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presented by Mr, Clarence B. Moore, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 

 16 skulls, received in exchange from Prof. David Paul von Hansemann, 

 Rudolf Virchow-Krankenhaus, Berlin, Germany; 6 casts of ancient 

 human and primitive Australian crania, obtamed by purchase ; a cast 

 of an ancient human lower jaw, known as "the Heidelberg jaw," the 

 gift of Prof. Otto Schoetensack, of Heidelberg, Germany; 20 human 

 skulls, transferred from the Ai-my Medical Museum through Maj. T. T. 

 Russell, United States Ai-my, curator; 25 brachycephalic skulls of 

 Czechs, received in exchange from Prof. J. Matiegka, of Prague, 

 Bohemia; 28 negro skulls, from the Smithsonian African Expedition; 

 6 specimens of articulated hands and feet, through exchange with 

 Prof. Gustav Schwalbe, University of Strassburg, Germany; a large 

 number of anatomical specunens presented by Prof. F. P. Mall, of 

 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; a skeleton of an Australian 

 native, in exchange with the Western Australian Museum and Art 

 Gallery, Perth, Australia; the skull of a Flathead Indian and 2 

 head-flattening pillows, donated by Capt. Newton Chittenden, Brook- 

 lyn, New York; 23 important anatomical preparations, contributed 

 by Dr. D. S. Lamb, of the Ai-my Medical Museum, Washington; and 

 two collections of valuable anatomical material, presented, one by 

 Dr. Robert Bennett Bean, the other by Dr. Winsor, both of the 

 Pliilippine Medical School, Manila. 



This division was one of the fii"st to move into the new Museum 

 building, and since September attention has mainly been given to 

 fitting up the laboratories and rearranging and relabeling the collec- 

 tions. A considerable amount of material has been brought together 

 preparatory to installation in the exhibition cases now provided in the 

 laboratory. The series of Indian busts on general exhibition has been 

 increased by the addition of five new casts made in the Museum. 



Investigations were concluded b}^ the curator on the Arkansas and 

 Louisiana crania presented by Mr. Clarence B. Moore, and the results 

 pubhshed by the Academy of Sciences of Philadelpliia. Measure- 

 ments of the capacity of these crania have been made and await elabo- 

 ration. A very important collection of Esldmo skulls and skeletons, 

 fonvarded by the American Museum of Natural History, was studied 

 and the report submitted to that Museum. Some progress was made 

 toward the completion of investigations on the humerus in the differ- 

 ent races, and a large amount of work was done on the report concern- 

 ing the ancient and modern inhabitants of the Oasis of Kharga, 

 Egypt. An account of two Texas crania was furnished the Bureau 

 of American Ethnolog}', and detailed measurements of certain south- 

 ern California Indian skuUs were sent to Dr. P. Rivet, Laboratoire 

 d' Anthropologic, Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. On April 1, 

 1910, the curator sailed for Argentina, South America, to conduct 



