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Mr. Homer E. Sargent, of Pasadena, California, purchased a 

 fine Tunisian blanket for addition to the collections of the Depart- 

 ment of Anthropology. 



As a result of the cordial relations maintained between the 

 Chicago Zoological Society and Field Museum, the Department of 

 Zoology received a number of specimens of small mammals of 

 unusual interest, as well as five snakes and fifteen lizards, chiefly 

 Australian species. The similar relationship existing between the 

 John G. Shedd Aquarium and this institution brought a number 

 of especially desirable fish specimens which were needed to fill 

 gaps in the Museum collection. 



Trustee Leslie Wlieeler presented the Museum with its most im- 

 portant bird acquisitions of the year. Altogether his gifts amounted 

 to 303 specimens, including birds of prey, and a collection of 248 

 miscellaneous birds from southwest Africa. 



Dr. A. E. Douglass and Mr. Harry T. Getty, of the University 

 of Arizona, presented material consisting of twenty polished cross 

 sections of wooden beams from southwestern ruins of various dates, 

 and various accessories. These were used in preparing an exhibit 

 illustrating the method of dating ruins, known as "tree ring 

 chronology," of which Dr. Douglass is the originator. 



From Mr. Allyn D. Warren, of Chicago, an interesting Balinese 

 carved wooden figure of the god Vishnu riding on a mythical bird, 

 was received. 



Mrs. Rudyerd Boulton, of Chicago, presented a collection of 

 twenty-eight west African ethnological objects, principally musical 

 instruments of the natives. 



Among distinguished visitors entertained at the Museum during 

 the year were His Highness Sultan Ibrahim of Johore, and the 

 Sultana; Baron and Baroness Maurice de Rothschild, of Paris; 

 Captain H. C. Brocklehurst, former Game Warden of the Sudan, 

 and author of books on African animals; Captain Maurice 

 Rossi and Lieutenant Paul Codos, French aviators who made a 

 trans- Atlantic flight; Sir Henry Wellcome, distinguished scientist. 

 Founder and Director of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum 

 in London; His Excellency Mr. Hirosi Saito, Japanese Ambassador 

 to the United States; Mr. Shane Leslie, noted Irish author; Mr. 

 James Zetek, well-known entomologist of the Canal Zone; and Dr. 

 E. P. Phillips, of the National Herbarium, Pretoria, South Africa. 



The American Ornithologists' Union held its fifty-second annual 

 meeting in the James Simpson Theatre and the small lecture hall 



