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Pueblo peoples were presented by Charles L, Bernheimer, of New 

 York City. The Archeological Society of Washington deposited a 

 collection of flint and bone implements from caves near Sergeac, Dor- 

 dogne, France, collected in 1930 during work of the American 

 School of Prehistoric Research. A series of stone artifacts recovered 

 at Monasukapanough, a prehistoric Indian village in Albemarle 

 County, Va., was presented by D. I. Bushnell, jr. 



Biology. — The most important accession in the department of 

 biology, and one of the most important from a scientific standpoint 

 that has come to the Museum in recent years, was the Barnes col- 

 lection of Lepidoptera, purchased by a special appropriation of 

 $50,000 to the Department of Agriculture and transferred by that 

 department to the National Museum. This collection, consisting 

 principally of moths and butterflies from North America, was 

 assembled by Dr. William Barnes, of Decatur, 111., during a lifetime 

 of endeavor at an expense of several hundred thousand dollars, and 

 is rich in material of value to the specialist. 



Dr. Paul Bartsch, curator of mollusks, traveling under the Walter 

 Rathbone Bacon scholarship of the Smithsonian Institution, ob- 

 tained extensive collections of mollusks from the West Indies. Ad- 

 ditional important specimens in several groups have come from the 

 field activities of Dr. David C. Graham in China and of Dr. Hugh 

 M. Smith in Siam. Large and interesting series of specimens of 

 various kinds were obtained by Dr. H. C. Kellers, United States 

 Navy, while a surgeon on the United States Naval Observatory eclipse 

 expedition to the island of Niuafoou in the Pacific, being the first 

 material to be received by the Museum from that area. The 

 National Geographic Society presented a large collection of birds, 

 mammals, reptiles, and plants obtained by E. G. Holt, as leader of 

 an expedition to the boundary region between Venezuela and Brazil. 

 Much of this collection represents species not found hitherto in the 

 national collections. 



Doctor Wetmore, assisted by F. C. Lincoln, of the Biological Sur- 

 vey, obtained interesting collections, chiefly of birds and reptiles, in 

 Haiti and the Dominican Republic. A collection of 3,800 eggs and 

 12 nests of North American birds was presented by Gov. C. D. Buck, 

 of Delaware. A further collection of birds was obtained by Doctor 

 Wetmore in Spain during field work in the summer of 1930. The 

 division of birds received 16 genera new to its collections, as well as 

 330 species and subspecies not previously represented, a notable addi- 

 tion to these large collections. Two eggs of the California condor, 

 a species near extinction in the wild state, were received fi'om the 

 National Zoological Park. 



A large sailfish caught by Hon. William R. Wood near the island 

 of Sonora, Pearl Island group, Panama, was presented by Mr. Wood 



