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investigated Calusa Indian mounds near Fort Myer, Florida, securing many skeletons valuable in determining the racial type of these aborigines. In May, assisted in part by funds from Mrs. Walcott, Mr. Collins will proceed to Alaska to carry on investigations at ancient village sites on St. Lawrence Island, to continue our work in the area over which early man is supposed to have come to America.

On an expedition financed by that faithful friend of the Institution, Dr. W. L. Abbott, Mr. Krieger is now in the field at Samana Bay, Dominican Republic, where he is examining caves and village sites for cultural remains of early Indians. He is accompanied by Mr. Gerrit Miller, who is searching in the same sites for bones of extinct animals of a fauna associated with the Indians of previous periods. Reports from the field announce satisfactory results in both lines.

Mr. Paul Standley returned March 31 from a botanical trip of several months duration in Honduras. Mr. A. J. Poole, of the Mammal Division, returned a few days earlier from Haiti where he explored a number of caves for remains of extinct animals and birds known only from these deposits. His collections contain remains of a great owl and of a rail that had lost the power of flight. Mr. W. L. Brown, taxidermist, is in the Sudan with a hunting party to obtain large mammals still needed in our collections.

The Baker collection of insects, one of the largest of its kinds, bequeathed to the Museum by the late Dr. C.F. Baker, consisting of specimens from the Philippines and elsewhere, will arrive from Manila next week.

Early in May, Mr. C.W. Gilmore, with two assistants, will explore the Two Medicine formation in Montana to collect vertebrate fossils. This field is especially rich in the great reptiles known as Dinosaurs and is expected to yield much of value. The great Dinosaur Diplodocus, on which preparators have be been at work for several years, is now about completed and is being arranged for exhibition.
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