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Austria; and a nuinber of stone implements from South Africa, 

 presented by Mr. Albert Talken, through Mr. W. A. Haygood, 

 American consul at Cape Province, South Africa. Thirty-one speci- 

 mens, including casts of stone implements, animal bones, etc., from 

 the caverns of Taubach, Germany, were obtained in exchange from 

 the Stadtisches Museum of Weimar, Germany. 



The study and installation of the collections of stone implements 

 and associated reUcs of other classes chiefly engaged the attention of 

 Dr. I. M. Casanowicz, assistant curator of the division. An inventory 

 of this extensive and important section of the division was com- 

 menced as a preUminary to the preparation of a card catalogue and 

 of labels, and to a definite arrangement as soon as the necessary cases 

 become available. In the Egyptian section of the exhibition series 

 one special case, one Kensington case, and the Kosetta Stone were 

 installed; and to the BibUcal section were added a screen holding a 

 rehef map of Palestine, the Siloam and Temple inscriptions and 26 

 geographical and ethnograpliical photogravures of Palestine. A cast 

 of the heroic Head of David by Michelangelo and a model of the 

 Parthenon were also placed on exhibition. 



Physical anthropology. — During an investigation in Asia, Dr. 

 Ale§ Hrdhcka, curator of the division, secured 205 MongoHan and 14 

 Buriat skidls, with other bones, constituting a collection the counter- 

 part of which does not exist elsewhere, and which, owing to rapidly 

 changing conditions, it would be very difficult to dupUcate. The 

 more noteworthy gifts received were as follows: Seventeen skulls 

 and a skeleton from mounds in Ai'kansas and Louisiana, from Mr. 

 Clarence B. Moore; casts of the Mauer or Heidelberg jaw, from Prof. 

 Dr. Otto Schoetensack, of Heidelberg University, Germany; a num- 

 ber of casts of skeletal remains of the ancient man from Krapina, 

 from Prof. Dr. Gorjanovic-Kramberger, of Zagreb, Croatia; a large 

 number of photographs of Sudanese Negroes, from Dr. C. G. 

 Sehgmann, of London, England; and the mummy of a Peruvian 

 child showing in situ the band by which its head was being deformed, 

 from Dr. Carlos Morales Macedo, of Lima, Peru. Eighteen Hindu 

 and Polynesian skulls were received in exchange from the British 

 Museum of Natural History; and casts of 10 skulls, with lower jaws, 

 of Siberian natives from Prof. J. Talko-Hryncewicz, of KJrakow, 

 GaUcia. Mention may also be made of an extensive collection 

 obtained by the curator on an expedition to Peru, but which did not 

 reach Washington in time to be overhauled and accessioned before 

 the close of the year. 



The curator was absent from Washington during a considerable 

 part of the year, conducting field investigations in several distant 

 countries. Work upon the collections was carried on, however, as 

 opportunity permitted, and the segregation of material was continued 



