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archeological material and information in the area to be flooded by 

 the dam under construction at Bonneville, Oreg. 



Frank M. Setzler, assistant curator of archeology, during the latter 

 half of August, directed the excavation and restoration of several 

 Indian moimds, a neighboring village site, and surrounding earth- 

 works near Marksville, Avoyelles Parish, La., in a cooperative project 

 with the city of Marksville. The scientific importance of the obser- 

 vations made lies in the fact that the material remains, local burial 

 customs, and other factors have made it possible to identify the culture 

 of this site definitely as a southeastern variant of the spectacular 

 Hopewell archeological culture previously known in southern Ohio, 

 with related phases appearing in Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, 

 and Indiana. 



Through information from Hon. T. A. Jenkins, Mr. Setzler was 

 sent in mid-April to Proctorville, Ohio, to investigate the occurrence 

 of aboriginal remains in trenches being dug for local water and sewer 

 lines. After observation and study of the skeletons, potsherds, shells, 

 and bone and stone artifacts recovered, Mr, Setzler concluded that 

 part of the town was built on the site of a village once inhabited by 

 Indians considered in Ohio as belonging to proto-historic Fort Ancient 

 Culture, and generally regarded as ancestors of the Ohio Sioux. 



Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, curator of physical anthropology, in May went 

 to Kodiak Island, Alaska, to resume archeological excavations at 

 Larsens Bay, where work was carried on 2 years ago. 



At the end of May, Dr. C. Lewis Gazin, assistant curator of verte- 

 brate paleontology, assisted by George Sternberg, began work in the 

 Pliocene and Pleistocene formations of southern Idaho, particularly in 

 the Plesippus quarry near Hagerman. In August 1933 Dr. Gazin 

 and Dr. Remington Kellogg spent over a week at Governors Run, Md., 

 searching Miocene deposits for remains of fossil cetaceans. 



Dr. G. A. Cooper, assistant curator of stratigraphic paleontology, 

 visited Tennessee and Arkansas, where in Paleozoic localities he 

 collected much interesting material, A short trip by Dr. C. E. Resser, 

 curator, resulted in obtaining, among other fossils, a rare starfish 

 from the Ordovician rocks of Pennsylvania. 



James Benn, aid in geology, assisted by other members of the 

 geological staff, collected an excellent slab from the Calvert Cliffs 

 of Chesapeake Bay for the exhibition series. He also obtained in the 

 vicinity of Washington a group of Lower Cretaceous lignite logs. 



Dr. W. F. Foshag, curator of mineralogy, traveling under the 

 Roebling fund, examined the pegmatite pocket at Topsham, Maine. 

 E. P. Henderson, assistant curator of physical and chemical geology, 

 under the Canfield fund, in company with Frank L. Hess, of the 

 United States Bureau of Mines, in June studied the pegmatites of 



