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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo06amer (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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NEWS NOTES 127 tees of the American Museum on the first day and that given by the Trustees of the New York Botanical Garden on the second day. The association adjourned to meet at the call of the council in the spring or early summer of 1907 at the Carnegie Museum in the city of Pittsburg. MUSEUM NEWS NOTES.
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T the quarterly meeting of the Board of Trustees, held May 14, the following resolutions of thanks were adopted and elections announced. ^^^TTCT^jTT-^^i'ffia) To Mrs. William Earl Dodge, and her election as a Patron, in recognition of her gift of the "Willamette" meteorite; To Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, for his gift of the Warren Mastodon Collection; To Mr. J. G. Phelps Stokes, and his election as a Patron, in recognition of his gift of ethnological material; To Mrs. Frank K. Stm-gis, and her election as a Fellow, for her contributions towards the purchase of Birds of Paradise; To Mrs. Albert Bierstadt, and her election as a Fellow, in recog- nition of her gift of the painting entitled The Landing of Colmnbus, by her late husband; To Professor C. F. Chandler, and his election as a Fellow, in recognition of his gift of the meteorite "Russel Gulch"; To the East Asiatic Committee for its donation of funds; To the subscribers to the North American Ornithological Fund. Some important changes have been made in the Foyer. Specimens of several of the largest and most important meteo- rites known have been installed on pedestals around the room, the principal of which is Willamette, the 15^ ton iron from Ore- gon. Next, in point of size, is the 3-ton "Woman," and then the 1,100-pound " Dog, " two members of the famous Peary group of three iron meteorites from Cape York, Greenland. Other falls illustrated here are Cafion Diablo, by a 1,087-pound mass

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