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W. F. Foshag collected minerals and studied mineral deposits in both 

 northern and southern Mexico. Dr. C. Lewis Gazin directed an 

 expedition to collect vertebrate fossils in the Snake River basin of 

 Idaho. Dr. G. A. Cooper established a correlation of middle Devo- 

 nian deposits in Ontario, New York, and Michigan. Dr. W. L. 

 Schmitt again accompanied the Hancock expedition to the Gala- 

 pagos Islands. Rev. David C. Graham continued his zoological col- 

 lecting for the Institution in Szechwan, China. Dr. Hugh M. Smith 

 collected birds, mammals, and other forms in various parts of Siam. 

 Austin H. Clark collected butterflies in Bedford and Princess Anne 

 Counties, Va., in continuation of his survey of the little-known butter- 

 fly fauna of Virginia. Jason R. Swallen collected grasses in north- 

 eastern Brazil. 



Dr. C. W. Bishop, director of the Freer Gallery Field Expedition 

 to China, brought the work to a close in 1934 and returned to the 

 United States. The work of the expedition occupied a period of over 

 4 years and included the excavation of a number of archeological 

 sites and an archeological reconnaissance of nearly the entire province 

 of Shansi. Dr. Ales Hrdlicka continued his archeological investiga- 

 tions on Kodiak Island, Alaska, unearthing much new evidence on 

 the identity of the ancient inhabitants of the site. H. W. Krieger, 

 through an allotment of P. W. A. funds, excavated archeological 

 sites in Oregon in the area that will be flooded with the completion 

 of the Bonneville Dam. M. W. Stirling supervised several archeo- 

 logical projects in Florida conducted in cooperation with the Federal 

 Emergency Relief Administration. Dr. F. H. H. Roberts, Jr., ex- 

 cavated a camp site and workshop in Colorado attributable to Folsom 

 man, bringing to light for the first time a variety of implements 

 belonging to that early horizon. Dr. Roberts also excavated an 

 extensive Indian site on the former battlefield at Shiloh National 

 Military Park, Tenn. Dr. W. D. Strong conducted archeological 

 excavations at Buena Vista Lake, Calif., and later made a brief 

 archeological reconnaissance of the Cuyama Valley and also of the 

 mountainous district adjacent to the Sisquoc River. W. M. Walker 

 excavated ancient Yokuts shellmounds near Taft, Calif. Dr. J. R. 

 Swanton was successful in further determining points on the route 

 followed by Hernando De Soto in 1540 through Georgia and part 

 of South Carolina. Dr. J. P. Harrington conducted ethnological 

 studies among the Indians of California. Dr. Truman Michelson 

 studied the Passamaquoddy Indians on the State reservation on the 

 coast of Maine. 



These expeditions are briefly described and illustrated in the 

 pamphlet entitled " Explorations and Field-Work of the Smithson- 

 ian Institution in 1934 ", Smithsonian publication no. 3300. 



