2 2 Field Museum of Natural History — Reports, Vol. IV. 



the Malaspina Glacier is the largest known outside the Arctic and 

 Antarctic regions. The model also shows fiords, cirques, hanging 

 valleys, marginal lakes, coastal plains, medial, terminal and recessional 

 moraines, and other features of the region. The map of Illinois is 6 

 feet 7 inches by 3 feet 9 inches in size, and the vertical scale is about 

 four times the horizontal. The rather low relief of the prairies is shown 

 as well as the terminal and recessional moraines of the continental ice 

 sheet. In contrast with these are the sharply incised streams and 

 gorges of the driftless area in northwestern Illinois and in the extension 

 of the Ozark Plateau in the extreme southwestern part of the state. 

 Another topographic type is illustrated by the bottom lands of the 

 Mississippi and Illinois flood plains. The accessions by collection 

 include 133 specimens of the rare minerals and feldspars of Maine 

 collected by the Curator, 40 specimens skeletons and skulls of fossil 

 Tertiary vertebrates collected by the Museum expedition to Utah 

 and 2,300 specimens fossils Ordovician and Devonian invertebrates 

 collected in Iowa by the Assistant Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology. 



The total number of specimens of mammals and birds added to the 

 collections is 1,968, of which 1,438 are birds and 530 mammals. A 

 large collection of Gorillas and Chimpanzees, secured from J. F. G. 

 Umlauff of Hamburg, Germany, forms a very important addition to 

 the exhibits of mammals. It consists of seventeen specimens of several 

 species and varieties; most of which are accompanied by complete 

 mounted skeletons. It is undoubtedly the largest collection of African 

 Anthropoids in this country. In the Division of Ichthyology and 

 Herpetology the most important addition were 350 fishes from British 

 Guiana, received in exchange from the Carnegie Museum, and which 

 were collected last year by Dr. C. H. Eigenmann. Dr. Frank Bill- 

 ings and Mr. F. G. Hartwell presented a skin of a large saw fish from 

 Tampico, Mexico, and Dr. Billings also presented the skin of a Tarpon 

 from the same locality. A small but interesting collection of shells 

 was received as a gift from Rev. P. E. Nordgren. In the Division of 

 Entomology the additions consist of local insects collected by members 

 of the staff. 



Expeditions AND Field Work. — In September, Dr. Berthold Laufer 

 concluded his labors in China and Tibet under the Blackstone fund with 

 collections comprising 10,000 objects. The ethnology of each country, 

 supplementing and explaining that of the other, properly arranged, 

 will show all phases of thought development and the most important 

 features of culture in Eastern Asia. Returning to the Philippines at the 

 close of 1909, on the 5th Cummings Expedition, F. C. Cole began work 



