Report of the President 23 



Through the generosity of John Borden, of Chicago, Mr. 



Andrews accompanied him to Alaskan waters on his yacht 



_, , "Adventuress," in search of a Bowhead Whale 



Borden , , , 



and other mammals of the arctic seas. Un- 



avoidable delay in leaving San Francisco, to- 

 gether with the extraordinary ice conditions in Bering Sea, 

 prevented the " Adventuress " from reaching the whaling 

 grounds in time to get a specimen of the Bowhead. Mr. 

 Andrews, however, visited the seal islands in behalf of the 

 Bureau of Fisheries and took more than 4,000 feet of motion 

 pictures showing the life on the seal islands. Through the 

 courtesy of the United States Bureau of Fisheries, the Museum 

 will possess a set of these pictures. 



In the autumn of 1913, Lord William Percy received an 

 appointment from the President as special field naturalist in 

 ornithology. He is planning to visit Point Barrow, Alaska, in 

 the summer of 1914 for the purpose of collecting and observ- 

 ing the numerous species of ducks which are found there, 

 types of which he intends to present to the Museum. This 

 young naturalist has made a special study of the ducks of the 

 world, and his researches have the hearty endorsement of the 

 Museum. 



An expedition to South Georgia, fitted out by the Amer- 

 ican Museum in cooperation with the Brooklyn Institute of 



a • x-»- * Arts and Sciences, was made possible 



Antarctic Birds , , , ., . . . , „ 



, _, , through the contribution of Arthur Curtiss 



and Mammals _ _ _ . ■ , _ ^ T 



James of our Board. Robert C. Murphy 



of the Brooklyn Institute Museum was placed in charge and 

 returned with important collections of birds and mammals and 

 abundant scientific data, which will enrich both institutions. 

 The vessel, under B. D. Cleveland, encountered unusually 

 stormy weather, and the plan of securing examples of the 

 southern Sea Elephant which is now nearly extinct, was frus- 

 trated by the failure of the Captain to carry out his agreement 

 with the Museum. 



NORTH AMERICA 



The plan, begun in 1891, of securing for the Museum a 

 complete representation of the extinct vertebrate life of North 



