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THE annual report of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, which was submitted to the recent meeting of the Board of Regents, revealed a wide range of activities for the year. The scientific expeditions in which the Institution took part penetrated into many corners of the earth. After researches extending over six years, Dr. Walcott discovered fossils in the Lyell limestones of the Canadian Rockies which fixed the limestones as of Upper Cambrian age. In China the Institution's zoological collecting expedition under the auspices of Dr. W. L. Abbott collected 50 boxes of insects, birds, mammals and reptiles, in spite of the murderous Bolotsi aborigines who infest the Province of Szechwan. Another expedition in China, under the direction of Mr. C. W. Bishop of the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, examined a number of large mounds, including two tombs of the Han Dynasty (206 B.C. to A.D. 221). The work brought to light Chinese cultural objects dating from prehistoric times to the Han period, including stone axes, jade chisels, chariot fittings, mirrors.
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Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution. Nature 117, 212 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/117212a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/117212a0