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and 40 sea-urchins, starfish, etc., mostly collected by the late Mrs. 

 Faiiny Sonshine and presented to the Mu .turn by her dauKhlcr, MiM 

 B. ^' '■■'■c. A tcTnjK)rar>' addition to the I^ivisifm of En.omoloRy con- 

 sistcu vi ilic twenty-year dqxjsit of the Garr>' dc N. HouKh Collection 

 of flics, roceivct! from the University of Chicaj^o. The value of this 

 material is mainly due to the fact that it is rich in authcnticallv named 

 sixvies of certain families of Euro|)can and North American mi; ke 



flii*s. This collection will prove useful for comparison when naming 

 some i)f the Museum material. It will also l>c helpful to students who 

 arc interested in the families rqjrescnted. 



ExptoiTioNs AND Field work. — Through the jjenerous co-operation of 

 Mr. H. B. Conover it was possible to make one short but important 

 expedition during the year. Assistant Curator Osgood, accompanied by 

 Mr. Conover, left late in Januar>' for northwestern Venezuela and 

 returned to the Museum in the latter part of May. They worked in the 

 tropical lowlands surrounding Lake Maracaibo and in the Sierra de 

 PerijA near the boundar>' between Venezuela and Colombia. Later 

 they penetrated the interior .south of Lake Maracaibo to the highlands 

 of the b^erra de Merida, working at various levels up to an eJe\'ation of 

 15,000 feet. The collections and physical data obtained supplement the 

 results of prc\'ious expeditions in an important way and make the 

 Mu.seum collection of the vertel"- ■'■ - of this general region the most 

 comprehensive in existence. In • uting this work, the members oC 



the exjjcdition were greatly ;: I by officials of the Caribbean Oil 



Company, notably Mr. F. R. Bartlctt. Tlicy were much indebted also 

 to Scflor Juan E. Paris, a prominent and public-spirited citizen of 

 Maracaibo. 



Installation, Rearnanoemcni. and Permanent Improvement. — The Depart- 

 ment of Anthropology was mpaged during the fu^t half of the year in 

 packing r '♦- '-•'il for removal to the new building. The method of 

 packing a , i proved so efficient that no essential damage was done 

 to any .specimen, whether large or small, during the removal. On moving 

 into the new building in June, the stafl put in order and arranged the 

 offices, work-rooms, store-rooms, and laboratories assigned to the depart- 

 ment on the third f^oor. An immense ntmibcr of crates, boxes, and 

 packages had been accxmiulated in Installation Room 34, during moWng- 

 time. These were checked up with the records, sorted, and relegated to 

 the various sections to which the material belongs. Cabinets for storage 

 were placed in work-rooms, several storage racks and seven lajrout 

 tables were made. Hundreds of exhibition cases were stripped of paring 



