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Additions were made to the collection of data on heating and 

 illumination. A report on the explorations of the habitations of 

 New Mexican pit-dwellers investigated by the curator was finished 

 and printed. Interest was taken by the curator in war activities 

 and was extended to the Army Medical Museum, the Red Cross, the 

 National Research Council, and the Girl Scouts. 



The division values its correspondents who have been in the past 

 instrumental in adding to its collections. Among these is Mr. Victor 

 J. Evans, who is collecting extensively in American ethnology and 

 whose collections are destined for the National Museum. 



American archeology. — Owing to the absence in military service 

 of the assistant curator, Mr. Neil M. Judd, and to the failing health 

 of Mr. Edwin lP. Upham, aid, the division was under the direct 

 charge of the head curator during the first part of the year. On his 

 return, January 1, Mr. Judd was made curator of the division. 

 Toward the close of the year he, under temporary detail to the Bu- 

 reau of American Ethnology, was able to resume his archeological 

 researches in southwestern Utah and northwestern Arizona. 



Although the new accessions are not so numerous as in preceding 

 years, the scientific value is well maintained. Some of the more 

 important of these are: A collection of 558 gold ornaments, with 

 shell and bone beads, from Colombia, South America, a loan from 

 Capt. Edward H. Watson, United States Navy, through Mrs. C. C. 

 Marsh, Washington, District of Columbia. A second large collec- 

 tion, lent by Mr. Robert Hinckley, Washington, District of Colum- 

 bia, consisting of prehistoric stone and earthenware artifacts from 

 the neighborhood of San Salvador and certain pottery vessels and 

 images made by natives in imitation of antiquities, 192 in all ; col- 

 ected by the late Hon. Thomas Hinckley, former United States 

 consul general and fii'st secretary of legation at Salvador, Central 

 America. A valuable collection of 155 Peruvian slings presented by 

 Dr. Ale§ Hrdhcka, of the United States National Museum. Two 

 hundred and nineteen stone objects of various types, potsherds and 

 fragments of soapstone vessels from ancient village sites on the 

 Susquehanna River at Great Bend, Pennsylvania, presented by Capt. 

 Richard C. Du Bois, United States Army (retired), Hallstead, Penn- 

 sylvania. Two fragments of human bones in which brass arrow 

 heads are imbedded, received as a transfer from the United States 

 Navy Department; they were discovered by Mr. C. S. Burrell, in 

 charge of the construction of new barracks at the United States 

 submarine base, New London, Connecticut, and are probably of 

 Norse origin. 



Old World archeology. — Aside from the archeological problems 

 proper, Dr. I. M. Casanowicz, assistant curator of the division, has 



