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Woodside Watkins of 314 earthenware utensils, which were excavated 

 at 20 documented New England potteries in existence between 1687 

 and the late 1880's. Colonial utensils and Indian artifacts from 

 Kicotan, Va., one of the earliest English settlements in America, 

 were presented by Alvin W. and Joseph B. Brittingham. 



From Maj. Howard A. MacCord, U. S. Army, 413 specimens of stone 

 artifacts, pottery, and other materials from various Neolithic sites 

 on the island of Honshu, Japan, were received. 



Gen. and Mrs. David G. Barr and Patty Barr presented a black 

 silk cape with fur collar and lining of golden-haired monkey skins, 

 worn by a Manchu emperor. Lt. Col. Clifford Lee Smires gave a col- 

 lection of wooden objects, including a ceremonial staff, wooden bowl, 

 bamboo arrows, shell trumpet, decorated wooden drums, and carved 

 and decorated wood utensils, which were obtained from the natives 

 of a village near Aitape, northeastern New Guinea. 



Casts of fossil apelike hominoids from East Africa, one a replica of 

 a nearly complete skull of Proconsul africanus and the others replicas 

 of bones belonging to australopithecines, were presented by the 

 American Institute of Human Paleontology and the Wenner-Gren 

 Foundation for Anthropological Research. 



Zoology. — Six unusually fine chamois from the Bavarian Alps were 

 presented by the collector, Capt. Kimberly Brabson, U. S. Army. 

 Maj. Eobert Traub, a member of the scrub-typhus unit organized by 

 the United States Army Medical Service, forwarded 88 mammals from 

 Malaya and 57 reptiles and amphibians from Selangor. More than 

 200 arboreal mammals, collected by Dr. H. C. Clark and associates in 

 connection with research on jungle yellow fever at the Gorgas 

 Memorial Laboratory in Panama and Mexico, were presented to the 

 division of mammals. Drs. Robert Rausch and Everett L. Schiller, 

 Arctic Health Research Center, United States Public Health Service, 

 transferred 58 Alaskan mammals. During the summer cruise of the 

 Blue Dolphin^ conducted by Commander David G. Nutt under the 

 auspices of the Arctic Institute of North America, Charles O. Hand- 

 ley, Jr., collected for the Museum 194 mammals and 201 birds from 

 Labrador and Newfoundland; and to the national collections were 

 also added approximately 1,500 marine invertebrates. 



Income from the W. L. Abbott bequest financed the ornithological 

 field work of M. A. Carriker, Jr., in Colombia, and the Smithsonian 

 private funds that of Dr. A, Wetmore and W. M. Perry go in Panama. 

 The Colombian collection comprised 3,480 bird skins, 53 skeletons, 2 

 sets of eggs, and 1 nest; the Panamanian, 526 bird skins, 6 skeletons, 

 and 6 carcasses in alcohol. In addition, 393 bird skins from Denmark 

 and 344 from British Columbia were purchased from private funds. 

 Especially worthy of mention this year are the 453 skins and 29 skele- 



