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mountains east of Lima. Plans liave \)vcn fornmlated whicli it is hoped 

 may lead to valuable future work in Peruvian ar(:lueolo}i;y. 



The second tri]) was made at th invitation of the State Historical 

 Society of North Dakota to attend the Arikara bundle-opening cere- 

 monies, which were held chiefly for the purpose of increasing the food 

 supply by making the grain grow well and making the buffalo multiply. 

 This is the first time in many years that these ceremonies have been held. 

 Motion pictures and still pictures were taken, and i)honograph records 

 of the songs were obtained. Important parts of the ritual were recorded 

 in the Arikara language. Dr. Goddard was assisted in this work b}- Miss 

 Gladys A. Heichert, Assistant in the Dei)artment of Anthrojwlogy at 

 Columbia. Dr. Melvin R. Gilmore, Curator of the North Dakota State 

 Historical Society, and Mr. George F. Will, of Bismarck, were also 

 members of the party. 



Mr. Ernest Thom])son-8eton was the guest of the staff meeting of the 

 Department of Ornithology, on September 22d. He gave a very en- 

 joyable talk on the aims and objects of the Woodcraft League. 



A carload of steel cabinets has arrived for the Department of ]Mam- 

 mals. The work of re-distributing storage specimens will commence as 

 soon as the new cases have been installed. 



Mr. Barnum Brown has sent in a few salt water fishes from the 

 general vicinity of Abyssinia, which it will not be possible to identify 

 offhand. 



Mr. J. C. Bell has just completed a cast of a large hammerhead shark. 

 This is the first cast to be made from one of the series of large sharks 

 obtained on his expedition to Caj^e Lookout, North Carolina, some 

 months back. Dr. Russell J. Col(^s, who was a visitor at the Museum a 

 short time ago, went over this cast carefully, making some suggestions 

 as to finishing touches. The next fish which Mr. Bell will take up will 

 be a large male tiger shark captured by Dr. Coles. The Cape Lookout 

 shark cx])edition was reported on technicall}' in the March number of 

 Copeia. A popular article on the expedition, written by ]\Ir. Nichols, 

 appeared in the May-June number of A'atiirnl History. It was accom- 

 panied by some very interesting and uiuisual ])hot()graphs taken by Dr. 



