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made important contributions to science but have brought to 

 the people of New York rare collections from remote seas and 

 parts of the earth. 



North America. — The Stefansson-Anderson Expedition, 

 which was sent out in cooperation with the Geological Survey 

 of Canada, returning from four and one-half years of work in 

 Coronation Gulf and along the shores of the Arctic Ocean, 

 after having suffered many hardships, reported newly-discov- 

 ered tribes of Eskimo showing evidences of mixture with the 

 Scandinavian race. Messrs. Stefansson and Anderson brought 

 back valuable archaeological, ethnological and zoological col- 

 lections and important geographical data. 



Owing to the great importance of these results, a second 

 Stefansson Expedition is being organized, in cooperation with 

 the National Geographic Society, to extend over the next 

 three years. 



The departure of the Crocker Land Expedition, organ- 

 ized, in cooperation with the American Geographical Society, 

 to explore the land mass to the northwest of Grant Land 

 observed by Peary in 1909, was postponed owing to the 

 untimely death of George Borup, one of the leaders and a 

 member of our Scientific Staff. The expedition has now been 

 reorganized and will leave in the summer of 1913 under the 

 leadership of Donald B. MacMillan. 



The work of Barnum Brown in the Cretaceous beds of 

 Alberta, Canada, along the Red Deer River, has added to our 

 collections several fine exhibition specimens of dinosaurs and 

 has brought nearly to completion the years of exploration for 

 material illustrating the life of Cretaceous times. At the same 

 time expeditions to New Mexico, Wyoming and Nebraska, 

 under Walter Granger and Albert Thomson, have yielded rich 

 series of fossil mammals. - 



The Department of Anthropology has continued researches 

 among the Blackfoot in Alberta, the Shoshone in Wyoming, 

 the Dakota in South Dakota, the Hidatsa in North Dakota 

 and the Potawatomi in Wisconsin. Dr. Spinden has made a 

 tour through Yucatan, Mexico and the southwestern United 

 States, and excavations of the village sites of the Rio Grande 



