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timbers still in situ; eleven photographs, and four charts. Some 

 of the cross sections were presented jointly by Dr. Douglass and 

 the National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C. This acquisi- 

 tion made possible an exhibit explaining the method used to obtain 

 dates for prehistoric buildings in the Southwest. 



In memory of their mother, Mrs. Blanche R. Mandel, Messrs. 

 Fred L. Mandel, Jr., and Leon Mandel, of Chicago, presented 

 fourteen choice Lamaist paintings dating from the eighteenth and 

 nineteenth centuries. 



Miss Grace Brewster Cross, of Chicago, gave the Museum five 

 valuable specimens from Hawaii: two headbands, one of feathers 

 and one of shell; two strings of seed beads; and one string of crabs'- 

 eyes. 



From Mr. T. Ito, of Chicago, the Museum received a Japanese 

 reproduction (1807) of a series of Chinese wood-engravings illus- 

 trating agriculture and sericulture, in exchange for a Chinese painting 

 on glass. 



In exchange for a lapis-lazuli cylinder seal from Kish, Mr. 

 Fahim Kouchakji, of New York, sent the Museum a most beautiful 

 and rare Syrian glass pitcher of the fourth century a.d. It is 

 hexagonal in shape, and the glass is an opaque blue-black. 



From Mr. Hubert Beddoes, of Chicago, the Museum received 

 a gift of a very valuable folio album containing 134 large and most 

 unusual photographs taken during the years from 1873 to 1876 in 

 China, Japan, and Java. 



Eleven more sculptures in bronze, the work of Miss Malvina 

 Hoffman, were received, and installed in Chauncey Keep Memorial 

 Hall (Hall of the Races of Mankind). 



From the estate of the late Edward E. Ayer, Benefactor, former 

 Trustee, and first President of the Museum, and the late Mrs. Ayer, 

 eighteen Navaho blankets were received. 



Professor Rowland Rathbun, of Chicago, presented the Museum 

 with twenty-three of his carefully sketched and valuable drawings 

 of Sasanian stucco-work taken from the frescoes of fifth century 

 A.D. Sasanian buildings. 



Two large aerial photographs of the Hopewell Mounds, Ohio, 

 were presented by Captain Dache M. Reeves, of the United States 

 Air Corps at Dayton, Ohio. These mounds were excavated in 1891- 

 92 and the valuable archaeological material was later acquired by 

 Field Museum. It is interesting to have an aerial view of mounds 

 which were investigated some forty years ago. 



