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tone process was presented by R. E. Donnelley & Sons Co. The section 

 of pliotography accessioned a collection of 71 fine pictorial photo- 

 graphs made by members of the American Society of Photographic 

 Art and representing work in control process printing by many noted 

 photograjDhers. 



An exhibit entitled "The Story of Modern Surgical Sutures," do- 

 nated by Davis & Geek, Inc., depicts in full color the development 

 of sutures from their source through the various stages of manufac- 

 turing, research, and testing into actual use in the operating room. 



History.— The Adams-Clement collection, the gift of the late Mary 

 Louisa Adams Clement, of costumes, jewelry, portraits, silverware, 

 china, books, and papers belonging to the families of John Adams 

 and John Quincy Adams, constitutes the most important accession 

 received by the division of civil history. 



The naval collections were increased by the deposit by the Depart- 

 ment of the Navy of scale models of the battleship Missouri, the cruiser 

 BrooJdyn of the Spanish- American War period, an LSM and an LCI. 



The medal press and tools used by Edward Stabler, diesinker and 

 seal engi-aver of Sandy Spring, Md., 1794-1883, were acquired by the 

 division of numismatics as a gift from Mrs. Maurice J. Stabler. 



Recently issued stamps, totaling some 900 in number, were trans- 

 ferred to the division of philately by the Universal Postal Union and 

 the United States Post Office Department. 



EXPLORATION AND FIELD WORK 



Following the conclusion of the conference convened by the Cuban 

 Ministry of Education at Habana on problems of Caribbean archeol- 

 ogy and ethnology, H. W. Krieger visited several historical Taino 

 Indian village sites, notably Vigia and Barajagua, in the province of 

 Oriente, eastern Cuba. On June 14, Dr. Waldo R. Wedel was detailed 

 to the Smithsonian River Basin Surveys to supervise the excavation 

 of a stratified Ankara village site near Pierre, S. Dak. 



In comiection with his studies on distribution and variation in the 

 bird life of southern Central America and northern South America, 

 Dr. Alexander Wetmore, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 made his seventh expedition to the Republic of Panama, accompanied 

 by W. M. Perrygo of the U. S. National Museum. The men located 

 at the beginning of March on Cerro Campana, the first mountain of 

 size found to the west of the depression through which the Panama 

 Canal crosses the Isthmus. The work here served to extend the known 

 range of a number of mountain forms of birds from Veraguas and 

 Chiriqui to this southern outpost of the great mountain chain that 

 comes down through Central America. Additional collections were 

 made from El Valle in the Province of Code, where forest still remains 



