It is expected that before the end of the month the northeast room on the first floor will be converted into a shipping and receiving office. The establishment of this room will relieve the building's present main entrance from the congestion of delivery trucks which has previously existed. THE department of invertebrate zoölogy has secured a series of six wax models constructed by Mr. Ignaz Matausch to illustrate some of the results of his researches upon the life histories of tree-hoppers. This series will make a valuable addition to the synoptic exhibits in the Darwin hall. ETHNOLOGICAL exchange specimens received from the Australian Museum of Sydney, New South Wales, illustrate the culture of the natives of Australia in a collection of boomerangs, women's fighting poles, shields, spears, grave-markers, baskets, water-bags and fire-sticks. LECTURE ANNOUNCEMENTS MEMBER'S COURSE Thursday evenings at 8: 15 o'clock. Doors open at 7:45. February 21- MR. CARL E. AKELEY, "Elephant Hunting in Equatorial Africa." 7 MR. PAUL J. RAINEY, "Hunting Lions with Hounds in Africa." 14- MR. CLINTON G. ABBOTT, "Half Holidays with the Birds." PEOPLE'S COURSE Given in coöperation with the City Department of Education Tuesday evenings at 8:15 o'clock. Doors open at 7:30. February 6 - PROF. A. V. WILLIAMS JACKSON, "Through Persia and Central Asia." February 27 PROF. HENRY E. CRAMPTON, "Tahiti and the Society Islands." The last four of a course of lectures on "The Doctrine of Evolution and the problems of Human History" by PROF. HENRY E. CRAMPTON. Illustrated by stereopticon views and by exhibits. "Man's Place in Nature and its Attainment." February 3 February 10 February 24 "Insect Societies and Human Societies." Fully illustrated. LEGAL HOLIDAY COURSE Open free to the public. Tickets not required. Lectures begin at 3:15 o'clock. Doors open at 2:45. February 22 PROFESSOR HENRY E. 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THE MUSEUM PUBLICATIONS are issued in six series: American Museum Journal, Annual Report, Anthropological Papers, Bulletin, Guide Leaflets and Memoirs. Information concerning their sale may be obtained at the Museum library. GUIDES FOR STUDY OF EXHIBITS are provided on request by the department of public education. Teachers wishing to bring classes should write or telephone the department for an appointment, specifying the collection to be studied. Lectures to classes may also be arranged for. In all cases the best results are obtained with small groups of children. WORKROOMS AND STORAGE COLLECTIONS may be visited by persons presenting membership tickets. The storage collections are open to all persons desiring to examine specimens for special study. Applications should be made at the information desk. THE MITLA RESTAURANT in the east basement is reached by the elevator and is open from 12 to 5 on all days except Sundays. Afternoon Tea is served from 2 to 5. The Mitla room is of unusual interest as an exhibition hall being an exact reproduction of temple ruins at Mitla, Mexico. Plans for work To solve the remaining great geographical problem of the earth. The Catlin Paintings.. . CLARK WISSLER Famous cartoon collection of 417 pictures presented to the Museum by Ogden Rhinoceros-hunting. E. HUBERT LITCHFIELD A sportsman's notes on hunting the black rhino in British East Africa. With photographs of some of the heads of large game in the loan collection on the walls of the African hall Three New Groups. 89 94 The wild boar group portrays a snowbound forest of north Germany; the Orizaba bird group, a tropical Mexican jungle; the paddlefish group, the waters of a Mississippi lake Do Butterflies Migrate?. FRANK E. Lutz 106 Concerning a new Museum group that gives a vivid idea of numbers in the monarch butterfly's migration The "Shovel-pit" at Ely, Nevada L. P. GRATACAP 109 A Python from the Philippines.....MARY CYNTHIA DICKERSON 112 Subscription, One Dollar per year. Fifteen cents per copy A subscription to the JOURNAL is included in the membership fees of all classes of members of the Museum Subscriptions should be addressed to the AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL, 30 Boylston St.. Cambridge, Mass., or 77th St. and Central Park West, New York City Entered as second-class matter January 12, 1907, at the Post-Office at Boston, Mass THE TOUCAN AT HOME A DETAIL OF THE ORIZABA GROUP The great beaks of many tropical birds look strange to observers acquainted with birds of temperate climes only. All of the thirty-four birds in the Orizaba group are representatives of the tropical parts of the State of Vera Cruz, the studies for the group having been made at Cordova, altitude 3500 feet "Three New Groups," page 101 |