40 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1923. 



studies were completed and two parts already published in the 

 American Journal of Physical Anthropology, while the third is 

 soon going to print. 



The material in the division is freely used by members of the 

 division of mammals and others when they have need of consulting 

 human remains. 



Besides numerous visitors who spent from one hour to half a day 

 in the division examining specimens or consulting with the curator, 

 the following have carried on longer studies in the division : 



Dr. R. J. Terry, of Washington University, St. Louis, studying 

 the humerus; Dr. Leon A. Housmann, studying and obtaining sam- 

 ples of hair ; Drs. Ella Oppenheimer, Edith Nicholls, and Mary Put- 

 nam (and others), of the Children's Bureau, Department of Labor, 

 twice to three times weekly for lessons in anthropometry for work 

 on children; Dr. Walter W. Swett, consultation and practice of 

 measurements with a view of utilizing them in measurements on 

 cattle; Dr. Paul H. Stevenson, of Peking Union Medical College, 

 China, study of Eskimo crania ; Prof. F. V. Simonton, University of 

 California, studies on the lower jaw; Dr. John W. Ross and Joseph 

 L. Appleton, Dental School of the University of Pennsylvania, 

 studying methods and teeth; Prof. Edward Loth, University of 

 Warsaw, Poland, studying vertebrae, the scapula, etc.; and Prof. R. 

 Bennett Bean, University of Virginia, anthropometry. 



The Museum is a conserver of forms, of history, of art, and arts. 

 The Museum is the repository of the historic evidences of civiliza- 

 tion. It is evident to all who have the interests of the Museum at 

 heart that there is great necessity for the collection of material at 

 first hand. 



Examples of enlightened cooperation are the well known con- 

 tributions of material and the corresponding publications of Dr. 

 W. L. Abbott, who collected anthropological and biological material 

 in Africa, High Asia, and the East Indies. Without his cooperation 

 the ethnology of these areas would be unrepresented in the United 

 States National Museum. 



Another cooperation was that financed by Peter Goddard Gates 

 for explorations in Pueblo archeology. Both the collections from 

 these explorations and the publications based on them are essential 

 to the work of students of the subject. These Gates expeditions cost 

 $4,000, and the results are held at many times that sum. 



DISTItlBUnoX ANP RXCHANOE OP SPECIMENS. 



There were sent out from the department an increased number of 

 selected duplicate specimens to educational institutions having facil- 

 ities for caring for the material. This educational work, though 



