Special Gifts and Acknowledgments 47 



benefit. The expedition is under the leadership of Mr. Roy 

 Chapman Andrews. 



The Fulton Motor Truck Company has presented the Third 

 Asiatic Expedition with two of its one-ton trucks, which are 

 especially fitted for rough work. These trucks are equipped 

 with pneumatic tires, and have a speed of forty-five miles an 

 hour. They will be used as movable bases for field work in 

 Mongolia. 



The Savage Arms Corporation has presented a large num- 

 ber of rifles and a large amount of ammunition to the Third 

 Asiatic Expedition. 



The Hunter Arms Company, of Fulton, N. Y., has presented 

 a number of shot-guns to the Third Asiatic Expedition. 



We wish to acknowledge the great assistance given to Mr. 

 Anthony and his party by Mr. Frank Cundall, by the va- 

 rious departments of the Jamaica Government, and by the 

 United Fruit Company's representative, Mr. F. G. Kiefler. 



At Portovelo, a mining camp of the South American De- 

 velopment Company in the southern part of Ecuador, every 

 facility was given by the Company to our Ecuadorian Expe- 

 dition under Mr. H. E. Anthony, by means of which the ex- 

 pedition was able to carry on work at a very reasonable ex- 

 penditure. This assistance also went far toward bringing 

 the efforts of the expedition up to a high degree of effi- 

 ciency. 



The noted American hunter and sportsman, Mr. Walter 

 Winans, died suddenly in London on August 12. Mr. Winans 

 was a Life Member of the Museum. The most noteworthy 

 of his gifts, which were the result of his skill with the rifle, 

 are the group of wild boars from the Black Forest, awaiting 

 a place in the hall devoted to the life of Europe and Asia, 

 and a series of pheasants, illustrating various phases in al- 

 binism. His last gift was a specimen of the Chillingham wild 

 cattle, regarded as a survival of the native British oxen. 



Mr. Thomas C. White, of Kealakekua, Kona, Hawaii, the 

 agent for the Bishop Estate, traveled for a month with Mr. 

 Sullivan around the islands for his traveling expenses only, 

 and it was through his assistance that Mr. Sullivan was able 

 to examine so many natives in so short a time. He placed at 



