24 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1932 



Kodiak Island, where there was found abundant evidence of a culture 

 that shows evidence of considerable age. This shows interesting 

 relationships on one hand to the Eskimo and on the other to the 

 Northwest coast area. In May, 1932, Doctor Hrdlicka returned to 

 Alaska on his fifth expedition to that interesting area, centering his 

 efforts this year on the Kodiak Island deposits discovered at the 

 close of the season last year. Through the interest of Mrs. Charles 

 D. Walcott he was provided with a small motorboat for use in the 

 bays about the coast of the island. 



Dr. Walter Hough, head curator of the department of anthro- 

 pology, examined the archeological field opened up by Dr. Byron 

 Cummings around Tucson, Ariz., where huge adobe walled ruins 

 are being excavated. 



Work abroad in the interests of the Springer Collection, again 

 undertaken by Dr. R. S. Bassler, head curator of the Department 

 of Geology, embraced a study of the crinoid collections of various 

 museums, particularly in England, Austria, and Hungary, and ex- 

 plorations in certain of the classic geologic areas of these countries. 

 The entire trip was very successful and resulted in many casts of 

 fossil echinoderm types, particularly Silurian crinoids hitherto 

 wanting in the collections. 



Dr. W. F. Foshag, curator of mineralogy and petrology, engaged 

 in explorations in the States of Coahuila, San Luis Potosi, Zacatecas, 

 and Queretaro, Mexico, under the auspices of the Roebling fund of 

 the Smithsonian Institution. Complete series of the rocks and ores 

 of the districts visited were collected, resulting in many important 

 additions to the Roebling Collection in the National Museum. 



James Benn, junior aid in the Department of Geology, made cer- 

 tain collections in southern New York and northern New Jersey. 

 Of particular interest are fine examples of fluorescent minerals ob- 

 tained at Franklin Furnace, N. J. 



Late in the year E. P. Henderson, assistant curator of physical 

 and chemical geology, traveling under the Canfield fund of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, was detailed to collect in Montana, Utah, 

 and Colorado, with certain needs of the collections as his objective. 

 He was accompanied by F. A. Gonyer, representing the mineralogical 

 department of Harvard University. 



For the advancement of his work on the Cambrian, Dr. Charles E. 

 Resser, curator of stratigraphic paleontology, spent four months in 

 a study of early Paleozoic fossils in European museums and in con- 

 sultation with geologists concerning the local stratigraphy of the 

 neighboring areas. His work began in Norway and Sweden and 

 extended to Czechoslovakia, Poland, Estonia, Germany, and England. 

 His major objectives were attained to a greater degree than expected, 



