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naniod locture was delivered at the Fourth Austrahan Dental Congress, 

 at Adelaide, of which Dr. Gr( g ry was made an Honorary Member. 



Everywhere museum ojfficials and university professors gladly took 

 active part in the efforts to establish closer relations between the Ameri- 

 can Museum and the museums and universities of Australia. Arrange- 

 ments were made for extensive exchanges of exhibition and study 

 material. B\^ putting into effect the plans which have been made, it 

 a])])cars to be quite possible to secure material for a new Australian Hall 

 within the next two or three years. It is planned to have mounted 

 groups of Australian mammals and birds in the same hall with groups 

 showing the life of the aborigines. 



It would be difficult to acknowledge in detail the very numerous and 

 important courtesies received by the members of the expedition from 

 Australian colleagues and frie* ds. Among those who cooperated most 

 actively, however, may be especially mentioned Mr. Charles Hedley 

 and Dr. Charles Anderson, of the Australian Museum; Professor Lance- 

 lot Harrison, of the University of Sydney; Mr. Ellis S. Joseph and Mr. 

 Harry Burrell, of Sydney; Mr. E. C. Andrews, Government Geologist 

 of New South Wales; Mr. Heber A. Longman, Director of the museum 

 at Queensland; Sir Baldwin Spencer, Mr. Kershaw and Mr. F. Chap- 

 man, of the National Museum at Melbourne; Mr. Edgar Waite, 

 Director of the South Australia Museum at Adelaide; Mr. H. H. Scott, 

 Curator of the Victoria Museum and Art Gallery at Launceston, Tas- 

 mania; Mr. Clive E. Lord, Curator of the museum at Hobart; and 

 Professor T. T. Flynn of the University of Tasmania, Hobart. 



Mr. Smyth has just rctu^n^d fr-^m a month's st y a+ Indian 

 Lake, ir the Adirondacks. We think he feels rather bad'y about having 

 to come back. 



Dr. Goddard was fortunate enough to make two trips, this summer. 

 His first trip, which lasted from April to early June, had as its chief 

 purpose the securing of first-hand information concerning the collection 

 of Peruvian gold objeets purchased in this city in 1920. Fe vs'ed the 

 locality in Peru in which the specimens were originally obtained, and 

 discovered an additional gold object thgre. Incidentally, he had the 

 opportunity of seeing the ruins al r g the coast of Peru and in the high 



