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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION  1254

the field from March until November is archeological investigations in the Viru Valley of northern Peru, his studies being a part of a cooperative undertaking under the Institute of Andean Research. Dr. Willey’s investigations covered about 300 settlement sites which showed a gradual evolution from simple family dwellings to large, well-planned towns. The time represented in these studies covers from 2,000 to 3,000 years of pre-Columbian history.

With the fighting at an end our usual program of field investigations is underway.

Herbert W. Krieger, Curator of Ethnology, is undertaking an interesting survey of the routes followed by Columbus in his four voyages of discovery. The attempt will be to identify the sites of Indian villages mentioned by Columbus, and also the locations of early settlements of the Spaniards, particularly those that were soon abandoned. Other investigators have traced the routes of Columbus but there has been no previous attempt to correlate these with the Indian populations. The work thus will be a combination of that of the historian and the archeologist. The work is financed by a contribution from Ernest N. May of Wilmington, Delaware.

C. V. Morton, associate curator, Division of Plants, will leave soon for a botanical survey of the island of Antigua in the Lesser Antilles. This area is almost unknown botanically and promises results of definite scientific interest. This work also is financed by a contribution from Mr. Ernest May of Wilmington, Delaware. 

M. A. Carriker, Jr., employed as a field representative under the 

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