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187542. Archeological materials from a mound at Natrium, Marshall County, W. 

 Va., collected by Ralph S. Solecki during December 1948 and January 

 1949. 



187742. Approximately 80 fossil mammals from the Boysen Reservoir area of 

 Wyoming, the Canyon Ferry Reservoir area of Montana, and the 

 Garrison Reservoir area of North Dakota, collected by Dr. T. E. White, 

 River Basin Surveys. 



188194. (Through Dr. F. H. H. Roberts, Jr.) 4 specimens, including Creodont 

 skull from the Faleocene of North Dakota, Plesiosaur skull, fish and 

 a marine turtle from the Pierre Cretaceous, collected by Dr. T. E. 

 White at the Fort Randall Reservoir area in South Dakota, River 

 Basin Surveys. 



188807. (Through Dr. Paul L. Cooper) 4 fresh-water mussels from Hitchcock 

 County, Nebr., River Basin Surveys. 



189103. Archeological material, mostly potsherds, from Utive, Panama, collected 

 by Dr. Matthew W. Stirling. 



189439. Archeological materials from Round Bottom site on the Travis farm 

 about 3% miles south of Moundsville, Marshall County, W. Va., col- 

 lected, with the exception of 3 celts presented by Mr. Travis, by Ralph 

 S. Solecki during December 1948 and January 1949, 



191092. 23 lizards, 6 snakes, 13 frogs, 10 marine invertebrates, and insect speci- 

 mens from Panamd, collected by Dr. Matthew W. Stirling and party 

 during the 1951 Smithsonian Institution-National Geographic Society 

 Expedition. 



188344. (Through Dr. Henry B. Collins, Jr.) Approximately 250 spiders, 27 

 springtails, and 1 parasitic wasp from Cornwallis Island, Canadian 

 Arctic, collected by Dr. Collins in summer of 1950 on National Museum 

 of Canada-Smithsonian Institution Expedition. 



MISCELLANEOUS 



During the year Dr. Frances Densmore, Dr. John K. Swanton, and 

 Dr. Antonio J. Waring, Jr., continued as collaborators of the Bureau. 



Information was furnished during the year by members of the 

 Bureau staff in reply to numerous inquiries concerning the American 

 Indians, past and present, of both continents. Eequests from teach- 

 ers of primary and secondary grades and from Scout organizations 

 continue to increase and indicate a rapidly growing interest in the 

 American Indians throughout the country. Various specimens sent to 

 the Bureau were identified and data on them furnished for their 

 owners. 



KespectfuUy submitted. 



M. W. Stirling, Director, 



Dr. A. Wetmore, 



Secretary^ Smithsonian Institution, 



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