. Annual report for the year ended June 30 .... United States National Museum. ^^Xi:-:.r ^^1 ilS^I 4V- ap,*.^,k. Primates are appropriately shown overhead in the new mammal hall. Fac- ing this exhibit is a mural showing how man, another primate, in various centuries and various civilizations has represented the mammals familiar to him. > Specimens secured by the Smithsonian-Roosevelt Expedition, 1909-10, were reconditioned for the new mammal hall and were placed in habitat groups such as these of the African buffalo, in a papyrus swamp (opposite, top), and the Thomson gazelle, on the Great
. Annual report for the year ended June 30 .... United States National Museum. ^^Xi:-:.r ^^1 ilS^I 4V- ap,*.^,k. Primates are appropriately shown overhead in the new mammal hall. Fac- ing this exhibit is a mural showing how man, another primate, in various centuries and various civilizations has represented the mammals familiar to him. > Specimens secured by the Smithsonian-Roosevelt Expedition, 1909-10, were reconditioned for the new mammal hall and were placed in habitat groups such as these of the African buffalo, in a papyrus swamp (opposite, top), and the Thomson gazelle, on the Great Plains of Africa (below). pared a report on the systematic aspects of the collection of mammals made on Ponape and other Micronesian islands by the field investi- gators of the Pacific Island Rat Ecology Project sponsored by the Pacific Science Board. Considerable progress was made on the study of the mammals of Korea being done jointly by Dr. Johnson and Dr. J. Ejiox Jones, Jr., of the Universit}^ of Kansas; a report on the insectivores of Korea was finished and published, and the manuscript of a report on the rodents was almost finished at the end of the year. Associate curator Henry W. Setzer continued his studies of Egyptian mammals collected by Naval Medical Research Unit No. 3. He began work on the carnivores and on the jirds (genus Aderiones), and in December made a visit to the American Museum of Natural History in New York to study spiny mice (genus Acomys) and other Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum. [Washington] : Smithsonian Institution
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