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a number of species of mammals, birds, reptiles, and plants. And 
while traversing Utah and Nevada several remote tribes of Indians 
were visited, particularly the Gosinte, from whom a long-needed 
vocabulary was obtained. 
ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN EASTERN ASIA, 
For the extension of researches in eastern Asia, in continuation of 
anthropological investigations carried on in Siberia and Mongolia 
under the direction of the Institution in 1912, an allotment has been 
made from the Smithsonian fund for work during the next fiscal 
year and for a limited period thereafter. The plan of operations 
includes a thorough study of the peoples of the eastern coast of Asia, 
Manchuria, Mongolia, Tibet, and Siberia, among whom it is believed 
hes the secret of the origin of the American Indian. Investigations 
thus far made by Dr. Hrdlicka in behalf of the Institution indicate, be 
says, “that there exist to-day over large parts of eastern Siberia and 
in Mongolia, Tibet, and other regions in that part of the world 
numerous remains which now form constituent parts of more modern 
tribes or nations, of a more ancient population (related in origin, per- 
haps, with the latest paleolithic European), which were physically 
identical with, and in all probability gave rise to, the American 
Indian.” 
In a pamphlet on Smithsonian Explorations in 1913 a number of 
other biological and anthropological investigations are described. 
RESEARCHES UNDER THE HODGKINS FUND. 
The Hodgkins fund was established in 1891 by a gift of $200,000 
from Mr. Thomas George Hodgkins, of Setauket, N. Y. By sub- 
sequent gifts during his life and through sums received from Mr. 
Hodgkins’s estate, of which the Institution was made the residuary 
legatee, the fund has increased to about $250,000. It was stipulated 
by the donor that the income of $100,000 of his gift should be de- 
voted to the increase and diffusion of more exact knowledge in regard 
to the nature and properties of atmospheric air in connection with 
the welfare of man. He indicated his desire that researches be not 
limited to sanitary science, but that the atmosphere be considered in 
its widest relationship to all branches of science, referring to the 
experiments of Franklin in atmospheric electricity and the discovery 
of Paul Bert in regard to the influence of oxygen on the phenomena 
of vitality as germane to his foundation. To stimulate researches 
in these directions the Institution offered a prize of $10,000 for a 
paper embodying some new and important discovery in regard to 
the nature and properties of atmospheric air, which was awarded in 
1895 to Lord Rayleigh and Prof. William Ramsay, of London, for 
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