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R. S. Clark and A. cleC. Sowerby made in 1908 and 1909 in Kansu, 

 Shansi, and Shensi, and with the Szechwan material gathered by 

 Mr. Graham in Szechwan on the south side of the Min Shan Range. 

 Mr. Wulsin's expedition in 1924 extended from Hanoi in Tonking, 

 French Indo-China, to Yunnan fu, Yunnan, with return by way of 

 the Laos country and Annam. During the latter part of August 

 and September a side trip from Yunnan to Hwang Tsao Pa in 

 the Chinese Province of Kweichow was quite profitable zoologi- 

 cally. The collections are important to the Museum as they come 

 from a region previously quite unrepresented. 



This year's exploration led Rev. D. C. Graham to Sungpan and 

 the Yellow Dragon Gorge in northern Szechwan, an arduous trip, 

 of which a more detailed account has been published in the Smith- 

 sonian exploration pamphlet for 1924. (Smithsonian Misc. Coll., 

 vol. 77, No. 2, 1925, pp. 34r-36.) The zoological results were highly 

 satisfactory as already related. 



Arthur deC. Sowerby, under the auspices of Col. Robert Sterling 

 Clark, visited several Provinces in eastern China, including Fukien, 

 Anhwei, and Kiangsu, and collected extensively, supplementing very 

 satisfactorily collections of previous years. 



Dr. Hugh M. Smith, fisheries adviser to His Majesty^s Siamese 

 Government, Bangkok, Siam, continued his explorations in Siam, 

 and secured extensive collections. 



Gerrit S. Miller, curator of mammals, visited Haiti during March 

 and April for the purpose of exploring caves, at the north edge of 

 the central plain, that had been examined superficially by members 

 of the United States Geological Survey in March, 1921 (Smithso- 

 nian Misc. Coll., vol. 73, No. 3, 1922, pp. 1-2. ) Careful work was done 

 in six caves, and a collection of the extinct vertebrates whose remains 

 are buried under the cave floors was obtained. Miscellaneous col- 

 lections of recent mammals, birds, reptiles, insects, and plants were 

 made near the caverns, and in the neighborhood of Port-au-Prince. 



In cooperation with the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D. C, 

 Dr. Paul Bartsch, curator of mollusks, visited Cuba in order to 

 secure breeding material in continuation of hybridization experi- 

 ments with cerions which have been carried on for a series of years 

 past. This expedition as well as a visit to the cerion colonies 

 planted on the Florida Keys resulted in the addition of about 2,700 

 specimens to our collection. Another short trip was made to the 

 Cape May region in company with the assistant curator, W. B. 

 Marshall. Through the cooperation of the United States Coast 

 Guard Service it was possible to do some dredging in the inner 

 leads of Cape May and also in the shallow water off the coast. This 

 expedition resulted in adding quite a number of specimens from a 

 region little explored. 



