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States Post Office Department, and of these 2,475 are exam- 

 ples of new issues reaching that department from the International 

 Bureau of the Universal Postal Union. 



Anthropology. — The small number of accessions received in the 

 division of ethnology shows markedly the rapid decline of Indian 

 material and a corresponding though less rapid disappearance of 

 material from races less modified by contact with the white man. 

 The receipts included western Indian baskets donated by Miss Ella F. 

 Hubby; valuable material collected during the period of military 

 occupation of the Philippines received as gifts from Mrs. Thomas F. 

 Dwyer and Miss Kline, Gen. Joseph C. Breckenridge and the late 

 Lieut. Col. Duncan Elliott, United States Army; and pottery and 

 objects in silver, pewter, and brass bequeathed to the Museum by 

 Miss Elizabeth S. Stevens. 



The division of American airheology reports its yearly increase 

 due largely to contributions from the Bureau of American Eth- 

 nology, including collections made in Arizona, Utah, and Colorado 

 by Dr. Walter Hough ; in Texas by Dr. J. W. Fewkes and Prof. J. E. 

 Pearce ; in Missouri by Mr. Gerard Fowke ; and in Utah by the cura- 

 tor, Mr. Neil M. Judd. The bureau also transferred a collection of 

 archeological specimens obtained by it as a gift from the Otto T. 

 Mallery expedition. 



The collections in Old World archeology benefited, too, by the 

 bequest of Miss Elizabeth S. Stevens, receiving nearly a hundred 

 objects of Christian and Buddhist religious art in wood, copper, 

 bronze, and silver. Other additions included ancient coins from 

 Capt. Clarence L. Wiener; casts of engraved antique gems from 

 Dr. William H. Dall ; and casts of oriental seals made in the Museum 

 from originals owned by Mrs. Talcott Williams. The collection of 

 Bibles was supplemented by the two copies of the New Testament in 

 English from which Thomas Jefferson cut the English version of his 

 The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, the so-called Jefferson 

 Bible, donated by Miss Bertha Cohen and her nieces. 



In physical anthropology the most important accessions were 

 skeletal material, as follows : From New Mexico, gift of the Museum 

 of the American Indian, Heye Foundation; from Nevada, donated 

 by Hon. William Kent; from Tennessee and Kentucky, partly gift 

 and partly a loan from Mr. W. E. Myer; from Missouri, col- 

 lected by Mr. Gerard Fowke; and from Arizona, collected by Dr. 

 Walter Hough, transferred to the Museum from the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology. A Neolithic skull was received in exchange 

 from the University of Liege, Belgium, and a plaster bust represent- 

 ing a form of early man by purchase. The trip of the curator, Dr. 

 Ales Hrdlicka, to the Far East added to the collections some 2,000 

 portraits of peoples of that locality. 



