Explorations for Mammals 93 



MAMMALS * 

 J. A. Allen, Curator 



The additions number 1,720 specimens, of which 1,344 were 

 obtained by Museum expeditions, 106 by purchase, 4 by ex- 

 change, and 204 by gift. The specimens acquired 

 through expeditions include 1,216 from Northern 

 China and Mongolia, collected by Associate Curator Andrews, 

 leader of the Museum's Second Asiatic Expedition, in 1918 and 

 1919. They reached the Museum in March, 1920, in perfect 

 condition. This is by far the largest and most valuable collec- 

 tion of mammals the Museum has ever received from Asia, 

 and includes not only a large representation of the smaller 

 species of the region traversed, but also a fine series of the 

 large game animals, including group material for exhibition of 

 several species nearing extinction, as the argali sheep and the 

 wapiti, and also roebuck, goral, and antelope. The Museum 

 has also received its first collection of mammals from Jamaica, 

 numbering about 600, collected by Associate Curator Anthony. 

 A further important accession has been received from British 

 Guiana, through cooperation with the New York Zoological 

 Society under the supervision of Mr. C. William Beebe, direc- 

 tor of the Society's British Guiana Tropical Research Station. 

 Many valuable specimens have been received in the flesh from 

 the New York Zoological Society, and the Department of 

 Parks. 



Mr. Roy Chapman Andrews, Associate Curator of Mam- 

 mals of the Eastern Hemisphere, returned early in the year 



from his eminently successful researches in 

 £ el< } China and Mongolia in 191 8 and 1919, and has 



since been occupied mainly in organizing the 

 Museum's Third Asiatic Zoological Expedition, which is ex- 

 pected to take the field early in 192 1 and extend over a period 

 of five years. Its activities will embrace a wide field of re- 



* Under the Department of Mammalogy (see also pages 223 to 224). 



