Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo14amer (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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MUSEUM NOTES 215 with the Museum's exhibits and activities. Sixty thousand folders have been printed and placed in the hotels and steamboats and a number of large framed posters have been put in conspicuous places throughout the city. The department of public education of the American Museum is sending photographs and explanatory labels illustrating its work among the blind in New York City, to the Exhibition of the Arts and Industries of the Blind held in connection with the Interna- tional Conference on the Blind which occurs in London from June 18 to 24. Mr. George C. Longley, a life member of the Museum, has recently returned from five months' archaeological study on the island of Jamaica. Mr. Longley spent much of his time while at the island in excavating the kitchen middens of the Arawak, the pre- historic inhabitants of Jamaica. He has add- ed the results of his researches to the collec- tion presented by him to the Museum in 1913. The additions consist of two human skulls found in a cave in the northeastern end of the island, a stone idol, two perforated cylindrical stones, usually called "chief's stones," more than one hundred stone axes (called by the natives "thunder balls"), and a large number of pieces of broken pottery ves- sels which show the manner of decorat- ing by incised lines and dots. A replica of the famous bust of Louis Pasteur by Dubois has been presented to the Museum for instal- lation in the hall of public health, through the generosity of Dr. Roux, j v Director of the Pasteur Institute in j Paris and M. Vallery-Radot, son-in law of M. Pasteur. A Tibet apron obtained by the Younghusband expedition of 1903-4 from the largest temple at Lhasa has been pre- sented to the Museum by Mrs. John Magee. This apron is made of the bon s of saints or holy men and is looked upon as very sacred. The carving on the bones is unusually beautiful. Such aprons are worn in order that the virtue possessed by the bones may pass into the wearer and he may thus acquire holiness. Few similar examples have as yet found their way to museums. This specimen was exhibited to Museum members for the first time on the evening of May 6 when Sir Francis Edward Younghusband lectured on Entrance to Lhasa." Tibet and the Mr. James Barnes of the Barnes-Kearton expedition, which crossed Central Africa under the auspices of the American Museum, has returned to New York bringing with him a splendid series of motion-picture films. Mr. Barnes will give an exhibition of these films to the members of the Museum in the fall.
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Bust of Pasteur presented to the Museum by Dr. Roux and M. Vallery-Radot

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