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adopted a new ruling which provides for the temporary loan 

 to the American Museum of rare monographs and serials not 

 found on our own shelves. 



The total amount expended on the scientific Bulletins, 

 Anthropological Papers, Memoirs and Monographs, and on the 

 . popular publications, namely, the Journal, 



Guide Leaflets and Handbooks, was $25,789.15. 

 This included the completion of what is perhaps the most 

 important work ever issued from our press, namely, the 

 Monograph, "A Review of the Primates," by Daniel Giraud 

 Elliot, one of the scientific founders of the Museum. This 

 monograph is issued in a new and special form, fully illus- 

 trated, on materials in the collections of American and foreign 

 museums, brought together by the author. It has been wel- 

 comed by the zoologists of the world as a most important 

 contribution to a group which has never been monographed 

 before, and it is a monument to the energy of its distinguished 

 author, who has devoted eleven years to its preparation 

 through continued research in this country and abroad. 



The expedition under Vilhjalmr Stefansson, sent out by 

 the Museum in April, 1908, and exploring for four and one- 



half years along the arctic coast of 



_ ' *., A North America, had as its chief 



Stefansson-Anderson . _ ,. , , _, , 



„ ,. . result the rediscovery of the blonde 



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Eskimo, which has attracted world- 

 wide attention. Other discoveries by the two explorers, the 

 leader and Rudolph M. Anderson, in geography, geology, 

 botany and ethnology are hardly less important. The Museum 

 expended all together $13,254.39 on this expedition, and after 

 the return of the explorers $1,200 in the preparation of their 

 reports. A popular summary of the results accomplished is 

 given in Mr. Stefansson's book "My Life with the Eskimo. " The 

 full scientific results are to be embodied in the joint report of 

 the two explorers, which will appear during the present year. 

 Plans were completed by the American Museum of Natural 

 History in cooperation with the National Geographic Society 

 for the fitting out of a second expedition to carry research 

 farther to the east, especially for the study of those Eskimo 

 tribes not embraced in the Jesup North Pacific explorations. 



