12 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1955 



named to succeed him. Mr. Clark will also continue as chief of that 

 division. 



From time to time the Smithsonian endeavors to recognize the aid 

 and encouragement received from the Institution's outstanding col- 

 laborators and benefactors by conferring upon such persons honorary 

 status. A new class of such appointments — Fellows of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution — was established during the year, and the first Fel- 

 low to be named was Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood, of Marlboro, Mass., 

 in recognition of her generous and important contributions to the Na- 

 tional Museum's collections of American colonial material and an 

 entire seventeenth-century house. 



Other honorary appointments made during the year were as fol- 

 lows : Drs. Robert J. Squier and Eobert F. Heizer, both of the Uni- 

 versity of California, as collaborators in connection with the Smith- 

 sonian Institution-National Geographic Society's archeological ex- 

 pedition to southern Mexico ; Dr. Helen Tappan Loeblich, of Wash- 

 ington, D. C, as honorary research associate, with particular reference 

 to her achievements in the field of Cretaceous Foraminifera and her 

 active participation in the work of the National Museum's depart- 

 ment of geology; Dr. Betty J. Meggers, of Washington, D. C, as 

 honorary research associate in recognition of her close and continuing 

 participation in the scientific work, exhibits, and other activities of 

 the National Museum's division of archeology ; Dr. William J. Tobin, 

 of Washington, D. C, as honorary research associate for his valued 

 scientific contributions and his active participation in the work of 

 the National Museum's division of physical anthropology ; and Sister 

 Inez M. Ililger, of St. Cloud, Minn., in recognition of her many years 

 of collaboration with the Bureau of American Ethnology and her 

 valued contributions to the study of the American Indian. 



SUMMARY OF THE YEAR'S ACTIVITIES OF THE INSTITUTION 



National Museum. — The year saw a large increase in numbers of 

 specimens added to the Museum collections, due to receipt of several 

 million fossil foraminiferans from Europe, In all, approximately 

 7,600,000 specimens were received, bringing the total catalog entries 

 in the National Museum to 42,864,645. Some of the year's outstand- 

 ing accessions included: In anthropology, a wood, cloth, and basketry 

 figure of a human being recovered from a Peruvian grave (A. D. 

 1100), ethnological objects fi'om Iraq, Afghanistan, and Ethiopia, and 

 an entire 2-story, 4-room colonial house from Massachusetts; in 

 zoology, collections of mammals from Korea, Pakistan, and Panama, 

 birds from Panama, large collections of fishes from the Gilbert Islands, 

 Liberia, nnd the southeastern United States, the W. M. Mann collec- 

 tion of ants, 3,200 polychacte worms, mostly from New England, and 



