34 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1958 
C. Malcolm Watkins, acting curator of cultural history, in col- 
Jaboration with the head curator of anthropology, F. M. Setzler, and 
Prof. Oscar Darter of Mary Washington College in Fredericks- 
burg, made considerable progress on the excavation of an 18th-cen- 
tury courthouse and 17th-century documentary research related to 
Marlborough Town, Va. The archeological excavations revealed the 
foundations of a T-shaped structure comparable to those well-preserved 
18th-century courthouses at Hanover, King William, and Charles 
City Counties, Va. In September Mr. Watkins spent several days 
searching documents at the Virginia State Library, Richmond, in 
connection with the 1956 excavations at Marlborough Town, and a 
mass of data concerning John Mercer and his mansion and estate 
at Marlborough. On November 30, 1957, he discovered a 1744-49 
ledger of John Mercer at the Bucks County Historical Society, 
Doylestown, Pa. This important document provides very pertinent 
information for the interpretation of the Marlborough site. In Oc- 
tober Mr. Watkins spent several days visiting various museums in 
connection with his long-range research program in the documenta- 
tion of 17th-century pottery. He spent December 4, 1957, at Winter- 
thur, Wilmington, Del., examining room interiors for consideration 
in plans of exhibition in the Museum of History and Technology. 
Throughout the year Francis J. McCall, assistant curator of phi- 
lately and postal history, made numerous trips to eastern sections of 
the country attending national and local philatelic meetings, display- 
ing selected postal material from the national collections, and describ- 
ing present and future programs in the division of philately. 
The curator of numismatics, Dr. V. Clain-Stefanelli, traveled ex- 
tensively in order to acquaint professional and amateur coin collectors 
with the program, plans, and needs of his division. During the latter 
part of August and again in December he conferred with Mrs. Rae V. 
Biester, superintendent of the United States Mint in Philadelphia. 
During September he interviewed various State bank commissioners 
in Connecticut. At Yale University he examined the famous Garvan 
collection of gold coins and conferred with the deputy keeper of coins 
of the British Museum. In October he attended several numismatic 
meetings and studied various aspects of ancient coining techniques at 
the Fogg Art Museum in Boston. From May 20 to 24, 1958, Dr. 
Stefanelli visited Ottawa where he interviewed officials at the British 
American Bank Note Co., the Bank of Canada, Canadian Archives, 
and the Canadian Mint. In the Canadian Archives he examined a 
rare 1792 Indian Peace Medal. At the mint he examined coins, medals, 
and special decorations. As a result of his visit, the division will 
receive a special set of mint coins. In June he visited the headquarters 
of the Georgia State Bank in Atlanta, as well as Dahloneya, site of the 
old United States branch mint, 
