Report of the President. 15 



Goat, Black-tailed Deer, etc., from the Selkirks. The third 

 year of the Andrew J. Stone Expedition has resulted in the 

 capture of a splendid series of Bear, Sheep and Moose, not to 

 mention more than eight hundred small mammals and several 

 hundred birds. 



An examination of the list of accessions in another part of 

 this report will reveal our continued obligation to the New 

 York Zoological Society and to the Menagerie of Central Park. 



The Museum's expedition in Mexico, under Mr. J. H. Batty, 

 has yielded most satisfactory results, and the funds made 

 available, largely through the instrumentality of Mr. John L. 

 Cadwalader, for the increase in the number of our bird groups, 

 have made it possible for Mr. Chapman to spend considerable 

 time in the field, collecting material, photographs, etc., for 

 new groups, many of which are already well under way. 



Our purchases have been noteworthy. They include the 

 small but most interesting Collection of mammals and birds 

 from Merida, Venezuela, and the Sennett Collection of birds 

 (numbering nearly eight thousand specimens) from Texas and 

 northeastern Mexico. The deposit by Dr. Jonathan Dwight, 

 of about eight thousand specimens of North American birds, 

 with full scientific data, materially adds to the resources of 

 the Museum. 



The Curator, Professor J. A. Allen, has completed and 

 published a report on the Siberian mammals collected on the 

 Jesup North Pacific Expedition ; he has devoted much time 

 to editorial work on the Museum Bulletin, prepared a paper 

 describing several Patagonian rodents, written a report on 

 the collection of mammals made by the Stone Expedition in 

 1902 and another report on Mr. Batty's Durango collection. 

 He has prepared papers on other collections made by Mr. 

 Batty; on.the Carriker collection of mammals from Costa Rica, 

 and the Colburn collection of mammals from the State of Vera 

 Cruz, Mexico. 



Mr. Chapman, besides his field work, has given much time 

 to the general rearrangement of the study collections, made 

 possible by the abolition of the Department of Taxidermy; 

 and as a lecturer he has given freely of his time to the many 



