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ing this trip he continued preparation of a monograph on Nunamiut 

 Eskimo prehistory. 



Dr. Saul H. Riesenberg, curator of ethnology, completed a mono- 

 graph on the aboriginal political organization of Ponape, Caroline 

 Islands. In addition, he progressed with the report on the megalithic 

 structures of Nan Madol, Ponape, where a Smithsonian joint arche- 

 ological-ethnological field project last year produced finds of unusual 

 interest and made possible an evaluation by different disciplinary 

 approaches. 



Intensive exhibit work in the hall of the cultures of Africa and Asia, 

 opened informally at the end of the year, left little time for other 

 research by the associate curators involved, Drs. Gordon Gibson and 

 Eugene Knez. On the other hand, associate curator William Crocker 

 spent 2 weeks in July 1963 and approximately 4 months early in 1964 

 with the Canela Indians of Brazil, a tribe threatened with extinction. 

 He was again with them as the year ended. Betw^een trips to Brazil 

 Dr. Crocker prepared two articles based on the Canela investigations. 



Dr. J. Lawrence Angel, curator of physical anthropology, com- 

 pleted two manuscripts, one on osseous changes in the hip joint and 

 the other on the human skeletons associated with extinct animals at 

 the Tranquility site, California ; he completed a paper on hyperostosis 

 spongiosa to be included in a volume on paleopathology. With his 

 technical assistant, Donald Ortner, Dr. Angel worked out a special 

 form which will permit rapid coding of data on the anthropology of 

 chronic disease for computer analysis. These data have been ob- 

 tained mainly in a long-term study of students at Jefferson Medical 

 College in Philadelphia, some of whom were restudied this year. 



At the beginning of the year Miss L. E. Hoyme, then museum spe- 

 cialist (now associate curator of physical anthropology), was in Eng- 

 land studying 19th-century skeletons of known age and sex at St. 

 Bride's Church, Fleet Street, London, and visiting laboratories of 

 physical anthropology. In July she successfully defended her doc- 

 toral dissertation at Oxford University and in December received her 

 degree in absentia. 



From the end of January to the beginning of April the chairman 

 of the department of zoology. Dr. Horton H. Hobbs, Jr., participated 

 in the Bredin-Arclibold-Smithsonian Biological Survey of Dominica, 

 studying the fresh-water decapod crustaceans of the island. As time 

 permitted, he completed a manuscript on new entocytherids from Vir- 

 ginia and made progress on a revision of the entocytherid ostracods 

 of Mexico and Cuba. 



Senior scientist Fenner A. Chace, Jr., completed a study initiated 

 by the late Belle A. Stevens on the mesopelagic caridean shrimp 

 Notostomus japonieus Bate in the northeastern Pacific. Also, he 



