134 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1913. 



to the people who contributed the money for paying the propor- 

 tionate share of the expenses of the three men sent out by the Smith- 

 sonian with Col. Roosevelt. 



"The collections, when received, were distributed to the various 

 departments of the National Museum to which they pertained; the 

 birds were sent to the bird department, the large animals to the 

 mammal department, the plants to the botanical department, and so 

 on. A number of groups of the large mammals have been prepared, 

 and a number of individual specimens mounted for exhibition pur- 

 poses. The greater portion of the specimens have been placed in 

 the study series, and the duplicates will be distributed by exchange 

 or otherwise. 



" The groups of large mammals now mounted will shortly be 

 placed on exhibition in the new museum mammal hall where the 

 larger animals will be exhibited. Those that were on exhibition have 

 been temporarily withdrawn, in order to assign them to their proper 

 place in the classification in the hall, which is closed temporarily 

 pending the arrangement of the cases containing the specimens. 



" It now seems an opportune time to make a final statement relat- 

 ing to the expedition, and with this in view the secretary recently 

 communicated with the parties who contributed to the fund, and has 

 thus far received replies from the following that they have no objec- 

 tion to their names being given to the public. In this connection the 

 secretary wishes to state that up to this week Col. Roosevelt has not 

 known who the contributers were, with the exception of Mr. Carnegie 

 and possibly one or two personal friends. 



"It has not been the custom of the Institution to publish the 

 names of contributors to research work or expeditions conducted 

 under its direction until such enterprise had been completed, and only 

 then when the contributor had no objection to such publication, 



" The contributors include Mr. Edward D. Adams, of New York 

 City ; Hon. Robert Bacon, of Boston, Mass. ; Mr. Cornelius N. Bliss, 

 of New York City; Mr. James Campbell, of St. Louis, Mo.; Mr. 

 W. Bayard Cutting, of New York City; Mr. Andrew Carnegie, of 

 New York City; Mr. Cleveland H. Dodge, of New York City; Mr. 

 E. H. Gary, of New York City ; Mr. John Hays Hammond, of Wash- 

 ington, D. C. ; Col. H. L. Higginson, of Boston, Mass. ; Mr. Hennen 

 Jennings, of Washington, D. C. ; Mr. J. S. Kennedy, of New York 

 City; Mr. Ralph King, of Cleveland, Ohio; Hon. George von L. 

 Meyer, of Washington, D. C. ; Mr. D. O. Mills, of New York City ; 

 Hon. T. H. Newberry, of Michigan ; Mr. L. L. Nunn, of Provo, Utah ; 

 Mr. H. C. Perkins, of Washington, D. C. ; Mr. George W. Perkins, of 

 New York City ; Mr. Henry Phipps, of New York City ; Mrs. 'Wliite- 

 law Reid, of New York City; Hon. Elihu Root, of Wasliington, 



