News of the death of Major Kermit Roosevelt in Alaska was 

 received at the Museum with great regret. Major Roosevelt, and 

 his brother, Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt (a Trustee of the 

 Museum) were co-leaders of two of the Museum's most important 

 expeditions — the James Simpson Roosevelts Asiatic Expedition, in 



Fig. 2. A family party of gibbons (William V. Kelley Hall). 



1925, and the William V. Kelley Roosevelts Expedition to Eastern 

 Asia, in 1928. 



New Exhibits . . . 



The exhibition program of the Museum, necessarily slowed down 

 by the absence on war duty of such a large proportion of the staff, 

 nevertheless was marked by several notable advances. Details 

 of these will be found in this report under the headings of the various 

 departments in which they occur. 



The outstanding developments were the opening of two sections 

 of the new Hall of American Archaeology (Hall B), in which decid- 



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