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general ethnographic survey of North America, in order to 

 determine the limits of the different culture areas. 



In January, Dr. Farrand resigned as Associate Curator in 

 order to accept the executive secretaryship of the National As- 

 sociation for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. While 

 we extend our heartiest congratulations to Dr. Farrand on his 

 new appointment, we feel the keenest regret that the Museum 

 has lost the services of an efficient officer. 



Dr. Laufer, Mr. Pepper and Mr. Bandelier have made 

 progress in their respective departments. 



The field work has yielded good results. Dr. William Jones 

 is now visiting the Ojibway Indians, where he is studying their 

 religious and industrial life. Dr, P. E. Goddard has secured 

 important data among the Sarcee Indians, a tribe living upon 

 the border between the plains and the forest and presenting 

 two types of culture. Mr. Edward Sapir has made a small 

 collection at the Yakima Indian Reservation. Mr. Frank G. 

 Speck has been working among the Uchee Indians. Miss 

 Constance G. DuBois has been doing volunteer work among 

 the Mission Indians. J. B. Walker, M.D., is continuing his 

 volunteer work among the Dakota. Mr. D. C. Duvall has 

 added materially to our Blackfoot collections. 



Perhaps the most important accession received has been 

 the extensive and valuable collection, illustrating the eth- 

 nology of the Philippine Islands, which was secured at St. 

 Louis and presented to the Museum by the President. 



Other notable accessions are extensive African collections, 

 the gift of Mr. George S. Bowdoin; a unique "mummy" from 

 South America, presented by Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan; a large 

 collection of baskets and ceremonial objects, by Mr. Adolph 

 Lewisohn; a number of valuable Indian specimens, by Mrs. 

 Albert Bierstadt, and a fine collection of Socorro pottery by 

 Mr. George G. Heye. 



Through the generosity of Mr. George Foster Peabody, 

 Mr. Robert C. Ogden and Mr. Arthur Curtiss James, the 

 Museum has received a valuable oil painting, entitled, "The 

 Song of the Innookshuee." The painting was made in 1894, 

 by Mr. F. W. Stokes, while in Greenland with Commander 



