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and by other departments. All the working time was occupied in 

 the varied work of modeling, making molds, casting, bronzing, paint- 

 ing, gilding, and making repairs and restorations requiring the best 

 skill. 



RESEARCH WORK. 



Research is sometimes stimulated by inquiries of correspondents. 

 In ethnology various business interests made requests for informa- 

 tion needed in advertising. These inquiries were covered by M. W. 

 Stirling, aid, and the studies are of value for more extended re- 

 search. The curator of ethnology published in the Proceedings a 

 description of the synoptic series of objects in the United States 

 National Museum illustrating the history of inventions and in the 

 Smithsonian Report for 1920 an article on the racial groups and 

 figures in the Natural History Building. As opportunity oifered, 

 he continued his investigations on specimens connected with the early 

 history of heating and illumination for a monograph of the subject. 



The curator of American archeology, Neil M. Judd, added to the 

 data required for a report on the collections gathered by him for 

 the Bureau of American Ethnology in Utah and Arizona during 

 1915-1920 and published in the National Geographic Magazine for 

 March, 1922, an article on the Pueblo Bonito Expedition of the Na- 

 tional Geographic Society. 



In Old World archeology the study of the Parsee, or Zoroastrian, 

 religious tenets and practices was completed, by the assistant curator, 

 Dr. I. M. Casanowicz, and published in the Proceedings, and a study 

 of the archeological collections taken up for the preparation of a 

 catalogue handbook for use of the public. 



Active research was continued on various subjects in physical 

 anthropology and attention was given to numerous students desirous 

 of special information. A study of exostoses in the ears of the 

 Peruvian Indians by Beatrice Bickel, Paul C. Van Natta, and the 

 curator, Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, was completed and prepared for pub- 

 lication and will be printed in the American Journal of Physical 

 Anthropology during the year. Measurements were taken of all the 

 Eskimo and Alaskan skulls in the division (besides others) in 

 preparation for the publication of the " Catalogue of measurements 

 of the human crania in the United States National Museum." A 

 series of measurements on the skulls of a number of tribes were 

 made for Prof. Roland B. Dixon, of Harvard University, to aid him 

 Avith his book on anthropology. A series of investigations was com- 

 pleted by the curator on the teeth and jaws of the Indians and other 

 races in the collection. A part of the results Avas published in the 

 American Journal of Physical Anthropology and part in the Dental 

 Cosmos. 



