SECRETARY'S REPORT 1} 
Foundation, Inc., of Baltimore, the ethnological collections were en- 
riched by 148 objects consisting of glass snuff bottles, carved minerals, 
and ivory netsukes from China and Japan. The division received as 
a gift from Mrs. Elizabeth George a collection from Ethiopia of six 
large contemporary oil paintings depicting scenes of battle and of 
daily life, an Abyssinian manuscript Bible, silver buttons, and other 
objects illustrating Ethiopian craftsmanship in embossing, etching, 
and silver-wire filigree. 
Of outstanding interest among the year’s accessions in archeology 
were two prehistoric specimens from Peru—one, a wooden doll 
dressed in native textiles, from the Central Coast, and the other, a 
gold mummy mask of the Chimu Period (ca. A.D. 1100), presented 
by Mrs. Virginia Morris Pollak. A large series of pottery, stone, 
bone, and other artifacts from the Black Widow site, and a smaller 
series from the Buffalo Pasture site in Stanley County, S. Dak., repre- 
sent the results of River Basin Surveys excavations at two sites that 
will be destroyed by the lake created by the Oahe Dam a few miles 
north of Pierre. ‘These two collections throw important light on the 
native village Indian culture of the Upper Missouri region in the 
16th and 17th centuries. Mention should also be made of a large, 
well-documented collection of archeological material from 23 States 
and the District of Columbia presented by Richard Gates Slattery. 
Zoology.—The most important collection of mammals received dur- 
ing the year comes from Panama, where Dr. C. O. Handley, Jr., asso- 
ciate curator, collected over 1,300 specimens in cooperation with the 
Gorgas Memoria] Laboratory. Valuable cetaceans were received 
from three different sources: An embalmed pigmy sperm whale 
(Hogia) from the Marine Institute of the University of Georgia, the 
skull of an Alaskan beaked whale (Ziphius) from Dr. Robert Rausch, 
and the complete skeleton of another kind of beaked whale (Mesop- 
lodon) from Florida salvaged by John L. Paradiso, museum aide. 
Among birds received during the year the following lots are the 
most important: 193 specimens from Ghana, collected and presented 
by D. W. Lamm, form the Museum’s first sizable collection from that 
part of western Africa; 200 skeletons of Rhodesian birds, received 
from the Smithsonian Institution, through Dr. A. Wetmore, has 
added importantly to our skeletal material; 358 birds from Yukon 
Territory, received by transfer from the Arctic Health Research Cen- 
ter, through Dr. Laurence Irving, enhances the usefulness of the divi- 
sion’s Arctic American material. 
Important type specimens received in the division of reptiles and 
amphibians include 6 paratypes of Cuban frogs, in exchange from 
the Museum of Comparative Zoology; 2 paratypes of lizards from 
