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Mr. H. H. Smith in Colombia. Furthermore, an expedition 

 known as the A. J. Stone Expedition was organized early in 

 the year by Madison Grant, Esq., and other friends of the 

 Museum, the work of which is to cover a period of three 

 years. Mr. Stone, accompanied by an assistant from the 

 Museum, reached Alaska at the opening of the season, and 

 collected mainly on the Kenai and Alaskan peninsulas. The 

 results of the first season's work' are very satisfactory, includ- 

 ing about fifty large mammals, obtained with special reference 

 to mounting in groups, about two hundred small mammals, 

 and several hundred birds. Since the Museum has never 

 before received collections from this part of America, these 

 specimens form a very important addition to our collections. 



The following groups representing birds and their habits 

 have been added to the series in our halls: The Bird Rock 

 Islands of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, a large group illustra- 

 ting several kinds of sea birds; the Red-winged Blackbird, the 

 Marsh Wren, the Phalarope, the Water Ousel, the Coot, the 

 Yellow-headed Blackbird, the Passenger Pigeon. An illus- 

 trated " Guide Leaflet " of twenty-four pages descriptive of 

 the Bird Rock Group was prepared by Mr. Frank M. Chap- 

 man, the Associate Curator, and issued as a supplement to 

 the American Museum Journal for October. This description 

 has proved to be of great interest and value to visitors. 



Department of Anthropology.— The Curator of the 

 Department of Anthropology reports that a large amount of 

 work has been done by the several divisions and sections, but 

 that much remains to be done before matters will be in readi- 

 ness for the Thirteenth International Congress of Americanists 

 which convenes at the American Museum in October, 1902. 

 During the year to which this Report refers, expeditions un- 

 der the auspices of this department were maintained in 

 several parts of the United States, both east and west, and in 

 Alaska, British Columbia, Mexico, Central America, Bolivia, 

 Peru, Greenland, Siberia, Japan, Corea and China, resulting in 

 large additions to the collections and furnishing much material 

 for description as well as for exhibition. The results which 



