4 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



Mr. Schwab some anthropoids, skins and skeletons, and a number 

 of birds and reptiles, including several rare forms, not previously 

 represented in the collections. 



The extent and value of the Museum's collections of Philippine 

 mollusks and birds is due to the liberal interest of former Governor- 

 General W. Cameron Forbes. Serving with General Leonard 

 Wood on a tour of inspection for the United States, Mr. Forbes 

 visited, during the spring and summer of 1921, very many of the 

 islands of the Archipelago, and obtained for the Museum a series 

 of birds, which, with two collections, the result of previous work, 

 contains many species new to science and to the Museum. 



The value of the zoological collections made in 1915 in British 

 East Africa and Madagascar by Mr. F. R. Wulsin was so great that 

 the result of his work in China, undertaken in behalf of the Museum 

 during 1921 and 1922, was anticipated with keen interest. The 

 material already received is almost entirely vertebrates, many of 

 which are new to the Museum, with others useful for comparative 

 study with forms from adjoining regions. 



Mr. T. H. Clark, continuing his field-studies in the vicinity of 

 Quebec and Levis, collected a large series of Ordovician and 

 Devonian fossils, most of which he has identified and labeled. 

 A number of new species and a large series of well-preserved grapto- 

 lites are included in Mr. Clark's collection. 



Mr. R. W. Sayles engaged in a field-study of the conglomerates 

 at Levis, Quebec, and in Vermont at St. Albans and Swanton. 



Dr. G. M. Allen has continued the work on the fossil mammals 

 collected in the western United States in the early eighties by Mr. 

 Samuel Garman; the repair, preliminary development, and iden- 

 tification of this material, except a comparatively small portion, 

 chiefly Camelidae and Cervidae, is completed. Dr. Allen keeps all 

 accessions catalogued, labeled, and with provisional identifications, 

 attends to loans and exchanges, aids visiting investigators in their 

 studies, while carrying on studies of his own. 



Of the more notable additions to the collection of mammals, 

 mention may be made of two nearly complete skeletons of Moropus 

 cookii E. H. Barbour, an odd-toed ungulate of unique skeletal 

 characters, typical of an order practically unrepresented in the 

 Museum. For this most valuable accession and for a desirable 



