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regarding the history of the ancient inhabitants of Lowry pueblo. 

 Work was expedited by a force of workmen furnished by the 

 Montezuma County Emergency Rehef Administration. 



An anthropometric survey of Kurd, Arab, and Beduin populations 

 was made by the Field Museum Anthropological Expedition to the 

 Near East, sponsored by Mr. Marshall Field. The expedition was 

 led by Mr. Henry Field, Assistant Curator of Physical Anthropology, 

 who was accompanied by Mr. Richard A. Martin, of Chicago. In 

 addition to collecting anthropological data and material, the Near 

 East expedition made large collections for the Departments of 

 Botany, Zoology, and Geology. 



Paleontological field work was conducted in the Bad Lands of 

 South Dakota by Mr. Elmer S. Riggs, Associate Curator of Paleon- 

 tology; and in Nebraska and Pennsylvania by Mr. Sharat K. Roy, 

 Assistant Curator of Geology. 



The botanical project in Europe, in charge of Mr. J. Francis 

 Macbride, Assistant Curator of Taxonomy, was in its fifth year of 

 operations. This project, inaugurated jointly in 1929 by Field 

 Museum and the Rockefeller Foundation, is still partially supported 

 from the funds granted for the purpose by the latter institution. 

 As a result of its operations some 28,000 photographic negatives 

 of type specimens of plants in European herbaria have now been 

 made, and through Field Museum prints of these are available, 

 at cost of production, to botanists generally in this country and 

 abroad. For the first time since the inception of this project, it 

 was interrupted toward the end of the year by the return of Mr. 

 Macbride to this country for a vacation of several months. It is 

 planned to have him resume work in Europe early in 1935. 



Grateful acknowledgment is hereby made to various contributors 

 who have made gifts of funds to the Museum during the year. Among 

 these may be mentioned the following: 



Mr. Marshall Field made two gifts totaling $26,140. One gift 

 was of $18,640, which was to meet an anticipated deficit of the 

 Museum for 1934. The second gift, $7,500, was made to defray 

 the expenses of the Field Museum Anthropological Expedition to 

 the Near East. 



Mrs. Oscar Straus, of New York, contributed $11,105.47 for 

 expenses of the Straus West African Expedition of Field Museum. 



Mrs. James Nelson Raymond, of Chicago, made gifts totaling 

 $4,000 toward the operating expenses of the James Nelson and 



