6 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 60 
MR. GEORGE MIXTER’S COLLECTING TRIP TO LAKE BAIKAL 
Another collaborator of the National Museum, Mr. George Mixter, 
of Boston, Massachusetts, an experienced big-game hunter, volun- 
teered to collect large mammals for the Museum in the vicinity of 
Lake Baikal, Siberia, during the summer of 1912. The main object 
of Mr. Mixter’s trip was to secure specimens of the native bear 
and of the seal peculiar to Lake Baikal, neither of which was repre- 
sented in the collections of the National Museum. He succeeded 
Fic. 6.—Skull of a Siberian bear, from near Lake Baikal, collected by 
Mr. Mixter. Photograph by National Museum. 
in obtaining good specimens of both. The bear skull shown in figure 
6 is from his collection. 
DR. W. L. ABBOTT’S OPERATIONS IN CASHMERE 
Dr. W. L. Abbott, to whom reference has already been made, 
returned to Cashmere early in the spring of 1912, when he interested 
himself in trapping and studying the habits of the smaller mammals 
of that country. He sent to the National Museum many valuable 
specimens and much interesting information. 
