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opinion as to their identity, meaning, or historical or esthetic signifi- 

 cance, and 18 inscriptions for translation. Visitors totaled 123,418, 

 and 96 groups were given docent service. A course of four lectures on 

 Persian Painting was given at the Gallery by Eustache de Lorey, 

 former Director of the French Institute of Arts and Archaeology, and 

 19 lectures and illustrated talks were given by members of the Gallery 

 staff at Columbia University and at the Gallery. 



Bureau of American Ethnology. — The researches of the Bureau on 

 the American Indians included archeological and etlinological studies 

 in Washington, in many other parts of the United States, in Canada, 

 and in Central America. In the field of archeology, aid was given in 

 establishing tw^o P. W. A. projects at two important old sites in 

 Florida; further investigation of the problem of Folsom man was 

 carried out through excavations at the Lindenmeier site in northern 

 Colorado; a joint Smithsonian-Peabody Museum expedition made 

 important archeological discoveries in Honduras, notably that of a 

 culture level apparently ancestral to that of the Maya. The year's 

 ethnological investigations included linguistic studies of the Timucua 

 and of the Indians of James and Hudson Bays, Canada ; study of the 

 Mission Indians of California ; field work among the Shoshoni, Ban- 

 nock, and Gosiute Indians of Utah, Nevada, and Idaho ; studies of the 

 League of the Iroquois ; and researches on Florida Indian music. The 

 Bureau published an annual report and two bulletins. 



International exchanges. — The exchange service is the official 

 United States agency for the exchange with other countries of gov- 

 ernmental and scientific documents. In carrying out this important 

 work of aiding in the interchange of scientific thought among the 

 nations of the world, the exchange service handled during the year a 

 total of 596,951 packages weighing 618,789 pounds. The number of 

 full and partial sets of governmental publications forwarded abroad 

 is now 111, and 102 copies of the Congressional Record are sent to 

 other countries in exchange for their parliamentary journals. The 

 Exchange Agency in Peru, formerly conducted under the Ministerio 

 de Fomento, Lima, is now under the jurisdiction of the Ministerio 

 de Relaciones Exteriores, the Seccion de Propaganda y Publicaciones 

 in Lima carrying on the w^ork. The agency for the Union of South 

 Africa has been removed from Pretoria, Transvaal, to Capetown, 

 Cape of Good Hope. 



National Zoological Park. — Under a grant from the P. W. A. of 

 $680,000, supplemented later by $191,575, w^ork was begun during the 

 year on five projects, namely, machine and carpenter shops and a 

 garage ; installation of three 250-h.p. boilers which will heat all exhi- 

 bition buildings except the bird house ; a building for small mammals 

 and great apes; a building for large animals such as elephant, rhi- 

 noceros, and hippopotamus; and a new wing on the bird house. 



