EXPLORING AND FIELD PARTIES OF 1911 



The following flfty-ono localities rejiresont points at which exploration or field study and 

 collectinK have been in progress during the past year. Of this number forty-four stand for 

 the work of definiti' exploring or collecting parties sent out by the Museum and acting imder 

 the direction of members of the Scientific Staff, while the remaining seven places represent 

 the work of colhctors. who are agents of the Museum in that they are authorized to gather 

 together collections for purchase by the institution. All exploration work of the Museum 

 must be carried on with Museum funds and is not in any way supported by the City. 



Vertebrate Pal.eontology 



1. Red Deer River. Alberta. Cretaceous and Lower Eocene Deposits. Barnum IJrown. 



2. Wyoming Eocene deposits. Walter (iranger. 



3. Miocene dei)o.sits near head of Xiol)rara River, -\lbert Thomson. 



4. Pleistocene fo.ssils at various jioints in Texas. Barnum Brown. 



5. and 7. Eocene fo.ssils in Louisiana. Mississippi and Alabama. Barnum Brown. 

 8 and 9. Districts in Horida examined for fossil mammals by Barnum Brown. 



10, 11. 14, and l.o. Pleistocene fossils at points in Mexico. Barnum Brown. 

 12 and 1.3. Cuba near Caribarien in the north and Cienfuegos in the south. Barnum 

 Brown. 



Mammalogy and Ornithology 



1. Arctic Expedition in the field since 1908. Zoological Survey. R. ^L Anderson. 



2 Lower California Albatross Expedition for fl.shery. oceanographic and biological 

 investigations. Charles H. Townsend. 



3 and 4. Western Venezuela and northeastern Colombia. ^L A. Carriker. .Jr , agent. 



5. Panama. W. B. Richardson, Collector. 



6. Cauca region, western Colombia. Biolcgicil survey. Frank M. Chapman. 



7. Turkestan. Local collector, agent of the Museum. 



8. Japan and Korea. Study and Collection of whales. Roy C. Andrews. 



9. Weihsien, Shantung, northern China. Paul D. Bergen, agent of the Museum. 



10. British East Africa. Special study for lialjitat group of t'lephaiits. Carl E. Akeley. 

 ll.'_ Congo Region. In the field since 1!)()9. Zoological survey with reference first to 



mammals and birds and second to ethnological study, to invertebrates, fishes 



and reptiles. Herbert Lang and James Chapin. 



Invertebrate Zoology 



1. Nahant, !Mass. Tide-pool fauna. R. W. Miner. 



2. Black Moimtains, N. C. Insects. Hoffman Expedition, A\'illiiim Beutenmiiller. 



3. Florida. Exploration and collecting. F^. K. Lutz and C. W. Leng. 



4. Jamaica. Insects: problems of distribution. J. A. Gro.ssbeck. 



5. Dominica. Problems of evolution. H. F]. Crampton, R. W. Miner and F. E. Lutz. 



6. Biological survey, British Guiana. H. E. Crampton and F. E. Lutz; Brazil to Mt. 

 Roraima, H. E. Crampton. 



Anthropology 



1. Arctic F^xpedition. Eskimos, especially of unexplored Coppermine Region. V. 

 Stcfdnsson. 



2. Sitka and Alaskan Coast. Tlingit Indians. W. S. Taylor and Lieut. G. T. Emmons. 



3. Saskatchewan. Chipewyan Reservation. Phonetic and ethnological. P. E. Goddard. 



4. Alberta, Sarsi Reservation. Linguistic and ethnological study. P. E. Goddard. 



5. North Dakota. Ft. Berthold Reservation. Material culture. G. L. Wilson, agent. 



6. Montana, Crow Reservation. Societies and ritualistic ceremonies. R. H. Lowie. 



7. South Dakota. Pine Ridge Reservation. Clark W^issler and J. R. Walker, agent. 



8. Wisconsin, Menomini Reservation. Societies, medicine bundles. Alanson Skinner. 



9. Paterson, N. J. Rock shelters of prehistoric man. ]Max Sclu-abisch, Museum agent. 



10. Oklahoma, Kiowa Apache Reservation. Linguistic study. P. E. Goddard. 



11. Santa Fe, N. M. Material culture and art, Rio Grande Pueblo Indians. H. J. Spinden. 



12. Tucson, Ariz. Textile arts of Pajiago and Pima Indians. M. L. Kissell. 



13. Mexico City. Reconnaissance in archaeology. H. J. Spinden. 



Geology and Invertebrate Pal.«ontology 



1. RiLssell, N. Y, Field work for glacial pot hole. 



2. Lancaster, Penn. Field collection of Cambrian trilobites. 



3 and 4. Arizona. Field study of meteor crater and petrified forests. E. O. Hovey. 

 5. BLsbee, Ariz. Queen Copper mine for mine model and cave E. O. Hovey. 



Ichthyology and Herpetology 



1. Districts in Ohio. Collections of Devonian fossil fishes. L. Hussakof. 



