28 Report of the President 



near Cleveland, Ohio, from which he obtained a number of 

 interesting and important specimens of fossil fishes. 



Eastern Panama is zoologically one of the least known 



regions of North and South America, and data on its fauna 



_ ,. . will have an important bearing on the 



Expedition to .. , . *\ ,. ^ .., * 



_ -, problems of animal distribution, ihrough 



Eastern Panama u T „ , , ,, , & 



the Jesup Fund the Museum has been 



able to send Mr. William B. Richardson, a collector of more 



than twenty years' experience in the tropics, to this difficult 



region, and later Mr. Anthony and Mr. Ball of the Museum's 



staff will join him to continue this important work. 



With the approval of Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Sachs, the donors 



of the Angelo Heilprin Exploring Fund, the Executive Com- 



, T , .. . mittee voted to devote this sum in 1914 



Angelo Heilprin , ,.,'„';. 



_ , . ^ , to exploration work in the West Indies 

 Exploring Fund , , ,. . , _ 



under the direction of Curator Hovey. 



Owing to circumstances, Curator Hovey was not in a 



position to take up this work in 1914, but it was felt that it 



was so desirable to apply this fund to this purpose that no 



other expenditure of it was authorized, since Dr. Hovey is 



now planning to visit the West Indies early in 1915. This 



will enable him to continue his studies on the West Indian 



volcanoes, a subject in which the late Angelo Heilprin was 



especially interested. 



AFRICA 



First in importance is the Museum's expedition to the 



Congo, now in its sixth year, under the direction of Messrs. 



Herbert Lang and James Chapin. The active 



„ ' field work of the expedition was completed 



Expedition r , . 



nearly two years ago, and the intervening time 



has been devoted to the problems of transportation from the 



interior. Through recent reports from Mr. Lang, we learn 



that all the collections, which weigh forty-five tons, have 



safely reached Stanleyville, are in excellent condition and 



that a portion of them have already been shipped to Boma 



where Mr. Chapin is awaiting steamship transportation to 



