Special Gifts and 'Acknowledgments 37 



(through Mrs. Robert Hastings), etiological specimens; 

 Harry Guggenheim, 417 • specimens of copper minerals, 

 from Chuquicamata, Chile; Guggenheim Brothers, mummy of 

 prehistoric miner, from Chuquicamata, Chile; Charles Lanier 

 (through Dr. George F. Kunz), Chalcedony statuette "Pas 

 de Danse," by M. Tonnelier; Mining Museum (George 

 W. Card), Warialda meteorite; Mengo L. Morgenthau, official 

 trapping of a Vizier of Morocco of the period of about 1750 A.D., 

 an assemblage of aquamarines, set in gold, and surrounded by 

 small stones of diamond, sapphire and garnet; National Associa- 

 tion of Audubon Societies, 10 natural goura (crowns of the Goura 

 Pigeon), 10 natural paradise, full size (plumes of the lesser 

 bird of paradise), 10 natural paradise, diminutive size (plumes 

 of the lesser bird of paradise), 10 black paradise (dyed), 10 

 made-up paradise ornaments, 90 small made-up paradise orna- 

 ments, 10 heron aigrettes (bundles of 40 plumes or sprays 

 each), 500 plumes and semi-plumes of the snowy egret (con- 

 fiscated by the Customs authorities) ; New York Zoological So- 

 ciety, 83 mammals, 65 birds, and 19 amphibians and reptiles; H. 

 Obermaier, flint and bone implements, sea shells, and fragmen- 

 tary animal bones from two caves in northern Spain; Ringling 

 Brothers, gorilla, "John Daniel" ; Mrs. Nate Salsbury, heads of 

 buffalo, deer, Rocky Mountain sheep, pair of steer horns, and 1 

 armadillo (African) ; Ludovic Soderstrom, 60 mammals, in- 

 cluding 1 Dinomys and a series of the rare fish-eating rat, 

 Ichthyomys, and 20 bird skins, from Ecuador ; Irving K. Taylor, 

 skin of shoe-bill stork, and 8 skulls of crocodiles. 



It would be difficult to make acknowledgment in detail of the 

 many important courtesies extended to members of the Museum's 

 expeditions by Government officials, co-workers in science, and 

 citizens in general, in all parts of the world. Such assistance has 

 been of great importance in facilitating the scientific work of the 

 institution, and the Trustees are keenly appreciative of it. 



Among those who cooperated we would mention especially, in 

 connection with our Australian Expedition : 



Dr. Thomas Storie Dixson, M. B.. President of the Board of 

 Trustees of the Australian Museum in Sydney, Dr. Charles 

 Anderson. Director of the Museum, Mr. Charles Hedley, Senior 

 Curator, and other members of the staff. The hospitalitv of 

 the Australian Museum was extended as headquarters of the 



