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The department of mammalogy has begun the revision of its osteological col- 

 lections with reidentification and card-indexing, and also the work of restorage of 

 these collections in the new storage room where they will be for the first time in wholly 

 accessible shape for study. 



Mr. Vilhjalmur Stefansson returned to the Museum about the first of May 

 after two months in Europe chiefly in Rome where he delivered a paper at the 

 International Geographic Congress, and in London where he assembled oceano- 

 graphic and other scientific apparatus. The Stefansson Expedition, as now planned, 

 will consist of a scientific staff of fourteen men divided into two parties: one sailing 

 north from Herschel Island in the "Karluk," a 247-ton whaling vessel, and the second 

 east in a twenty-ton vessel fitted for cruising in small rocky waters. 



The northern party under Mr. Stefdinsson's leadership, with a captain and crew of fifteen 

 men, will be made up of six scientists, among whom will be Mr. W. T. McKinlay of the Uni- 

 versity of Glasgow, in charge of terrestrial magnetism; Mr. George Malloch, member of the 

 Canadian Geological Survey, geologist and specialist in strateography; and Mr. James 

 Murray of Glasgow, oceanographer for many years and co-worker of Sir John Murray, 

 member of the Sir Ernest Shackleton Antarctic Expedition, and recently of the Colombian 

 boundary survey of South America. 



The southern party under Dr. Rudolph M. Anderson, zoologist and second in command, 

 will have a personnel of eight men among whom the following are of note: Fritz Johansen, 

 biologist in the Department of Agriculture, Washington, with a record as member of the 

 Mylius-Erichsen East Greenland Expedition; Henri Beuchat, French anthropologist and 

 author; Dr. D. Jennes of Oxford, ethnologist with field experience in the South Sea Islands; 

 Dr. A. Forbes Mackay of the University of Edinburgh, experienced as a British naval surgeon 

 and as surgeon of the Shackleton Antarctic Expedition; and Mr. J. J. O'Neil of the Canadian 

 Geological Survey, mining geologist and specialist in copper deposits. 



The plan of the northern party includes three or four years' investigation of the 

 unexplored area north of western Canada and Alaska, to the end of securing com- 

 prehensive scientific data covering the region. It will use new land discovered, as a 

 base of supplies or will push east and establish a base on Prince Patrick Island. 

 From such base, exploration will move northward, in summer by boat and in winter 

 by sledge. The southern party with secondary base on Victoria Island will give 

 special study to those Eskimo tribes showing an admixture of European blood, 

 discovered by Mr. Stefansson on his previous expedition under the auspices of the 

 American Museum; as well as to the copper deposits also discovered and other 

 matters of scientific and economic interest. Because of the very liberal support of 

 the Canadian Government the expedition has been able to broaden both its geo- 

 graphic aims and the scope of its scientific research from the original plans. Mr. 

 Stefansson will remain at the Museum until the last of May and the expedition will 

 sail from Victoria sometime in June. 



Dr. C-E. A. Winslow has been appointed chairman of a commission which is 

 to spend $50,000 in the experimental study of ventilation problems during the next 

 four years. The other members of the commission are: Prof. F. S. Lee of the College 

 of Physicians and Surgeons, Prof. E. L. Thorndike of Columbia University, Prof. 

 E. B. Phelps of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. James Alexander 

 Miller and Mr. D. D. Kimball. The fund is part of the gift made by Mrs. Elizabeth 

 Milbank Anderson to the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor. 



Mr. Alanson Skinner, assistant curator in the department of anthropology, 

 is making collections for the Museum among the Western O jib way Indians of Long 

 Plains, Manitoba. 



