The New-York Historical Society of "Maps and Old Guidebooks" continued through the first week of June. The Thompson Homestead Memorial at East Hampton was reopened for the summer on May 11 th, when Mr. Leonidas Westervelt, fourth vice-president of the Society, addressed the Mothers Club of East Hampton on the subject of Jenny Lind and his own Jenny Lind Collection, a portion of which was on display for the occasion. Besides the permanent Thompson Memorial Room, three new special exhibits were opened: a well-selected series of "Early New York Views"; a "Room of Fashions 1820—1890," mainly of women's dresses and such accessories as parasols, combs, fans; and "A Rare and Unusual Collection of Costumes and Relics of the American Indians." The Indian material includes dresses, arms, and domestic implements of the Sioux, Chippewa, Sac, Menominee, and Cherokee tribes, collected by Dr. Nathan S. Jarvis during his service as surgeon in the Mexican War, 1846-47, and given by him to the Society in 1848, as well as the collections made by his son, Major Nathan S. Jarvis, Jr., during the latter nineteenth century. All exhibits will be open daily from 2 to 5 p.m. and by appointment with Miss Katharine S. Wellenkamp, our new curator at the Thompson Homestead, until the middle of September. At its May 16th meeting, the Board of Trustees elected Mr. Stuyvesant Fish to the vacancy left by Mr. Wall on the Committee on Library and Museum. In sponsoring lectures by authorities on sucji topics as "The Cavalcade of South America" and "China—Our Ally"—the final lectures of the 1943-44 season—the Society has contributed, it is hoped, to the friendly understanding of sister nations. The Latin American exhibit, which elicited such wide interest, was also an effective way of fostering hemispheric cultural reciprocity. Still another instance of the Society's own "good neighbor policy" was President Zabriskie's personal generosity 106