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. eral in every sense tlie head of the service, the chief whose will 

 governs all. Modest and unassuming, he is described as being most 

 exacting, a man of command, of thorough execution, a general 

 whose eyes comprehend every detail, and who has studied the per- 

 sonality of every member of his corps. He is always busy, but 

 seemingly never in a hurry; systematic, accepting no man's dictum, 

 and taking nothing as an established fact till he has personal experi- 

 mental evidence of its truth. He looks into every detail, and takes 

 equal care of the health of the general in chief and of the private. 

 His addresses are carefully prepared, based on facts he has 

 himself determined, made in language so plain that they will not 

 be misunderstood, free from sentiment, and delivered in an easy 

 conversational style, and his writings are " pen pictures of his re- 

 sults in the laboratory and clinic room." 



The thirty-first year of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology 

 and Ethnolog'y was signalized by the transfer of its property to the corpo- 

 ration of Harvard College, whereby simplicity and greater permanence 

 have been given to its management. The four courses of instruction in 

 the museum were attended by sixteen students, and these, with others, make 

 twenty-one persons, besides the curator, who are engaged in study or special 

 research in subjects included under the term anthropology. Special atten- 

 tion is given by explorers in the service of the museum to the investigation 

 of the antiquities of Yucatan and Central America, of which its publications 

 on Copan, the caves of Loltun, and Labna, have been noticed in the Monthly. 

 These explorations have been continued when and where circumstances 

 made it feasible. Among the gifts acknowledged in the report of the 

 museum are two hundred facsimile copies of the Aztec Codex Vaticanus, 

 from the Duke of Loubat, an original Mexican manuscript of 1531, on 

 agave paper, from the Mary Hemenway estate ; the extensive private 

 archaeological collection of Mr. George W. Hammond ; articles from 

 Georgia mounds, from Clarence B. Moore, and other gifts of perhaps less mag- 

 nitude but equal interest. Mr. Andrew Gibb, of Edinburgh, has given five 

 pieces of rudely made pottery from the Hebrides, which were made several 

 years ago by a woman who is thought to have been the last one to make pot- 

 tery according to the ancient method of shaping the clay with the hands, and 

 without the use of any form of potter's wheel. Miss Maria Whitney, sister 

 of the late Prof. J. D. Whitney, has presented the " Calaveras skull " and 

 the articles found with it, and all the original documents relating to its 

 discovery and history. Miss Phebe Ferris, of Madisonville, Ohio, has 

 bequeathed to the museum about twenty-five acres of land, on which is 

 situated the ancient mound where Dr. Metz and Curator Putnam have 

 investigated for several years, and whence a considerable collection has 

 been obtained. Miss Ferris expressed the desire that the museum continue 

 the explorations, and after completing convert the tract into a public park. 

 Mr. W. B. Nicker has explored some virgin mounds near Galena, 111., and 

 a rock shelter and stone grave near Portage, 111. The library of the museum 

 now contains 1,838 volumes and 2,^79 pamphlets on anthropology. 



