Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-06-11
ILLUSTRATED PAMPHLET
RECOUNTS FIELD WORK
Results of Explorations of Twenty
Five Parties Set Forth by
Smithsonian Institution.


Issued a pamphlet on it's explorations
and field work. covering the results
of twenty five parties in ten differ
end foreign countries and twenty-five
states of the Union. The several &C
counts deal with many scientific in
designations carried on directly by the
institution and its branches or in CO.
operation with other institutions. and
are well illustrated from photographs
taken in the field.
DIR. Charles D. Walcott, secretary of
the institution, continued his work in
paleontology and geology in the Rocky
mountain region, particularly in the
Yellowstone Park area and in the Belt
mountains. DR.. Walcott's party OBJ
tanned nearly five tons of specimens.
from which will be prepared a special
| Yellowstone Park exhibit in the mu-
scum. Among the mineral specimens
collected are a number of interesting
calcite rosettes. Many excellent photo
graphs also were obtained by the
party Altogether they covered more
than 675 miles with the camp outfit in
the park. and then proceeded down the
West Gallatin River canyon to Deep
Creek canyon. seventeen miles east of
Townsend. Mont. where the pre-Cam-
brian sections of the Big Belt noun
tains are shown. About two tons of
fossil specimens aI were collected in this
storms stopped field work for the sea-
1 son.
J. w. Gidley of the division of
paieontology made trip to Minamac.
complete adult male mastodon skeleton
were excavated. The now completed
skeleton. with but little artificial
restoration. is being assembled for ex-
n he fnhr To ho11 Of
the new musium building.
The institution was represented in
tne koren Arctic expedition by B. Alex
ander. who Travelled in the Kolyma
search of the remains Of large extinct
animals. particularly the mammoth A
number of fossil mammal bones were
obtained. but the most important find
was finely preserved skull of the ST.
berian mammoth. which is the only
skull of this monster in any American
museum.
Copley Amory, jr, a collaboration in
koren party, and as his part of the
| results of the Siberian expedition he
turned over to the museum 1865 NAM
mails. 264 birds and various miscella-
birds nests, most of which he pre-
pared himself. The material furnishes
an opportunity. for comparing the many
Alaskan species represented in the
museum with their nearest Asiatic
DR.. Paul Bartsch. curator of marine
invertebrates. studied the Bahama
cerion colonies previously planted on
the Florida keys. and started a new
experiment in the transportation of
307 specimens of the Florida tree snail
to Tortugas. Further marine inverte-
brate work was done by William B.
Marshall and Clarence r. Shoemaker in
the Chesapeake bay. Mr.. Shoemaker
also visited the Danish West Indies on
collecting trip.
DIR. J. N. Rose. associate in botany
and also representing the Carnegie In
stitution of Washington, accompanied
by P. G. Russell of the National Mu-
scum, continued the botanical explora-
ton of South America, spending more
than five months in Brazil and Argen-
tina, where more than 5000 herbarium
specimens, mostly cactuses. were OBJ
tanned. and more than ninety cases OF
living plants were sent back to the
| United States. together with other nat
ural history specimens.
| Communications from Arthur de G.
Sowerby indicate his activities In
China and Manchuria while obtaining
geological specimens for the museum.
Among the unusual specimens collect
ed he reports series of squirrels OF
new species, like chipmunks. but hav-
ing a thick. soft and much more gray
ish fur, and no cheek pouches. They
live in holes in oak trees and are very
active, taking enormous leaps from one
tree to another. In southern Shensi
Mr.. Sowerby obtained an enormous
hull takin, large goatlike animal
peculiar to that region, ana 1emaie
specimen of the rare Chinese musk
deer, besides a number OF smailer
mammals.
Coijections received from H. c. Raven,
who is exploring in the Celebes for the
institution, include 464 mammals, slo
birds, fifty reptiles and some mlscel,
1aneous specimens. Mr.. Raven returned
to the United States for several months,
but started for the field again last fall,
reporting last from Buitenzorg. Java.
While on the Pacific coast represent
ing the institution at the Panama-Pa-
cific exposition, DIR. Walter Hough ex-
amined some shell mounds. In which
he discovered several Indian skeletons
and many implements. Nell M. Judo
Of the museum, made an archeological
reconnaissance of western Utah, for the
bureau of American ethnology and
discovered a very primitive structure
at willard on the northeastern shore
of the Great Salt Lake. and others in
that region, all of which he Classics
into three types of prehistoric habi-
tations He also identified the so-called
Spanish diggings," supposedly made
by Spanish conGuerors IN ther searches
dian Inhabitants when they sought
suitable stone to make their imple-
ments DIR. Ales Hrdlicka studied the
extent of the full blood and mixed blood
u
and Leech Lake reservations in Min
nesota, in an effort to assist the De-
partment of Justice in settling the
claims of these Indians.
The pamphlet contains accounts of
the many lines of research relating
to the American Indian conducted by
the bureau of American ethnology,
much of which already has been re-
ported in the special publications of
the bureau. F. w. Hodge. ethnologist-
| in-charge, visited Nacoochee Mound.
Ga, and proved 1t to be no more than
an earth work of the Cherokees. and
not of Spanish origin. DR.. j. Walter
Fewkes studied the prehistoric remains
in Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado.
| obtaining some excellent specimens
| and completing extensive repairs. Re-
| ports of work accomplished by Messrs.
| Franchtenberg. Nicholson, Hewitt, La
| Flesche. Swanton and Harrington, as
| well as the publications and collections
of Miss Frances Densmore. are re-
| corded.
A brief statement of the work of the