4S REPOET OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, L905. 



Maj. Edgar A. Mearns, Surgeon. U. S. Army, stationed with the 

 troops in Mindanao, gave largely of his time to collecting in the same 

 lines as Doctor Abbott, and his collection, presented to the Museum, 

 is very rich in ethnological objects of the Moros and in well-preserved 

 specimens of the mammals and birds of this interesting region. 

 Besides the large island, Doctor Mearns also visited Dinagat, Basilau, 

 Sulu, and Cagayan Snhi. His most important discoveries of ani- 

 mals were made on the upper slopes of Mount Apo, whose zoological 

 novelties have been described elsewhere. 



Several expeditions sent out by the Bureau of American Ethnol- 

 ogy have served to enrich the collections to a very material degree. 

 Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, detailed by the Museum, spent about ten weeks 

 among the Apaches and Pimas of southern Arizona and New Mexico, 

 and while conducting physical and physiological studies of the Indian 

 children and completing medical researches previously begun, found 

 opportunity for making a large collection of archeological and eth- 

 nological objects. Continuing his researches to determine the 

 range of Antillean culture, Dr. J. Walter Fewkes actively prosecuted 

 his studies during the winter at the sites of ancient Totonac semi- 

 civilization in the State of Vera Cruz, Mexico. Mrs. Matilda Coxe 

 Stevenson spent the greater part of the year in continuing her inves- 

 tigations among the Zuiii Indians of New Mexico, in the course of 

 which a large and valuable collection was made. 



On the 1st of June the assistant curator of ethnology, Dr. Walter 

 Hough, took the field in Arizona and New Mexico to conduct the 

 Museum-Cates Expedition of 1905, with the object of further deter- 

 mining the distribution of the ancient pueblo peoples in the Tulerosa 

 region, a work begun in 1903. This expedition promises a large 

 collection. 



As elsewhere noted, the assistant curator of mammals, Mr. Gerrit S. 

 Miller, jr., and the curator of reptiles, Mr. Leonhard Stejneger, spent 

 most of the summer of 11)04 in held investigations in Europe. After 

 some collecting in the vicinity of Genoa, Italy, Mr. Miller proceeded to 

 the region of the Alps for the purpose of instituting comparisons 

 between the vertical distribution of life in that area with the life zones 

 of the mountains of east ern North America. A large number of speci- 

 mens, mainly of mammals, birds, reptiles, and plants, were secured, 

 and many photographs were taken. Headquarters were established 

 successively at Aix-les-Bains, Geneva, St. ( Vrgue, Chamonix, Zermatt, 

 Grindelwald, Vitznau, and Goschenen, from which places trips were 

 made up the neighboring slopes. 



The head curator of biology, Dr. F. W. True, made a number of 

 excursions near the close of the year to the Calvert Cliffs and points 

 on the Patuxent River, Maryland, and also to Virginia, for the pur- 

 pose of collecting specimens of fossil cetaceans and observing their 



