Report of the President 



MAMMALS* 

 J. A. Allen, Curatorf 



Roy C. Andrews, Associate Curator of Mammals of the 

 Eastern Hemisphere 



H. E. Anthony, Associate Curator of Mammals of the 

 Western Hemisphere 



The Department has experienced a year of growth, a year 

 of advance along several of the lines of activity, but the draft- 

 ing of such a report is overshadowed by the great loss which 

 has come to the department during the year. The imprint of 

 the work done by the late Curator of the department, Dr. 

 Joel Asaph Allen, is so deeply impressed upon every feature 

 of the departmental activity, and his personality had such a 

 direct influence upon the personnel formerly under his direc- 

 tion, that, hereafter, an annual report of the Departuent of 

 Mammals, in all that it reports of progress and achievement, 

 must stand as a testimonial to one who may have left the 

 department in body, but who, nevertheless, remains in these 

 rooms and corridors in spirit. 



The number of specimens received during the year totals 

 2,110, received as follows: by expedition, 1,525; by purchase, 

 227; by gift, 352, including a number from the 

 New York Zoological Society and from the De- 

 partment of Parks. The most noteworthy of these acces- 

 sions are: by expedition to Ecuador, 1,490 specimens; from 

 Mr. Barnum Browr* ; n Abyssinia, 53 ; a purchase of two speci- 

 mens of South African elephant; the gift of the Bronson 

 collection of African heads, 43 ; an Inyala buck given by Mr. 

 George A. Chamberlain, and four additional specimens pur- 

 chased ; a fine pair of Koodoo horns given by Mrs. Josephine 

 B. Cook. 



Mr. Roy Chapman Andrews, Associate Curator of Mam- 



* Under the Department of Mammalogy (see also pages 211 to 213). 

 t Deceased, August, 1921. 



