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Among the more important objects acquired by the section of under- 

 water exploration during the year are ships' fittings and equipment 

 from a wreck site in Bermuda believed to date from the 1560's. These 

 include a bar shot, several single blocks, two parrels, small- and 

 medium-sized deadeyes, and a large collection of ceramic sherds, some 

 of which will yield nearly complete vessels when reconstructed. 



RESEARCH, EXPLORATION, AND FIELDWORK 



Dr. T. D. Stewart, director of the Museum of Natural History, 

 accompanied by exhibits specialist John C. Widener, went to Mexico 

 City in mid-December 1963, the former to select examples of pre- 

 historic filed and inlayed human teeth and the latter to make molds 

 thereof. Mr, Widener will make casts from the molds for an exhibit 

 in the planned hall of physical anthropology. 



Dr. Stewart, serving as a member of the Committee on Research 

 and Exploration of the National Geographic Society, inspected the 

 Wetherill Mesa archeological project in Mesa Verde National Park 

 late in June, stopping off enroute from a second trip to Mexico City 

 where he attended the 33d annual meeting of the American Associa- 

 tion of Physical Anthropologists. 



At various times during the year Dr. I. E. Wallen, assistant director 

 for oceanography, visited institutions in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, 

 New York, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, 

 Louisiana, Texas, California, and Hawaii in connection with the 

 program of the Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting Center. He also 

 prepared several short papers dealing with developments in ocean- 

 ography and the role of the Sorting Center. 



Dr. H. Adair Fehlmann, supervisor of the Smithsonian Oceano- 

 graphic Sorting Center, participated in Cruise 4B of the R/V Anton 

 Bruun, of the International Indian Ocean Expedition, from early 

 November to mid-December. This trip gave him a useful oppor- 

 tunity to study curatorial procedures on shipboard and to determine 

 the need for a trained technician to oversee the handling of biological 

 samples from the time of collection to the time the specimen cargo is 

 consigned for shipment to the Sorting Center. Thanks to his recom- 

 mendations, future collections should come through in better condition 

 and with more complete documentation. Dr. Fehlmann also had an 

 opportunity to observe the techniques and equipment used in handling 

 plankton in the Indian Ocean Biological Laboratory at Ernakulam, 

 South India. 



Chairman of the department of anthropology Waldo R. Wedel com- 

 pleted a review of the prehistory and aboriginal ecology of north- 

 central Colorado in which he emphasizes the importance of the foot- 

 hills-hogback strip between the Plains and the Front Range in the 



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