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AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. 



and containing nearly all of Lawrence's types), and the Elliot collection of 

 Hummingbirds, at that time one of the largest and most authoritative 

 collections in the world of this numerous and most interesting suborder of 

 birds. In the same year were also received a notable collection of birds 

 from Arizona for the North i\merican study series, and our first freshly 

 collected and wholly unworked collection of exotic birds, the Herbert 

 Smith collection of some 4000 specimens from the Province of Matto Grosso, 

 Brazil. This became the basis of a series of papers by the curator published 

 in the Museum 'Bulletin' in 1889-1892. In 1889 small collections of birds 

 were received from Ecuador and Bolivia, aggregating about 600 specimens 

 (200 species), which formed also the basis of papers in the ' Bulletin.' 



During the years 1890, 1891, 1892, important, accessions of mammals 

 and birds were received through purchases of small collections from Mexico 

 and Central America, and collections obtained through Museum expedi- 

 tions to Florida, Texas, Colorado, and Washington, upon which reports 

 were published in the 'Bulletin,' by the curator and the assistant curator. 

 In 1893, and again in 1894, Mr. Chapman made collecting trips to the 

 Island of Trinidad, B. W. L, resulting in the addition of 550 mammals and 

 about 690 birds, which formed the basis of extended papers on the mammal 

 and bird faunas of the island. 



Among later collections may be mentioned the Streator collection of 

 birds and mammals made in British Columbia in 1899; collections of birds 

 and mammals made in Alaska and northern British Columbia by the A. J. 

 Stone expeditions in 1897-1903; the H. H. Smith collections of birds and 

 mammals from the Santa Marta region of Colombia, received in 1898-1901; 

 the Peary collections of birds and mammals from Greenland and Ellsmere 

 Land (1898-1909); the collections of Siberian birds and mammals made by 

 N. G. Buxton on the Jesup North Pacific Expedition in 1901; the Batty 

 collections of birds and mammals from Chiriqui and Mexico received in 

 1901-1906; the Nicaragua collections of birds and mammals made by W. 

 B. Richardson in 1907-1908; the E. T. Seton collection of mammals from 

 the Athabasca-Mackenzie region of Canada, 1908; the Tjader East African 

 collection of mammals, 1907; the Rainsford collection of East African 

 mammals in 1913; the Congo collections of birds and mammals, each 

 numbering some 6000 specimens, made by Herbert Lang and James P. 

 Chapin, received in 1915; and the constant inflow of birds and mammals 

 from South America, from 1911 to date, through expeditions directed by 

 Curator Chapman and collected mainly by Leo E. Miller, W. B. Richard- 

 son, and George K. Cherrie; and the birds and mammals collected by 

 Cherrie and Miller on the Roosevelt Brazilian Expedition; also birds and 

 mammals collected by H. E. Anthony in Panama, and in Oregon and 

 Washington. 



The Asiatic material received, in addition to the Buxton Siberian col- 



