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the Museum, collecting trips were made to Sonora, Mexico, by Mr. 

 W J McGee, of the Bureau of Ethnology; to the Philippine Islands 

 by Col. F. F. Hilder, of the same Bureau; to the Indian tribes on the 

 Upper Purus River, Brazil, by Prof. J. B. Steere, of Ann Arbor, 

 Michigan; to the Bororo Indians, a Tupian tribe dwelling near the head- 

 waters of the Paraguay River, Brazil, by the Rev. William A. Cook, 

 and to British Columbia and Alaska by Lieut. G. T. Emmons, U. S. 

 Navy. Dr. Roland Steiner, of Georgia, continued his investigations 

 of the quarries, workshops, and village sites of his own neighbor- 

 hood, near and at the mouth of Shoulderbone Creek and on Little 

 Kiokee River, and the large collection made there during the year is 

 now deposited in the Museum. 



Through the courtesy of the U. S. Fish Commissioner, Mr. W. H. 

 Ashmead was detailed in the spring of 1901 to accompany an expedi- 

 tion to the Hawaiian Islands, where at the close of the year he was 

 engaged in making extensive entomological collections. Dr. J. E. 

 Benedict was also permitted to join the Fish Commission steamer Fish 

 llmrl' during an exploration of the fishing banks in the Gulf of 

 Mexico opposite Anclote River, Florida, for the purpose of making- 

 preparations of marine invertebrates. 



During November and December, 1900, Mr. J. B. Henderson, jr., 

 of Washington, to whom the Museum is indebted for many previous 

 favors, made in the interest of the Division of Mollusks and entirely 

 at his own expense an important collecting trip to the islands of Haiti 

 and Jamaica, lasting about six weeks. He was accompanied by Mr. 

 C. T. Simpson. During the summer of 1900 Mr. M. W. Lyon, jr., 

 participated with Capt. Wirt Robinson, U. S. Army, in an expedition 

 to Venezuela, with the principal object of securing specimens of the 

 mammals and birds of that region, though attention was also given to 

 other groups of animals. For collecting mammals, Mr. Dane Coolidge, 

 by special arrangement, visited Italy, Sicily, and southern France, 

 and Mr. Gerrit S. Miller, jr., spent some time in the neighborhood of 

 Peterboro, New York. Fishes were collected at Key West, Florida, 

 by Mr. Barton A. Bean and Mr. William H. King. The expedition to 

 Cuba for the Pan-American Exposition, begun by Messrs. Palmer and 

 Riley in 1S00 and referred to in the last report, was completed early 

 in the year. 



The only important botanical field work was conducted in the States 

 of Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee by Mr. C. L. Pollard and Mr. 

 W. R. Maxon. 



Under the Department , of Geology, Mr. Frederic A. Lucas and Mr. 

 Alban Stewart visited several localities where mastodon bones had 

 been reported, with the object of securing a skeleton for the Pan- 

 American Exposition. A single fairly preserved one was obtained in 

 a locality in southern Michigan. Mr. Charles Schuchert spent consid- 



