78 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 
Mr. Wittram Ricwarpson of Matagalpa, Nicaragua, is collecting 
mammals and birds in that region for the Museum. He has sent in 
some valuable material including specimens of the harpy eagle, the 
otter, the brocket deer and many rare carnivores and rodents. 
For the Department of Anthropology, Mr. Harlan I. Smith will 
continue in Wyoming and Idaho the archeological research which 
he began last year; Dr. R. H. Lowie leaves New York this month for 
the Mackenzie River region north of Lake Athabasca, where he will 
begin anthropological studies among the Athabascan tribes, and during 
the latter part of the season he will continue work already begun among 
the Northern Plains Indians of the United States; Mr. Alanson Skinner 
will collect anthropological data and specimens in the James Bay region” 
of Canada, and, particularly, among the Indian tribes of Labrador; 
Mr. Gilbert L. Wilson takes up anthropological work among the Man- 
dan and Hidatsa Indians of North Dakota; Dr. J. R. Walker is devoting 
his time to the study of special points in the ethnology of the Dakota 
Indians, chiefly on Pine Ridge Reservation, and Professor Howard 
Richards is in China gathering anthropological material. 
Hon. Hues M. Smirx of Washington, D. C., is doing volunteer 
collecting of anthropological material in the Philippine Islands for us 
in connection with the biological survey of the group which has been 
undertaken by the Bureau of Fisheries of the Department of Commerce 
and Labor. 
CaptTalN GEORGE CoMER is continuing his valuable work among 
the Eskimo of the Hudson Bay region, whence he has already brought 
the Museum much important material. 
Mr. V. Ster<nsson, the Arctic explorer, together with Mr. R. M. 
Anderson, left New York about the middle of April for an expedition 
down the Mackenzie River to its mouth and eastward along the coast 
of the Arctic Ocean. Mr. Stefansson will study the ethnology of the 
Eskimo tribes inhabiting the region, and Mr. Anderson will make zoé- 
logical studies and collections along the route traversed. 
Mr. G. A. McTavise# is collecting anthropological material and 
insects in Tahiti and Mr. W. H. R. Rivers, an English anthropologist, 
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