SECRETARY'S REPORT 95 



Ace. No. 



187542. Areheological materials from a mound at Xatrium, Marshall County, W. 

 Va., collected by Ralph S. Soleckl during December 1948 and January 

 1949. 



187742. Approximately 80 fossil mammals from the Boysen Reservoir area of 

 Wyoming, the Canyon Ferry Reservoir area of Montana, and the 

 Garrison Reservoir area of North Dakota, collected by Dr. T. E. White, 

 River Basin Surveys. 



1SS194. (Tlirough Dr. F. H. H. Roberts, Jr.) 4 specimens, including Creodont 

 skull from the Paleocene of North Dakota, Plesiosaur skull, fish and 

 a marine turtle from the Pierre Cretaceous, collected by Dr. T. E. 

 White at the Fort Randall Reservoir area in South Dakota, River 

 Basin Surveys. 



18SS07. (Througii Dr. Paul L. Cooper) 4 fresh-water mussels from Hitchcock 

 County, Nebr., River Basin Surveys. 



189103. Areheological material, mostly potsherds, from Utiv6, Panama, collected 

 by Dr. Matthew W. Stirling. 



189439. Ai-cheological materials from Round Bottom site on the Travis farm 

 about 3V2 miles south of Mouudsville, Marshall County, W. Va., col- 

 lected, with the exception of 3 celts presented by Mr. Travis, by Ralph 

 S. Solecki during December 1948 and January 1949. 



191092. 23 lizards, 6 snakes, 13 frogs. 10 marine invertebrates, and insect speci- 

 mens from Panamd, collected by Dr. Matthew W. Stirling and party 

 during the 1951 Smithsonian Institution-National Geographic Society 

 Expedition. 



188344. (Through Dr. Henry B. Collins, Jr.) Approximately 250 spiders, 27 

 springtails, and 1 parasitic wasp from CornwaDis Island, Canadian 

 Ajctic, collected by Dr. Collins in summer of 1950 on National Museum 

 of Canada-Smithsonian Institution Expedition. 



MISCELI^iXEOUS 



During the year Dr. Frances Densmore, Dr. John R. Swanton, and 

 Dr. Antonio J. Waring, Jr., continued as coUaborators of the Bureau. 



Information was furnished during the year by members of the 

 Bureau staff in reply to numerous inquiries concerning the American 

 Indians, past and present, of both continents. Requests from teach- 

 ers of primary and secondary grades and from Scout organizations 

 continue to increase and indicate a rapidly growing interest in the 

 American Indians throughout the country. Various specimens sent to 

 the Bureau were identified and data on them furnished for their 

 owners. 



Respectfully submitted. 



M. W. Sttkltn-g, Director. 



Dr. A. TVetmore, 



Secretary^ Smithsonian Institutian. 



