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Gerrit S. Miller, jr., visited Jamaica from February to April with 

 the special object ol" determining whether or not bones of rodents or 

 other mammals that are now extinct might be found in the village 

 middens of the pre-Columbian Arawaks. Several kitchen middens 

 were investigated and much material bearing on the food habits of 

 the aboriginal inhabitants was obtained. Miscellaneous collections 

 of various kinds also were made, particularly of plants, reptiles, and 

 Arawak artifacts. 



Dr. A. Wetmore, accompanied by Frederick C. Lincoln, of the 

 Bureau of Biological Survey, collected from the middle of March 

 until the end of May in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, continu- 

 ing the biological survey of Hispaniola that has been under way 

 for several years. The first work was done in the region of Fort 

 Liberte in the north, where they were accompanied by S. W. Parish 

 and by M. W. Stirling, Chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 

 who were traveling with Mr. Krieger to examine archeological sites 

 that the latter had under investigation in that area. Keturning to 

 Port-au-Prince, Doctor Wetmore, through the courtesy of the United 

 States Marine Corps, made a reconnaissance by airplane of the La 

 Hotte Mountains of southwest Haiti, securing information that gov- 

 erned later travel by pack train in this area and the ascent of Pic de 

 Macaya, the highest mountain in this complex. On arrival again 

 at the coast a visit was made to He a Vache to supplement collections 

 made there last year by the Parish expedition. 



Returning to Port-au-Prince, Doctor Wetmore and Mr. Lincoln 

 traveled by auto through the mountains to Barahona, in the Domini- 

 can Republic, where they secured a small sloop and continued to 

 Beata Island, a little-known island where new forms of birds, rep- 

 tiles, and land shells were obtained and an extensive series of Indian 

 shell mounds was examined. Work in the Dominican Republic 

 was made possible through letters given by General Rafael Trujillo, 

 President of the Republic, to whom all thanks are due for this 

 invaluable assistance. 



Edward P. Henderson, assistant curator of mineralogy, under the 

 auspices of the Roebling fund, spent a month in the well-known 

 silver and nickel camps of Ontario, Canada. Starting from Toronto, 

 he first visited the cobalt district, 300 nules to the north, where rich 

 silver masses and their associations were acquired. Sudbury, the 

 most important nickel district in the world, was next visited. Here 

 a quantity of nickel ore and its minerals was obtained. The pegma- 

 tite dikes of the Province at Bancroft yielded recently described 

 materials lacking in our collections. The hearty cooperation of the 

 mining companies, quarry owners, and the staif of the Royal Ontario 

 Museum of Mineralogy was largely responsible for the success of 

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