76 KEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919. 



The 217 specimens received as the first result of the Collins-Gamer 

 expedition to the French Congo and collected by Mr. C. K. Asche- 

 meier form another valuable addition, including as it does 2 gorillas, 

 7 chimpanzees, 10 buffaloes, 28 antelopes, and parts of an elephant. 



Several large mammals, including a mule deer, Eocky Mountain 

 goat, and Eockj^ Mountain sheep, were collected for the Museum by 

 Secretary Walcott during his exploration in British Columbia. Two 

 species of banana opossums from Yucatan hitherto unrepresented 

 in the Museum were presented by Dr. George F. Gaumer. Another 

 interesting donation consisted of seven embryos of insectivores and 

 carnivores from Mr. Arthur Loveridge in Nairobi, East Africa, a 

 material especially important for compai^tive study. 



Additional storage cases furnished during the year has resulted 

 in greatly relieving the crowded condition of part of the skin col- 

 lection. The completion of the rearrangement of the entire collec- 

 tion of small and medium skulls has also accomplished a betterment 

 especially among the carnivores. 



Owing to various conditions the curator, Mr. Gerrit S. Miller, jr., 

 found it impracticable to devote much time to original investigation 

 during the past year. Such work of this kind as has been done has 

 consisted chiefly of routine identification of material for catalogu- 

 ing. The translation of an important paper on the classification of 

 the Cetacea ^ has been nearly completed. The present inconvenient 

 arrangement of the study material caused by the storing of the speci- 

 mens on the second floor, while the workrooms and the library are 

 located in the basement, has also hampered the work of Mr. N. Hol- 

 lister, superintendent of the National Zoological Park, who is now 

 working up the primates for part 3 of the East African Mammals 

 in the National Museum, part 2 having been published during the 

 year as part 2 of Bulletin No. 99. Dr. C. Hart Merriam, associate 

 in zoology, has continued his work on North American bears. The 

 members of the Biological Survey, as usual, made constant use of the 

 collections, as did Dr. O. P. Hay, of the Carnegie Institution of 

 Washington, in connection with his work on the Pleistocene fauna 

 of North America. Dr. J. L. Wortman completed his studies of 

 insectivores and primates and submitted a paper for publication as 

 a result of his studies. Specimens were lent for study to Dr. J. A. 

 Allen, of the American Museum of Natural History, New York 

 City ; Dr. Glover M. Allen, of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 

 Cambridge, Massachusetts ; Mr. Oldfield Thomas, of the British Mu- 

 seum, London, England; Mr. O. A. Peterson, of the Carnegie Mu- 

 seum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Mr. William Beebe, of the New 

 York Zoological Park ; Mr. E. H. Sellers, of the Florida State Geo- 



1 Winge, H., Udsigt over Hvalernes indbyrdes slsegtskab, Vidensk. Meddel. fra 

 Dansk naturh. Foren., vol. 70, pp. 59-142, 1918. 



