96 REPOKT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1914. 



Laboratory of Warsaw, was begun in the spring of 1914 and still 

 remains unfinished. Its main object is to secure photographs and 

 casts of the Siberian natives who bear so close a physical resemblance 

 to the American Indian. An important expedition for the study of 

 the development of the Negro child among the Zulu, Bushmen, and 

 other native tribes in south and east Africa by Dr. V. Schlick, one 

 of the most promising of the younger generation of European an- 

 thropologists, was nearing completion at the close of the j^ear. Be- 

 sides the making of photographs and casts of these primitive peo- 

 ples for the San Diego exposition, the principal purpese of this re- 

 search is to obtain data on the growth of the Negro child in its native 

 land to serve as the foundation for contemplated studies on the 

 Negro as acclimatized in this country. 



DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY. 



The number of accessions and of specimens received by this depart- 

 ment was somewhat greater than in the previous year, the most 

 notable acquisition having consisted of some 200,000 insects obtained 

 by entomologists of the Department of Agriculture during economic 

 investigations in Texas and neighboring States. Mr. H. C. Eaven, 

 whom the exceeding generosity of Dr. William L. Abbott permitted 

 to remain in eastern Borneo, sent from there over 1,500 mammals 

 and birds. The Bureau of Fisheries transmitted extensive collec- 

 tions of fishes and marine invertebrates, a large number of reptiles 

 and batrachians from various parts of North America, and the first 

 series, with types, of the mammals obtained in Lower California dur- 

 ing the cruise of the steamer Albatross in 1911. From the Biological 

 Survey were received many mammals from Patagonia, and reptiles 

 and batrachians, chiefly from Panama ; and from Prof. A. M. Eeese 

 a considerable collection of marine invertebrates, besides a number 

 of reptiles and batrachians, secured in the Philippine Islands. These 

 were the principal accessions which had to be divided between two 

 or more divisions, and they will again be referred to in their appro- 

 priate places. 



Mammals. — Additional specimens of the rare Tupaia mulleri and 

 Reithrosciurus, mentioned in the last report, were contained in the 

 collection of Mr. Eaven from Dutch East Borneo, and also a shrew 

 of the genus Crocidura and a rare cat, Felis hadia, both new to the 

 Museum. The Lower California mammals obtained during the cruise 

 of the Fisheries steamer Albatross in 1911, including Dr. C. H. 

 Townsend's types of 10 new species, have already been spoken of, as 

 have also the Patagonian mammals transferred by the Biological 

 Survey. Mr. Arthur de C. Sowerby transmitted 121 specimens from 

 Manchuria, among which is a new species described by Mr. Miller 



