Oct. 1902. 



Annual Report of the Director. 



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Mr. C. F. Periolat, consisting of grizzly bear skins, white foxes, blue 

 foxes, caribou, etc. Mention should also be made of the generous 

 gift of Mr. Vernon Shaw Kennedy of certain Mexican mammals. Mr. 

 Gerhard, Assistant Curator of the Division of Entomology, added 

 over 2,500 specimens of insects to the collections. 



Expeditions and Field Work. — Sixteen expeditions, representing 

 all of the Departments of the Museum, visited different places of 

 research in North America during the year. Anthropology has, per- 

 haps, performed the notable original work, which has been prose- 

 cuted with great vigor by all of the members of the staff of that 

 Department: Messrs. Dorsey, Simms, Owen, Hudson and Newcombe. 

 A list of the expeditions made during the year follows: 



Locality. Collectors. Material. 



Alaska, C. F. Newcombe, . . . Haida and Tlingit Ethnol- 

 ogy. 



Oklahoma, James Mooney, . . . Kiowa and Comanche Eth- 

 nology. 



Montana, S. C. Simms, .... Crow and Cheyenne Ethnol- 

 ogy. 



Oklahoma, Geo. A. Dorsey, . . . Pawnee and Arapaho Ethnol- 

 ogy. 



California, J. W. Hudson, .... California Ethnology. 



Mexico, Geo. F, Breninger, . . Birds and Eggs. 



Eastern Asia, .... AUeyne Ireland, . . . Ethnology, Geology and 



Botany. 



Oklahoma, Geo. A. Dorsey, . . . Pawnee, Osage and Oto 



Indiana, Kentucky, Ten- Ethnology, 

 nessee and Missouri, , W.A.Phillips, . . . Data for Map of Distribution 



of Mill Creek Quarry. 

 Northern Minnesota, . Chas. J. Brand, . . . North American Forestry 



Woods, Herbarium Speci- 

 mens, Economic Speci- 

 mens. 



Montana, . . . . . S. C. Simms, .... Crow Ethnology. 

 Oklahoma, Geo. A. Dorsey, . . . Ponca, Tonkaway and Ara- 

 paho Ethnology. 



Oklahoma, Geo. A. Dorsey, . . . Pawnee Ethnology. 



North Dakota, . . . E. S. Riggs, .... Cretaceous fossils. 



Maine, O. C. Farrington, . . . Minerals. 



South Dakota and Wyo- 

 ming, H. W. Nichols, . . . Ores and Minerals. 



During the early part of the year, Mr. Nichols, Assistant Curator 



of Geology, visited several graphite mines in South Dakota and Wya- 



