KLEIN, A. J., New York City. 6 Ethnological specimens from North America and 24 from Africa; Wanderobo beehive from Aberdare Range, British East Africa. LEWCOCK, HAROLD W., New York City. 2 Bullroarers from the Plains Indians. LOTT, EGBERT PHELPS, New York City. 1 Piece of ribbon and 3 pieces of white cloth found on mummy of a woman, 1 piece of ribbon found in mound, on road from Callao to Lima, Peru. MACARTNEY, MISS HELEN, Easton, Pa. Collection of pottery from Peru. MAHONY, MISS AGNES P., Woodcliff, N. J. 1 Blanket from west coast of Africa. MAMMALOGY, Department of (transfer). Mummified cat wrapped in cloth from Egypt. MASON, J. A., New York City. Surface finds from Indian camp sites, near South Amboy, N. J. MATTHEW, DR. W. D., New York City. Archæological specimens from Florida. Collected by Dr. Matthew and W. W. Holmes. MAURILLO, MISS BARBARA S. Work in horsehair of Indians of Popayan, Colombia. METZELAAR, DR. J., Holland. Human skull (Frisian) from Sneek, Holland. MOIR, J. REID, Ipswich, England. 25 Rude flint objects from East Anglia, England. MONYI, S., New York City. Gold bead and nephrite image from State of Oaxaca, Mexico. MUIR, JOHN M., Tampico, Mexico. 2 Pottery objects from Mexico. NELSON, N. C., New York City. Elk bone from Inwood Station Shellheap, Manhattan; Plummet-shaped stone from Bronx Botanical Garden, New York City. O'LAUGHLIN, L. H., Washington, Iowa. 1 Catlinite pipe from the Sioux Indians. OTT, HARRISON W., New York City. 5 Modern weapons from United States and France; 6 parts of images, from Cholula Pueblo, Mexico. PARSONS, DR. ELSIE CLEWS, Lenox, Mass. 3 Collections of potsherds from three different ruins at Jemez Valley, New Mexico. POOR, WALTER S., New York City. Fur rug made by Alaskans. PRENTICE, JOHN H., New York City. 2 Wooden objects from Mexico. PREPARATION, DEPARTMENT OF (transfer). 2 Casts of Navajo Indian head modeled by Mahonri Young. PSYCHOL. INSTITUT DER UNIVERSITÄT, Berlin, Germany (through Prof. F. Boas, Columbia University). Indestructible molds of 2 Museum phonograph records. RAVEN, H. C., New York City. Archæological collection. SAVAGE, M. F., New York City. Piece of hematite, a paint stone, from Arizona. Brush used in Snake Dance from Hopi, Arizona. SAYRE, MISS MARY HALL, New York City. Spear, harpoon, jacket and bag, from Alaska. Beaded buckskin pouch from North American Indians; cocoanut fiber caps from South America. SEALE, J. L., New York City. 1 Stone ax, 6 shell and stone implements, from India and Barbados. SHERIDAN, CAPT. JOHN F., Manhattan Beach, N. Y. Mummy of infant from southern SHERMAN, MISS BELLE, Ithaca, N. Y. 4 Decorated potsherds from shellmound in Marion Co., Fla. SMITH, MRS. CHARLES SPRAGUE, New York City. 26 Bronze, stone, bone and food specimens from Switzerland. SUTTON, MRS. C. W., Yonkers, N. Y. 2 Seed necklaces with bird pendants from Indians of Ecuador. UNGAR, F. C. H., New York City. 1 Basket from Dohomey, Accra, West Africa. VON HEMERT, MRS. A. P., New York City. Collection of 9 specimens of pottery from the Southwestern United States, Panama, and Peru. WAIT, HENRY H., New York City. 1 Human skull. WALD, MISS AGNES S., Welfare Island, N. Y. 16 Specimens from Lower Congo River, Africa. WALKER, LEWIS, Douglas Manor, L. I. 1 Human skull (part of lower jaw). WEST, FRANCIS, Pompano, Fla. Shell axes with fragmentary shells and animal bones from shellheap at Boca Raton, Palm Beach Co., Fla. WHITNEY, MRS. EDWARD F., New York City. 1 Large celt from Welaka, Putnam Co., Fla. WILLIAMS, GRANT, New York City. Small ax, large ax, sinker and hammerstone, and celt from City Island, N. Y., and Kelt Co., Mich. WILSON, GILBERT L., St. Paul, Minn. "Cloud stone" beads from Hidatsa Indians, N. Dak. YAU, C. F., New York City. Carved wooden figure of Chinese maiden gathering mulberry leaves for feeding silk-worms. Made in Shanghai. BY EXCHANGE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM, Sydney, Australia. Face masks of two Tasmanians, cast in 1880. Collected in Tasmania. BREUIL, PROF. HENRI, Paris, France. 61 Paleolithic flints and 8 neolithic chipped stone objects. EMMONS, LIEUT. G. T., Princeton, N. J. 2 Navajo blankets, 1 set of gambling sticks and 2 paint stones from the Northwest. PUBLIC LIBRARy, Museum and Art GALLERY, Melbourne, Australia. Cast of Tasmanian aboriginal "Truganini." SKINNER, ALANSON B., New York City. Delaware moccasins and pemmican hammer collected in Oklahoma and South Dakota; war bundle of wolf gems from the Sauk Indians, Cushing, Okla. DIVISION OF ASIATIC EXPLORATION AND RESEARCH ROY CHAPMAN ANDREWS, Curator-in-Chief1 This division was established at the close of the year 1923 as a department embracing the activities of the Third Asiatic Expedi tion, with Mr. Roy Chapman Andrews as CuratorOrganization in-Chief and leader of the expedition; Mr. Walter Granger, Associate Curator in Palæontology and second in command in the field; Mr. Frederick K. Morris, Associate Curator in Geology and Geography; Dr. Charles P. Berkey of Columbia University, Research Associate in Geology; Dr. A. W. Grabau, of the Geological Survey of China, Research Associate in Palæontology; Mr. Clifford H. Pope, Assistant in Zoology. Field Work The active field work of the expedition was closed temporarily in the fall of 1923 upon the return to Peking of the main party from the Mongolian plateau, and of Mr. Pope from the island of Hainan. All the members, including President Osborn, who joined the Mongolian party during its last week, returned to America at the end of the year with the exception of Mr. Granger, who remained in Peking to direct the packing and shipping of the collections and who did not reach the Museum until February, 1924. During the past year the work of the members of this expedition has been divided between the preparation of collections and of scientific articles upon the material collected, and the making of plans and preparations for field work in the coming season. The last shipment of the great zoological and palæontological collections made in China and Mongolia during the past three years arrived safely at the Museum in April. LaboraPreparation tory work on this material was immediately begun and was carried on continuously throughout the remainder of the year. The collections of mammals, birds, reptiles, batrachians and fishes have been classified, catalogued and to a large extent studied. Of the fossils, the mammals are almost entirely prepared and work on the preparation of the reptiles is well advanced. A large part of the laboratory force of the Department of Vertebrate Palæontology was detailed to this work during the year and the progress made in cleaning up this vast collection has been most satisfactory. Report prepared by Associate Curator Granger. Two Chinese boys (field assistants), Kan Chuen Pao and Liu Shih Ku, were brought to the Museum by Mr. Granger, through the courtesy of the United States Immigration Bureau, and were given nine months' instruction in laboratory preparation of fossils. This training will greatly increase the value of these boys to the expedition, both in future field work and in the laboratory for the preparation of fossils which it has been planned to establish at the headquarters at Peking. The preparation of fossil vertebrates is a tedious, difficult and expensive process, and it is felt that much of this can be performed advantageously in Peking, shipping many of the specimens back to the Museum in a prepared or semi-prepared condition. A special exhibit of the more striking fossils from Mongolia was begun in the Tertiary Hall in 1923; this has been added to from time to time as the material was prepared, and the Exhibition exhibit now occupies the greater part of the center of this great hall. It is planned to arrange this exhibit in a more permanent form in the old Reptile Hall as soon as the rearrangement of the new Dinosaur Hall is completed. The great skull of Baluchitherium, the skull of Andrewsarchus, the giant carnivorous mammal, numerous skulls of titanotheres, several groups of dinosaur eggs, a magnificent series of skulls and skeletons of the egglaying dinosaur Protoceratops, are to be found in this collection. Curator-in-Chief Andrews returned to the Museum in November, 1923, and left for Peking in May, 1924. During the six months that he was in America he devoted Future much of his time, through lecturing, writing and L |