1 8 Report of the President 



Pueblos have been carried on by our new curator of archaeol- 

 ogy, Mr. Nelson. 



In Yucatan, Edward H. Thompson has successfully com- 

 pleted the very difficult task of casting the f aeade of the fallen 

 temple of Chichen Itza, which constitutes one of the finest 

 examples of Mayan architecture. This facade will be re- 

 mounted in the new Mexican Hall. 



South America. — Expeditions in Ecuador and the United 

 States of Colombia, under the direction of Frank M. Chapman, 

 have added to our collection several thousands of birds and 

 mammals, many of them new to science. The most important 

 scientific features of this work, however, are the division of the 

 Andean region of Colombia into life zones, and the collection 

 of birds and mammals from the coast to the summit of the 

 Andes, with all the data necessary for some new habitat 

 groups. 



The oceanic and shore-birds of South America are cared 

 for by a special expedition, organized by Leonard C. Sanford 

 of New Haven, and financed by Frederick F. Brewster, which 

 will make a circuit of the South American coast, in a vessel 

 chartered for the purpose, under the direction of Rollo H. 

 Beck. This collection, for the present, will be deposited in 

 the Museum as a loan, together with the Sanford collection of 

 oceanic and shore-birds already on deposit here. 



Antarctic Ocean. — The Museum, in cooperation with the 

 Museum of the Brooklyn Institute, has despatched Robert C. 

 Murphy to South Georgia on the whaler "Daisy" to secure 

 specimens of the southern Sea Elephant, the Sea Leopard, a 

 series of young King Penguins to complete a group of these 

 birds, and to make general zoological collections. 



Europe. — The President, accompanied by George Grant 

 MacCurdy of Yale University, made a tour of the prehistoric 

 caverns of northern Italy, and of, France and Spain, and pro- 

 cured materials illustrating the culture, and especially the art, 

 of the men of the Upper Stone Age. 



Asia. — Roy C. Andrews, in a second expedition to the 

 Japanese coast, increased the Museum's collection of Cetacea 



