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Alabama the party -went on into Georgia for a few days, then to 

 Chattanooga, Tenn. Following a week's Avork in eastern Tennessee, 

 the men located for 10 days in Virginia to study the Ordovician 

 rocks. Many fossils to be used in studies of the Chazyan brachiopods 

 were collected. 



Dr. E. O. Ulrich, Associate in Paleontology, made three trips 

 partly under the auspices of the Geological Survey, but largely at 

 his own expense, to forward his studies of Appalachian Valley 

 Lower Paleozoic stratigraphy. These comprised a journey to Stras- 

 burg, Va., and vicinity in October 1938 and a 2 months' visit to the 

 southern Appalachian Valley in the spring of 1939. This was fol- 

 lowed by a short trip to the Appalachian Valley in Pennsylvania 

 late in the fiscal year. All these investigations were highly satisfac- 

 tory in the new stratigraphic information gained, as well as in 

 checking doubtful problems of the past and in securing important 

 collections. 



C. W. Gilmore, Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, accompanied 

 by Dr. Eemington Kellogg, Assistant Curator of Mammals, made a 

 short trip to investigate reported cetacean discoveries along the 

 York River, in southern Virginia, and along the Coneto Eiver, near 

 Tarboro, N. C. They found the cetacean remains at both of these 

 localities to be very fragmentary. 



Dr. C. L. Gazin, Assistant Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, 

 made an important expedition in the Cretaceous, Paleocene, and 

 Eocene of Utah, which met with gratifying results. From the 

 Upper Cretaceous of the North Horn region there were obtained 

 additional remains of extinct lizards, including one articulated 

 skeleton considered the most complete found in North America. 

 From newly discovered Paleocene deposits about 50 additional speci- 

 mens were obtained, including several new genera and species. 

 From the Eocene of the Uinta Basin a representative mammalian 

 collection was obtained, including a very fine skull and lower jaws 

 of CroGodilus, as well as some good turtle specimens. These ma- 

 terials are an especially desirable addition to the Museum collections, 

 which were previously weak in specimens from the Uinta formation. 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Visitors. — A total of 2,233,345 visitors were recorded at the various 

 Museum buildings during the year. Though this number is 174,825 

 less than the previous year, it still represents a substantial increase 

 over the number of visitors during the years following the economic 

 decline of 1929. This year the high months were August 1938 and 

 April 1939, when 320,746 and 337,892 visitors, respectively, were 

 recorded. The attendance in the four Museum buildings was as 

 follows: Smithsonian Building, 334,909; Arts and Industries Build- 



