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various lines of industrial apparatus. All the divisions of the Depart- 

 m™of Anthropology have been active in this regard dur.ng the past 



^"li December Dr. Hialmar Stolpe, director of the Royal Museum of 

 Sweden, Stockhohn. studied Polynesian, and South American col- 



'' trfesors H. Pittier, of Costa Rica, and C. V. Hartmann, of Stock- 

 hoim received instructions in casting archeological specunens >n the 



''tZlf Dl.'trHu„ter,of Raleigh, North Cai-olina, received 

 instructions in „,aking casts, photographs, and other ."ethock o 

 ethnXgical investigation with a view to studying the negro of the 



^ M^r ■ Wells F. Andrews, statistician of the Immigration Bureau in 

 the Tveasurv Department, made studios in the Division ot Ethnology 

 In orde. to classify immigrants into the United States. The scheme 

 furnished has been adopted by the Department 



Dr Waldemar Bogoi-as, of the Amencan Museum of Natuial His 

 tofv New York, male a careful examination of the Esk.mo collectmn 

 iMl-der to find Siberian material. His results wdl appear m the 

 Dublications of that institution. 



Mr Theodore Roosevelt, jr., and Mr. Ernest Thompson Seton 

 received instructions in the methods of primitive fire-makmg. 



Dr Carl Von den Steinen, of Berlin, made a special study ot the 

 technological processes employed by the North American Indians, 

 .psDeciallv in weaving and basketry. . . • xt 



Subsequent to the meeting of the Society of Americanists in New 

 Yoitmany of the foreign delegates visited the Museum, where a 

 recention was held in their honor. 



Dr. E. A. Bogue made an examination of the denture in the Indian 



crania 



The Curator of the Division of Ethnology hnished his compehe^ 

 sive work on American Indian basketry and Doctor Hough snbi.iitted 

 for publication his monograph on the results of the Museum^Gate 

 expedition to Arizona in 1901, which was printed in the Annual Report 

 of the National Museum for that year. , , ^ • ti,„ 



Dr. A. Hrdlicka published a report on the Lansing skeleton in the 

 American Anthropologist for June. „„n„„ „ith the 



An address delivered by Dr. Cyrus Adler in connection w th the 

 opting of the Semitic museum of Harvard University was published 



by that institution. . , , 



Dr. I. M. Casanowicz published four papers based mainly on the col 



lections in the National Museum. 



