United States Army Medical Museum Source: An official of the Institution The Army Medical Museum, 7th St. and Independence Ave., Washington, was founded in 1862 by Surgeon General William A. Hammond with some 7,000.specimens from the battlefields of the Civil War. The original purpose was to make it a museum for the study of war wounds, but it's scope has enlarged with the years to include the whole medical field. It now functions as a diagnostic center for the entire Army for the study of disease and injuries. The present collection consists of more than 150,000 specimens, over 70,000 photographs and approximately 300,000 microscopic slides. More than 100,000 persons visit the museum annually. The first floor of the museum contains exhibits on the normal structures of the human body, and collections of historic instruments and appliances. The historic section contains one of the world's largest collections of microscopes, stethoscopes, ophthalmoscopes and similar items of medical in terest. The section on anatomy contains many skeletons, models, dissections and other specimens showing the normal aspects of the human and animal bodies. Of particular interest is the collection of human embryos which are represented by actual specimens ranging from the third week of pregnancy up to the full term baby. Several sets of twins are included, and one of the features is the famous quintuplets which were worn in Kentucky in 1896. The second floor is the museum of pathology which contains specimens of abnormal, diseased and injured organs. Some of the feature exhibits cover the subjects of cancer, tuberculosis, venereal diseases, war injuries and diseases of the skin. There is a large display of human monstrosities or abnormal babies. A group illustrating some superstitions of medicine are especially interesting. Admission free. Open weekdays 8:45 a.m. to 4:15 p.m., Saturdays 8:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. United States Army Medical Library (Library of the Surgeon General's This is the largest working medical library in the world. It began with a collection of books in the office of The Surgeon General of the Army, an office created in 1818. Near the close of 1840 Surgeon General Joseph Lovell compiled a list, or short catalogue, of the books in his office. This material became the nucleus out of which the present collection has evolved. Its real growth as a library began in 1865 with the assignment of Surgeon John Shaw Billings, whose fostering care laid the strong foundation for the magnificent collection it has become. The Army Medical Library secures practically everything printed in the field of the medical sciences, including dental and veterinary medicine. The collection consists of more than five million items, including some 400,000 books, about 534,000 pamphlets, 1,600 magazines, 9,500 portraits and photographs, and in addition, autographs, clippings, engravings, manuscripts, periodicals, as well as the enormous list of references printed in the Index Catalogue. The Library receives an average of more than 1,800 periodicals, of which more than 1,100 are in foreign languages. The Library is catalogued with author and subject entries, involving more than two million index cards. Special indexing is also done, the present Office, U. S. A., Washington) activities including: tracing the origin of a given disease, the uses of certain remedies, and the therapeutic value of various agents. Special features of the Library are: Medical Incunabula, of which there are more than 460 titles of the estimated 600 known; several hundred medical manuscripts; special collections of medical biographical and bibliographical works; Federal, State, and Municipal documents on sanitation, public health and vital statistics. The publication of the Library is the Index Catalogue, which has now reached Volume III of the Fourth Series, 1880-1938. It is used throughout the world as the standard in medical bibliography. To the left of the entrance to the main reading room (called "the hall") are shelved the incunabula, 16th century, and other rare books. In the main stacks are placed bound periodicals, transactions, monographs and texts, also leading reports of learned and scientific societies. On the first floor, directly beneath the main hall, is located the general reading room with the current periodicals. Also nearby are the shelves for various documents and the Statistical Section. The material appearing in the Index Medicus, 1879-1931, was largely made up from the indexes of this Library. Franklin Institute Museum; Medal Winners Source: Records of the Organization (Headquarters are on the Parkway at 20th Street, Philadelphia. The old Institute building, Seventh St., south of Market St., was purchased by A. Atwater Kent and presented by him to Philadelphia, for use as a historical museum, to include, among other relics, the first draft of the U. S. Constitution.) 1927-George E. Hale, Max Planck. 1928-Charles F. Brush, Walther Nernst. Sauveur. 1940-Arthur H. Compton and Leo H. Kaekeland. 1941 Sir C. V. Raman, and Dr. Erwin H. Armstrong. CRESSON MEDAL WINNERS SINCE 1920 1920-William L. Emmet; 1921-Byron E. Eldred. 1922-Lee DeForest. 1923-Albert Kingsbury and Raymond D. Johnson; 1925 Frances Hodgkinson. 1926-George E. Hale, Charles S. Hastings, and Dayton C. Miller. 1927-Gustaf W. Elmen, Vladimir Karapetoff, and Edward L. Nichols; 1928-Henry Ford, Charles L. Lawrence. 1929 Sir James C. Irvine, Chevalier Jackson, and Elmer A. Sperry. 1930-Norman R. Gibson, Irving E. Moultrop. 1931-Clinton J. Davisson, Lester H. Germer, Prof. Kotaro Honda, and Theodore Lyman. 1932-Prof. Williams Bridgman, Charles L. Fortescue, and John B. Whitehead. 1933-Senor Juan de la Cierva, and Dr. Walther Bauersfeld. 1934 Stuart Ballantine, and the Union Switch and Signal Company. 1935-no award. 1936-George O. Curme Jr., and Robert J. Van de Graaff. 1937 Carl D. Anderson, William Bowie, J. E. Brandenberger, of France; Ernest O. Lawrence, W. F. Giauque. 1938-Edwin H. Land. 1939 George A. Campbell, John R. Carson, and Charles V. Boys. liams. 1940-Frederick M. Becket and Robert R. WI1941-The United States Navy. For 1941 the following awards were made in addition-Certificate of Merit: C. W. Akers; Longstreth Medal to Benjamin J. Wilson; Wetherill Medal to Harold S. Black; Brown Medal to Willis H. Carrier; Clark Medal to Raymond M. Conner; Levy Medal to John M. Lessells and Charles W. MacGregor; Potts Medal to Harold E. Edgerton. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Source: Officials of the Institution The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in Central Park, fronting on Fifth Ave., at 82nd St., contains 325,811 square feet of exhibition floor space. Open weekdays, including holidays except Christmas, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sundays 1 to 6 p.m., Christmas 1 to 5 p.m. Admission to the Main Building free at all times. On Mondays and Fridays admission to The Cloisters is 25 cents. ANCIENT ART Among the objects on display are the mastaba tomb erected about 4,400 years ago in the cemetery at Sakkareh in Egypt for a Theban dignitary named Per-neb and re-erected here in its original form, with its painted scenes in low relief still preserved; a series of painted wooden funerary models, the most remarkable of their kind ever found, from the tomb of the Theban Prince MeketRe of the XI dynasty (about 2000 B. C.); Egyptian jewelry from the tomb of the Princess Sit Hat-Hor Yunet, XII dynasty, equaled only by the group in the Cairo Museum; several fine colossal and heroic stone statues of Queen Hat-shepsut of the XVIII dynasty (about 1500 B. C.); the Carnarvon Egyptian Collection, an unusually fine group of small objects, presented by Edward S. Harkness; a colossal winged bull, a winged lion, and a number of reliefs the gift of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and of J. Pierpont Morgan-from the palace at Nimrud of Ashur-nasir-apal II, who reigned over Assyria from 885 to 860 B. C.; a Greek statue, the best preserved of the early Attic "Apollos"; Roman copies of two statues, the Diadoumenos and the Amazon, by Polykleitos; Greek and Roman pottery, including four colossal Dipylon vases, three large kraters-one in black-figure with the Return of Hephaistos, two in red-figure with battle scenes -and a group of Arretine ware; bronzes from the 8th century B. C. to the 3rd century A. D.; wall paintings from a villa at Boscoreale near Pompeii; a collection of ancient glass, one of the finest in the world; Etruscan antiquities, including a bronze chariot and three colossal terracottas-all these for ancient art alone. FAR EASTERN ART The Museum possesses a collection of Far Eastern art, various phases of which are world famous from the standpoint both of extent and quality. The Chinese sculpture group is the most important unit. It contains superb pieces ranging in date from the Han dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 220) to the Ming (1368-1644). Recently acquired sculptures which should be especially noted are the great Wei dynasty stele dated A. D. 533-543, a black marble stele of the T'ang dynasty (undated), and a small wood figure dated A. D. 1282. A few early Chinese bronzes are among the most celebrated in the world, notably the Chou dynasty (1122-256 B.C.) altar set formerly belonging to the viceroy, Tuan Fang, and two Buddhist altarpieces of the Wei dynasty (A.D. 386-557). The collection of paintings, Chinese and Japanese, is still limited to a minor place among the collections of the world, although a few fine examples are included. In the field of the so-called decorative arts the Museum is particularly fortunate. A room of early Chinese pottery is one of the most brilliant exhibits in the Far Eastern collection, and the later decorated porcelains form a group which is surpassed nowhere. The collection of Japanese and Korean pottery and porcelain, while not so extensive, is well chosen and of fine quality. The Bishop Collection of 18th century jades is too well known to need comment, and here it should be noted that the Museum possesses also a few early ceremonial jades. Recently there has been added an adequately representative group of cloisonne. The collection of Chinese textiles of the later periods is very rich. The Japanese textile collection is steadily gaining in importance and size, and these textiles, together with the collections of lacquers, color prints, and sword guards, demonstrate the Japanese genius for design. NEAR EASTERN ART The collection of Near Eastern art exemplifies the decorative arts of the Muhammadan countries. A number of Syrian mosque lamps and other pieces of enameled glass of the 13th and 14th centuries are among the rarest and most precious objects. A 14th Century Iranian prayer niche of faience mosaic is an outstanding exhibit. The Persian and Indian manuscripts and miniature paintings, including those in the Alexander Smith Cochran Collection, represent some of the greatest names in Persian calligraphy and painting from the 15th to the 18th century. The collection of rugs, enriched through the gift of James F. Ballard, is especially important, representing with characteristic specimens the development of rug weaving in the Orient. Fine examples of pottery illustrate the development of ceramic art in the Near East. The domed room from a Jaina temple represents the art of woodcarving in India. It is supplemented by an extensive collection of Indian and Tibetan jewelry, Indian miniatures of all schools and periods, and some remarkable examples of early Indian stone carving. PAINTINGS, AMERICAN AND FOREIGN els, and water colors, numbers over 2,500 and The collection of paintings, including oils, pastFlemish, German, French, English, and American represents creditably the Italian, Spanish, Dutch, schools. Appropriately for an American museum, American paintings occupy more gallery space than those of any other school. Among the artists whose works are represented are Abbey, Allston, Bingham, Blackburn, Blakelock, Cassatt, Chase, Copley, Ryder, Sargent, Stuart, Sully, Trumbull, West, Eakins, Homer, Inness, Martin, Morse, Peale, Whistler. One gallery is devoted to the showing chiefly through funds established by George A. of contemporary American paintings, acquired Hearn. aels, a large number of Rembrandts, and importThe European masterpieces include two Raphant works by Bellini, Botticelli, Boucher, Bouts, Bruegel, Brouwer, Cézanne, Constable, Corot, Courbet, Daumier, David, Degas, Delacroix, Dürer, Fra Angelico, Gainsborough, Giorgione, Goya, El Greco, Guardi, Hals, Holbein, Ingres, Lawrence, Manet, Mantegna, Memling. Monet, Poussin, Renoir, Reynolds, Robert, Rubens, Tintoretto, Titian, Turner, Vermeer, Veronese, Watteau, and other masters. Van der Weyden, Van Dyck, Van Eyck, Velazquez, Special collections of note include: the Benjamin paintings, Renaissance decorative arts, and OriAltman Collection (notable for Dutch ental rugs and ceramics); the Theodore M. Davis Collection (notable for Italian paintings, Egyptian antiquities, and European and Oriental decorative arts); the Michael Friedsam Collection (notable for early French and Netherlandish paintings and Havemeyer Collection (notable for modern French European and Oriental decorative arts); the H. O. paintings, Oriental paintings and decorative arts, and prints). MORGAN COLLECTION The Pierpont Morgan Collection, the gift of the late J. Pierpont Morgan and of his son J. P. Morgan, fills an entire wing and is a priceless gathering of the decorative arts of Europe from the Gallo-Roman and Merovingian periods to the end of the 18th century. The rarest and most precious section of the collection represents the supreme work of the Byzantine and mediaeval goldsmiths. enamelers, and ivory carvers. The most comprehensive single collection included in the Pierpont Morgan Collection is that brought together by Georges Hoentschel of Paris, decorator and collector. It consists of two parts: sculpture, furniture, textiles, ivories, woodwork, and architectural fragments of the Gothic period, chiefly of French, Flemish, Dutch, German, Spanish, and Italian origin; and French decorative arts of the 17th and 18th centuries-furniture. woodwork (many examples from historic buildings), decorative paintings, and ormolu fittings. This large collection is augmented by a shop front from the Quai Bourbon, Paris, and a suite of three Louis XVI rooms (salon, library, and bedchamber) from the Hotel Gaulin at Dijon. Among the treasures of the Pierpont Morgan Collection are five Gothic tapestries from a set known as the Sacrament Set because they picture the Sacraments of the Church; two sculptured groups, an Entombment and a Pietà from the famous Chateau de Biron in southwestern France: superb examples of the goldsmith's craft, from the 15th to the 18th century; a unique collection of snuff-boxes, vanity boxes, scent bottles, and dance programs, signed by jamous jewelers of the 18th century; and a large collection of watches, representative of the work of the best craftsmen in Europe from the 16th to the 19th century. In addition to the material in the Pierpont Morgan Wing there are extensive collections of European decorative arts-furniture, tapestries, textiles, metalwork, ceramics, and glass-ranging from the Gothic to the modern period, in other galleries of the Museum. There is, too, an excellent representation of sculpture, both European and American. AMERICAN DECORATIVE ARTS Another wing, the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. de Forest, is devoted to American decorative arts from the 17th through the first quarter of the 19th century. In rooms reconstructed in most cases with original woodwork, there have been assembled furniture, metalwork, ceramics, glass, prints, and paintings to present the characteristic background of our ancestors. The third floor rooms date from about 1640 through the first half of the 18th century; the second floor from the second half of the 18th century to 1793; the first floor from the end of the 18th century through the first quarter of the 19th. Geographically the rooms range from New Hampshire to Virginia. One of the most interesting, both architecturally and historically, is the Assembly Room from the City Tavern, Alexandria, Va., where Washington attended in 1798 his last birthnight ball. The south exterior wall of the wing is the facade of the United States Branch Bank, formerly at 151⁄2 Wall Street, built between 1822 and 1824. An addition to The American Wing containing the great hall from the old Van Rensselaer Manor House, at Albany, New York, and a room from Providence, Rhode Island, was completed in 1931. Two galleries, opened in 1934, display a comprehensive collection of Pennsylvania German decorative arts of the 18th and 19th centuries, the gift of Mrs. Robert W. de Forest. ARMS AND ARMOR. The collection of arms and armor is grouped in three main divisions-Europe, the Near East with the Malay Peninsula and Netherland India, and Japan and China. The European objects, which in scope and quality rank with those in European national collections, date mainly from 1400 to 1800. The Near Eastern section includes many noteworthy objects in the main galleries, while types which are instructive for comparison are available in the study collection. The Japanese section is the most comprehensive outside Japan. The European collection is a representative one from the technical, historical, and artistic standpoints, including signed works of many of the best-known artist-armorers of Augsburg, Nuremberg, and Milan, and over 450 objects with historical associations. War equipment; an unusual series of horse armor; enriched harnesses for tournament, procession, or court ceremonies; enriched arms used on state occasions or in the chase-all attest to the high degree of artistic conception and skill in execution achieved in hard metal. Among many noteworthy objects are the embossed casque signed by Philip de Negroli of Milan, the Michelangelo of armorers; the embossed shield of Henry II of France; the richly etched and gilded armor for man and horse, dated 1527, of Galiot de Genouilhac, Grand Master of Artillery of France: four harnesses from the English Royal Armory at Greenwich, all having belonged to privileged nobles of Elizabeth's reign, one of whom, George Clifford, third Earl of Cumberland, had been her Champion; and the chiseled sword of Ambrogio di Spinola, famous commander-in-chief in the Netherlands. The collection of firearms is comprehensive, showing the development of the various mechanisms, as well as every form of enrichment both of barrel and stock. The Japanese arms and armor cover the entire feudal era of Japan from the 12th to the 19th century, with many primitive elements antedating the 7th century A.D. The armor, though beautiful in color and in treatment of its decorative detail, was worn with masks in the form of monsters to inspire terror. The sword, which for centuries has been reverenced by the Japanese, is well represented. Among the most esteemed artists of Japan are included makers of swords and sword fittings. These swords and their mountings exemplify phases of art entirely original with the Japanese, and the continuous demand for sword furniture fostered the establishment of many famous schools, most of which are well represented in the Museum's collection. The Near Eastern section includes armor and weapons from Turkey, India, and Persia. Here is a group of Turkish helmets, which date from the time when Constantinople, taken by the Turks in 1453, ceased to be the eastern capital of the Roman Empire and became the seat of the Ottoman dominion. Swords and daggers also form a noteworthy section. Outstanding are blades of watered steel, hilts and blades set with precious and semiprecious stones, richly carved Jade grips, and pierced and sculptured steel hilts from the armory of the last king of Tanjore. With the Near Eastern collection are exhibited rich krisses from the Malay Peninsula and Netherland India. PRINTS The Print Study Room makes available to the public a collection of prints and illustrated books representing the history of engraving, etching, woodcutting, and lithography. Here, for example, one may see large and important groups of prints by such famous artists as the Master E. S. Schongauer, Mantegna, Marcantonio, Dürer, Holbein, Rembrandt, Goya, Daumier, Delacroix, Meryon, Haden, and Whistler. The Print Department was started in 1917. It contains modern prints from the Harris Brisbane Dick Collection, Rembrandt etchings from the H. O. Havemeyer Collection and that of George Coe Graves, engravings and woodcuts by Dürer from the collection of Junius S. Morgan, Americana from that of Charles Allen Munn, the William E. Baillie Collection of book plates, and primitive woodcuts from the James C. McGuire Collection. The history of book illustration is shown in a special collection. THE CLOISTERS A branch of the Metropolitan Museum devoted to European mediaeval art, located in Fort Tryon Park in a new building which was opened in May. 1938. The site and the funds for the construction were the gift of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. The collections include not only the mediaeval material brought together by George Grey Barnard, presented to the Museum by Mr, Rockefeller in 1925 and formerly shown at 698 Fort Washington Avenue, together with objects subsequently added by Mr. Rockefeller, but also many objects now exhibited at The Cloisters for the first time. Notable among the recent acquisitions are the 12th century chapter house from Pontaut, the 13th century sculptured doorway from four 15th century windows from Sens, and the famous 15th century tapestries depicting The Hunt of the Unicorn-the outstanding set of Gothic tapestries in this country. Moutiers-Saint-Jean, INSTRUCTION. To make the Museum collections serviceable to the public, including manufacturers and designers, students of art, and pupils of the public and private schools of New York City, free public gallery talks or lectures are given. The Newark, N. J., Museum Source: An Official of the Institution The Newark Museum, dedicated to art, science, education and industry, is on Washington Street, across from Washington Park. The original building, given to the city in 1926 by Louis Bamberger, contains the Museum's exhibition galleries, a reference library, the Science and Registrar's Departments. The Museum owns one of the outstanding collections of Tibetan art and ethnology in this country. Among its other important possessions are Japanese netsukes and other Oriental art objects; a representative collection of American paintings and sculpture acquired gradually and with discrimination from the time of its founding, including contemporary works and primitives"; some 6,000 coins representative of all nations; 200 moving models showing the art and science of mechanics. The collections of the Science Department cover the fields of astronomy, the earth sciences, biology and man. The Museum's Educational work is extensive both in direct service to the schools and independently in the Junior Museum. Close cooperation exists between the schools and the Museum. More than 12,000 school children come annually to see the exhibits, special exhibits being arranged to coincide with the school curriculum. In addition the Museum has some 8,000 objects of visual education which are lent to the schools for class use. The Junior Museum Club has an enrollment of 7,680 and an active membership of 600. In 1940 there was a total attendance of 8,000 at Club activities. such as modeling, drawing and other forms of art and craftwork, nature study, playwriting and the publication of Drums, a quarterly magazine. The Museum has frequently changing exhibits in art, ethnology, industry and science. Each season a series of free concerts is given on Sunday afternoons, a Natural Science program is offered by the Science Department, gallery talks and demonstrations are given in connection with current exhibits. An invitingly furnished Members' Room is set aside for the use of members. New York Historical Society Museum and Library Source: An Official of the Institution The New York Historical Society, founded in 1804, is open free upon weekdays, 10 A.M. to 5 P.M.; and on Sundays and holidays from 1-5 P.M. It is closed on Mondays, New Year's Day, July 4, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the month of August. The Society has occupied since 1908 the building on Central Park West between 76th and 77th Streets. The new wings were added in 1937-38, which include picture galleries as well as a greatly enlarged museum. The Society is supported by endowment funds and membership fees. The Society maintains a library, museum and gallery of art. The library contains 200,000 volumes and large collections of pamphlets, newspapers, prints, maps and manuscripts, all relating to American history. The first newspaper printed in New York City was the New York Gazette, established in 1725 by William Bradford, the first printer in the Colony of New York. The society's file of this paper begins Here are to be found, also, a complete file of New York City Directories from the first one printed in 1786; an unusual collection of genealogical material; and an excellent local history section covering every state in the Union. The manuscripts include the Horatio Gates, James Duane, Rufus King, Albert Gallatin, James Alexander, Gen. John Lamb, Lord Stirling, Baron von Steuben, and Cadwallader Colden Papers, and 200 George Washington letters. They comprise the finest assemblage of documents in existence relating to the American side of the Revolutionary War, comparing favorably in scope with the collection of papers of British generals and statesmen who conducted the war in America, now in possession of the University of Michigan. with 1730. Also of importance are the original articles of Burgoyne's surrender; an orderly book record of Nathan Hale's execution; letters patent from Charles II to Edmund Andros, 1674, authorizing him to take over New Netherland from the Dutch Governor; Lord Cornbury's Charter to the City of New York; the correspondence of the American Fur Co. with its Western posts; and the manuscripts of Henry O'Reilly relating to the telegraph. The old New York prints cover the period from the earliest View of the City, published in 1651, to modern times, and includes the Burgis View of the City, 1717, of which only one other copy is known; the Maverick View of Wall Street, about 1834, and the Tiebout Engraving of the City Hall on Wall Street. The maps include the James Lyne survey of the city in 1731, published by William Bradford-the first engraved map of the city published-one of three known copies; the Dyckinck plan of 1755, the Ratzer map of 1767, and the Commissioner's map of 1811. The museum occupies 5 floors and contains many relics of N. Y. and American history. before the Revolutionary War, in this city, may be Of local relics the Beekman family coach, used mentioned, as well as the remains of the famous equestrian statue of King George III, and the statue of William Pitt (the Earl of Chatham). champion of the American cause in Parliament the original furniture of Federal Hall, where Washington was inaugurated first President, and an almost complete collection of the John Rogers plaster groups with many of the original bronzes. A collection of European and American folk arts, numbering 15,000 objects, was recently acquired. The Gallery of Art now numbers over 1,500 paintings, including old masters. Over 400 of the paintings are American portraits by such artists as Charles Willson Peale, Gilbert Stuart, John Wollaston, Benjamin West, Asher B. Durand, John Wesley Jarvis, and many others. The Society also possesses the original water color drawings made by John James Audubon for his "Birds of America"-460 beautifully executed pictures. Over a dozen carriages of the 19th century which were formerly used in New York City are exhibited here, as are relics of the old Volunteer Fire Department. The Port of New York Gallery is given over to the maritime history of New York and is fitted in the style of a sailing vessel, from the "cabin" of which views of the New York skyline may be seen as it appeared at various times in its history. The Hispanic Society of America Source: Officials of the Institution The Museum and Library of The Hispanic So-tuguese languages, literature, art and history. ciety of America occupy two buildings in the no- for the study of the countries wherein Spanish table group on Broadway, between 155th and 156th and Portuguese are or have been spoken lanStreets, Manhattan, which New York owes to the guages. public spirit and generosity of Archer M. Huntington, president of the Society, which he founded on May 18, 1904. The Main Building, which houses the museum and library, was formally opened in January, 1908, and the North Building, devoted to an exhibition of modern Spanish paintings, arts, and crafts, in November, 1930. The museum is open from 10 to 4:30 daily, and on Sunday from 1 to 5. The exhibition rooms in the North Building are open on Sundays only. The reading room is open from 1 to 4:30 daily, except Sunday, Monday, holidays, and the month of August. The deed of foundation provides for the establishment in the City of New York of a public library and museum designed to be a link between the English, Spanish and Portuguese speaking peoples. It provides also for the advancement of the study of the Spanish and Por In furtherance of these aims a collection of paintings, manuscripts, maps and coins, and a library of about 40,000 books was placed in the charge of the society in 1904. These varied collections have been increased and enriched so that, for example the library now contains no fewer than 100,000 volumes. Though its home and headquarters are in America, the Hispanic Society is an international organization; its members, limited to 100 members and 300 corresponding members, include specialists and scholars of all countries who have become distinguished in the Hispanic field. The society has held several notable exhibitions, among them those of the works of Sorolla. Zuloaga, Cervantes, and Lope de Vega, as well as of collections of sculpture, photographs, prints, etc., and has issued approximately 600 publications on Spanish history, literature and art. Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation Source: Officials of the institution The Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, at Broadway and 155th Street, Manhattan, forms one of the group of buildings which New York owes to the public spirit of Archer M. Huntington, who gave the site of the museum, which was built by the trustees at a cost of $250,000 and $100,000 for equipment. The fireproof limestone edifice was opened on Nov. 15, 1922. Three floors are devoted to exhibition rooms. The Museum has over 2,000,000 exhibits and can display but about one-quarter of these at one time, The top floor is devoted to laboratories, work and study rooms, which are open under suitable conditions to students. Dr. George G. Heye, who founded the Museum and turned over to it nearly half a million specimens, is the director. Individual trustees have given important special collections and meet the cost of field work. The exhibits are open to the public week days from 2 to 6 P.M., holidays excepted. Admission free. The museum's sole aim is to gather and preserve for students everything useful in illustrating and elucidating the anthropology of the aborigines of the Western Hemisphere. Field work has been constantly pursued in all parts of the New World. The publications and monographs are notable. Mr. Huntington in 1925 gave to the Museum six acres, near Pelham Bay Park, between Eastern Boulevard, Middletown Road and Jarvis Ave. A modern storage and study museum building has been erected on the site. The library of the Museum, containing some 25,000 volumes, complete serial runs of the important periodical publications in its field, and many thousands of pamphlets, is deposited at the new building of Huntington Free Library and Reading Room, 9 Westchester Square, the Bronx. Its collections are available to all accredited students for research purposes from 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. daily, Sundays and holidays excepted. The American Museum of Natural History Source: An Official of the Institution The American Museum of Natural History, located on Central Park West at 79th Street, New York City, was founded and chartered in 1869. It is open free every day in the year: weekdays, and holidays except as specified, 10 A. M. to 5 P. M., Sundays, New Year's and Independence Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas, 1 to 5 P. M. The Museum building is one of the largest municipal structures in the city, and has cost approximately $16,500,000. It has 23 acres of floor space, 13 of which are devoted to exhibits. SUBWAY ENTRANCE Several mechanically operated groups, together with exhibits of live specimens, to demonstrate various principles of animal behavior. FIRST FLOOR Collections illustrating the life of the Indians of the North Pacific Coast, the Eskimo, Indians of the Woodlands, Plains, and Southwest. Large groups (Hopi, Navajo and Apache) in the Southwest Hall. Forestry and Conservation Hall: North American trees, including section of a Bigtree of California which measures 1612 feet in diameter inside the bark. The tree was 1,341 years old when cut down. Natural woods, with models of their leaves, flowers and fruits, and sections of the finished woods. Darwin Hall: Specimens, models and groups showing invertebrate life (Rotifer Group, Nahant Tide-Pool Group, Wharf-Pile Group): Tree of Life. Hall of Fishes, with groups (Shark, Sailfish, Deep-Sea, Tropical Ocean), Hall of Ocean Life: Coral Reef Group and Pearl Divers Groups: Lindbergh plane "Tingmissartoo" with equipment; shell collection; groups of marine mammals, skeletons of whales. Education Hall Auditorium. SECOND FLOOR In the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial, the geology, insects, reptiles, snakes, and mammals living and extinct, of New York State. Birds of the New York City region, both permanent and migratory. Four habitat groups commemorative of the life and ideals of Theodore Roosevelt. Material illustrating the life of prehistoric man. Ancient monuments of Mexico and Central America Indians of South America. Bird Dome, Birds of the World (systematic series of habitat groups). Mammals of North America. Vernay-Faunthorpe Hall of animals of southern Asia. of elephants and 14 habitat groups on this floor, 10 habitat groups on the third floor, a total of 24 groups of gorillas, antelopes, rhinoceroses, giraffe, lions and other African mammals. THIRD FLOOR Collections from the living peoples of Asia: China, Japan, India, Siberia, Tibet, African ethnology. Hall of the Natural History of Man. Birds of North America (the famous habitat groups). Biology and evolution of mammals. Hall of Primates: Monkeys, Apes and Primitive Man. Hall of Insect Life, including habitat groups. Reptile Hall, including a number of beautiful groups (Lower California Lizard, Bullfrog, Giant Salamander, New England Spring, Komodo Lizard. Florida Swamp. Biology exhibits in relation to public health. FOURTH FLOOR Collections from the Philippine Islands and the South Seas. Hall of Minerals and Gems, containing the gifts of J. Pierpont Morgan and others. These collections include practically every variety of known gem, cut and uncut, some of remarkable Drummond Hall, consize and purity of color. taining the famous Drummond Collection of carved jade, ivory and amber. Hall of Fossil Invertebrates and Historical Geology: Large collections; models of caves; model of Copper Queen Mine showing cross-sections and surrounding country; topogeologic and palegeographic models. Halls of the Age of Man: Casts of prehistoric men and skeletons of the animals of their time (mammoths, mastodons and giant ground sloths). Horse under Domestication. Hall of Tertiary Mammals; Devoted to the great collections of the remains of creatures that lived from 1,000,000 to 60,000,000 These collections, by right of extent, years ago. variety, quality and methods of preparation and exhibition, are the finest in the world. Cretaceous and Jurassic. Dinosaur Halls: Remains of fossil reptiles that lived from 60,000,000 to 100,000,000 years ago. "Mummy" of dinosaur (Trachodon) in which the texture of the skin has been preserved, and the famous dinosaur eggs found by the Museum's Third Asiatic Expedition in 1923. Fossil fishes (tower room). On the fifth floor are the public reference liGiant Panda. brary, the Osborn Library of Vertebrate PalaeonAkeley Memorial Hall of African mammals. Herd I tology, offices, laboratories and study collections. WHITNEY WING The eight-story Whitney Wing contains three floors of public exhibits-the Whitney Memorial Hall, the Hall of the Biology of Birds and the Gallery of Bird Art. Four of the remaining floors house the largest study collection of birds in the world, About a third of numbering 750,000 specimens. this is the famous Rothschild collection, acquired for the Museum in 1932 by Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney and her children, Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, Mrs. Barklie Henry and Mrs. G. Macculloch Miller. On the top floor of the building there is a series of modern laboratories designed for the study of living birds. The Hayden Planetarium Source: An Official The Drama of the Skies is unfolded in the Hayden Planetarium of the American Museum of Natural History, where Man may stop the sun by means of the Zeiss Projector which controls the stars in their courses. Here the sky can be reproduced as it is today as it was before the Age of Man, or-as it will be thousands of years from now. The projector stands in the center of the circular theatre. It comprises over 120 magic-lantern, or stereopticon projectors. Each of these throws a picture of a portion of the sky upon the steel dome overhead. These many pictures, all matching together, fitting without gaps or overlapping, produce a panoramic replica of brilliant stars upon a dark blue sky. It is as if you were on a countryside under real stars. About 9,000 stars, the Sun, the Moon, the Milky Way and the Planets are contained in this mechan ism. Unseen in the dark, with a control board before him, stands a lecturer who, by a myriad of switches can speed up the stars or slow them down. By means of a portable projector which flings an arrow on the sky, he can single out individual stars. He can, at will, produce the polar aurora and the glow of dawn. The real heart of the planetarium is the projection room where technicians stand by to add whatever is needed by way of special lantern-slides or motion pictures. The planetarium is considered the of the Institution quietest spot in New York because of its peculiar sound-proof construction. Its domelike roof is a series of concrete; then one of sound-deadening cork; then one of wood; and, finally, the inside is lined with strips of perforated stainless steel. On the horizon is the skyline of Manhattan. Indicative of the extent to which the planetarium can be employed to visualize not only the wonders, but also the drama, of the skies, are the various arrangements that can be made to put interesting cosmic events on parade. One of the most popular performances at the planetarium is that which attempts to explain the origin of the Star of Bethlethem, not as one star, but as close conjunction of Jupiter, Mars and Saturn. Other dramas deal with Mysterious Mars, Color in the Sky, Our Sun, Waves from Space, and a Trip to the Moon. Thrilling is another popular show which illustrates three of the ways by which the world may come to an end. One, by being struck by a major comet; one by being under constant bombardment of moon pieces created through the destruction of the moon by the stone-crusher of gravity and, thirdly, through the possible intrusion into our solar system by a hit-and-run star. The planetarium is on 81st St., between Columbus Ave. and Central Park West. An admission fee is charged to repay the R. F. C. loan, but this does not apply to demonstrations for New York City public school children in classes. |