64 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1939 



MISCELLANEOUS 



During the course of the year information was furnished by mem- 

 bers of the Bureau staff in reply to numerous inquiries concerning 

 the North American Indians, both past and present, and the Mexican 

 peoples of the prehistoric and early historic periods. Various speci- 

 mens sent to the Bureau were identified and data on them furnished 

 for their owners. 



PersonneJ. — Dr. Truman Michelson, ethnologist, died July 26, 1938. 

 On February 1, 1939, Henry B. Collins, Jr., was appointed by transfer 

 from the United States National Museum to fill the vacancy caused 

 by the death of Dr. Michelson. Dr. William N. Fenton was ap- 

 pointed as etlmologist on February 6, 1939, H. B. Chappell resigned 

 as clerk in the library of the Bureau on October 4, 1938, and Walter 

 B. Greenwood was appointed on November 1, 1938, to fill this 

 vacancy. Stanley Searles, editor, retired on June 30, 1939. 



Respectfully submitted. 



M. W. Stirling, Chief. 



Dr. C. G. Abbot, 



Secretary., Smithsonian Institution. 



