Contents 



Reports of the Departments — Continued page 



Lectures to School Children . 46 



General Lectures 46 



Education for the Blind 47 



Instructors 47 



Reference Photographs and Negatives 48 



Geology and Extinct Invertebrates — Department of Geology and 



Invertebrate Palaeontology 48 



Important Acquisitions 48 



Copper Queen Mine Model 48 



New Meteorites 49 



Mohler Cave Collection 49 



Expeditions and Field Work 49 



New Exhibitions 51 



New Installation of General Collection 51 



Copper Queen Cave 51 



Meteorite Collection 51 



Research 52 



Minerals — Department of Mineralogy 52 



Mammals and Birds — Department of Mammalogy and Ornithology. . 53 



Acquisitions and Acknowledgments 53 



Expeditions 53 



Installations and New Exhibits 55 



Study Collections 56 



Cetacean Material 56 



Research Work 56 



Publications 57 



Extinct Vertebrates — Department of Vertebrate Palaeontology 57 



Success of Field Expeditions 57 



Exchanges 57 



New Exhibits 58 



A New Exhibition Hall Needed 58 



Foreign Scientists Study American Museum Collections 58 



Researches by Museum Staff 58 



Osteology of Existing Horses 59 



Restorations of Extinct Animals 59 



Recent and Extinct Fishes, Existing Reptiles and Batrachians — 



Department of Ichthyology and Herpetology 59 



Accessions 59 



Fishes 60 



Research 61 



Existing Reptiles and Batrachians 61 



Synoptic Series 62 



Study Collection 62 



Accessions and Exchanges 63 



Existing Invertebrates — Department of Invertebrate Zoology 63 



Invertebrates in General 63 



Research 64 



Insects and Spiders 64 



Mollusks 65 



Existing and Extinct Races of Men — Department of Anthropology . 66 



Exhibition 66 



Chinese Collections 67 



Southwest Indians 68 



Study Collections , 69 



Accessions 69 



Research 70 



Palaeolithic Man of Europe 71 



Publications 71 



