REPORT OF THE SECRETARY: NATIONAL MUSEUM 75 



and with a staff representing several branches of zoology, the expedi- 

 tion visited 11 of the 16 principal islands of the Galapagos Archi- 

 pelago and 13 other places on the coasts of South and Central America 

 and Mexico, including the Malpelo, Cocos, and Isabel Islands. The 

 expedition obtained large series of invertebrates of which a first set 

 of Crustacea, to which Dr. Schmitt paid special attention, becomes 

 the property of the National Museum. Many additions to scientific 

 knowledge in this group are included in these collections. 



Dr. Hugh M. Smith continued explorations in Siam covering 

 various parts of the country not pre\dously visited. The work 

 included a trip up the tortuous Pasak River, which marks the bound- 

 ary between central Siam and the eastern plateau, journeys to Sam 

 Ro}" Yot (Three Hundred Peaks) in western Siam, and to the moun- 

 tain-forest jungle of the northwestern corner of Siam. The large 

 collections of mammals, birds, reptiles, and mollusks received testify 

 to Dr. Smith 's continued interest in the Museum and will yield many 

 scientific novelties. 



Collections received from Dr. D. C. Graham indicate that he has 

 safely returned to his old field in western China and has resumed his 

 zoological activities in behalf of the Smithsonian Institution. Con- 

 tinuation of his former explorations has been planned in cooperation 

 with the recently established West China Museum. 



Dr. Alan Mozley, awarded the Walter Rathbone Bacon traveling 

 scholarship under the Smithsonian Institution for study of the land 

 and fresh-water moUuscan fauna of Siberia, had a successful season 

 during the summer of 1932. Through the cooperation of local 

 authorities he was enabled to carry out plans for a visit to the Akhmo- 

 linsk Steppe and to the taiga north of Tomsk. Thanks to the 

 generous assistance of the director of the limnological station at Lake 

 Baikal, he was able to spend nearly 2 months in the Baikal region, 

 where he circumnavigated the lake in the motor 3'^acht of the station 

 and made various land excursions. During the winter Dr. Mozley 

 worked on his collections at the University of Edinburgh, where 

 facilities were generously provided him. 



Dr. Herbert Friedmann, curator of birds, through the courtesy of 

 Hobart Ames, visited Grand Junction, Tenn., to study a curious red 

 phase among the quail found in that localit^^ Dr. A. Wetmore, 

 assistant secretary, during a trip to New Mexico and Arizona, col- 

 lected series of bird skins and skeletons. 



The beginning of the year found Dr. J. M. Aldrich, curator of 

 insects, west of the Rocky Mountains collecting Diptera, work that 

 was completed the middle of August. P. W. Oman, of the Bureau 

 of Entomology, made an extended trip by automobile through the 

 northwestern United States to obtain specimens of leafhoppers and 

 other homopterous insects, and returned with many valuable addi- 

 tions to the Museum collections. 



