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tions in various European museums. During this period they also 

 participated in the Slth International Congress of Americanists in 

 Vienna and the 6th International Congress of Anthropological and 

 Etlmological Sciences in Paris. In August they engaged in fieldwork 

 in southern France, examining the famous Paleolithic sites that are 

 important to archeologists. 



Dr. Gordon D. Gibson, associate curator of ethnology, spent most 

 of the year in ethnological fieldwork and in collecting among the 

 Herero of South West Africa and Bechuanaland. Dr. Gibson returned 

 by way of Egypt and other North African countries in order to obtain 

 material for exhibits in the planning state in a new hall of Asiatic, 

 Pacific, and African ethnology. Since this fieldwork was still in 

 progress at the end of the fiscal year, a more complete account of it 

 will be left for the next annual report. 



For a period of about 3i/^ months, Dr. Eugene I. Knez, associate 

 curator of ethnology, visited numerous museums and conducted field- 

 work in various European countries, Pakistan, India, Burma, and 

 other countries of southeastern Asia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, 

 and Japan to obtain, through local scientists and officials, contempo- 

 rary ethnological materials for use in a renovated exhibit hall now 

 being prepared in the Museum of Natural History. The work proved 

 to be extremely successful, both in terms of ethnological materials 

 acquired for the exhibit program and personal contacts made with 

 local scientists and scholars. 



In the spring of 1960, Dr. Henry W. Setzer, associate curator of 

 mammals, participated in the Smithsonian-Collins expedition to 

 Libya, organized and led by Eobert L. Pomeroy and Alan C. Collins. 

 The party traveled overland from Benghazi by way of Cufra Oasis 

 to Faya in northern Tchad, investigating the little-lmown Tibesti 

 Mountains on the Libyan-Tchad frontier, and returned to the Medi- 

 terranean coast by way of Sebha Oasis. In all, they traveled about 

 5,000 miles, and Dr. Setzer obtained a valuable collection of mammals. 

 En route to join the expedition, he spent a brief period at the British 

 Museum (Natural History) in London, comparing type specimens of 

 various European and African mammals. 



Toward the end of the year Dr. Charles O. Handley, Jr., associate 

 curator of mammals, and D. I. Rhymer, office of exhibits, collected 

 in the higher parts of the Clinch Mountains, near Saltville, Va. This 

 exploration was a part of Dr. Handley's continuing studies of mam- 

 mals of the southeastern United States. The 250 forest mammals 

 obtained complement the large collection of meadow mammals taken 

 in the same region in 1957 by Dr. Handley and associates. 



Field studies in the survey of the variation and distribution of the 

 birds of the Isthmus of Panama under Dr. Alexander Wetmore, 

 honorary research associate and retired Secretary of the Smithsonian 



