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Annual Report (See Annual Report of the President for 192 1, 

 page 34), may be more fully summarized as follows: 



Skins Skeletons 



Europe 387 34 



Asia 4,504 137 



Africa 6,083 557 



North America 21,881 280 



South America 7,940 105 



Australia 139 __58 



40,934 1,171 



Porpoises 33 



Whales 10 



1,214 

 In the matter of mounting and exhibition, both of skins and 

 skeletons, the American Museum is far behind. It has by no 

 means kept pace with the acquisition of material from all parts 

 of the world, and it is necessary to plan on a very large scale for 

 the effective and artistic mounting, not only of the great collec- 

 tions already on hand but of those which are rapidly coming in 

 from Asia and from Australia. In the next Annual Report, 

 the steps which the Trustees have taken to establish a strong and 

 thoroughly modern Department of Preparation will be described. 

 The principal achievement of the year has been the opening of 

 the Akeley African Elephant Group, photograph of which is 

 given on the adjoining page, on which Mr. Akeley has been 

 engaged ever since 1909 when he left the United States for 

 Africa to collect the materials. This work is a masterpiece, both 

 in design and in permanence, because it represents the new method 

 which Mr. Akeley has developed while on the Museum's staff. 

 It gives a surpassingly lifelike impression, with entirely new 

 technique. 



Another unique habitat group for the Roosevelt African Hall 

 is assured. Mr. Akeley, who has been studying the gorilla in its 

 native haunts in the Lake Kivu District of the Belgian Congo, 

 cables that he has secured five fine specimens of the gorilla, the 

 largest, a male, weighing 360 pounds and having an arm stretch 

 of 7' 8". The skins are in excellent condition and when mounted 

 by Mr. Akeley will give the Museum the finest representation 

 of this species in any institution in the world. 



Second International Congress of Eugenics 

 Perhaps the most important scientific meeting ever held in 

 the Museum was the Second International Congress of Eugenics, 



