REPORT OF THE SECRETARY 55 



Accession 

 No. 



146,287. Three figurine pottery fragments and three figurine pottery heads 

 from a railway cut near the Aguan River, Maloa District, north- 

 east Honduras, Central America. Purchased from J. R. Allsopp. 

 (6 specimens.) 



146,639. Potsherds, arrowpoints, shell bead, and fragment of worked shell from 

 Liberty and Dade Counties, Fla. Collected by M. W. Stirling. (6 

 specimens. ) 



148,063. Earthenware vessels and fragments from Ulua River, Comayagua 

 River, and Lake Yojoa regions of Honduras, collected in 1936 by 

 Smithsonian-Harvard University Expedition under Dr. W. D. Strong. 

 (93 specimens.) 



MISCELLANEOUS 



During the course of the year information was furnished by mem- 

 bers of the Bureau staff in reply to numerous inquiries concerning 

 the North American Indians, both past and present, and the Mex- 

 ican peoples of the prehistoric and early historic periods. Various 

 specimens sent to the Bureau were identified and data on them fur- 

 nished for their owners. 



Personnel. — Dr. W. D. Strong, anthropologist, resigned August 

 31, 1937. J. N. B. Hewitt, ethnologist, died October 14, 1937. 



Respectfully submitted. 



M. W. Stieling, Chief. 



Dr. C. G. Abbot, 



Secretary, Smithsonian Institution. 



