Oct., 1905. 



Annual Report of the Director. 



355 



of which 14 were purchased, 15 presented, and 374 collected in the 

 field. 721 specimens of fish were obtained during the year; of which 

 659 were received in exchange or presented. A large number of 

 reptiles were added, and 373 specimens were added to the insect 

 collection. No additions were made to the conchological collection 

 during the year. There have been acquired upward of 2,500 bird 

 skins; 228 complete or partial sets of eggs, and 34 nests; of which 

 43 species of birds, 82 kinds of eggs and 21 examples of nests were 

 new to the collection. The classification of accessions follows: 





Number of 



Number of 





Accessions. 



Specimens. 



Gifts, 



202 



6,481 



Exchanges, 



..... 63 



5>948 



Collected, 



48 



15,205 



Purchase, 



95 



24,185 



Deposit, 



..... I 



6 



Collated, 



2 



824 



Transfers, 



■ ■ • • • 3 



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Expeditions and Field Work. — For reasons already given, expedi- 

 tions conducted by the Department of Anthropology have been 

 few in number. Mr. Alleyne Ireland, earlier in the year, concluded 

 his expedition to Borneo and the neighboring islands. Dr. C. F. 

 Newcombe spent two months in securing special information re- 

 quired by him in installing the Northwest Coast collections and pre- 

 paring a report thereon. Dr. J. W. Hudson continued his in- 

 vestigations in the Lower Klamath, begun early in the year, brought 

 them to a close and returned to the Museum, where he has been 

 engaged in preparing his collections for exhibition. The work of in- 

 vestigation among the Arapaho has been continued, Mr. Cleaver 

 Warden being in the field for five months. The Curator has twice 

 visited the Pawnee in connection with his investigations for the Car- 

 negie Institution of Washington. The joint expedition with the 

 Bureau of Ethnology in charge of Mr. James Mooney among the 

 Cheyenne and Kiowa was interrupted during a great part of the year 

 by the necessity of Mr. Mooney's presence in Washington. Mr. 

 Mooney has recently returned to the field. The Curator of Botany, 

 in company with Dr. N. L. Britton, Director of the New York Botan- 

 ical Garden, and Dr. M. A. Howe, Algologist of the garden, continued, 

 in January last, their united, systematic exploration of the islands of 

 the Bahamian Archipelago never before botanically visited. The 

 party left New York on January 19th, reaching Nassau, New Provi- 



