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Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, curator of physical anthropology, with a group 

 of five students, continued his archeological work on Kodiak Island, 

 Alaska, which has been in j^rogress intermittentl}' since 1932. 



Biology. — Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt, curator of marine invertebrates, 

 by invitation participated again in Capt. G. Allan Hancock's expe- 

 dition to the Galapagos Islands on the yacht Velero III., and brought 

 back several thousand natural-history specimens. 



Dr. Doris M. Cochran, assistant curator of reptiles and am- 

 phibians, under a grant from the Smithsonian Institution, was de- 

 tailed to Brazil to study Brazilian amphibians. She returned early 

 in June with many thousand specimens, including not only am- 

 phibians and reptiles but also representing several other branches of 

 zoology. 



Gerrit S. Miller, Jr., curator of mammals, spent several weeks study- 

 ing the fauna of the outlying keys of southern Florida and made 

 extensive collections there of mammals, reptiles, and other forms. 



Dr. Hugh M. Smith, honorary associate curator of zoology, who 

 for many years has represented the Museum in explorations in Siam, 

 returned to Washington and brought with him large collections that 

 added greatly to the Museum's Siamese material. Dr. D. C. 

 Graham, honorary collaborator in biology, from his headquarters at 

 Chengtu, China, continued to send valued specimens resulting from 

 his excursions in the Chinese province of Szechwan. 



Jason R. Swallen, Department of Agriculture botanist, brought to 

 a close a successful period of exploration for grasses in Brazil and 

 obtained about 8,000 specimens. Another piece of field work con- 

 cluded was that of Dr. Alan Mozley, working under the Walter 

 Rathbone Bacon traveling scholarship in a study of Siberian mol- 

 lusks. Also may be mentioned local work by members of the Mu- 

 seum staff on a study of the biota of Maryland and Virginia: Dr. 

 G. S. Myers and E. D. Reid studied and collected fresh-water fishes 

 from this area ; Dr. Paul Bartsch made extensive collections of mol- 

 lusks, amphibians, and birds with reference to the District of Colum- 

 bia fauna; and Austin H. Clark studied Virginia butterflies, visit- 

 ing 54 counties of the State. 



Prof. C. E. Burt, of Southwestern College, under a grant from the 

 Smithsonian, worked in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas collecting 

 a series of turtles for the Museum. 



Geology. — C. W. Gilmore, curator of vertebrate paleontology, near 

 the close of the year left for Montana to take charge of an expedi- 

 tion into the Judith River (Upper Cretaceous) of that State, where 

 a search was to be made for dinosaur material. 



The expedition under the direction of Dr. C. L. Gazin, assistant 

 curator of vertebrate paleontology, at the fossil quarries near Hager- 

 man, Idaho, was gratifyingly successful, the material acquired nearly 



