12 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1947 



The most unusual accession in physical anthropology consisted of 

 unpublished anthropometric and other data collected by German 

 anthropologists in Poland during World War II, together with some 

 of their anthropological measuring instruments. The data had been 

 assembled for the Institut fiir Deutsche Ostarbeit and were trans- 

 ferred to the National Museum as a permanent loan by the War De- 

 partment. The material includes information on 356 Ukrainians, 

 1,466 Poles, and 162 Huzuls, with full measurements, photographs, 

 and personal, medical, and family histories of each subject. 



Biology. — The most important mammalian accession was a series of 

 about 600 glass slides of sectioned hairs, collected and presented by 

 Dr. Ned Dearborn, expert on fur-bearing animals, who has made a 

 special study of mammalian hair. The W. L. Abbott fund made 

 possible three noteworthy avian accessions : 1,758 skins and skeletons 

 of birds from Colombia, collected by M. A. Carriker, Jr. ; 453 bird 

 skins and 7 skeletons of Panama birds, collected by Dr. A. Wetmore 

 and W. M. Perrygo ; and 556 birds from India, collected by Salim Ali. 

 Also from India came 1,500 bird skins resulting from the Smithsonian 

 Institution- Yale University Expedition, containing many forms new 

 to the Museum. Foremost among the year's herpetological acquisi- 

 tions were 25 rare Brazilian frogs, 112 reptiles from Bikini, and 5 

 series of reptiles and amphibians from Colombia, Bolivia, Haiti, and 

 Guatemala. 



Two large and outstanding collections of fishes were received as a 

 result of the Smithsonian's participation in two federally sponsored 

 projects — about 38,700 fishes (representing over 300 species) taken 

 during Operation Crossroads at Bikini and in the northern Marshall 

 Islands by Dr. Leonard P. Schultz and Capt. Earl S. Herald, and 

 28,000 Guatemalan fishes obtained by Associate Curator Robert R. 

 Miller in continuation of the survey of the fishery resources of Guate- 

 mala begun last year under the auspices of the Guatemalan Govern- 

 ment, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Smith- 

 sonian Institution. The Pacific material, because of its extent, will 

 make it possible for the first time to make a study of anatomical varia- 

 tions among the various island fish populations, while the Guatemalan 

 material is one of the best collections of fresh-water fishes ever made 

 in Central America. In addition, smaller but important lots of fishes 

 came from Argentina, Baja California, Cuba, and the Tropical Pacific. 



About 12,000 insects, in three accessions, came to the Museum as a 

 direct result of the war : 1,500 from the Philippines and New Guinea, 

 collected by Carl O. Mohr; 4,500 from the Philippines, collected by 

 Dr. Frank M. Young; and 6,000 mosquitoes, resulting from the in- 

 vestigations in the South Pacific by the Naval Medical Research Unit 

 No. 2. Another large insect accession was the gift of the H. G. Bar- 



