferred from the Construction Depart-
ment to the Department of Geology, where he will act as a general
assistant.

According to newspaper report, a movement has been inaugurated,
with the support of fishery associations and fishery interests in all parts
of the country, to have Wednesday, March 9th, observed as a national
fish day. For three years, Canada has observed the first day of Lent in
this manner, and ‘‘the plan has proved to be a very successful means of
stimulating interest in the fishing industry and increasing home con-
sumption,’ says a bulletin of the United States Bureau of Fisheries.
The object of the movement in the United States is similar, and it is
proposed to adopt the first day of Lent for the observance, after this
vear.

President Osborn introduced an innovation at the recent Annual
Meeting of the Trustees by presenting, in place of his usual oral report,
an illustrated review, in lantern slides and motion pictures, of the last
ten years of Museum history.

Mrs. Fink’s new room, under the stairs leading to the large bone-
room in the attic, is most attractive. Charles Wh te declares that her
garden of potted plants is better than many he has seen in a number of
vears of commuting.

A Valentine whist party was held at Miss Greene’s home on Lincoln’s
Birthday as a surprise to several of her Museum friends. They were:
Miss Molloy, Miss Marks, Miss Lofberg, Miss Callahan, and Miss
Dunst, formerly connected with the Department of Geology. Miss
Greene is said to deserve compliment on her ability as hostess, poetess
and artist. The party was voted a huge success by all who were present.

Charles White declares that Ford cars are still ruuning, despite John
Seip’s “rumor.” We believe that some of them are still running.

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In a letter written from the North China Language School, of Peking,
Mr. Arthur Jacot, formerly of the Museum, writes:

‘We arrived in China after a pleasant trip and a stop of a few days at
our future station, Shantung University.”’ (Mr. Jacot is to teach biology
at this University). ‘‘This is a very fine institution rapidly being com-
pleted, and situated at the foot of the hills overlooking the hundreds of
miles of dead level plain between the capital of Shantung province and the
national capital where we now are.

‘School has just closed for the Christmas vacation, and we have some
well-earned leisure. Peking is the finest of Chinese cities. The lega-
tion quarter has asphalt streets. The main streets of the city itself are of
macadam. Peking boasts some 200 to 300 automobiles and there seems
to be no speed limit. There are no subways or trolley cars. We travel
in rickshaws—a comfortable, quiet and uncrowded way of travel. The
city is illuminated by electricity and gas. We are living in a compound
which was once part of the palace of one of the princes. With us are some
fifty other people interested in the same type of work. We eat in a com-
mon dining room. It’s not like a dormitory because each family has its
own house (of two rooms or more) and the houses are arranged into
courts of different sizes and shapes. Besides being very comfortable we
are in a fascinating environment. We walk or ride three-quarters of a
mile to school. Here not a word of English is spoken by our teachers
(Chinese). As a result we are already able to boss our servants around,
do our own shopping and bartering (an Oriental necessity), and ask
questions about interesting things we see (and there are lots of them).
Besides, we can read about 150 characters and write a few. It’s easy
when you know how. Three or four times a week a foreigner (generally
an American) lectures to us on Chinese history, religions, art, philosophy ,
etc. Thus we also know something about the Chinese. We feel like the
crop-crammed bird—and then some. The other day we saw a couple of
alr-planes going northward; later they returned and did stunts over the
city.

“What we miss most is the city’s (New York’s) din, our old friends
and relatives and a library. True, the Rockefeller Medical College has «
fine library here, including all medical papers and then some, but no
systematic papers. You can understand how lost Iam. On the side, as
a distraction, I’m doing some work on my “ bug” group.

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“Just now there is some fighting in Mongolia due to the Bolsheviks
in Siberia. I guess it won't last long, though.

“Give my regards to the people in the Museum who know me.”’

Employees have contributed most generously to the fund for our
orphans. Already enough money has been received to support for
another year two of the children adopted during the war, and with the
slight surplus already in hand and the additional amounts promised for
“after next pay-day,’’ we hope to have enough for a third child. No one
is urged to contribute, but everyone interested is urged to make his or her
payment or pledge as soon as possible. The payments may be made now,
later in one sum, or in installments over the next five or six months. The
children to be caredfor are: Eléne Van Hove, aged 9, of 15 Rue de Zuy-
decote, Roozendael, Du Nord, France; Jean Hureau, aged ten, of Ville-
trois, Indres, France; and Yovan Andritch, aged 4, of Serbia. The
last child is being cared for in one of the homes maintained by the
Serbian Relief Committee of America, through which we send our con-
tributions. We have not his exact address.

As a matter of general interest, we give below a translation of the
latest letter received from Eléne. It has been explained to Eléne many
times that her ‘‘Godmother”’ is a composite one, and might with equal
justice be called ‘Godfather,’ but she continues to write to her ‘“‘ Dear
Godmother.’

“T hasten to send you these few words to thank you for the gift
which is sent to me every quarter through your goodness, and I hope
that your health is and will remain flourishing so that you may con-
tinue the work of charity for which you have earned great respect.

‘““Dear Godmother, I would also tell you that I have been very ill
with chills and fever and have had to stay in bed a whole month and the
doctor has come every day. I assure you, Godmother, that this has
made a great hole in mamma’s purse, and also the doctor recommends
very nourishing food for me, right now when everything is so dear and it
will be very difficult to get such things.

“Dear Godmother, I close my little letter by sending the most
respectful and sincere greetings of your always devoted Godchild.”

Dr. Frederick J. V. Skiff, Director of the Field Museum, in Chicago,
since its opening in 1894, died of heart disease on February 24th at the
age of 70 years.

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Dr. Skiff was born in Chicopee, Massachusetts. He was educated
in the public schools of Springfield, Massachusetts and Brooklyn. At
first a journalist, he did newspaper work in Kansas and Chicago, and
became manager of the Chicago Tribune. Later he held several publie
offices in Colorado.

Developing an interest in exposition work, he came to have wide and
varied experience in that field. At the Chicago Exposition of 1889 and
the St. Louis Exposition of 1890, he prepared exhibits of the resources of
Colorado. He was a member of the national commission to the World
Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893, was chairman of its
commission on mines and mining, and was a member of the Colorado
State board of managers, but resigned these positions to accept the more
responsible office of chief of the department of mines and mining. He
served throughout the Exposition, being appointed director general ad
interim soon after its opening.

At the close of the Columbian Exposition, he was chosen to organize,
equip and install the Field Columbian Museum of Chicago. This insti-
tution, endowed by Marshall Field, was opened in 1894 with Dr. Skiff
as director. His experience in exposition work contained to grow. He
was in charge of the American exhibits at the Paris Exposition in 1898,
was director of exhibits at the St. Louis Exposition and a commissioner
to the Turin Exposition in 1901, was appointed United States commis-
sioner to the Japanese Exposition (which was never held) in 1908, and
was chief of exhibits at the Panama-Pacific Exposition at Seattle in 1911
and at San Francisco in 1915. For his services at the Paris Exposition
he was awarded the decoration of Commander of the Legion of Honor
of France. He held many other foreign decorations.

Handicapped by ill health during his entire connection with the
Field Museum, he was none the less the dominant power in the develop-
ment of the institution, in which his strongest interest was centered.
Dr. Skiff was not a man of science, but he was keenly in sympathy with
science, and was a great organizer and administrator. He worked
untiringly for an adequate building which was so badly needed to carry
on the work of the Museum, and happily lived to see completed and
to occupy an office in the beautiful building on the very shore of Lake
Michigan, which gives promise of developing into a fine and active
natural history center for Chicago.

Dr. Townsend visited the Museum on February 25th.

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The employee lectures are being given a warm welcome. The Febru-
ary program included a talk by Dr. Reeds on the work of his depart-
ment, a trip around the Hall of Geology, conducted by Dr. Reeds, and a
talk by Dr. Matthew on Paleontology in the Museum. These were all
very well attended, and a lively interest was shown by the employees
present.

EMPLOYEE LECTURE SCHEDULE

March 2nd—Mr. Granger: ‘Remarks on Vertebrate Paleontology
Field Work.”

March 16th—Dr. Lutz: “Entomology in the Museum.”’

March 380th—Mr. Mutchler and Mr. Wunder: A trip through
the Insect Hall.

April 6th—Mr. Miner—A trip through the invertebrate exhibition
hall.

IN THE FIELD

Dr. Crampton, just returned from his extended trip, gives us some
notes on his experiences and work accomplished in the Mariana Islands,
the Philippines, China and Siam:

“The first period of field work comprised two months that were
devoted to Guam and Saipan in the Mariana Islands. Guam, which is
well known as our Naval Station, is a composite island geologically, as
it is comprised in part of ancient sedimentary strata much metamor-
phosed, and in part of uplifted limestone reefs. It is very interesting in
connection with studies of distribution, for certain land-molluses of the
genus Partula extend to it and to its neighbors, although they are more
strictly Polynesian in their habitat. The natives, called Chamorros,
are allied to the Filipinos in part.

‘““My special work on the nature and distribution of the land-
molluses, was markedly successful, and general collections were also
obtained for the Museum. Such success was largely due to the Governor,

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Captain Ivan C. Wettengel, U.S. N., who granted many unusual favors,
which facilitated my work about the islands. The Governor made it
possible for my son and myself to proceed to Saipan on a naval vessel,
the island in question being a more northerly member of the Mariana
group, now in the possession of Japan. Here, also, the collections were
unusually rich in several groups, and especially in insects.

“We left Guam for Manila on August 26th, and had been on shore
for only a few hours when a terrific typhoon struck that part of Luzon.
It was the worst storm for 15 years. It was extremely profitable to go
about the island and to note the contrasts with the regions in the South
Pacific Ocean with which my earlier work was concerned. In a word, the
flora and fauna of the Philippine Islands are more ‘continental’ than
‘insular,’ especially in the rich variety of species.

“The officers of the Bureau of Science were most helpful in giving
information, and through the Acting Director, Dr. McGregor, a fine series
of photographs was secured for our institution. The work in parasitology
is carried on by a former graduate student at Columbia University,
Dr. F. G. Haughwout, who expended considerable time and energy on
our behalf.

“T visited the College of Agriculture at Los Banos for the main pur-
pose of meeting the Dean, Dr. F. C. Baker, whose collection of insects
and of many other groups are marvellously complete. Dean Baker most
generously offered us a full series of reptiles and amphibia, and a large
series of named insects,—all of which, needless to say, will be of the
greatest value to the American Museum.

“Governor Harrison was much interested in our work, and when I
expressed a desire to see the pygmy natives he kindly arranged to put a
Coast Guard steamer at our disposal for a trip across the Bay to the
region of the Marivales Mountains. We landed early one morning,
and started out on horseback for the Negrito territory. After some miles,
however, one of the vicious little ponies ahead launched a vigorous kick
at my mount, but the blow missed the horse only to fall on my leg, which,
naturally, was cut to the bone. I was forced to return so as to have the
wound dressed as soon as possible, and no subsequent opportunity
presented itself for a visit to the interesting little people.

‘About the middle of September we sailed for Hongkong on the
‘Empress of Asia,’ and almost at once proceeded up the river to Canton
for a week’s stay at the Canton Christian College. Here I delivered a

series of lectures on evolution, and also spoke, with lantern slides, on
Polynesia and its peoples. The Executive Secretary, Dr. James M.
Henry, as well as the other members of the College, did everything to
make the time profitable, as well as enjoyable. I trust that close rela-
tions may be maintained between that institution and ours, for I am
sure mutual benefits will be gained thereby. The zoologist, Professor
Howard, is developing a campaign of systematic collecting in the Canton
region, which is certain to be exceptionally successful.

“Late in September, my son and I took the steamer from Hong-
kong to Bangkok, where we arrived on October 7. A few days were
spent in making preparations, and then we proceeded to our long-
determined goal, the city of Chiengmai, 500 miles north of Bangkok.
This city is beautifully situated on a plain of rice fields, surrounded on
almost all sides by mountains of considerable height. The American
Minister, Hon. George W. D. Hunt, came up at the same time, as well
as Dr. Rock, of Honolulu and Washington, and for a week we were the
guests of His Serene Highness, Prince Bovarade], the Viceroy of North-
ern Siam. Numerous favors were shown us, and we were privileged to
learn a great deal of the Lao people of this region, and of their highly
developed culture. |

“Nearly a week was spent in the forests high up on the mountain
of Doi Sutep. near Chiengmai, at an elevation of 2,700 feet above sea
level. The American Presbyterian Mission is splendidly represented at
Chiengmai, and the representatives did everything to make our work
successful. The mission has Rest Houses at different places on Doi
Sutep, and these were placed at our entire disposal. The success of our
collecting was mainly due to the aid thus rendered, and full acknowledg-
ment must be made to Messrs. McKean, Campbell, Cort, Gillies,
Reichel, and to Dr. Bauer of the Rockefeller Commission here at work.

“Several of the mission staff are interested to the extent of making
collections in the future for transmission to our institution. Incidentally,
I may say that Lieut-Gen. E. W. Trotter has given me a series of snakes
for the Museum collections.

‘“On November 8th, we started by rail for Singapore, taking several
days for the trip down the Malay Peninsula, for collecting around
Penang and Kuala Lumpur and for making ecological observations. On
November 19th we sailed from Singapore for Java.”

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We quote from the latest letter received from Mr. Anthony. It was
written to a member of his department, under date of January 23rd.

“This week we leave Portovelo for the last time and come on out to
Guayegquil. We shall probably start north for the States early in Febru-
ary and ought to arrive there early in March. We have two or three
thirgs to attend to out near the coast and a trip to make to Quito before
we are finished, but that should not require more than two weeks.

“Our last trip was north of here into high country, above forest;
it was quite cold at times. It took us six days to go and five to return,
riding from early in the morning until late in the afternoon of each day,
and we crossed a great deal of country in that time. We happened to
start out just as the spring rains set in, and our trip was anything but
pleasant the first few days. We got some good material and now have
nearly 3,000 specimens of birds and mammals, about 20 cases of differ-
ent sizes. It has been some task to get all of this packed up, but we
finished the last of it today.”

GRIN AND BEAR IT

First Employee, excitedly: ‘‘Think of it, folks! A restaurant where
vou can get the most wonderful lunch—delicious soup, a fine meat
course with potatoes and two vegetables, salad, coffee, the kind of des-
sert that’s so good you feel you shouldn’t be eating it—all for $.40!”

Chorus of Assembled Employees: ‘“‘Where? Where is this place?”’

First Employee: ‘Oh, I don’t know where there is such a place
But just think of it!”

Visitor to the Museum: ‘They call this a museem of nacheral
histry, but I declare I ain’t never seen such onnacheral critters as they
have here!”’

First Youth: ‘‘Say, how d’yuh teach a girl to swim?”

Second Youth: ‘“‘Why, you pick out a nice quiet spot, where it’s
not too deep, and there’s no waves, and you talk soothing to the pretty
creature till she’s got enough confidence in you to lay on the water ‘n
then you tell ‘er not to be afraid, but to shoot out her arms and legs

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like a frog, and you keep tight hold of her waist and hold up her head—
whatever you do, don’t let her head get under water or she'll be so
scared she'll never get over it. You know how scarey girls are. You
gotta coax ‘em along. So be sure you don’t let her head go under.—
’ Who’s the girl?”’

First Youth: ‘‘ Your sister.”

Second Youth: ‘“ My sister! Oh, well, push her in!”’

Where’s that weather prophet who told us last December that the
winter was over? We'd like to pension him off.

The most difficult ups and downs in life are keeping expenses down
and appearances up.

We used to get half fare on the railway. Now we get it in the
restaurants.

And speaking of railways—the trains which were held up by the
recent snowfall are running again. But it’s alright. The commuters
are catching them.

A lawyer and a minister were arguing about the hereafter. The
minister glowingly described the glories of future life, setting forth
copious and enthusiastic arguments to support his theory. But the
lawyer said, when he had finished: “Say what you will, [believe that
death ends all.”’

“Tf death ended all,” retorted the minister, “‘most of you lawyers
would be starving.”

Mr. Buckley says that the life of an elevator operator is not a bed of
roses. No sooner does he get a car-load of passengers up to the top
floor than some ornery critter on the ground floor gives him a call down.

Mother: “Don’t you go out to that dance without your rubbers,
William! The pavements are all wet and slushy.”

William: ‘“That’s alright, Mother. My feet can’t get wet. I’ve
got on my pumps.”

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“What did the efficiency expert have to say?”

“He can’t understand it.”’

“Understand what?”

“How we make a success of this place. He says his investigations
prove that with our methods we should have failed ten vears ago.”

Barber: ‘Do you want a hair cut, sir?”’

Customer: ‘‘No. I want them all cut.”

Barber: ‘‘ Any particular way, sir?”’

Customer: “Yes. Off.”

A humorously inclined young man was being shown around an en-
gineering works. :

“That’s an engine-boiler,’’ explained the old foreman, pointing to a
large steel cylinder.

‘An engine-boiler! What do they boil engines for?”’ asked the young
man. ;

“To make the engine tender.”’

DEFINITION
Wiseacre: a field of learning.
And now comes the Income Tax, again. Just as we begin to think it’s
possible to make both ends meet, somebody comes along and moves the

ends.

First Visitor (before the Sulphurbottom Whale): ‘I wonder if
that’s the whale that swallowed Jonah.”
Second Visitor (blankly): “I dunno. I never bin here before.”

We have been asked to print the following poem and to recommend it
especially to the attention of the Department of Ichthyology:

It was midnight on the ocean.

Not a street car was in sight;

The sun was shining brightly,

And it rained all day that night.

It was a summer day in winter,

The rain was snowing fast.

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A barefoot girl with shoes on

Stood sitting on the grass.

It was evening, and the rising sun
Was setting in the west.

The little fishes in the trees

Were cuddled in their nest.

The rain was pouring down,

The moon was shining bright,

And everything that you could see
Was hidden out of sight.

While the organ peeled potatoes,
Lard was rendered by the choir;
While the sexton rang the dishcloth,
Someone set the church on fire.
“Holy Smoke,” the preacher shouted.
In the rain he lost his hair;

Now his head resembles Heaven,
For there is no parting there.

The following verse recently appeared in the American Legion
Weekly. Under its new title it has been submitted to the Museologist.
Lines to Dr. Gregory
Where can a man buy a cap for his knee,
Or a kev for a lock of his hair?
Or can his eves be an academy
Because there are pupils there?
In the crown of his head what genis are found?
Who travels the bridge of his nose?
Does the calf of his leg become hungry at times
And devour the corn on his toes?
Can the crook of his elbow be sent to jail?
Where’s the shade from the palm of his hand?
How does he sharpen his shoulder blades?
I’m hanged if I understand.

March 4th was observed all over the country by the closing of
public institutions and special celebrations. An elaborate ceremony

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was conducted at the national capital. The day was the birthday of
one of our employees, Martin Donnelly.

Teacher: “What anniversary do we celebrate on February 22d?”
Pupil: ‘‘The anniversary of the day when George Washington didn’t
tell a lie.”’

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THE MUSEOLOGIST

This little magazine is devoted to the internal affairs of the Museum. It
exists for the sake of all the Museum workers, and offers itself as a ready
- medium through which they-may come into closer touch with each other and
with the Corporation.

It is issued by the Publicity Committee.

Volume 2 April, 1921 Number 4

JOHN BURROUGHS
(1837 -1921)

Nature and her lovers have lost a friend—one who saw
miracles where other men saw commonplaces, and who wrote
of what he saw in prose and verse like the effortless flow of
casual but significant conversation. He was the rough and
ready outdoor comrade of Muir and Roosevelt, the devoted
friend and admirer of Walt Whitman, and the enthusiastic
student of Bergson, Huxley, Emerson, Fabre, Carlyle, Goethe.
One might speak at length of the quiet life and work of John
Burroughs. But he speaks best for himself, in a voice that
will always be vibrant and young:

“Your real lover of nature does not love merely the beauti-
ful things which he culls here and there; he loves the earth
itself, the faces of the hills and mountains, the rocks, the
streams, the naked trees no less than the leafy trees, a plowed
field no less than a green meadow. He does not know what
it is that draws him. It is not beauty, any more than it is
beauty in his father and mother that makes him love them.
It is ‘something far more deeply interfused,—something
native and kindred that calls to him. In certain moods how
good the earth, the soil, seems! One wants to feel it with his

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hands and smell it—almost taste it. Indeed, I never see a
horse eat soil and sods without a feeling that I would like to
taste it too. The rind of the earth, of this ‘round and deli-
cious globe’ which has hung so long upon the great Newtonian
tree, ripening in the sun, must be sweet.

* * ** * *

‘Nature is not to be praised or patronized. You cannot
go to her and describe her; she must speak through your
heart. The woods and fields must melt into your mind, dis-
solved by your love for them. Did they not melt into Words-
worth’s mind? They colored all his thoughts; the solitude
of those green, rocky Westmoreland fells broods over every
page. He does not tell us how beautiful he finds Nature, and
how much he enjoys her; he makes us share his enjoyment.
.... Observation is selective and detective. Areal observation
begets warmth and joy in the mind. To see things in detail
as they lie about you and enumerate them is not observation;
but to see the significant things, to seize the quick movement
and gesture, to disentangle the threads of relation, to know
the nerves that thrill from the cords that bind, or the typical
and vital from the commonplace and mechanical—that is to
be an observer.”

Riverby (Lovers of Nature)

“Success in observing nature, as in so many other things,
depends upon alertness of mind and quickness to take a hint.
One’s perceptive faculties must be like a trap lightly and
delicately set; a touch must suffice to spring it. But how
many people have I walked with, whose perceptions were
rusty and unpractised—nothing less than a bear would spring
their trap! All the finer play of nature, all the small deer, they
miss. The little dramas and tragedies that are being enacted

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by the wild creatures in the fields and woods are more or less
veiled and withdrawn; and the actors all stop when a specta-
tor appears upon the scene. One must be able to interpret the
signs, to penetrate the scenes, to put this and that together.”’

Riverby (Eye-Beams).

“The literary treatment of scientific matter is naturally
of much more interest to the general reader than to the man of
science. By literary treatment I do not mean taking liberties
with facts, but treating them so as to give the reader a lively
and imaginative realization of them—a sense of their esthetic
and intellectual values. The creative mind can quicken a
dead fact and make it mean something in the emotional
sphere.”

Under the Apple Trees (Literature and Science).

“The longer I live the more my mind dwells upon the
beauty and the wonder of the world. . . . My life has always
been more or less detached from the life about me. I have
not been a hermit, but my temperament and love of solitude,
and a certain constitutional shrinking from all kinds of strife
have kept me in the bypaths rather than on the great high-
ways of life. My talent, such as it is, is distinctly a by-path
talent, or at most, a talent for green lanes and sequestered
roadsides. . . . I have loved the feel of the grass under my
feet, and the sound of the running streams by my side. The
hum of the wind in the treetops has always been good music
to me, and the face of the fields has often comforted me more
than the faces of men.

“T am in love with the world, by my constitution. I have
nestled lovingly in it. It has been home. It has been my
point of outlook into the universe. I have not bruised myself
against it, nor tried to use it ignobly. I have tilled its soil, I

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have gathered its harvests, I have waited upon its seasons,
and always have I reaped what I have sown. While I delved
I did not lose sight of the sky overhead. While I gathered its
bread and meat for my body, I did not neglect to gather its
bread and meat for my soul. I have climbed its mountains,
roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed its deserts, felt
the sting of its frosts, the oppression of its heats, the drench
of its rains, the fury of its winds, and always have beauty
and joy waited upon my goings and comings. . . .

“Tam a creature of the day; I belong to the open, cheer-
ful, optimistic day. .

“In every man’s life we may read some lesson. What
may be readin mine? If I myself see correctly, it is this:
that one may have a happy and not altogether useless
life on cheap and easy terms; that the essential things are
always near at hand; that one’s own door opens upon the
wealth of heaven and earth; and that all things are ready to
serve and cheer one. Life is a struggle, but not a warfare,
it is a day’s labor, but labor on God’s earth, under the sun and
stars with other laborers, where we may think and sing and
rejoice as we work.”

The Summit of the Years.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without
learning is perilous.
CONFUCIUS.

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THE NEWS |

We are very glad to announce that Mr. Herbert F. Schwarz has been i
appointed Editor of Natural History. Mr. Schwarz, who has been con- |
nected with our Department of Entomology for some time and who be-
came a Research Associate in Hymenoptera the first of this year, is a
Harvard graduate. In his University course he specialized in English )
literature. He was for a long time engaged with the firm of G. P. i
Putnam’s Sons as reader of manuscripts and editor of their Book News, iq
but resigned at the outbreak of the war in order to enter the service of
the United States.

Natural History is unique among publications. Through Miss
Dickerson’s fine ability and tireless effort, it has atta‘ned a very high
standard. The Museum is proud of Natural History and will be happy
to cooperate toward its continued effectiveness. For Museum people
we cordially welcome the new Editor, and wish him every success.

On March 23rd, the ‘‘Thirty-third Voyage of the Half-Moon”’ was
held at the University Club. President Osborn was the ‘Master
Mariner,’ Mr. Madison Grant was the “ Pilot,’ and Dr. Gregory was on
board asa guest. Mr. Grant gave an illustrated talk: ‘‘ From the Home
Port of Asia,’ describing the successive invasions of Europe by Asiatic
tribes and the bearing of these remote movements on the make-up of the
present population of various parts of Europe and on our own immigra-
tion problem.

Mr. Gerrit 8. Miller and Mr. William Palmer, of the United States
National Museum, were recent visitors to the Museum. The object of
their visit was to compare certain cetacean material. Unfortunately,
Mr. Palmer suffered a cerebral hemorrhage with partial paralysis of
the left side, while visiting the Explorers’ Club. He was removed to
Bellevue Hospital, where he is still seriously ill.

Mr. Miller has learned that the entire Australian fauna is being re-
duced at a remarkably rapid state. One reason for this is the custom of
thoroughly burning over large areas of ground in order to improve its
value as grazing land; another is the distribution of poison to kill the
foxes, which were introduced to kill the rabbits. This poison is now kill-

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ing off native animals in large numbers. Moreover, Australian furs have
become the vogue, and a great drive has been made after them. Dr.
Lucas notes that at one St. Louis sale there were 533,000 Australian
opossums and 204,000 ring-tails disposed of. All accounts indicate that
this fauna is disappearing as rapidly as did the buffalo in the last century.
The Museum will make great efforts to secure specimens while they are
still available.

Preparations for the Second Eugenics Congress are proceeding satis-
factorily. Among other exhibits planned for the Congress will be one
illustrating the chief European races which have contributed to the
population of America.

At the latest meeting of the American Association for the Advance-
ment of Science, Dr. Miner was elected a Fellow.

Dr. Lucas states that every Curator has complained that he has not
sufficient room for his study series, and each Curator feels sure that his
department is the one most in need of space.

Mr. Anthony brought back with him about 1,560 specimens, most of
them rodents. Among the larger mammals represented are monkeys,
peccaries and a spectacled bear and puma. The most important of the
mammals from the point of view of interest to science are the primitive
marsupial, Canolestes; the fish-eating rat, which lives along rivers and
feeds on small fishes and other aquatic forms of life; and a very large
relative of the Guinea Pig or Cavy. The Giant Cavy, of which Mr.
Anthony brought back a skin and skeleton, is known only from one or
two specimens, and we have very little information as to its habits or
distribution. Our newly acquired skull is, so far as known, the only
such skull in North America. Previously, this Museum had only a few
skin fragments to represent the species.

- Mr. Cherrie brought a little better than 2,200 birds, including very
many species which range in size from the humming-bird to the eagle.
Probably one of the most important groups in this collection is one of
bright humming-birds. In addition, there are parroquets, doves,
trogons, toucans and others.

DET ee Rage: Nise Nine

A great number of interesting pictures of the country and natives
was obtained on the expedition. Slides are being made for lecture
purposes. The feature of the expedition which has made the greatest
popular appeal was the visit to the country of the Jivaros or head-hunters.

Mr. Olsen will not sail with Mr. Granger on May 28th, but will fol-
low at a later date.

At the meeting of the New York Academy, Section of Mineralogy,
held on March 21st, Dr. Whitlock gave a very ied talk on the history
and development af the science of measuring crystals and the instru-
ments used. He pointed out the superiority of the method of measur-
ing by projection, as compared with earlier methods. His talk was
illustrated with some very interesting working diagrams.

On March 14th, Dr. Hovey lectured in Dobbs Ferry .on “The
Hawaiian Islands and Their Volcanoes.”

Mr. Crocco has appeared in a new r6le—that of artist. After waiting
for some time for a bid for re-painting our flag-poles at a less cost than
the cost of replacing them with brand new poles, the Museum authorities
found out that Mr. Crocco, in addition to his other accomplishments,
is an expert steeple-jack. Man oedinite: he was supplied with a paint-
pail and brush, and our flag-poles are again white.

The Department of Geology has purchased from Ward’s and placed
on exhibition in the Arthropod Alcove a small collection of trilobites
with spines.

On March 26th, the New York Bird and Tree C ub held its Annual
Meeting in the Museum. The meeting was followed by a talk on
“Where the Wild Flowers Grow and Why” given by Dr. Edgar T.
Wherry and illustrated with colored lantern slides.

One of the first results of Dr. Matthew’s trip abroad is the receipt
from Mr. C. Forster Cooper, of the Zoological Museum of Cambridge
University, of a beautiful skull of fossil English Ox and one of the fossil
European isda: Both of these specimens, but especially that of the Ox,

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were much desired here. This Museum will send in return a cast of the
skeleton of Eryops, and other material.

Dr. Murphy has been filling a long series of lecture engagements in
various cities. On March 12th, he addressed an audience of 3,600 in
Boston. On March 19th, he spoke in Chicago, and on March 26th lec-
tured again in Boston. His talks have been chiefly on the Peruvian
guano industry and bird conservation in South America. Since last
April, Dr. Murphy has been publishing in the Brooklyn Museum
Quarterly on “The Sea Coast and Islands of Peru.’’ Four parts of the
account have already appeared, and the fifth part is in press.

Mr. Olsen has practically finished work on the remarkable slab con-
taining the remains of about twenty specimens of the two-horned
rhinoceros Diceratherium. The slab will be placed on exhibition im-
mediately.

We are still able (but not glad) to report that no repairs have been
made on the southeast tower, which was struck by lightning four years
ago. The wooden scaffolding, however, which was erected shortly after
the accident, is still very much in evidence.

A very fine cast of the Alligator Snapper, the largest and fiercest of
the fresh water turtles, has been added to the exhibits of the Depart-
ment of Herpetology. Two large and striking Iguanas have also been
displayed in the hall.

Preparations are being made to turn the room which Dr. Whitlock
is at present using as a laboratory intoa Document Room. Dr. Whitlock
will then take Mr. Nelson’s present room for his laboratory, and Mr.
Nelson will occupy the room formerly used by Dr. Spinden.

In a Savage Arms advertisement in the National Geographic, we note
a photograph of Roy Chapman Andrews and “ Kublai Khan,” together
with a testimonial letter, from R. C. A., in praise of Savage arms and
ammunition.

Master Bobbie Beeth, son of Michael Beeth, was a visitor to the
Museum in March.

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Mr. Brower Palmer has returned to work after an absence occa-
sioned by 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.

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On March 25th, Professor Donald Taft, of Wells College, brought a
class in anthropology to the Museum. He and the class were taken
through the building by Dr. Lowie.

The Mineral Hall is to be re-arranged. It is to have a groined arch
ceiling effect, and the large material is to be reinstalled in wall cases
along the south side of the hall, leaving the centre free for the enlarged
and re-arranged gem collection. The present Gem Hall will be used by
the Depar‘ment of Vertebrate Paleontology for the exhibition of horse
material, both present-day and fossil. The new arrangement of the
Mineral Hall will afford a better lighted gem display. The architects
have completed the specifications for the changes, and it is hoped that
the contracts will be let at an early date.

President Osborn and Mr. Pindar spent March 31st in Albany, at
the meeting of the New York State Roosevelt. Memorial Commission,
which was held at the Capitol. The Commission, of which President
Osborn is Chairman and Mr. Pindar is Secretary, discussed the proposals
which they have received, giving careful attention to the recommen-
dation that the memorial consist of a building for this Museum, to be
known as the Roosevelt Memorial Hall. Further report of the work of
the Commission will be made later.

The New York Times Midweek Pictorial, in its number of March 31st,
gave a fine double-page display of reproductions of some of Mr. Taylor’s
paintings of North Pacific Coast Indian ceremonies and industries. The
paintings will also be reproduced in The London News and L’ Illustration
of Paris. These papers have also published reproductions of some of Mr.
Knight’s murals.

Henry Hagedorn has been given a six-months’ leave of absence on
account of illness.

Dr. Lowie is giving a course in the Extension Department at Colum-
bia University on the culture of the Plains Indians. Dr. Whitlock will
give a summer course at Columbia on gems and precious stones, the
object of his course being to create an intelligent and discriminating
interest in gems and decorative material and to lay the foundation for a

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better appreciation of the splendid collections of this kind in the City of
New York. The collections of the American Museum and of Columbia
University will be used as illustrative material.

Mr. Operti is busy painting copies of European palolithic cave art,
which are to go on the walls of the Archeological Hall. It is hoped that
this hall will be in presentable shape within the course of a year.

Mrs. Sterling has been dispensing wild honey, in delicious gobs, to
all visitors to her room who are willing to wash their own spoons.

Mrs. Sterling has been receiving many callers lately.

After his recent sudden attack of appendicitis, Mr. Nichols was
taken to Nassau Hospital, in Mineola, and was operated on. He is
convalescing and has returned home. He will probably be back at the
Museum within a few days.

Professor V. Barathos, of Budapest, a specialist in the Finnish and
other languages of Siberia, called at the Museum last month and exam-
ined some of the Jesup Expedition rep rts. Professor Joseph Pijoan,
now of Toronto University, and formerly of Barcelona, was a March
visitor.

It was necessary for Mr. Sweetser to be absent for a few days during
March, due to illness.

Two good books on minerals have late’y been published. One is a
text-book by Drs. Edward H. Kraus and Walter P. Hunt, of the Uni-
versity of Michigan. The other is a guide to the mineral collections of
the Illinois State Museum, by Dr. A. R. Crook. Like Dr. Gratacap’s
Popular Guide to Minerals, this book is designed to serve as a text-book.

The Fish Bibliography is nearing its completion; at least one-fourth
of the index is in type, and 338 pages of various addenda to
Volume 3 have been prepared.

Dr. Dean is getting out a Bibliography of Arms and Armor for the
Metropolitan Museum. The work, which is fairly well advanced, will

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be as comprehensive as the Fish Bibliography. Those who are working
on the Armor Bibliography have profited much by the experience of the
workers on the Fish Bibliography.

Mr. James C. Bell, of our Department of Preparation, has been
seriously ill with pneumonia.

Dr. Wissler paid his two-days’ visit to the Museum in March.

Miss Inez Lofberg was absent from the Museum most of March 24th.
She had important business to attend to at the dock of the Scandinavian-
American Line. .

Mrs. Bardwell has been transferred to the Department of Ornithol-
ogy, where she will relieve Mrs. Fraser of some of her duties. The
growth and development of the department have greatly increased the
volume of secretarial work there.

During April, the Architectural League will hold an exhibition in the
new wing of the Metropolitan Museum. Mr. Taylor will be represented
by a section of his mural for the south end of the North
Pacific Coast Hall; Mr. Knight will have the sketches for four murals
for the Age of Man Hall on view; and Mrs. Sterling will also have work
there.

On April 11th, the Allied Artists of America will hold an exhibition , ‘

at which Mrs. Sterling will show two busts and a figure and a series of
silhouettes of Dr. Matthew’s three older children.

Since Bill Buckley has taken to attending Dr. Copeland’s “Own
Your Own Home League” meetings, he has been kept busy explaining
to the near-millionaires of the Attendants’ Force and other departments
of the Museum all the pros and cons of Dr. Copeland’s arguments.

Dr. Goddard, with his two sons, motored up to his farm in Dart-
mouth and spent several days there during March.

It has been commented that the serious illness of Mr. Nichols proves
the inadvisability of having one’s appendix in the wrong place.

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During March, two Taos Indians from New Mexico came to the
Museum and sang native songs into a phonograph, in the presence of an
interested company of Museum people and visitors. Later, the Indians
danced and sang before the tepee in the Plains Indians Hall.

Contributors to our orphans’ fund have been very generous. We
now have enough money to support two of our children for another year.
But we lack $50.00 of being able to care for the third child. There is still
some time left to us, however, before the present subscriptions expire,
and it is hoped that the required sum will be obtained.

Any of us whose sympathies need quickening would benefit from a
walk past St. Mark’s-in-the-Bouwerie next Sunday evening at about
7 o'clock. At that time, bread-line activities will be in full swing—some
500 wretched men in rags, lined up along the stone wall, their backs
turned to the street, will be devouring the bread and gulping the coffee
distributed from the church. It is not a comfortable sight. But it is a
perhaps needed reminder of some of the things we are too apt to forget.

On April Ist, Mr. Sherwood addressed the Buffalo Society of Natural
Sciences and the Hayes School of Natural Science, in Buffalo, on “The
Wonderful Work of Water.”’ Dr. Fisher, Dr. EPS and Mr. Andrews
have also lectured to this audience.

It is reported that geologists working in Nagy-Szent-Miklos,
in Hungary, have found in the River Arauka a huge stone coffin believed
to contain the remains of Attila. Near the site have been discovered
beautiful gold vessels belonging to the period of Attila, and thought to
be part of the treasure buried with him. These are now being exhibited
in Vienna. The story goes that Attila’s body, encased in three coffins,
of gold, silver and iron, respectively, was buried in a river turned from
its course for the purpose; that priceless riches were buried with him,
the grave closed, the river returned to its bed, and the slaves who had
performed the work killed so that they might not betray the secret of his
grave. The coffin which has just been found is so large that it is thought
to contain several others, perhaps the iron, the silver and the gold
coffins which held the remains of Attila the Terrible.

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Mr. Hyde's work with his Boy Scouts is developing daily. A calendar
of Scout lectures has now been arranged, and the first lecture was de-
livered to an enthusiastic audience. The schedule is as follows:

March 19—‘ ‘Wild Animals Near Home,” by Dr. Fisher.

April 2—“‘ Water in the Atmosphere,” by Dr. Whitlock.

April 16—‘ Birds,” by Mr. Chapin.

April 30—“‘Scouting for Insects,”’ by Dr. Lutz.

May 14—‘“‘Geology in and about New York,” by Dr. Reeds.

Dr. A. V. Kidder examined some of our collections in March, with
Mr. Nelson.

A London paper tells us that “‘Jellicoe,”’ the famous sea-lion of the
Royal Victory Circus, which has been touring England, recently drove a
motor-cycle and side-car through the streets of Birmingham. He was
preceded by an automobile, in which his circus trainer rode, holding a
white handkerchief for him to keep his eyes fixed upon. ‘“‘Jellicoe”’
delighted the crowds watching him by sounding his horn furiously when
anyone crossed his path.

Mrs. E. H. Danforth, of Cranford, New Jersey, has presented the
Museum with some interesting beaded specimens from the Plains
Indians and four Navajo blankets, one of which is a very excellent
“Chief.”’

If things go on as they are at present, THE Musronoaist will have
to issue a Motor News Supplement. The usual Spring automobile
epidemic is active. Even the Museum’s delivery department has been
affected to the point of purchasing a new Dodge car. Chris Schroth has
the fever, too, and is learning to drive the old Ford delivery machine.
He is learning the business from the ground up. He started by cleaning
the car, and undertaking a thorough overhauling, including painting.
In this work he has had the advice and assistance of the entire Museum
basement population.

Dr. Goddard has sold his Cadillac and bought a “ Lizzie.”

Dr. Tower has cast aside ‘‘ Algy,’’ in spite of his faithful service, and
has bought a Reo.

Mr. Banks bought “‘ Algy.”

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Mr. Hoover has been Spring house-cleaning on his machine.

Eddie Wilde is now. the owner of a Franklin four.

Dr. Lutz is making the acquaintance of the Ford machine recently
purchased by his department for use on field trips.

Andy Johnstone spent two weeks in giving his motor-cycle a thorough
manicuring. After that he spent two more days trying to get it to go.
At the end of that time, some one suggested that he try some gasoline on
her. Andy gave her enough gas to reach the carburetor, and she’s been
going ever since.

People are beginning to inquire: ““How do they get those cars? I’d
like one myself.”’

EMPLOYEE LECTURE SCHEDULE

April 138th—Mr. Miner: “‘Some Phases of Evolution as Shown in
the Darwin Hall.”

April 27th—Mr. Miner: A trip through the Darwin Hall.

May 11th—Dr. Lucas: ‘‘Museum Methods Past and Present.”’

May 18th—Mr. Coleman: A trip through the Department of
Preparation.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

‘““How do the Browns like their new flat?”

“Oh, they have no room for complaint.”

A Southern statesman, touring the country during the recent presi-
dential campaign, was the chief speaker at a political mass meeting held
in a middle-western city. As a courtesy to the Southerner, the local
band played ‘‘My Old Kentucky Home,’ with much feeling. The
Southerner was touched by the performance. Seeing that the gentle-
man beside him was also apparently greatly moved, he asked:

‘Are you a Southerner, too?”’

“No,” replied the man. “I’m a musician.”

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The origin of the bagpipe was being discussed. This was Pat’s
theory: that the Irish invented the bagpipe and sold it to the Scots for a
joke, and the Scots have never seen the joke.

One of our attendants asked another: ‘‘Have you seen Tobin?”

“T haven’t laid eyes on him this mornin’ at all, at all,’ was the
answer.

‘‘Are you sure?”

‘Sure I’m sure.”’

The first man started off, but on second thought returned.

“You know Tobin, don’t you?”

“That I do not.”

“T give you my word, Madam,” declared the seedy-looking man to
the kind-looking lady, ‘‘there was a time when I rode in my own car-
riage.”

“How terrible that you should be reduced to such circumstances!”’
exclaimed the lady as she placed a bill in his outstretched hand.

“Yes, Madam,” replied the man, raising his hat and turning away.
“That was forty years ago. I was a baby, then.”

Friend: ‘Don’t you find writing a thankless task?”

Poet: ‘‘On the contrary, everything I write is returned to me with
thanks.”

In the unrevised version of an Indian translation of the Bible, Dr.
Goddard tells us, the passage from Exodus, reading, in English: “ And
Israel died and they embalmed him after the manner of the Egyptians,”’
was rendered: “And Israel died and they cut him up and hung him on a
pole in strips to dry.”

The boy in the end seat, last row, of the class in food chemistry was
wrapped in reverie.

“Willie,” called the irritated teacher, suddenly, ‘“‘name three articles
that contain starch.”

Willie, thus rudely startled, gasped, gulped, and replied: ‘Two
cuffs and a collar.”

L. M. wants to know if R. W. T. has definitely decided to keep really
valuable books in his waste-basket.

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“*Rastus, however do you manage to accomplish so much in such
a short time?”’

“Well, suh,” explained ‘Rastus,’ “I jes combines enthoosiasm with
energy, an’ it produces dat result.”’

John Seip tells us that ‘‘ You may kid gloves, you may string beads,
but elevator men never—not even our Henry.”

“MacDougal’s death must be a great blow to you, Sandy. I under-
stand he was a dear friend of yours.”

“Ave, that he was. He’s cost me three waddin’ presents already,
and now he'll be costin’ a wreath.”

The Singular Geography of Long Island

Problem :—Given a point near center of Long Island in sand-hills
north of Jamaica; time, near midnight; object, to catch frogs by moon-
light; transportation, round-trip ticket ($1.08) to Queens.

Why should one (or two), after pursuing an alleged southwesterly
course, arrive toward morning on the shores of Long Island Sound?

(Answer, in next issue, by Messrs. Noble and Henn).

“You can purchase an entire outfit here for a mere song,”’ states the
advertisement of a well-known clothing establishment.”’

They must be thinking of Caruso.

And speaking of Caruso, diners in the Mitla on Saturday, March
19th, were favored with an impromptu song-recital. The program was
enjoyed by all, and the soloist was as generous with his encores as our
own John McCormack.

After he had distributed a certain set of invitations addressed to
members of the staff, it occurred to Mr. Marthens that while ladies
would be welcomed at the lecture for which the invitations were sent,
no mention of this had been made on the tickets. He therefore tele-
phoned the various departments to say that the invitations were meant
to include ladies. In due time he came, on his list, to the Department of
Mammals, and proceeding to ring up Mr. Lang’s office he delivered him-
self as follows:

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““T want to make it quite clear to every one in your office that those
invitations to the staff are meant to include wives, also.”’

Many people may think the joke is on Mr. Marthens.

Some may think it is not altogether on Mr. Marthens.

Mr. Andrews has been keeping something from us. We see by the
papers that one of his objects on the Third Asiatic Zoological Expedition
is to get a photograph of the Garden of Eden, and, if possible, a snap-
shot of Adam.

“What kind of husband would you advise me to pick out?”

“Tf you take my advice you'll leave husbands alone and pick out a
single man.”

It has been suggested that the Museum open a new exhibition hall
to be known as the Hall of Living and Lively Giants. As prize installa-
tions for such a hall we have Messrs. Donnelly, Huffe, Hughes, Quinn :
and Talbot. |

A boy who aspired to be a weather prophet bought a barometer and
proudly took it home.

“What is that?’’ asked his mother.

“Tt’s a barometer I just bought. It tells you when it’s going to rain.’

‘“Why did you waste money on that thing,”’ cried his mother, ‘‘ when
Providence has provided your father with rheumatics?”’

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Nearly every one who has ever cut up a crab and a frog and a rabbit
in an elementary zoology course knows or once knew the following poem.
But those who have not run across it before may be glad to read it here.
And those to whom it is already familar will greet it as an old friend.

Evolution
When you were a tadpole and I was a fish,
In the Paleozoic time, q
And side by side on the ebbing tide P
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We sprawled through the ooze and slime, :

Or skittered with many a caudal flip
Through the depths of the Cambrian fen,
My heart was rife with the joy of life,

For I loved you even then.

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Mindless we lived and mindless we loved,

And mindless at last we died;

And deep in a rift of the Caradoe drift

We slumbered side by side.

The world turned on in the lathe of time,

The hot lands heaved amain,

Till we caught our breath from the womb of death
And crept into light again.

We were amphibians, scaled and tailed,

And drab as a dead man’s hand;

We coiled at ease neath the dripping trees

Or trailed through the mud and sand,
Croaking and blind, with our three-clawed feet
Writing a language dumb;

With never a spark in the empty dark

To hint at a life to come.

Yet happy we lived, and happy we loved,
And happy we died once more;

Our forms were rolled in the clinging mold
Of a Neocomian shore.

The eons came and the eons fled,

And the sleep that wrapped us fast

Was riven away in a newer day,

And the night of death was past.

Then light and swift through the jungle trees
We swung in our airy flights,

Or breathed in the balms of the fronded palms
In the hush of the moonless nights.

And, oh, what beautiful years were these,
When our hearts clung each to each;

When life was filled and our senses thrilled

In the first faint dawn of speech.

Thus, life by hfe, and love by love,
We passed through the cycles strange,
And breath by breath, and death by death,

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We followed the chain of change;

Till there came a time in the law of life
When over the nursing sod

The shadows broke, and the soul awoke
In a strange, dim dream of God.

I was thewed like an Auroch bull,

And tusked like the great Cave Bear;
And you, my sweet, from head to feet
Were gowned in your glorious hair.

Deep in the gloom of a fireless cave,
When the night fell o’er the plain,

And the moon hung red o’er the river bed,
We mumbled the bones of the slain.

I flaked a flint to a cutting edge,

And shaped it with brutish craft;

I broke a shank from the woodland dank,
And fitted it, head and haft.

Then I hid me close-to the reedy tarn
Where the mammoth came to drink;—
Through brawn and bone I drove the stone,
And slew him on the brink.

Loud I howled through the moonlit wastes,
Loud answered our kith and kin;

From west and east to the crimson feast
The clan came trooping in.

O’er joint and gristle and padded hoof

We fought and clawed and tore,

And, cheek by jowl, with many a growl,

We talked the marvel o’er.

I carved that fight on a reindeer bone,

With rude and hairy hand;

I pictured his fall on the cavern wall

That men might understand.

For we lived by blood and the right of might,

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Ere human laws were drawn,
And the Age of Sin did not begin
Till our brutal tusks were gone.

And that was a million years ago,

In a time that no man knows;

Yet here tonight in the mellow light

We sit at Delmonico’s;

Your eyes are deep as the Devon springs,
Your hair is dark as jet,

Your years are few, your life is new,

Your soul untried,—and yet—

Our trail is on the Kimmeridge clay,

And the scarp of the Purbeck flags;

We have left our bones in the Bagshot stones
And deep in the Coralline crags;

Our love is old, our lives are old,

And death will come amain;

Should it come today, what man may say
We shall not live again?

God wrought our souls from the Tremadoc beds,
And furnished them wings to fly;

He sowed our spawn in the world’s dim dawn,
And I know that it shall not die,

Though cities have sprung above the graves
Where the crook-boned men made war

And the ox-wain creaks o’er the buried caves
Where the mummied mammoths are.

Then, as we linger at luncheon here,
O’er many a dainty dish,
Let us drink anew to the time when you
Were a tadpole, and I was a fish.
LANGDON SMITH

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THE MUSEOLOGIST

This little magazine is devoted to the internal affairs of the Museum. It
exists for the sake of all the Museum workers, and offers itself as a ready
medium through which they may come into closer touch with each other and
with the Corporation.

It is issued by the Publicity Committee.

Volume 2 May, 1921 Number 5

Madame Curie and Radio-activity

We are accustomed to associate the phenomena of the
natural sciences one with another, in a progressive series from
the known to the unknown. The phenomenon of radio-
activity is a striking exception to this long established march
of scientific knowledge. With the discovery of radium we are
confronted with a distinctly new perspective of knowledge
regarding the constitution of matter,—a side-light unrelated
to either chemistry or physics. ‘Thus it may be said that
Madame Curie and her co-workers have broken entirely
new ground in science. They have as it were invented a
new science—that of Radio-activity. And yet this new
science, far from destroying or replacing the established
facts of chemistry and physics, has in fact correlated and ex-
panded them.

The history of the researches in radio-activity is a rela-
tively recent one. From the discovery of the X-rays by
Rontgen in 1895 and the first experiments of Henri Beequerel
in 1896 down to our own day is a matter of only a decade and
a half. In this period, which will undoubtedly be called in
the years to come the period of the birth of the new scierce,
no name stands out with greater significance than that of

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Madame Curie. Whereas Becquerel discovered the invisible
rays emanating from uranium compounds, it remained for
Professor and Madame Curie to isolate the source of these
rays in the new element, radium. It was due to her labors in
the tedious and difficult fractional crystallizations that a
minute amount of radium salt was obtained; and when in
1910, working with Debierne, she succeeded in isolating from
radium chloride the silvery white metal which we know as
radium, she established radio-activity upon a firm basis.

It seems to us singularly pathetic that a scientist who has
devoted the best years of her life to the giving to the world
of a new form of energy, a new force in surgery and a sub-
stance of great potential power and usefulness, should not
actually own any of this element of infinite possibilities.
Madame Curie has heretofore been obliged to borrow from
the Government of France, from the hospitals, and wherever
else she could obtain it, the material for her experiments.
She has but one wish, one unsatisfied desire: to own a supply
of radium salts which she can control and use as she sees
fit. Itis this wish that is soon to be gratified when the women
of America present to her one gram of radium. And so pre-
cious is this gift, so rare is this creation of Madame Curie’s
arduous scientific endeavor that every woman in the land
may contribute to the purchase of the single gram which is
henceforth to be her property.

Up to 1915, only 4,131 milligrams of radium had been
obtained in the form of high grade salts. These were mostly
recovered from pitchblende, the uranium mineral which
furnished the material from which the element was first
obtained. But pitchblende is by no means the only radio-
active substance occurring in nature. In fact, all minerals
which contain uranium are more or less radio-active, and in

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recent years the supply of radium has been augmented from
the mineral known as carnotite, which is found in Colorado,
Arizona and Utah.

As part of the radium exhibit which is to be installed in
the Museum, in connection with the reception to Madame
Curie on May seventeenth, it 1s planned to show a large
number of these radio-active substances, together with photo-
graphic negatives on which have been produced shadcew
radiographs from these various minerals as sources of radio-
activity. In this way, a very fitting expression of welcome
to Madame Curie upon her visit to New York will be this
demonstration to the public of the scope and importance of
her life work.

HERBERT P. WHITLOCK.

If the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which car-
rieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consocia-
teth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how
much more are letters to be magnified, which, as ships, pass
through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant partici-
pate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the
other.

Sir WALTER RALEIGH.

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AMONG THOSE PRESENT

MARIA E. GARRISON

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MARIA E. GARRISON

Mrs. Garrison has been in the employ of the Museum for
over twenty-three years. She has the distinction of having
given longer service than any other of our women employees.
She came here on October Ist, 1897, as matron. When the
Members’ Room was opened, some ten years ago, she was
placed in charge, and has remained in that position ever since.

Mrs. Garrison is well known throughout the Museum,
and is held in affectionate esteem by all who come
in contact with her. Always kind, helpful and of a sweet
and cheerful serenity, her presence in the Members’ Room is
a particularly happy circumstance, and it is to be hoped
that she will establish an even longer service record than she
has already to her credit.

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FRANK WALLS

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FRANK WALLS

Mr. Walls was born in Ireland on Noveniber 25th, in the
year 1854. He came to America when about fifteen years of
age, and soon after took up the study of gardening. He con-
tinued to follow this occupation, being employed on private
estates. For twenty-two years he was in charge of gardening
at Judge William Fullerton’s estate at Newburgh, New York.
On leaving this position, he came to the Museum. Here also
his gardening ability has been repeatedly demonstrated, as
have his general efficiency, dependability and kindly disposi-
tion.

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HARRY F. BEERS

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HARRY F. BEERS

Mr. Beers was born and educated in Mauch Chunk,
Pennsylvania. After learning the trade of carpentry, he
went in 1887 to Jersey City, where he was employed by 8. C.
Cosgrove, ship-joiner. In 1890, he was taken into the em-
ploy of W. P. Chesley, building contractor, as foreman.
Later, as superintendent for W. P. Chesley’s Son, he was
placed in charge of the carpentry work on the Museum’s
Southwest Pavilion. He entered the service of the Museum
on March 9, 1901. In addition to his excellent and energetic
work as our Chief of Construction, Mr. Beers has been identi-
fied with various employee activities. He helped organize
and was President of the Employees’ Store, which was
operated until two or three years ago. He was also an
organizer and the first President of our Employees’ Benefit
Association, which is still flourishing. Since the organiza-
tion of our Pension Fund, he has been one of the employee
representatives on the Board of Trustees.

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JOHN WALBER

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JOHN WALBER

Mr. Walber was born in Uolaburg, Finland, on December
28, 1852. After leaving school, he shipped on a merchant
vessel and followed the sea until 1878, when he arrived in
New York. He sailed from this port on an American mer-
chant ship, with which he remained until 1881, when he left
the service. He was then employed by Buckers Nephew «&
Company, at hehtering, until 1888. Leaving this work, be
was employed by the Hecker, Jones & Jewell Flour Milling
Company, with which he continued until 1902. On July Ist
of that year he came to the Museum. Here he has shown
himself industrious and reliable, and has made a_ place
for himself in the friendly consideration of his fellow-workers.

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THE NEWS

A large album containing photographs of the Museum and of Mu-
seum specimens and groups has been sent by President Osborn to His
Excellency Hsu Shih Ch’ang, President of the Republic of China. The
volume is beautifully bound. The title page was illuminated by Mr.
Belanske, who also did the lettering of the photograph titles.

On April 18th, President Osborn entertained His Serene Highness,
Albert 1, Prince of Monaco, at luncheon. The prince’s aides and several
members of the Museum staff were also present. Later in the afternoon,
during his tour of the Museum, the Prince showed great interest in the
exhibit of deep-sea fishes, which was just being put fairly under way at
the time of his former visit. He also expressed his hearty appreciation
of the Darwin Hall.

Members of the Explorers’ Club entertained the Prince and his staff
at dinner on April 21st, at the University Club, and weleomed him as
an Honorary Member of their society. The Museum was well repre-
sented and the evening was a very successful one.

On April 23rd, the Prince addressed the American Geographical
Society, at the Engineering Societies’ Building, on the occasion of the
presentation to him of the Cullum Geographical Medal.

The National Academy of Sciences held its session in Washington,
April 25-27, inclusive. The Prince of Monaco was awarded the Alex-
ander Agassiz medal for his services to the science of oceanography, and
delivered an address on his researches, on April 25th. The address was
followed by a reception.

President Osborn gave an illustrated lecture on the Proboscidea.
Dr. John C. Merriam spoke on the origin and history of bears in America.
Dr. Jacques Loeb, of the Rockefeller Institution, who works in the
borderland between chemistry and physiology, gave the results of his
two years’ experimentation on protein. Dr. W.S. Adams, of the Mount
Wilson Observatory, showed how the motion of the stars may be meas-
ured by means of the spectroscope.

On April 25th, Mr. Sherwood lectured in Providence to the members
and guests of the Providence Plantations Club. His talk covered the

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organization of the American Museum, the conception of what a mu-
seum should be, its place in the community, and its functions, educational
and recreational. The audience was large and very appreciative.

According to news received from Dr. Winslow, he went first to
London, where he visited the public health exhibits of four museums.
In the Kensington Museum he found the central hall on the ground floor
largely given up to the public health exhibit, which includes an excel-
lent set dealing with insects and disease. The Museum of the Royal
Medical College contains a wonderful collection of military hygiene
material. The other two exhibits, at the Royal Institute of Public
Health and the Royal Sanitary Institute, are somewhat archaic.

After a week in Geneva, he proceeded through Czecho-Slovakia
on an inspection trip in connection with the Red Cross clinics, which he
found in good modern condition, contrasting with the backward state of
the peasants. The public health work at present takes in such activi-
ties as child welfare clinics in Slovakia, a malarial campaign in Spain,
a Lursing school in Serbia and a social hygiene conference in Copen-
hagen.

We quote from Dr. Winslow’s latest letter:

“We have just got through with two weeks of meetings of the Tenth
International Conference of Red Cross Societies, which has kept us
exceedingly busy. Dinners and receptions every night, made gay by the
orders and decorations with which the delegates were bedecked, but it
has been wonderful for us here to get in touch with the different countries
we want to reach. One day eight different national delegates came in to
call upon me, and at a little tea we gave there were ten different nationali-
ties represented. The Red Cross Societies are really displaying a very
great interest in public health questions, which makes a most hopeful
year for our work.

“Next week I am going to Poland and Austria and shall stop
at Berlin for a day on the way up when I hope for an opportunity to
see some more health museums.

“You can tell my friends back home that the League of Nations is
neither dead nor sleeping.”’

A collection of 62 cover designs, suitable for use for our magazine,
Natural History, are to be seen temporarily exhibited on the north side of

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the Forestry Hall. The designs are the work of students of the Washing-
ton Irving High School Industrial Art classes to whom, at Dr. Lucas’s
suggestion to Dr. Haney, the Museum offered $50.00 in prizes for the
best examples. While it was understood that the Museum did not in-
tend to adopt any of the designs submitted, the object being merely to
furnish a stimulating subject for competition, one or two of the covers
submitted are worth consideration, and may possibly be used for
future Natural History covers. oo

The attractive new cover for Natural History, which will appear with
the January-February number, was designed by Charles Livingston
Bull.

Dr. McGregor will shortly leave for Europe, where he will study as
many as possible of the remains of primitive man, in connection with his
projected work of restoring a complete skeleton of Neanderthal man.

Michel Fokine, the Russian dancer, recently visited the Museum in
company with the artist, Robert Chandler. They examined Russian
and Siberian costumes in the search for information and inspiration for a
new ballet which is being planned.

A collection of posters, made by children in New York’s elementary
schools, is exhibited on the third floor of the Museum. The posters were
designed in connection with the Humane Education Poster Contest
arranged by the New York Woman's League for Animals.

The Museum’s dramatic critics are busily discussing “‘ Nemesis.”
Opinions of the play itself vary, but the feeling seems to be unanimous
that Mr. Sherwood’s theatre parties are just the thing—and that any
one who can give such successful parties ought to give them as frequently
as possible.

Beginning April 25th, members of the Museum’s lecture staff began
a series of illustrated talks on wild life to the one thousand disabled ex-
service men in the United States Public Health Hospital at Fox Hills,
Staten Island. The Atlantic Division of the Red Cross, which has charge
of all recreation at Fox Hills, decided to make the lectures a feature of
the weekly entertainment program at the hospital.

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John Larsen has been kept away from the Museum for some time
by the illness of his little boy, who is suffering with scarlet fever.

Mr. Andrews is reported to be appearing in the “‘ movies’ somewhere
in this vicinity.

The Department of Anthropology has acquired a remarkably fine
wooden bowl from New Zealand. Both the body of the bowl and the
arched lid are covered with elaborate carvings in the best Maori style,
showing the characteristic spiral forms and the three-fingered human
hand.

Dr. Crampton has been elected member-at-large of the Division of
Biology and Agriculture of the National Research Council. He is to
serve from July 1, 1921 to June 30, 1924.

We are glad to see Dr. Kroeber back at the Museum. He will stay
for several weeks.

A squid of large and rare species (Sthenoteuthis pteropus) was re-
ceived at the Museum on April 26th, from Captain George Biggle, of
the Cunard Line Steamship “‘Caronia.”” It was washed aboard during a
storm, just off Queenstown. It is said that the ship’s carpenter
accidentally stepped on the animal, which seized him with one of its —
arms, and the specimen was unfortunately much damaged in the result-
ing efforts of the crew to dispatch it.

The species to which this specimen belongs does not reach the gigantic
size of some of its relatives. Although it is a large example of its kind,
the combined length of head and body is less than two and one half feet.
The extreme length, from the tip of the tail to the end of the longest arm,
is only five feet four inches. Yet a sensational newspaper account of the
circumstances of its capture gave its length as twelve feet.

While it could not be considered of dangerous size or strength, it is
nevertheless of great interest from a scientific point of view, as but few
examples of the species have been recorded and there was previously no
specimen of it in the collections of this Museum. Except for its large
size, it resembles the small squids common along our coast.

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Through the courtesy of the Commissioner of Parks, the New York
Bird and Tree Club, of which Dr. Kunz is president, has been allowed
the use of the Swiss Chalet by the Shakespeare Garden in Central Park,
for a series of nature study meetings to be held on Friday afternoons, at
3:30 p.m., beginning May 6th and running to May 27th, inclusive. Dr.
Fisher will address the meeting of May 13th. His subject will be
“Central Park, a Rendezvous for Birds.”

One evening last week, a boy noticed two tiny squirrels curled up on
a coping of the Museum. As he watched, one of the babies, making an
uncertain backward movement, toppled over the ledge and fell down
along the wall of the building until he was caught in the friendly meshes
of the Boston ivy. The boy climbed up and rescued him, and after
keeping him overnight brought him the next day to Dr. Fisher. Upon
investigation, it was discovered that the foundling was one of a family
of three babies, apparently orphans, whose nest was located in a ventila -
tor beneath a window of the local bird hall. Mr. Sievers rescured the
other two little ones, and the three were formally adopted by responsible
agents, Mr. Sievers taking one to add to his famous collection of pets,
and the Department of Public Education taking the other two. Dr.
Fisher will photograph them both ‘‘still”’ and in “movies.”’ He believes
their age to be about three weeks. Judging from their reception of the
meals of milk, bread and nuts set before them, they were either very,
very hungry or very appreciative of hospitality. Apparently unable to
decide whether they were expected to drink from or to bathe in the
saucer of milk which was offered them, they agreeably did both.

Visitors to the live squirrel exhibit will please keep in line and re-
frain from pushing.

Thanks to the generosity of the Ringling brothers, the Museum re-
ceived the body of “John Daniel,” the famous gorilla of the Ringling
Brothers’ Circus, who died on the 18th of April. In general appearance
the animal was well nourished and in fine condition, but, in spite of
every effort on the part of his owners, he seems to have died chiefly of
despondency.

The skin was at once carefully removed, on the animal’s arrival here,
and will be mounted by Mr. Blaschke. Owing to the great anatomical
interest and rarity of gorillas, the opportunity was given to a number

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of specialists to investigate different parts of the animal. After the
removal of the skin, the body was dissected by Professor Huntington,
of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and his assistants. The
brain was handed over to Dr. Tilney, Professor of Neurology, who is
already well known for his researches on the anatomy of the brains of
the great apes and of man. Dr. Morton, an orthopeedist, and Dr.
Gregory are studying the bones, muscles, tendons and ligaments of the
feet. Dr. Milo 8S. Hellman will report on the dentition. Small strips
of the skin and hair are being preserved for Dr. Sullivan. Casts of the
head and face were made for Professor McGregor. Several other anato-
mists will also take part in the investigation.

Preliminary reports indicate a number of interesting new or little
known features of the anatomy. The appendix is curiously human in
type, and the same is true of the kidneys, brain and other organs. Im-
pressions of the sole of the foot will be studied by Professor H. H. Wilder,
the Galton Society expert on ‘‘palms and soles.”’ The general appear-
ance of the footprint, although more human than that of the other great
apes, has the great toe set off from the other four toes instead of being
parallel with them as in man. The delicate ridges of the sole and of the
toes differ in many details from those of the ordinary human types, but
Dr. Wilder has recorded a single case of a human footprint which has
many characteristics of the chimpanzee, and his examination of this
gorilla footprint will be awaited with interest.

ce

The Museum has received several cases of specimens collected by
Mr. Brown during the past year, which he has spent in exploring Abys-
sinia, Somaliland and British East Africa. The collection contains
hundreds of specimens of recent reptiles, amphibians, fishes and insects
as well as corals, crustaceans, pelecypods, gastropods and ferns, all of
which have been distributed among the various departments interested
in the different groups.

One of the most valuable parts of the collection is the fine series of
fossil invertebrates. Comparatively little is known about the geology of
Abyssinia and bordering countries. What little has been done in those
regions represents the work of British, French and German explorers.
The present collection of fossils is probably the first large one to come to
an American museum, and the specimens, when described, will constitute
arare and important series of types. Some of the fossils are very ancient,

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representing the remains of organisms which lived 300,000,000 years
ago in the Devonian era of the Palzeozoic. Most of them, however, are
more recent—only about 120,000,000 years old—and come from the
Jurassic era of the Mesozoic. They include many genera of ammonites,
almost every specimen belonging to a distinct genus, and a large number
of brachiopods, pelecypods, gastropods and echinoderms, the entire
fauna ranging in age through the Middle and Upper Jurassic and pos-
sibly down into the Lower Jurassic. The collection is valuable biologi-
‘ally because it contains many new species and stratigraphically because
it will fill in one of the gaps in the geological column. It is by this pro-
cess of gathering new data in regions which have been little studied that
we obtain our knowledge of the extent of ancient lands and seas and of
the distribution of the marine faunas of the past.

Julian Burroughs, son of John Burroughs, and Dr. Clara Barrus,
Literary Executor of the John Burroughs estate, have given their en-
dorsement to a plan for a Memorial Association to take over and care for
Slabsides, Riverby and Woodchuck Lodge, the three places most closely
associated with the life and writings of the poet-naturalist, and the pas-
ture where Burroughs’s grave Is.

A eall for a meeting of Burroughs’s friends, for the purpose of select-
ing a Memorial Committee, was sent out by Dr. Chapman, Dr. Fisher,
Mr. Akeley, Hamlin Garland, Dr. Clara Barrus, Professor Osborn,
Kermit Roosevelt, Irving Bacheller, W. Ormiston Roy and Edwin
Markham.

The meeting was held at the Museum on April 15th, and was attended
by a large number of Burroughs’s friends. On resolution of Mr. Garland,
a committee of nine was chosen to have the association incorporated as a
memorial association to buy and preserve the shrines, adopt a plan of
organization and draw by-laws. The members of the Committee are:
Dr. Chapman, Chairman; Dr. Fisher; Mr. Garland; Mrs. Henry Ford;
Mrs. Thomas A. Edison; Judge A. T. Clearwater; Kermit Roosevelt;
Mr. Akeley; W. Ormiston Roy.

On April 9th, the schooner ‘‘Bowdoin,” built by Mr. MacMillan
for his next Arctic voyage, was launched at East Boothbay, Maine.
Mr. MacMillan plans to start in July on a two-vears’ expedition which
will take him through the dangerous Fury and Heela Strait on the West

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Side of Baffin Land and will include the exploration of a stretch of
1,000 miles of the western shore of Baffin Land on which it is believed
no white man has ever set foot. It is said to be the longest strip of
unexplored coast in the world. Mr. MacMillan may return by the cir-
cumnavigation of Baffin Land.

In design and construction, the ‘‘ Bowdoin’’ embodies all elements of
special provision for the work ahead of her, suggested by Mr. Mac Mil-
lan’s previous experience as an Arctic explorer. Her hull is egg-shaped,
with nothing to which ice can cling. Under sufficient pressure from
the ice floes, the ‘‘ Bowdoin,” instead of being crushed, should lift out
of the water and be carried along with the pack.

She is of the knockabout auxiliary schooner type, equipped with a
45-horse-power crude oil burning engine, an installation which Mr. Mac-
Millan hopes will insure him a cruising radius virtually unlimited by the
use of whale oil to supplement the regular fuel supply.

The staunchness of the hull is assured by a heavy frame planked with
three-inch white oak to which has been added at the waterline a five-
foot belt of greenheart of ironwood. This armor is said to withstand
the grinding action of ice better than steel or any other material, as
the ice merely polishes its hard surface. When winter sets in, a three-
foot covering of snow and ice will be placed over the entire ship, with
snow house after the Eskimo style to cover the hatchways.

At the request of the Commissioner of Health of New York City,
the New York County Chapter of The Red Cross is undertaking to 1m-
munize 25.000 children in the kindergarten and primary grades of the
Manhattan public schools. The consent of the parents is first obtained.
According to Health News, thus far the parents of about fifty per cent
of the children have given their approval. The susceptibility of the
child to diphtheria is first determined by means of the Schick test; toxin-
antitoxin is administered to those who are found nonimmune. The
work is undertaken because ninety-five per cent of the deaths from diph-
theria in New York City last year occurred among children under ten
years of age. Immunity induced by toxin-antitoxin lasts for at least
five years, and in some cases for life.

With the approval of President Osborn, Mr. Warburg, Chairman of
the Board of Trustees of the Pension Fund, has appointed a Welfare

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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. Marjorie O’Connell, who has been doing research
work in invertebrates for the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology,
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 co6peration 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 object 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.

“T offer to sale this mummy, which was obtained at Centro-américa
by a good price. You may offert, by the way you prefer. . I will give
certificates of its legitimacy.

“T should thank you, if in your Museum is not necessary, you deign
yourself to offer it to whichever scientific stablishment in your country,

‘‘As you will note in the portrait, the haed have a pilaster of tortoise-
shell.

‘*Please to answer me as Soon as you can.

“At your orders,”’ ete.

—

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On April 18th, Mr. Andrews cabled his arrival in Peking.

Word has also recently been received from Harry R. Caldwell,
of the Methodist Episcopal Church Mission in Yenping, Fukien, China,
who has been collecting for the Museum for some time past. We quote
from his letter:

“T have actually d ubled-up in my work so that I have five days
at the China New Year's season that I can devote to recreation. This,
too, during the hardest year of my work in China, and I am doubly glad
of the little respite. Iam planning to start tomorrow or next day to the )
plateau on top of the mountain where we spend the summer and make a
stab for some of the large badgers found on the rolling uplands of that
high altitude. I saw one of these animals last summer and thought it
was a bear until I got up close enough to distinguish the markings of the
head, and so that I could see the tail. Iam taking a lot of traps of many
kinds, and two collectors, so we should make some hay should the sun
shine.

“This is my first real outing after specimens since I linked up with
Roy. Iam fully expecting to secure quite a number of small mammals,
as well as some of the larger stuff of that immediate region. . . . « A few
months ago I sent forward another consignment by American Express,
among other things containing the finest tiger skin I have ever seen. I
again have on hand one hundred or more skins, including a very fine
male serow taken a few weeks ago on the cliffs near this city. I will
drive the collecting forward for another few weeks. . . . Iam planning
to plunge in and do sme real co!lecting of the birds of this vast up-
country mountain region.

“With very kindest regards to the fellows of the Museum whom I
have had the pleasure of meeting, and with all kinds of good wishes for
yourself,” ete.

““P. S—I am soon to start for a five weeks’ itinerary, traveling on
foot except for :uch parts as can be covered on boats. I will travel on
foot at an average of 25 miles each traveling day, covering in all nearly
350 miles. This is sure an endurance game we are playing out here,
and I do not wonder that the average life of the missionary on this field
has been short in years past. It is great work, however, and I really
enjoy it.”

On April 8th, the Department of Anthropology had a tea, to cele-
brate Mr. Nelson’s installation in his new room. It was also rumored

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that some one in the Department had a birthday. No one could be found
to admit this guilt, but the following verses, read in the course of the
afternoon’s entertainment, may hold a clue:

Just thirty vears ago today,
Perchance a few years more, -_
A little curly-headed boy :
Set forth from Denmark’s shore.

With scarce a coin within his purse,
But great hopes in his heart,

Twas thus once more in humble way
A great man made his start.

Some years he labored on the farm ;
And then he firmly said:
‘Enough of this—in easier wise
biq) : . ”
I'll earn my daily bread.

To college then he quickly sped,
And there he got a hunch

That those who play the science game
Are quite a lucky bunch.

‘A scientist I'll be,”’ quoth he,
“And seek the missing link;
‘To judge from ali I hear, this job

“Will last some time, I think.”

And thus it was. We see today
The wisdom of his choice,

As with him round this festal board
We heartily rejoice.

William Rothberg, formerly of our Department of Public Health,
and now engaged at the Sherman Laboratories in Detroit, was a recent
visitor at the Museum.

Personal to Mrs. Benson: Honest I don’t know anything about that
butter. M. B.

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Thirty posters designed by students in the second year advertising
class of the New York School of Fine and Applied Art have been placed
on exhibition in the Southwest Indians Hall. They were inspired by re-
search in the Indian rooms of the Museum. Some of the students are
ex-service men, working under the guidance of the Federal Vocational

Board.

According to an English newspaper, the rate at which many birds and
animals can travel has recently been measured by following them in
aeroplanes or motor-cars fitted with speedometers. A wolf was found to
travel 38 miles an hour; an elk, 52 miles an hour; an antelope, 60 miles
an hour: an eagle, 46 miles an hour; and a wild duck, 50 miles an hour.

Tom Hallacy has originated a new method of oiling up an automobile.
It consists simply of pouring a quart of oil into the crank case. Probably
most people, however, will stick to the conservative method at present
in vogue.

The Metropolitan Museum has inaugurated a new publication series,
to be known as The Museum Papers, and to contain important essays of
greater length than can be published in the Bulletin, contributed by
members of the staff and issued under the Committee on Educational
Work. The papers are to be published separately from time to time
and brought together in a volume whenever a sufficient number have
been printed.

It has been found necessary to remove a portion of the outside wall
of the Physiology Laboratory in order to repair leaking drain-pipes,
which were built inside the wall.

Museum employees join in offering their sympathy to Mr. Mutchler
in the recent loss of his brother.

Professor Tozzer, of the Peabody Museum, visited this institution
on April 19th.

Dr. Lutz is having the Department Ford fitted up with an apartment
de luxe. The machine was donated by friends of the Department.

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Mr. Warburg, of our Board of Trustees, has sailed for Europe, where .
he will remain until June 11th. ;
Mr. Carter was kept away from the Museum for a few days during

April, by illness. |
Dr. Paul M. Rea, a more or less frequent and always welcome visitor,

‘alled at the Museum on April 12th, with Mr. Kenyon VY. Paynter of the

new Cleveland Natural History Museum.

Miss M. M. Glidden, formerly of Pratt Institute, has become a
member of the Natural History staff.

According to newspaper report, a big King Snake from Florida, an
occupant of the reptile house at the Regents Park Zoo in London, re-
fused for thirteen months to eat, but finally consented to accept food.
It is stated that King Snakes have been known to live for even longer
periods without nourishment.

Museum exhibits and ‘‘behind the scenes”’ activities will soon be
placed before the public in a film entitled: ‘‘A Little Journey with Ruth
Dwyer through The American Museum of Natural History.” Dr.
Fisher was offered the engagement of male star in this film, but modestly
declined; which is just as well for the Museum. For we feel sure that
if ever the movie interests—and especially the movie publie—should
make his acquaintance , he would be lost to us forever.

Mr. Anthony underwent a slight operation during April.
Dr. Thomas Barbour, of Cambridge, spent some time at the Mu-
seum on April 5th.

Mr. James Kenney is on leave of absence, made necessary by illness.

Dr. Chapman sailed early in May for England, where he will examine
the Ecuadorian types in the British Museum ornithological collection
and arrange exchanges. He will also visit the Rothschild Museum at
Tring. During his stay in England, he will address the British Ornitho-
logical Club.

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Mr. Luke O'Neill has been suffering from a peculiar injury to the
ligaments of his left arm. The injury was for a time believed to be a
broken bone.

Mr. Thornton W. Burgess, author of ‘‘ Bedtime Stories, ’’ spent part of
April 11th 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.

We 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. Murphy 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. é

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 Museum 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.

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On Saturday, April 9th, the first meeting of the Joint Committee
on Conservation of the National Research Council, the American Asso-
ciation for the Advancement of Science and the National Academy of
Sciences was held at the Museum. A preliminary organization was
formed, and a discussion was made of methods of raising money for an
educational campaign to further the conservation of the natural re-
sources of the country. It is hoped that this meeting marks the begin-
ning of more concerted and effective work for conservation on the part
of the scientific men and societies of the United States. The representa-
tives present at the meeting were: Dr. J. C. Merriam, President of the
Carnegie Institution of Washington; Dr. Isaiah Bowman, of the
American Geographical Society; Dr. J. McKeon Cattell, Editor of
Science, Dr. John M. Clarke, Director of the New York State Museum
in Albany; Mr. H.S8. Graves, of the American Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science; Mr. Vernon Kellogg, of the National Research
Council; Mr. C. E. McClurg, of the National Research Council; and
Dr. Barrington Moore, of the Ecological Society of America. Dr. V. E.
Shelford, of the University of Illinois, is also a member of the committee,
but was unable to be present at the meeting.

The first shipment of material collected by the Whitney South Seas
Expedition has been received at the Museum. It comprises about 350
specimens of birds and a series of nests and eggs from Christmas Island
in the Pacific Ocean and the Marquesas group. The land birds include
two rare species of Polynesian Pigeons, several kinds of old-world Fly-
catchers, including a Warbler peculiar to Christmas Island, as well as
Kingfishers, Swifts, etc. The water birds number three species of
Boobies, two of Tropic-birds, one of the Man-of-war bird, seven of
Terns, five of Petrels, and many more. Among them are several new to
the collections of the Museum and others of which only two or three
specimens have previously been contained in any collections in America.
Particularly noteworthy are the series of a rare white-breasted Petrel
known as Fregetta albogularis and a splendid series of two beautiful
Ghost Terns of the genera Gygis and Procelsterna. These and the other
species, including many examples of the Red-tailed Tropic-bird, one of
the most beautiful of all the sea-birds, number specimens in all stages of
growth, from the newly hatched chicks to fully matured birds, and it is
almost needless to add that in quality and the exactness of the accom-

Pa ea

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panying scientific data the specimens are of the usual standard of
material collected by Mr. Beck.

The reptile material collected in Africa for the Museum by Mr.
‘Barnum Brown comprises the largest collection, with the exception of
the Congo Collection, which the Museum has ever received from Africa.
It contains a number of Chameleons and a great many interesting Geckos
including one or two new genera.

Mr . Charles Lang has finished the mounting of the Miocene Masto-
don on which he has been engaged for the last year. The skeleton will
be placed on exhibition as soon as possible.

Mr. Irving B. Kingsford has left the Department of Vertebrate
Paleontology in order to take up commercial work.

Mr. Horter has gone to Philadelphia to model from life, for the
Department of Anthropology, some Micmac Indians. This work is
being undertaken in connection with the group for the Woodlands Hall,
for which the tepee has already been put in place. Mr. Horter may
later go to Nova Scotia for more material.

-On April 16th, Dr. Dean sailed for Europe, where he will collect
armor for the Metropolitan Museum.

Early in May, Mrs. Sterling leaves for Jay, to be gone until
November Ist, and Miss Matthew leaves for her summer in New Bruns-
wick.

After spending a few days at the Museum, Mr. Nichols decided to
remain at home for a time on a vacation for recuperative purposes. In
spite of his illness, Copeia comes out regularly.

On May 24th, Dr. Matsumoto sails for Europe. He will spend some
time at the British Museum. He plans to return to Japan on leaving
Europe.

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Mr. Frick is busily working on his Pliocene and Pleistocene mammals
from southern California. Mr. Charles Christman has spent the entire
winter preparing this material.

Mr. Bell has begun work on the preparation of a Tiger Shark speci-
men obtained by him during his stay at Morehead City, North Carolina,
last summer.

A handsome Man-o’-War Memorial Volume was compiled by Mr.
Chubb from the photographs of the great racer which he took lest
summer at Saratoga end Belmont Park during the racing, and at Mr.
Riddle’s home in Maryland. The photographs, in sepia finish, bound
with a finely illuminated title-page prepared by Mr. Belanske, made a
beautiful album, which Mr. Chubb presented to Mr. Riddle together with
a special enlarged photograph of Man-o’-War, which Mr. Riddle has
described as the best picture ever taken of the splendid animal.

Mr. F. A. Larson, of Urga, Mongolia, visited Professor Osborn and
the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology last month. Mr. Larson
has keen a resident of Urga for the past twenty-five years, and is un-
doubtedly the best known and most influential white man in all Mongo-
lia. Originally a missionary, sent out by a Swedish church society,
he later became interested in stock-raising in the land of his adoption.

Sir Wilmot Herringham and Sir Walter Fletcher, both of London, and
Dr. Simon Flexner visited the Department of Vertebrate Palzeontology
recently and were entertained by Professor Osborn.

Mrs. Jacob Wertheim, of this city, has presented to the Museum a
small collection of mounted game fishes, which have been placed on ex-
hibition on the third floor, near the elevators.

Twelve specimens, mounted by Mr. Blaschke, have been added to
our display of deep-sea fishes in the “ Fish Hall.”

We are sorry to report the death, on April 10th, of James Atkinson,
formerly storekeeper of the Museum, who has been in the employ of the

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Colorado Museum of Natural History since the time of leaving this
institution.

Mr. Granger leaves the Museum on May 14th, and will start for
China on the ‘‘Golden State,’ sailing from San Francisco on May 28th.
Mrs. Granger will accompany him.

The printers’ strike, which has affected the Cambridge University
Press, has delayed the beginning of the printing of our Bibliography of
Fishes.

Mr. Beers has sold his residence in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, and has
purchased a house at 1893 Harrison Avenue, University Heights, New
York City, which he will occupy beginning May Ist.

Mr. Coleman has been made Chairman of the Committee on Classi-
fied Information of The American Association of Museums, which is to
report at the Cleveland meeting in 1921. The other members of the
Committee are Dr. Hovey and Mr. Harold L. Madison. The work
is being conducted in coéperation with Dr. Melvil Dewey, author of
Decimal Classification and originator of that system, with the Inter-
national Institution of Bibliography, of Brussels, and with the Concilium
Bibliographicum, of Zurich. The Committee is engaged in devising a
classification by means of which it is hoped so to organize museum in-
formation that eventually a compendium may be produced. Since last
August, Mr. Coleman has been at work upon a tentative draft which is
now to be submitted to one hundred or more museum people of the
country, and it is expected that the perfected work will be published by
Dr. Dewey.

Mr. Coleman is also Chairman of the Section for Preparators, of
The American Association of Museums, which will hold its session on
May 24th. The following program has been arranged for the occasion:

Dr. Hovey—‘ Topographical Geological Relief Models in The

American Museum of Natural History”

Dr. E. 8. Goldman, In Charge of Biological Investigations, Bureau

of Biological Survey —“ Field Work in Vertebrate Palzeontology’”’

Mr. Dwight Franklin—“ Problems in Exhibition”’

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Mr. Gerald H. Thayer—‘ Nature Camouflage, the Link between
Zoology and Art”’

Dr. Carlos E. Cummings, Secretary of the Buffalo Society of
Natural Sciences, is expected to discuss the application of photography
to the work of preparation.

Mr. Frank J. Myers, Research Associate of Rotifera, has presented
to the Department of Lower Invertebrates a fine Stephenson dissecting
microscope of binocular pattern, with a full outfit of apochromatic ob-
jectives and equipment for carrying on research work in Rotifera,
Protozoa and other microscopic forms of life. Mr. Myers is an expert
on Rotifera, and in conjunction with Dr. Harring of the United States
National Museum is engaged in writing an exhaustive monograph on the
American species of this most interesting group. He has given abun-
dantly of his time and energies toward increasing the Museum collection
of mounted Rotifers, which bids fair to be one of the finest in the world.
Rotifera, or ‘‘wheel-animalcules,’’ are minute, top-like creatures that
swim rapidly about in ponds, feeding upon thousands of microscopic
animals and plants which they sweep into their mouths by means of
circlets of hair-like projections, that they bear on their heads. The
peculiar motion of these hairs gives the effect of a rotating wheel, hence
the name.

The Army Medical Museum at Washington has adopted the “slide-
tite’’ cases, invented by Mr. Reers, for the storage of valuable specimens,
and to date has installed seventy of these cases.

On May 17th, a meeting in honor of Madame Curie will be held
under the auspices of the New York Academy of Sciences, The American
Museum of Natural History and the New York Mineralogical Club.

On April 21st, Dr. Goddard left for Washington, where he attended
a meeting of the National Research Council. On Apri! 23rd, he sailed
for Peru, where he will conduct archeological and ethnological investi-
gations preliminary to an expedition to be sent out a little later.

A cable dispatch hes been received by President Osborn, announcing
that Major Leonard Darwin, fourth son of Charles Darwin, will attend

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the Eugenics Congress to be held in this city in September. Mr. Darwin
was President of the Royal Geographical Society from 1908 to 1911, and
became President of the Eugenics Society in 1911. During his visit to
this country, he will lecture in various cities.

Mr. James J. Sheeran is seriously ill with pleural pneumonia. He has
been removed to the Presbyterian Hospital.

Albert Hoelzle was kept away for a few days by the illness of Mrs.
Hoelzle, who has also been suffering with pneumonia. We are glad to
be able to report her improvement.

One of the worst misers in the world is the man who keeps counting his
troubles for fear he might lose one.

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GRIN AND BEAR IT

The Caveman and the Interglacial Maid

Kang was a Caveman, rough and raw,

With a Piltdown skull and a Heidelberg jaw
And a coat of reddish hair;

He shot the Moose with the flint-tipped arrow,

He cracked the bone and he sucked the marrow;
He slept ‘most anywhere.

When a rude Rhinoceros he found,
Or a shaggy Mammoth slashing round,
Or a predatory Bear,

—

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An Aurochs, Wolf or Giant Rabbit,
He'd poise his elkhorn spear and jab it!
His life was free from care.

Bel was an Interglacial Maid,

The queen of all that her eyes surveyed:
Her birthday suit was tan;

Her hair was long and somewhat frizzly:

If once she glared at the maddest Grizzly,
He turned him round and ran.

But oft when in her cave alone

She sketched with flint on Walrus bone
A Neolithic plan

Of antlered Stags and wild-maned Horses,

She thought how vain were the heedless courses
Of Kang, the bachelor man.

“He hunts for himself alone,” said she;
“An egoist to the nth degree,
“He wields the spear and bow;
“The voice of duty bids: ‘Reclaim him!’
““ And conscience urges me to tame him;
‘Besides, he needs me so!”

Then faring forth at the sun’s first blink,
She made her way to the ferny brink
Of the forest river’s flow;
And laid a snare of rawhide nooses
(Devised for feministic uses)
Where Kang was wont to go.

And Kang came fast;—with a wounded brute
Of an Aurochs Bull in mad pursuit,
He bounded up the comb,
When Bel drew bow, upon a boulder,
And shot that Bull behind the shoulder:
He perished, snorting foam.

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But Kang within a noose was caught;

In vain he struggled, threshed and fought;
For panting on the loam

He lay, till Bel, descending, bound him.

And tied a prisoner-string around him,
And led him meekly home.

‘And now,” she said, ‘‘my future mate,

(‘Stop wriggling so, and sit up straight!
“Attend to what I say!)

“You'll hunt as you were used to doing,

“But when you've caught what you’re pursuing,
“You'll come home right away.

“And further, clearly understand,
“That every wish and each command

“Of mine you'll straight obey!”
And Kang, the Caveman, feared she'd scold him,
And did exactly what she told him.

And so he does today.

ARTHUR GUITERMAN
(Printed by permission of the author)

Queen of Spain—‘‘ Moi gracia! The royal child has swallowed a
pin!”’

Court Chamberlain—‘‘ Woo, woo! Send for the Secretary of the
Interior!”

First Youth: “I have a dread of marrying a girl who is my intel-
lectual inferior.”

Second Youth: “ You're not likely to do that.”’

The attendant in Memorial Hall noticed a visitor pacing, with a
puzzled expression, around one of the meteorites.

“Are you looking for something?”’ he asked.

“Yes,”’ replied the visitor. ‘I see the meteor, but where’s the
meteor’s tail we’re always hearing about?”’

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A teacher, with a class of young ladies, was explaining the adapta-
tions of various animals, and turning to the Giant Ant Eater, said:

“This curious animal sweeps up the ants into a pile with its bushy
tail, and then turns around and devours them.”’

She frowned on him and called him Mr.
Just because he Kr.

And, for spite,

That very night,

That naughty Mr. Kr. Sr.

“My boy graduates from college this year, and I expect to take him
into my office.”

“You'll start him at the bottom and let him work up, I suppose.

“No, I think I’ll start him at the top and let him work down.”’

i)

Tramp: ‘I was at the front, Madam—”’

Lady: “Another poor war victim! Here’s a dollar.”’

Tramp: “I was going to say that I was at the front door an’ nobody
answered, so I come round to the back. Thankee, mum.”’

Stranger: “‘Where is your father, sonny?”
Boy: “Out in the pig pen. You'll know him ’cause he’s got on a
straw hat.”’

Two attendants were cleaning the cases in the Bird Hall. One of
them, Charlie Harriman, was on top of one of the cases, dusting. A
facetiously inclined visitor, passing, asked the other attendant:

“What kind of bird is that?”’

“That’s a Red-headed Bald American Eagle,’ was the prompt
answer.

A colored man came running down the lane as if a wild animal were
after him.

“What are you running for, Mose?”’ called the colonel from the barn.
“T ain’t a-runnin’ fo’,’”’ shouted Mose, as he flew past. I’se a-runnin’
from!”’

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Two lawyers before a country justice recently fell into a wrangle.
At last one of the disputants, losing control of his temper, exclaimed to
the other:

“Jim Rogers, you’re the biggest fool I ever set eyes upon!”

The justice pounded his desk, and called loudly:

“Order! Order! You seem to forget that I am here!”

Pat (at the telephone)—“ Is this the feed store?”

Clerk—“ Yes.”

Pat—“ Well, then, send me up a bushel of oats and a bale of hay.”
Clerk—‘‘Certainly. Who is it for?”

Pat—‘‘Come, now, don’t get gay; it’s for the horse, of course.”

As the trolley car stopped, an old lady, not accustomed to traveling,
called to the conductor:

‘Conductor, what door shall I get out by?’

“Hither door, Madam,” graciously answered the conductor. ‘The
car stops at both ends.”’

’

In Front of the Sea-Elephant Group
Ist young lady: ‘‘Good Heavens, are those whales?”’
2nd young lady: ‘“‘Oh, no! They’re sharks.”

Visitor, with small children, in front of the Indian cradles: “See,
children, those are what the Indians wear on their feet.”’

The other day a young lady stepped up to an attendant on the second
floor of the Museum, and asked:

“Would you tell me where the Museum is?”’

“Good Heavens!” he replied in astonishment. ‘“‘It’s all over the
place.”

“Oh, thank you,” she said.” ‘‘ You see, I’m a stranger in the city.”’

Mistress: ‘Have you given the goldfish fresh water, Mary?”’
Mary: ‘No, mum. They ain’t finished the water I give ’em the
other day.”

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A small girl entered a butcher shop and asked:

“How much is your frankfurters, Mr Meyer?”

“Thirty cents a pound.”

“Oh, Mr. Meyer, I can get them at. Mr. Braun’s shop for $.24.”’

“Well, why don’t you get them there?”’

“*Cause Mr. Braun ain’t got no more.”

“Ts that so? Well I do the same. When I got them, they’re $.30
a pound. When I ain’t got them, they’re $.24, same as Mr. Braun’s.”’

Motorist: ‘‘We’re going fifty miles an hour. Are you afraid?”’
Fair Passenger, swallowing another mouthful of dust: “No. I’m

just full of grit.”

bd

Boy: “ Please let me have a book on Whales.’

Librarian: ‘‘ Here is a book telling all about Whales—how they live,
and how they are hunted and captured and killed, and what products
they furnish us with.”

Boy: “Oh, I mean the country, Whales, not the insect.”

On his first trip to the country, the child was taken to the pasture to
see the cows. Just as they approached one of the animals, the little
visitor was startled by a loud ‘‘Moo-oo.” But he was a brave young-
ster, and grasping the hand of his guide ventured a step nearer. After
long scrutiny of the cow, he asked: ‘‘Which horn did he blow out of?”’

It is rumored that a goat has been running around loose in the De-
partment of Vertebrate Paleontology laboratories. Charlie Christman,
however, vigorously denies it.

The children had been much impressed by the entrance of their aunt
into a convent.

‘““Now she’s not ‘auntie’ any more,”’ said the little girl. ‘“She’s a
“sister.”

“What's a he-sister, Mother?” asked the little boy.

‘‘A monk,”

“Well, that’s what I’m going to do when I grow up—be a monk.”

“You mean,”’ said the little sister, seornfully, ‘you'll be a monkey.”’

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A little boy visiting the Zoo asked an attendant if the zebras were
convict horses.

An Ethnological Meeting

"Twas all on a Monday evening
As the shades began to fall,

That I followed the wise ethnological guys
To the West Assembly Hall.

The chairman, so suave and tactful
Was about to introduce

The first to be of the speakers three—
They were ladies all, forsooth.

They were graded by size, I take it—
Or could it have been by age?

However that be, ‘twas the tallest, you see,
Who was first to mount the stage.

She made some astonishing statements,
While I sat there still as a mouse,

‘Bout Jamaicans who dance in red and white pants
And wear for a headdress a house!

The musicians, she said, who are present
To usher the dancers in,

Produce a fine tone from a horse’s jawbone
Which they use for a violin.

Then up rose the second speaker,
To tell how those people can croon,

And warble and trill with consummate skill.
Though they cannot remember the tune.

But the way they can drum is the greatest
Of all their musical feats—

With a rub-a-dub-dub and a rub-dub-dub

They play thirty-two different beats.

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By this time my poor brain was whirling—
For science I never could stand—
And the “ Holy Ghost Dance”’ kept me quite in a trance
Till they said it was time to disband.
E.G. N.

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THE MUSEOLOGIST

This little magazine is devoted to the internal affairs of the Museum. It
exists for the sake of all the Museum workers, and offers itself as a ready
medium through which they may come into closer touch with each other and
with the Corporation.

It is issued by the Publicity Committee.

Volume 2 October, 1921 Number 6

For several years an experiment in group insurance for
Museum employees has loomed vaguely on the horizon of
possibilities. Lately, at the suggestion of one of the Pension
Board officers, a Committee on Group Insurance was ap-
pointed, and the subject was rather extensively investigated.
The Committee has not yet made a final report and recom-
mendation, but the feeling of the members is that decided
advantages would result from the taking out of group insur-
ance for our employees from an established commercial
insurance company.

In the first place, the payment of a very small sum
monthly would cover each participant with incontestable life
insurance with permanent disability provisions, which, ex-
cept in a very few cases, would greatly exceed the corre-
sponding insurance at present afforded by the Pension Fund.
In the second place, the suspension of life and disability
insurance risk to the Pension Fund, consequent on the taking
out of these forms of insurance through an extra-Museum
agency, should make possible the liberalization of the pen-
sion plan in the matters of retirement allowances and re-
quirements. Possibly, also, the Pension Fund contributions
of employees leaving the service of the institution might be
returned with interest at 4%, instead of 3%, or with com-

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pound, instead of simple interest. As yet it is not certain
whether it would be practicable to offer group insurance
privileges to all Museum employees, or whether it could be
undertaken only with Pension Fund members. The matter,
also, cf the Corporation’s part in the projected undertaking
has not been worked out. It is possible that the Trustees
of the Museum might contribute one-half of the group insur-
ance premium, Just as they at present contribute to the Pen-
sion Fund amounts equal to the employees’ contributions.

Before proceeding further with their investigations, how-
ever, the members of the Committee would like to have the
employees made acquainted with the salient features of a
group insurance plan as it might be adapted to Museum con-
ditions. For this purpose, and in order to iearn the a titude
of the employees in the matter, a brief discussion, based on
the findings of the Committee, is given here.

It should be made clear, in the beginning, that the group
insurance project is being considered purely for the sake of
the unusual advantages which it promises our employees,
and not to reduce Pension Fund liabilities. The Pension
Fund continues on a thoroughly secure basis, and is not only
meeting with ease all its obligations, but is building up a
gratifying investment account. The group insurance
question, therefore, may be considered strictly on its own
merits.

According to the Insurance Commissioner’s definition,
incorporated in the Laws of New York State, group life in-
surance is ‘‘that form of Life Insurance covering not less
than 50 employees with or without medical examination,
written under a policy issued to the employer, the premium
on which is to be paid by the employer or by the employer
and employee jointly, and insuring only all of his employees

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or all of any class or classes thereof determined by conditions
pertaining to the employment, for amounts of insurance
based upon some plan which will preclude individual selec-
tion, for the benefit of persons other than the employer,
provided, however, that when the premium is to be paid by
the employer and employee jointly and the benefits of the
policy are offered to all eligible employees not less than 75%
of such employees may be so insured.”’

The advantages of group in urance are those of any co-
operative undertaking: increased benefits and reduced
individual obligations. Specifically, group insurance affords
lower rates than would be obtainable by. persons insuring
independently; and the large profits accruing to insurance
companies from the group arrangement permit a wider
latitude in the privileges allowed. Although under the State
Law the satisfactory passing of medical examinations may
be required of participants in a group plan, the universal
custom of insurance companies is to waive the examinations
for this class of insurance.

The method of computing the individual premium, under
the group arrangement, is simple. <A standard table is used
to fix the provisional individual premium per $1,000. of
insurance, which depends, of course, on the individual’s age.
(The premiums in the group insurance tables are much lower
than those in the tables used for independent insurance.)
These provisional individual premiums merely form the
basis for figuring the actual individual premiums to be paid.
The total group premium per $1,000 is determined by adding
the provisional individual premiums. The actual individual
premium per $1,000 is found by averaging. The amount of
insurance for each individual is then determined according to
salary, length of service, or both. (See Plans 1, 2 and 3,

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below.) The total annual premium for each individual is
thus ascertained. Owing to the method of computation used,
the ratio of premium to salary is identical for all members
of the group. According to tentative computations, based
on a standard group insurance table and complying with a
plan adapted to Museum conditions, the rate for each em-
ployee participating would be in the neighborhood of 14%
or 2% of his salary. If the Trustees should contribute one-
half of the group premium, the insurance would cost the
employee about 34% or 1% of his salary. Most companies
guarantee their rates for a period of five years. In any event,
assuming, as we safely may, that the institution would have
an annual employee turn-over of at least 15%, the actual
individual premiums would remain approximately stationary.
For the taking in of new and younger employees in this pro-
portion would offset the increase due to increased age, in
the provisional individual premiums of the older employees,
and would consequently keep the actual individual rate more
or less constant.

The most convincing way of showing the advantages of
group Insurance is by illustration:

Number of Provisional Individual Total Provisional
Employees Age Premium per $1,000 Premium per $1,000
4 29 $6.40 $25.60
7 40 7.85 54.95
10 51 14.78 147.80

2 60 29.39 58.78

23 Total premium per $1,000 for
the group $287.13

Actual individual premium per $1,000—$12.49

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The individual premiums per $1,000 for persons insuring
independently, for ordinary life, would be:!

Age Rate per $1,000 without Rate per $1,000 with

Disability Provision Disability Provision
29 $24.38 $25 .40
40 30.01 39.50
51 50.52 54.85
60 77.69 Menthe csi es nea:

Under group insurance, therefore, the man of 29 years would
| pay less than one-half of the premium and the man of 51
years would pay well under one-fourth of the premium which

would be required if they insured independently. The man
| of 60 years, moreover, while having to pay only less than
one-sixth of the premium which would be required if he

insured independently, would be covered by permanent
disability insurance, which he could not otherwise obtain.
Furthermore, as participants in the group plan, all cases
would be exempt from physical examination.

The amount of insurance allowed to participants in the

: group plan may be based on terms of service, salaries, or a
: combination of the two factors. Three possible plans,

adapted to Museum conditions, for determining the amounts
of the individual policies, are given below:

Plan 1 (Service basis)

After one year of service, $1,000, increasing thereafter
by $250 annually, to a maximum of $5,000 after 17 years of
service. (This plan allows a $500 policy to employees of
more than 3 months’ but less than | year’s standing.)

1These figures are quoted from the 1921 tables of a standard insurance company.

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Plan 2 (Salary basis)

After one year of service, the amount of insurance to be
‘arried is equal to the salary received, up to a maximum of
$9,000. (This plan allows a $500 policy to employees of
more than 3 months’ but less than 1 year’s standing.)

Plan 3 (Salary-service basis)

After 3 months but less. than 1 year of service, the amount
of insurance to be carried is equal to 50% of the salary,
increasing annually by 3% of the salary up to a maximum
of 100% for service of 17 years or over, with a maximum
insurance of $4,500.

In the Museum, where salaries run low and terms of service
run high, the salary basis or the salary-service basis would
seem more practicable than the straight service basis. For,
desirable as the higher insurance may be, the premium should
always be considered in terms of the salary.

A typical permanent disability clause, such as is included
in the group life insurance contract without extra cost, is as
follows:

“Tf any employee insured under this contract shall furnish
the Company with due proof that he has before having at-
tained the age of 60 become wholly disabled by bodily in-
juries or disease, and will be permanently, continuously and
wholly prevented thereby for life from engaging in any occu-
pation or employment for wage or profit, the Company will
pay to him in full settlement of all obligations to him here-
under the amount of insurance then effective on his life
either in a single payment or in annual installments as here-
inafter set forth, as the assured may elect—no payment in
either case to be made until 6 months after receipt of due

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proof of permanent total disability as aforesaid. Any in-
stallments remaining unpaid at the death of the employee
shall be payable as they become due to the beneficiary nomi-
nated by the employee, who shall have the right to commute
such remaining payments into one sum on the basis of in-
terest at the rate of 34% per annum.

“In addition to or independently of all other causes of
permanent total disability, the Company will consider the
entire and irrecoverable loss of the sight of both eyes, or the
loss of use of both hands, or of both feet, or of one hand and
one foot, as permanent total disability within the meaning
of this provision.”’

Employees once covered under the group insurance plan
would be permitted to continue their insurance in the same
amount, after reti‘ement, by continuing the payment of
their premium, at the growp rate. Participants in the group
plan, on leaving the employ of the Museum for any reason
other than retirement, would be permitted to continue their
insurance in the same amount by converting it into independ-
ent insurance at the regular rate. No medical examination
would be required in the case of either retired or resigned or
dismissed employees who chose to continue their insurance.
Application for the conversion privilege, however, must be
filed within 31 days after the termination of employment.

Policies taken out under the conversion privilege are
dated from the day on which application is made, and the
new rate is determined in accordance with the age of the
applicant at the date of conversion. The forms of policy
permitted under the conversion clause are ordinary life,
endowment, limited payment life, annual income, or any
other form customarily issued by the insuring company,
except term insurance.

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No maximum age at which insurance may be taken out
under the group plan is prescribed. - There is a minimum age
limit of 14 years.

Among the questions asked by persons for the first time
considering the subject of insurance is: ‘ Do ‘participating,’
or dividend-paying, companies offer more advantages than
companies which do not pay dividends to their insured, but
guarantee their rates to them?” We quote Best’s Life In-
surance Reports, 15th Annual Edition (1920), on the differ-
ence between participating and guaranteed cost companies:

“Dividends (so-called) are important in determining the
relative desirability of participating or ‘mutual’ policies in
different companies. It should be remembered, however,
that the ‘dividends’ are merely returns to the ‘policy-holder
of the portion of his own premium payments made in the
past which proves not to have been needed to provide the
protection, pay the expenses and put up the reserve, and
of earnings on the reserve in excess of the rate of interest
used in computing it. They are not similar to dividends on
shares in a stock corporation and do not represent profits
in the company’s business.

‘In comparing the dividends paid by different companies
on the same form of policy, applicants should deduct the
same from the premiums paid and compare the net cost;
they should also take into account the relative surrender
ralues allowed and the greater or less security afforded by the
rate of interest assumed in computing the reserve as well as
the larger or smaller amount held as a reserve to protect
all policies issued by the company. —

“Tn effect the proposal of any mutual company to those
whom it seeks to insure is this: ‘Let us for our mutual pro-
tection each pay in as much premium as the mortality tables

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indicate is necessary and so much additional in order to be
safe; then if all is not used, we will return to every one his
share of the unused portion of the premium collected.’

“The non-participating company proposition is that the
stockholders say to the policy-holders: ‘We will furnish you
with insurance protection for such and such a premium; this
is purely a commercial proposition; we believe the premium
we charge will be sufficient to enable us to pay all the benefits
promised in the policy and return to us a reasonable profit
on our investment, but we have subscribed and we bind our-
selves to carry out our contracts, even if the premiums prove
to be insufficient.’”’

The Committee on Group Insurance consists of Mr.
Pindar and Mr. Beers. | Employees interested in the matter
are invited to consult them for further details.

It is requested that employees fill out the enclosed form
and send it to Mr. Pindar.

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THE NEWS

‘After a short illness, Dr. Allen, for 36 years Curator of Mammals
here, died on the morning of August 29th, at his summer home at Corn-
wall-on-Hudson. He was 85 years old. The value and volume of his
scientific work and the beauty of his character and personality are above
comment here. His place can never be filled.

Mrs. Allen, who suffered a collapse after her husband’s death, is now
regaining her strength.

President Osborn calls his recent journey a Neolithic tour because
he desired to study the New Stone Age in the same way in which he
studied the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age during his tour of 1913. Ae-
companied by Mrs. Osborn, he sailed on the 8.8. “Olympic” on July
16th, with a passport viséd by six governments, and successively visited
England, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium and France.

A week in England included a day at the site of the discovery of the
Piltdown man in Sussex and two days on the east coast, where Pliocene
man has at last been found in England,—a truly epoch-making dis-
covery. In Norway, a delightful reception and entertainment by Dr.
John Alfred Mj en led to the latter promising to come to the Eugenics
Congress. In Sweden, the principal host was Baron De Geer, who was
received in the American Museum with such distinction last year. He
has fixed the date of the arrival of man ir Scandinavia with great preci-
sion. Wonderful museums and collections were visited in Stockholm,
Copenhagen, Liége, Rrussels and Paris, where New Stone Age history of
man in Europe was revealed.

For much needed -recreation, Professor Osborn accepted the invita-
tion of the Prince of Monaco to visit his camp in the high Pyrenees, not
far from the Spanish frontier, where the Prince is making a national game
preserve—already full of chamois, to which he hopes to add the ibex.
This was followed by the resumption of New Stone Age interests in the
central Pyrenees region, including a visit to the wonderful caverns, Les
Trois Fréres, discovered by the Count of Pegouen two years ago and
named for his three sons; also a visit to the cave of the Tuc d’Audoubert,
discovered in 1913, which more recently has revealed the famous pair of
bisens sculptured in clay; then a trip nerthward to Toulouse and wes‘-
ward to Pcrdeaux to see the wenderful ancient sculptures cf the man and

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woman from Laussel, believed to be 25,000 years old, in the collections of
M. Lalanne, who has just presented beautifully executed casts to the
American Museum. The next four days were spent in Paris, among the
museums, rounding out the work of the earlier four days,. Professor
Osborn paid special attention to the ancient Museum of Palzeontology in
the Jardin des Plantes, where he saw the newly discovered skeletons be-
longing to the Neanderthal race, which have greatly added to current
knowledge of thisrace. From Paris, he went to the Megalithic region on
the southern coast of Brittany centering around the little coast town of
Carnac and the neighboring Gulf of Morbihan, where he saw a most
wonderful collection of monuments of the New S cne Age. Here the
hosts were M. Louis Marsille, of the charming little Museum of Vannes,
and M. Rousic, of the Museum of Carnac. Fortunately, a Brittany
pardon (religious and agricultur | féte) was in progress, and the windows
of the inn at Carnac overlooked the little town square and ancient village
church, where the peasants flocked to early service.

After three memorable days in this wonderful region, President and
Mrs. Osborn took a small American-made motor car, a Dodge, directly
north across Brittany to the old fortified town of St. Malo, on the north-
ern coast of Brittany, thence to Mont St. Michel on the border between
Brittany and Normandy, which is the most remarkable monument of
medieval times in the world, and on through Avranches to join the
“Olympic’”’ at Cherbourg, September 14th, for the homeward journey. :

The object of the Neolithic tour was not only to study the ancient
Neolithic territory, which is chiefly in northern France, Denmark and
Scandinavia, but also to make new friends at every point for the Ameri-
can Museum, with a view to enlarging and enriching our collection of
European archeology, which is now under the able care of Dr. Nels C.
Nelson. A few materials were actually brought back and there is
promised a great deal more which in the end will enable the American
Museum to present the complete prehistory of the early cultures of our
ancestors of western Europe. This, as the readers of Wuseologist know,
is left out of American history almost entirely and must be taken up from
the other side, because American archeology begins, or is generally
believed to begin, with the early Neolithic or New Stone Age.

The day before the opening of the Eugenics Congress, which was held
at the Museum from September 22nd to September 28th, President and

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Mrs. Osborn returned from their European trip, the one to preside over
the Congress, the other to preside over the Ladies’ Committee of Recep-
tion and Entertainment, in the absence of Mrs. E. H. Harriman, who
was detained in the West.

As the result of fwo years’ preparation, in which many forces were
united and all worked together with the best of good will, the Congress
was an astounding success. Major Leonard Darwin and all the other
delegates who made the long journey from the other side of the ocean
were del ghted with the arrangements, and one and all declared that the
Second Congress, held in the American Museum, marks a new period in
the eugenics movement.

From the opening session in the great lecture hall of the Museum,
through the meetings of each of the four sections in the Hall of the Age
of Man and the East and West Assembly Halls, to the closing session,
interest was not only sustained, but kept increasing. At first inclined to
regard the Congress with levity, the press of the city took it more and
more seriously, until finally the chief and most striking passages in the
more important addresses, by men like Major Darwin, Dr. Lucien
Cuénot, M. de Lapouge, Dr. Jon Alfred Mj~en, and Dr. Lucien March,
among the foreign speakers, and the outstanding addresses of American
speakers such as Dr. Raymond Pearl, Dr. AleS Hrdliéka, Professor
Osborn and others were widely spread through the general press and
editorial columns of the country.

Of the more than one hundred delegates appointed to the Congress,
almost all attended. Twenty-one foreign countries were represented.
Four delegates were sent by the United States Public Health Service,
and eleven States had delegates present. In addition, there was a large
attendance of members, over three hundred, from a membership of from
three hundred and fifty to four hundred.

At the close of the Congress, resolutions were adopted for future work
and new officers were elected. More detailed announcement concerning
the business transacted will be made at a later date.

In addition to the official and section luncheons and dinners, the
delegates were delightfully entertained at luncheon by President and
Mrs. Osborn, at their home, Castle Rock, Garrison-on-Hudson.

Another enjoyable feature of the Congress was the excursion by
motor to the Eugenics Record Office and Station for Experimental
Evolution of the Department of Genetics of the Carnegie Institution of

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Washington, at Cold Spring Harbor, on Long Island. Here the delegates
were entertained by the Carnegie Institution and the Long Island Recep-
tion Committee, and were given the opportunity of inspecting the Sta-
tion.

All the members of the Museum staff will rejoice to know that after
two years of geological work in the field in connection with the discovery
of o:l, Mr. Barnum Brown rejoined the Museum staff on August Ist
and soon thereafter reported to President Osborn in Paris for duty. Mr.
Brown has never, in fact, been out of touch with the Museum. Both in
Cuba and in Africa he made splendid collections in invertebrate palzeon-
tology, which are now being worked up by Miss Marjorie O’Connell.
He also collected zoological and ethnological material in Africa. At
present, Mr. Brown is bound for southern Asia, where he will visit all
the great localities in which remains of primates, especially man, have
been found or are likely to be found,—namely, in Burma and the
Siwaliks and Bugti Hills of India. He takes with him the good wishes of
all his British friends who have worked in those fields, and he hopes to
enjoy the cooperation of the Geological Survey of India, particularly of
Dr. Pilgrim. His journey is made possible by the generosity of Mrs. H.
C. Frick, who has placed at the disposal of the American Museum
Trustees a fund to be devoted especially to exploration in southern Asia.
Mr. Brown is one of the most enterprising and courageous of all our ex-
plorers. Just the qualities which he possesses will be needed to over-
come such difficulties as he is sure to meet among the natives on the
frontier lines of British rule in India.

Dr. W. K. Gregory left New York on May 25th, on the Museum’s
first Australian expedition, accompanied by Mr. Harry C. Raven, who
was in charge of field work. They arrived in Sydney on June 20th.
Headquarters of the expedition were soon established at the Australian
Museum, through the courtesy of the Museum officials.

Mr. Ellis F. Joseph, of Sydney, who is well known to the staff of the
New York Zoological Society for the many rare and interesting mammals
he has brought to the Park from Australia, was of great service to the
members of the expedition. Through his efforts, Mr. Harry Burrell,
also of Sydney, and known for his field studies of the life habits of mar-
supials, accompanied Dr. Gregory and Mr. Raven on their first collect-

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ing trip in the mountains of northern New South Wales. Through Mr.
Burrell’s influence, also, they were entertained as the guests of Mr.
Clifford Moseley, upon whos» station (ranch) they had the opportunity
of collecting a fine series of kang roos (Macropus giganteus) and numer-
ous flying phalangers and small insectivorous marsupials. Mr. Jim
Wilson, of this locality, another friend of Mr. Burrell, placed his remark-
ably detailed knowledge of the habits of the marsupials at the disposal
of the Museum representatives. The party were thus enabled to
secure in this region not only splendid exhibition material but
also a series of skins and skeletons for the Department of Mam-
malogy, and many preserved specimens for dissection of the muscles,
etc., for the Department of Comparative Anatomy. Incidentally, the
collectors found it an inspiring sight to see the kang roos making their
enormous leaps on the sunny hillsides, and the flying phalangers skim-
ming from tree to tree in the moonlight.

Birds were very numerous and abundant, but very few were collected
during the early part of the trip, as it was felt to be more important to
secure the mammals first.

Materials are now being secured from this region for a kang2roo
group showing a mob of kangaroos fleeing from a pack of dingoes, or
native wild dogs. The latter will be shown in the act of separating one
of the kangaroos from its fellows, and leaping up around it, snapping at
its h unches and endeavoring to overturn it. The prospects of Mr.
Raven’s securing during the coming year a large and representative
series of Australian marsupials are excellent, and arrangements have
already been made for him to collect in various localities in Queensland,
New South Wales and Tasmania. Through the courtesy of Dr. Gerrit
S. Miller, Curator of Mammals in the United States National Museum,
Mr. Charles Hoy, who has been collecting in Australia for that Museum
during the past two years, placed all his hard-won knowledge and expe-
ri nce unreservedly at the service of his American Museum colleagues.

As the available time was very limited, Dr. Gregory had to leave Mr.
Raven after three weeks’ stay in camp. He then made a tour of the
principal cities of southeastern and southern Australia, and Tasmania,
where he established personal contact with the leading museums and
museum officials, and gave a series of lectures entitled: ‘‘ Australian
Marsupials and Why They Are Worth Protecting,” ‘Glimpses of Evolu-
tion’’ and ‘‘A Review of the Evolution of Human Dentition.”’ The last

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named lecture was delivered at the Fourth Australian Dental Congress,
at Adelaide, of which Dr. Greg ‘ry was made an Honorary Member.

Everywhere museum officials and university professors gladly took
active part in the efforts to establish closer relations between the Ameri-
can Museum and the museums and universities of Australia. Arrange-
ments were made for extensive exchanges of exhibition and study
material. By putting into effect the plans which have been made, it
appears to be quite possible to secure material for a new Australian Hall
within the next two or three years. It is planned to have mounted
groups of Australian mammals and birds in the same hall with groups
showing the life of the aborigines.

It would be difficult to acknowledge in detail the very numerous and
important courtesies received by the members of the expedition from
Australian colleagues and friey ds. Among those who cooperated most
actively, however, may be especially mentioned Mr. Charles Hedley
and Dr. Charles Anderson, of the Australian Museum; Professor Lance-
lot Harrison, of the University of Sydney; Mr. Ellis 8. Joseph and Mr.
Harry Burrell, of Sydney; Mr. E. C. Andrews, Government Geologist
of New South Wales; Mr. Heber A. Longman, Director of the museum
at Queensland; Sir Baldwin Spencer, Mr. Kershaw and Mr. F. Chap-
man, of the National Museum at Melbourne; Mr. Edgar Waite,
Director of the South Australia Museum at Adelaide; Mr. H. H. Scott,
Curator of the Victoria Museum and Art Gallery at Launceston, Tas-
mania; Mr. Clive E. Lord, Curator of the museum at Hobart; and
Professor T. T. Flynn of the University of Tasmania, Hobart.

Mr. Smyth has just retuned from a month’s st-y + Indian
Lake, in the Adirondacks. We think he feels rather bad’ y about having
to come back.

Dr. Goddard was fortunate enough to make two trips, this summer.
His first trip, which lasted from April to early June, had as its chief
purpose the securing of first-hand information concerning the collection
of Peruvian gold objeets purchased in this city in 1920. Fe v’s’ed the
locality in Peru in which the specimens were originatly obtained, and
discovered an additional gold object there. Incidenta'ly, he had the
opportunity of seeing the ruins al 1g the coast of Peru and in the high

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mountains east of Lima. Plans have been formulated which it is hoped
may lead to valuable future work in Peruvian archeology.

The second trip was made at th invitation of the State Historical
Society of North Dakota to attend the Arikara bundle-opening cere-
monies, which were held chiefly for the purpose of increasing the food
supply by making the grain grow well and making the buffalo multiply.
This is the first time in many years that these ceremonies have been held.
Motion pictures and still pictures were taken, and phonograph records
of the songs were obtained. Important parts of the ritual were recorded
in the Arikara language. Dr. Goddard was assisted in this work by Miss
Gladys A. Reichert, Assistant in the Department of Anthropology at
Columbia. Dr. Melvin R. Gilmore, Curator of the North Dakota State
Historical Society, and Mr. George F. Will, of Bismarck, were also
members of the party.

Mr. Ernest Thompson-Seton was the guest of the staff meeting of the
Department of Ornithology, on September 22d. He gave a very en-
joyable talk on the aims and objects of the Woodcraft League.

A carload of steel cabinets has arrived for the Department of Mam-
mals. The work of re-distributing storage specimens will commence as
soon as the new cases have been installed.

Mr. Barnum Brown has sent in a few salt water fishes from the
general vicinity of Abyssinia, which it will not be possible to identify
offhand.

Mr. J. C. Bell has just completed a cast of a large hammerhead shark.
This is the first cast to be made from one of the series of large sharks
obtained on his expedition to Cape Lookout, North Carolina, some
months back. Dr. Russell J. Colés, who was a visitor at the Museum a
‘short time ago, went over this cast carefully, making some suggestions
as to finishing touches. The next fish which Mr. Bell will take up will
be a large male tiger shark captured by Dr. Coles. The Cape Lookout
shark expedition was reported on technically in the March number of
Copeia. A popular article on the expedition, written by Mr. Nichols,
appeared in the May-June number of Natural History. It was accom-
panied by some very interesting and unusual photographs taken by Dr.

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Gudger. The article was entitled: “What Sharks Really Eat.” We
think it interesting to quote here Oliver Herford’s valuable suggestion
in the matter of shark diet:

From the shark, my child, I pray,
Do not recoil or turn away!

Tis true, the shark is net the pink
Of nice propriety; but think!
Think of the horrid sailor-men

He has to swallow now and then,
With all their untold yarns inside,
And lots of fearful oaths, beside!
Put yourself in his place, my child—
Could you keep spotless, undefiled?
If only we could make a list

Of all on whom he should subsist,
No home, I'll venture to remark,
Would be complete without a shark.

Mr. Nichols believes his vacation to be approximately over. He
admits having become rather tired of it.

Dr. Gudger has recently returned from his vacation in very good
spirits. When closely questioned, he will confess to having spent it in
Waynesville, in the mountains of North Carolina. Waynesville is at an
elevation of 2,800 feet, and is surrounded by mountain peaks 5,000 and
6,000 feet high. Accordingly, Dr. Gudger had a high time there.

During three weeks in August, Mr. Camp collected herpetological
and fossil specimens in the Painted Desert of Arizona, for the University
of California. A good deal of material was obtained. In part of his
labors, he had the assistance of a light-hearted cowboy with a lively in-
terest in “‘hyperglyphiecs.’”’ Together they pried up and toppled over
ancient monoliths of the desert, to see what was underneath. When the
work of collecting was finished, Mr. Camp, in an interval of abstraction,
turned westward and wandered across the Sierras to a place in California
known locally as Los Angeles. There he was detained for a time by
several circumstances, but eventually wandered back again to the Mu-

seum fold.

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There has recently been placed on temporary exhibit in the tower of
the Hall of the Living Tribes of Asia a remarkable Buddhist shrine
from Thibet, with Thibetan carpet, prayer-mats, temple guardians,
altar vessels, images, sacred banners and holy book reciting the praises
of Buddha. This is probably the finest assemblage of Thibetan religious
objects ever brought together. It was collected by Alexander Scott, a
British artist whose interest in Indian and Thibetan archeology dates
back forty years, and who for twenty-six years made his home in
Darjeeling, India, on the highway to Thibet.

The central figure of the shrine is that of Padma (teacher) Sambhava,
“the Lotus-born,’’—the great guru or saint who 800 years ago entered
Thibet, at the invitation of the Thibetan king, and became the first
teacher of Buddhism in Thibet. It is to his influence that the strongly
Hindu character of the rites and mythology of present-day Buddhism
in Thibet is to be traced. The other typical character of Lamaism is its
admixture of demonology, a relic of Thibetan aboriginal shamanism,
the religion of ghosts and local demons. From the primitive sha-
manistic element arises the use of carved human bones in the making of
religious regalia and other objects. The bones are the relics of very
holy Lamas, long dead, who are supposed to be honored in the practice.

The shrine of Padma Sambhava as set up in the Museum illustrates _
the predominance of symbolism in Buddhism, as in all Oriental religiors.
The saint wears a mitre topped with a vulture’s feather. As the vulture
is the highest and farthest flier, the feather here indicates that the
d ctr ne of this guru is the most aspiring, and his knowledge the most
noble and spiritual. In his right hand he holds a dorje or thunderbolt,
symbolizing divine protection and eternal life. His left hand grasps the
skull-bowl containing blood’ or amita (‘‘sweet dew,’’ the ambrosial food
of supernatural beings) signifying blessings. Resting lightly across his
breast and against his left shoulder leans a trident, its three points sig-
nifying that he has overcome the three vices, Lust, Anger and Sloth.
The image is finely wrought in copper, and the face is coated with pure
gold, highly burnished.

The shrine is flanked on each side by a great brass sacred lamp, of
exquisit? workmanship, of which one is the finest Mr. Scott has ever
seen. On the steps leading to the altar are a number of brass dog- or
lion-like figures, elaborately designed and inscribed. These are the
guardians of the temple. Stretched on the steps is a Ming prayer-mat

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at least 400 years old. The side-walls are hung with beautiful banners
in the sacred colors and symbels. On a carved stool set with turquoise
and coral lies a holy book reciting in gold letters on dark blue parchment
the praises of Buddha. And most precious of all, spread before the altar
is one of the three Thibetan carpets known to exist. Tradition has it

that carpets were once woven in Thibet. But for many years none has

been known to be in existence. When, however, the. first Sikh
Maharajah, Golab Singh, was installed over Kashmir, tribute was sent
to him from Thibet, and among the gifts were three beautiful carpets,
all of the same size and of similar design. For the best part of 100 years
these lay in the palace Tesha Khana, or store-house, in Kashmir. Re-
cently they were sold at public aucticn, in Srinagar, where Mr. Scott
purchased one, and later obtained the others from two Indian nobles
who had secured them at the auction. The carpets, like the prayer-
mats, show Chinese taste blended with Thibetan symbolism, and were
doubtless made in Thibet by Chinese weavers. Just as the carpets and
mats show the influence of China, a large proportion of Thibetan metal-
work strengly reflects Indian culture, as frcm time immemcrial the
Newaris of Nepal, in India, have werked in metal fcr the Thibetans.

Laid on the shrine as votive cfierings are many little images, some of
gold inlaid with turquoise and lapis lazuli. In some eases, these are
images of Krishna, probably originally left by Hindus who, without
worshipping Buddha, reverence him, and are willing to make gifts to his
temples.

Most of these objects were looted from Thibetan temples by the
Chinese expedition which was sent into Thibet after the British, under
Sir Francis Younghusband, had departed from Lhasa, the Lamaistic
Holy City. A part of the Chinese expedition returned hcme by way of
India, disposing of their loot ‘o Parsee or Hindu curiosity dealers on the
way. Thus many great rarities were for a time cbtainable by con-
noisseurs lucky enough to be on the spot.

Miss Helga Pearson, daughter of Karl Pearson, the noted
biometrician and eugenist of the University of London, has come to
study at the Museum. Miss Pearson was a student of Professor Wat-
son, under whom she specialized in vertebrate morphology. She will
take Dr. Gregory’s courses in mammals, iving and fossil, the evolution
of vertebrates and comparative my logy, and will do research work
along those lines.

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.

During his recent trip abroad, Dr. McGregor was successful in secur-
ing very abundant photographic material and casts of European fossil
man, and in greatly extending the data for his reconstructions of the
skeleton of the Neanderthal race. He used the new stereoscopic camera
such as has been installed in the Galton Laboratory here.

According to rumor, Charl’e Allgoever contemplates the purchase of
a fine seven-cylinder car equipped with an automatic commencer.
Make unknown.

The two British companies which have organized flying services
between London and Paris are finding business good. On one occas on,
a short time ago. three passengers were obliged to stand during the trip.
Passenger aeroplanes should certainly be equipped with straps for the
convenience of those who can get only ‘‘S. R. O.”’ accommodations during
rush hours.

Museum people were agreeably excited during the month of August
at the press notices, headed ‘“‘ Ten-Year-Old Heroine Saves Girl of Three
from Drowning,” of which we quote one:

“St. John, N. B.—Margaret, the 10-year-old daughter of Dr. and
Mrs: W. D. Matthew, of New York, has proved herself a heroine by
plunging into the swift current of the Kennebacis River at Gondola
Point and rescuing 3-year-old Sally Morton from drowning.

““When the baby toppled into the river, Margaret, without removing
clothes or shoes, jumped in, gripped the garments of the drowning child
with her teeth and swam to shore.”

The Sloth Group, Age of Man Hall, has been enclosed with glass,
makir g the largest exhibition case of its kind in the world. It measures
34’ X12’ 5”. The front is made up of four lights of polished plate glass,
8’ 6’ wide X 10’ 6” high, separated by metal bars only 1’’ wide. Each
side is of two lights, each 6’ 2” X 10’ 6”, with 1” bars and 1” X 1”
corners. The case is lighted by a series of Frink reflectors equipped with
Tungsten lamps, extending along the entire front, concealed in the
cornice of the case.

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Mr. Beers has designed a new case, of which an example, containing
books, can now be seen in the Forestry Hall. It is an all-steel combina-
tion storage and exhibiti n case, fire resisting and “dustite,”’ with “‘slide-
tite’ doors, and is a free standing unit that can be extended indefinitely
by adding units on either end. Each unit has four rows. of
steel shelves on each side or front, that can be adjusted on 1” centers,
either on the flat or inclined. The construction permits the insertion of
vehisote panels, as desired, forming a diaphragm or background. The
lower portion of the space under the bottom exhibition shelf forms a
storage space 14”’ high and of the depth of the case. This is covered by
the steel panel of the doors.

The first consignment from the Whitney South Seas Expedition,
which was shipped from Tahiti in February last and was lost in transit,
arrived at the Museum during August in excellent conditidn. The ship-
ment comprised upwards of 300 specimens of birds, including several
species not previously received from Mr. Beck. Another box received
from Mr. Beck contained collections from the Austral Islands—the
southernmost group in Central Polynesia,—representing the spoils from
such islands as Rapa and Rurutu, which have perhaps never before been
visited by naturalists.

Birds, reptiles and plants are included in Mr. Beck’s collections, all
of which have proved of the greatest interest. Among the birds are a
large series of very beautiful fruit pigeons of four species, the one from
Rapa Island, known to science as Ptelopus huttoni, being previously
represented in the museums of the world by only the single type skin.
Among other important accessions are a series of Polynesian black rails
which are very little known because of the difficulty of securing them;
a series of reef herons and one of a widely distributed Pclynesian
duck related to the American black duck; lories or parakeets of extremely
bizarre coloration, swifts of the genus Collocalia, the manufacturers of
the famous Chinese soup nests, and many species of Old World warblers
which are of particular value to science because they are in some cases
the only land birds inhabiting their respective islands, and they there-
fore show unusual facts of individual variation such as evolutionists
generally expect only among domesticated animals. An interesting dis-
covery brought forth by the study of the collections is the fact that some
species, such as the Australian and African weaver birds and Asiatic

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starlings or myn*s, have become very generally distributed among the
Polynesian Islands, Owing to the possible deleterious efiect of these
new-covers upon the native fauna, the importance of investigating the
zoolegy as well as the ethnology of Polynesia has become increasingly
apparent.

Ornithological field collections in the Azores have been begun by Mr.
José G. Correia, of New Bedford, under the auspices of Dr. L. C. San-
ford. The first shipment from these islands has reached the Museum.
It includes a series of breeding specimens of Cory’s shearwater, a bird
originally described from the Atlantic coast of the United States and for
many years known only from examples taken on our coast. The breed-
ing grounds have however recently been discovered. Mr. Correia, who
was formerly a member of the crew of the New Bediord whaler Daisy,
which took Dr. Murphy to Scuth Georgia in 1912 and 1913, plans to
extend his field of collecting to Madeira, the Canaries, the am Verdes
and other islands off the coast of Africa.

We congratulate the new editor and the staff of Natural History on
their splendid work in ‘“‘catching up”’ in publication. We are pretty
sure that before the end of this year Natural History will be appearing
on schedule time. This is a fine achievement, particularly in view of the
high standard which is being maintained for the magazine.

For the September-October number we are promised two articles of
excepticnal interest: cone, by Dr. Kunz, devoted to the Radium Ex-
hibit held here a short time ago, will set forth all the steps necessary in
isclating radium, and will contain a fine series of photographs; the other,
by Dr. Geddard, will give the story of the remarkable collection of
golden objects fronr Peru which were recently purchased for the Mu-
seum, and will also be beautifully illustrated.

Mr. Albert Thomson has been very successful in his work in the
Snake Creek beds in Western Nebraska. He has obtained many inter-
esting specimens from the late Tertiary. These include five skulls of the
three-tced horse, two skulls of carnivora, and the skulls of a deer, an
alligater and a giant snapp ng turtle. Palates, jaws and teeth were also
found in great numbers.

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According to information received in his department, Mr. Granger
is now at work in Tze-chwan, where he will stay until February if the
field seems promising. He wrote that plans had been held up by weather
and politics, both of which have been hot.

Some time ago, Mr. Van Campen Heilner left at the Museum a small
collection of fishes, which he had obtained last winter in the Berry
Islands, Bahamas, in rock pools, at low tide. When in due course these
were taken up and catalogued, two species were found among them which
apparently had never before been described. This is another instance
illustrating the extreme richness of the fish fauna of the West Indies.

Mr. Henn spent his holidays at the Carnegie Museum, in Pittsburgh.

_ The Pittsburgh people are anxious for him to begin curating their fishes,
-but he will continue with h’s work here on the Bibliography of Fishes

until it is completed.

As Miss La Monte felt it her duty to accompany her family to Italy,
Miss Heinrich has taken her place in work on the Bibliography.

Speaking of the Bibliography, again, the publication of the finished
parts is still being held up by the printers’ strike. Museum work on the
index goes forward.

At the request of President Osborn, who has predicted the close of
Age of Mammals within probably fifty years, Mr. Anthony is collecting
statistics on the sale of skins, for use in fur garments, for the years 1919,
1920 and 1921. His results, which will be published later, bear out the
amazing figures for the destruction of fur-bearing and _ hair-bearing
animals, the world over, set forth by Dr. Hornaday in his article ‘‘ The
Fur Trade and The Wild Animals,” printed in the Zoological Society
Bulletin of March, 1921.

Dre Lowie left early in August for Berkeley, where he has been
appointed Associate Professor of Anthropology in the University of Cali-
fornia.

Early in September, Mr. Hyde was bitten on the second finger of the
right hand by a two-foot rattlesnake in the Museum of the Boy Scout

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camp at Kanowakhe Lakes, near Tuxedo, of which he has charge. He
himself applied first aid, and later went to the camp hospital for further
treatment. There were no serious results. Mr. Hyde is having splendid
success in his work with the boys, among whom he is known sa ‘“‘ Uncle
Bennie.” Mrs. Hyde is ‘Aunt Bennie.”

Representing the Heye Foundatoin of the American Indian, New
York, Professor Ralph Glidden of this city is again planning a four
months’ expedition to the Channel Islands to continue his search for
Indian curios. It is stated that when this expedition is completed the
museum w_ll have a complete collection of the Pacific Coast Indians,
dating back for almost a thousand years for the Channel Islands and
several thousand years for the inhabitants of the mainland.

During his recent visit to the coast, Mr. George G. Heye placed Mr.
Glidden in charge of all the California field work, and has planned
another expedition when the California work is finished.

(The Catalina Islander, Avalon, California.)

The Museum mail, of late, has been heavy with wedding announce-.
ments. Of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Spier, now of Seattle; of Mr. and Mrs.
Noble; of Mr. Howard Ramsey and Mrs. Ramsey; of Mr. Carter and
his wife, formerly Miss Helen Edmond, of Cohocton; and of Mr,
Chapin and his wife, formerly Miss Suzanne Drouél, of Marseilles,
may it always be said: ‘“‘—and they lived happily ever after.”

On November 9th, Mr. Chapin will address the British Ornithologists’
Club in London.

Friends of Mr. Cherrie were very sorry to hear of the cablegram
announcing that he had been shot in the arm and had had to wait four
days for medical attention. Further information is anxiously awaited.

Late in June, the rearrangement of specimens in the Department of
Ornithology, which has taken the greater part of Mr. Griscom’s attention
for many months, was completed. President Osborn made a tour of
inspection, and at one of the Department’s regular Thursday afternoon
staff meetings expressed his commendation of the new arrangement.

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Mr. Anthony has written an account of his Ecuador trip for the
October number of the National Geographic. Important loans for use in
connection with his work on the Ecuadorian material have been received
from the Field and National Museums.

An article “Over the Andes to Bogotd,” by Dr. Chapman, will
also appear in the Octc ber Geographic.

During a two-months’ vacation, this summer, Mr. Goodwin visited
his parents in England. This was his first trip home in five years. He
also spent some time in Scotland and Paris.

Reports by Mr. Anthony on the mammals collected by Mr. Beebe
in British Guiana will appear shortly in the Bulletin and Novitates.

John Daniel, of enduring memory and valuable remains, has been
mounted and favorably passed upon in his new aspect by various ex-
perts, who seem agreed that he looks “‘so natural.’’ He will probably
be placed on exhibition in a short time.

Mr. Blaschke is now working on a group of Baboons, the material
for which was obtained by Messrs. Lang and Chapin, in the Belgian
Congo.

Dr. Fisher, again this year, during July and August, conducted
nature study work in Camp Wigwam, near Harrison, Maine. Especial
attention was paid to birds, wild flowers and trees. Mammals, insects
and other subjects, however, were also studied. Dr. Fisher has con-
ducted courses in bird study in the Universities of Florida and Tennessee,
and in the Marine Biological Laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor, Long
Island. At none of these three places have more than about 50 or 60
nesting birds been found; but in Maine, during this summer and last,
Dr. Fisher observed 83 species of nesting birds.

One of the activities of the boys in the camp which maintained a
high degree of interest was the keeping of animals (snakes, turtles and
fur-bearing animals) in temporary captivity.

Dr. Fisher made a great many motion and still pictures of birds and
animals, which will be used in the educational work of the Museum.

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On September 30th and October Ist and 2nd, the New York Asso-
ciation of Biology Teachers held a flower exposition in The American
Museum. Every high school in New York was represented in the exposi-
tion, which consisted largely of potted plants and growing vegetables,
and of cut wild flowers and fruits collected by the students and teachers.
Awards were made to the best exhibits. Music was furnished by some
of the high school orchestras. More than 33 institutions, prominent
publishing companies and seedsmen cooperated in the work of the ex-
hibition. A prize poster contest was held in connection with the event.

Museum emplcyees desirirg to purchase honey (buckwheat and
clover mixed) at $.80 for 5 pcunds and $.20 for 15 cunces, may place
orders through Museclegist.

Mr. Operti was knocked down by a motor truck on the evening
of Oetcber 13th. He was not run cver, but was dragged scme dis-
tance. Fortunately, no brcken bones or sericus injury resulted; but
he is suffering frcm severe bruises and shock.

IN THE FIELD

In a long and newsy letter dated August 31, of which an extract is
given below, Mr. Clifford Pope describes some of the doings of the
Third Asiatic Zoological Expedition:

“We are sending along with this letter the reptiles, amphibians and
fishes secured by the Expedition’s initial effort. Mr. Andrews and I
took a three weeks’ trip into what is called the Tung Ling (Eastern
Tombs) or Imperial Hunting Grounds region. To get there one travels
80 miles due east of Peking and then turns north. The region is just
north of the turning-point. It was once a protected area and for that
reason the forests are just now being cleared from the high mountains
there.

“We left Peking on July 27th and returned August 17th. During
the three weeks it rained almost every day and so we had actually only
a week of good collecting. Wehad p!anned to stay six weeks but the
weather prevented. Going, we used carts as far as the base of the ele-

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vated region, but there we had to take mules because of the narrowness
and steepness of the mountain passes.

“Of course you know that collecting here is not like it is anywhere
else on earth. One has to become accustomed to the entirely new condi-
tions. The purpose of this side trip was to give me an idea of how to work
over here, to train two taxidermists who have not before done mammal
work, and to break in an entirely new man.

“That part of China is very interesting biologically for several
reasons which may be summarized as follows:

“Now it is an isolated forest island which is fast being deforested.
The imperial protection was all that kept it from being made as bare as
the surrounding country. Soon hardly a tree will be left because the
Chinese have entered and are destroying the forests at an unbelievable
rate. Every valley is completely filled with crops that in places even
climb the perpendicular sides of the mountains.

“The mammalian fauna indicates a recent connection with the
forests farther south. However, all visible connection has been destroyed
and the intervening space is part of the bare plain of North China.
There are also signs of faunistical connection with the well-forested
area of the Amur basin.

“From the herpetological point of view the field is almost unexplored.
So far as I know no authoritative work has been done there on frogs,
snakes, fishes, etc.

“Do not become discouraged if you cannot find places we name
on the map. It seems almost impossible to get good maps of this
country.

“As for my personal impressions of this land!—they are too numer-
ous and involved and too everything else for me to go into here. Suffice
it to say that I would not swap the experiences I have had already for
years of existence at home and there are no signs of the petering out of
any of the sources of this wealth of interest. It would take one, two or
three years to ‘do up’ Peking and so we have an abundance of amuse-
ment during our short inter-trip stays here. I am trying to learn a few
Chinese sounds so that I will be able to greet the Chinese farmer as he
‘brushes with hasty steps the dews away to meet’ me early in the
morning with the day’s first specimen. The work is always mixed with
fun because these people have such a good sense of humor. We are
going to adopt the policy of sending in to the mandarin of each village
near which we have camped, upon our departure, a bill headed:

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‘For Amusement Rendered to Citizens of Village and Adjacent
Territory, so many Dollars. Payable Instantly.’

Doubtless if we move about much over here the travelling theatres will
realize they have a formidable rival. I do not believe that many of them
can draw crowds as large as the ones that collect to watch us receive and
inject ‘hamas’ and ‘yiis.’”’

The tea-kettle, although up to its neck in hot water. keeps on singing.

4

GRIN AND BEAR IT

“Pat, phwat do they be manin’, annyways, by this here talk of
‘strategic warfare?’”’

“Sure, that’s warfare where ye don’t let the innemy know ye’re
out of amminition, but keep right on firin’.”’

‘“‘T am collecting for the poor. May I ask what you do with your
old clothes?”

“T hang them up carefully at night; and in the morning I put them
on again.”

Voice over the telephone: ‘‘Is this the store-room?”’

Mr. Wilde: “Yes.”

Voice over the telephone: “Will you please send me up a
thermometer?’’

Mr. Wilde: ‘‘We have no thermometers.”’

Voice over the telephone: ‘‘No thermometers? Well, then, send
me up a whiskbroom.”’

One of the men on our scientific staff, after riding for some distance
on a train, was requested by the conductor to show his ticket. He made
careful search, but was unable to find it.

“That’s alright,’ said the conductor. “I'll be through here again
after the next station.”’

Page Thirty-one

When the conductor returned, however, the ticket was still missing.

“Well, time enough. I'll be along again after we pass the next
station,” he said cheerfully.

But the ticket had not yet been found when the conductor made his

_ third appearance.

“You haven’t found it yet? Well, I’ll stop again after the next
station. It’s alright.”

But the member of our scientific staff was by this time greatly
disturbed.

“Tt isn’t alright,’ he said in a worried tone. ’e’ve passed several
stations already, and I want to find the ticket so as to see where I’m
going.”

ce

Now If Only They Were on The Square!
Jack: “How do these love triangles usually end?’’
Bill: ‘Most of them turn into wreck-tangles.”’

My pigmy counterpart,”’ the poet wrote

Of his dear child, the darling of his heart;

Then longed to clutch the printer by the throat,
Who set it up: ‘‘My pig, my counterpart.”

According to Mr. Opertt, the Columbus Avenue trolley line is issuing
clothes-pins, instead of transfers. They are good on any line.

An English newspaper quotes Lord Hartington as authority for the
truth of the following story:

During the war, a professor in Paris set himself to track down a great
commercial firm in Spain, which, he said, was engaged in all sorts of
operations tending to break the blockade and to smuggle things into
Germany. He traced its activities in many directions—supplying iron
ore, submarines, and other facilities for a German victory. He pub-
lished the results of his investigations, together with a proposed method
of checkmating the offending firm, in a pamphlet of 80 printed pages.
The pamphlet disclosed the name of the firm: ‘Y. Hijos.”’

Then, one day, the professor learned that ‘‘ Y Hijos’’ was Spanish for
‘and sons.”’

Page Thirty-two

Shortly after the Hyde collection of Navajo blankets had been in-
stalled, two ladies approached an attendant who had recently been em-
ployed, and asked where they could find the Hyde Collection.

The attendant pondered deeply, scratched his head, and asked:

“Ts it the shkins ye mane, ma’am?”’

A man who had just reached his hundredth birthday was being inter-
viewed by a representative of a local paper.

“To what do you attribute your long life?”’ asked the reporter.

The old man answered in a quavering voice: ‘I was born such a
long, long time ago.”’

We see by the papers that greater elasticity is being demanded in the
matter of wages. If wages were more elastic, it might be possible to
stretch them so as to make ends meet.

“Casey is me pertickeler frind, Oi’d have ye know.”
“G’wan! If he was pertickeler, he wouldn’t be yer friend.”’

Overheard Before The Skeleton of The Right Whale
“Notice the great arch of the skull. My theory is that Jonah sat
on the whale’s tongue and breathed through his blowhole.”’

A certain scientist, it is said, claims to be able to measure emotions.
He seems to think they are all a matter of sighs.

‘“‘Begorry, what’s that?’’ asked Pat on seeing his first kangaroo.
“That’s a Kangaroo—a native of Australia.”’
‘Saints preserve us! And my sister married one of thim!”’

“Do you know what it is to go before an audience?’’ asked a pom-
pous actor of his friend.

“No,” replied the truthful friend. ‘‘I spoke before an audience once,
but most of it went before I did.”

Small daughter: ‘Mother, was your name ‘Pullman’ before you
were married?”

Mother: “No, dear. What makes you ask that?”

Small daughter: ‘‘ That name is on so many of our towels.”

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A drill sergeant was instructing recruits, but one of them seemed
incapable of understanding the simplest orders.

“What's your name?’’ shouted the sergeant.

“Casey, sor.”

‘Well, Casey, did you ever drive a mule?”’

“Sees,-sor.”’

‘What did you say when you wanted him to stop?”’

“Whoa!’”’

The sergeant turned away and began once more drilling the squad.
After the man had advanced a dozen yards, he bawled out: ‘“‘Squad, halt!
Whoa, Casey!”’

“Did your brother keep cool when he found out there was a burglar
in the house?”’
“Cool! I should say so! Why, his teeth fairly chattered.”

“TJ tried hard to prevent him from reading any encouragement in
my face.”
“T dare say he read between the lines.’

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The Idealist: ‘‘The world wants only three things: bread, brother-
hood and beauty.”’
The Cynic: ‘And only one of them is really kneaded.”

“The father of Confucius, the Chinese philosopher, was 71 years old
when he was born.” (Post, Pittsburgh, Pa.)

“What are you looking up in that dictionary, Mose? Some big words
another speech?”’
“No, sah, Ah’s translatin’ de speech Ah made las’ night.”’

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What Would Mr. McCann Say?
‘‘Did you give the penny to the monkey, dear?”’
“Yes, mamma.”
‘‘And what did he do?”’
‘He gave it to his father, who was playing the hand-organ.”’

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Lady: ‘It must be dreadful to be shut up in prison.”’
Convict: “Oh, it ain’t so bad. They only have visitin’-days oncet a
month.”

The very stylish young lady fluttered into the drug store, and
haughtily demanded of the clerk:

‘““Have you any telephone booths?”’

“Yes, miss,”’ replied the clerk briskly. ‘‘How many do you want?’’

Tell Him Now!
If with pleasure you are viewing any work a man is doing,
If you like him or you love him, tell him now;
Don’t withhold your approbation till the parson makes oration,
And he lies with snowy lilies o’er his brow;
For no matter how you shout it, he won’t really care about it;
He won't know how many teardroys you have shed;
If you think some praise is due him, now’s the time to slip it to him;
For he cannot read his tombstone when he’s dead.

More than fame and more than money is the comment kind and sunny,
And the hearty warm approval of a friend;

For it gives to life a savor, and makes you stronger, braver,
And it gives you heart and spirit to the end.

If he earns your praise bestow it; if you like him let him know it;
Let the words of true encouragement be said;

Do not wait till life is over and he’s underneath the clover;
For he cannot read his tombstone when he’s dead.

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