MUSEUM NEWS NOTES 77 
Miocene of Nebraska, in charge of Dr. W. D. Matthew and Mr. Albert 
Thomson. 
Mr. Frank M. CuHapman, Curator of Ornithology, and the bird 
artist, Mr. L. A. Fuertes, are in Florida collecting material for the 
habitat groups illustrating the Spoon-bill and the Ivory-billed Wood- 
pecker, as was noted in the April JourNAL. 
Mr. Roy C. Anprews of the Department of Mammalogy has gone 
to Vancouver Island for the purpose of spending several months at the 
whaling stations on that coast. His work will be the securing of photo- 
graphs, notes and measurements, which will furnish the data for a 
preliminary study of the Pacific species of whales. The entire scientific 
knowledge of these forms rests on the observations of Captain Scammon, 
made more than thirty years ago, which have never been verified. If 
conditions are favorable, an endeavor will also be made to add several 
skeletons of the Pacific whales to the Museum collection of Cetacea. 
Hon. Mason MircHe.t, from whom we have already received val- 
uable material, as noted in the JouRNAL, continues to act for us as'a 
volunteer collector of mammals in northern China. 
Mr. ArrHuR DECARLE SowWERBY of Tai-Yuan-Fu, Shansi, China, 
has started upon a journey of at least six months’ duration through east- 
ern Asia, in the course of which he will collect small mammals for our 
Department of Mammalogy. 
Con. A. E. Warp of the British Army is collecting birds and small 
mammals for this Museum gratuitously in Kashmir. Col. Ward has 
already sent us one shipment of specimens all of which were new to our 
collections. 
CapTain B. D. CLEVELAND of New Bedford, Mass., is soon to start 
upon a sealing and whaling expedition to the Antarctic Seas. He has 
been commissioned to procure for the Museum seals, whales, penguins 
and other animals making their home in and around those waters. 
Captain M. L. Criuins, U. S. A., is collecting small mammals 
and birds for us in the Western States as a volunteer assistant. 
