IY ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1949 
During the first 3 months of 1949, Dr. T. Dale Stewart, curator of 
physical anthropology, was engaged in taking anthropometric meas- 
urements of some 200 Mayan-speaking Indians in the highlands of 
Guatemala. Most of this field study was carried on at Soloma in the 
Department of Huehuetenango, and at Santa Clara la Laguna in the 
Department of Solol4. A secondary project was the examination of 
skeletal remains at archeological sites in the highlands. 
As in the previous year, Dr. Waldo R. Wedel, associate curator of 
archeology, was detailed to the River Basin Surveys under the 
Bureau of American Ethnology to supervise field and laboratory 
operations in the Missouri Valley. 
The National Geographic Society-Yale University-Smithsonian 
Institution Expedition to India and Nepal, which was directed by 
S. Dillon Ripley, brought back important collections of birds and 
mammals from the Karnali Valley in western Nepal and the Kosi 
Valley in eastern Nepal—regions rarely visited by naturalists. 
For 5 months during the middle of 1948, Donald 8. Erdman, divi- 
sion of fishes, participated in a fishery survey in the Persian Gulf and 
Red Sea under the auspices of the Arabian-American Oil Co. 
At the invitation of the Plywoods-Plastics Corp., Dr. Henry W. 
Setzer, associate curator, division of mammals, worked in Costa Rica 
and obtained specimens of mammals and birds in the valleys of the 
Rio Estrella and the Rio Turrialba. 
Dr. A. Wetmore and W. M. Perrygo conducted ornithological field 
work in the eastern section of the Province of Panam4, Republic of 
Panama, a region they had not explored on previous trips. The field 
work of M. A. Carriker, Jr., in the Rfo Sint region of northwestern 
Colombia, resulted in the preparation of one of the most complete 
collections of birds thus far obtained in the area adjacent to Panama. 
Charles O. Handley, Jr., temporarily employed as assistant curator of 
birds, departed from Washington in March 1949 under a cooperative 
arrangement with the Weather Bureau to study the birds and mam- 
mals in one area of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. 
Botanical field projects participated in by the staff included the 
following: After adjournment of the Second South American Botan- 
ical Congress held at Tucum4n, Argentina, E. P. Killip, head curator 
of botany, and Dr. Lyman B. Smith, associate curator of phanero- 
gams, made collections in northwestern Argentina; large numbers of 
plants were assembled by Mr. Killip in the Santiago-Valparaiso 
region of Chile, and other specimens were subsequently obtained at 
Cali, Medellin, and Bogota, Colombia; Dr. Smith collected plants in 
the vicinity of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 
Following the adjournment of the Seventh Pacific Science Congress 
held between February 2 and 22, 1949, Dr. E. H. Walker, associate 
