34 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1908. 



sicians and Surgeons, New York; 2 series of the brains of an- 

 thropoid apes and of monkeys, 1 from West Borneo the other from 

 Sumatra, donated by Dr. "W, L. Abbott; 54 specimens, the gift of 

 Prof. F. P. Mall, of Johns Hopkins University; 10 well-preserved 

 skulls from mounds along the Arkansas River, including 1 example 

 of a rare anomaly and several of the flathead deformation, presented 

 by Mr. Clarence B. Moore, of Philadelphia ; 3 Eskimo skeletons, ob- 

 tained on the Smithsonian expedition to Alaska under Mv. C. W. 

 Gilmore; 7 brains and 19 skeletons from various medical schools; 

 5 Indian skulls and other bones from Casa Grande ruin, Arizona, 

 collected by Dr. J. W. Fewkes; and 2 Filipino skulls, 9 brains, and 

 15 heads of monkeys, contributed by Dr. Robert Bennett Bean, of 

 the Philippine Medical School, Manila. The gift by Mr. J. G. Craw- 

 ford, of Albany, Oregon, of a skull with a remarkably low fore- 

 head, and a collection of human bones, including another skull with 

 low forehead, made by Mr. Gerard Fowke and transmitted by the 

 Bureau of American Ethnology, are likewise deserving of mention. 

 There were also added to the collection 26 life masks of Indians, 19 

 of which were made by the assistant curator with the aid of Mr. 

 H. W. Hendley, at the Jamestown Exposition, and 5 busts, prepared 

 from these molds. The Bureau of American Ethnology suj^plied 

 other valuable material besides that above mentioned, and through 

 its aid a number of Indians were sent to the Museum for measuring 

 and the taking of masks. 



In the preservation and installation of specimens the work of the 

 division is entirely up-to-date. A series of skulls with various stages 

 of a proatlas and fusion of the atlas with the skull has been arranged 

 in the laboratory and proves of much interest to visiting physicians 

 as well as anthropologists. The exhibits consist of 32 Indian busts, 

 placed in the Catlin Hall, and of such groups of specimens as can 

 conveniently be shown in the laboratory cases. The latter comprise 

 several collections of crania of special interest, racial pelvises, cranial 

 and dental anomalies; brains, human and comparative; fossilized 

 human bones, with examples of low-developed recent crania, and 

 casts of the European geologically ancient skulls; skulls showing 

 teeth filing and carving, painting and tattooing; examples of ancient 

 American trephining, and skulls showing types and individual varia- 

 tions of artificial deformations. 



The scientific work of the division by Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, assistant 

 curator in charge, has been mainly a continuation of that of the previ- 

 ous year, relating especially to the humerus, which is now nearing 

 completion. His paper on skeletal remains and that entitled 

 Physiological and medical observations among the Indians of the 

 Southwest and northern Mexico will soon be issued as bulletins of 



