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along the lines of their school work. The course consisted of six 
exercises—three on birds and three on insects—and embraced 
both laboratory and lecture work. The class met on Tuesday 
afternoons at four o’clock, during April and May, 35 being the 
average attendance. Owing to the absence on expeditions of 
Mr. Chapman and Professor Wheeler, arrangements were made 
with Mr. Jules M. Johnson, of the Morris High School, to conduct 
the course. 
THE Department of Anthropology is participating in several 
expeditions in the Far West. Dr. P. E. Goddard, Instructor in 
Anthropology in the University of California, has gone among 
the Sarcee Indians of Canada. These Indians have been the 
means of the transmission of culture from the Plains Indians to 
the Athapascans of the woodlands and possess a mixed civiliza- 
tion. The object of the expedition is to secure facts regarding 
a definite case of mixed cultures and to collect specimens which, 
taken in relation to the collections from related types now in the 
Museum, will illustrate the extent and nature of such mixture. 
Mr. Frank G. Speck will visit Indian Territory and make ethno- 
logical collections. Mr. Edward Sapir is doing linguistic work 
among the Chinook of the Columbia River Valley and investigat- 
ing the basketry decorations of the neighboring tribes. Dr. 
William Jones, Research Assistant in the Carnegie Institution of 
Washington, will visit the Algonquin Indians of the Great Lake 
region to continue his investigation of religious beliefs and 
practices. He will also strive to complete the collections in this 
Museum from that region. Miss Constance Goddard Du Bois 
will continue her studies of the music and mythology of the 
Indians of Southern California and make a special collection of 
basketry. 
THE specimens of rocks and ores, nearly 400 in number, 
which were collected by Dr. E. O. Hovey on his recent expe- 
dition into the Sierra Madre region of western Chihuahua, 
Mexico, have been received at the Museum and catalogued. 
These and the 400 excellent photographs obtained of the won- 
derful country traversed are now open to the inspection of those 
interested in the region. 
