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transportation accession of the year. Two ship models were received 

 from President Roosevelt: One of the R. M. S. Mauretania and the 

 other of a modern seagoing trading junk of the island of Hainan, 

 China. Capt. John B. Harrison presented two models of Chesapeake 

 Bay vessels. 



Other important specimens, to the number of 951, were added to the 

 collection of textiles, organic chemistry, wood technology, history of 

 agriculture, and medicine, as well as many valuable drawings, water 

 colors, photographs, prints, and photographic and printing equipment 

 to the division of graphic arts. 



History. — Over 2,700 articles of historical and antiquarian value 

 were received, many of them pertaining to the lives and careers of 

 eminent Americans, such as Brand Whitlock, Maj. Gen. George A. 

 Custer, Maj. Gen. Adolphus W. Greely, and Rear Admiral Winfield 

 Scott Schley, Included also were 85 coins and 1,907 stamps for the 

 numismatic and philatelic series. 



EXPLORATIONS AND FIELD WORK 



Work in a number of interesting fields of exploration was carried 

 forward during the year, mainly through grants from the income of 

 the invested funds of the Smithsonian Institution. 



AnthropologT/. — Frank M. Setzler, acting head curator, investi- 

 gated a large shell midden on St. Simons Island, Ga., at the request 

 of the Society for Georgia Archeology ; he also made surface surveys 

 at other Georgia localities. 



Under the joint auspices of the National Geographic Society and 

 the Smithsonian Institution, H. B. Collins, Jr., assistant curator of 

 ethnology, conducted archeological investigations of the prehistoric 

 Eskimo at Cape Wales, Alaska, pursuant to previous studies at Ber- 

 ing Strait, St, Lawrence Island, and Point Barrow. 



H, W, Krieger, curator of ethnology, spent brief periods in the 

 study of aboriginal culture in tidewater Virginia and Maryland. 



Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, curator of physical anthropology, spent the 

 summer of 1935 on Kodiak Island, Alaska, excavating at the same site 

 where he worked during previous years. 



Biology. — Important biological work, supplementing that done in 

 previous years by Dr. H. M, Smith, was carried on in Siam under a 

 cooperative arrangement with H. G. Deignan, who forwarded a large 

 shipment of birds and mammals. 



W. M. Perrygo, taxidermist, assisted by Carleton Lingebach, col- 

 lected birds and mammals in the Appalachian region, in an effort to 

 obtain for the Museum representative specimens for geographic dis- 

 tribution studies. 



Dr. A. AVetmore, assistant secretary, made two collecting excursions 

 to White Top Mountain and one to Spruce Knob and other moun- 



