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esjHM'ial interest. He made a trip with Director Mowhra.N- on his col- 

 lecting boat, the " AlHsoni," which is especially built for this purpose, as 

 is the "Seahorse, " the collecting boat of the New York Aquarium. Both 

 boats are equipped with wells wherein the fishes are brought back in 

 good condition. The capturing of fishes for the Miami Aquarium is 

 done almost entirely hy means of fish traps, w^hich are placed in likely 

 places where the tlesired species have previously been seen sw'imming in 

 the clear water. This method of taking fishes is particularly adapted to 

 tropical waters, where the coral rock would make it very difficult to 

 draw^ a net. 



At Nassau, some interesting material for the Museum's research col- 

 lection Avas obtained in the market, and fishes w^ere studied on the reef 

 from a glass-bottomed boat which regularly plies to the so-called sea- 

 gardens with tourists, as is also done in Bermuda and at Santa Catalina. 



The tropical fishes are very much alike over a very w^ide stretch of 

 western Atlantic, but at no two places are exactly the same species com- 

 mon, and several unexpected ones were found at Nassau. The law^s 

 which determine the al^undance and distribution of species are at present 

 only scantily understood. They are doubtless in some way bound up 

 with ocean currents 



A fairly large collection from the Samoyed of Northern European 

 Russia, comprising fur clothing and household implements, has been 

 sent by the Museum in Dresden in exchange for Alaskan Eskimo material 

 sent from our collections. 



In return for the carved Maori house-posts which we received a 

 short time ago from the Dunedin Museum of New Zealand, our Depart- 

 ment of Anthropology has sent a fair-sized collection of Tlinkit and 

 Haida carved art objects. This material is of interest to the Dunedin 

 Museum because of its general similarity to Maori carving. 



Through the courtesy of Mr. Ogden Mills, the Museum library has 

 recently received a very generous donation of books from the Gallatin- 

 Vail library. 



We hope that we may some day all have the pleasure of listening 

 to the Attendants' Quartette, composed of Messrs. John Finn, John 

 O'Neill, John Larsen and Henrv Ruof. 



