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him ill 1919 while in charge of the Otto T. Mallery Southwestern Ex- 

 pedition. His report, prepared during this period, is to be published 

 by the Bureau of American Ethnology. 



Old World Archeology. — Additions to the collections of the divi- 

 sion are more numerous than those of the preceding year, and nearly 

 all are bv their intrinsic and artistic value, or on account of their 

 historical and archeological significance, valuable additions to the 

 Museum's collections. Mention may be made of the following: 93 

 specimens, consisting in the main of objects of Christian and Bud- 

 dhist religious art in wood, copper, bronze and silver, part of the 

 bequest of Miss Elizabeth S. Stevens; a collection of ancient coins 

 ranging in date from the Eoman Republican and Imperial periods 

 down to Papal times, gift of Captain Clarence L. Wiener ; 104 casts 

 of engraved antique gems, gift of Dr. William H. Dall ; 124 casts of 

 32 Oriental seals, made in the Museum from originals owned by Mrs. 

 Talcott Williams. A very interesting supplement to the "Jeffer- 

 son Bible " in the Museum's collection of Bibles is the addition of 

 two English copies of the New Testament, printed in Philadel- 

 phia in 1804, from which Jefferson cut out the English version of 

 " The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth." These are the very 

 copies to which Jefferson refers in a letter of January 29, 1804, to 

 Doctor Priestley : " I had sent to Philadelphia to get two Testaments 

 (Greek) of the same edition, and two English, wdtli a design to cut 

 out the morsels of morality and paste them on the leaves of book." 

 Gift of Miss Bertha Cohen and her nieces. 



The prehistoric collections of former years from Japan, Korea, 

 Australasia, India, and Cambodia have been labeled, thus bringing 

 the installation of the section of archeology up to date; and numer- 

 ous additions were made to the Buddhistic, Egyptian and Jewish 

 exhibits. A study of the collection of Buddhist religious art was 

 continued and a lecture on the Antiquities of the Bible was prepared 

 for the Young Men's Christian Association. 



Physical Anthropology. — Changes in the organization of the divi- 

 sion during the j^ear are as follows : Mr. George A. Miller, scientific 

 aid, resigned to take up more remunerative work, and Miss Emma 

 Boiler, stenographer, was obliged on account of illness to take pro- 

 longed leave. 



The year has been about equal to last year in number of entries 

 as well as in scientific value of the collections. The more important 

 accessions are : 73 skeletons or parts of skeletons from the prehistoric 

 pueblo of Hawikuh, New Mexico, gift of the Museum of the Ameri- 

 can Indian, Heye Foundation, collected by Mr. F. W. Hodge; skeletal 

 remains of approximately 50 individuals from Central Tennessee 

 and Kentucky, partly a loan and partly a gift from Mr. W. E. 

 Myer; skeletal remains of 28 individuals collected in the Ozark 



