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have thus shown their interest in the least-known continent in 

 the world and their confidence in American science to advance 

 our knowledge is a very notable one, the principal contributors 

 being the following: 



American Museum of Natural Mrs. Adrian Hoffman Joline 



History Mr. Darwin P. Kingsley 



American Asiatic Association Mr. Thomas W. Lamont 



Mr. George F. Baker Mr. Gilbert S. McClintock 



Mr. George J. Baldwin Mr. J. P. Morgan 



Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Bernheimer Mr. Dwight W. Morrow 



Mr. George T. Brokaw Miss Margarethe Watson Potter 



Mr. Sidney M. Colgate Mr. John T. Pratt 



Mr. Henry P. Davison Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 



Mr. Childs Frick Miss E. L. Rosensohn 



Mr. W. A. Harriman Mrs. Willard D. Straight 



Mr. Arthur Curtiss James Mr. Albert H. Wiggin 



The headquarters of the American Museum's Third Asiatic 

 Expedition in Peking have been equipped not only for the re- 

 ception of collections and as the base of the Museum's expedi- 

 tion, but for the proper reception of officials of the Chinese Gov- 

 ernment, on whose cordial cooperation the success of the expedi- 

 tion largely depends. 



Thus the close of the year 1921 finds the expedition well under 

 way. Mr. Andrews has completed a successful trip into Shensi 

 for Takin and other mammals; Mr. Clifford Pope has visited 

 the Eastern Tombs District and the Yangtze River Valley for 

 fish, reptiles and batrachians, and is spending the winter at 

 Tung Ting Lake, Hu-nan, where his collection is rapidly in- 

 creasing; Mr. Walter Granger joined Mr. Andrews in June to 

 represent the Department of Vertebrate Palaeontology and has 

 undertaken an investigation of the fossil mines of Wan-hsien. 



While the fossil history of China and Mongolia is being un- 

 raveled by the Geological Survey of China, aided by the special 

 work of Mr. Granger and of Professor C. P. 

 E diti Berkey of Columbia University, who joins the 



expedition in the spring of 1922, the famous fossil 

 beds of India are being examined by our most experienced field 

 worker, Mr. Barnum Brown, who' after two years' absence re- 

 joined the Museum's staff on August 1, 1921, and is now working 

 in the Siwalik Hills, in Bugti and in Burma, with the cordial 

 cooperation of Dr. Guy E. Pilgrim and other officials of the 

 Geological Survey of India. The Museum owes this expedition 



