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and the Ragged Cays. Mr. Huron H. Smith, Preparator in Dendro- 

 logy, spent six weeks in southeastern Missouri, at three forest points, 

 in the collection of North American Forestry material. The collec- 

 tions, amounting to over a car load of material, will be reported upon 

 later. Mr. O. E. Lansing, Jr., has continued his field work in the 

 Lake Chicago Basin, adding a number of species to his quite exhaus- 

 tive series from this region. 



The Curator of the Department of Geology collected a series of 

 ores, minerals, and rocks from various localities on the north shore 

 of Lake Superior during a trip made to that region in July. Some 

 valuable geological photographs of the region were also made. Pho- 

 tographs illustrating the ancient shore-lines of Lake Chicago, designed 

 for exhibiting in connection with the relief map of the region, were 

 also made by the Curator during the fall. Mr. A. W. Slocom carried 

 on some collecting in the region of Little Traverse Bay, Michigan, 

 continuing the work of last year. Especially fine series which he 

 secured were those of fossil corals, stromatoporoids and brachiopods. 

 Pleistocene fossils, from the marls of Oden and Kegomic, were also 

 obtained. In all about nine hundred specimens were obtained, which, 

 added to those collected last year, afford a representative series of the 

 Hamilton and Pleistocene fossils of the region. Occasional visits 

 were also made by Mr. Slocom to quarries in the Chicago Basin, for 

 the purpose of securing any new material excavated. From this 

 material, and that previously secured, he described during the year 

 nine new species of crinoids. No field work was undertaken in 

 vertebrate paleontology, the work of erecting the Dinosaur skeleton 

 having, of necessity, engrossed the entire attention of the staff. 



At the date of the last Report, the African expedition was on its 

 way back to the United States. Mr. C. E. Akeley, the Chief of the 

 Expedition, provides the following narrative: 



"We left Chicago August 13, 1905, arriving in London August 

 26th, where we joined Mr. Vernon Shaw- Kennedy, who had gone on 

 some weeks in advance for the purpose of preparing the outfit, most 

 of which, consisting of supplies, food, tents, amunition, photographic 

 material, etc., was purchased in London. Mr. Edmund Heller, who 

 had been called from field work in Central America to accompany the 

 expedition, overtook us in London, and on September 8th, we sailed 

 from Dover by the S. S. President of the D. O. A. Line, arriving at 

 Mombasa, East Coast of Africa, on October 8th. Our goods were 

 duly landed, passed through the customs; porters, gun-bearers, and 



