Oct.  1895. 
Annual  Report  of  the  Director. 
17 
in  one  of  the  early  days  of  the  trip  which  hampered  his  work  from  the 
start  and  finally  compelled  his  return  to  America  before  the  Expedi- 
tion had  covered  half  its  itinerary,  the  collections  were  far  smaller 
than  his  hopes  and  inclinations  had  promised.  Prof.  Holmes  fitted 
out  for  surveys  and  observations  in  Archeology.  He  secured  at  all 
points  a  large  amount  of  valuable  information  that  he  is  now  embody- 
ing in  a  contribution  to  the  Museum  publications,  illustrating  his 
work  from  the  wealth  of  sketches  obtained  by  him  on  the  trip.  He 
secured  altogether  about  one  thousand  specimens  in  Archeology  from 
Yucatan,  Chiapas,  Oaxaca,  Vera  Cruz  and  the  valley  of  Mexico.  He 
also  established  desirable  scientific  connections  and  correspondents 
in  all  parts  of  the  country  visited,  and,  as  with  Dr.  Millspaugh, 
secured  a  knowledge  of  the  countries  and  the  peoples  visited  that 
will  be  of  great  value  in  future  work.  The  expedition  as  a  whole  was 
out  for  three  months,  and  during  that  time  covered  a  great  deal  of 
very  interesting  territory,  much  of  it  theretofore  unvisited  by  scien- 
tists. Four  lectures  in  the  Museum  course  have  resulted  from  the 
trip,  two  delivered  by  Dr.  Millspaugh  in  the  Spring  series,  and  two 
by  Prof.  Holmes  scheduled  in  the  present  course.  All  of  the  expenses 
of  the  expedition  were  borne  by  Mr.  Armour,  and  to  him  the  Institu- 
tion and  the  Curators  who  accompanied  him  are  indebted  for  the 
priceless  results  obtained. 
The  expedition  to  San  Domingo  was  conducted  by  Mr.  Geo.  K. 
Cherrie,  Assistant  Curator  in  the  Department  of  Ornithology.  He 
departed  in  November,  1894,  and  returned  in  the  latter  part  of  May, 
1895.  His  work  was  very  thorough,  very  laborious,  at  times  quite 
dangerous,  and  exceedingly  successful.  Most  of  his  work  was  done 
in  the  interior  and  on  the  Caribbean  slope  and  along  the  Nigua  river, 
and  the  climatic  danger'  to  which  the  Curator  was  subjected  is  appar- 
ent from  the  fact  that  four  of  his  guides  were  stricken  with  fever  dur- 
ing his  stay  upon  the  Island.  Mr.  Cherrie  obtained  one  thousand 
nine  hundred  and  fifty-eight  bird  skins,  sixteen  mammals,  eighty  rep- 
tiles, and  a  number  of  specimens  of  fish  and  Crustacea.  Among  the 
birds,  two  species  proved  new  to  science  and  a  number  of  others  are 
very  interesting  as  representing  rare  and  little  known  forms. 
Capt.  Miner  W.  Bruce,  unattached,  but  a  student  in  Ethnology 
and  an  explorer  in  the  Northwest,  of  repute,  was  outfitted  by  the 
Museum  for  an  expedition  to  Alaska  and  Siberia  in  June,  1894.  Capt. 
Bruce  failed  to  reach  the  point  of  his  destination  last  season  on 
account  of  an  accident  to  the  machinery  of  the  vessel  in  which  he 
sailed,  but  he  will  undertake  the  work  again  this  season,  using  the 
material  he  had  purchased  for  exchanges  last  year.  Resulting 
thus  far  from  the  expedition  has  been  the  acquisition  of  valuable 
