THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 



and partly by Mr. Archer M. Huntington and Mrs. C. P. Hunt- 

 ington. Attention has been paid particularly to securing infor- 

 mation regarding the rapidly vanishing tribes, and to securing 

 for the Museum specimens illustrating their culture. This work 

 is still in progress, and needs vigorous prosecution. The princi- 

 pal collections obtained through these researches are from the 

 Eskimo of Baffin Bay and Hudson Bay, from various tribes of 

 the Plains, and from California and Oregon. 



The political events of the last few years seemed to make it 

 desirable that the Museum should expand its activity beyond 

 the limits of our continent. It seemed one of the necessary edu- 

 cational functions of the Museum to show to the pubhc the forms 

 of culture developed in foreign continents. This led to the estab- 

 lishment of a Chinese section, the means for which were given 

 by an anonymous donor. The work of making these collections 

 has been intrusted to Dr. Berthold Laufer, who is spending a 

 number of years in China, collecting for the Museum. 



The Department is carrying on its work in many directions. 

 It is constantly adding to its collections, and is contributing to 

 the advancement of science by numerous publications based on 

 its expeditions. The work that the Department has to do is 

 extensive and at the same time most urgent, because the native 

 races and their remains are disappearing rapidly before the 

 advance of our civilization. f. b. 



The expeditions for fossil horses on the William C. Whitney 

 fund, which were so successful last season, will be continued this 

 year in eastern Colorado, following the unexplored portions of 

 the Protohippus Beds in the hopes of securing a complete skeleton 

 of this usually fragmentary animal. At the same time a vigorous 

 search will be made in western Nebraska for the same fossil 

 species of horse, in the locality where Professor Leidy first dis- 

 covered this animal. An expedition for Cretaceous Dinosaurs 

 will go to either Wyoming or Montana and the famous Bone 

 Cabin Quarry in central Wyoming will be further explored for 

 large Jurassic Dinosaurs. 



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