32 Report of the President 



following his visit to the Museum. A duplicate collection is 

 being sent to the great Congo Museum at Tervueren, Belgium, 

 according to the agreement of the Museum with the Belgian 

 Government. 



Through the successive journeys of one of our own ex- 

 plorers, Mr. Roy C. Andrews, in Japan, Korea, the Provinces 

 of Yunnan, Fukien, Shansi, and in Mongolia, 

 Asiatic _ aided by the Rev. Harry R. Caldwell, we have 



Exploration . . 



made a notable beginning in the collections 

 representing the eastern mountain, plain and desert life of 

 Asia. We have secured about one-half of the materials 

 necessary to fill the ASIATIC HALL of the proposed South- 

 east Wing. We still require examples of the life of tropical 

 Asia and Indo-Malaya. All together we have expended 

 $35,000 in Asiatic exploration and publication up to the pres- 

 ent time. 



Popular scientific works are carrying the riches of the 



Museum to readers all over the world. The series of popular 



volumes by Peary, Stefansson, MacMillan, 



Popular Roosevelt, Chapman, Miller, Wissler, An- 



Pubhcations ' r .' ,.' ' 



drews and Lutz constitute 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 North America : 



Peary, Robert E., 



Northward Over the Great Ice, 1898 



The North Pole, 1910 



Secrets of Polar Travel, 1917 

 Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 



My Life with the Eskimo, 1913 

 MacMillan, Donald B., 



Four Years in the White North, 1918 

 Roosevelt, Theodore, 



Through the Brazilian Wilderness, 1914 



