

Report of the President 3 1 



tions. The number of specimens of mammals received during 

 the year is 1,068; of birds, 1,130 skins and about 125 sets 

 of eggs. 



As heretofore, valuable specimens of both mammals and 

 birds have been received in the flesh from the New York 

 Zoological Society, and many specimens, also in the flesh, 

 from the Central Park Menagerie. Among the more note- 

 worthy gifts are a small collection of birds from the Samoa 

 Islands, including several rare species, and a topotype of a 

 newly described cat from Tibet, from Honorable Mason 

 Mitchell, U. S. Consul at Samoa; two skins of the Glacier 

 Bear, from Alaska, presented by Mr. G. Frederick Norton, of 

 New York City ; a skeleton of the rare Giant Forest Pig 

 (ffylo cheer us) of Africa, presented by Mr. K. V. Painter, of 

 Cleveland, Ohio; a collection of small mammals from Colo- 

 rado, received from Mr. N. G. Buxton, and a small collection 

 of rare birds from the Hawaiian Islands, from Dr. C. H. 

 Townsend. 



During the year a valuable collection has been received 

 from the Museum's Stefansson-Anderson Arctic Expedition, 

 consisting of 200 bird skins, numerous nests and eggs and 

 nearly 100 mammals, the latter including a series of Barren 

 Ground Caribou and White Sheep. Many of these specimens 

 were obtained near the Arctic coast, in the Colville River dis- 

 trict of Alaska, a region hitherto almost unexplored. 



Mr. M. A. Carriker, Jr., has continued his work for the 

 Museum in eastern Venezuela, and during the year has sent to 

 the Museum about 200 mammals, many of which were new 

 to the collection and several new to science. He has now 

 transferred his field of work to western Venezuela, where he 

 will remain during 191 1. 



Especially important acquisitions have been made through 

 the work of Mr. Roy C. Andrews, Assistant in Mammalogy, 

 who late in the season of 1909 was detailed to the "Albatross " 

 on a trip of exploration through the Dutch East Indies, 

 through the courtesy of the United States Bureau of 

 Fisheries. Although opportunities for shore collecting were 

 few and brief, Mr. Andrews secured about 350 specimens 

 of birds and a considerable number of mammals, very few of 



