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was received at the Museum with regret. Mr. WateHn died in 

 July while on his way to Easter Island to examine newly discovered 

 inscriptions. His death deprives Near Eastern archaeology of one 

 of its foremost figures, and the Museum of a loyal friend and valuable 

 scientific collaborator. Mr. Watelin had worked at Susa with de 

 Morgan. His discoveries at Kish have thrown a flood of light on 

 the ancient history of Mesopotamia. 



The Ovimbundu of Angola by Assistant Curator Wilfrid D. 

 Hambly was published in July. This report covers a portion of the 

 research of the Frederick H. Rawson-Field Museum Expedition to 

 Africa, 1929-30. The manuscript of Mr. Hambly's report on the 

 same expedition's work in Nigeria is now completed. 



Fourteen signed and thirty-three unsigned articles and brief 

 items were contributed by the staff of the Department to Field 

 Museum News during the year. The staff also supplied material 

 for forty-four newspaper publicity stories during the same period. 



accessions — ANTHROPOLOGY 



The number of accessions recorded during the year is forty-two. 

 Of these, thirty are gifts, five result from expeditions, two are 

 purchases, and five were obtained by exchange. The total number 

 of objects received in these accessions is 17,538. 



The American Friends of China, Chicago, presented an imperial 

 brush-holder made of Burmese padouk wood, with inlaid inscrip- 

 tions and designs in ivory, jade, and semi-precious stones. This 

 belonged to the Emperor K'ien-lung and is dated a.d. 1736. 



From the National Museum of Copenhagen, Denmark, there 

 were acquired 170 archaeological and ethnological objects of southern 

 and eastern Greenland. These are localities from which the Museum 

 heretofore possessed but scanty material. The collection comprises 

 fur and skin garments, bone and stone tools, fishing accessories, 

 and toys. This material is especially valuable because it is now 

 difficult to obtain such specimens from that region. In exchange 

 for it, Field Museum sent ten archaeological objects from France, 

 and eight from Mexico, and thirty-six ethnological objects from the 

 Northwest Coast of America. 



The collections made by Assistant Curator J. Eric Thompson, 

 as leader of the Field Museum-Carnegie Institution Joint Archaeo- 

 logical Expedition to British Honduras, contain 6,199 archaeological 

 objects gathered at the site of San Jos^ in the northern part of the 

 Cayo district of British Honduras. This large and important 

 collection consists of pottery vessels, pottery whistles and figurines, 



