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The Museum also took part in another expedition to Africa, which 

 started from London soon after the beginning of the calendar year 

 1912, and was expected to remain in the field until the following 

 autumn. It was organized by Mr. Childs Frick, of New York, with 

 the view of making as complete a collection as possible of the ani- 

 mals of certain parts of Abyssinia and the adjacent territory, in- 

 cluding the northern part of British East Africa, somewhat north 

 of the region traversed by Col. Theodore Roosevelt in 1909-10, and 

 the expedition of Mr. Rainey. It was also intended to visit the 

 neighborhood of Lake Rudolf and to work along the shores of the 

 lake itself. Mr. Frick, by whom the undertaking was entirely 

 financed, was accompanied by Dr. E. A. Mearns, United States 

 Army (retired), associate in zoology of the National Museum, a 

 member of the Smithsonian African Expedition, and an experienced 

 field collector, and by Mr. Blick, and a physician. It was arranged 

 that Dr. Mearns should give special attention to and report upon 

 the birds obtained, and that half of the collection of this group 

 should become the property of the National Museum. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott, whose explorations in Malaysia, continuing 

 through a number of years, were so fruitful of results for the 

 Museum, has been recently in Kashmir, British India, from where 

 he sent some 600 specimens of mammals during last year. Still 

 interested, however, in extending our knowledge of the natural his- 

 tory of Borneo, where he has personally done much collecting, he 

 generously placed at the disposition of the Institution a sum of 

 money sufficient to send out and maintain a naturalist in the field 

 for a considerable period. Mr. H. C. Raven, who was selected to 

 make the trip, left New York about March 1, 1912. His work will 

 be mainly along the east coast, which is less known than other 

 parts of the island, and will have reference more especialW to the 

 vertebrate fauna. 



Dr. Theodore Lyman, of Harvard University, left this country in 

 May, 1912, on a hunting trip to the Altai Mountains, between Siberia 

 and Mongolia, which was expected to continue until some time in 

 September. He was accompanied by Mr. N. Hollister, assistant cura- 

 tor of mammals in the National Museum, whose collecting was to re- 

 late mainly to mammals and birds, under an arrangement whereby 

 the National Museum and the INIuseum of Comparative Zoology will 

 share mutually in the results. All of the expenses of the expedition 

 are being paid by Dr. Lyman, to whose generosity the Museum is 

 greatly indebted. 



Through the courtesy of the Canadian Government and of Dr. 

 A. O. "VNHieeler, president of the Alpine Club of Canada, the Smith- 

 sonian Institution wffs enabled, in the summer of 1911, to send a 

 small party of naturalists to accompany Dr. "Wlieeler on his topo- 



