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of the Mississippi Valley and never before reported as far west as 

 Kansas City. An early Kansa Indian Village was also investigated 

 near the old river town of Doniphan, Kans. This village was visited 

 by early explorers in 1724 and again by Lewis and Clark in 1804. A 

 few miles below the month of the Blue River a circular house site 

 was excavated in an old Kansa village visited and described by 

 Major Long's expedition in 1819. Dr. Wedel again resumed his 

 explorations in Kansas on May 11, 1938, and was in the field at the 

 close of the fiscal year. 



Since Judge TV. J. Graham's death on November 10, 1937, ar- 

 rangements have been made for Dr. T. Dale Stewart, assistant cura- 

 tor of physical anthropology, to take over the excavations on an 

 Indian site at Potomac Creek, Va., and to advance the work from 

 the point reached by Judge Graham. During the latter part of the 

 fiscal year Dr. Stewart made several visits to the site for preliminary 

 surveys. 



Biology. — Through the friendly cooperation of William N. Beach 

 and J. Watson Webb, the National Museum has secured a valuable 

 collection of large mammals from the Rainy Pass region beyond 

 Mount McKinley in Alaska. In preparation for this work pack 

 horses under charge of Harry Boyden were sent to Alaska in June. 

 Mr. Beach and Mr. Webb, accompanied by W. L. Brown, chief 

 taxidermist of the National Museum, arrived at McKinley Park 

 Station on the Alaska Railroad on the evening of August 13 and 

 continued through the park to join the pack outfit on the McKinley 

 River. Work in this field continued until the middle of September 

 and resulted in obtaining fine material for a habitat group of moose, 

 which will be mounted for exhibition. The largest bull moose se- 

 cured has a fine heavy set of horns with a spread of 65 inches. In 

 addition, the party obtained caribou and other mammals much needed 

 for the National Museum. 



In continuation of work begun last year in West Virginia, Watson 

 M. Perrygo, scientific aid, made collections of birds and mammals 

 in Tennessee to obtain needed material for the National Museum. 

 Mr. Perrygo left for the field early in April, accompanied by Carle- 

 ton Lingebach as assistant, and began work in the Mississippi bot- 

 toms near Memphis. Work continued around Reelfoot Lake, on 

 the Cumberland Plateau, and in the high mountains along the 

 western border of the State, terminating on July 15 for the summer. 

 In mid-September the party left for the field again, Mr. Lingebach 

 being replaced by Henry R. Schaefer. The first collections were 

 made on Roan Mountain, one of the highest mountains in the East- 

 ern United States, with a summer temperature reputed to be the 

 coldest for the entire Southeast in the summer season. Following 



