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  ANNUAL 
  REPORT 
  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION, 
  194 
  3 
  

  

  special 
  request 
  by 
  Ing. 
  Luis 
  Flores 
  C, 
  of 
  the 
  Institute- 
  Geologico 
  de 
  

   Mexico 
  in 
  Mexico 
  City, 
  Dr. 
  Cooper 
  was 
  detailed 
  to 
  make 
  an 
  economic 
  

   survey 
  in 
  Mexico. 
  This 
  field 
  work, 
  which 
  was 
  in 
  connection 
  with 
  

   search 
  for 
  war 
  minerals, 
  resulted 
  in 
  the 
  discovery 
  of 
  a 
  long 
  sequence 
  

   of 
  Cambrian 
  rocks 
  associated 
  with 
  ore 
  deposits. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  W. 
  F. 
  Foshag, 
  on 
  detail 
  from 
  the 
  Museum, 
  spent 
  the 
  entire 
  year 
  

   in 
  continuation 
  of 
  his 
  work 
  in 
  Mexico 
  supervising 
  surveys 
  for 
  stra- 
  

   tegic 
  minerals 
  for 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  Geological 
  Survey. 
  

  

  Only 
  brief 
  mention 
  was 
  made 
  in 
  last 
  year's 
  report 
  of 
  the 
  field 
  ex- 
  

   pedition 
  of 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  Institution 
  to 
  Wyoming 
  under 
  the 
  direc- 
  

   tion 
  of 
  C. 
  W. 
  Gilmore, 
  since 
  it 
  extended 
  well 
  into 
  the 
  present 
  fiscal 
  

   year. 
  Accompanied 
  by 
  George 
  F. 
  Sternberg, 
  George 
  B. 
  Pearce, 
  and 
  

   Alfonso 
  Segura, 
  of 
  the 
  Museo 
  Nacional 
  in 
  San 
  Jose, 
  Costa 
  Kica, 
  the 
  

   party 
  spent 
  2i/£> 
  months 
  in 
  a 
  systematic 
  search 
  of 
  the 
  Hat 
  Creek 
  

   Basin 
  area, 
  Niobrara 
  County, 
  Wyo., 
  for 
  Oligocene 
  vertebrate 
  fossils. 
  

   This 
  work 
  resulted 
  in 
  assembling 
  a 
  collection 
  which, 
  when 
  combined 
  

   with 
  the 
  specimens 
  obtained 
  in 
  1932, 
  gives 
  the 
  Museum 
  for 
  the 
  first 
  

   time 
  an 
  adequate 
  representation 
  of 
  this 
  important 
  fauna. 
  

  

  MISCELLANEOUS 
  

  

  Visitors. 
  — 
  Curtailment 
  of 
  train 
  and 
  bus 
  travel 
  and 
  the 
  rationing 
  

   of 
  gasoline 
  resulted 
  in 
  a 
  further 
  reduction 
  in 
  the 
  number 
  of 
  visitors 
  

   at 
  the 
  various 
  Museum 
  buildings. 
  The 
  total 
  recorded 
  during 
  the 
  

   year 
  was 
  1,355,269, 
  as 
  against 
  2,042,817 
  for 
  the 
  previous 
  year. 
  The 
  

   largest 
  attendance 
  for 
  a 
  single 
  month 
  was 
  in 
  August 
  1942, 
  with 
  163,413 
  

   visitors, 
  and 
  the 
  second 
  largest 
  was 
  in 
  July 
  1942, 
  with 
  136,111. 
  The 
  

   attendance 
  in 
  the 
  four 
  Smithsonian 
  and 
  Museum 
  buildings 
  was 
  as 
  

   follows: 
  Smithsonian 
  building, 
  264,117; 
  Arts 
  and 
  Industries 
  build- 
  

   ing, 
  516,910; 
  Natural 
  History 
  building, 
  424,055; 
  Aircraft 
  building, 
  

   150,187. 
  

  

  From 
  November 
  1, 
  1942, 
  to 
  June 
  30, 
  1943, 
  a 
  separate 
  count 
  was 
  

   made 
  of 
  members 
  of 
  the 
  armed 
  forces 
  who 
  visited 
  the 
  buildings 
  dur- 
  

   ing 
  the 
  first 
  7 
  days 
  of 
  each 
  month. 
  This 
  count 
  served 
  to 
  show 
  that 
  

   attendance 
  by 
  servicemen 
  averaged 
  25 
  to 
  35 
  percent 
  of 
  the 
  total 
  

   number 
  of 
  visitors. 
  

  

  Publications 
  and 
  printing. 
  — 
  The 
  sum 
  of 
  $27,750 
  was 
  available 
  dur- 
  

   ing 
  the 
  fiscal 
  year 
  for 
  the 
  publication 
  of 
  the 
  Annual 
  Report, 
  Bulletins, 
  

   and 
  Proceedings 
  of 
  the 
  National 
  Museum. 
  Publications 
  issued 
  num- 
  

   bered 
  30 
  — 
  the 
  Annual 
  Report, 
  3 
  Bulletins, 
  1 
  Contribution 
  from 
  the 
  

   National 
  Herbarium, 
  and 
  25 
  Proceedings 
  papers. 
  A 
  list 
  of 
  these 
  pub- 
  

   lications 
  is 
  given 
  in 
  the 
  report 
  on 
  publications, 
  appendix 
  10. 
  

  

  Volumes 
  and 
  separates 
  distributed 
  during 
  the 
  year 
  to 
  libraries, 
  

   institutions, 
  and 
  individuals 
  throughout 
  the 
  world 
  aggregated 
  55,631 
  

   copies. 
  

  

  