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Florida waters; and Dr. Leonard P. Schultz collected a variety of 

 fishes from the rivers and streams of Virginia. Capt. Robert Bart- 

 lett again conducted a cruise to northwest Greenland, and brought 

 back specimens of marine life from the sea floor, as well as narwhals, 

 w^alrus pups, and birds. Austin H. Clark continued his exhaustive 

 study of the butterflies of Virginia. 



Dr. Ersebet Kol, of Szeged, Hungary, reported the results of her 

 study of the algae on tlie snowfields and glaciers of Alaska in 1936, 

 which was made under a grant from the Smithsonian Institution. 



Frank M. Setzler explored a cave in Richland Canyon near the 

 Pecos River in southwestern Texas and unearthed many artifacts of 

 the prehistoric cave dwellers of that region. Dr. Ales Hrdlirka, in 

 his tenth season of work in the Far Northwest, directed an expedi- 

 tion to the Aleutian and the Commander Islands to obtain further 

 light on the existence and extension in the Aleutian Islands of the 

 pre-Aleut stock, to determine definitely whether or not the Com- 

 mander Islands served as a part of the bridge for the coming of 

 man from Asia, and to reexamine burial caves discovered in 1936-37. 

 Dr. T. D. Stewart carried on excavations on the shore of the Potomac 

 in Virginia, where he uncovered the main part of the ancient Indian 

 village of Patawomeke. Dr. Waldo R. Wedel excavated a group of 

 small mounds in Platte County, Mo., and investigated caves, reported 

 to have disclosed traces of Indian occupancy, in southeastern Colo- 

 rado. Dr. John R. Swanton continued his reconnaissance of the 

 territory through which De Soto passed on his journey to the Missis- 

 sippi. Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr., sought further information on 

 Folsom man at the Lindenmeier site in Colorado, and at sites in 

 Nebraska, Wyoming, and Saskatchewan, Canada, and obtained 

 valuable data on this and associated cultures. Dr. Julian H. Steward 

 spent several months in anthropological reconnaissance in Panama, 

 Ecuador, and Peru, and visited many sites of archeological 

 importance and historical appeal. 



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