132 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1914. 
Extension of National Zoological Park.—The sundry civil act for 
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914, approved June 23, 1913, con- 
tains an item of $107,200 for the purchase of the land lying between 
the present western boundary of the Zoological Park and Connecticut 
Avenue, between Cathedral Avenue and Klingle Road. This ex- 
tension will give the park a frontage of about 1,750 feet on Con- 
necticut Avenue and a considerable area of quite level land much 
needed for paddocks for bison, deer, and other ruminant animals. 
The proposed purchase embraces over 10 acres, and will bring 
the total area of the park to about 180 acres. 
Work under the Harriman trust fund—Under the special trust 
fund of $12,000 per annum established by Mrs. E. H. Harriman 
for his investigations in natural history and ethnology, Dr. C. Hart 
Merriam is conducting research work in Washington, D. C., and in 
California. His principal work during the year has been on the 
Big Bears of America, a group he has been studying for upward 
of 20 years, and concerning which he now has a monograph nearly 
ready for publication. In furtherance of this study, specimens have 
been generously placed at his disposal, not only by numerous sports- 
men and hunters but also by all of the larger museums of America, 
including the Government museums of Canada at Ottawa and 
Victoria. 
Award of Loubat Prize to Dr. John R. Swanton—tIn 1893 the 
Duc de Loubat founded two prizes to be awarded every five years 
for— 
“The best work printed and published in the English language 
on the history, geography, archeology, ethnology, philology, or nu- 
mismatics of North America. ‘The competition for such prizes shall 
be open to all persons.” 
Dr. John R. Swanton, one of the ethnologists of the Bureau of 
American Ethnology, has recently been awarded one of these prizes, 
which carries with it a money consideration of $400, for his two 
works published by the bureau entitled “ Tlingit Myths and Texts” 
and “Indian Tribes of the Lower Mississippi Valley and Adjacent 
Coasts of the Gulf of Mexico.” 
Exhibits—After informal remarks, in which Vice President Mar- 
shall urged an appropriation for preserving the language of the 
Miami Indians from extinction and Dr. Bell spoke of Mr. Abbot’s 
work in connection with the reduction of the solar constant, the sec- 
retary called the board’s attention to some special exhibits of an- 
thropological, mineral, and biological material in the adjoining 
rooms, which also included the pyrheliometer used by Mr. Abbot. 
