60 Report of the President 



Barnum Brown collected in Cuba last summer. The results 

 are very valuable, and are to be published in the Museum 

 Bulletin at an early date. The Curator has also published an 

 account of Eskimo child life in the Museum Journal. Mr. 

 Ekblaw has an article on "The Danish Arctic Station at God- 

 havn" in the November number of the Museum Journal, and 

 has published other Crocker Land Expedition material in the 

 Geographical Review of the American Geographical Society 

 and elsewhere. Other reports awaiting opportunity for com- 

 pletion are the Curator's account of the work done in Martin- 

 ique and St. Vincent in 191 5, under the Angelo Heilprin Ex- 

 ploring Fund and certain observations made in Greenland with 

 the Crocker Land Expedition in 191 5-1 91 7, also a popular 

 scientific account of the seismograph and its use by the Asso- 

 ciate Curator. 



The most important accessions of the year have been a series 

 of rocks and fossils illustrating the geology of New Mexico, 

 collected by Professor C. T. Kirk of the Uni- 

 versity of New Mexico; two large cut and 

 polished slabs of Michigan amygdaloid copper and copper 

 conglomerate from the United States National Museum; a 

 series of specimens of galena, sphalerite and marcasite from 

 the Admiralty Zinc Company, Quapaw, Okla. ; a series of two 

 hundred Devonian fossils from Iowa collected by Carroll Lane 

 Fenton ; the Barnum Brown collection of ammonites and other 

 Jurassic fossils from Cuba; and some 1,660 specimens repre- 

 senting 165 species of fossils from the Hunton beds of Okla- 

 homa made by Associate Curator Reeds before he became con- 

 nected with the Museum. 



No field work was carried on by the department aside from 

 a reconnaissance of the Watkins Glen region, New York; a 

 somewhat careful photographic survey of the Mt. 

 ie or Llolyoke Range region, Massachusetts, by the 

 Curator for the benefit of the topographical models now under 

 preparation, and collecting trips by Research Associate Ek- 

 blaw to the fossil plant locality of Mazon Creek, Illinois, and 

 to the sand fulgurite locality of Whiteside County, Illinois. 



