6 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 6b 



MR. GEORGE MIXTER'S COLLECTING TRIP TO LAKE BAIKAL 



Another collaborator of the National Museum, Mr. George Mixter, 

 of Boston, Massachusetts, an experienced big-game hunter, volun- 

 teered to collect large mammals for the Museum in the vicinity of 

 Lake Baikal, Siberia, during the summer of 19 12. The main object 

 of Mr. Mixter's trip was to secure specimens of the native bear 

 and of the seal peculiar to Lake Baikal, neither of which was repre- 

 sented in the collections of the National Museum. He succeeded 



Fig. 6. — Skull of a Siberian bear, from near Lake Baikal, collected by 

 Mr. Mixter. Photograph by National Museum. 



in obtaining good specimens of both. The bear skull shown in figure 

 6 is from his collection. 



DR. \Y. L. ABBOTT'S OPERATIONS IN CASHMERE 

 Dr. VV. L. Abbott, to whom reference has already been made, 

 returned to Cashmere early in the spring of [912, when lie interested 

 himself in trapping and studying the habits of the smaller mammals 

 of that country. He sent to the National Museum many valuable 

 specimens and much interesting information. 



