16 ANNUAL REPOlTr SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1941 



worked not only in many States in the United States, but also in a 

 number of foreign lands as well. 



Paleontological work was carried on by Dr. Charles E. Kesser in 

 investigations of ancient Cambrian rocks; by Dr. C. Lewis Gazin 

 in Utah and Woming, resulting in the discovery of an almost com- 

 plete fossil skeleton of the primitive mammal known as an uintathere ; 

 and by Dr. G. Arthur Cooper in Texas and Tennessee where an 

 abundance of fossil material, much needed in the Museum's study 

 collection, was obtained. 



Dr. Willian M. Mann, Director of the National Zoological Park, 

 and Mrs. Mann went to Liberia on an expedition financed by the 

 Firestone Tire & Kubber Co., and brought back an assortment of live 

 animals for the Zoo, including a 400-pound hippopotamus, and some 

 3,000 preserved specimens for the Museum. Dr. Alexander Wetmore 

 spent a month in Costa Rica studying the birds of that region. 

 W. L. Brown collected material in the Canadian Rockies for back- 

 grounds for the Rocky Mountain goat and sheep groups exhibited in 

 the Museum. Dr. Hobart M. Smith, holder of the Walter Rathbone 

 Bacon scholarship, assisted by Mrs. Smith, continued his study of 

 the reptiles and amphibians of Mexico. Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt par- 

 ticipated in the biological investigations of the king crab of Alaska, 

 initiated by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Capt. 

 Robert A. Bartlett conducted another expedition to Greenland, and 

 Mr. and Mrs. Russell Hawkins, Jr., visited the Gulf of California, 

 both to collect marine material. Austin H. Clark carried on his 

 observations of the butterflies of Virginia. Mrs. Agnes Chase made 

 an extensiA^e study of the grasses of Venezuela, bringing back large 

 collections including 11 species previously unknown. 



Dr. T. D. Stewart spent several weeks at the historic Indian village 

 site on Potomac Creek in Virginia known as Patawomeke, exam- 

 ining an ossuary that was discovered during the previous field sea- 

 son. Dr. Waldo R. Wedel conducted archeological investigations in 

 central Kansas in an effort to locate Coronado's "Province of Qui- 

 vira." David I. Buslinell, Jr., made several trips to the vicinity of 

 the Peaks of Otter in search of tangible evidence of early man in 

 Virginia. Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr., obtained further informa- 

 tion on Folsom man, one of the earliest known inhabitants of Amer- 

 ica, from excavations at the Lindenmeier site in Colorado. Dr. 

 Julian H. Steward visited British Colum.bia to record culture changes 

 among the Carrier Indians; Dr. John P. Harrington made a com- 

 parative study of the northwestern Indians in Alaska and the south- 

 western Indians in New Mexico; and Dr. William N. Fenton col- 

 lected data among the Seneca in New Tork State on Iroquois masks 

 and ritualism. 



