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dance with the most recent monographic treatments. To provide 

 room for the rapidly growing collection and adequate office and 

 laboratory space for members of the stafif, a large building" was 

 erected a few years ago. The phanerogamic herbarium occupies 

 three floors of one of the wings, and there is also a well-equipped 

 photographic laboratory which is generously placed at the disposal 

 of visiting botanists. 



The Berlin herbarium contains a number of recent South American 

 collections which are only scantily represented elsewhere. Among 

 these are the large collections of Weberbauer in Peru. Stitbel in 

 Colombia and Ecuador, Hieronymus and Lorentz in Argentina, Fie- 

 brig in Bolivia and Paraguay, and Stuckert and Ule in Brazil. Here 

 also are excellent sets of the Humboldt. Lehmann, Karsten, and 

 Sellow collections. 



In the brief time that Mr. Killip was able to spend at the British 

 Museum (Natural History) and the Royal Botanic Gardens, at Kew, 

 England, critical study of Passiflora and Bomarea alone was at- 

 tempted. These two genera are represented in both of the London 

 collections by exceedingly rich material, which has formed the basis 

 of important monographs. Approximately 70 specimens in various 

 groups were photographed. 



Returning from London to Paris by airplane, a single day was 

 spent at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle in reexamining certain 

 specimens. 



For the privilege of going over these European collections, thanks 

 are due Directors Le Comte, Briquet, Diels, Rendle, and Hill, of the 

 institutions visited. This work was greatly facilitated by the aid 

 generously given by members of the various stafifs. 



ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDIES IN SOUTHERN ASIA, JAVA, 

 AUSTRALIA, AND SOUTH AFRICA' 



In October, 1925. Dr. Ales Hrdlicka finished a seven-months' 

 journey of some 50,000 miles in the interests of Physical Anthro- 



' Thanks for effective aid, financial and otherwise, which made this expedi- 

 tion feasible are due to Dr. Hermon C. Bumpus, Consulting Director, and to 

 Mr. Seymour H. Knox, one of the Trustees, of the Buffalo Society of Natural 

 Sciences. A grateful acknowledgment for valuable aid with introductions or in 

 the work itself is due to the Hon. Robert Lansing, former Secretary of State; 

 to the British Government of India, to other official authorities, scientific men 

 and Museum officials of India, Java, Australia, and South Africa; to the 

 United States Consulates in these countries, and to many scientific and personal 

 friends, the list of whom would be too long to be enuiuerated. 



