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at the whaling stations of southern Korea, and traversed more 

 than four hundred miles of the unexplored wilderness of north- 

 ern Korea, securing birds and mammals. 



The New York Zoological Society, through the gift of 

 Anthony R. Kuser, sent C. William Beebe to the homes of all 

 the pheasants of Asia and the East Indies, as a result of 

 which the Museum will secure, as the gift of Colonel Kuser, a 

 complete collection of the various types of pheasants and four 

 new Asiatic habitat bird groups. 



Africa. — On the African continent the Museum has been 

 especially represented for the past four years by the Congo 

 Expedition, under Herbert Lang and James Chapin, with the 

 friendly cooperation of the Belgian Government. The latest 

 reports from the young explorers indicate that they have made 

 a zoological collection which will be of unique value, including 

 specimens of the Okapi, White Rhinoceros and Giant Eland. 

 A duplicate collection has been secured for the Congo Museum 

 of Tervueren, near Brussels. This is the American Museum's 

 second African expedition. 



Our third African expedition has been sent out by friends 

 of the Museum, under William S. Rainsford, to British East 

 Africa, for the primary object of securing large game animals, 

 particularly the Black Rhinoceros. Material for groups of 

 the Buffalo, Eland and Koodoo have also been secured. 



The returns from these expeditions will all come in during 

 the year 1913, and it will require generous contributions to 

 the preparation fund to place these collections on exhibition. 



Publications. — Publication has hardly kept pace with this 

 active work of exploration, although a number of reports are 

 in progress, such as those of the Stefansson-Anderson Expe- 

 dition, and the ''Albatross" Expedition of 191 1 under Charles 

 H. Townsend. The regular publications include Parts 1, 2 

 and 3, of Vol. I, of the new series of the Memoirs-, Vol. XXXI 

 of the Bulletin ; Vol. X and parts of Vols. VII, IX, XI and 

 XII of the Anthropological Papers', Vol. XII of the^ Journal '; 

 Handbook No. 1, and Guide Leaflet No. 35. The most impor- 

 tant publication of the year is the monograph on the Primates, 

 by Daniel Giraud Elliot, in three volumes — a regular edition 



