LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL 



Smithsonian Institution, 

 Bureau of American Ethnology, 

 Washington, D.O., Jime 28, 1963. 



Sir: I have the honor to submit the accompanying manuscript, 

 entitled "Archeological Investigations in the Parita and Santa Maria 

 Zones of Panama," by John Ladd, and to recommend that it be pub- 

 lished as a bulletin of the Bureau of American Ethnology. 

 Very respectfully yours, 



Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr., 



Director 

 Dr. Leonard Carmichael, 



Secretary, Smithsonian Institution. 



