of the New Guinea material in the South Sea hall, Doctor Lowie is making extensive use of the sketches secured by the museum with the Finsch collection. Dr Otto Finsch, the celebrated naturalist and traveler, provided with the collection a very full series of illustrations accurately picturing many phases of native life. These are highly desirable, as many aspects of aboriginal culture, such as house and boat types, can not always be readily transported or even secured in model specimens, although often they form the most characteristic elements of the culture of a tribe. This applies even more emphatically to social and ceremonial life, which can be studied very inadequately, if at all, from museum specimens. It also applies in large measure to objects of personal adornment and clothing. For instance, it would not be at all obvious to the average visitor how the aborigines wore a profusely decorated heart-shaped object conspicuously exhibited in one of the New Guinea cases. A glance at the sketch now beside the specimen shows it to be a warrior's breast ornament. Similar results have been accomplished with other articles of dress which otherwise could not readily be understood except with the aid of long explanatory labels.

PROFESSOR HENRY WILLIAMSON HAYNES, well known for his investigations in archeology, died at his home in Boston on February 15, aged eighty years. Professor Haynes was for years a member of the Anthropological Society of Washington and he was a founder of the American Anthropological Association. In accordance with the terms of his will $1,000 are bequeathed to the Peabody Museum of Harvard University for the library together with all his prehistoric and archeological objects, and his books and pamphlets relating to such subjects. To the Boston Society of Natural History is given his fossils, minerals, and other objects of natural history. To Harvard College is given, for its classical department, Mr Haynes' Etruscan, Greek, and Roman vases and his ancient coins and medals. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts is to receive his Egyptian antiquities, except those relating to the age of stone in Egypt, which go to the Peabody Museum.

THE program for the 457th regular meeting of the Anthropological Society of Washington, held January 16, consisted of a paper on "The Western Neighbors of the Prehistoric Pueblos," by Dr J. Walter Fewkes, and a paper on "The Hammurabic and Modern Codes," by Mr George R. Stetson. The address of the retiring President, Dr J. Walter Fewkes, was delivered on February 20, the subject being "Great Stone Monuments in History and Geography."

DR J. WALTER FEWKES of the Bureau of American Ethnology has been re-elected president of the American Anthropological Association. The next annual meeting of the Association will be held in Cleveland, Ohio, beginning December 30, 1912, in affiliation with Section H of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

MR N. C. NELSON, Instructor in Anthropology in the University of California, has been appointed Assistant Curator in the Department of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History. He will assume his duties next June and will give especial attention to North American archeology.

THE plant and fixtures of the old Cherokee Advocate were sold at auction at Tahlequah, Okla., December 6, 1911, for $151. The purchaser was J. F. Holden, editor of the Ft. Gibson Era who has done much in the past to preserve the historic relics of the old Indian Territory.

FREDERICK STARR, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, returned on January I from a four months' journey through Korea. Professor Starr has been made a Commander of the ⚫ Order of Leopold II, by King Albert of Belgium.

THE Fourteenth International Congress of Anthropology and Prehistoric Archeology will be held at Geneva, Switzerland, during the first week of September, 1912. The last session of this Congress was held at Monaco in the spring of 1906.

DR MAX UHLE has resigned the directorship of the Museo de Historia Nacional at Lima, Peru, and accepted an offer of the Chilean Government to take charge of the archeological research of the latter country, with headquarters at Santiago.

Professor George Grant MACCURDY is one of the contributors to The American Year Book (D. Appleton and Co.) for 1911, recently issued, his article being that on "Anthropology, Ethnology, and Prehistoric Archeology."

MR W. LEO BULLER has presented to the Dominion Museum, Wellington, New Zealand, a collection of about 700 Maori ethnological specimens which had been collected by his father, Sir Walter Buller.

PROFESSOR GEORGE GRANT MACCURDY will be the delegate from Yale University to the Eighteenth International Congress of Americanists to be held in London, May 27 to June 1, 1912.

THE death is announced of Dr L. Pič, the noted Bohemian archeologist, in charge of the unsurpassed archeological collection of the Museum Regni Bohemiae, Prague.

PROFESSOR RICHARD ANDRÉE, of Leipzig, known for his work in geography and enthnography, has died at the age of seventy-seven years.

KNIGHTHOOD has been conferred on Professor E. B. Tylor, F.R.S. Emeritus Professor of Anthropology in the University of Oxford.

PROFESSOR W. BALDWIN SPENCER, F.R.S., has been appointed protector of the aborgines in the northern territory of Australia.

DR. SCHLAGINHAUFER has been chosen as the successor of Dr R. Martin at the head of the Anthropological Institute, Zurich.

PROFESSOR KARL PEARSON is preparing a memoir on the life and work of the late Sir Francis Galton.

M. PAUL TOPINARD, the distinguished French anthropologist, has died at the age of eighty-one years.

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