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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION    1255

W.L. Abbott Fund of the Smithsonian Institution, is continuing work on a survey of the bird life of northern Colombia. This work was initiated by the Secretary in 1941 in the Guajira Peninusla and has continued for six months each year since under Mr. Carriker. This season Carriker will cover a little-known area in the eastern part of the Lower Magdalena valley, and later will continue in the hill country at the northern end of the central Andes, a region almost unknown.

T. Dale Stewart, Curator of Physical Anthropology, has gone to Guatemala to make physical studies of the Indians there in cooperation with anthropologists of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. His investigations will deal with the physical characteristics of the various Indian settlements; and also with the relation of these living people to pre-Columbian inhabitants of the country through study of skeletons found in archeological investigations.

Through a cooperative arrangement with Yale University, the Institution, through the W. L. Abbott Fund, has joined in biological studies in India, under Dillon Ripley, formerly of the National Museum staff.

W. F. Foshag and E. P. Henderson of the Division of Mineralogy spent five months in Japan classifying large quantities of diamonds and other gems in custody of the 8th Army. These included practically all of the diamonds owned in Japan, which had been purchased from the people by the Japanese government and were to have been used in exchange for metals from North China.

Leonard P. Schultz, Curator of Fishes, and J. P. E. Morrison, Associate Curator of Mollusks, made a detailed survey of the fauna of 

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