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from the Aiiuak, a Sudanese tribe living in the environs of the Akobo 

 River, collected by tlie donor, Miss Joan Yilek, prior to 1953 at 

 Pokwo, Ethiopia, while she was stationed there as a missionary. Most 

 extraordinary was the gift by Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood 

 of Marlboro, Mass., of an entire 2-story, 4-room house built in Everett, 

 Mass., in 1678. The hand-hewn timbers of this early American home 

 were dismanteled and reassembled for future exhibition. W. Dan 

 Quattlebaum, Pasadena, Calif., presented two outstanding examples 

 of eighteenth- century glass, consisting of an engraved glass bowl 

 blown in 1789 at John Frederick Amelung's New Bremen Glassworks 

 in Frederick County, Md., and a decanter of about 1795 bearing an 

 engraved American eagle. 



The division of physical anthropology had an opportunity through 

 collaborative studies to restore a badly crushed human skull that had 

 been recovered by Dr. Fred Wendorf near Midland, Tex. This skull 

 was found associated with Folsom-type projectile points. Dr. T. 

 Dale Stewart, curator of physical anthropology, who restored the 

 skull, arranged with Dr. F. J. McClure, of the National Institute of 

 Dental Research, to test the skull and associated Pleistocene animal 

 bones for the amoimt of fluorine. On the basis of these tests and the 

 excavation record, its age is considered to be about 12,000 years. 



Zoology. — The armed forces research teams operating in various 

 parts of the world continued to make major contributions to the mam- 

 mal collections. Specimens of Korean mammals, including the Mu- 

 seum's first collection from Quelpart Island, were transferred through 

 the Hemorrhagic Fever Commission from the Army Medical Service 

 Graduate School. A transfer from Naval Medical Research Unit 

 No. 3 at Cairo included about 350 specimens from Egypt and the 

 Sudan. The U. S. Army, through the 25th Preventive Medicine Sur- 

 vey Detaclmaent, transferred a collection of specimens obtained by 

 Capt. Gordon Field and C. M. Keenan in Panama and the Canal Zone. 

 Dr. Robert K. Enders contributed three separate collections of small 

 mammals from Pakistan, the Island of Saipan in the Marianas, and 

 Wyoming. An especially fine collection of dog and wolf skulls was 

 included among specimens excavated from an aboriginal site on 

 Southampton Island by Dr. Henry B. Collins, Bureau of American 

 Etlmology, on the National Geographic Society-Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion-National Museum of Canada Expedition. 



Most noteworthy among the accessions recorded by the division of 

 birds was a gift of 1,255 bird skins from the "Benson Grubstakers" 

 (a group of young men living in Panama Avho are interested in nat- 

 ural history) and the Panama Canal Natural History Society. A 

 gift from Maj. Gen. G. R. Meyer of 119 sets of eggs with full data, 

 largely from the Canal Zone, added important information to that 



