Annual Report - neues Buch

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ceived at the Institution and will shortly be made the subject of special investigation on the part of its specialists. Mr. F. A. Ober, whose important researches into the natural history and ethnology of numerous islands in the West Indies have beeu referred to in previous reports, made an expedition to that group of islands during the past summer, in connection with certain business enterprises. As before, he devoted such of his time as he could spare to scientific inquiry, and secured an excellent series of birds from several of the islands not previously visited. These have been duly received and entered in the catalogue of the Museum, making its series of West Indian birds by far the most complete of any in existence. It is proposed at no distant time to prepare a catalogue of the West Indian birds in the National Museum, with appropriate notes. Mr. Ober also secured important collections of reptiles, fishes, mammals, and objects of archaeology for the National Museum. In December, 1879, Prof. David S. Jordan, of the Indiana University, as assistant to the United States Fish Commission and special agent of the Census Department, was sent to the Pacific coast to investigate the fishes and fisheries of that region. Prof. Charles H. Gilbert, of the same institution, accompanied him as assistant. These gentlemen repaired at once to San Diego, Cal., where they began work January 1,1880. Statistics were obtained at each of the flshing towns, and large collections of fishes were made in turn at San Diego, San Pedro, Santa Barbara, Monterey, Sequel, and San Francisco. The collection obtained in Monterey Bay was especially extensive, comprising nearly one hundred and fifty species. A stay of several weeks was made in San Francisco, after which, about May 1, Professors Jordan ...