186 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1915. 



Holmes, W. H. — Continued. 



The art of inlay practiced 

 witli marvelous perfection by 

 the early Mediterranean nations 

 had reached a high place in 

 the favor of the leading Ameri- 

 can peoples, and the Aztecs es- 

 pecially had produced works, 

 mostly of minor subjects, in 

 which are displayed a skill and 

 taste truly surprising. The 

 examples illustrated, and more 

 especially the human skull in- 

 crusted with brilliant stones, 

 and reproduced in color in the 

 frontispiece, are distinctly im- 

 pressive. 



Masterpieces of aboriginal 



American art: III. Mosaic worlj, 

 major examples. 



Art and Arch., 1, No. 



6, May, 1915, pp. 



243-255, pis. 1-5, 



figs. 1-8. 

 The native Americans were 

 not only competent workers in 

 stucco and the minor forms of 

 mosaic, but applied the latter 

 art with striking effect to the 

 embellishment of their great 

 buildings. The awakening of 

 esthetic appreciation is mani- 

 fest everywhere among the 

 more advanced tribes, and ex- 

 cellent examples are available 

 in Mexico and Central and 

 South America, those of the an- 

 cient cities of Mitla and Uxmal 

 being especially noteworthy. 



Hkdlicka, Axe§. a study of old Ameri- 

 cans. 



Journ. Heredity, 5, No. 

 11, Nov., 1914, p. 

 509. 

 A brief explanation of investi- 

 gations carried on by the au- 

 thor for a period of more than 

 two years on representatives 

 of the oldest American fami- 

 lies. 



Physical anthropology in Amer- 



ica. 



Amer. Anthropologist 

 ^ (n. s.), 16, No. 4, 



Oct.-Dec, 1914, pp. 



508-554. 

 Gives a succinct, but, as far 

 as possible, a complete history 

 of researches in physical an- 

 thropology in America, more 

 particularly in the United 

 States, with bibliography. It 

 includes the work of living as 



Hedlicka, Ale§ — Continued. 



well as deceased authors. Dis- 

 cussion of the more recent 

 phases of the subject is re- 

 served for a future communi- 

 cation. 



The most ancient skeletal re- 



mains of man. 



Rep. Smithsonian Inst., 



1913 (1914), pp. 



491-552, pis. 1-41, 



figs. 1-12. 

 Report on the pTecious skele- 

 tal material relating to early 

 man in the Old World. Under 

 a grant of the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution, the author, in 1912, 

 visited the various European 

 institutions in which well au- 

 thenticated ancient skeletal re- 

 mains of man are preserved, as 

 well as a number of the more 

 important localities from which 

 these specimens came, and this 

 report embodies the main liter- 

 ature of the subject and ab- 

 stracts of published data as 

 well as his personal observa- 

 tions. The specimens reported 

 on in particular are those of 

 the Pithecanthropus, Eoan- 

 thropus, the Mauer jaw, the 

 Gibraltar skull, the Neander- 

 thal skull and other bones, the 

 Spy skeleton, the Krapina re- 

 mains, the Jersey (England) 

 teeth, the La Quina skeleton, 

 and the Moustier skeleton. 



The peopling of America. 



Journ. Heredity, 6, 

 No. 2, Feb., 1915, 

 pp. 79-91, figs. 14- 

 21. 

 A reprint, in the main, of 

 the author's article on the same 

 subject published in the Pro- 

 ceedings of the 18th Interna- 

 tional Congress of Americanists 

 (1913-1914), with several new 

 illustrations. It was prepared 

 for publication by the editor of 

 the Journal. 



Some recent anthropological 



explorations. 



Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 



1, No. 4, Apr., 1915, 



pp. 235-238. 



A brief report of the various 



anthropological expeditions 



sent out between 1912 and 



1915, under the auspices of the 



Smithsonian Institution and 



under the author's direction, in 



connection with the prepara- 



