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According to intonnatiou received in his department, Mr. (Iranger 

 is now at work in T/e-chwan, where he will stay until February if the 

 field seems promising. He wrote that plans had been held u]) by weather 

 and politics, both of which have been hot. 



Some time ago, Mr. Van Campen Heilner left at the Museum a small 

 collection of fishes, which he had obtained last winter in the Berry 

 Islands, Bahamas, in rock pools, at low tide. When in due course these 

 were taken up and catalogued, two species were found among them which 

 apparently had never before been described. This is another instance 

 illustrating the extreme richness of the fish fauna of the West Indies. 



Mr. Henn s]:)ent his holidays at the Carnegie Museum, in Pittsburgh. 

 The Pittsburgh ])eople are anxious for him to begin curating their fishes, 

 but he will continue with h's work here on the Bibliography of Fishes 

 until it is completed. 



As Miss La Monte felt it her duty to accompany her family to Italy, 

 Miss Heinrich has taken her place in work on the Bibliography. 



Speaking of the Bibliography, again, the publication of the finished 

 parts is still being held up by the printers' strike. Museum work on the 

 index goes forward. 



At the request of President Osborn, who has predicted the close of 

 Age of Mammals within probably fifty years, Mr. Anthony is collecting 

 statistics on the sale of skins, for use in fur garments, for the years 1919, 

 1920 and 1921. His results, which will be published later, bear out the 

 amazing figures for the destruction of fur-bearing and hair-bearing 

 animals, the world over, set forth by Dr. Hornaday in his article "The 

 Fur Trade and The Wild Animals," printed in the Zoological Society 

 Bulletin oi M-dTch, 1921. 



Dr. Lowie left early in August for Berkeley, where he has been 

 appointed Associate Professor of Anthropology in the University of Cali- 

 fornia. 



Early in September, Mr. Hyde was bitten on the second finger of the 

 right hand by a two-foot rattlesnake in the Museum of the Boy Scout 



