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daily expecting the arrival of the relief steamer which Mr. 

 Rasmussen, the Danish explorer, informed him the Crocker 

 Land Committee was sending north. Unfortunately, this sec- 

 ond relief ship, the "Danmark," did not return in the summer 

 of 1916, and Dr. Hovey and the members of the Crocker Land 

 Expedition have been forced to spend another winter in Green- 

 land. 



Owing to Dr. Hovey's enforced absence in the field, the 

 department was unable to undertake additional field work. 



The New York Academy of Sciences reelected Curator 

 Hovey Recording Secretary and Editor for 19 16, and the 

 Geological Society of America retained him as Recording 

 Secretary for 1916 and renominated him for that office 

 for 1917. Assistant Curator Reeds served as Secretary of the 

 Section of Geology and Mineralogy of the New York Acad- 

 emy of Sciences during 1916 and was reelected for 1917. 



In April, Miss Anna I, Jonas, Ph.D. in Geology, Bryn Mawr 

 College 191 2, was employed as special assistant in connection 

 with the preliminary identification of certain important groups 

 of fossils and the revision of exhibits. 



In the absence of Curator Hovey, the Director requested 

 Assistant Curator Reeds to take up the revision of the depart- 

 mental exhibit which had been started in 1912. 

 p e ^?? n of His first efforts were devoted to the preparation 

 of a set of drawings to scale of the exhibition 

 hall and its cases. The Martinique exhibit was revised, and a 

 representative portion installed on the third floor stairway land- 

 ing alongside the Mont Pele transparencies, and the congestion 

 reduced by a rearrangement of cases and revision of exhibit 

 material. 



In the meantime, Messrs. Brickner and Berlin were intrusted 

 with the arduous task of bringing together the 10,000 typed 



and figured specimens and arranging them ac- 

 of e T eg es° n cor ding to the entries in the Museum Bulletin, 



Volume XI, the published catalogue of the most 

 extensive and valuable collection of its kind in America. This 

 collection is highly prized by all geologists and palaeontologists, 



