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devoted friend, who did much to add to the collections of the Museum, 

 and long served as Honorary Curator of Textiles, Timepieces, and 

 Ivory Carvings. His loss is irreparable. Professor Charles Rochester 

 Eastman and Herbert Huntington Smith are two others whose names 

 are indelibly linked with the development of the Carnegie Museum, 

 and they both were summoned from life under tragic circumstances. 

 Brief biographies of these friends of the institution and former asso- 

 ciates of the Director will be given elsewhere in this issue of the 

 Annals. 



In spite of the financial embarrassment under which we labored 

 during the fiscal year, which closed on March 31, 191 9, there were 

 some notable additions made to the collections in the Museum during 

 that period. 



One hundred and twenty-six mammals were added, seventy-nine 

 representing the fauna of North America, the remainder being from 

 South America. We have over four thousand five hundred mammals 

 in the Museum. 



The collection of birds was increased by the addition of six thousand 

 and eighty-five specimens. Thirty-two specimens represent species 

 from North America, the remainder are specimens from portions of 

 South America, which have hitherto been little explored, or only 

 imperfectly represented in the museums of the world. Our birds 

 number about seventy thousand specimens. 



Our collection of recent reptiles was notably augmented as the result 

 of the journey undertaken by Dr. L. E. Grififin through New Mexico, 

 Arizona, and southern California. There are not far from eight 

 thousand specimens now in the collection, principally from North 

 America, although South America is also represented, and we have 

 some material from other continents. 



The acquisition of a representative collection of the fresh-water fishes 

 of the island of Formosa through the kindness of Mr. Matsumitsu 

 Oshima of the Institute of Science which is maintained by the govern- 

 ment of that island, is noteworthy. Our collection of fishes aggre- 

 gates over fifteen thousand specimens. 



Numerous mollusca, principally from the Mississippi Valley were 

 acquired, and a great deal of important work was done during the 

 year by Drs. Ortmann and Sterki in determining and classifying 

 material already obtained in former years. The collection of moUusks 



