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1911 J Notes and News. 151 



It is with deep regret that we announce the serious illness of Mr. William 

 Dutcher, President of the National Association of Audubon Societies, who 

 was stricken with apoplexy at his home in Plainfield, New Jersey, on 

 October 19 last, This was followed by a long period of unconsciousness 

 and by paralysis of the right side. No complications having ensued, his 

 physicians have hope of his continued improvement. 



Mr. Roy C. Andrews, Assistant in Mammalogy at the American 

 Museum of Natural History, has recently returned from a trip around the 

 world in the interests of the Museum. He joined the scientific staff of the 

 'Albatross' in the Philippines in October, 1909, visiting during the next 

 five months various parts of the Dutch East Indies. During this cruise 

 he made an important collection of birds and mammals, besides obtaining 

 much valuable anthropological and other natural history material. Later 

 after the close of the 'Albatross' cruise, he spent six months in Japan at 

 the whahng stations, and secured skeletons of nearly all the species of large 

 whales and of some of the dolphins that frequent the coast of Japan. 



The American Museum of Natural History Stefansson-Anderson Expe- 

 dition to Arctic America left New York in April, 1908, for several years 

 of research in zoology and anthropology along the Arctic coast, Dr. R. M 

 Anderson being in special charge of the zoological work. During 1909 

 they explored westward to beyond the Colville River, and in 1910 returned 

 eastward to study the coast district as far as the Coppermine River. 

 Notwithstanding many difficulties and much hardship, their work has 

 been to a large degree successful. A few weeks since the collections made 

 in 1909 have reached the Museum, and include several hundred bird 

 skins, many nests and eggs, and a valuable collection of mammals, among 

 which are good series of white sheep and Barren Ground caribou. 



In the April Number of this journal (Auk, XXVII, 1910, pp. 241, 242^ 

 reference was made to the Kuser Asiatic Expedition, under the auspices 

 of the New York Zoological Society, giving some account of its organiza- 

 tion and purposes, and announcing the sailing of Mr. C. William Beebe 

 and Mrs. Beebe for London, en route to India. They were joined in 

 London by Mr. Bruce Horsfall as artist, and the party sailed direct for 

 Ceylon. After several weeks spent in Ceylon, a visit was made to the 

 Darjihng district of the Himalayas, and later to Borneo and Burma. 

 Mr. Horsfall returned in August, 1910, but Mr. and Mrs. Beebe will 

 remain till probably June or later of the present year, extending their 

 work to Cochin China, and probably also to Formosa, Sumatra and Java. 

 Thus far they have met with excellent success in obtaining specimens of 

 the Pheasants of the regions visited, and in investigations of the life his- 

 tories and ecology of the Phasianida?, which are the primary objects of the 

 expedition. 



