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sought by Maya scholars. In addition to items of major importance such as the above, he has excerpted hundred of pages of material from letters, reports, etc.

The Secretary went on to say that it had been strongly urged that these historical data, especially the great "Descripcion de las Indias", should be published. He had been in touch with persons who might be interested, and was in hopes that at least the amount involved for this exceptional valuable work - some $10,000 - would be found.

[[underlined]] Recent Explorations under the Smithsonian Institution.[[/underlined]] At the request of the Secretary, Dr. Wetmore stated that in the Department of Anthropology, Mr. Collins went again to Alaska where he was occupied for the greater part of the summer in excavating in the old Eskimo village sites on St.Lawrence Island. As a result of continued work in this section the Museum now possesses one of the finest collections of ivory implements from this area extant. The work of the present season has been particularly important in studies of the oldest types of implements yet known from these deposits.

Dr. Hrdlicka during the summer went down to the Kuskokwim River in Alaska, where he made studies of the living natives and secured valuable anthropological material. 

Mr. Krieger returned from the Dominican Republic with further information on the Indians who inhabited that island before the coming of Columbus. It is expected that he will continue similar work in Haiti this winter under further funds provided by Dr.W.L.Abott.

In the Department of Geology Mr. Gilmore worked during the summer in the Eocene deposits of southern Wyoming securing many important fossil. Dr. Gidley continuednwork in Idaho at a site uncovered last year from which we have now obtained skulls and skeletons of more than 40 fossil horses. Apparently these animals were caught in an ancient quicksand and so preserved.

Dr. Resser during the summer studied deposits of Cambrian fossils at the Grand Canyon and in Montana, in continuation of the work of Dr. Walcott,