12 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1949 
sively by Eskimos of both the prehistoric Dorset and Thule cultures. 
Dr. William N. Fenton continued his field work and library research 
on the Iroquois Jndians, obtaining the life history of an aged Seneca 
and recording Seneca rituals, prayers, and legends. Dr. Gordon R. 
Willey devoted the year to studying and writing up the results of 
previous field work. His monographic work, “Archeology of the 
Florida Gulf Coast,”’ was completed and at the close of the year was 
in process of being published by the Smithsonian Institution. 
The Institute of Social Anthropology, an autonomous unit of the 
Bureau, is financed by State Department funds to carry out coopera- 
tive training in anthropological teaching and research with the other 
American republics. Institute staff members, under the directorship 
of Dr. George M. Foster, Jr., continued to give courses in anthropology 
and to conduct cooperative research and field work in Brazil, Colom- 
bia, México, and Pert. 
The Bureau published its Annual Report and two Publications of 
the Institute of Social Anthropology. The last two volumes of the 
Handbook of South American Indians, volumes 5 and 6, were in 
press at the close of the year. 
International Hachanges.—The Smithsonian International Exchange 
Service is the official United States agency for the interchange of gov- 
ernmental and scientific publications between this country and the 
other nations of the earth. ‘The Exchange Service handled during the 
year a total of 840,125 packages of publications, weighing 796,700 
pounds. These figures represent an increase over the previous year 
of 80,006 packages, but a decrease of 15,489 pounds in weight, indicat- 
ing by the lighter weight per package that most institut'ons have about 
completed shipment of material held up during the war. Shipments 
are now made to all countries except Rumania, and efforts to resume 
exchanges with that country are being continued. The number of 
sets of United States official publications sent abroad in exchange for 
similar publications of other countries is now 96—58 full and 38 
partial sets. There are also sent abroad through the Exchange 
Service 81 copies of the Federal Register and 75 copies of the Con- 
gressional Record. 
National Zoological Park.—The collection was improved during the 
year by the addition of a number of rare animals. At the close of the 
fiscal year there were 3,724 specimens in the collection, an increase 
of 927 over the previous year. These represented 755 different species, 
an increase of 65. Among the rare or unusual animals received by 
gift, exchange, or purchase were the rare Meller’s chameleon, a 
spectacled bear, a pair of pigmy marmosets—smallest of all monkeys, 
an African two-horned rhinoceros, a pair of wombats, a pigmy ant- 
eater, orang-utans, and chimpanzees. The total number of creatures 
