Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . Fig. 5.—View of the interiur uf town of Kuching, Sarawak, hy Streeter. 6 MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL, 6o MR. GEORGE MIXTERS COLLECTING TRIP TO LAKE BAIKAL Another collaborator of the National Museum. Mr. George Mixter,of Boston. Massachusetts, an experienced big-game hunter, volun-teered to collect large mammals for the Museum in the vicinity ofLake Baikal, Siberia, during the summer of 1912. The main objectof Mr. Mixters trip was to secure specimens ai the native bearand of the seal pe
Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . Fig. 5.—View of the interiur uf town of Kuching, Sarawak, hy Streeter. 6 MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL, 6o MR. GEORGE MIXTERS COLLECTING TRIP TO LAKE BAIKAL Another collaborator of the National Museum. Mr. George Mixter,of Boston. Massachusetts, an experienced big-game hunter, volun-teered to collect large mammals for the Museum in the vicinity ofLake Baikal, Siberia, during the summer of 1912. The main objectof Mr. Mixters trip was to secure specimens ai the native bearand of the seal peculiar to Lake Baikal, neither of which was repre-sented in the collections of the National Museum. He succeeded. Fig. 6.—Skull of a Siberian hear, from near Lake Baikal, collected byMr. Mixter. Photograph by National Museum. in obtaining good specimens of both. The bear skull shown in figure6 is from his collection. DR. W. L. ABBOTTS OPERATIONS IN CASHMEREDr. W. L. Abbott, to whom reference has already been made,retm-ned to Cashmere early in the spring of 1012, when he interestedhimself in trapping and sttidying the habits of the smaller mammalsof that country. He sent to the National Musetim many valuablespecimens and much interesting information. NO. 30 SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I9I2 THE ZOOLOGICAL EXPEDmON OF DR. THEODORE TOTHE ALTAI MOUNTAINS. SIBERIA AND MONGOLIA tlic invitation of Dr. Theodore Lyman, of Harvard Iniversity,the National Museum \va.^ enahled to participate, in cooperation withthe ;^eum of Comparative Zoolog-y. in a zoological expeditiont(^ the Altai Mountains of Siberia and Mongolia. As this regionwas unrepresented by specimens in the National Museum, theop
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