IV ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1953 



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The coelacanth fishes, by Errol White 351 



Barro Colorado— Tropical island laboratory, by Lloyd Glenn Ingles 361 



Norsemen in North America before Columbus, by Johannes Br^ndsted... 367 



The mountain village of Dahr, Lebanon, by Raymond E. Crist 407 



The problem of dating the Dead Sea Scrolls, by John C. Trever 425 



mnreizuka— The "Golden Bells Tomb" of Japan, by Motosaburo Hirano 



and Hiroshi Takiguchi 437 



The archeology of colonial WiUiamsburg, by Thomas J. Wertenbaker 447 



The story of the Declaration of Independence desk and how it came to the 



National Museum, by Margaret W. Brown 455 



Charles Bird King, painter of Indian visitors to the nation's capital, by 



John C. Ewers 463 



LIST OF PLATES 



Secretary's Report: 



Plate 1 6 



Plates 2, 3 54 



Plates 4, 5 70 



Plates 6, 7 102 



Astronomical photography (Mees) : Plates 1-6 214 



Radioisotopes (Aebersold): Plates 1-4 230 



Science of musical instruments (Richardson) : Plates 1-3 262 



Vegetation management (Egler) : Plates 1-6 310 



Geological history and evolution of insects (Carpenter): Plates 1-3 342 



Coelacanth fishes (White): Plate 1 358 



Barro Colorado (Ingles): Plates 1-6 366 



Norsemen in North America before Columbus (Br0ndsted): Plates 1-10__ 390 



Dahr, Lebanon (Crist): Plates 1-8 422 



Dead Sea Scrolls (Trever): Plates 1-8 430 



Kinreizuka (Hirano and Takiguchi) : Plates 1-4 446 



Colonial Williamsburg (Wertenbaker) : Plates 1-4 454 



Declaration of Independence desk (Brown): Plates 1-5 462 



Charles Bird King (Ewers): Plates 1-8 470 



