24 Report of the President 



Through the courtesy of Mr. B. Preston Clark of Boston, 

 who financed the expedition, Mr. F. E. Watson of the Depart- 



.. . ment of Invertebrate Zoology was sent to Santo 



Expedition to _ „ bJ . ,, . 



Santo Domingo Domin g° to collect insects, especially sphingid 

 moths. Mr. Watson was accompanied by Mr. 

 Clarence R. Halter, who made a collection of reptiles of 

 Santo Domingo, numbering 444 specimens. The work of 

 this expedition was greatly facilitated by the generous coope- 

 ration of the officers of the Ferro-carril de Samana y Santiago. 



Messrs. Anthony and Ball, of the Museum's staff, spent 



„ .. . three months in eastern Panama, collecting: 



Expedition to , , - . , . \. ,,.,', 



Eastern Panama mammals and birds from the little-known 

 region of Tacarcuna. 



Through the Angelo Heilprin Exploring Fund, donated by 

 Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Sachs, the Museum was enabled to 



_ . . . „ .. . send Dr. E. O. Hovey to the West 

 Geological Expedition . J 



to the West Indies Indies to continue his studies of the vol- 



canoes of that region. He spent three 

 months on the islands, returning to New York on May 4, 

 1915. Doctor Hovey's report has not been completed, owing 

 to the fact that he has not yet returned from the Crocker 

 Land Relief Expedition, of which he was placed in charge. 



ARCTIC 



The return of the Crocker Land Expedition, which was 

 organized by the American Museum of Natural History, the 



American Geographical Society and the Univer- 

 Crocker Land g . of Illinois has been delayed for another 

 Expedition J \ ,. . . . , 



year, because the relief ship sent for the party 



has been caught in the ice on the Greenland coast and will be 

 obliged to winter there. The relief expedition is in charge 

 of Dr. E. O. Hovey and it is now certain that neither the 

 main expedition nor the relief expedition can come out until 

 the summer of 1916. 



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 publication, technical and popular. It is proposed to increase 



