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Much of his time has, of necessity, been required in the 

 management of the Whitney South Sea Expedition, and in 

 the care and preliminary examination of the collections re- 

 ceived from that expedition. 



Mr. Chapin, who is in charge of our Old World collections, 

 rearranged the study collection from that area, and continued 

 work on his Monograph of the birds of the Belgian Congo, 

 until his departure for Europe in August. 



Mr. Griscom has devoted his time chiefly to the comple- 

 tion of the rearrangement of the study collection, and to the 

 revision — in connection with the Curator — of the House 

 Wrens of the Western Hemisphere. He also has charge of 

 the limited amount of work which was necessary in connec- 

 tion with the exhibition collections, including the selection of 

 a new set of labels for our mounted birds. 



Mrs. Reichenberger has worked upon the identification of 

 Ecuador material, rearranged the species of the Family 

 Formicariidcz, and devoted the balance of the year to a revi- 

 sion of a report on the Roosevelt Collection. 



The following papers, based on a study of Museum mate- 

 rial, have been published by members of the Department staff 

 in 1921 : seven in American Museum Novitates, two by Frank 

 M. Chapman, two by James P. Chapin, one by Jonathan 

 Dwight and Ludlow Griscom, one by George K. Cherrie and 

 Mrs. E. M. B. Reichenberger, one by W. DeW. Miller and Lud- 

 low Griscom; one in the U. S. National Museum Bulletin, by 

 Dr. Chapman, one in our Bulletin, by Dr. Murphy in collabora- 

 tion with Francis Harper; one in the National Geographic 

 Magazine, by Frank M. Chapman; eight in The Auk, one by 

 W. DeW. Miller and Ludlow Griscom, one by James P. 

 Chapin, six by Ludlow Griscom ; one in the Brooklyn Museum 

 Quarterly, by Robert Cushman Murphy; two in Ibis, one by 

 James P. Chapin and one by Ludlow Griscom; one in 

 Memoria de la Compania Administradora del Guano (Lima, 

 Peru), by Robert Cushman Murphy; and one in Natural 

 History by Robert Cushman Murphy. 



Thirteen papers were presented by members of the De- 

 partment staff at the Annual Congress of the American 



