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and comprise many specimens new to the Museum. Incidental to the 

 Arctic explorations undertaken for the National Geographic So- 

 ciety in Berin<r Sea and Arctic America during the summer of 1924 

 by Capt. R. A. Bartlett, and by Mr. D. B. Maciuillan in the Boirdoin 

 in Greenland in 1924, some interesting zoological material was se- 

 cured and presented to the Museum. In August, 1924, Mr. Paul C. 

 Standley was detailed as a member of the Carlsbad Cavern expedi- 

 tion of the National Geographic Society, his association in the en- 

 terprise I'esulting in a collection of some 500 specimens of plants, 

 many of species not previousl}'^ loiown from New Mexico. A popu- 

 lar account of the vegetation of the Carlsbad Cavern region has 

 been prepared for publication largely on the basis of this field 

 work. Under the auspices of Mr. Robert S. Clark, several eastern 

 Provinces in China were visited by Mr. Arthur deC. Sowerby. from 

 whom extensive collections Avere received. Dr. Hugh M. Smith, 

 who is at present fisheries adviser to the Siamese Government, for- 

 warded interesting zoological material from that country. 



As a result of his visit to Haiti during the spring of 1925, Mr. 

 Gerrit S. Miller, jr., of the Museum staff, secured a collection of 

 the extinct vertebrate cave fauna as well as miscellaneous specimens 

 of the living mammals, birds, reptiles, insects, and plants of the 

 island. Doctor Bartsch continued his experiments with Cerions, 

 through the assistance of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 

 his visit to the experimental colonies of these mollusks planted on 

 the Florida Keys resulting in the addition of some 2,700 specimens 

 to the collections. In addition, through the cooperation of the 

 United States Coast Guard, he was able, with the assistance of Mr. 

 W. B. INIarshall of the Museum staff, to do some dredging in the 

 inner leads of Cape May and in the shallow waters off the coast 

 of New Jersey, which resulted in adding quite a number of speci- 

 mens from a region little explored. A survey of the fisheries of 

 the Republic pf Salvador, undertaken by S. F. Hildebrand and 

 F. J. Foster, of the United States Bureau of Fisheries, at the request 

 and at the expense of the Salvadorean Government, resulted in the 

 collection and subsequent transfer to the Museum of a large collec- 

 tion of fishes and some crustaceans from the region referred to. 

 Secretary Walcott's field work in the Canadian Rockies, in addi- 

 tion to yielding important paleontological material, added a num- 

 ber of valuable zoological specimens, some of which have been 

 utilized in preparing a new exhibition group of Roclcy Moui.tain 

 goats in the Mammal Hall of the Museum. As the result of the 

 detail by the Department of Agriculture of Mrs. Agnes Chase, of 

 the Bureau of Plant Industry, to field work in the eastern high- 

 lands of Brazil, important botanical material was received for the 

 National Herbarium. 



