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obtaining final data for incorporation in his report. The investiga- 

 tions as a whole have given extensive and valuable series of objects 

 dealing with comparatively late pueblo culture, which through the 

 generous gift of the National Geographic Society have greatly en- 

 hanced the Museum collections in the pueblo culture of the Southwest. 



At the close of the fiscal j^ear Mr. Judd was in the field for the 

 Bureau of Ajnerican Ethnology, examining caves in Eussell Count}?^, 

 Ky., where textiles and other interesting specimens had been exhumed. 



Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, traveling partly under a grant from the Smith- 

 sonian Institution and partl}^ at personal expense, was in Europe 

 for seven weeks in the fall of 1927 for the purpose of viewing the 

 latest discoveries of early man. He examined sites of important 

 finds in southern France and then proceeded to Belgium and later 

 to German}^, where he visited the localities in the Neander Valley 

 typical for the race of Neanderthal man. In southern Moravia 

 he investigated tlie area that had recently given important finds 

 in Aurignacian nian, and continued then to Paris for work on the 

 material accumulated there in the ISIuseum of Natural History and 

 to London for examination of the collections in'the College of Phy- 

 sicians and Surgeons. While in London he was the recipient of the 

 Huxley medal of the Royal Society for his extensive investigations 

 and researches in anthropology and delivered the Huxley lecture on 

 " The Neanderthal Phase of Man." 



Dr. Walter Hough in the early fall of 1927 examined for the 

 Bureau of American Ethnology a large burial mound at Indian 

 Mound, Tenn., to determine the type of slab-box burial. He also 

 visited near-by village sites, flint quarries, and burial grounds, obtain- 

 ing a considerable amount of material. In one of the village sites on 

 the Cumberland River there were obtained numerous shells of mol- 

 lusks of a species now extinct in that stream. 



Mr. H. B. Collins, jr., during Januarj^ 1928, visited for the Bureau 

 of American Ethnology areas near Fort Myers, Fla., where mounds of 

 the Calusa Indian type were reported. He obtained skeletal remains 

 of considerable importance with respect to the racial identity of this 

 people, who, though they existed within historic times, have become 

 extinct and are comparatively little known. 



In February, 1928, Mr. H. W. Krieger, under' funds provided by 

 Dr. W. L. Abbott, proceeded to the Samana Bay region of the north- 

 eastern coast of the Dominican Republic, and there carried on 

 ai'cheological investigations until April, working with Mr. G. S. 

 Miller, jr., who,se interest in this matter will.be discussed in a later 

 paragraph. Mr. Krieger visited a number of caves in the San 

 Lorenzo Bay section, excavating extensive middens found therein, and 

 obtaining much information of value. The middens, composed prin- 

 cipally of shells and other kitchen refuse, were in places from 4 to 8 



