14 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1950 



presented by Senor Jos6 M. Cruxent, Director of the Museo de Ciencias 

 Naturales, Caracas, Venezuela; materials representing the work of 

 Cree Indians living near Hudson Bay and on the plains of Saskatche- 

 wan, donated by Copley Amory; 4 carved and painted wooden 

 ancestral figurines from Ngulu Atoll and the island of Woleai in the 

 western Carolines, the gift of N. J. Cummings; and the bequest of 

 Miss Mary W. Maxwell of 235 examples of Oriental and European 

 furniture, textiles, ceramics, and metalwork. 



Additions to the archeological collections comprised, among others, a 

 collection of 991 pottery, stone, and other objects from the Neolithic 

 period of northern Honshu, Japan, presented by Maj. Howard A. 

 MacCord, United States Army; 16 gold fishhooks fashioned by the 

 Indians of Columbia, from F. M. Estes; a series of sherds from shell 

 heaps of Panama, believed to represent the earliest ceramic horizon 

 recognized at present in that region, and excavated by Drs. M. W. 

 Stirling and Gordon R, Willey during the Smithsonian Institution- 

 National Geographic Society Expedition of 1948; and a Basketmaker 

 III pitcher from La Plata County, Colo., donated by E. H. Morris. 



Forty-eight more or less complete skeletons from a protohistoric 

 Indian site near Lewes, Del., were presented to the division of physical 

 anthropology by the Sussex Archeological Association. 



Zoology. — Zoological specimens from North America, South America, 

 Europe, and Asia, as well as from oceanic areas, were incorporated into 

 the national collections. About 300 monkeys and other arboreal 

 mammals collected by Dr. H. C. Clark and associates in Panama in 

 the course of yellow-fever investigations carried on by the Gorgas 

 Memorial Laboratory were donated to the division of mammals. 

 Other accessions of importance were 98 mammals from Kuala Lumpur, 

 Selangor, obtained during scrub-typhus investigations by the United 

 States Army Medical Research Unit; 197 mammals from the Brooks 

 Range, northern Alaska, collected by Dr. Robert Rausch, United 

 States Public Health Service; 32 Bolivian mammals received from the 

 Pan American Sanitary Bureau; 295 Costa Rican mammals collected 

 in 1949 by Dr. Henry W. Setzer; 100 mammals from Prince Patrick 

 Island, collected by Charles O. Handley, Jr.; and 36 Japanese mam- 

 mals, including a series of porpoise skulls from Ford Wilke. 



The generous gift of approximately 10,000 skins and 424 skeletons of 

 North American birds by J. A. Weber, of Miami, Fla., represents the 

 largest single accession received by the division of birds in recent years. 

 Income from the W. L. Abbott bequest financed field work in Panama 

 and Colombia. In Panama Dr. A. Wetmore and W. M. Perrygo 

 obtained 956 bird skins, 11 skeletons, 3 sets of eggs, and 1 nest; and in 

 Colombia, M. A. Carriker, Jr., collected 2,546 bird skins and 3 sets of 

 eggs. The E. J. Brown bequest provided funds for the purchase of 



