Oct. igoi. Annual Rei^ort of the Director. ig 



arrangement with C. F. Newcombe of Victoria. A large number 

 of skeletons, skulls and general ethnological material secured in this 

 region is of exceptional interest. An extremely large totem pole, a 

 finely carved interior house-post, a large memorial column and many 

 carvings from shaman's graves must also be noted. Mr. Phillips, of 

 Evanston, again visited southern Illinois for the purpose of continu- 

 ing his investigations in aboriginal quarry shops. He was also 

 enabled to secure specimens from the novaculite quarries in Arkan- 

 sas which will make more complete the series from this locality 

 already in possession of the Museum. Mr. Millspaugh, Curator of 

 the Department of Botany, visited Jamaica, West Indies, with the 

 result that a large number of photographs and notes of tropic fruit 

 culture were obtained, and a small but valuable series of plants col- 

 lected. ^^'orking of the dinosaur quarries in Colorado, which were 

 discovered and partially exploited a year ago, was continued during 

 several months of the summer by a party under the direction of 

 Assistant Curator Riggs. A large quantity of remains was obtained 

 which belonged to a single individual of the genus Brontosaurus. 

 The remains secured are as follows : Eleven presacral, 

 five sacral and twenty-three caudal vertebrae, all in series; 

 one femur, one ilium, two pubes, two ischia, fifteen ribs and 

 numerous chevrons and small bones. All these bones are in an 

 excellent state of preservation and when cleaned and mounted will 

 make an impressive and instructive display. The work of securing 

 them involved considerable blasting, tunneling and the construction 

 of a temporary ferry. In addition to the above, several specimens of 

 fossil insects were obtained and about sixty-five excellent negatives 

 giving landscape and quarry views of the region were made. Grate- 

 ful acknowledgments are due the officials of the Chicago, Burlington 

 & Quincy and the Denver & Rio Grande Railroads for assistance in 

 the work of this expedition. Mr. Surber, the regular collector in 

 the Department of Zoology, resigned in the early spring and Mr. 

 Edmund Heller was engaged to succeed him. He is now at 

 work on the Pacific coast, where he has been unusually suc- 

 cessful, having in a short space of time added a number of species 

 not represented in the collections. The visit of Mr. Meek, accom- 

 panied by a volunteer ' assistant, to Southern Mexico for the 

 purpose of collecting mammals, fishes, reptiles and insects, was 

 highly important. The collection of fishes obtained was nat- 

 urally the largest and most important from a scientific standpoint, 

 as it will furnish more material to work out the geographical range of 

 the North American forms which are found in Southern Mexico, and 



