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American cullure. In Colorado a Smithsonian expedition unearthed 

 for the first time a variety of implements belonging to that culture, 

 including many of the typical Folsom points. A number of these 

 implements were found in direct association with bones of an extinct 

 form of bison. Further work at this site was under way at the 

 close of the year. 



An allotment of $680,000 from the Public Works Administration 

 was made for the erection of three much-needed buildings at the 

 National Zoological Park. The Walter Rathbone Bacon traveling 

 scholarship was awarded to Dr. Richard E. Blackwelder for an 

 intensive study of the staphylinid beetles of the West Indies. The 

 seventh award of the Langley Medal was made to Dr. Joseph S. 

 Ames, chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronau- 

 tics, for his outstanding work in connection with the scientific devel- 

 opment of aviation in America. In the Division of Radiation and 

 Organisms experiments were carried through relating to the growth 

 of tomato plants under controlled conditions of temperature, humid- 

 ity, and radiation ; the growth of wheat out-of-doors with controlled 

 quantities of carbon dioxide; and the dependence of the growth of 

 Avheat and of algae on the wave lengths of radiation. 



Among the year's publications may be mentioned Dr. Strong's 

 account of the results of his archeological expedition to the Bay 

 Islands, Spanish Honduras; Dr. Roberts' paper on his investiga- 

 tions of Folsom man; and the second in the Freer Gallery's series 

 of Oriental Studies, "A Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of 

 Miniature Paintings of the Jaina Kalpasutra as Executed in the Early 

 Western Indian Style ", by W. Norman Brown, with 45 full-tone plates. 



SUMMARY OF THE YEAR'S ACTIVITIES OF THE BRANCHES OF THE 



INSTITUTION 



National Museum. — The appropriations for the year totaled 

 $716,071, an increase of $61,200 over last year. New specimens 

 added to the collections numbered 296,468. These included an- 

 thropological material representing many of the North and South 

 American Indian tribes, large collections of natural-history speci- 

 mens resulting from field work in Brazil by Dr. Doris Cochran 

 and from a third Hancock expedition to the Galapagos Islands par- 

 ticipated in by Dr. W. L. Sclimitt, biological specimens from Siam 

 and China sent by Dr. Hugh M. Smith and Dr. D. C. Graham, a 

 valuable collection of Paleozoic fossils presented by Edward N. 

 Hurlburt, of Rochester, N. Y., and nearly 50,000 plant specimens 

 from various sources. To the industrial series were added the motor- 

 less sailplane Falcon (1934), the cup presented to the wimier of the 

 first Vanderbilt automobile race 30 years ago, several interesting 



