36 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1907. 



work of i^ioparing specimens for exhibition. The nnmber of cata- 

 logue cards pi-ei)are(l was 7,140. of reference canl^ l.s()0. and of 

 hd)els l.T-l."). Numbers in india ink ur oil color- were placed on 

 23.58(t specimens, this beinir ih" only ccrlain method of st'curintj 

 their identity. .\ larufe inimbtM- (d" (hiplicate specimens were made 

 up into labeled sets for .sendin<r to educational establishments. 



Tn -the preparation of the Tyj)e Cataloirue. alivady refei-red to. 

 the collections have been <2freatly i)enefited, since it i-esulted in the 

 segrefjation and ap])ro])riate labelin<j: <>f the seveial thousand type 

 specimens in the (le})artment. which have thereby been made readily 

 accessible. This work has occupied the attention of the several 

 experts in the department dui-inor several years, and the time they 

 have put upon it has been more than justified. 



i:xiiii'.rri(»N ( oi.i.kctioxs. 



AMiile the subject of physical anthropology, owinc: to lack of space, 

 has not been illustrated in the public halls except by a number of 

 Indian busts in the northwest range, several interesting collections 

 have been made accessible in the laboratory of the division, for the 

 benefit of intelligent visitors, as follows: A series of skulls from Peru 

 and Bolivia, showing pre-Columbian trephining: several sets of fossil 

 human bones, skulls from Kock Bluff, Illinois. Lansing, Kansas, 

 etc.. forming a series of supposed geological antiquity : casts of quater- 

 nary human skulls and other bones from Europe and of the calvarium 

 of the Pithecanthropus, with a group of modern Indian skulls show- 

 ing low forms of development : a series of artificially deformed 

 skulls illustrating the three principal tyjies of deformation; painted, 

 graven, and otherwise prepared skulls from North America. New 

 (iuinea. and Indonesia: a racial collection of jxdvises; the skeleton 

 of an Indian giant and one of an Indian jiigniy: a series of ty})es of 

 noi'inal variation in human Ixmes: a series of human and animal 

 brains, etc. 



In ethnology one new grou{), consisting of five figures of Rouma- 

 nian i)easants in co.stume, was prepared and installed, and a figure of 

 ;in Aino woman was modeled and added to the Aino case. Fhe pot- 

 tery in the wall cases M the Pueblo court was rearranged. 



The most important additions to the exhibition in the hall of ]n'e- 

 historic archeology consisted of several hundred Hint and bone imple- 

 ments and many fossil bones, including fragments of the jawbones 

 and teeth of the mastodon, nuimmoth. bison, and horse, from a sulphur 

 spring at Afton. Indian Territory, which had been used as a shrine 

 \>\ Indians: the loan collection of .Mr. .V. II. Blackiston from Casas 

 Orandes Valley. Mexico: and a number of series of cache implements 

 from bcvcrul localities, 



