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skull of La Chapelle-aux- Saints and of its brain cavity, purchased 

 from Dr. F. Krantz, of Bonn, Germany. Three skulls of Pata- 

 gonians were received as a gift from Mr. Chester W. Washburne, 

 of Washington; and a neolithic skull from Belgium was presented 

 by Prof. A. Rutot, director, Musee d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique, 

 Brussels. 



Considerable progress was made in cleaning, repairing, cata- 

 loguing, and arranging the large Peruvian and other collections 

 assembled during the last four years. Every specimen received by 

 the division in recent years has also been examined by the curator, 

 identified as to sex, and its principal characteristics noted, so that 

 the catalogue of the division is gradually becoming more than a mere 

 enumeration. The selection of especially valuable specimens for 

 exhibition has likewise received attention. 



The investigations by the curator. Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, relative to 

 "thoroughbred" white Americans, namely, those of at least three 

 generations in this country on each side, was continued, but, owing 

 to scarcity and comparative inaccessibility of subjects, another two 

 years may be required for their completion. They promise results 

 of much interest. A special study undertaken was one bearing on 

 the history of physical anthropology in America, and more particu- 

 larly in the United States, designed in part for presentation at the 

 forthcoming Congress of Americanists and in part for use in the 

 preparation of the "Handbook of Physical Anthropology," which 

 will be published by the Bureau of American Ethnology. The main 

 research work of the year, however, was that involved in completing 

 the memoir on the " Oldest Authentic Skeletal Eemains of Man " 

 in existence, which is being printed in the annual report of the 

 Smithsonian Institution. The curator also made three shorter 

 reports, as follows: On two crania from Saline Creek, Mo., for 

 Mr. D. I. Bushnell, jr.; on parts of crania and skeletons from Lake 

 AVorth, Fla., for Mr. O. Randolph ; and on recent skeletal collections 

 from Tennessee, for Mr. Clarence B. Moore. 



Among persons who visited the division for purposes of study or 

 for instruction were Dr. Ernest A. Hooton, of the Peabody Museum 

 of Harvard LTniversity; Dr. James S. Foote, of Creighton Medical 

 College, Omaha, Nebr.; Dr. M. Reicher, of the Anatomical Labora- 

 tory of Johns Hopkins University ; Prof. George F. Eaton, of Yale 

 University ; Dr. R. W. Shuf eldt and Dr. C. A. Hawley, of Washing- 

 ton; Dr. G. Werley, of El Paso, Tex.; Dr. W. W. Evans, of Hamil- 

 ton, Va.; Mr. Ralph Linton, of Philadelphia, Pa.; Dr. G. Hardy 

 Clark and Dr. Margaret V. Clark, of Waterloo, Iowa; and Dr. 

 George A. Wilson, of Cleveland, Ohio. 



Mechanical technology. — The addition of 20 models of steamboat 

 propellers, made from descriptions and drawings furnished by the 



