20 REPOKT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1903. 



Casts of th(^. Neandcrtlial and Prague ancient crania were purchased 

 for the newly established Division of Physical Anthropology, which 

 has also secured five valuable head-hunter's skulls from New Guinea, 

 and a large series of crania and parts of human skeletons from the 

 Army Medical Museum, the U. S. Fish Commission, and other sources. 



The Department of Biology received about 110,000 specimens, of 

 which approximately one-third were botanical. In zoology the Division 

 of Insects led with 37,684 specimens, followed by marine invertebrates 

 with 12,471 specimens, mammals with 7,435 specimens, mollusks with 

 6,332 specimens, and birds with 3,800 specimens. 



The zoological specimens contributed by Dr. W. L. Abbott con- 

 sisted of a large mimber of deer, squirrels, porcupines, and a new 

 ape, collected in Sumatra and on the adjacent islands, and in the Riou 

 Linga Archipelago, south of Singapore. Many of the species are new 

 to science. The donations made by Doctor Abbott, as the result of his 

 recent extensive explorations in the East Indies, now comprise about 

 2,500 mammals and nearly 4,000 birds, besides several thousand speci- 

 mens in other branches of natural history. 



Large collections of bird skins and eggs, fishes, corals, mollusks, 

 crustaceans, and other marine invertebrates, obtained during the 

 expedition of the U. S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross to the 

 Hawaiian Islands and to Samoa, have been transmitted to the Museum 

 and will be referred to more in detail in the next report. They 

 include interesting series of the birds of the Laysan Islands. 



Dr. E. A. Mearns, U. S. Army, presented a quantity of mammals 

 from the Yellowstone National Park and from Fort Snelliug, Minne- 

 sota, and the Hon. B. S. Rairden, United States consul at Batavia, 

 two undescribed species of Tragulus from Java. An important collec- 

 tion of bats was obtained from Mr. William Foster, of Sapucay, 

 Paraguay; and one of bats and rodents from Mr. T. Tsuchida, of 

 Misaki, Japan. A valuable skeleton of the porpoise, Pseudorca 

 c?r(ssidens, from the Hawaiian Islands, the first reported from that 

 region, was contributed by Prof. C. H. Gilbert, of the Leland Stan- 

 ford Junior University. 



Several rare birds of paradise and other valual)le specimens, includ- 

 ing a pair of flightless cormorants, from the Galapagos Islands, were 

 received from Mr. A. Boucard, Isle of Wight, England, and a Javan 

 jungle fowl, a black- winged peacock, and other birds from Mr. Homer 

 Davenport, Morris Plains, New Jersey. The Bishop Museum, of 

 Honolulu, presented about 40 bird skins, including several species not 

 previously represented in the Museum collection, and 295 interesting 

 specimens from Chiriqui, Costa Pica, including a number of cotypes, 

 and 52 bird skins from Honduras were obtained from Mr. Outram 

 Bangs, of Boston, partly as a gift and partly in exchange. The most 

 important accession to the oological collection was a fossil eg(r of 

 Aepi/or?iis maximus from Madagascar. Valuable birds' eggs from 



