16 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1948 
Among the specimens accessioned in the division of physical an- 
thropology were four casts of the Tepexpan skull and the head of this 
skull as restored by the Washington sculptor Leo Steppat. Skeletal 
material was accessioned representing Indian sites in Calhoun, Madi- 
son, and Jersey Counties, I1]—additions to similar material of previ- 
ous years. 
Zoology.—Important mammalian accessions included collections 
from the Arctic, Labrador and Newfoundland, Quebec and Maine, 
eastern Pennsylvania, Panama, and Egypt. As in past years the 
W. L. Abbott fund financed wholly or in part the acquisition of several 
avian collections, containing a considerable number of forms new to 
the Museum collections and to science; of these may be mentioned 
2,630 skins and 145 skeletons of Colombian birds, over 900 birdskins 
collected by the Smithsonian- Yale Expedition to Nepal, 835 skins and 
skeletons of birds from the Panamanian jungles, 237 birdskins from 
India, and 166 from Paraguay. Noteworthy among the reptilian 
material received were 1,200 specimens of burrowing snakes of the 
genera Sonora and Tantilla from Oklahoma and Texas; 50 Egyptian 
and 250 Guatemalan reptiles and amphibians; 75 reptiles from Bikini; 
about 50 Brazilian amphibians and 100 Peruvian reptiles and amphibi- 
ans, and nearly 400 reptiles and amphibians from Virginia and North 
Carolina. 
This year, as last, the ichthyological collections were greatly en- 
riched by the field studies made at Bikini Atoll for the United States 
Navy by members of the Museum staff. More than 6,000 fishes from 
this region were accessioned as a result of the 1947 Bikini Scientific 
Resurvey. Other large fish collections included nearly 14,000 speci- 
mens from Guatemala; about 6,400 fresh-water fishes from Idaho, 
Nevada, California, and Arizona; and about 1,200 fishes from the 
Texas coast. 
Several large lots of insects were received: About 22,000 miscel- 
laneous specimens, mostly Lepidoptera, brought together by the late 
Elison A. Smyth, of Salem, Va.; 5,000 Far Eastern butterflies; 500 
South American chalcid wasps, mostly type material; 1,500 miscel- 
laneous insects from Liberia; an equal number from Guatemala; 4,500 
from Alaska; and 77,000 transferred from the United States Bureau 
of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
Much scientifically valuable material was received in the division 
of marine invertebrates. To the type collection of Foraminifera 836 
slides were added, bringing the total now to nearly 11,500 slides. 
Nearly 5,000 lots of fresh-water copepods, branchiopods, ostracods, 
amphipods, and mysids were donated by the widow of the late S. F. 
Light in hismemory. Similarly, Mrs. Nathaniel Gist Gee gave about 
1,250 lots of fresh-water sponges. The Bikini Scientific Resurvey, of 
the Navy, yielded over 1,600 marine invertebrates for the Museum; 
