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Indian conception of their genealogy and migrations. Mr. E. H. 

 TIaniniond, of the Bureau of Education of Manihi, examined the 

 Philippine collection and furnished a large amount of data as to the 

 materials and tribal origin of Philippine basketry. Dr. C. V. Hart- 

 man, of the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburg, studied the installation 

 and especially the arrangement of the synoptic series, with a view 

 to introducing this feature in the new Technical Museum in Pitts- 

 burg. Dr. George B. Gordon, of the Free Museum of Science and 

 Art, Philadelphia, examined the Eskimo collection for material to 

 incorporate in a report of recent explorations among these people. 

 Information respecting the forms and materials of the Apache and 

 Navaho Indian arrows, necessitating an interesting study, was fur- 

 nished by request to the Department of Justice. 



In January the head curator lectured before the students of the 

 Naval Medical School on the history of culture, with the special 

 object of showing how, as medical officers, they might render im- 

 portant service to the National Museum, Later he addressed the 

 arts and crafts department of the George Washington University 

 on the basket work of the Malaysian area. 



Prehistoric archeology. — The additions to this division comprised 

 several of exceptional importance. The Bureau of American Eth- 

 nology transmitted nearly 800 archeological specimens, being part of 

 the results of joint explorations by the bureau and the Department 

 of Archeolog}^ and Paleontology of the University of Pennsylvania 

 at Key INIarco, Florida, in 1896, under the direction of Mr. Frank 

 Hamilton Gushing. The collection is of great scientific importance, 

 representing a people and a culture of which no knowledge had 

 previously been obtained. The series of objects is more complete 

 and more valuable than any similar one obtained from a single lo- 

 cality or number of closely related sites north of Mexico, and throws 

 much new light on the state of culture, the manner of life, and the 

 industrial and artistic achievements of the Gulf coast tribes of pre- 

 Columbian times. The entire collection was kept together until 1900, 

 when it was separated into two nearly equal parts, one passing into 

 the possession of the Bureau of Ethnology. A soapstone pot from 

 Mecklenburg County, Virginia, and two grooved axes of clay iron- 

 stone and a rubbing hammer stone obtained by Mr. Thomas J. Wilson 

 near Hughes Springs, Cass County, Texas, were also received from 

 the same bureau. 



Among the gifts were a silver image from ruins on an island in 

 Lake Titicaca, Bolivia, in the well-known style of the Titicacan 

 region, presented by Dr. T. S. K. Morton, of Philadelphia; and a 

 series of flint implements from the Fayum desert, Egypt, and one 

 of paleolithic quartzite implements, together with two stone hatchets, 

 from the Pennaar River Valley, India, contributed by Mr. H. W. 

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