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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo03amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL NEWS NOTES. IE thirty-fourth annual report of the Museum, being the twenty-second report of Morris K. Jesup, Esq., as president, was issued in May. It shows clearly the ■\\'ide scope and the importance of the activities of the institution. Those in- terested may obtain copies upon application. Ground is being broken on Manhattan Square, west of the new lecture hall, for the construction of an addition to the Mu- seum building of interest both to members and to the visiting public. The new structure will be a thoroughly modern heating, lighting and power plant, which when completed will add a most attractive, appropriate and instructive feature to the already extensive series of exhibition halls. It is the purpose to have the apparatus for the conversion and transmission of heat, light and power open to the public, and instructively labeled and described. On June i6, the Board of Aldermen authorized an additional bond sale to the amount of $i8S,ooo for constructing the ap- proaches to this new wing, for building a foyer to take the place of the old lecture hall and for other additions and improvements about the building. Among these additions will be two assembly- rooms for the use of scientific gatherings and visiting classes. Director Bumpus, Professor Allen and Mr. Chapman attended the annual convention of the American Ornithologists' Union, which was held in San Francisco in May. At the convention announcement was made of the award to Professor Allen of the Walker Grand Prize in Natural History by the Boston Society of Natural History. In announcing the award to its recipient, Prof. Charles S. Minot, president of the society, wrote as follows: " It gives me great pleasure to inform you that the Walker Grand Prize has been awarded to you by a unanimous vote of the Council for your able and long-continued contributions to North American Ornithology and Mammalogy. The amount 62

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