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cession of explorers, namely, Roosevelt, 

 Tjader, Aieley, Eainsford, Barnes, Eainey, 

 Lang and Chapin. The two last named have 

 rendered monumental service to African 

 natural history in bringing out the most 

 complete and the most perfectly preserved 

 collection which has ever come from Africa, 

 with precise field notes and 9,500 photographs. 

 The results are being issued in a series of 

 twelve volumes entitled " The Zoology of the 

 Belgian Congo." To these volumes many 

 other specialists of the country are con- 

 tributing, notably Director W. J. Holland, of 

 the Carnegie Museum, Professor William 

 Morton Wheeler, of Harvard University, and 

 Dr. Henry A. Pilsbry, of the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. The first 

 two Congo voliunes were recently presented to 

 the King of the Belgians following his visit 

 to the Museum. A duplicate collection of 

 Congo types is being sent to the great Congo 

 Museum at Tervuren, Belgium, according to 

 the agreement of the Museum with the Bel- 

 gian government. 



Through the successive journeys of Mr. 

 Eoy C. Andrews in Japan, Korea, the Prov- 

 inces of Yunnan, Pukien, Shansi, and in 

 Mongolia, aided by the Eev. Harry E. Cald- 

 well, the Museum has made a notable begin- 

 ning in the collections representing the east- 

 ern mountain, plain and desert life in Asia. 

 Examples of the life of tropical Asia and 

 Indo-Malaya are still required. All together 

 there has been expended $35,000 in Asiatic 

 exploration and publication up to the present 

 time. 



Popular scientific works are carrying the 

 ■work of the Museum to readers all over the 

 world. The series of popular volumes by 

 Peary, Stefansson, MacMillan, Eoosevelt, 

 Chapman, Miller, Wissler, Andrews and Lutz 

 constitutes a library of standard reference on 

 Arctic exploration, on African, Asiatic and 

 South American travel, and on the ancient 

 and recent history of the primitive races of 

 Europe and of iN'orth America. Among these 

 volimies are the following: 



Peary, Eobert E. 



Northward Over the Great Ice, 1898. 



The North Pole, 1910. 



Secrets of Polar Travel, 1917. 

 Stefansson, Vilhjalmnr 



My Life with the Eskimo, 1913. 

 MacMillan, Donald B. 



Pour Years in the White North, 1918. 

 Roosevelt, Theodore 



Through the Brazilian Wilderness, 1914. 

 Chapman, Prank M. 



Bird Studies with a Camera, 1898. 



Camps and Cruises of an Ornithologist, 1908. 



Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America, 

 1912. 



The Travels of Birds, 1916. 



Our Winter Birds, 1918. 

 Miller, Leo P. 



In the Wilds of South America, 1918. 

 Wissler, Clark 



North American Indians of the Plains, 1912. 



The American Indian, 1917. 

 Andrews, Eoy C. 



Whale Hunting with Gun and Camera, 1916. 



Camps and Trails in China, 1918. 

 Lutz, Prank E. 



Pield Book of Insects, 1918. 

 Osborn, Henry Pairfield 



The Age of Mammals, 1910. 



The Origin and Evolution of Life, 1917. 



For publication as well as for the enrich- 

 ment of the collections and the preparation of 

 exhibitions, the total sum of $1,412,839.32 has 

 been expended, since Mr. Jesup's decease in 

 1908, from the income from the Morris K. 

 Jesup Fund, which by the terms of the will is 

 devoted to purely scientific purposes. The 

 research product of the Museum has grown 

 accordingly; the volume of publications has 

 increased several fold; the popular publica- 

 tions, based on the pure researches of their 

 authors, have spread the educational in- 

 fluence of the Museum all over the world. 

 It is interesting to observe that certain 

 branches of science relinquished by many of 

 our universities are taken up by our museums. 



The sales of popular publications have re- 

 flected the character of the public attendance 

 and interest, being greater than ever, partic- 

 ularly of the Guide, which was exhausted 

 much sooner than expected and " out of 

 print " for four months. All together there 

 were sold at the attendants' desks 3,005 



