16 ANNU.M. REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1940 



Ellsworth P. Killip collected plants in Colombia in continuation of 

 the Smithsonian's special study of the flora of that country. About 

 11,000 specimens were obtained, including 300 numbers of ferns and 

 more than 100 numbers each of orchids, aroids, grasses, and peppers. 



Dr. Ales Hrdlicka spent several months studying anthropological 

 material in the museums of England, Russia, Siberia, and France. 

 The main object of the work in Russia, where most of his time was 

 spent, was to examine such skeletal and cultural materials from 

 Siberia as might have a bearing on the problem of Asiatic-American 

 connections. 



Dr. T. Dale Stewart continued excavations at Patawomeke, the Vir- 

 ginia Indian village visited by Capt. John Smith in 1608, discoA'ering 

 a type of pottery unlike that prevailing on the surface, and an ossuary. 

 Dr. Waldo R. Wedel conducted an archeological survey in western 

 Kansas to determine the extent of Puebloan influence in that area 

 and to examine the prospects for injecting time perspective into the 

 earlier archeological history of the region. Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts, 

 Jr., continued excavations at the Lindenmeier site in northern Col- 

 orado, producing much further evidence of the presence of the ancient 

 Folsom man, but failing again to discover any skeletal remains of 

 Folsom man himself. Dr. William N. Fenton carried on ethnobotan- 

 ical studies among the Iroquois of New York State and Canada, giving 

 particular attention to Iroquois medicine. 



PUBLICATIONS 



The principal means of carrying out the "diffusion of knowledge," 

 one of the Institution's primary functions, is its series of publications. 

 From its private funds, the Institution issues the Smithsonian Miscel- 

 laneous Collections, a series containing all the scientific papers pub- 

 lished by the Institution proper; from Government funds are issued 

 the Smithsonian Annual Report (with general appendix reviewing 

 progress in science), the Bulletins and Proceedings of the National 

 Museum, the Bulletins of the Bureau of American Ethnology, the 

 Annals of the Astrophysical Observatory, and Catalogs of the National 

 Collection of Fine Arts. The Freer Gallery of Art series. Oriental 

 Studies, is supported by Freer Gallery funds. 



During the past year, the Institution and its branches issued a total 

 of 78 publications, of which 45 were issued by the Institution proper, 

 30 by the National Museum, and 3 by the Bureau of American Eth- 

 nology. Information as to titles, authors, and other details of these 

 publications will be found in the report of the Chief of the Editorial 

 Division, appendix 11. The total number of publications distributed 

 vr&s 146,156. 



