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promote or inhibit the miiltiphcation of algae. The Institution par- 

 ticipated, through Dr. W. D. Strong, in an expedition to Honduras, 

 where much new ethnological and archeological information was 

 gained in a field heretofore little worked. The Government's relief 

 program under the Civil Works Administration supported several 

 very considerable archeological excavations in five States in charge 

 of members of the Institution's staff. Especially interesting was the 

 excavation of a large mound near Macon, Ga. Six different levels of 

 occupation were uncovered there. Dr. Alan Mozley continued his 

 investigations of the molluscan fauna of Siberia under the Walter 

 Rathbone Bacon traveling scholarship. The Institution received a 

 bequest amounting to over $58,000 from Wilham Herbert Rollins, of 

 Boston, to estabHsh a fund to be known as "The Miriam and William 

 Rolhns Fund for Exploration Beyond the Boundary of Knowledge." 

 Outstanding among the year's publications were the Eighth Revised 

 Edition of the Smithsonian Physical Tables, greatly enlarged and 

 brought up to date, and a supplemental volume of the World Weather 

 Records, covering the period 1921 to 1930. 



SUMMARY OF THE YEAR'S ACTIVITIES 



National Museum. — The appropriations for the year totaled $654,- 

 871, a decrease of $46,585 from those of the previous year. New 

 specimens added to the collections numbered 340,780. These in- 

 cluded valuable anthropological materials from Africa, Honduras 

 and Nicaragua, Australia, Alaska, and various regions in this country. 

 In the field of biology, large sendings of mammals, birds, and other 

 forms were received from China and Siam; unusually large collections 

 of insects were accessioned, one numbering 69,000 specimens; and 

 many important plant specimens were added to the National Her- 

 barium, particularly from North, South, and Central America, 

 the Hawaiian Islands, Poland, and French Indo-Cliina. Among the 

 large number of rocks, minerals, gems, meteorites, and fossils received 

 by the department of geology may be mentioned the collection of 

 2,500 rocks assembled by the late Dr. Henry S. Wasliington, one of 

 the world's leading petrologists, and the Tellef Dahll collection of 

 minerals from the pegmatites of southern Norway. In arts and in- 

 dustries, the most important accession was the Wright brothers' 

 airplane in which Calbraith P. Rodgers completed the first flight 

 across the United States, in 1911. To the historical collections, Mrs. 

 Herbert Hoover added a costume worn by her at the Wliite House 

 during her husband's administration. Although field work was 

 greatly restricted by curtailed appropriations, nevertheless a number 

 of expeditions went out through various special arrangements in the 

 interest of the Museum's scientific work. Visitors to the several 

 Museum buildings totaled 1,463,375. 



