sf hs v4 a -. 7 e Sg THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY INCORPORATED IN 1869 MEMBERSHIP AND ENDOWMENT There are more than thirty-three hundred members of the Museum, residents of the United States and other countries, who support its educational and scientific work and enjoy its lectures, publications and other privileges. Annual Members : ; ‘ aos 10 Sustaining Members (annually) . : 25 Life Members . ¢ ; ‘ ‘ 100 Fellows . - : . ‘ - 500 Patrons . : : : 4 : 1,000 Associate Benefactors . : i i.) .LO,C00 Benefactors “ : : : » 50,000 The Endowment Fund was established in 1884. The Trustees especially desire to insure the permanent growth and welfare of the Museum through an increase of this fund. FORM OF GIFT OR BEQUEST I do hereby give and bequeath to “ THE AMERICAN Museum or Naturat History” of the City of res ag) ; = : \' 4 een . Nenana . me : Pe RN a es . TELA 4 FORESTRY AND te John |. 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A SPI t Morgan Report of the President 47 search of. This system has already proved its value, and was quickly recognized asa needed help to the student. As in previous years, the important additions to the cabinet, outside of the Gem Collection, have come through the expenditure of the interest on the Bruce Fund. These mineral additions, with one or two exceptions, are not remarkable for their beauty, but have scientific value, increase our series of localities and complete the collection along the less conspicuous lines of interest, to which now addi- tions must be largely confined. A little progress has also been made in reéstablishing the suite of gold specimens, and from time to time this work will be advanced as opportunity and funds permit. It is impossible not to reflect, in view of the occasional splendid gifts of Mr. Morgan to the Gem Collection, that an increased endowment of the minerals would allow the Museum to compete for the possession of specimens which private col- lectors practically absorb in the open market. However, this deficiency of resources is fortunately compensated for, in a measure, through Mr. Morgan’s gifts, which, as they appertain to the more expensive and splendid species of the mineral kingdom, enable the Museum to secure in these species phenomenal and unique specimens. One has only to look over the additions made by Mr. Morgan this year to the Gem Collection to be impressed with their immense value and corresponding beauty; the huge Aquamarine from Brazil, the Euclase in the matrix, also from Brazil, the now rare Benitoite from California, the marvelous Rubellites, also from California, and the two almost unequaled crystals of Kunzite of the highest gem quality, with a mam- moth Quartz Sphere of absolute purity, illustrate strikingly the fineness and the importance of this patron’s generosity. An important purchase during the year, secured from our general appropriation, was that of 585 Krantz wooden models of the more common crystal forms of the representative min- erals. These will be installed at the west end of the hall in a separate case, thus avoiding the unfortunate effect of their intercalation among the mineral specimens, where their appear- ance would prove unpleasing and detrimental. The mounting 48 Report of the President and preparation of these blocks, which will necessitate their partial coloration, are now under way. It is anticipated that they will be very much welcomed by the increasing number of visitors to whom crystallography is no longer a bugbear or a mystery. An interesting experiment in mural decoration has been made with, we believe, a genuine popular approval. The Nevada Consolidated Copper Co., one of the Guggenheim properties, has presented us with an enlargement, in color, displayed as a painting, of a panoramic photograph of the Shovel Pit at Ely, Nevada. This difficult work has been suc- cessfully executed by Albert Operti, and was described and illustrated in Zhe American Museum Journal. In a previous report the Curator urged a reinstallation to some extent of the Gem Collection, especially with a view to making it technically more valuable, and with no indifferent eye to the improvement of the Mineral Hall by the abstrac- tion of the Gem Room’s purely mineral contents. MAMMALS AND BIRDS J. A. ALLEN, Curator DEPARTMENT OF MAMMALOGY AND ORNITHOLOGY.—The accessions, through exploration, gift and purchase, exceed those of any previous year in the history of the department. Of first importance in number and interest are the collections made in western Colombia under the direction of Curator Chapman. These include over 5,000 birds and about 1,000 mammals. About 3,000 birds and 1,000 mammals have been received from other sources, largely through other Museum expeditions. A much larger number than usual of both mammals and birds have been received from the New York Zodlogical Society, including many of great value to our collections. Walter Winans of Pluckley, Kent, England, to whom the Museum is indebted for the material for the Wild Boar Group, installed early in the year, has continued to send us specimens of European mammals of much interest. The Museum is also DEPARTMENT OF MAMMALOGY AND ORNITHOLOGY rHE Rarr ON WHICH THE MuSEUM’s EXPEDITION TRAVELED SOME 350 MILES OF THE WAY DOWN THE YALU RIVER Expedition to Korea Report of the President 49 indebted to Clarence H. Eagle for a collection of North American birds, numbering about 850 specimens; J. T. Lloyd has presented 45 bird skins from Samoa, and Carl E. Akeley 5 specimens of adult and young Ibises from British East Africa, which proved to represent a new genus. The important additions by purchase include collections of both birds and mammals from China, Chile and East Africa, the latter including 2 Forest Pigs and 10 Elephant skulls. EXxPEDITIONS.—The Stefansson-Anderson Expedition to arctic America returned late in the year, after an absence of more than four years. ‘The zodlogical material secured is of special interest. The collection includes 139 mammals and 218 birds, with about roo sets of eggs of arctic breeding birds. The mammals include series of Barren Ground Caribou from widely separated localities, and 18 skins and skulls of the little known Barren Ground Bear, suitable for mounting as well as for study. The smaller mammals are well represented. Assistant Curator Andrews’s expedition to Korea was highly successful. After obtaining certain special desiderata of whales on the coast, including skeletons of the nearly extinct California Gray Whale, and of the Pacific Humpback and Killer Whales, he made a trip into the unexplored northern part of Korea, where he collected small mammals and birds, about 175 specimens of each. These will doubtless prove to include a number of undescribed forms. Assistant H. E. Anthony spent several weeks collecting mammals and birds in eastern Oregon, with excellent results, this portion of the West being previously wholly unrepresented in our collections. Several species of mammals new to science were obtained, and a large series of specimens of the rare Idaho Pygmy Rabbit. The Congo Expedition, under the leadership of Messrs. Lang and Chapin, is still in the field, but is preparing to return with the immense collections accumulated during three years of highly successful work in African jungles. The Colombian Expedition has been continued and work prosecuted from the low humid coast region into the Central Andes to altitudes of about 15,000 feet, and later to the 50 Report of the President Eastern Andes, the Magdalena valley, and the headwaters of the Amazonian drainage. The results are of the highest interest, the number of new and rare species having proved surprisingly large among both the birds and mammals, and the facts obtained regarding the influence of environment upon the distribution and evolution of local forms are of much scientific importance. During the coming year the field of exploration will be extended to the Bogota region and other districts to the eastward. Curator Chapman will be in per- sonal charge in the field during part of the year. The installations include the completion of the Wild Boar Group and the transfer of the remaining local mammal groups to the North American Mammal Hall. The domestic races of dogs have been moved to the Darwin Hall. CoLLECTIONS ON Deposit.—Dr. Dwight’s collection, con- sisting mainly of North American birds, now comprises about 35,000 specimens, and is especially rich in series illustrating changes of plumage. During the past year he has installed in the gallery of the room assigned for his collection new metal storage cases at his own expense. Dr. Sanford’s collection now numbers several thousand specimens, chiefly North American water birds and the rarer species of North American land birds. He is making a specialty of Albatrosses and Petrels, with which all museums have hitherto been poorly supplied. In order to extend this feature of the collection he has sent into the field an excep- tionally expert collector and preparator of bird skins, with instructions to explore thoroughly the coast and islands of the southern half of South America, devoting to this task as much time as may be necessary, probably several years. During the past summer Dr. Sanford has furnished one-half of the floor space of the room assigned to his collection with the most improved type of metal storage cases, at his own expense. These two collections add greatly to the ornithological resources of the Museum, since they are available for use by the staff of the department in the prosecution of research work, The cataloging of the collections has been kept up to date, and much work has been done on the index catalog Report of the President BE of the mammals. The rearrangement of the osteological material has not been taken up, as was hoped would be possible, owing to lack of storage facilities. PUBLICATIONS.—Eight papers published in the Bulletin for this year represent the scientific work of the department. Others are well advanced in preparation, including one on the Muskoxen and their near allies, living and extinct, by the Curator, now in press in the Memoirs. ‘‘A Review of the Primates,” by D. G. Elliot, in three royal octavo volumes, has been printed during the year, but its publication has been delayed awaiting the completion of the colored plates. These volumes aggregate 1,348 pages, with 128 half-tone plates of skulls and figures from life, and 28 colored plates. This work forms the first of the Monograph series, and is the largest and most important single zodlogical publication thus far undertaken by the Museum. EXTINCT VERTEBRATES HENRY FAIRFIELD OsBORN, Curator Emeritus; W. D. MATTHEW, Curator DEPARTMENT OF VERTEBRATE PALZONTOLOGY.—The past year has been one of unusual success in the field. In the Cretaceous formations of Alberta, Associate Curator Brown secured a magnificent collection of fossil reptiles including three fine skulls of Horned Dinosaurs, a complete skeleton with skin of a Duck-billed Dinosaur, materials for completing a mounted skeleton of the great Armored Dinosaur, and a large series of skulls and skeletons of dinosaurs, most of them new or little known. Associate Curator Granger secured from the Eocene of New Mexico and Wyoming a large collection of the rare and interesting fossil mammals of this epoch, which will be of great value in unraveling the early stages in the evolution of various races of quadrupeds. Mr. Thomson obtained from the Lower Miocene of Nebraska three splendidly preserved skeletons of the gigantic and grotesque ‘‘Clawed Ungulate” MMoropus, which had been one of the greatest desiderata for the Tertiary Mammal Hall. A conservative 52 Report of the President estimate of the value of the more important exhibition speci- mens shows a total of over twice the whole cost of the three expeditions, in addition to collections of great scientific value but difficult to estimate commercially. CuBan COoLLecTions.—The collections of Cuban fossil vertebrates, made under the generous direction of Carlos de la Torre of the University of Havana, and of Associate Curator Brown, are now being prepared for study and exhibi- tion. Dr. de la Torre has also deposited on loan his earlier collections from Cuban localities, as also those of Sefior Moreno. These collections constitute practically all that is known of the extinct vertebrate life of the island, and repre- sent one of the most important discoveries of recent years. They will be described and illustrated in the Memoirs of this Museum, by Dr. de la Torre and the Curator. EXHIBITION MeretHops.—The work of reinstalling the exhibits on the panel system has been continued, the U7nta- there case being completed, the Zitanothere alcove practically completed and some progress made on other groups. A fine group has been completed illustrating the conditions which caused the burial of the wonderful deposit of Pleistocene fossils in the asphalt beds of La Brea near Los Angeles. The specimens for this group, complete skeletons of the Sabre- tooth Tiger and Extinct Wolf, and skulls with a fore limb of a great Ground Sloth, were secured through exchange with the University of California. A cast of the skeleton of the Giant Lemur Megaladapis of Madagascar, also secured through exchange, has been mounted and placed on exhibition. A skeleton of the Four-toed Horse ZoAippus and another partial skeleton of the same, both from the Lower Eocene of the Big Horn valley, Wyoming, have been prepared and mounted for the Evolution of the Horse Alcove. A number of dinosaur specimens secured by Mr. Brown in Alberta have been pre- pared and temporarily exhibited in the case opposite the elevator, and the preparation of a complete skeleton of a new Duck-billed Dinosaur Saurolophus, is nearly completed. A splendid skull of the ‘‘ Giant Pig’’ Dinohyus has been mounted ee JOAN Jo9a(] PeyYy P4I uo ut podxy winosnyy a 7 VLU VY NI STISSOJY ONLLNO}Y ADOIOLNOW IVd ALVUFALYAA AO LNAWLUVIAd Report of the President 53 on the panel to the left of the entrance of the Tertiary Mammal Hall. Most of the material secured by the field expeditions of 1911 has been prepared for study, and for mounting in exhibition groups where desirable. Some pro- gress has also been made in the preparation of the 1912 collections. The transfer of the Osborn Library to the Museum, and its cataloging and general supervision and care under direction of the Librarian, have made it more than ever valuable and convenient for research work in Vertebrate Paleontology. PUBLICATION AND RESEARCH.—Research work was con- tinued as usual, by Professor Osborn and Dr. Gregory upon the Zitanothere Monograph for the United States Geological Survey, by Professor Osborn and Mr. Brown upon Cretaceous Dinosaurs, by Dr. Matthew and Mr. Granger upon Lower Eocene mammals and by Professor Osborn and Dr. Matthew upon the Evolution of the Horse. In addition a number of valuable researches upon Museum material have been con- tributed by scientific authorities not upon our staff, notably, Dr. von Huene upon Permian vertebrates, Dr. Shufeldt upon Pleistocene birds and Dr. Cockerell upon Tertiary land shells. SALES AND ExcHANGES.—-A number of valuable duplicate specimens and casts have been sent to other museums during the year. Of these the most important are a skeleton of the Primitive Ungulate Phenacodus, sent to the Senckenberg Mu- seum, two fossil skulls to the British Museum, and five copies each of two splendid casts recently prepared, the skull of Tyrannosaurus and skeleton of Zryops, sold to different muse- ums. The net total of these sales, excluding unfilled orders, is $2,350. Exchanges with the University of California, Munich University and the Geological Survey of India have been arranged during the year. PHoToGRAPHY.——-Dr. Gregory and Mr. Anderson have devoted considerable time during the year to the preparation and supervision of illustrations for Dr. Elliot’s monograph of the Primates. Mr. Anderson has also prepared and photo- 54 Report of the President graphed a minute fossil skull, of extraordinary scientific value, found by Mr. Granger in New Mexico during the summer. The usual number of field photographs and a number of museum exhibits have been added to the files. SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.—The skeleton of Zohippus, found in rgro, has been recorded as a gift of Frank K. Sturgis, in recognition of his contributions toward the field work which resulted in its discovery. This specimen is now installed in the Horse Alcove. To Langdon Gibson the Museum is indebted for a fossil walrus skull, dredged in Penobscot Bay. Acknowledgments are due to the Trustees whose continued interest and generous support have made possible the main- tenance and success of the field and laboratory work. Horse EvoLuTion SeriES.—The alterations and additions in this alcove are more advanced than elsewhere toward what we regard as the new ideals of exhibits. The methods of paneling the cases, of unifying and simplifying the exhibits, and of emphasizing especially some one principle in each alcove, have proved fairly satisfactory, although the rearrangement is not yet complete. The Guide Leaflet on the Evolution of the Horse has been revised and improved, especially as to the illustrations, so as to conform to the new arrangement of the alcove, and the new edition is now in press, EXISTING REPTILES, BATRACHIANS, RECENT AND EXTINCT FISHES BASHFORD DEAN, Curator* DEPARTMENT OF ICHTHYOLOGY AND HERPETOLOGY.—Dur- ing the past year this department has made progress in all its activities: in enlarging its exhibits; in adding to, and caring for, its reserve collections; in broadening its exchange relations with other museums, and in the scientific study of its collections. Though one of the youngest departments in * During the leave of absence of Dr. Dean, Louis Hussakof, Associate Curator of Fishes, has been Acting Curator of the department, Report of the President 55 the Museum, it has grown so steadily that it bids fair soon to rival the much older, similar departments in other great museums. ‘The department has been fortunate in having at its disposal the Cleveland H. Dodge Fund, which has enabled it to add to its collections many rare and desirable fishes as these have been offered to the Museum. We gratefully acknowledge the generosity of the New York Zodlogical Society, which has provided the department with many specimens of both fishes and reptiles. The event of the year was the progress made on the exhibits. This has taken two directions: first, the enlarging of the synoptic series, the series containing examples of the various families of fishes, amphibians and reptiles; and second, the preparation of habitat groups. In the synoptic series, a total of 177 specimens were added to the exhibits. In addition to these, three habitat groups, two of fishes and one of the Giant Salamander, were opened to the public. These groups afford an opportunity for displaying the creatures in their various activities, such as securing food, escaping enemies, building nests, etc., besides lending a touch of nature, often of great beauty in color and artistic detail, to the exhibition hall. EXISTING FisHes.—The synoptic exhibit in the Recent Fish Hall was increased during the year by the addition of 85 specimens. These are mounts, except in those cases where the poor condition of the original, or the necessity of repre- senting it on a larger scale, has made desirable the preparation of a model. Among the specimens worthy of special mention are several large fishes hung on the walls above the cases, including two Sea Sunfish (JZo/a mo/a), one of them over ten feet in length and supposed to be of record size, a six-foot Arapaima from the Amazon River, two nine-foot Alligator Gars, a beautifully mounted Jewfish and two magnificent Sailfishes. Early in the year, the department completed and opened to the public the Paddlefish Group, the first of a series of groups planned for the fish exhibit. This represents a school of that singular sturgeon, the paddlefish, swinging around toward a fisherman’s seine in one of the smaller lakes of the 56 Report of the President lower Mississippi valley. The studies for this group were made at Moon Lake, Miss., in 1g1o. Another group completed during the year was that of the Sea Lamprey. This represents three lampreys which have run up ariver in the breeding season, in the spring, and are carrying away the pebbles with their suctorial mouths so as to make a depression, or nest, in the river bottom in which to spawn. The studies for the group were made on the Nisse- quogue River at Smithtown, L. I. The department has also in preparation four other fish groups. Three of these, the Ama, Gar Pike and Shovel- nose Sturgeon, were designed to represent the ganoid fishes peculiar to North America; one of them, the 4ma Group, is nearing completion. These will be window groups, illuminated by the colored light streaming through painted glass inserted in the windows. The field studies for these groups, which were made possible through the Dodge Fund, were Carried out in Wisconsin, in the spring of 1912. There is also under construction a semi-diagrammatic group of the Australian Lungfish Veoceratodus, of which the department was fortunate in obtaining a number of specimens. This group will be of much scientific as well as popular interest, since specimens of the fish are rather rare and the species, it appears, is on the verge of extinction. Fossit FisHes.—This exhibit was increased by a total of 33 Specimens, chiefly restorations of high artistic finish. Some of these have been attempted for the first time, and all have been carried out with strict attention to scientific accuracy, while not neglecting, at the same time, to represent the fish as life-like as possible. Among those worthy of special mention are a model of the ancient shark Cladose/ache, based upon the fossils of which the Museum has the largest collection in the world; Pleuracanthus, an ancient shark belonging to a group also extinct, remarkable for having a powerful serrated spine back of the head; a model of Semronotus, and three reproduc- tions of models in the British Museum. Two panels illus- trating the evolution of the Arthrodires were arranged, one showing the progressive changes in form and size of the head, dNOUY*L) YWAGNVINWVIVS LNVIS) AHL AO NOLLOAS ¥ ADOTOLAMYAH GNV ADOTOAHLHOS! AO LNANLNVdad Report of the President 57 the other the gradual increase in size and effectiveness of the jaws. Owing to the small size of this exhibition hall, it is not possible to introduce many additional specimens; progress must be rather along the lines of improving the artistic and scientific detail of the exhibit. AMPHIBIANS AND ReptriLes.—The chief event in this field was the completion and opening of the Cryptobranchus Group. This represents the Giant Salamander, or Hellbender, in various activities amid the rocks in the shallows of the Alle- gheny River. A painted background, which blends with the water, rocks and trees in the foreground, gives the illusion of a sunlit vista up a shallow stream flowing over a bed strewn with rocks, and overhung by the drooping foliage of trees. The materials and artistic details for the group were prepared under the supervision of Miss Dickerson. The scientific data for it were supplied by Bertram G. Smith, an authority on this creature, who has made intimate studies of it in its native haunts and has written extensively on it. Two other groups are also under way. One is to represent the common toad with its various associates, as it appears in its natural surroundings in New England, toward the end of spring. Some progress has also been made on a group of that interesting reptile, the California Chuckawalla, based on materials collected in southern California in 1910, by Charles H. Townsend, Director of the New York Aquarium. In the synoptic series, 59 amphibians and reptiles were added to the exhibit. Among these may be mentioned, as of special interest, mounts of Heloderma, Varanus, Crocodilus, and casts of Rana goliath, Ophisaurus and Bufo alvarius. Stupy CoLLections.—During the year the study, or reserve, collection of fishes was overhauled by Mr. Nichols, and the specimens rearranged on an improved plan. The same was done for the herpetological collections by Miss Dickerson. About 1,100 cards were added to the card catalogs in the department, giving references to some 3,100 speci- mens. The collections now number, roughly, 8,000 fishes, 7,000 fossil fishes, 7,000 amphibians and reptiles. An 58 Report of the President additional room in the basement, adjoining the present store- room, was made available for use by the department to accommodate the alcoholic and dried herpetological collections. This room has been fitted with metal fire-proof shelving, similar to that in use in the United States National Museum storerooms, and is now ready for occupancy. Removing the herpetological collections to this room will allow more space for the fish collections, and during the coming year the fish storeroom will be fitted up similarly to the herpetology room. The fossil fish storeroom on the fifth floor has been provided with additional metal cases, which will more than double its previous storage capacity. In connection with the growth of the collections of the department, it should be mentioned that Professor Dean has made special efforts, during the year, to arrange exchanges with museums throughout the world. Many valuable speci- mens have thereby been received from distant localities, ¢. g., British Guiana, Australia, Formosa, South Africa, as well as many museums in Europe and America. ExPEDITIONS.—Thanks to the Cleveland H. Dodge Fund, the department has been able to participate, to some extent, in the large expeditions sent out by the Museum, and also to meet the expense of several minor expeditions. In this way the department has had entire or-partial interest in six expedi- tions, namely, to Wisconsin, for the collection of ganoid fishes; to Cuban waters; to South Georgia Island; to British Guiana - and Central America; to Japan and Korea, and to the Belgian Colony of the Congo. The Arizona desert expedition was financed from the ‘‘ Director’s Fund.”” The expeditions already returned have brought valuable material to the Museum. RESEARCH.—The officers of the department have devoted such time as could be spared from their other duties to the scientific study of the collections in their charge. Some of these studies have already appeared, and a number of others are in hand and will be carried on as opportunity offers. Seven Museum Bulletins were published by the department during the year, and a number of popular articles have appeared in the American Museum Journal. Report of the President 59 EXISTING INVERTEBRATES HENRY EDWARD CRAMPTON, Curator DEPARTMENT OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY.—The past year has witnessed marked progress in all lines of activity. New and elaborate exhibits have been placed in the halls, much constructive work has been accomplished in cataloging and arranging the study collections, and several scientific investiga- tions have been pushed forward and some of them have been published. Mr. Grossbeck has been assigned to the imme- diate oversight of Lepidoptera, in place of Mr. Beutenmiiller. Extensive additions have been made to the study collec- tion. Most of the new material has been secured through our own expeditions, of which four were sent out during the year, while additional field work in our more immediate neighbor- hood was prosecuted by three officers. As before, all field work has been coérdinated through its relation to the exten- sive studies which the department as a whole has instituted, namely, those of the distribution, evolution and migration of the invertebrate organisms of North and South America. Especially valuable are the results of Mr. Grossbeck, assisted by William T. Davis, in southwestern Florida. A new field for comparison of northern and arctic forms was entered by Mr. Leng, who devoted several weeks to collecting in Labrador and Newfoundland. Mr. Miner spent four weeks in making a detailed biological study of the Greylock Range of the Berk- shire Hills and obtained many insects and myriapods. Later he spent some weeks at Woods Hole, Mass., with members of the preparation room staff to complete the observations and preliminary sketches for projected groups of Bryozoa inhabit- ing shallow water. Early in the year, Professor Wheeler carried on field work in Central America. In November Pro- fessor Crampton made a reconnoissance of New Providence in the Bahama Islands for the collection and study of terrestrial molluscs especially, and to ascertain how desirable it might be for the department to give fuller attention to this outlying region. During the summer Dr. Lutz, Professor Treadwell and Professor Crampton also prosecuted field work in regions nearer New York City. 60 Report of the President INVERTEBRATES IN GENERAL.—Several notable exhibits have been installed in the Darwin Hall in the course of the year. The Annulate Group has been completed; it is one that arouses considerable interest on the part of visitors. A still more elaborate exhibit is that which displays a variety of organisms associated upon the piles of a wharf; it is a repro- duction of a portion of a wharf at Vineyard Haven, Mass. Despite its complexity and the great number of small models that necessarily enter into its composition, this exhibit has been finally completed. In addition to the displays of a faun- istic nature certain other items have been installed. An assemblage of field mice and their enemies, represented in a natural habitat, serves to illustrate the intricacies of organic interrelationships and the consequent struggle for existence. Numerous varieties of dogs illustrate the results of artificial selection that were given special prominence by Darwin. Soon to be placed in the Darwin Hall is a large topographic model of the Island of Tahiti, already completed, which will serve two purposes: it will bear distinctive examples of the land snails under investigation by Professor Crampton, thus demon- strating the principles of geographical distribution, and it con- stitutes one member of the series of models of the Society Islands which in its entirety will show the mode of evolution of a coral atoll from a barrier reef surrounding a volcanic peak. Several other smaller models have been added to the systematic series. Much time and labor have been given by the preparation staff of this department to work for other departments; a large and detailed model of the House Fly and a series of models of Bacteria are the most prominent items under this heading. Insects.—Marked and gratifying progress has been made in this division during the past year. We have been fortunate in receiving by gift a large number of specimens; Mr. Gross- beck has donated his splendid large collection of Geometridae, Mr. Leng has given extensive series of Coccinellid and Cerambycid beetles, R. D. O. Johnson of Medellin, Colombia, has presented a valuable collection of insects from that locality, and the members of the New York Entomological INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF PILE GROUP WHARF Report of the President 61 Society have continued to fill in the weak places in our local collections. Dr. Lutz, in continuing the local field work of this division, has replaced many specimens devoid of exact data with specimens accompanied by careful field notes, he has added a number of species new to the collection as well as forms new to this locality, and has discovered certain species new to science. This work also has continued to receive the hearty and efficient support of the New York Entomological Society. The magnitude of the task of securing a complete collection of local insects is indicated by the fact that in spite of so many years of work on the part of so many investigators, our collections still lack more than 5,000 of the species to be found within fifty miles of New York City. Field work in other regions has yielded most satisfactory results. Early in the year Mr. Grossbeck, assisted by William T. Davis, made collections in southwestern Florida to extend and supplement the work accomplished last year by Messrs. Lutz, Leng and Davis. The material thus secured, together with that already on hand or generously loaned from other collections, is being studied by specialists. Their results will be published ina series of reports under the general title of ‘Insects of Florida.” The report on the Diptera is already prepared for the press; it is by C. W. Johnson of the Boston Society of Natural History, and lists 832 species, of which 382 are additions to the best previous list. This monograph also gives a discussion of the important relationship borne by the Floridan fauna to those of surrounding regions. Entomo- logical field work was also carried on in Newfoundland and Labrador by Mr. Leng, accompanied by George P. Engelhardt of the Brooklyn Museum. The specimens secured on this expedition are particularly interesting because of their value for the problems of geographical distribution, and because many of them are either new species or undescribed local races. The spiders obtained at the same time are under investigation by J. H. Emerton of Boston. The work of the year on the general collection of insects has consisted largely of the assembling of named specimens and the preliminary sorting of unidentified material into the larger taxonomic division. The regular staff has had little 62 Report of the President time to devote to the more critical study of the collections, and were it not for the cordial coédperation of outsiders but little progress could have been made in rendering them of greater scientific value. There are more than one million specimens of all species in the charge of officers of their divisions, and many of these may be made of far greater scientific interest through their adequate study when this may become possible. Naturally, the preliminary work noted above is the first essential. One of the most important phases of the year’s work has been the careful cataloging and labeling of type specimens; more than 1,700 species of insects are represented either by types or by cotypes. Three large groups have been placed on exhibition in the Hall of Insects. One of these shows a swarm of migratory butterflies (Danais plexippus) resting on a small oak tree; another illustrates more than a dozen distinct features of the biology of the periodic Cicada (7Z7bicen septendecim) ; while the third is a reproduction of a nest of the mound building ant (Formica exsectoides) showing about four hundred insects at work. These groups show a notable advance upon the usual methods of exhibiting insects through the adaptation of means earlier employed for the exhibition of birdsand mammals. By reason of the small size of insects it is possible to display large numbers of individuals within an area of a few square inches in a setting which reproduces their natural surroundings; they are very useful in fixing the interest of visitors and thus inducing them to read the labels which explain the scientific points illustrated by the exhibits. Mo..uscs.—During the year the collections have been en- larged by certain items which will doubtless repay closer study. Arthur D. Gabay has continued his gifts of attractive material which, with that acquired in former years, might be incorporated in an exhibit illustrating the ornamental uses of shells. The collections of the genus Cerion, already consider- able, have been amplified by the material collected during the year in the Bahama Islands by the Curator. The collection of shells is now safely housed in iron cases provided for its permanent installation in the new Hall of Report of the President 63 Molluscs. Considering the long exposure incidental to its removal, its condition is satisfactory, although time and labor will be required in order that the shells may be freed from accumulated dust and may be arranged properly. It is hoped that this hall may be soon freed of construction work so that the whole collection may be placed in final order. The officers in charge are most anxious that this may be done, while in addition the visiting public shows many evidences of its desire to renew its acquaintance with the collections of shells. Visitors to the Museum are mainly uninstructed in the details of conchology and hence the immediate purpose of a hall is to offer suitable general and educational exhibits. Yet it is increasingly evident that a separate room is desirable for those shells which are more valuable for purposes of study than for exhibition. In pursuance of the first purpose the present intention is to utilize about six cases on the north side of the hall for an exhibit of molluscan fauna of New York State, arranged according to the forthcoming report of Dr. Pilsbry. The other collections will display Industrial and Ornamental Uses of Shells; Variation in Form, Sculpture, Ornamentation, Color, etc., in progressive or mutational series, as in various species of Pyramidula, Cyprea, Purpura, Pecten, etc.; Fossil Ancestry of Genera (Ostrea, Fusus); Adaptation of Habitats (Solem, Mya, Ostrea, Lithodomus, etc.); Abyssal Forms as contrasted with Littoral or Shallow Water Forms; Eggs, Nidamental Sacs, Capsules and the like. At the front of the hall biological groups will be placed which will illustrate the morphological, physiological and ecological characteristics of Mollusca as distinguished from their taxo- nomic features. GEOLOGY AND EXTINCT INVERTEBRATES EDMUND OTis Hovey, Curator DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND INVERTEBRATE PAL#oN- ToLoGy.—The chief features of the past year’s history in this department pertain to the Crocker Land Expedition and the changes in the installation of the hall. 64 Report of the President CROCKER LAND EXPEDITION.—Plans for this enterprise were going forward satisfactorily in every respect, the personnel of the party was acceptable and financial support seemed to be fully assured, when on 28 April, George Borup, the leader of the expedition, was drowned while skirting the shores of Long Island Sound near Crescent Beach in a canoe. The details of the accident are unknown, but everything points to the conclusion that he lost his own life in trying to save that of his companion, E. C. Case of Hartford, Connec- ticut. This lamentable accident deprived the Crocker Land Expedition of its leader, and led to the postponement of its start for a year. The loss to science in general and to the Museum in particular through Mr. Borup’s death is large. Qualified by mental faculties to do scientific work of high grade, particularly along exploratory work in charge of geography, Mr. Borup was of asunny disposition which made warm friends for him wherever he went. He had personal courage and other qualities that made him a natural leader of men. In the fall the expedition was reorganized. Donald B. MacMillan, who had been co-leader of the original party with Mr. Borup, was appointed its leader, and in conference with him revised plans for the work were adopted. W. Elmer Ekblaw, of the University of Illinois, was chosen the geologist of the party and Ensign Fitzhugh Green, U.S. N., was chosen for the cartographic and magnetic work, Mr. MacMillan himself retaining charge of the anthropological and meteoro- logical sides of the expedition. The active endorsement and coéperation of the Navy Department are shown by the fact that it ‘‘detailed Mr. Green for duty on the expedition,” thus retaining for him his full position in the Navy during his absence in the arctic. The general handy-man, mechanic and cook has been appointed, but the surgeon and a general scientific assistant remain to be selected. Plans are on foot for coéperating with the Government in establishing a Weather Bureau station at the principal head- quarters on Flagler Bay, which, if carried out, will entail an enlargement of the scientific staff. The Crocker Land Expedi- tion will start in July, 1913, and will codperate with the second Stefansson Expedition in completing the exploration of the I Al MEN‘ rt ,EOLOGY AND INVERTEBRATE PALAZ ONTOLOGY GENERAL VIEW OF MAINKA SEISMOGRAPH Present to the New York Academy of Sciences by Emerson McM n, President of the \cademy e] te the American Museum of Natural History Report of the President 65 region north of North America and west of the goth meridian of West Longitude. REARRANGEMENT OF COLLECTIONS.—The plans for the rearrangement of the hall were put into active operation dur- ing the year, and, with the assistance of Chester A. Reeds, who assumed duties as Assistant Curator in the department on 1 August, much progress has been made. It is now pro- posed to devote the west half to historical geology and the stratigraphic series of fossils, and a portion of the eastern half of the hall to a typical biological series; the remainder of the hall will be devoted to phenomenal and structural geology, and space has been cleared in the northeast corner for the reception of the Copper Queen Mine model which is being pre- pared through the generosity of James Douglas. The reproduction of the Copper Queen Cave is almost finished, and some excellent cave material has been received from other regions, particularly a collection of Calcite and Aragonite crystals from the El Potosi Mine of Chihuahua, Mexico, as the gift of Grant B. Schley, and stalactites and stalagmites from caves in Edmonton County, Ky., as the gift of the Mammoth Cave Estate. Other accessions worthy of particular mention are copper ores and associated rocks from Butte, Mont., presented by the Anaconda Copper Mining Co., a model of the Panama Canal and a large number of meteorites. The latter came partly through the acquisition by gift from J. Pierpont Morgan, Jr., of the collections of meteorites left by the late Professor Stratford C. H. Bailey, a noted collector of his day, and through exchange or purchase. The total number of additions to the exhibition series comprises representatives of 87 falls, including about 14,000 specimens. The most noteworthy of the falls are the specimen forming eight-tenths of the famous Tomhannock Creek, N. Y., meteorite weighing 3% pounds, the 665-pound mass of the Amalia (Mukerop) iron, the Shrewsbury (600 grams) aérolite and the series of 1,080 speci- mens varying from 1/1o gram to 6,650 grams in weight of the Holbrook, also an entire mass of the Cruz del Aire iron weighing 15,082 grams. 66 Report of the President The subglacial pot-hole from the town of Russell, St. Lawrence County, N. Y., which was mentioned in my last annual report, was transported to the Museum during the winter and mounted under the archway in front of the main entrance, as a companion piece to the Kelley’s Island glacial grooves. The 450-kilogram Mainka seismograph which was presented last year by Emerson McMillin to the New York Academy of Sciences, arrived during 1912, and was deposited by the Academy at the Museum in care of this department. The installation included the construction of a solid concrete pier reaching to the solid rock, and the instrument is now on exhi- bition in the little room reached from the southeast corner of the Eskimo Hall on the ground floor. This is the largest instrument in the United States for recording earthquake shocks. EXISTING AND EXTINCT RACES OF MEN CLARK WISSLER, Curator DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY.—Several important ac- cessions are credited to the year just closed. Ogden Mills presented some 400 oil paintings by the famous George Catlin, many of which are now on exhibition in the Plains and Wood- lands Halls. Mrs. Edward H. Harriman presented a large collection from the Tlingit and Haida Indians of Alaska. From the field work the greatest returns in collections were by the southwestern archeological expedition in charge of Assistant Curator Nelson and the Stefansson-Anderson ex- pedition to Coronation Gulf. In addition may be mentioned a Penobscot collection by Dr. Speck and Mr. Paul, a Potawa- tomi collection by Mr. Skinner, a Hidatsa-Mandan collection by G. L. Wilson, a Ute-Shoshone collection by Dr. Lowie and a New Jersey Rock-shelter series by Mr. Schrabisch. There were many small gifts of specimens during the year as noted in the accession list. It is hoped that such gifts may increase, for in this way the general collections are gradually rounded out and made useful for study and reference. The year just closed has been marked by the great increase in the Report of the President 67 number of calls from persons looking up special points in anatomy, archeology and ethnology. Such students find our museum storage collections very useful, and it is usually these collections that are strengthened by the many small gifts of our patrons. We desire, therefore, to express our great appreciation of the gifts so far made and the hope that the members and friends of the Museum will encourage further contributions. EuROPEAN ARCH#OLOGY.—The most important work of the year was a study of paleolithic man in western Europe by President Henry Fairfield Osborn. All the important caverns and sites yielding cultural and anatomical remains of paleo- lithic man were visited and the principal museum collections studied. Special attention was given to the correlation of the geological and faunistic characters of the period with the somatological and cultural characters. Some of the results of this investigation were made the subject of a special lecture in the Museum on November 20. Special arrangements were made with the leading investi- gators and museums of France and Spain by which type collections for the various successive periods will be placed on permanent exhibition in our Archeological Hall. Permission was received through the courtesy of Professor Hugo Ober- maier to make a model cross-section of the newly discovered deposit in the cavern of Castillo and to receive type specimens from the successive layers. All this constitutes a very great advance in the development of anthropology in this museum. Several type collections were purchased and one small cavern excavated by Professor George Grant MacCurdy of Yale, who accompanied President Osborn on his tour of the caverns. Among the specimens secured by President Osborn is a large slab of stone from Sergeac (Dordogne), bearing the engraving of a horse. This valuable relic of paleolithic man will soon be installed in the European exhibit and will be one of our most important scientific assets. NORTH AMERICAN RESEARCH.—The research work of the department has been along the definite lines noted in previous 68 Report of the President reports. Undera special fund provided by Archer M. Hunt- ington, Assistant Curators Spinden and Nelson worked in the Southwest. Dr. Spinden spent the first quarter of the year on the religion and art of the Rio Grande Pueblos. These villages present some of the most important and at the same time some of the most difficult ethnological problems in the Southwest. As the work now stands Dr. Spinden has full data on the material culture and art and has made a beginning on religion and social organization. The general plan for the work in the Southwest was to make a detailed investigation of the living Pueblo peoples and then to take up the archeology of aban- doned Pueblo villages, first those abandoned since the Spanish occupation and later those of undoubted pre-Spanish origin. Mr. Nelson began the latter part of this investigation last May. A careful survey of the whole Rio Grande valley from E!] Paso to Santa Fé was made and the important sites plotted and characterized. During the rebellion of the Pueblos against the Spanish in 1680, the inhabitants of Cochiti fled to a higher mesa and built a new village, where they lived until 1694 or until the Spanish stormed the mesa and burned the village. We thus have in these ruins a definite cross section of early historic Pueblo culture. This ruin was carefully excavated by Mr. Nelson and will be made the basis of a comparative study. In the Galisteo basin south of Lamy are a number of important ruins, some of which were occupied in Spanish days. Here San Cristobal, Largo and several others were excavated during the season, making seven in all. More than 500 rooms were cleared out. The collections selected for further study are now in the Museum. It is planned to make this excellent showing but a beginning of the systematic archeological exploration of the whole area to the south. In the Plains the special subject of investigation was men’s societies and ceremonial organizations. Assistant Curator Lowie visited the Comanche, Ute, Shoshone, Crow and Eastern Dakota. The Curator spent some time among the Northern Blackfoot and the Teton-Dakota. A systematic review of this problem for the whole Plains area is now in progress and will form the substance of a future publication. G. L. Wilson uonpoadx ay UuOSIIPUY -UOSSUBIJAIS ISI] * SGV1IS AHL MOVd ANV dNVD AVANT NOSSNVAALS “AJY ONIdMTAPT OWINSA ~ ADOTOAOYHLNVY AO LNAWLAVdAd Report of the President 69 made a detailed study of agriculture among the Mandan and Hidatsa which has brought out many new points in land owner- ship and practical botany. An important event of the year was the return of the Stefansson-Anderson Expedition. The region covered by this expedition was chiefly the territory between Cape Bathurst and King William Land, an area formerly so little known that one could do no more than conjecture as to what groups of Eskimo lived there. Mr. Stefansson succeeded in visiting thirteen groups in that territory and determining approximately their respective habitats. This alone marks an important advance in our knowledge of the Eskimo. Moreover, some data as to the culture, language and somatology of each group were recorded. ‘This, in comparison with data on the Central and Alaskan Eskimo, should give us a fair idea of the whole gamut of Eskimo culture from Greenland to the Aleutian Islands. When it is recalled that anthropologists have found some important differences between the culture of the Alaskan Eskimo and of those around Hudson Bay, it must follow that a boundary line or a transitional belt exists somewhere in the region visited by Stefansson and Anderson. The data will give at least a tentative solution of this problem. As to the past history of the Eskimo, we must appeal to what is in the ground. The expedition noted many ruins of former villages and recorded the character of houses and culture for further study. A point of especial interest is that from Cape Parry we have a collection of pottery dug out of the cutbank. This one fact is of considerable importance, since it greatly extends the pottery area among the Eskimo. Other archeological material was secured from the vicinity of Point Barrow, and a comparative study of these two collec- tions, one east of the Mackenzie and one west, will prove of great importance. It appears now that these collections, supplemented by other historical data, will enable Mr. Stefansson to demonstrate that the introduction of fish nets, labrets and tobacco pipes was comparatively recent and from the west, whereas pottery was known a long time before. Lastly, we may mention the peculiar suggestions of 70 Report of the President European blood among these Eskimo. This is an interesting somatological discovery. We say traces of European blood because that seems the most reasonable explanation of the observed facts. Among the many minor investigations conducted in the Museum may be mentioned a study of the composition of copper implements from the Andean region of South America by W. A. Wissler. Chemical analysis made it clear that the production of bronze was understood by the ancient Peruvians. A full report of this work will be published. PuBLicaTions.—The results of research by members of the scientific staff are issued in a special series, the Anthropo- logical Papers of the American Museum of Natural History. Several papers were issued in the regular series, giving the results of field work among the Crow, Blackfoot, Dakota and Chipewyan tribes conducted by Doctors Wissler, Goddard and Lowie. Frank E. Lutz of the Department of Invertebrate Zoélogy reported some observations on the Patomana Indians of British Guiana. A special series of handbooks was begun, and the first number, on the Indians of the Plains, by Dr. Clark Wissler, was issued. A special series of publications referring to the work of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition is still being issued but con- tains the work of former members of that expedition, none of whom are now on the Museum’s staff. The editorial responsi- bility for this work is borne by Professor Boas of Columbia University. No volumes were issued during the year, but two papers are now in press. EXHIBITION HALis.—As museum work is practically con- tinuous, a report for the year is simply a cross-section of many tasks begun during the previous year and extending over even into the following year. This is especially true of exhibition. At the beginning of the calendar year a small portion of the Plains Indians Hall was in place and only a few cases in the Woodlands Hall. As these two halls are now fairly well worked out, all the space being occupied by the various tribes in their proper sequence and position, it may be said that the year just Report of the President vfs closed can be credited with the completion of this important installation. As these halls now stand, the visitor should be able to get a comprehensive view of the culture of the principal tribes, in geographical sequence from the Atlantic Ocean to the deserts of the Southwest. A great deal of work remains to be done on the special tribal groups in these halls, but the installation is inthe main complete. In the North Pacific Hall some refinements of installation were made, especially in the Tlingit and Haida sections. Mr. Operti was detailed from the Department of Preparation to finish some of the figures in the canoe group. As the group now stands the figures are all complete, though we still need some figures to give the group a proper balance. Mr. Taylor has nearly completed two additional wall panels for the ceremonial side of this hall. A small collection of Eskimo material from Coronation Gulf, brought back by Mr. Stefansson, has been installed in the Eskimo alcove. In the South Sea Islands Hall Dr. Lowie revised and refined the New Guinea collection which is now fairly complete. Mr. Operti was detailed to complete the Tahitian groups begun by Mr. Neandross, all three of which are now in place. In the South American Hall Mr. Mead made a special installation of Peruvian cloth. This is a fairly successful arrangement made especially effective by the use of proper backgrounds and a carefully balanced arrangement of the various textiles. The case as a whole adds very much to the attractiveness and interest of that hall, and has been used frequently by students of design during the calendar year. The Director designed and furnished new cases for the tower of the Chinese Hall, space to be given over entirely to Chinese archeology. Here it is planned to install the pottery and bronze collections in suitable form. One case is already in, but the others await shelves and brackets. Dr. MacCurdy of Yale University continued the installation of European archeological material begun during the preced- ing year. This has progressed so far that we have in place a type series from the specimens owned by the Museum. Mr. Operti has just completed a series of mural panels for the walls of this room, representing typical examples of cave paintings, 72 Report of the President In connection with the installation work considerable label copy has been prepared, especially for the Woodlands Hall, the European exhibit, the South Sea Islands Hall and the South American Hall. A small portion has been printed and put in place, but the greater part still remains in the hands of the printer. The exhibits have been further enlivened by the use of photographs illustrating the relation of the various specimens to the culture and tribe concerned. STORAGE.—The proper arrangement and classification of collections not on exhibition must always be an important part of the Museum’s work. During the year there have been a great many calls from persons interested in the rather inten- sive study of various subjects requiring their admission to the storage collections. On the whole, we have been able to meet their requirements satisfactorily. Nevertheless, there is need of further refinement and elaboration of our storage system. During the year, however, considerable advance was made. A large closet heretofore unused was fitted with side shelves and a traveling ladder, and in it was arranged in proper classi- fication our large series of face casts from various parts of the world. A special room for the arrangement and storage of crania and other skeletal material was completed during the year, and half of the room filled. The other half awaits proper trays for installation. This room will hold about all the crania now possessed by the Museum. The other skeletal material, however, must be arranged in cabinets in the hall adjoining this room, This is a very great improvement over the former arrangement, and places the material in such shape that it is readily accessible to students. On the attic floor there are under construction sixteen new fireproof storage vaults. One of these has been completed and filled with material as a test. On the whole, they are very much more satisfactory than the rooms previously constructed. ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY RALPH W. Tower, Curator DEPARTMENT OF ANATOMY AND PuysioLocy.—During another twelve months the three assistants have been working DEPARTMENT OF PHYSIOLOGY SKULL OF BUSHMASTER Report of the President 73 to their full capacity in the preparation of skeletons received by the various departments of the Museum. Messrs. Johnstone and Cohn have been occupied entirely with the large material, including the osteological preparation of the California Gray Whale and the Elephant Seal. Again the time of Mr. Elwyn has been wholly occupied in completing work which has been requisitioned by the Departments of Mammalogy and Ornith- ology, and Ichthyology and Herpetology. Notwithstanding that this work is important and has been skilfully done, it is unfortunate that no time has been left for the regular work of the Department of Anatomy and Physiology. The total preparations of all kinds, large and small, register 25 skeletons and 564 skulls; also 11 skeletons and 13 skulls have been mounted for exhibition purposes. Through the courtesy of Bashford Dean, an African lungfish was placed at the disposal of the Curator for experi- ments on the mechanism of respiration. It is well known that this interesting animal uses both its gills and a true lung in the process of respiration, but the method by which this is carried on and what proportion of the function is maintained by the gills and what by the lung has never been demonstrated. While the experiments at the present writing are far from com- plete they are suggesting interesting problems in a very com- plicated process. PUBLIC HEALTH CHARLES-EDWARD AMORY WINSLOW, Curator DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH.—A tentative plan has been outlined for an ideal future development of the Depart- ment of Public Health so that its exhibition halls may present a fairly comprehensive picture of the life of man as an animal, his place in the general scheme of natural history, his relation to his geographical and meteorological surroundings, the para- sites which cause his diseases, and the animals and plants which serve him for food and clothing. The plan as outlined, giving a survey of the cycle of human life, its dangers and its safeguards, complete enough to satisfy the curiosity of the 74 Report of the President ordinary man and to teach him what he needs to know in order to keep sound and well, is an extensive one, including twenty-five different sections. It cannot be realized in the near future and may perhaps never be realized in its entirety, but it gives definiteness and purpose to the immediate plans of the department to see them in relation to this larger plan. One section dealing with the disposal of city wastes was practically finished in 1911. During the first half of 1912 another section was essentially completed, dealing with water- supply, its sources and relation to the rainfall, the composition . of water, the micro-organisms of water, the dangers from pol- luted water and the methods used for making water-supplies safe. A series of models and preserved colonies of bacteria was also finished during the spring. Through the generosity of Felix M. Warburg it was made possible to send all this material to Washington for the exhibition held in connection with the Fifteenth International Congress on Hygiene and Demography. It is gratifying to note that, in each of the two sections of the Congress in which the Museum exhibited, it received the highest honor, a Diploma of Superior Merit. On returning from Washington the material was installed in the West Corridor on the third floor, where the department has for the first time a chance to display its exhibits in permanent form. During the present year, as before, the preparation and installation of exhibition material has been in the immediate charge of John H. O’Neill. The next step in the development of the exhibit is the preparation of a series of models and specimens illustrating the insect-borne diseases in which man and the microbe and the intermediate insect host are knit together in complex relationship. As one of the central features of this exhibit, work has gone forward during the whole summer and fall in the Department of Preparation upon a giant model of the common house fly, which promises to rival the mosquitoes in the Darwin Hall in interest and beauty. A striking model of a corner of a rat-infested house in San Francisco, illustrating the part played by these rodents in the spread of plague, has been loaned to the Museum by the United States Bureau of Public Health Service, and is being copied; and a number of Report of the President 75 other minor exhibits are being prepared, dealing with the general subject of insects and disease. The museum of living bacteria, under the immediate charge of Mr. Kligler, continues to grow in size and particularly in its widening usefulness to the college and research laboratories of the United States and Canada. On December 1, the collection numbered 578 different strains, representing 374 named types. In the somewhat less than two years since the organization of the laboratory, 1,700 subcultures have been sent out free of charge to 122 different institutions. The opportunity which this collection affords to investigators to obtain promptly authentic type specimens for comparative study has been warmly appreciated, and brings frequent letters expressing the gratitude of the bacteriologists of our leading universities for this unique public service rendered by the Museum. A printed list of the cultures has been pre- pared, which will further increase the usefulness of the collection. The department has continued its codperation with the Department of Public Education and has prepared a set of bacterial cultures and vials containing specimens of the vari- ous stages of the fly and the mosquito, to be used as traveling collections in the schools, with a considerable series of photo- graphs and diagrams for albums, dealing with the bacteria and with insect-borne disease. Two contributions were published from the Department during the year, one by the Curator, on ‘‘ The Classification of the Streptococci by their Action upon Carbohydrates and Related Organic Media,” and one by the Curator and Mr. Kligler on ‘‘A Quantitative Study of the Bacteria in City Dust with Special Reference to Intestinal and Buccal Forms.”’ Mr. Kligler has completed two other pieces of work, a study of the nitrate-reducing power of bacteria and a systematic revision of the Coccaceze in the Museum collection. The Curator spent a part of August and September in Minneapolis where he was called in collaboration with Dr. Hermann M. Biggs of the New York City Department of Health to make a study of the city health department and prepare a plan for its reorganization. 76 Report of the President WOODS AND FORESTRY MaryY CYNTHIA DICKERSON, Curator DEPARTMENT OF Woops AND ForEstrRy.—One of the most notable additions to the Forestry Hall during the year 1912 was a bronze bas-relief of Morris Ketchum Jesup as an expres- sion of the admiration felt for him by the late John J. Clancy. The panel was executed by James E. Fraser and represents Mr. Jesup walking in contemplative mood in the woods. It is wholly in the spirit of the plans for making this hall a fitting educational memorial to the donor of the world’s greatest col- lection of the trees of North America. The work of removing the sequoia and redwood tree sec- tions from the Darwin Hall to the Forestry Hall was begun at the close of 1911 and extended through the first months of 1912. The transfer of the redwood was the simple matter of rolling the two-ton section on cylinders into the new place; moving the nine-ton sequoia, which was too high to pass under the archway between the two halls, entailed the labor of removing and later replacing the top part of the trunk. After the transfer all cracks were filled and the trees were faced off with new surfaces, so that they not only have new beauty but also are in condition to stand for many years. The rearrangement of trees in the hall has continued until so near completion that a few weeks will see that part of the work done and the whole collection again open to exhibition. This rearrangement puts the collection into shape so that any North American tree can be readily located in the hall and its relations quickly seen to other members of a tree family and in regard to questions of market value and geographical dis- tribution. In connection with each family, labeled hand samples of the commercial woods have been placed outside the case in brackets in front of their respective trees, where they can be freely examined by visitors. Some one hundred descriptive labels have been written, including those for the sequoias, the pines, hemlocks, spruces and oaks. These labels give the latest knowledge of the trees and their economic value. The following list gives some of the leaf, flower and fruit wax models constructed during the year: From Wisconsin, Report of the President 77 wild crab apple (Pyrus coronaria) ; from Arizona, ash (Fraxinus velutina), poplar (Populus fremontit) and cholla (Opuntia spinosior); and of local distribution, red gum (Liguidambar styracifiua), flowering dogwood (Cornus florida), dwarf sumach (Rhus copallina) and pear haw (Crategus tomentosa). Much experimenting has been done along the line of preservation of sprays of pines and other conifers, with the result that some valuable and attractive exhibits of these trees are in progress. The department expresses much gratitude to the New York Botanical Garden for the many courtesies extended in the way of material for this work. Among other exhibits for the hall, work is in progress on a relief map to show forest areas of North America, and plans are made for a model to demonstrate the disastrous results of the deforestation of watersheds with the resultant floods and erosion. Also designs are under consideration for a mural painting across the east end of the hall and plans for large colored transparencies for the windows are in hand and the work started. Much work has been done in filing and cataloging. The correspondence of the department from 1882 to date has been fully gone over; also the new locations of specimens in the Forestry Hall have been entered in department and reference catalogs. As usual much information has been given to teachers, lumber concerns and architects regarding identification of woods. This work is at present in the hands of Herman de Fremery, trained in forestry at Yale and with practical field experience, appointed as temporary assistant in the department in October. In addition to the departmental work, the editorship of the American Museum Journal and Guide Leaflets has been carried. THE LIBRARY RALPH W. Tower, Curator DEPARTMENT OF Books anD PusBLicaTions.—The Library has had an eventful year. Many valuable and important books have been added to the collection by gift, purchase and 78 Report of the President exchange. Especially noteworthy has been the acquisition of 185 volumes relating to exploration and discovery in the far North; many of these works complete broken sets already represented on our shelves, while others are rare and for the most part out of print. In view of the prominent place the American Museum of Natural History has occupied in northern exploration, the expansion of this part of the Library is not inappropriate. Another collection of similar size and especially rich in east coast Mollusca has been added to our equipment, an accession both necessary and important. During another year the Library has enjoyed the interest and benefaction of Anson W. Hard, who has again found it possible to present some of those rare and classic treatises much needed by scientist or naturalist. Among these are the following interesting and important works: Monograph of the Coracitide or Family of Rollers by H. E. Dresser; Sammlung exotischer Schmetterlinge, 1806-1837, by J. Hiibner an ex- tremely rare and highly prized set in three volumes and five supplements, together with a manuscript index consummated by the former owner, the eminent late Dr. Staudinger; Etudes ad’ Entomologie, 1876-1902, and Etudes de Lépidopterologte, 1904- rg11, by Charles Oberthiir; Axtomologte ou Histoire Naturelle des Insectes, 1789-1808, by M. Olivier; a complete set of Paleontographia Italia, sixteen volumes; Zhe Birds of Tunisia by J. I. S. Whitaker. The acknowledgment and appreciation of the Library and its many patrons are again extended to the donor. The Library is also indebted to many other individuals and institutions for interesting and important gifts. J. Pierpont Morgan has presented a manuscript copy of Descriptions of New Species of Mauritian Fishes written by Richard Bliss, Jr., in 1875; this work is of special interest since it serves in part as letter press for the volumes of unpublished drawings which were received from the same donor in 1905. Cleveland H. Dodge has continued his interest by supplying the publications of The Carnegie Institution. LipraARY ExTENsSION.—The use of our Library by sister institutions and by scientists living at a distance is of special moment at the present time. Through inter-library loans our EE EE—————oorrrrere WOOY-ONIGVAY OTTO MAN AH] SNOLLVOITHONd AGNV SHOOH AO LNAWLYVdIAd Report of the President 79 books have been used by the British Museum of Natural His- tory, Hamburgisches Kolonialinstitut, the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, Harvard Uni- versity, Yale University, Trinity College, Grosvenor Public Library of Buffalo, and the Department of Agriculture at Washington, D. C., as well as by institutions in the South and West. In each case the books were requested because they were not in the possession of the home institution, and there- fore these loans accomplish a very valuable scientific service. It is a great satisfaction to be able to administer a department in an institution whose liberality permits a wise diffusion of knowledge by maintaining a special library of exceptional completeness. EQuIPMENT.—During the year just past extensive additions have been made to the equipment, new and unusally efficient lighting systems have been placed in the old stacks, the instal- lation of the new two-storied steel stack has been effected, the card catalog has been placed ina more accessible and con- venient series of cabinets, doorways have been so constructed that all the rooms are now directly connected, and periodical cases have been placed along the side walls of the Reading Room, where are to be found the more important books of reference and the current numbers of the most used scientific periodicals dealing with natural history. The disturbance caused by the many changes incidental to new construction has somewhat interfered with the efficiency of library work, yet with the transfer of special sections to more commodious quarters it is assured that usefulness and convenience will be greatly enhanced. PusLic READING Room.—In the early part of the year a general reading room was opened on the second floor. A small collection of popular and non-technical books relating to natural history was so arranged that the public could freely use them. It was soon found necessary, however, to enlarge the space and place an assistant in attendance; although the venture was undertaken as an experiment, it has undoubtedly proved its educational value. 80 Report of the President THE OsBorN LisRARY.—The Osborn Library of Vertebrate Paleontology contains 1,524 volumes and 4,ooo pamphlets. In planning for its further development, it is intended to place in this library all the works relating to vertebrate paleontology and thus make it a distinct unit in itself. On January first Miss Jannette Lucas was appointed an assistant in the department and was placed in charge of the Osborn Library. Much time has been given to taking an inventory and arranging the catalog, to introducing an acces- sion system and elaborating the bibliographic index. Not- withstanding many impediments the work has progressed well and Miss Lucas is to be commended for her efforts and success. PUBLICATIONS J. A. ALLEN, Editor The current publications of the American Museum of Natural History consist of the Annual Report, the Bulletin, the Memoirs, the Monographs, the Anthropological Papers and the American Museum Journal. The Aulletin is a strictly scientific publication in which are published the shorter articles embodying the results of the research work of the various departments of the Museum. The papers composing it are less voluminous and of more general interest than those which appear in the Afemoirs and Monographs. The Bulletin was founded in 1881, and thirty-one volumes have been issued. The Memoirs, like the Bulletin, are strictly scientific, but are devoted to special articles requiring larger illustrations and more exhaustive treatment. They have been published at irregular intervals since 1893. Ten complete volumes and parts of five others have been issued. During the present year the first series of the AZemoirs has been closed and a second series opened, of which Parts 1-3 of Volume I have been published and a fourth part is in press. The Monographs, intermediate in size between the Bulletin (in octavo) and the Memoirs (in quarto), of which the first has been printed during the year, will include technical papers relating to single subjects which require elaborate treatment. Report of the President 81 The Anthropological Papers are similar in character to the Bulletin, but are devoted exclusively to the results of field work and other research conducted by the anthropological staff of the Museum. The publication of these papers was commenced in 1907, twelve volumes having been issued up to the present time. The American Museum Journal is a popular record of the progress of the Museum, and was first published in 1900. Twelve volumes have been issued. In addition to the above, two series of occasional publica- tions are issued, known as Guzde Leaflets and Handbooks. The Leajiets formerly appeared as supplements to the Journal, but are now separate publications. Thirty-five Leaflets have been issued. The first number of the Handbook series was issued during the year, No. 2 is in press, and Nos. 3 and 4 have been authorized. The expedition to the Gulf of California in the U. S. S. ‘‘Albatross,” under Charles H. Townsend, was due to the generosity of Arthur Curtiss James and the coéperation of the United States Bureau of Fisheries with the American Museum of Natural History. The following reports have been issued: 1. ‘* The Northern Elephant Seal,” by Charles H. Townsend. Published by the New York Zodlogical Society, 1g11, in Loblogica. 2. ‘‘Mammals Collected in Lower California,” by Charles H. Townsend. Published by the American Museum of Natural History, 1912, in the Bulletin. The following reports are in preparation: 1. ‘‘ The Narrative of the Expedition,” by Charles H. Townsend. To be published by the United States Bureau of Fisheries. 2, ‘* The Collection of Echinoderms,” by Hubert L. Clark. 3. ‘* The Fishes of the Gulf of California,” by Charles H. Townsend and Raymond C, Osburn. 4. ‘‘The Reptiles,” by Charles H. Townsend and Miss Mary C. Dickerson. 5. ‘* The Birds,” by Charles H. Townsend. ‘«The Invertebrates other than Echinoderms.” Yet to be assigned for study and report. 7. “A Report on the Deep Sea Fishes,” by Charles H. Townsend. 82 Report of the President The publications of the year include Parts 1, 2 and 3 of Volume I of the new series of the AZemozrs, Volume XXXI of the Bulletin, Volume X and parts of Volumes VII, IX, XI and XII of the Axthropological Papers, Volume XII of the Journal, Handbook No. 1, and No. 35 of the Guide Leaflets. Other publications of the Trustees are the Annual Report, the Key to Building and Collections, and the Growth of the Building folder. The publications by departments are as follows: DEPARTMENT OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY H. F. Wickham. ‘‘On Some Fossil Rhynchophorous Coleoptera from Florissant, Colorado.” Aull. XXXI, pp. 41-55, pls. i-iv. L. P. Gratacap. ‘‘An Unusual Specimen of M/ytilus middendor fii Grewingk, from Alaska.” S#u/l. XXXI, pp. 69, 70, pl. vii. T. D. A. Cockerell and Junius Henderson. ‘‘ Mollusca from the Tertiary Strata of the West.” ull. XXXI, pp. 229-234, pls. xxi, xxii. John A. Grossbeck. ‘‘ List of Insects Collected in Lower California.” Bul. XXXI, pp. 323-326. Ignaz Matausch. ‘‘Observations on Some North American Membracide in their Last Nymphal Stages.” Au//. XXXI, pp. 331-336, pls. xxvii-xxxii. A. L. Melander. ‘‘The Dipterous Genus Sidiodes.” Bull, XXXI, pp. 337-341, I text fig. E. Bergroth. ‘‘ New or little known Hemiptera, chiefly from Australia, in the American Museum of Natural History.” Azu//. XXXI, pp. 343-348. John A. Grossbeck. ‘‘ Types of Insects, except Lepidoptera and Formicide, in the American Museum of Natural History additional to those previ- ously listed.” Bull, XXXI, pp. 353-379- John A. Grossbeck. ‘‘A Review of the Species comprising the G/aucina- Cenocharis Group.” Bull. XXXI, pp. 381-407, 13 text figs. DEPARTMENT OF ICHTHYOLOGY AND HERPETOLOGY Bashford Dean. ‘‘ Orthogenesis in the Egg Capsules of Chimera.” Bull. XXXI, pp. 35-40, 2 text figs. J. D. Haseman. ‘‘The Relationship of the Genus Priscacara.” Bull. XXXI, pp. 97-101. DEPARTMENT OF MAMMALOGY AND ORNITHOLOGY THE ORIZABA BIRD GROUP Report of the President 83 John Treadwell Nichols. ‘‘ Notes on West Indian Fishes.” Azl/, XXXI, Pp- IOg-IITI, 4 text figs. John Treadwell Nichols. ‘‘ Notes on Cuban Fishes.” Sud, XXXI, pp. 179-194, 2 text figs. L. Hussakof. ‘‘ The Cretaceous Chimeroids of North America.” AuxZ/, XXXI, pp. 195-228, 21 text figs. L. Hussakof. ‘‘ Note on an Embryo of Pristis cuspidatus.” Bull. XXXI, PP. 327-330, 2 text figs. Bashford Dean. ‘‘On the Hair-like Appendages in the Frog, Astylosternus robustus (Blgr.).” Bull. XXXI, pp. 349-351, 2 text figs. DEPARTMENT OF MAMMALOGY AND ORNITHOLOGY J. A. Allen. ‘‘ Historical and Nomenclatorial Notes on North American Sheep.” Bull. XXXI, pp. I-29, 4 text figs. D. G. Elliot. ‘*‘ New Species of Monkeys of the Genera Seniocebus, Alouatta, and Aotus.’’ Bull. XXXI, pp. 31-33. J. A. Allen. ‘‘ Mammals from Western Colombia.” Ax//, XXXI, pp. 71-95. J. A. Allen. ‘‘A New Pika from Colorado.” x//. XXXI, pp. 103, 104. Charles Haskins Townsend. ‘‘ Mammals Collected in Lower California, with Descriptions of New Species.” Auli, XXXI, pp. 117-130, pls. viii, ix. D. G. Elliot. ‘‘ Description of a New Species of Cdipomidas.” Bull. Oe p.. 137. Frank M. Chapman. ‘‘ Diagnoses of Apparently New Colombian Birds.” Bull, XXXI1, pp. 139-166, pl. xii. Frank M. Chapman. ‘‘A New Ibis from Mt. Kenia, British East Africa.” Bull. XXXI, pp. 235-238, pls. xxiii, xxiv. W. DeW. Miller. ‘‘A Revision of the Classification of the Kingfishers.” Bull, XXXI, pp. 239-311, pls. xxv, xxvi. Abbott H. Thayer. ‘‘Concealing Coloration, an Answer to Theodore Roosevelt.” Bull. XXXI, pp. 313-321, 4 text figs. D. G. Elliot. ‘‘A Review of the Primates.” Monograph I, 3 vols. royal octavo, pp. I-1348 ; 128 plain and 28 colored plates. DEPARTMENT OF VERTEBRATE PALZONTOLOGY W. J. Sinclair and Walter Granger. ‘‘ Notes on the Tertiary Deposits of the Bighorn Basin.” Ax//. XXXI, pp. 57-67, pls. v, vi, 3 text figs. Barnum Brown. ‘‘ The Osteology of the Manus in the family Trachodontide.” Bull, XXXI, pp. 105-107, 2 text figs. 84 Report of the President S. H. Chubb. ‘‘ Notes on the Trapezium in the Equide.” A&x//, XXXI, pp. 113-115, 3 text figs. Barnum Brown. ‘‘A Crested Dinosaur from the Edmonton Cretaceous.” Bull. XXXI, pp. 131-136, pls. x, xi, 4 text figs. Barnum Brown. ‘‘ Brachyostracon, a new Genus of Glyptodonts from Mexico.” Aul/, XXXI, pp. 167-177, pls. xiii-xviii, 4 text figs. Henry Fairfield Osborn. ‘‘Crania of Tyrannosaurus and Allosaurus.” Mem., N.S., Vol. I, pt. i, pp. 1-30, pls. i-iv, 27 text figs. Henry Fairfield Osborn. ‘‘Integuments of the Iguanodont Dinosaur Trachodon.” Mem.,N.S., Vol. I, pt. ii, pp. 31-54, pls. v-x, 13 text figs. Henry Fairfield Osborn. ‘‘Craniometry of the Equide.” JZem., N. S., Vol. I, pt. iii, pp. 55-100, 17 text figs. DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY Clark Wissler. ‘‘Ceremonial Bundles of the Blackfoot Indians.” .ee- $1,146,838 80 eversterndowment Funds... acess sseeee 1,158,277 I0 emewess E tevor Nun . <..\ccejsie sais slain seid ese @ 25,000 00 Hestane vie HiskeyWunds), sch. tae ales we s.clsiclee whe I0,000 00 visite by \ Yad esaqe teed duets Maes Gey OF Hee II,000 00 BLOOM MIE OED aE Tid rier. sire sctelaie cle leielsciaseieice e < 5,000 00 Jonathan Thorne Memorial Fund............. 26,884 10 $2,383,000 00 General Endowment Fund............. 3,517 82 Jonathan Thorne Memorial Fund....... 221 $2,386,520 03 * The income of the Permanent Endowment is the chief source of income of the General Account. 95 96 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ENDOWMENT AND INVESTMENT ACCOUNT RECEIPTS IgI2 GENERAL ENDOWMENT FuND: Balance sas cicb ve nna canine saiseatois sien viaekiee ciaicee relate oes iubts Giftof AnnaiBs Bliss.s coscosresesabeessnrsSeenece evebeeehn Morris K. Jesup FuND: Balance ccsuwep ethics swicles\sis.csit¥alee sy v/s a bios (spinach eae eaianron JONATHAN THORNE MEMORIAL FUND: Balance oinccacawawneied con so. vicivinee salot ne siscnigis sean e awit INTEREST ON CREDIT BALANCES: Earnings to December 31, 1912-.+eseevecesrcscsecessencunees ANSON W. HARD Examined OGDEN MILLS ) Auditing and Approved} peRCY R, PYNE Committee 1,000 00 24 19 71 46 $20,137 74 in account with CHARLES LANIER, TREASURER 97 ENDOWMENT AND INVESTMENT ACCOUNT DISBURSEMENTS Ig12 GENERAL ENDOWMENT FUND: Purchase of Bonds...... maim eteleicfomlote'ee clavarewostecarnister vita siniereis este cits atetel oe $16,305 06 Morris K. Jesup FuND: PAC HASe OL BONGS sii we cle cleuisawelsle ejele vielsigiseisletdiei ces aie sieTclw Sivicrsia'sioie' ele elsjate 241 19 INTEREST ON CREDIT BALANCES: Transferred to Interest on Credit Balances, General Account.......... 7I 46 PeaweON LELAND DECEMDEF i3T, TOT... 35) Lecclessecdoseets 3,520 03 $20,137 74 CHARLES LANIER, TZyveasurer E. & O. E. New York, December 71, 1912 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY CITY MAINTENANCE ACCOUNT RECEIPTS Igi2 Capital Fund, cash on hand January 1, Ig12..... $12,256 Department of Parks: Appropriation for IgII: Salaries and) Wages }.c nme Melephone Service seri Materials for Repairs and Re- placements by Departmental Repairs and Replacements by Contract or Open Order.... Department of Parks : Appropriation for 1912: Salaries Regular Employees..... Supplies and Materials. ....... Repairs and Replacements by Contract or Open Order....... Maintenance, Repairs and Storage Of FAMItOMODIIES S wrerciereiatelo it otetel Contingencies. sin 2,000 00 Wins. Rockefeller. -)././ci.'sincie + efs s)stsi= 2,000 00 John B. Trevor........-..+6.----0- 1,000 00 Felix M. Warburg Total net receipts for the development of all departments Bursar’s Account ee OGDEN MILLS | Auditing PERCY R. PYNE \ Committee and Approved eCROK CHOLES SEK MR EHHCORCT ARTE OED 6 DAO ED OE ee OC A ee ee, Oe Ae Ee AT ce a 40 75 97 38 fore) fore) 97 61 My torahateta ay siete cere eae 3,500 00 48,850 00 $199,118 08 wie 7,500 00 $242,618 08 in account with CHARLES LANIER, TREASURER IOI GENERAL ACCOUNT* DISBURSEMENTS IgI2 Geology and Invertebrate Paleontology........... $6,107 49 UVUEEL ALO DiViercte toyny ole! cyeratarsverai sie cheveta acy fe (oie eieisVelmnatete srave 2,069 45 Mammalogy and Ornithology .................06- 23,328 g2 Werte brates halseontologyects sla sie ic/eis cia es cise wivinteiviessiets/nls steyelersiai=iajaieteinis Cleveland Js Dodger sis nas clow vietsrint eis = (cil /=\s)e vies FIsH BIBLIOGRAPHY FUND: Mrs. Isaac M. Dyckman...... breve sieiis\aisteists atlniaisis PuBLic HEALTH: HYGIENE EXHIBIT FUND: Meh IMA Waxr bury senses! lies oieteisiais = Penieienite eee PuBLic EDUCATION: JONATHAN THORNE MEMORIAL FUND: Balance uspeesie ease SOboonn das deocdenumancer THEOL eSEatanalcuierosisiotaials snieiion tira etaleinve at tare(ainietba (sine TRANSPORTATION FUND: Balance. ciecsiniccicpsiceleieivicletern bielniderieais aipya lata olace's CHILDREN’S ROOM FUND: PREPARATION AND EXHIBITION: SEA ELEPHANT PREPARATION FUND: ASST Curtiss |PAMESH« o's csi u/pis nis s\n bea, vniele's Sais ce PUBLICATIONS: Jesup NortTH PAcIFIC EXPEDITION PUBLICATIONS : Balance ccc cic swiss rks siden es Shemeioes bakes TRACHODON MEMOIR FUND: Henry Fairfield Osborn.....sccvsceressccccdecese Total net receipts for the development of specific departments,....60.crevevvass $1,387 87 2,500 00 gt 99 5 00 $54,136 76 $3,887 87 1,000 00 4,887 87 1,500 00 2,270 53 I00 0O 96 99 2,467 52 2,000 0O 2,295 53 25 00 2,320 53 $67,312 68 Carried JOP WATER svcd viinr caine taee ens $67,312 68 —_——- in account with CHARLES LANIER, TREASURER 107 SPECIAL FUENDS ACCOUNT DISBURSEMENTS IgI2 Brought forward,...........66+ ICHTHYOLOGY AND HERPETOLOGY: DopcEt IcHTHYOLOGY FUND: For expenses of field work and purchase of specimens FIisH BIBLIOGRAPHY FUND: Preparation of bibliography of fishes.........+.0 Pusiic HEALTH: HYGIENE EXHIBIT FUND: For transportation and installation of the exhibit of the Department of Public Health at Wash- AIL EOH Sy LD -), Gejaroiclosafoisietoisrs fel stor siainis sie siisle sis ajaveials(eie $1,275 75 Transferred to Public Health, General Account, for services of preparator for the exhibit........ PusBLic EDUCATION: JONATHAN THORNE MEMORIAL FUND: For services of instructors and transportation of the blind and preparation of casts...........6+- TRANSPORTATION FUND: For transportation of crippled children to lectures. Transferred to Public Education, General Account, for transportation of crippled children to lectures CHILDREN’S ROOM FUND: Bt CRASCIOLISUDDIES! icicles! nlc sce eis ac ieiciersie iat sialelele PREPARATION AND EXHIBITION: Transferred to Preparation and Exhibition, General Account, for material and services of preparator mounting Sea Blephants 1.0... o\s.os/ess 6/c1sis,e10 sie'0) 6 PUBLICATIONS: Jesup NorTH PACIFIC EXPEDITION PUBLICATIONS : For services preparing manuscript.........seeeees TRACHODON MEMOIR FUND: Transferred to Publications, General Account, for part payment of plate for Tyrannosaurus Memoir Total net disbursements for the development of specific BRED AOE MEIC. oe 5 oie eee aie rays Cela dese moee bees $44,851 02 $2,448 53 687 75 ———— 3,136 28 I00 0O 15375 75 737 42 61 70 38 30 o_o I00 0O 6 30 843 72 I,000 00 208 00 25 00 233 90 ees we dV $51,439 77 ECMO Oc eer $51.439 77 108 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY a eee eee ee eee SPECIAL FUNDS ACCOUNT RECEIPTS IgI2 Brought forward, .....cssecvesvecsses $67,312 68 PENSION FuND: BBAIATICE s cia.cios'se n'cic cutee poles sent ctiemeremeeemiveain 1,000 00 Morris K. Jesup Bas-RELIEF FUND: Payment made by Estate of John J. Clancy..... 2,500 00 MEMORIAL HALL FuND: Mrs; Morris) Ko Jesup.nern «ssi s pleas visa aietvine'sisioe. 1,000 00 INTEREST ON CREDIT BALANCES: Earnings to December 31, 1912.-+--.seeseeeeeeees 751 28 SouTH AMERICAN BirD FUND: Refund from Field Assistant...........0+-+e0e0+ 234 04 CROCKER LAND EXPEDITION FUND: George Borup Guarantee: Balances Ayeisc an ous erate cae paeta sie $320 00 WoW Atterbuny: «1s a.celleyterietn 200 00 Herbert Austins < .fies losers ate ayers 25 00 Je wantordsBarnes,) |r. toner 25 00 Ac Wa BeCkman!;cciseas-c.cisenie os TO 00 Laurence V. Benét............ 75 00 Arthur.G. Blagdenty, = sfeiste's)sis,0 ere I0 00 Harry Gt Bryant: srrsie/ae sia lateisi es 100 00 AW AC larch s eterna dltans bi ataie ate I0O 00 Parry i CONVERSE. salen wives ys 30 00 EnAN Cranes oe itis cae ae dels 500 00 We tliwi CrOSS xe owas archers 25 00 Thomas DeWitt Cuyler........ 500 00 ames delovd Derbyncrisisss 6.5 ate 15 00 RRIGH AEE IO Wr. caclatsieahs «ix 'e race 40 00 Grenville 'T, Eimmets ois s4)css.cele 100 00 Ep Love Gh olson: cigs myst 4 /einie 25 00 COVE mROPELOM: Sieie wie vie crac a 100 00 Josepn GC | Grew obey am cie cies te 25 00 as Get GrOnGyyi ha ie ialstetaia a alates 20 00 1) (A EN IE Vy olileg ne) st 50 00 Tail p EEE PINSON Meta were wietniai as 10 00 WS) 5s) PRODDS\ pa siamo alin EY 5 00 J. Frederick Hahn and C. T LOWE U a bithiv by aes els waren 25 00 Carritd Jor ward vic vais sean ae reine $72,798 00 in account with CHARLES LANIER, TREASURER 109 SPECIAL FUNDS ACCOUNT DISBURSEMENTS Igi2 Brought forward....... Notdior s easialetata/ Nera $51,439 77 Morris K. Jesup Bas-RELIEF FUND: Payment to sculptor for bas-relief of late President Morris LS JEST SA Shore oO Od? UCUEECOCOODOOL HICNaOs aa aAtUbe $1,000 00 Transferred to General Account, General Supplies and Expenses, for advance payment to sculptor...........++. 1,500 00 ————_ 2,500 00 INTEREST ON CREDIT BALANCES: Transferred to Interest on Credit balances, General Account. 751 28 SouTH AMERICAN BIRD FUND: Transferred to Mammalogy and Ornithology, for purchase Of MeldteqMipmienbe ovis aca clea ieee a6 o's eletaicin)sieia\ewidialaia siete 234 04 CROCKER LAND EXPEDITION FUND: Purchase of equipment for expedition...........seeeeeeees 3,144 49 Transferred to Crocker Land Expedition Fund Account... 22,017 51 ———_ 25,162 00 Carried forward Ble sVeliie! staituio/ chara vercie al oreicen $80,087 09 }@ de) THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SPECIAL FUNDS ACCOUNT RECEIPTS IgI2 BYOUSHELTOFUGIGE op 0 sitive * 800 dw CROCKER Lanp EXPEDITION FunpD (Continued): George Borup Guarantee (Continued) : Daydig, THOyt sooo cious se sisinictas oa $20 Mhomas is Hubbards «ej =e 2,500 Mrss Moris KeiJestipy.c samen © 500 Aymar JORNSOR Me tas inves: 5 Britzsanimann ysis = iyeenttee I Le DREN OSG is wine. sidasce eine 1,000 Civ RielSeyenimiesfestesiciw ae ete 50 Mirs: abs Gankinrr tries crereeis er ars 25 John Warkiniiye cris reteiciacrinle 25 Chas. F. Mathewson.......... 50 George EU MCAIpInNG peesieeciae 50 OgdensMialls ives sis eciew eece 500 G. Frederick;Norton....2..:.2< 50 IM’. Eo Nenwahlcjn. css cise 5 New York Academy of Sciences. 500 J. Donaldson Nichols.......... 2 James! CeiParrishy fein site siete 100 Samael Ta etersiisieiie svat alone 250 Rewis ALUBIatt yc senisierclenise eee 500 Brederick Potter: +c nade succes 500 pamuel¥Reds A can eae ete 50 Bdmund P-Rogers. cise se 5 VOhn Sav ROPES or ee cre eee seers 5 Franklin D. Roosevelt......... 15 isatahyschecliner. oetz.ys-i ene eine 5 WACODFEL. SOChi tetra tauieltai is oes 250 Mortimer is. Sehitt sks cisiecteas 250 heels pOGHOTMEIETLs Ao 6 ateic ceive 25 tenny Selo mani. cc calcti« mieklcrion 250 UsaacwN oelioman’s fos cele 250 joseph Ue Seligman... cs. .4. << 25 RODEr be OUDPSON soe os sink. 6 25 PLATE SSUBIE BES sce 'h lala ws seinen fo) Bp OVOIONGS tape vielsrsnieisicte a dietei +e) WB bomasyss. ss a tac 200 Andrew G. Weeks............- 15 Reels VW IMAI 2 ook te esate ious Donald B. MacMillan Guarantee: Edward. ©, Achorty visiss os sch’ TOD VIOUS. sai pis ies lvnie aie tate Ei, Ls, BOQOy ob tpevensaosnivs oOo 0O 0O ee a ee $72,798 oo $72,798 00 in account with CHARLES LANIER, TREASURER Ger SPECIAL FUNDS ACCOUNT DISBURSEMENTS Igi2 BROULRL JOR WAVE sc oa ine wales a a atone $80,087 09 a NS eee CATE OFAUZT Le eee ae $80,087 09 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SPECIAL FUNDS ACCOUNT RECEIPTS Igi2 Brought forward......+..+. CROCKER LAND EXPEDITION FuND (Continued): Donald B. MacMillan Guarantee (Continued): Harry Balfe. Frank EB: Bradbury. ).::).%.... scceaseiaent 10 00 Lenas Cranevaeicen usa wens « 1,000 00 Philip Oana sales eee oleate 25 00 Johnv Al Devinerw. pcsisoccieeie I 00 Jiohnwbsbltots coarse a onrewe 5 00 Thomas yy emery acess asec eee IO 00 Frederick Ac Pishers oii a.)scie ci « IO 00 AS tA Erenchk eh ois f bance natin 50 00 J. -ArthurBucbisbercen seas eee 5 00 Levi H. Greenwood....... ... 200 00 Glarencel Halevi a acne crsetentee IO 00 James GC, Hamiles 3.003, iss at IO 00 Wet Elastingsy.j.50 wcsiecieeivars I 00 PME VELetECEICK SS ere acaisiciny eve 5 00 Rubastky Epinckleye ii. icisateces IO 00 Henry Horublowers.i2%. cs. cs 200 00 Rayton norton es, sets ee 25 00 Thomas veubbard..s cones 2,500 00 William M. Ingraham.... .... IO 00 As WLATSDALRAT ONES. cactus nlowe ne 5 00 iekeue Malm DALI eet eratoh a clr eearate 15 00 TORN iG, AKNOW LOU. oh eves «ane I5 00 iawn MaclOonalds iy s.4 sieve a's 10 00 Charles F. Mathewson......... 50 00 (eorre GC, Mieaand, ins sisia'e-se-e 5 00 J OSEPD ee MLOOKC) iw hiewlis a elem ss 10 00 Pauley Moresis. ead. wee oe 100 00 FRMOMASIE, LOSES. okies oh cre orate 25 00 Franklin C, Payson ......... 10 00 Henry S. Payson...... 10 00 PY, PACKET Sena ncneni eae te ete IO 00 Wii As Ee OWOTS nae tthe. aralioee & 5 00 Wii bo era pleasent ee 5 00 WAS Robinson V2. stwes ashe 2 00 Dr De ALP ent eachGine cue moeih 10 00 Ofte, Gs Bonles | c wtetsus anes I 00 $72,798 00 a $72,798 00 in account with CHARLES LANIER, TREASURER at SPECIAL Pins ACCOUNT i DISBURSEMENTS IgI2 . BROULNE FOF WORES 3 6 etal ca's Me beard $80,087 og CAG IEE FOF WATE Gee cau Cee hale $80,087 o9 114 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SPECIAL FUNDS ACCOUNT RECEIPTS IgI2 BOMLRE GIF WOM au x3 ose WAlpa shave vet CROCKER LAND EXPEDITION FuND (Continued): Donald B. MacMillan Guarantee (Continued): Georze By Sears. ty coatte sce $5 00 Jind Sewall ies nsa cr nee aes 5 00 Arthuralvs malls see eee 5 00 Edward Stamwood............ IO 00 WD. Stockbridge... 56.0 220.0. IO 00 WharlesPAt Stone sac eacee cnn 200 00 John; Bs Pitayer i. os bcc eee I,000 00 S: (Co. GPhayersies scenes “Al 5 00 Townsend W. Thorndike...... 25 00 Edwinis. Webster aos. ooo 200 00 HrankiG:; Webster... 25 eeee- I00 00 Hanson H. Webster........... 5 00 ASB GWiniteste ate codes ces IO 00 ElaroldSsawhite: naaec he oeeee I 00 Worcester Academy........... 300 00 Oat Lisp MOUN OT re seer eaetfal ts lteter Ave Io 00 $6,454 00 American Geographical Society............... 6,000 00 Colgate University, ic) acces cave ee cteie nateictorssicterae I,000 00 ValesUiniversity. erence nec eo eee ee I,000 00 Dodretlchthyolooyehund=ta.t.-7 eae eee 100 00 Examined patie Pee ) Auditing and Approved PERCY R. PYNE Committee $72,798 00 25,162 00 $97,960 00 in account with CHARLES LANIER, TREASURER 115 SPECIAL FUNDS ACCOUNT DISBURSEMENTS IgI2 De UES AIG URLS AS CUO ENS 5 OSO0 LAC $80,087 09 CasH ON HanpD DECEMBER 31, I1912...........+ $17,872 ox $97,960 00 CHARLES LANIER, Treasurer BE. & O. E. NEw York, December 31, 1912 116 THE AMERICAN MusEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY oe eee ee CROCKER LAND EXPEDITION FUND ACCOUNT RECEIPTS IgI2 TRANSFER FROM SPECIAL FUNDS ACCOUNT. $22,017 51 SUBSCRIPTION: Gro. B. FRENCH.......ceseeee ee etereeeeeees I,000 00 INTEREST ON CREDIT BALANCES........--- 245 73 $23,263 24 Examined ANSON W. HARD } 4 uditing OGDEN MILLS , and Approved ) pprcy R. PYNE Committee CORPORATE STOCK ACCOUNT RECEIPTS DEPARTMENT OF PARKS......-.-200-eeeesees $21,252 25 INTEREST ON CREDIT BALANCES.......-.-- 4 33 $21,256 58 Examined and Approved OGDEN MILUS Committee ANSON W. HARD Huhne PERCY R. PYNE INCIDENTAL ACCOUNT* RECEIPTS RECEIPTS FROM INDIVIDUALS AND SOCIETIES $2,366 28 INTEREST ON CREDIT BALANCES........... I 03 $2,367 31 mene ae ANSON W. HARD xamine eq) OGDEN MILLS and Approved / peRCY R. PYNE | \ Auditing Committee * The moneys of this account do not form any part of the income proper of the Museum They simply represent cases in which it is advisable for the Museum to act as agent; for ex- ample, the services of attendants at the meetings of the New York Academy of Sclanhaa are paid through this account out of funds supplied by the New York Academy, in account with CHARLES LANIER, TREASURER 117 CROCKER LAND EXPEDITION FUND ACCOUNT DISBURSEMENTS IgI2 Meee Ty ESTE ABOU Ss 5). athaivleed ainls ois ees otk he cadmas $4,698 20 REFUND OF SUBSCRIPTION: WEA UNTVERSIT Minnie amon yue caenlncteie nur aaks 1,000 00 $5,698 20 SOASTR ON) EVAND occ) sdlastnie oieits cree en Rmealette dias 17,565 04 $23,263 24 CHARLES LANIER, TZveasurer B&O. E. New York, December 31, 1912 CORPORATE STOCK ACCOUNT DISBURSEMENTS PAYROLLS OF MECHANICS, ETG.......60.050- $21,252 25 INTEREST ON CREDIT BALANCES: TRANSFERRED TO INTEREST ON CREDIT BALANCES, GENERAL ACCOUNT........... 4 33 $21,256 58 CHARLES LANIER, 7yveasurer Eayce ©. HE. NEw YorK, December 31, 1912 INCIDENTAL ACCOUNT DISBURSEMENTS DISBURSEMENTS FOR INDIVIDUALS AND SOU TDRSS alah eke a on wey wt $2,366 28 INTEREST ON CREDIT BALANCES: TRANSFERRED TO INTEREST ON CREDIT BALANCES, GENERAL ACCOUNT............ I 03 $2,367 31 CHARLES LANIER, 7yveasurer E. & O. E. New York, December 37, 1912 LIST OF ACCESSIONS, 1912 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION By GIFT C. G. ABBOTT, New York City. 2 Squirrels, 1 weasel, 1 fox, 5 birds, collections of birds’ eggs, rocks and shells. D. L. BENNETT, New York City. Nest of black hornet. A. S. BICKMORE, New York City. 1 Microscope and 1 desk. CHARLES BOHEM, New York City. Book of pressed sea mosses. H. L. BRIDGMAN, Brooklyn, N. Y. 6 Photographs showing scene of excavations in Soudan, Egypt. Mrs. M. E. BULLARD, New York City. Stuffed owl. Mrs. H. S. DEWEY, Brooklyn, N. Y. 2 Sea fans, 3 shells and 1 piece brain coral. ARTHUR E. KRAUSE, Jersey City, N. J. 2 Click beetles. EstaTE OF JACOB W. MACK, through MAURICE MARKS, New York City. Mounted eagle. Miss ANNIE MILLER, New York City. Doll dressed as Scotch Newhaven fisherwoman. JOHN T. NAGLE, New York City. Nest of hornet, Monmouth, N. J. Miss EVELYN PURDIE, Boston, Mass. 139 Bird skins. G. SEYMOUR WILLSON, New York City. 33 Prints of gold mines in Brazil. FRANK H. WOOD, New Bedford, Mass. Photograph of whaling vessel ‘*Canton,” By PURCHASE 53 Photographs, 2 dolls and 10 colored pictures, from Russia, Den- mark and Sweden. — Mineralogy—Ly Gift 11g DEPARTMENT OF MINERALOGY By GIFT MATILDA W. BRUCE FUND. 75 Specimens, including Znigmatite, Alexandrite, Apophyllite, Bar- sowite, Barysilite, Bellite, Brookite, Carnotite, Celestite, Cerus- site, Chalcanthite, Childrenite, Cuprite, Datolite, Dolomite, Dumortierite, Dundasite, Enhydros, Euxenite, Glaucophane, Gold Nugget, Hematite, Heulandite, Hinsdalite, Jaulingite, Kornelite, Kreittonite, Microcline, Mirabilite, Native Gold, Orpiment, Pectolite, Pickeringite, Prehnite, Pyroxene, Quartz Crystals, Rammelsbergite, Sand Corundum, Scheelite, Schir- merite, Scolecite, Sepiolite, Striiverite, Stilbite, Tourmaline, Turquoise, Veszelyite, Walchowite, Ytterfluorite. SEYMOUR EASTON, Gouverneur, N. Y. 12 Specimens massive Talc, and 1 specimen fibrous Talc. A. D. GABAY, New York City. 2 Specimens Pyrite in Clay, South River, N. J. DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY, transfer. I Specimen Arsenopyrite, 1 Artificial Gypsum, 1 Williamsite, 1 Eden- ite, 2 Florentine Mosaics, Syracuse, N. Y. A. D. MACKAY, Chicago, III. 1 Specimen Magnesite, Province of Quebec, Canada. J. D. MALLONEE, New York City. 32 Sheets Mica with Tourmaline inclusions, Gilsum, N. H. D. S. MARTIN, Brooklyn, N. Y. Ig Specimens Tourmalines, Mesa Grande, Cal. J. P. MORGAN, New York City. I Specimen Amethyst (large Geode crust), Brazil. 1 Specimen Tourmaline (pink center, very large), on Quartz, Rum- ford Falls, Me. I Specimen Tourmaline (Ruéeliite), Pala, Cal. 1 Specimen Rubellite, San Diego, Cal. 1 Specimen Enhydros (water-bottle), Uruguay, S. A. 2 Specimens Kunzite, Pala, Cal. 1 Specimen Pearl in Mother-of-Pearl Shell, Thursday Island. I Specimen Pearl, Middle West, United States. 1 Specimen Shell in which above was found. 3 Specimens Shells (Uzz7o). I Specimen Epidote and Quartz, Katchikan, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska. 1 Quartz Sphere (414" diameter), China. 1 Specimen Gold in Quartz, California. 3 Specimens Phenacite, Bahia, Brazil. 1 Specimen Topaz (rolled pebble, very large), Ceylon. I Specimen Benitoite, Benito Co., Cal. 1 Specimen Morganite and blue Beryl (intergrowth), California. 120 Mineralogy—bBy Exchange 1 Specimen Aquamarine, Brazil. 1 Specimen Euclase (in matrix with Topaz), Brazil. 1 Specimen Tourmaline var. Rudellite, Madagascar. 1 Specimen brown Tourmaline, Madagascar. I Specimen green Tourmaline, Madagascar. NEVADA CONSOLIDATED COPPER CO., New York City. 1 Painting of ‘‘ The Shovel Pit,” Ely, Nevada. ALBERT OPERTI, New York City. 1 Specimen Epidosyte, Wilcox Head, North Greenland. I Specimen Pyrite, Mt. Operti, Peary Expedition, 1896. H. J. SPINDEN, New York City. 12 Specimens Quartz, Rio Tinto Mines, Spain. J. H. THOMPSON, New York City. 40 Specimens miscellaneous minerals, including Actinolite, Beryl, Calcite, Copper, Chalcopyrite, Fibrolite, Garnet, Gypsum, Horn- blende, Magnetite, Masonite, Mica, Pyroxene, Rhodonite, Silver, Tourmaline, Tremolite, Vesuvianite. TREIBACHER CHEMICAL WORKS, New York City. I Specimen Allanite and 1 specimen Cerite, Norway. By EXCHANGE F, A. CANFIELD, Dover, N. J. 1 Specimen Aegirite, Narsarsuk, Greenland. 1 Specimen Benitoite in matrix, Benito Co., Cal. 1 Specimen Californite, Orville, Cal. 1 Specimen Garnet and Magnetite, Vaské, Hungary. 3 Specimens Orthoclase, Greverlyn, Cornwall. 1 Specimen Palagonite, Escondido, Cal. 1 Specimen Tourmaline, Pala, Cal. 1 Specimen Turquoise, San Bernardino Co., Cal. SEYMOUR EASTON, Gouverneur, N. Y. 1 Bag Talc powder. 3 Specimens fibrous Talc. 14 Specimens massive Talc. E. O. HOVEY, New York City. I Specimen Astrophyllite, Langesfiord, Norway. 1 Specimen Pectolite, Great Notch, N. J. 1 Specimen Laumonite, Great Notch, N. J. I Specimen Datolite, Great Notch, N. J. M. E. KLECKNER, Tiffin, Ohio. 21 Specimens crystals of Celestite, Tiffin, Ohio. ALBERT H. PETEREIT, New York City. 13 Specimens Chiastolite, Madera Co., Cal. 14 Sections Tourmaline, Mesa Grande, Cal. I Specimen Gold (with Mispickel), California. 1 Specimen Gold, Nova Scotia. ~ Mammals—By Gift Lea ALBERT H. PETEREIT—Continued 1 Specimen Calcite, Mexico. I Specimen Waringtonite, Utah. 1 Specimen Chrysocolla, California, 1 Specimen Tourmaline, California. I Specimen Marcasite (pseudomorph), Richland Co., Wis. By PURCHASE I Specimen Analcite, New Jersey. 1 Specimen Andesine, France. I Specimen Astochite, Sweden. I Specimen Baddeleyite, Brazil. i Specimen Barite, New South Wales. I Specimen Embolite, New South Wales. 1 Specimen Guanoxalate, Peru. I Specimen Knopite, Sweden. 1 Specimen Kaolin (pseudomorph), Brazil. I Specimen Lepidolite, Ural Mountains. 1 Specimen Molybdenite, New South Wales. 1 Specimen Monazite, southern Australia. 1 Specimen Nephelite, Italy. 1 Specimen New Nickel Arsenide, Prussia. 1 Specimen Niccolite, Prussia. I Specimen Opal, Australia. I Specimen Quartz, New South Wales. I Specimen Quartz (prismatic cleavage), France. I Specimen Quartz, Aosta, Italy. I Specimen Quartz (pseudomorph), Tyrol. I Specimen Quartz (pseudomorph), Germany. I Specimen Smithsonite, New South Wales. I Specimen Strontianite, Germany. 1 Specimen Stilbite (Aaserheulandite), Austria. I Specimen Synchisite, Greenland. 585 Wooden models illustrating the crystal forms of the principal minerals. THROUGH MUSEUM EXPEDITION 2 Specimens Aragonite, Glasgow, Mont.; 2 specimens Aragonite, Santa Clara, Cuba; 2 specimens Calcite, Trinidad, Cuba; 2 specimens Cinnabar, Chisas, Tex. Collected by Barnum Brown. DEPARTMENT OF MAMMALOGY AND ORNITHOLOGY MAMMALS By GIFT CARL E. AKELEY, New York City. Skin and skull of Bat, and skin and skull of Elephant Shrew, British East Africa. 122 Mammals—By Gift CLEVELAND ALLEN, Congers, N. Y. Skin and skull of Zagus, Rockland County, N. Y. Mrs. C. D. ATWOOD, New York City. Chihuahua Dog. DUKE OF BEDFORD, Woburn, England. 2 Skins and skeleton of Zguus prjevalskii. JOSEPH DUNN BURRELL, Brooklyn, N. Y. Scrimshawed tooth of Sperm Whale. FRANK M. CHAPMAN, Englewood, N. J. 3 Flat skins of Potos, Colombia. COLORADO MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, Denver, Colo. g Specimens of Ochotona with skulls, Colorado. DEPARTMENT OF PARKS, New York City. 48 Monkeys, 1 Angora Goat, 1 Nylghau, 1 Ocelot, 2 Leopards, 1 Eland, 1 Sheep, 1 Elk (young), 1 Opossum, 1 Tiger, 1 Mouflon, 1 Axis Deer, 1 Lioness, 1 Black Bear, 1 Axis Deer (young), 1 Red Fox, 2 Gray Foxes, 1 Raccoon, I Hyzna.—Total, 68 specimens received in the flesh from the Central Park Menagerie. Miss AMY R. EDWARDS, Brooklyn, N. Y. Antlers of South American Deer. G. CLYDE FISHER, Baltimore, Md. Skin and skull of A7us alexandrinus, Cornelia, Ga. GEORGE BARTON FRENCH, New York City. Bromide enlargement of photograph of Gorilla, Congo District, Africa, eA. EFUERTES, Ithaca, IN. ¥- I Rabbit, Ithaca; 1 Bat, Samoa. MADISON GRANT, New York City. Skull of Ursus emmonsi, Yakutat, Alaska. FRANCIS HARPER, College Point, N. Y. 1 Skull each of Bear, Wild Cat and Raccoon, Georgia. EsTATE OF ELIZA KUHL HUGHES, Copper Hill, N. J. 13 Specimens of American mammal pelts. C. B. ISHAM, New York City. Skin and skull of Scturus, and skin of Thomomys, Parkdale, Oreg. ALFRED J. KLEIN, Nairobi, British East Africa. 31 African mammals and 1 skin of Civet Cat from near Nairobi. J. G. KNOWLTON, New York City. Skull of Vulpes, Ponds Inlet. THE NATURE SHOP, New York City. Skin and skeleton of Monkey. NEWARK MUSEUM, Newark, N. J. Red Bat. Mammals—By Purchase 128 NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY, New York City. 2 Fur Seals, 1 Sea Elephant, 1 Squirrel, 2 Grant’s Zebras, I Loris, 2 Rats, 1 Tasmanian Wolf, 1 Monkey, 1 Cebu Monkey, 1 Green Monkey, 1 Spider Monkey, 4 Kinkajous, 2 Lemurs, I Cavy, I Muntjac, 1 Arctic Fox, 1 Red Fox, 2 Pandas, 1 Hima- layan Bear, 2 Sun Bears, 1 Black Bear, 1 Polar Bear, 1 Rocky Mountain Goat, 1 Reed Buck, 1 European Buffalo, 1 Roe Deer, 1 Hangul Deer, 1 Chinese Water Deer, 1 Sambar Deer, 1 Lynx, 2 Ocelots, 1 Sloth, 1 Snow Leopard, 5 Hooded Seals, 4 Beavers, I Binturong, 1 Baboon, 1 Mangabey, 2 Coati Mundi, 1 Barbary Sheep, 1 Porcupine, 1 Tiger, 1 Galago, 1 Phalanger, 1 Mongoose, I Ringtail Cat, 1 Palm Cat, 1 Civet Cat, 1 Her- pestes.—Total, 67 specimens received in the flesh from the New York Aquarium and the New York Zodlogical Park. YOSHIKAZU OKAMIYU, New York City. Skin and skull of Harbor Seal. LEONAND C. SANFORD, New Haven, Conn. Newfoundland Rabbit. HENRY THURSTON, Floral Park, L. I. 3 Specimens of Bats, 1 alcoholic Bat and 1 specimen of Lefus, Florida. W. A. VAN RENSSELAER, Salt Point, N. Y. Skin and skull of European Hare. C. DUBOIS WAGSTAFF, New York City. Polished teeth of Sperm Whale. EDWARD E. anp MARGARET B. WILLIAMS, New York City. Mounted Deer head, from near St. Paul, Minn. WALTER WINANS, Pluckley, Kent, England. 3 Skins and skulls of Sika Deer, 4 Rabbits, 3 Hedgehogs and 4 Weasels. By EXCHANGE G. T. EMMONS, Princeton, N. J. Skin of Ursus emmonsi (rug). By PURCHASE 10 African Elephant skulls ; 64 mammals, China; 45 small mammals and 15 Bats in alcohol, Chile; 1 Albino Porcupine (Zrethzzon) ; 3 Lophiomys ; 1 Mongoose ; 2 Giant Forest Hogs ; 24 mammals, Venezuela; 14 small eastern mammals; I melanistic Wood- chuck; 1 Muntjac; 3 specimens Zarsizs (1 alcoholic); 48 mam- mals, Colombia; 6 small mammals, Nicaragua; Mountain Sheep, New Mexico; 7 specimens Zursiops tursio, Cape Hat- teras; 5 skins and skulls of Brachylagus idahoensis, Oregon. 124 Birds—By Gift THROUGH MUSEUM EXPEDITIONS Large collection of mammals, Korea, and small sharks and whale material, Japan. Collected by R. C. Andrews. 630 Small mammals, Colombia. Collected by L. E. Miller. 289 Small mammals, Oregon. Collected by H. E. Anthony. 95 Small mammals, Colombia. Collected by W. B. Richardson. 14 Mammals, Colombia. Collected by Mrs. E. L. Kerr. 139 mammals from arctic America, including a series of Barren Ground Caribou and skins and skulls of Barren Ground Bear. Collected by R. M. Anderson. BIRDS By GIFT C. G. ABBOTT, New York City. 1o European and eastern North American bird skins, CARL E. AKELEY, New York City. _ 5 Skins of new genus of Ibis and 2 skins of Barbet, Africa. GEORGE S. ANDERSON, Illoilo, Panay, P. I. Skin of Pigeon. ANONYMOUS. 5 Song-birds, 1 Gull and 1 Woodpecker, in the flesh. JAMES BALLANCE, New York City. 3 Birds’ nests. Mrs. J. BANNON, Oscawana, N. Y. Adult male Peacock, in the flesh. C. G, BEHRENS. Egg shells of ‘‘ Pajub” (species of Wild Turkey), Guatemala. GEORGE BENNERS, Ambler, Pa. Nest and 4 eggs of Golden-cheeked Warbler. DAVID LINNZUS BENNETT, Plainfield, N. J. Crow, in the flesh. F. BLASCHKE, New York City. Skin of Sandpiper and skin of Cuckoo. B. S. BOWDISH, Demarest, N. J. 3 Song-birds, in the flesh. HOWARTH S. BOYLE, Elmhurst, L. I. 2 Sandpipers, 2 Warblers, 1 Tree Swallow, 1 Sparrow and I song- bird, in the flesh. E. B. BRONSON, New York City. 10 Bird skins from Africa. J. B. BURST, Ridgewood, N. J. Fore-arm bones of wounded ducks showing healed fractures. CARLOS M. CAMPOS, Aguada Pasajeros, Cuba. 14 Birds in the flesh (alcoholic), Cuba. Birds—By Gift 125 FRANK M. CHAPMAN, Englewood, N. J. Song-bird, in the flesh. LEONARD M. DAVIS, New York City. 1 Skin of Grouse and 1 skin of Owl. fpr HASS. Eimhurst; 1.115 3 Song-birds, in the flesh. DEPARTMENT OF PARKS, New York City. 5 Pheasants, 3 Pigeons, 2 Rails, 1 Black-capped Petrel, 2 Storks, 1 ; Heron, 5 Swans, I Goose, 1 Vulture, 1 Hawk, 8 Eagles, 1 Falcon, t Owl, 6 Cockatoos, 13 Parrots, 2 Toucans, 4 song- birds.—Total, 57 specimens received in the flesh from the Central Park Menagerie. R. DONKER, New York City. Song-bird, in the flesh. JONATHAN DWIGHT, Jr., New York City. t Auk, 3 Golden-eyed Ducks and 1 Owl. CLARENCE H. EAGLE, New York City. 842 Bird skins, North America. WILLIAM FLOYD, Mastic, N. Y. 1 Plover, 4 Ducks, 1 Cormorant, 12 Sandpipers, I Jaeger, in the flesh. D. GLUCK, New York City. Goatsucker, in the flesh. JOHN A. GROSSBECK, New York City. Song-bird, in the flesh. FRANCIS HARPER, College Point, N. Y. Hawk, in the flesh. JOHN H. HENDRICKSON, Long Island City, L. I. Shore-bird, in the flesh. EDWARD HILL’S SONS & CO., New York City. Mounted Kiwi and mounted song-bird. RUDOLPH KASAL, Hackensack, N. J. 31 Mummified birds, consisting of 1 Parrot, 1 Kingfisher, 7 Hum- mingbirds and 22 song-birds, South America. feo. LLOYD, Ithaca, N.Y. 45 Bird skins, Upolu, Samoa, including 2 Tooth-billed Pigeons, WILLIAM MACK, New York City. 1 Parrot and I song-bird, in the flesh. L. ALFRED MANNHARDT, Cold Spring, N. Y. Hawk. W. De W. MILLER, Plainfield, N. J. 2 Song-birds, in the flesh. ROY W. MINER, New York City. Song-bird, in the flesh. MASON MITCHELL, Apia, Samoa. 3 Parakeets, 1 Tooth-billed Pigeon, 3 Honey-eaters, in the flesh, i skin of Duck and 1 skin of Godwit, from Samoa. 126 Birds—By Gift WILLIAM FELLOWES MORGAN, Jr., Short Hills, N. J. Mummified Falcon from a tomb at Thebes. LIEF NEANDROSS, Ridgefield, N. J. 2 Woodpeckers and 2 song-birds, in the flesh. NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY, New York City. 2 Cassowaries, 6 Guans and Curassows, I Pheasant, 12 Quails and Partridges, 14 Pigeons, 2 Terns, 1 Gull, 6 Shore-birds, 1 Crane, 1 Ibis, 1 Stork, 3 Jabirus, 2 Herons, 3 Boatbills, 1 Crested Screamer, 1 Flamingo, 1 Swan, 11 Geese and Ducks, 1 Turkey Vulture, 2 Hawks, 6 Eagles, 1 Harpy Eagle, 3 Falcons, 3 Owls, 2 Cockatoos, 21 Parrots, 3 Cuckoos, 4 Woodpeckers, 2 Fly- catchers and 99 song-birds.—Total, 216 specimens received in the flesh from the New York Zodlogical Park. JOHN TREADWELL NICHOLS, Englewood, N. J. Mounted Hawk. WILLIAM B. NICHOLS, Oyster Bay, L. I. Duck, in the flesh. JOHN W. PHILLIPS, New York City. Nest of Baltimore Oriole, Canaan, N. Y. C. B. RIKER, Mountain Station, N. J. - Skins of 4 Manakins and 1 Owl. WILLIAM C. RIVES, Washington, D. C. 3 Skins of song-birds. JAMES RODWAY, Georgetown, British Guiana. 2 Skins, 1 nest and 3 eggs of Hoatzin and 2 adult and 2 young birds in alcohol. Mrs. E. ROSENBERGER, New York City. Canary, in the flesh. Mrs. F. G. R. ROTH, Englewood, N. J. Parrot, in the flesh. LOUIS RUHE, New York City. Parrot, in the flesh. LEONARD C. SANFORD, New Haven, Conn. 2 Geese. P. SEALEY, Puerto Barrios, Guatemala. Skin of Goatsucker. W. J. SMITH. 1 Skin of Wedge-tailed Eagle, Australia, and 2 Parrots, in the flesh. SELAH B. STRONG, Setauket, L. I. Hawk, in the flesh. HENRY THURSTON, Floral Park, L. I. 2 Flat skins and 1 head of Ibis, 1 skin of Kingfisher, 1 Torso skeleton of Heron, Sterna of 4 song-birds; 1 Owl, 1 Heron, 1 Sandpiper, 1 Woodpecker and 14 song-birds, in the flesh. UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, Washington, D. C. 44 Prepared skeletons of birds, consisting of Ducks, Gulls, Shore- birds, Owls and song-birds. Birds—Through Museum Expeditions 127 S. M. VAN ALLEN, Jamaica, N. Y. European Whimbrel, in the flesh. The first United States record. C. L. VAN BOGAERT, New York City. Song-bird. JUSTUS VON LENGERKE, New York City. 34 Hawks and 4 Crows, in the flesh. A. C. WILMERDING, New York City. Jaeger, in the flesh, WALTER WINANS, Pluckley, Kent, England. Skin of Hawk. MABEL OSGOOD WRIGHT, Fairfield, Conn. Flat skin of Prothonotary Warbler. This specimen is the only record of the species for Connecticut. By EXCHANGE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, Brooklyn, N, Y. Hoatzin (alcoholic). DURBAN MUSEUM, Natal, Africa. Skins of 1 Heron, 10 Picariz and ro Oscines, Africa. Peavy Rot BS .ulithaca. Niji. Skin of 1 Duck, and 1 Wood-hewer. By PURCHASE 1,077 Bird skins, North China; 202 Bird skins, Chile; 2 Skins of Wild Rock Pigeons, 1 Skull of Hornbill, 1 skull of Crow; 7 Swans, in the flesh. THROUGH MUSEUM EXPEDITIONS 218 Bird skins and ror sets consisting of 408 eggs, arctic America. Collected by R. M. Anderson. 357 Bird skins and 4 eggs, Colombia. Collected by Mrs. E. L. Kerr. 34 Local song-birds in the flesh. Collected by F. E. Lutz. 1 Skin of Gallinule, 2 Swifts (alcoholic). Collected by Dwight Franklin. 37 Bird skins, Oregon. Collected by H. E. Anthony. 809 Bird skins, Colombia. Collected by W. B. Richardson. 1,918 Bird skins and a few nests and eggs, Colombia. Collected by Arthur A. Allen and Leo E. Miller. 1,947 Bird skins, including 6 nests, 4 eggs and 5 young of Cock-of- the-Rock (Ruficola) and 1 egg of Curassow, Colombia. Collected by Leo E. Miller. 15 Bird skins, Korea. Collected by Roy C. Andrews. 128 Vertebrate Paleontology— Through Museum Expeditions DEPARTMENT OF VERTEBRATE PALZONTOLOGY By GIFT DUKE OF BEDFORD, Woburn, England. Skeleton of the Prjevalsky Wild Horse. R. BROOM, Springs, Transvaal, South Africa. Portion of skull of Dieynodon from Karroo Formation of South Africa, illustrating the origin of the mammalian ear-bones. WARREN DELANO, New York City. Norwegian Horse and 1 Jamaica Hinny. DEPARTMENT OF MAMMALOGY, transfer. Zebra skeleton. LANGDON GIBSON, Schenectady, N. Y. Skull of fossil Walrus dredged from Penobscot Bay, Me. ANDREW RAMSAY, Mt. Savage, Md. Slab with two footprints of Chirotherium (?). FRANK K. STURGIS, New York City. Skeleton of Zohifpus, four-toed horse, Lower Eocene of Wyoming. By EXCHANGE KONIGL. BAYERISCHE AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN, Munich, Germany. Small collections of fragmentary jaws and teeth, Eocene of Patagonia, PEABODY MUSEUM, New Haven, Conn. Casts of skull, wing and other parts of Pteranodon, Niobrara forma- tion, Cretaceous of Kansas. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Berkeley, Cal. 2 Skulls, lower jaw and fore-limb bones of Ground Sloth, asphalt bed of Rancho La Brea, Los Angeles, Cal. By PuRCHASE 1 Calf head; 1 skull of Bodétherium, Hebron, Ind.; head of Horse 42 years old. THROUGH MUSEUM EXPEDITIONS Fossil bones, Ciego de Montero, Cienfuegoes, Cuba, Collected by Carlos de la Torre and Barnum Brown. Skull of AZoschops and skeleton of Emdothiodon, and other Permian reptiles, South Africa. Collected by R. Broom. 209 Specimens of fossil mammals, Ralston and Wasatch formations. Lower Eocene of Wyoming. Collected by Walter Granger. 130 Specimens of fossil mammals, including part of skull and jaws of new insectivore, Basal and Lower Eocene of New Mexico. Collected by Walter Granger. Fishes—By Gift 129 Fossil mammals, Alaska, Meade River and Point Barrow. Collected by Vilhjalmr Stefansson. 3 Skeletons of the ‘‘Clawed Ungulate” MMJoropus, Agate Spring Quarry, Nebr. Collected by Albert Thomson. Skeletons, skulls and various other remains of dinosaurs, Edmonton and Belly River Cretaceous deposits on Red Deer River, Alberta. Collected by Barnum Brown. DEPARTMENT OF ICHTHYOLOGY AND HERPETOLOGY FISHES By GIFT CLEVELAND H. DODGE FUND. 7 Australian lungfishes; 5 Ptyctodonts and 1 shark tooth; 150 Cuban fishes; 18 models of deep-sea fishes; 12 skeletons of fishes, mounted in glass jars; 1 Leftsosteus tristechus (mounted), Cuba; 450 fishes, South America and Pacific coast; 1 Dape- dius colei, Lyme Regis, England; 5 mounted fishes, Maine; 1 Naucrates ductor, Cape Cod, Mass.; 1 Aypsypops rubicundus, California; 10 fishes, Calcutta; 25 Ama calva (young) and 25 Lepisosteus, Oconomowoc, Wis.; 5 mounted fishes, Japan; 31 alcoholic fishes, Java; plaster casts of 1 Thresher Shark and 1 Mola; 6 models of extinct fishes, 3 models of fossil fishes and 3 of living fishes; 62 Shark embryos and young, Naples. AMERICAN SCENIC AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION SOCIETY, New York City. 3 Fossil sharks’ teeth: 2 Carcharodon megalodon and 1 Oxyrhina hastalis. Collected by the late John Townsend. C. WM. BEEBE, New York City. 4 Siluroids, 1 Poecilid, 1 Tetrodontid, 1 Cichlid, 3 Hzemulids, 3 Labrids, 1 Antennariid, 1 Sparid, 1 Tylosurid, 1 Scarid. F. BLASCHKE, New York City. Dried head of Cristivomer namaycush, Canada. Cc. F. BOSTWICK, Jr., New York City. 10 Goldfish and 1 Shiner. HOWARTH S. BOYLE, Elmhurst, L. I. Mustelus canis, Far Rockaway, N. Y. BARNUM BROWN, New York City. Fossil teeth and fragments of Cyprinoids and Siluroids, Pleistocene, Mexico. ISAAC BUCHANAN, Elizabeth, N. J. 6 Dried and g alcoholic specimens of Danio analipunctatus, Rasbora heteromorpha, Callichthys punctatus, Barbus conchonius and 10 living fishes. 130 Fishes—By Gift BUFFALO SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, Buffalo, N. Y. 4 Casts of fossil fish remains. D. S. BULLOCK, Lapeer, Mich. 32 Fishes, South America. CARLOS M. CAMPOS, Aguada Pasajeros, Cuba. 7 Manjuari and 2 Heros. MORTON L. CHURCH, Marshall, N. C. 1 Cottus ictalops, 1 Diplesion blennioides, 1 Notropis coccogenis, 1 Notropis photogenis, 2 Rhinichthys cataracte, 1 Notropis whiplit, 1 Moxostoma alleghaniensis, 1 Catostomus nigricans and 1 Micropterus salmoides, Marshall, N. C. RUSSELL J. COLES, Danville, Va. 8 Fishes, 2 embryos of rays, and several jaws and anatomical prepara- tions, Cape Lookout, N. C. JOHN D. CRIMMINS, New York City. Mounted Sailfish, Miami, Fla. BASHFORD DEAN, Riverdale, N. Y. 10 Minnows, Hot Springs, Canadian Rockies; 1 Acipenser huso, 1 Acipenser ruthenus, Volga River, Europe; 5 Chlamydose- lachus embryos, 4 Myxine glutinosa eggs, 1 Gonorhynchus abbreviatus, 3 Bdellostoma eggs, 4 Ceratodus forstert embryos, 7 Ceratodus forsteri eggs, Japan, California and Australia. CARLOS DE LA TORRE, Havana, Cuba. Fossil shark teeth in piece of matrix and Ztmopterus hillianus Poey, Matanzas, Cuba. DEPARTMENT OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY, transfer. 15 Fundulids, 50 Poecilids, Florida and British Guiana; 5 Anguilla chrysypa, Edgewater, N. J.; 1 young Tarpon and 5 Stickle- backs; 27 fishes, South America and West Indies. DEPARTMENT OF MINERALOGY, transfer. 6 Skate eggs, 1 Sturgeon scale, 1 Sea-horse, one-fourth pound of fish hooks, from J. H. Thompson’s collection. DEPARTMENT OF VERTEBRATE PALZ ONTOLOGY, transfer. 12 Fossil sharks’ teeth. JOSEPH H. DOERR, New York City. Scales of Drumfish, Long Beach, L. I. Mrs. RICHARD DONKER, New York City. 2 Gambusia affinis. RICHARD DORN, New York City. 22 Fishes, British Guiana; 2 7richogaster Jalius and 1 small fish. J. A. DOUGLAS, Babylon, L. I. Pseudopriacanthus altus. DELAFIELD DUBOIS, New York City. Top of head of Skate, south shore, L, I. E. FRAAS, Stuttgart, Germany. 2 Fossil Chimeroid dental plates. Fishes—Ly Gift Psi E. W. GUDGER, State Normal College, Greensboro, N. C. 4 Egg-shells of Ginglymostoma, Tortugas, Fla. FRANCIS HARPER, College Point, N. Y. Specimens of Green Killy, Star-headed Minnow, Top Minnow, Banded Pickerel and Nine-spined Sunfish, Okefenoke Swamp, Ga. THE HEROINE CO., New York City. 30 Fishes from deep waters southeast of New York. JOHN HISCOX, New York City. Peristedion miniatum, found outside of New York Bay. M. P. HITE, Quogue, N. Y. 41 Egg capsules of Raza, East Quogue. R. D. O. JOHNSON, New York City. 20 Silurids and 20 Characinids, Antioquia, Colombia, W. L. JOSSELYN, New York City. 14 Fishes, Falkland Islands. F. A. LUCAS, New York City. Siphostoma fuscum, Plymouth, Mass. WILLIAM MACK, New York City. 1 Lundulus diaphanus and 1 Tetragonopterus, Yucatan; to Goldfish and 60 other fishes. WM. C. METCALF, New York City. Salmo trideus, Callicoon Creek, Sullivan Co., N. Y. Mrs. W. A. MORIARTY, Spring Lake, N. J. 2 Fish skulls, Ocean Beach, N. J. NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY, New York City. 5 Albino Lake Trout, 200 specimens of Aquarium fishes, including Pantodon and freshwater Tetrodonta, 2 living fishes from Porto Rico, 1 Pseudopriacanthus altus, 8 Hippocampus hudsonius, 1 Mycteroperca, 1 Lridio and 6 alcoholic fishes. JOHN T. NICHOLS, Englewood, N. J. 4 Flounders, 3 Pipefishes, 5 Mullets and ro other fishes, Mastic, L. I.; 2 Zupomotis gibossus, Englewood, N. J. A. PELSONG, Miami, Fla. Dentition of Drumfish, Miami. Mr. PINKOSSON, Gainesville, Fla. 125 Lepomis pallidus, 3 Abramis crysoleucas, 4 Pomoxis sparoides | Florida. CHARLES H. ROGERS, New York City. Left dentary of Lophius piscatorius, Long Beach, N. Y. RALPH S. SAUNDERS, New York City. Deep Bigeye, Pseudopriacanthus altus (Gill). H. J. SPINDEN, New York City. 20 Cichlids, Siluroids and Poecilids, Guatemala. VILHJALMR STEFANSSON, New York City. 5 Mallotus villosus, Point Barrow, Alaska. EDGAR E. TELLER, Milwaukee, Wis. 16 Fossil fishes, Devonic (Hamilton), Milwaukee. 132 Fishes—By Purchase EDWIN THORNE, New York City. 4 Sharks’ jaws. HENRY THURSTON, Floral Park, L. I. 1 Cypselurus heterurus, t Trichiurus lepturus, 1 Fundulus similis, 1 Cyprinodon carpio, 3 Stolephorus mitchelli and 1 Lagodon rhomboides, Florida. WM. H. WIEGMANN, New York City. 1 Chilomycterus schapfi, 1 Monacanthus hispidus and 1 Roronotus triacanthus, Long Island, N. Y. By EXCHANGE BRITISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, London, England. 5 Cichlid fishes, South America. CARNEGIE MUSEUM, Pittsburgh, Pa. 19 Fossil fishes, Upper Eocene, Monte Bolca, Italy; 3 fossil fishes, Upper Jurassic, Solenhofen, Bavaria. JOSEPH A. CLUBB, Liverpool, England. Protopterus annectans, living, in cocoon, Congo valley, Africa. CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Ithaca, N. Y. -12 Living Ammoceetes, from near Ithaca. D. S. JORDAN, Stanford University, Cal. Macrorhamphosus gracilis, Canary Islands. KONIGL. NATURALIEN-SAMMLUNG, Stuttgart, Germany. 2 Dental plates of Protopterus Hibycus, Lower Oligocene, Egypt. INSTITUT OCEANOGRAPHIQUE, Monaco. 17 Specimens (14 species) of deep-sea fishes. ROYAL AGRICULTURAL AND COMMERCIAL SOCIETY, George- town, British Guiana. 1 Large Arapaima skin and 20 fishes from British Guiana. J. O. SNYDER, Stanford University, Cal. 1 Squalus mitsukurti (co-type), Misaki, Japan. E. C. STARKS, California. 6 Adult and 100 embryo fishes, Pacific coast. Cc. H. STERNBERG, Lawrence, Kans. Pectoral fin-spines of Protosphyrena, Cretaceous, Kansas. UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, Washington, D. C. 50 Deep-sea and other fishes. UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ZOOLOGY, Cambridge, England. 2 Specimens of Polypterus, 3 Calamoichthys and 2 Protopterus, River Gambia and McCarthy's Island. UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, Lawrence, Kans. 12 Fishes. By PURCHASE Mounted Sunfish (J7c/a mola), and set of eggs of least bittern for use in group of Amia, Amphibians—By Gift 133 THROUGH MUSEUM EXPEDITIONS 33 Sharks (including 8 skins), 2 Chimzroids, 200 Teleosts and 3 sharks’ jaws, Japan. Collected by R. C. Andrews. Material for Ama, Scaphirhynchus and Gar pike groups, Wisconsin. Collected by Dwight Franklin. 150 Fishes, Cuba. Collected by J. T. Nichols. 200 Fishes, chiefly from British Guiana. Collected by William Warfield. AMPHIBIANS By GIFT CLEVELAND H. DODGE FUND. 14 Cryptobranchus alleghentensis. 1 Pipa americana, 1 Amblystoma mexicana, 1 Siphonops crasiliensis, 1 Proteus anguinis, 1 Sala- mandra maculosa, 5 Pelobates fuscus, 10 Hyla versicolor, W. A. ANGELL, Providence, R. I. Amblystoma punctatum. THOMAS BARBOUR, Cambridge, Mass. 6 Photographs of Raza goliath and habitat, Kamerun, Africa. G. A. BOULENGER, F.R.S., London, England. 2 Alytes obstetricans with eggs, I Coecilian. HOWARTH S. BOYLE, Elmhurst, L. I. 2 Rana pipiens, 2 Rana clamitans. HERBERT BROWN, Tucson, Ariz. Hyla arenicolor. MORTON L. CHURCH, Marshall, N. C. 2 Salamanders, Tennessee. DEPARTMENT OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY, transfer. 8 Hyla cinerea, t Bufo quercicus, 7 Hyla sguirella, 4 Hyla femoralis, 5 Acris gryllus, 1 Plethodon glutinosus, 8 Bufo sternosignatus, 1 Phryniscus, 3 Rana sp., 1 Hylodes sp., 2 Engystoma caro- linense,; collection of amphibians, British Guiana. RICHARD DOW, New York City. Tree Toad, British Guiana. OGDEN GILES, New York City. 3 Batrachians, South America. R. D. O. JOHNSON, New York City. Collection of batrachians, Colombia. EF, E. LUTZ, Ramsey, N. J. Acris gryllus. WILLIAM MACK, New York City. 6 Amphibians. SIGURD NEANDROSS, Ridgefield, N. J. Rana catesbiana. 134 - $2,278 oo The Van Dorn Iron Works Co.... 3,872 00 $6,150 00 OpensMarketsOrders: 2. oie suis ciswia diene do eames 16,679 34 NMechanicspbava Olle: inn, aoeikiais estes Gieteteieniclele 22,755 08 Outstanding Open Market Orders.............. 1,523 22 Contracts Outstanding: eseph) DicBenedettoosc 1. a. ser 6 $2,698 oo American Wood Working Machin- En yl(Cosrmtepretolete terse soit I,100 00 The Snead & Co. Iron Works..... 4,320 00 Trowbridge & Livingston........ 508 03 8,626 03 55,733 67 Balances Decemberigreelouereesneee sees otes $9,266 33 171 LEGAL ENACTMENTS OF 1912 Appropriation of Special Revenue Bonds by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment (R.D.P. 31). Resolved, That the resolution adopted by the Board of Aldermen on May 28, IgI2, requesting an issue of special revenue bonds in the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000), the proceeds whereof to be used by the Depart- ment of Parks, Manhattan and Richmond, for the purpose of making necessary repairs to the American Museum of Natural History, all obligations incurred hereunder to be contracted for before December 31, Ig12, be and the same is hereby approved of and concurred in by the Board of Estimate and Appor- tionment, and for the purpose of providing means therefor, the Comptroller be and is hereby authorized, pursuant to the provisions of subdivision 8 of section 188 of the Greater New York Charter, to issue special revenue bonds of The City of New York to an amount not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000), redeemable from the tax levy of the year succeeding the year of their issue, provided no portion of said proceeds shall be used for the payment of services of departmental employees. Adopted by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment July 11, Ig12. APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES THEREON TO DECEMBER 31, IgI2 RECEIPTS: By Direct Appropmation (R.,P; Do S))\. sic cwwnnn x saw enien kine $10,000 00 EXPENDITURES: For repointing brick and stone work, repairing and replacing roof and skylights, replacing window sashes, replacing electric fixtures and relaying tile floor............. ...+. 9,992 50 Balance December $1, / 1919. «5. ss tac s+ ou heen whee $7 50 172 miso? TRUS ES AND TERMS OFTS EO Le Fs 1869-1912 farenntavyor of; the City of New York |... sseecssst cece 1908-1909, IgIo- The President of the Department of Parks........... ... 1908-1909, Igto— The Comptroller of the City of New York................ Ig08-Ig0g9, IgIo- PRMTEIRTTIGLOSS Pe ELAAOTIN | ciiaye laaveie ava kate: el'at'etaislajetatara ae &iailpcvere ela res 1876-1890 RE NTOUE CA LD ELET Siciars ereysceyote evtiels ¢'cvaistateveve elo niedeunrs ereiere ie 1885— bishop, kd. 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