172 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1956 



The Institution gratefully acknowledges gifts and grants from the 

 following : 



American Museum of Natural History, additional gift, for a study of the eth- 

 nology of the Tsimshian Indians of the British Columbia coast. 



American Philosophical Society, for studies on the behavior and life histories 

 of solitary wasps. 



Dr. Robert A. Vines, Director of the Museum of Natural History of Houston, 

 for improvement of the United States National Herbarium Collections. 



Agnes Chase, additional gift, for copying the index to grass names. 



The Washington Fashion Group, additional gift, for the costumes collection. 



Geological Society of America, for services of a scientific illustrator. 



Johns Hopkins University, additional gift, for publications on Arctic research. 



Link Foundation, additional gift, for preparation and distribution of materials 

 related to the contributions of the National Air Museum to aviation education. 



E. A. Link, Link Aviation, Inc., additional gift, for historical research (marine 

 archeology). 



Merck & Co., Inc., for preparing a vitamin exhibit. 



National Academy of Sciences, for typing the manuscript of the second edition 

 of the Flora of Okinawa. 



National Geographic Society, to establish the Olmec Archeological Fund. 



National Geographic Society, additional grant, for the publication of "The Mate- 

 rial Culture of Pueblo Bonito." 



National Science Foundation, for the publication of "Annotated Subject-Heading 

 Bibliography of Termites." 



National Science Foundation, grant to provide maintenance and operation of the 

 Canal Zone Biological Area, Barro Colorado Island, Canal Zone. 



National Science Foundation, grant for research on "Taxonomy of the Bamboos." 



J. Townsend Russell, to secure archeological series from the Scandinavian 

 countries. 



Harvard University, for the Peabody Museum, Harvard-Smithsonian Institution 

 Kalahari Expedition. 



Malcolm MacGregor, for "The Philatelic Fund." 



I. A. O'Shaughnessy, for publication of Sister Inez Hilger's manuscript of her 

 study of Araucanian Child Life and its Cultural Background. 



Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Bredin, for an expedition to the Belgian Congo. 



State Department, grant to cooperate on Educational Exchange Services. 



Guggenheim Foundation, additional grant, for the wax metabolism fund. 



The Wenner-Gren Foundation, for use in connection with a seminar on the role 

 of physical anthropology in the identification of human remains. 



For support of the Bio-Sciences Information Exchange : 

 Atomic Energy Commission. 

 Department of the Air Force. 

 Department of the Army. 

 Department of the Navy. 

 National Science Foundation. 

 Public Health Service. 

 Veterans Administration. 



The foregoing report relates only to the private funds of the Insti- 

 tution. 



The following appropriations were made by Congress for the Gov- 

 ernment bureaus under the administrative charge of the Smithsonian 

 Institution for the fiscal year 1955 : 



