REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 45 



Currie were members of a party sent to British Columbia by the Car- 

 negie Museum, of Pittsburg, and returned with large collections of 

 insects. During a trip to Europe Mr. Charles Schuchert secured 

 some valuable fossils, and, while seeking material for the Louisiana 

 Purchase Exposition, Dr. George P. Merrill obtained for the Museum 

 many geological specimens on the Pacific coast and in Canada and 

 western Mexico. 



Having been designated by the State Department and the Smith- 

 sonian Institution as delegates to the International Congress of 

 Zoology to be held at Berne, Switzerland, during the summer of 1904, 

 Dr. Leonhard Stejneger and Mr. Gerrit S. Miller, jr., left Wash- 

 ington in May, with the object also of making collections of mammals 

 and reptiles in Europe, and of identifying unclassified material by 

 comparison with specimens in certain European museums. A num- 

 ber of short collecting trips were also made by other members of 

 the staff. 



There have been many explorations by private individuals and by 

 other Government bureaus through which the Museum has profited. 

 A few of these maj r be noted. Dr. William L. Abbott has continued 

 his field work in Sumatra, the Mentawei Archipelago, and along the 

 coast and on the islands east of Sumatra, and, as usual, has contributed 

 his specimens to the National Museum. In connection with the inves- 

 tigations of the Bureau of Fisheries. Dr. Hugh M. "Smith has visited 

 Japan, and Dr. B. W. Evermann, Prof. Charles IT. Gilbert, and 

 Prof. O. P. Jenkins have made extensive explorations in Hawaii. 

 The natural history bureaus of the Department of Agriculture, and 

 especially the Biological Survey, have made important collections in 

 different parts of the United States. Field work under the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology, productive of collections, has been carried on 

 b} r Dr. J. Walter Fewkes in the West Indies, and by Mr. James 

 Mooney, Mr. Gerard Fowke, Mrs. M. C. Stevenson, and Mr. J. R. 

 Swanton in the West. Reference should also be made to the impor- 

 tant work conducted in the Philippine Islands by Dr. E. A. Mearns, 

 U. S. Army, one of the most frequent contributors to the Museum 

 collections. 



Collecting outfits were supplied to the following persons outside of 

 the Museum staff: Mr. Vinal N. Edwards, Woods Hole, Massachu- 

 setts; Mr. L. H. Ayme, New York City; Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, Bureau 

 of American Ethnology; Dr. Frank Baker, National Zoological Park; 

 Mr. O. M. Meyncke, Belfield, Virginia; Dr. S. P. Bartlett, Quincy. 

 Illinois; Mr. R. S. Johnson, Bellevue, Iowa; Mr. Andrew Allison. 

 Iukaj Mississippi; Mr. E. R. Hodson, Jasper, Texas; Mr. H. D. Bur- 

 rail, Beaumont, Texas; Mr. Ward Nedwah. Lejolla, California; Dr. 

 J. C. Thompson, U. S. Navy, Bremerton, Washington; Mr. Richard 



