94 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 
of the Mackenzie River and the adjacent country, under the auspices of 
this Museum and the Geological Survey of Canada, reports the success- 
ful arrival of the party at Smith’s Landing on the Slave River, from which 
point they were planning to push on to MacPherson in time to make 
connections with the mail leaving there about the middle of July. The 
expedition was organized for the purpose of making scientific studies 
of the Eskimo of the country, of procuring as exhaustive collections as 
possible illustrating not only the material cultures of the uncivilized 
tribes of the region, but also the zodlogical conditions which prevail 
there, and of increasing our knowledge of the geological formations of 
that portion of the world. ‘The expedition will begin its return journey 
during the summer of 1909. 
Mr. Roy C. ANprReEws, of the Department of Mammalogy, returned 
to the Museum September 10 after spending several months among 
the whaling stations of Vancouver Island and vicinity. He reports 
that he has secured a fine skeleton of a Humpback Whale, together with 
a complete set of baleen. He measured, photographed and took full 
descriptive notes upon more than seventy five whales representing 
four species, paying particular attention to their external and osteological 
characters with a view to showing individual variation. ‘There being 
a scarcity of Sulphurbottom Whales at Victoria, B. C., Mr. Andrews 
went to Kyuquot, on the other side of Vancouver Island, where he 
studied not only these animals but also an exceptionaily large Sperm 
Whale. Before returning to the Museum he visited Admiraity Island, 
Alaska, where Finback Whales were so plentiful that he saw 200 of them 
in one school. 
DuRING his recent trip to Florida, Mr. Chapman secured a series 
of moving pictures of pelicans on Pelican Island, showing the habits of 
the birds during the nesting period. These pictures will be of particular 
interest, as evidencing the results of the protection which has been ac- 
corded the birds for the past five years. 
