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Similarly, for the survey of another region, Mr. Adam M. 



Collins and Mr. Lee Garnett Day have organized an expedition 



which will start from the west coast and 



. cross South America through Bolivia and 



_ , A . down the Amazon. They generously offered 



South America , ' . , , , • 



to take with them at their own expense a 



representative of the Museum and to present to the institution 



half of the zoological material which they might secure. Mr. 



Cherrie was assigned to this work, and the expedition left New 



York in the latter part of December. 



In the meantime, Mr. Rollo H. Beck has continued his 



extended voyage along the coast of South America in the 



_ r , interests of the Brewster-Sanford Col- 



Brewster-Sanford . a . . r , 



„ ,. . lection and has secured a series of shore 



Expedition , , . , . . , , , . , , 



and marine birds which adds richly to 



this important collection now on deposit in the Museum. 



NORTH AMERICA 



It was imperative that the Museum complete its excavating 

 along the Red Deer River in Alberta, and for four months 

 during the summer Mr. Barnum Brown and his assistants con- 

 tinued the collecting of fossils in this region. The results 

 surpassed expectations. Mr. Brown secured more than a car- 

 load of specimens, including eight complete skeletons of Cre- 

 taceous dinosaurs. 



Similarly, Mr. Albert Thomson returned to the fossil beds 

 of Nebraska and secured several fine skeletons of the "Clawed 

 Ungulate" Moropus. 



In connection with the plan to complete the researches on 



the cultures and ceremonies of the Indians of the Northern 



„ , _ ■ Plains, Curator Wissler, Associate Cura- 



Ethnology of the _ ' . t ' 



. ° tor Lowie, Assistant Curator Skinner and 



Reverend Gilbert L. Wilson continued 



their studies of Indians in Oklahoma, North and South 



Dakota and Montana. Associate Curator Lowie began work 



with the Ute Indians of Nevada. 



