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expedition, and our plans were actively furthered by the members 

 of the staff. We wish also to make acknowledgment to Professor 

 Launcelot Harrison, of the University of Sydney, and to Mr. 

 E. C. Andrews, Government Geologist of New South Wales, 

 Sydney. Mr. Ellis S. Joseph, of Sydney, was of great service 

 to the members of the expedition. Through his efforts, Mr. 

 Harry Burrell, also of Sydney, accompanied Dr. Gregory and 

 Mr. Raven on their first collecting trip in the mountains of 

 northern New South Wales. Through Mr. Burrell's influence, 

 they were entertained as the guests of Mr. Clifford Moseley, 

 of Ebor, upon whose station (ranch) they had the opportunity 

 to collect a fine series of kangaroos and numerous flying phalan- 

 gers and small insectivorous marsupials. Mr. Jim Wilson, of 

 Ebor, another friend of Mr. Burrell, placed his remarkably 

 detailed knowledge of the habits of the marsupials at the dis- 

 posal of the Museum's representatives. The party were thus 

 enabled to secure in this region splendid exhibition material, a 

 series of skins and skeletons for the Department of Mammalogy, 

 and many preserved specimens for dissection of the muscles, 

 etc., for the Department of Comparative Anatomy. 



Our thanks are due also to Mr. Heber A. Longman, Director 

 of the Brisbane Museum in Queensland ; to Sir Baldwin Spencer, 

 of the National Museum at Melbourne; to Mr. J. A. Kershaw, 

 Curator of the Museum, and to Mr. F. Chapman, of the same 

 Museum ; to Mr. Edgar Waite, Director of the South Australian 

 Museum at Adelaide ; to Mr. H. H. Scott, Curator of the Victoria 

 Museum and Art Gallery at Launceston, Tasmania ; to Mr. Clive 

 E. Lord, Curator of the Museum at Hobart; and to Professor 

 T. T. Flynn, of the University of Tasmania, Hobart. 



Through the courtesy of Mr. Gerrit S. Miller, of the United 

 States National Museum, Mr. Charles M. Hoy, who has been 

 collecting in Australia for that Museum for the past two years, 

 placed all his hard-won knowledge and experience at the service 

 of his American Museum colleagues. 



The Museum's expedition to Ecuador received the same 

 generous assistance from the officials of the South American 

 Development Company at their mines in southern Ecuador as had 

 characterized a six months' association in 1920. Messrs. William 

 Adams Kissam, J. W. Mercer and A. M. Tweedy, the President, 

 Vice-President, and Resident Manager, respectively, spared no 



