NO. 4 COOPERATIVE WORK OF THE INSTITUTION I3 



Harriman Alaska Expedition, — By invitation of the late Edward 

 H. Harriman, a number of naturalists joined him in an expedition 

 to Alaska in the summer of 1899. The National Museum was 

 represented by Dr. W. H. Dall, Mr. F. V. Coville, and Mr. R. Ridg- 

 way, who made collections in their respective fields. From Seattle 

 the party proceeded to various points on the coast of Alaska, mak- 

 ing occasional trips inland, and^lso touched at Hall Island, St. Law- 

 rence Island, and St. Matthew Island in Bering Sea, stopping also 

 at Plover Bay, Siberia. The expedition was not operated on a 

 schedule planned for making natural history investigations, and 

 stops at most of the points were quite brief, but Mr. Ridgway was 

 able to secure 319 specimens of birds and a series of eggs, from 

 various localities. No report on these has been published, but rec- 

 ords have been incorporated in various volumes, and one new form 

 described. 



Doctor Coville, assisted by other members of the expedition, made 

 extensive collections of plants. These, supplemented by earlier col- 

 lections in the National Herbarium, and by the results of subsequent 

 field work by several Government departments, incidental to a study 

 of the geography and natural resources of Alaska, have been studied 

 critically by several botanists, and the final results brought together 

 for publication as volumes 6 and 7 of the Harriman Alaska series, 

 now under control of the Smithsonian Institution. 



The Zoological Expedition of Dr. Theodore Lyman to the Altai 

 Mountains, Siberia and Mongolia. — During the summer of 1912, by 

 the invitation of Dr. Theodore Lyman, of Harvard University, the 

 National Museum was enabled to participate, in cooperation with 

 the Aluseum of Comparative Zoology, in a zoological expedition to 

 the Altai Mountains of Siberia and Mongolia. The expedition was 

 under the personal direction of Doctor Lyman, and the National 

 Museum was represented by Mr. N. HoUister, assistafit curator of 

 mammals. The party left America in May and returned in Septem- 

 ber. From the last Russian outpost near the Mongolian border, 

 Kosh-Agatch, the frontier range to the southward was explored for 

 a month. The collecting was done chiefly on the Siberian side of 

 the range, but expeditions were made to the Mongolian slopes for 

 great game, and down to the Suok Plains, in the country of the 

 Kirghiz. On the return trip, stops were made on the Chuisaya Steppe 

 and in the heavily forested Altais between the desert and the great 

 Siberian plains. 



The collections of mammals were worked up by Mr. Hollister; the 

 birds were studied by Doctor Bangs at Cambridge. The specimens 



