Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . C. Raven into that terri-tory to procure characteristic mammals as well as any ethnologicalmaterial that might prove of interest. A letter from Mr. Raven,who left the Lnited States about March i, 1912, and is still in thefield, announces that he lias had a successful tri]) and has made alarge collection. MR. D. D. STREETERS EXPEDITION TO BORNEO Mr. Daniel Denison Streeter, Jr., of Brooklyn, X. Y., offered hisservices as a volunteer collaborator for the National Museum. Hesailed from New York about April 15, iyi2, and r
Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . C. Raven into that terri-tory to procure characteristic mammals as well as any ethnologicalmaterial that might prove of interest. A letter from Mr. Raven,who left the Lnited States about March i, 1912, and is still in thefield, announces that he lias had a successful tri]) and has made alarge collection. MR. D. D. STREETERS EXPEDITION TO BORNEO Mr. Daniel Denison Streeter, Jr., of Brooklyn, X. Y., offered hisservices as a volunteer collaborator for the National Museum. Hesailed from New York about April 15, iyi2, and returned to theLnited States in December. He passed from Sarawak into DutchBorneo bv ascending the Rejang River and crossing the moimtainson the dividing line to the Kajan River. He then ascended to thehead of this river, and crossed another range to the head-waters of theMahakam River which he descended to the Strait of Macassar. Asmall but interesting collection of mammals was secured, includingtwo skulls of the Rhinoceros. SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. .30. Fig. 2.—Kuching. Sarawak. Borneo. Photograph by Streeter.
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