Mr si: I'M .v/'.'ir.s' xorr.s :'.()0 



ri'ctMit (lisc(>\(MM('s of Mr. Stcl'iiiissoii li;i\«- made it certain tliat t liis cannot 

 hi' the tnu' explaiiiitiou and that the art of pottrry anioiij; the Kskinios 

 must havr hccn of ancient origin and at one time \ery widely distrihnted. 

 l-"nrthcrniore Mr. Stcfansson re])()rt,s that otlier ol)jects he (ind.s are siniihir 

 in type to tho.si> de.scrihed l)y I'rofes.sor Hoa.s, (hseoNcri'd hy Captain (leorj,'e 

 ("onier in ancient xillaue .sites in Southampton Ishmch Hudson Hay. 'I'hese 

 wci'c also similar toolijects recently discoxcrcd in (ii-ccnland, leadini; to the 

 conclusion that older types of Eskimo culture nuist ha\e heen nuicli more 

 uniform throniihont the entire stretch of Arctic America than at present. 

 Ml-. Stefansson's fii\d of similar ohjccts on the west side of Hudson Hay 

 makes it more prohahle that there was formerly hut a single type of Ivskimo 

 culture from Alaska to (ireenland. 



Thk Museiun has re(x-i\ed from Mr. -I. A. (Jrosshcck a '/\h of .some 

 twehe thousand specimens of (liomciridw. In recognition of this interest 

 in the Museum Mr. Grossbeck was elected a l''eIlow hy the l^xecutive 

 Connnittee at a recent meeting. 



In 1910 ^Fr. Roy ('. Andrews spent seven months in Japan, studying 

 and collecting specimens at the whaling stations. Not only did he secure a 

 large amount of \ ahiahle data as to the anatomy and life histories of various 

 species of cetaceans, hut also sent to the Museum the skeletons of six whales 

 and ten porpoises. There still remain however two species of large whales, 

 the California gray and the humphack, of which specimens could not be 

 secured. 



The California gray whale (Rnvhidnccfcs (jhiucus), in .la.])an called the 

 "devil fish" or " Koku kujira", is to the systematist one of the most 

 interesting of all cetaceans, combining as it does, characters common to 

 both the families of l)aleen whales. Moreover, it has never been carefully 

 studied and there is little reliable data extant relating to its habits and 

 external anatomy. Xo museinn in America possesses a complete skeleton 

 of this species, and the only places where the animals are being taken in 

 numbers is at the stations of the Toyo Hogei Kabushiki Kaisha in southern 

 Korea. To study and collect si)ecimens of this whale is the object of an 

 expedition which left the Museum for Korea on November 28. After 

 spending some two months at the whaling stations, Mr. Andrews will go 

 into the northern mountains. The region is said to be one of dense forests 

 seldom cut by trails, and exceedingly difficult to penetrate. Both manunals 

 and birds will be collected. 



O.v November twenty-first, Dr. Y. K. Lutz and Mr. ('. W. Leng returned 

 from a three weeks' expedition into .southern Florida to collect material 



