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Most of the summer was spent in preparing a report on th« 

 mammals collected by Mr. Beebe in British Guiana. Mr. 

 Anthony has published two papers as the result of this work, the 

 first a preliminary report on new species in Novitates, the main 

 report appearing in Zoologica. 



Under the direction of President Henry Fairfield Osborn, 

 Mr. Anthony has devoted considerable time toward the compila- 

 tion of data bearing upon "the close of the age of mammals." 

 President Osborn intends this material to be used in a joint 

 article — Osborn and Anthony — to appear in Natural History. 



For the general public, Mr. Anthony has prepared three 

 separate accounts dealing with the Museum's work in Ecuador, 

 one appearing in the National Geographic Magazine, the other 

 two in Natural History. 



The publications of the Department staff for 1921 were as 

 follows : four in American Museum Novitates, two by Roy 

 Chapman Andrews, and two by H. E. Anthony; three in Na- 

 tural History, one by Roy Chapman Andrews, and two by H. E. 

 Anthony; one in Science by Mr. Anthony; one in Asia by Roy 

 Chapman Andrews; one in Harper's Magazine by Roy Chapman 

 Andrews; one in Zoologica by H. E. Anthony; one in National 

 Geographic Magazine by H. E. Anthony; one in Nature by H. 

 E. Anthony; "Across Mongolian Plains" (D. Appleton & Com- 

 pany), by Roy Chapman Andrews. A paper by Mr. Anthony, 

 "Review of Thorburn's 'British Mammals,' " is in proof for 

 the next number of the Journal of Mammalogy. 



Owing to the constant shifting in arrangement of the study 

 collections, a condition brought about by the installation of new 

 and improved storage facilities, by the necessity for 

 removing valuable material from receptacles not 

 insect proof, and by the ever increasing pressure of growing 

 collections and decreasing departmental space, the year just 

 passed has been most important in that it marks the height of 

 this activity. Now the end appears to be in sight, and most of 

 the work which is done may be felt to be constructive and 

 permanent, not merely makeshift and temporary. New ideas 

 in storage and cataloguing are being put into practice in order 

 to secure the maximum safety, accessibility, and utilization of the 

 material in the department. These ideas have been tested and 



