Jan., 1907. Annual Report of the Director. 



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a London dealer, which included a Chinese water deer, a blue 

 duiker, a white-eared kob and a chimpanzee; all of which, with the 

 exception of the last being species new to the Museum collection. 

 About one thousand bird skins were purchased from Professor Cory, 

 and 448 bird skins from Guatemala from Mr. William B. Richardson. 

 By the expeditions of Mr. Heller, Mr. Barber, and Mr Dearborn 

 about twelve hundred specimens of bird skins were added to the 

 collections, from Guatemala. In Illinois, Mr. Ferry and Mr. Dearborn 

 secured about six hundred specimens of birds, eggs, and nests during 

 the year. Dr. Tarleton H. Bean during his visit to the Bermudas 

 collected about eighteen hundred specimens of fishes, many new to the 

 Museum collections and some new to science. The efforts of Dr. 

 Meek in Central America yielded about fifteen hundred specimens 

 of fishes and a large number of shells and other zoological specimens. 

 The purchase of one hundred specimens of mounted fishes from 

 Hawaii from S. F. Denton of Wellesley, Mass., was an important 

 acquisition. The additions during the year in the Division of Entomol- 

 ogy aggregated 14,435 specimens; of this number 11,921 were pur- 

 chased, 1,094 were collected by assistants and others on Museum expe- 

 ditions, and 1,420 were presented. In the Division of Osteology 110 

 new specimens have been added to the collection and 464 skulls have 

 been bleached and cleaned for^use in the study collection of mammals. 

 Twenty-seven skeletons were cleaned and prepared, but not mounted. 

 The classification of accessions follows: 



Number of Number of 

 . Accessions. Specimens. 



Gifts, 196 8,288 



Exchanges, - 39 5,850 



Collected, 69 27,763 



Purchase, 80 28,107 



Collated, 9 78 



Transfer. V ... . .... . . . 5 ioo 



Expeditions and Field Work. — The Curator of Anthropology continued 

 his investigations among the Arapaho and Pawnee, the work in 

 connection with the last-named tribe being performed on behalf 

 of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Assistant Curator Owen 

 made his second visit to the Mission Indians, in Southern California, 

 among whom he spent the first five months of the year, visiting a 

 number of tribes and revisiting others. As a result of this expedi- 

 tion the collection from the Mission Indians is fairly complete. Mr. 



