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Dr. William Scliaus, honorary assistant curator of insects, through 

 personal efforts raised the sum of $50,000 for the purchase of the 

 famous collection of Lepidoptera gathered by M. Paul Dognin, 

 Wimile, France, comprising a series of specimens highly valuable 

 for studies of these important insects. Doctor Schaus went to 

 France to supervise the packing of this collection for shipment to 

 the museum, where it has been received, although not in time to be 

 included in more detail in report. 



The material secured by the Marsh-Darien expedition to Panama, 

 referred to in last year's report, was received during the past year. 

 It contained so much interesting ethnological material of a class 

 not previously represented in our collections that it has been made 

 the basis of a special report prepared by Mr. H. W. Krieger, curator 

 of ethnology. Mr. Neil M. Judd, curator of American archeology 

 in charge of the Pueblo Bonito expedition of the National Geo- 

 graphic Society, secured important collections for the Museum, and 

 equally important material was secured by Mr. Gerard Fowke 

 under the auspices of the Bureau of American Ethnology from 

 burial sites near Muscle Shoals, Ala., which will soon be covered by 

 water impounded by the Wilson Dam. Doctor Fewkes, Chief 

 of the Bureau of American Ethnology, assisted by Mr. M. W. 

 Stirling, of the department of anthropology, conducted an explora- 

 tion of ancient Indian mounds at St. Petersburg, Fla., which resulted 

 in important finds and material valuable to the collections. Dr. 

 Ales Hrdlicka, of the Museum staff, assisted by a generous grant 

 from the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, left in March for 

 an extended trip through the Far East, Australia, and South Africa 

 for the purpose of observing at first hand a number of peculiar 

 races of men and to collect data on various discoveries of ancient 

 man. 



Under the auspices of the United States Geological Survey, Dr. 

 W. F. Foshag, of the Museum staff, was enabled to make collections 

 and to visit mineral properties in western Nevada where acquaint- 

 ances made with mine owners and collectors will inure greatly 

 to the benefit of the Museum. lie also collected a series of minerals 

 from California. Short trips to various localities in Maryland 

 were made by Mr. Earl V. Shannon, of the Department of Geology, 

 in cooperation with the State geological survey, and to Connecticut 

 through an arrangement wdth the geological and natural history 

 survey of that State, which resulted in necessary additions to our 

 collections. Aided by grants from the O. C. Marsh and Joseph 

 Henry endowment funds of the National Academy of Sciences, 

 Secretary Walcott continued his field work in western Alberta 

 for the purpose of completing his reconnaissance of the pre-Devonian 



