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The most notable addition to the exhibits of the Department of 

 Anthropology consisted of eleven more sculptures in bronze of racial 

 types, installed in Chauncey Keep Memorial Hall (Hall of the Races 

 of Mankind). These, like the sculptures placed on view in the 

 preceding year, are all the work of Miss Malvina Hoffman, noted 

 sculptor. The new subjects include a full-length figure of a Navaho, 

 and busts or heads of an Alpine Austrian, a Zulu woman, a Korean 

 man, a Pueblo Indian woman, an Apache, a Carib, a Turk, an 

 Igorot, a Berber, and a Toda. These brought the series practically 

 to completion. Only a head of a Beduin remains to be added, and 

 this is expected early in 1935. Altogether the hall now contains 

 ninety studies (including several groups, which bring the number 

 of individuals portrayed up to one hundred) of representative types 

 of the races of the world. 



In the east end of Chauncey Keep Hall there was installed a 

 series of exhibits illustrating various phases of physical anthropology. 

 These consist of transparent illuminated colored pictures on glass 

 of racial types, charts pertaining to racial differences and racial 

 distribution, casts of hands and feet illustrating diiferences among 

 various peoples, skulls of different races, casts of brains, examples 

 of head and body deformation practised by many peoples, samples 

 of hair, casts showing types of ears, and many other exhibits pertain- 

 ing to the subject. 



At the entrance to the Hall of the Stone Age of the Old World 

 (Hall C) there was installed an exhibit called "The Ancestry of Man." 

 On the background of the exhibition case is represented a branching 

 tree. Attached to the branches are reconstructions of the skulls 

 of primitive monkeys and apes, of types of prehistoric men, and 

 finally skulls of modern men of various races. The exhibit graphically 

 illustrates the theory that man, while not the descendant of any 

 living type of ape, has, from many lines of evidence accepted by 

 scientists, a common ancestry with the apes; and that while apes 

 were evolving from primitive types to those living today, a parallel 

 evolution was taking place through various primitive human tjrpes 

 and culminating in the present races of man. 



Of great interest is an exhibit illustrating the method for determin- 

 ing the building dates of cliff houses and ruins in the southwestern 

 United States by means of tree rings in the remains of wood used 

 in the structures. This has been installed in Hall 7, devoted to 

 archaeology and ethnology of the Southwest. This method of tree- 

 ring chronology was developed by Dr. A. E. Douglass of the Uni- 



