REPORT OF THE SECRETARY: NATIONAL MUSEUM 73 



On his way to Washington late in May, Mr. Setzler spent a week in 

 east-central Louisiana investigating mounds and village sites that 

 available data indicated might be related to the so-called "Hopewell 

 culture" of the northern Mississippi Valley. The results of this brief 

 examination are such as to warrant more intensive research. 



In order to complete the enormous task of reorganizing its collec- 

 tions and exhibits, the division of Old World archeology deferred 

 actual field work for the year. Assistant Curator J. Townsend 

 Russell, however, spent a brief period in France during midsummer 

 in connection with the cooperative investigations inaugurated in 

 November 1931 between the University of Toulouse and the Smith- 

 sonian Institution. 



Dr. Aleg Hrdlicka conducted an anthropological and archeological 

 survey of Kodiak Island and made extensive excavations at Uyak 

 Bay, Alaska. These excavations, which have already yielded much 

 valuable and new material, are now more than a third finished. 



Dr. R. S. Bassler, head curator of geology, spent several weeks in the 

 Mississippi Valley collecting Silurian and Mississippian echinoderms 

 for the Springer collection. Several hundred crinoids and Mastoids 

 and many specimens of other classes of fossils were obtained, and some 

 interesting facts in silicification and related phenomena were checked. 



Under the auspices of the Canfield fund, E. P. Henderson spent 4 

 months collecting minerals, rocks, and ores in the Rocky Mountain 

 States, assisted by F. A. Gonyer, of Harvard University. Among the 

 districts visited were the geode region about Keokuk, Iowa; the Black 

 Hills of South Dakota; Butte and Helena, Mont.; Coeur d'Alene, 

 Idaho; Park City, Bingham, Thomas Range, and other localities in 

 Utah; the carnotite fields of Colorado and Utah; and Leadville, 

 Breckenridge, Alma, and Cripple Creek, Colo. Among the material 

 obtained were a huge quartz geode, numerous well-crystallized copper 

 minerals, and rare vanadium minerals. 



Dr. W. F. Foshag, accompanied by James Benn, visited the mica and 

 gem mines about Amelia, Va., and collected a number of rare minerals, 

 Mr. Benn also explored a newly discovered cave near Beaver Creek, 

 Md., and obtained unusual stalagmitic growths of beautiful and 

 perfect form. 



Explorations for the division of stratigraphic paleontology were 

 made by Dr. G. A. Cooper during 6 weeks spent in the richly fossilif- 

 erous country on Gaspe Peninsula, Quebec, resulting in the acquisition 

 of many fme fossils. Following this Dr. Cooper made stratigraphic 

 studies in New York State's classical sequence of Devonian rocks. 

 Though supplementary to previous studies by Dr. Cooper in this 

 State, this year's task was to trace the stratigraphic units eastward 

 from the Unadilla Valley. The needed columnar sections were pre- 

 pared, and many specimens, some new to science, were obtained. 



