90 Report of the President 



Research work has been restricted mainly to the Congo and 

 South American collections. A paper by Mr. Anthony on fos- 

 sil material collected by him in Cuba in 1917 has 

 and been prepared for publication in the Museum 



Publication Bulletin, describing two additional new species 

 of mammals. He has also prepared a short paper on new 

 forms of mammals from South America, based on recently 

 acquired collections. This paper will soon appear in the 

 Journal of Mammalogy (by permission of the Museum author- 

 ities). Two papers by -the Curator have been published dur- 

 ing the year in the Bulletin, entitled "Severtzow's Classifica- 

 tion of the Felidse" (Vol. XLI, pp. 335-340), and "Notes on 

 the Synonymy and Nomenclature of the Smaller Spotted Cats 

 of Tropical America" (idem, pp. 341-419, figs. 1-31). 



The report on the Carnivora of the Congo Collection was 

 finished during the first half of the year, and later the report 

 on the Primates was begun, the part relating to the Anthropoid 

 Apes being now ready for the press. The Curator has been 

 greatly assisted in this work by Mr. Lang, who is also prepar- 

 ing the ecological matter that will form an important feature 

 of these reports. As noted in the Curator's report for the year 

 1918, the paper on the Insectivora was then in press, but its 

 publication is still deferred owing to delay in the preparation 

 of the part containing the field notes and allied matter that is 

 to accompany the systematic part. So much matter is now 

 ready for the press that it has been decided by the Publication 

 Committee to devote a volume of the Bulletin exclusively to the 

 papers on Congo mammals, for which the manuscript and illus- 

 trations are now ready, and the greater part was handed to the 

 editor, or placed at his call as wanted, early in November. 



In consequence of the prospective long delay in the publica- 

 tion of the report on the Carnivora of the Congo Collection, 

 it seemed desirable to issue a preliminary paper on this group, 

 covering some of its more important results. Accordingly in 

 June last this was prepared, and, with the approval of the 

 Museum authorities, sent to the editor of the Journal of Mam- 

 malogy, where it appeared under the title "Preliminary Notes 

 on African Carnivores" (Vol. I, No. 1, pp. 23-31, Nov. 28, 

 1919). 



