12 ANNUAL EEPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1942 



1941 



Industry Calls on Physics Oct. 5 



Samuel Slater Oct. 12 



Insect Allies of Man Oct. 19 



South Sea Islanders Oct. 26 



The Story of Wheat Nov. 2 



Unsung American Heroes Nov. 9 



Arctic Explorers Nov. 23 



Hunting in Colonial Times Nov. 30 



Ancient Carthage Dec. 7 



Miracles of Modern Medicine Dec. 14 



A Great American Geologist Dec. 21 



Light that Heals , Dec. 28 



1942 



Our Expanding Knowledge Jan. 4 



Forests and the War Jan. 18 



Stephen Decatur — Naval Hero Jan. 25 



Zebulon Montgomery Pike Feb. 1 



Chemicals from the Air Feb. 8 



The Gasoline Engine Feb. 15 



The Musk Ox Mar. 1 



The Saga of the Comstock Lode Mar. 8 



The Fight on the Arikaree Mar. 22 



Bigelow and the Carpet Industry Mar. 29 



Balboa and the Discovery of the Pacific Apr. 5 



Australia Apr. 19 



China Apr. 26 



The Philippines May 3 



Russia May 10 



WALTER RATHBONE BACON SCHOLARSHIP 



The Walter Rathbone Bacon scholarship of the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution for 1941-1943 was awarded in July 1941 to Philip Hersh- 

 kovitz, of the University of Michigan, for a study of the distribution 

 of mammals in Colombia. On November 8, 1941, Mr. Hershkovitz 

 departed from New York on the steamship Platano and arrived 

 November 14 at Barranquilla, Colombia, where arrangements for 

 field work were completed with the assistance of the Department of 

 State through the Hon. Nelson R. Park, the American consul. 

 After having obtained the necessary permits for travel and for the 

 collecting of natural history specimens from the Governor of the 

 Department of Atlantico, Mr. Hershkovitz was invited by Mr. 

 Crump, owner of a ranch at Sabana Larga, to set up camp on his 

 land. Collections were made in the northern portion of the Cienaga 

 de Guajaro near Arroya de Piedra and on Cerro de la Guayta from 

 November 28 to December 18. Returning to Barranquilla, he ex- 

 amined the Indian burial ground uncovered at the Soledad airport 

 south of that city, and with the help of P. J. De Guerin, office 



