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as one could expect, while an X-ray showed the probable 

 regeneration of bone in the ulna which eventually may unite 

 the severed ends. In short, we have every hope that in due 

 time he will recover the use of his arm. 



Mr. Watkins has continued to represent the Museum in 

 Peru. He has sent us the most important collection which 



we have thus far received from him, containing 

 eruvian oyer seven hundred specimens from Maraynioc, 



in the Humid Temperate Zone of the Eastern 

 Andes. Many species of birds have been described from this 

 locality as the result of the researches of von Tschudi, Stolz- 

 mann, and Kalinowski, and Mr. Watkins secured topotypes of 

 most of them. 



Under "Expeditions" should also be included mention of the 

 Curator's visit to England in May, and Mr. Chapin's visit to 

 Visits England and the Continent from August to the 



to Other end of the year. 



Museums These journeys have not only greatly en- 



riched the experience of the men who made them, but they 

 have brought us into personal contact with practically all the 

 leading ornithologists of the Old World. Our relations with 

 these gentlemen, therefore, will be far more effective when it 

 comes to matters of exchanges of specimens, or requests for 

 their loan, or for information, than if we were to know them 

 by correspondence only. At the same time, through the 

 presentation of addresses on the work of our Museum, we 

 have acquainted our colleagues on the other side with our 

 methods of research, in which they have evidently found 

 much that was novel and commendable. 



In addition to the specimens received from our field expedi- 

 tions, our collections have been greatly enlarged by both 



gifts and exchanges. 

 Acquisitions From Lord Rothschild we have received by 

 gift a collection of .birds from Lord Howe Is- 

 land, all the species contained in which were new to our 

 Museum. 



From the Goeldi Museum, at Para, through Doctor Emilie 

 Snethlage, we have received cotypes of several exceedingly 

 interesting species sent to us for description. From the 



