122 



EEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1910. 



Fewkes, J. Walter — Continued. 



A discussion of the fundamental religious 

 ideas of the Antilleans follows the de- 

 scription of the idol. 



Cremation in cliff-dwellings. 



Records of the Past, ix, pt. :i, May- 

 June, 1910, pp. lo4-6. 

 Relates to the discovery of calcined 

 human remains in Cliff-Palace, Mesa 

 Verde, Colo., and discusses the range of 

 aboriginal cremation in the southwestern 

 United States. 



Report on the excavation and re- 

 pair of Cliff-palace, Mesa Verde Na- 

 tional Park, Colo., in 1909. 



Reports of the Superintendent of the 

 Mesa Verde National Park and 

 J. Walter Fetvkes, in charge of 

 ticavatioa and repair of ruins, to 

 the Secretary of the Interior. De- 

 partment of the Interior, 190^1, 

 pp. 13-,33, pis. 1-.5. 

 The report of Dr. Fewkes is preceded by 

 the report of the superintendent of the 

 park dealing with the affairs of his custo- 

 dianship, attention being given to roads 

 and trails, water supply, travel, privi- 

 leges, extention of boundaries, rules and 

 regulations, etc. Dr. Fewkes first de- 

 scribes the ruins as they appeared Ijefore 

 operations began, and refers to means of 

 access, vandalism, methods of repair 

 work, etc. The body of the paper is an 

 account of the work of excavation and 

 repair and is supplemented by descriptive 

 details of the cUfl village, periiaps the 

 most remarkable yet discovered. The 

 paper is accompanied by a plan of the 

 ruins, and is embellished with four half- 

 tone plates illustrating the buildings be- 

 fore and after the repairs were made. 



HrdliCka, Ale§. Note sur la variation 

 morphologique des Egyptiens depuis 



Hrdli6ka, Ales — Continued. 



les temps prehistoriqties ou pr^dynas- 

 tique.s. 



Bull, et Mem. Soc. d' Anthropolo- 

 gic, Paris, Fifth Series, x. No. .3, 

 1909, pp. 143-144. 

 An abstract of the principal results of 

 observations made by the author on the 

 ancient and modern P2gyptians while ac- 

 companying the Metropolitan Museum's 

 recent expedition to Egypt. It speaks for 

 the continuity of race, but against the 

 continuity of type of the inhabitants of 

 the Nile valley from the pre-dynastic to 

 the present time. 



On the stature of the Indians of 



the southwest and of northern IMexico. 

 Putnam Anniversary Volume, 

 1909, pp. 405-426. 

 This paper presents in brief form a com- 

 parative study of stature among twenty- 

 three Indian tribes of the southwest 

 United States and northern Mexico, and 

 discusses the causes underlying the re- 

 markable diversity. 



— ■ — Report on an additional collection 

 of skeletal remains from Arkansas and 

 Louisiana (Made, and presented to the 

 National Museum in 1909, by Mr. 

 CJarence B. Moore.) 



Joum. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 14, 

 1909, pp. 172-249, 1 map, figs. 

 1-9. 

 This paper is a detailed study of the 

 extensive collection of skeletal remains 

 obtained from mounds and other Indian 

 burial places in Arkansas and Louisiana. 

 The crania are found to present two varie- 

 ties of defonnation, and represent two 

 types of people. Detailed observations 

 are given regarding the interesting patho- 

 logical conditions characterizing the 

 skulls and other bones. 



HISTORY. 



Casanowicz, Immanuel M. The Gus- 



tavus Vasa Fox collection of Russian 



souvenirs in the United States National 



Museum. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., .^S, No. 



1725, Apr. 30, 1910, pp. 1-15, 



pis. 1-8. 



This paper contains a resuni6 of the 



special mission sent by Congress in 1866 



Casanowicz, Immanuel M. — Continued. 



to the Emperor of Russia, bearing con- 

 gratulations upon his escape from assas- 

 sination, and a description of the gifts 

 presented by Emperor Alexander II, and 

 by municipalities and private persons of 

 Russia, to members of the .American mis- 

 sion. 



MAMMALS. 



Allen, J. A. Additional mammals from 



Nicaragua. 



Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 28, 

 Art. 9, Apr. 30, 1910, pp. 87-115. 

 Comparisons are made with material 

 from the Biological Survey. 



Bailey, Vernon. Two new pocket 

 gophers of the genus Thomomys. 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 23, 

 May 4, 1910, pp. 79-80. 

 Describes two new gophers; the typeg 

 being in the Biological Survey collection. 



