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the Bureau of American Ethnology. Descriptions of two especially 

 interesting skulls, recently received, are in course of publication in 

 the Proceedings of the Museum. A report was furnished to Mr. Clar- 

 ence B. Moore on the collection of crania which he donated to the 

 Museum, for incorporation in his memoir, and a revision, with addi- 

 tions, of the paper on Brain "Weight in Vertebrates, has been under- 

 taken. Finally, several minor reports and a presidential address be- 

 fore the Anthropological Society of Washington by Doctor Hrdlicka 

 were based upon his Museum investigations, and he also rendered aid 

 in the preparation of the second volume of the Handbook of Indians 

 for the Bureau of American Ethnology. 



In connection with his researches, as well as for the purpose of 

 securing additions to the collections. Doctor Hrdlicka was detailed to 

 the Jamestown Exposition, where, with the assistance of Mr. Hendley, 

 he measured and made casts of 2 Eskimo, 2 Panama Indians, and 15 

 Oglala Sioux. He was in New York in October to arrange for obtain- 

 ing examples of such ancient human remains as might ]be discovered 

 in the course of the excavations in Egypt by the Metropolitan Museum 

 of Art, which has generously tendered its cooperation in the matter, 

 although involving extra labor and expense on its part. Subse- 

 quently, in com^Dany with Dr. J. E. Benedict, he visited Ward's Nat- 

 ural Science Establishment in Rochester, the College of Ph3'^sicians 

 and Surgeons, the American Museum of Natural History, the Rocke- 

 feller Pathological Institute, the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute, 

 and the Wistar Institute of Anatomy, for the purpose of ascertaining 

 the more recent improvements in methods of j^reparing skeletons. 



Technologjj. — The additions in technology were exceptionally nu- 

 merous and valuable. Of greatest importance were many models and 

 some full-sized examples of interesting inventions transferred fi*(b'm 

 the Patent Office. The latter include a large number of pistols, 

 revolvers, carbines, rifles, etc., illustrating noteworthy devices which 

 have developed into special systems of firearms now extensively used 

 for military and other purposes. Among these are the Hotchkiss and 

 Krag-Jorgensen magazine rifles, Winchester tubular magazine guns, 

 North guns and pistols, many of which were made for the United 

 States Army in the early part of the last century ; the Sharps, Joslyn, 

 Lawrence, Jenks, Spencer, Majaiard, Merrill, Burnside, Lindner, 

 Burton, Berdan, and other breech-loading guns. The early founda- 

 tion inventions, on which the Colt and the Smith & Wesson sys- 

 tems of revolvers are based, are also represented. Some of the other 

 subjects to which the models relate are printing presses, sewing ma- 

 chines, typewriters, electrical inventions, telegraph repeaters, time 

 bank locks, looms, spinning and knitting machinery, etc. The col- 

 lection of steam machinery models is very important, including sev- 

 eral by John Ericsson, who is also represented by his inventions in 



