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William M. Mann directed the National Geographic Society- Smith- 

 sonian Expedition to the East Indies to collect living animals, birds, 

 and reptiles for the National Zoological Park. William N. Beach 

 obtained in Alaska some fine specimens of moose and caribou for 

 the National Museum's exhibition series. Capt. Kobert A. Bartlett, 

 who for several years has been carrying on investigations in the 

 Arctic region, visited the west coast of Greenland, sending back to 

 the Smithsonian many specimens of marine life as well as speci- 

 mens of birds and plants. Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt participated 

 in an expedition to the West Indies and obtained, in addition to many 

 new marine forms, two porpoises, which are among the rarest things 

 in museums. Dr. Paul Bartsch took part in an expedition for the 

 collection of marine organisms in West Indian waters. Dr. Bartsch 

 also continued his heredity experiments, begun in 1912, using young 

 specimens of a species of fresh-water mollusk as his subjects and 

 various rivers and creeks in Virginia and West Virginia as breeding 

 grounds. Dr. Edward A. Chapin collected some 50,000 specimens of 

 insects on the Island of Jamaica, among them three species of scarabs 

 new to science. Austin H. Clark hunted the "invisible butterfly," the 

 Brazilian skipper, in Virginia, and although he was unable to find 

 one of these butterflies, he obtained specimens of other rare species. 

 Paul S. Conger explored the lakes of northern Wisconsin for diatoms. 

 Dr. Ales Hrdlicka went again to Alaska to further his study of the 

 earliest occupation of that region, and spent 3 months on a series of 

 the Aleutian Islands and on the Commander Islands, collecting 51 

 boxes and barrels of important anthropological material. Dr. Her- 

 bert W. Krieger conducted an archeological expedition to explore a 

 large shell mound on the Island of Anegada, the most northerly of the 

 British Virgin Islands, the objective being a comparison of the Indian 

 relics recovered there with the large collection obtained by previous 

 Smithsonian expeditions to the West Indies. Waldo R Wedel in- 

 augurated an archeological survey of Kansas, spending zy 2 months 

 in reconnaissance excavations in the northeastern part of the State 

 and unearthing a wealth of important and varied archeological 

 remains. David I. Bushnell, Jr., visited ancient Indian sites on the 

 banks of the Rappahannock in Virginia and recovered many cul- 

 tural objects shedding light on the manners and ways of life of the 

 early inhabitants of the valley. Dr. John E. Swanton engaged in two 

 field trips for the purpose of tracing De Soto's trail across America 

 to the Mississippi. Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr., obtained addi- 

 tional evidence at the Lindenmeier site in Colorado of the existence 

 of Folsom man, one of the earliest known inhabitants of the New 

 World. Dr. Truman Michelson spent the summer of 1937 among the 

 Montagnais-Naskapi Indians in Canada for the purpose of complet- 



