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a number of species of mammals, birds, reptiles, and plants. And 

 while traversing Utah and Nevada several remote tribes of Indians 

 were visited, particularly the Gosinte, from whom a long-needed 

 vocabulary was obtained. 



ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN EASTERN ASIA. 



For the extension of researches in eastern Asia, in continuation of 

 anthropological investigations carried on in Siberia and Mongolia 

 under the direction of the Institution in 1912, an allotment has been 

 made from the Smithsonian fund for work during the next fiscal 

 year and for a limited period thereafter. The plan of operations 

 includes a thorough study of the peoples of the eastern coast of Asia, 

 Manchuria, Mongolia, Tibet, and Siberia, among whom it is believed 

 lies the secret of the origin of the American Indian. Investigations 

 thus far made by Dr. Hrdlicka in behalf of the Institution indicate, he 

 says, " that there exist to-day over large parts of eastern Siberia and 

 in Mongolia, Tibet, and other regions in that part of the world 

 numerous remains which now form constituent parts of more modern 

 tribes or nations, of a more ancient population (related in origin, per- 

 haps, with the latest paleolithic European), which were physically 

 identical with, and in all probability gave rise to, the American 

 Indian." 



In a pamphlet on Smithsonian Explorations in 1913 a number of 

 other biological and anthropological investigations are described. 



RESEARCHES UNDER THE HODGKINS FUND. 



The Hodgkins fund was established in 1891 by a gift of $200,000 

 from Mr. Thomas GeOrge Hodgkins, of Setauket, N. Y. By sub- 

 sequent gifts during his life and through sums received from Mr. 

 Hodgkins's estate, of which the Institution was made the residuary 

 legatee, the fund has increased to about $250,000. It was stipulated 

 by the donor that the income of $100,000 of his gift should be de- 

 voted to the increase and diffusion of more exact knowledge in regard 

 to the nature and properties of atmospheric air in connection with 

 the welfare of man. He indicated his desire that researches be not 

 limited to sanitary science, but that the atmosphere be considered in 

 its widest relationship to all branches of science, referring to the 

 experiments of Franklin in atmospheric electricity and the discovery 

 of Paul Bert in regard to the influence of oxygen on the phenomena 

 of vitality as germane to his foundation. To stimulate researches 

 in these directions the Institution offered a prize of $10,000 for a 

 paper embodying some new and important discovery in regard to 

 the nature and properties of atmospheric air, which was awarded in 

 1895 to Lord Rayleigh and Prof. William Ramsay, of London, for 



