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A second collection of living Neotropical animals was brought to 

 the park by Dr. William M. Mann, of the Bureau of Entomology, 

 United States Department of Agriculture, who visited Honduras in 

 the spring of 1920. Dr. Mann's duties in other lines naturally 

 absorbed most of his time, but he succeeded in landing in good con- 

 dition a number of valuable animals. His collection included pacas, 

 agoutis, kinkajous. squirrels, a mantled howler monkey, and some 

 reptiles, among which was a specimen of Rossignon's snapping turtle, 

 a species rarely taken by collectors. 



Other valuable animals were collected and presented to the park 

 by Hon. Henry D. Baker, American Consul at Trinidad, British West 

 Indies, and by Mr. Isaac Ellison, of Singapore, Straits Settlements. 

 Mr. Ellison succeeded in landing and placing in the park a thrifty 

 young male orang-utan, three years old. This is one of the most 

 interesting and valuable gifts received in many years. The animal 

 has now become thoroughly adapted to his new home and promises 

 to become a most unusually attractive addition to the collection. 



The National Zoological Park also shared in the large collection of 

 African animals collected and brought to America for the New York- 

 Zoological Society by Mr. A. K. Haagner, director of the National 

 Zoological Gardens at Pretoria. South Africa. Included in the lot 

 received at Washington are a lechwe antelope and a specimen of the 

 Rhodesian baboon, recently discovered and described by Mr. Haagner. 



ANTHROPOLOGICAL EXPEDITION TO THE FAR EAST 



Under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution and in connec- 

 tion with the Rockefeller Foundation and the Peking Union Medical 

 College, Dr. Ales Hrdlicka made an extensive trip to the Far East 

 during the first half of 1920. The objects of this trip were continua- 

 tion of the studies relating to the origin of the American aborigines ; 

 examination of the oldest skeletal and other human remains in Japan ; 

 the furthering of the interests of physical and medical anthropology 

 in China ; and a personal visit to the rapidly disappearing full-blooded 

 Hawaiians. The countries visited included Japan, Korea, Manchuria, 

 northern China, the boundary of southern Mongolia, and the islands 

 of Oahu and Hawaii in the Hawaiian Archipelago. 



In Japan especial attention was given on one hand to the physical 

 characteristics of the people, and on the other to the prehistoric 

 anthropological collections. The latter have by now assumed con- 

 siderable importance. They are deposited in the universities and 

 medical schools of Tokio, Kvoto, Sendai, Osaka, and Kumamoto, 



