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official hours, a characteristic of ever}^ zealous man of science, the}" 

 are to be credited every year with important progress in classification 

 and in other studies. Besides the paid assistants, however, there are 

 nearly as many volunteer or honorary members of the scientific staff, 

 tilling positions for which the appropriations are insufficient to make 

 provision, and from these also extensive results in the elaboration of 

 collections are obtained. But notwithstanding these facts the Museum 

 depends to a large extent, for the study of its collections, on the 

 cooperation of scientific men belonging to other institutions, their 

 work being done gratuitously, and frequent calls are made upon its 

 resources to aid in researches conducted under other auspices. 



In the Department of Anthropologj^, Prof. O. T. Mason, the Acting 

 Head Curator, was mainly occupied in completing his revised paper 

 on aboriginal basketry which is to appear as an appendix to the 

 Annual Report for 1902. Dr. A. Hrdlicka, Assistant Curator of 

 Physical x4.nthropology, made a study of the Lansing skeleton, includ- 

 ing an examination of other material. A description of the Parsee 

 creed and ceremonials represented in the collections of the Museum 

 was prepared b}^ Dr. I. M. Casanowicz and published in the American 

 Anthropologist. Dr. Cj^rus Adler and l^r. Casanowicz continued their 

 work on a bibliography of Assyriology. 



Among the investigators from other places who were given facilities 

 for making studies on anthropological subjects were M. Pittier, head 

 of the National Museum of Costa Rica; Dr. Carl von den Steinen, of 

 Berlin; Dr. Hjalmar Stolpe, director of the Royal Museum of Sweden 

 at Stockholm; Prof. Hartmann, of Stockholm; Dr. A. B. Hunter of 

 Raleigh, N. C; Dr. E. A. Bogue, of New York City; and Dr. Walde- 

 mar Bogoras, of the American Museum of Natural History \ Doctor 

 Bogoras's visit was made in the interest of his explorations among the 

 tribes of northeastern Siberia and for the purpose of ascertaining 

 whether any material of Siberian origin was contained in the extensive 

 Eskimo collection of this Museum. 



In the Department of Biology Mr. G. S. Miller, jr.. Assistant Cura- 

 tor of Mammals, gave special attention to the working up of Doctor 

 Abbott's collections of East Indian mammals, in which he has already 

 discovered IT new species of mouse deer (genus Tragulns), 16 new 

 species belonging to other orders, and one new genus {LenofJirlx). 

 In the Museum collection of American bats, he has found 20 unde- 

 scribed species, diagnoses of which have been published in the pro- 

 ceedings of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. He has 

 also prepared notes on a number of species of bats and rodents. Dr. 

 E. A. Mearns, U. S. Army, made a study of the ocelots, the results of 

 which were printed in the Museum Proceedings. Dr. M. W. Lvon, jr., 

 has completed a list of the t\'pe specimens of mammals, exclusive of 

 cetaceans, in the collections of the Museum, which number 469 species 



