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The heirs of Edward C. Tarbell (1862-1938) gave 12 medals, which 

 had been awarded to this American artist, to the division of numis- 

 matics. The Eeverend Hugh Miller collection of 544 oriental coins 

 and 110 Korean amulets was received as a transfer from the Treasury 

 Department. 



The philatelic collections were increased during the year by gifts 

 from the Universal Postal Union, the United States Post Office De- 

 partment, and agencies of other governments. The dies of George 

 F. Nesbitt & Co. (1853-70) which were used in the production of early 

 United States envelopes were presented by B. H. Homan, Jr., of New 

 York City. The library of this division was increased by important 

 gifts from the Essay-Proof Society, the Bureau Issues Association, and 

 Scott Publications, Inc. 



EXPLORATION AND FIELD WORK 



Through the cooperation of the National Geographic Society and 

 the United States Air Force, Frank M. Setzler made a survey of the 

 human and animal effigies located along the Colorado Eiver near the 

 towns of Blythe and Ripley, Calif., and near Topock, Ariz. During 

 the year Dr. W. W. Taylor, Jr., directed six trips for the prehistoric 

 Pueblo ecology survey in the Four Corners district of Arizona, Utah, 

 Colorado, and New Mexico. As the representative of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, H. W. Krieger attended the Fifth Interamerican Congress 

 of Municipal History at Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic, and 

 subsequently revisited and examined the site of the first planned set- 

 tlement in the New World, which had been established by Christopher 

 Columbus in December 1493, on his second voyage, at La Isabella. A 

 Neosha grant enabled John C. Ewers to continue his field studies of 

 Blackfoot crafts on reservations in Alberta, Canada, and Montana. 

 Dr. Waldo R. Wedel was detailed to the Smithsonian River Basin Sur- 

 veys for an archeological field investigation of the Oahe Reservoir area 

 along the Missouri River in Stanley County, S. Dak. 



Field work of recent years on the distribution and variation of the 

 bird life of the Republic of Panama, by Dr. Alexander Wetmore, 

 Secretary, assisted by Watson M. Perrygo, of the United States Na- 

 tional Museum, was continued during February and March. Follow- 

 ing several days occupied with business matters relating to the Canal 

 Zone Biological Area, Dr. Wetmore crossed to the Caribbean side of 

 the Isthmus where his field outfit, through the cooperation of the 

 United States Air Force at Albrook Field, was transported by truck 

 to the road end at the mouth of the Rio Salud, west of the Canal Zone. 

 Here porters were hired for transport along the beach trail to the 

 mouth of the Rio Indio in the western edge of the Province of Colon. 

 The Rio Indio is one of the longest rivers in western Panama, as it 



