1923
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Summary of Expeditions. Third Asiatic Expedition: Mongolia and China. A large part of he
departments field work was concentrated on this expedition. Assoc. Curator Granger, Messrs. Peter
Kaisen and George Olsen were sent to do field work, Granger for the whole year and the other 2 for 8
months. A series of rich and remarkable fossil faunas were secured from the Cretaceous and older tertiary
formations. The most notable finds were the eggs and young dinosaurs: 25 eggs, over 70skulls and 12
complete skeletons of dinosaurs, mostly of a primitive ceratopsian. There was also a large series of
other dinosaur remains collected. A fine early Tertiary collection of mammals were also made. From
South China a fine Pliocene collection of fossil mammals was collected. India, Burma and Greece. This
expedition was financed by Mrs. Henry Clay Frick and carried out by Assoc. Curator Barnum Brown. In
1922 Brown secured a magnificent collection form the Siwalik Hills in NW India, In Burma he obtained
a small but valuable collection. He has now commenced exploration of the island of Samos and
investigated a number of other promising areas of Greece and Asia Minor. Nebraska. Mr. Thomson
continued work at the Snake Creek and Agate fossil quarries in western Nebraska and secured a valuable
series of skulls of various animals, particularly the so-called bear-dogs, true dogs, 2-toed horses, large
and small camels and a complete skeleton of a Blastomeryx California. Mr. Childs Frick has been
conducting researches upon certain Pliocene formations of the Eden region in southern California, and
has secured a large and varied collection of fossil mammals. These collections have been obtained and
prepared at his own personal cost and are under investigation by him at the museum. Ecuador. Mr. H.
E. Anthony on his last expedition to Ecuador, spent a part of his time collecting fossil mammals in the
Punin region near Riobamba. He obtained a good series of Pleistocene mammals, mostly camel and
horses. Gifts. Mr. H. L. Mead and Mr. W. W. Holmes gave a number of Florida fossils to the Museum.
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