38 KEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1905. 



direction, especially since its time must be chiefly occupied in pro- 

 viding for the safety of the collections, in maintaining the exhibition 

 series, and in other routine and administrative duties. The research 

 work accomplished each 5^ear has, however, always been creditable, 

 both in amount and character, and diu"ing the past year it was 

 especially noteworthy in several particulars. Much assistance has 

 also been received at all times from outside, and a large proportion 

 of the classificatory results have been secured through this means, 

 specialists both in this country and abroad gladly taking advantage 

 of the opportunity to advance their studies through the new material 

 placed at their disposal. The researches of the year may be briefly 

 summarized as follows: 



Doctor Hough has about completed a comprehensive report on 

 the Hopi Indians of Arizona, based upon several years' experience 

 among these interesting people. He has also begun upon a detailed 

 study of the Pueblo material with which the Museum is very richly 

 supplied, has continued his studies upon the primitive uses of fire, 

 and has nearly finished a paper on the manufacture of pulque and 

 palm wine. Of persons not connected with the Museum who made 

 use of the collections in ethnology were Mr. Ole Solberg, of Christi- 

 ania, Norwa}^, who spent some time in photographing the stone 

 implements of Alaska for comparison with similar implements of the 

 Eastern Eskimo preserved at Copenhagen; Mr. W. F. Andrews, of 

 the U. S. Bureau of Immigration, and Mr. Charles S. Sloane, of the U. 

 S. Census Office, who conducted inquiries to aid in the classification 

 of immigrants entering the United States; Mrs. W. Markland Molson, 

 of Montreal, who studied the imbricated basketry of the State of 

 Washington and British Columbia, with the object of definitely 

 locating the large collections by tribes, and Mr. George lies, of New 

 York, who investigated the subject of survivals in invention. 



The collections in prehistoric archeology were extensively con- 

 sulted by Dr. J. W. Fewkes, of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 

 who has in preparation a report upon his recent explorations in the 

 West Indian region. 



Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, assistant curator in charge of the division of 

 physical anthropology, conducted investigations on the weight of the 

 brain in man and animals, the behavior of the brains of mammals 

 in various preserving solutions, the California mainland crania in 

 the Museum collection, and the cranial fossae. A number of visiting 

 Indians were also measured at the laboratory. 



In the preparation of the important work entitled ''Handbook of 

 the Indians," soon to be issued by the Bureau of American Ethnol- 

 ogy, very material assistance was rendered by several members of 

 the Museum staff, especially Prof. O. T. Mason, Dr. Walter Hough, 

 and Dr. Ales Hrdlicka. The Museum collections were also utilized 



