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(replica), a Nilo boat of tlio Ht'th century B. C, an P^triiscaii boat as a 

 cliikr.s playtliino- (replica), the caravels of Coliunbus, and a Viking's 

 ship. 



The physico-anthropolooical collection is very notable, and is among 

 the best in the world. It must >)e the richest in human skeletons, 

 although only in American ones. I did not get the exact number of 

 skulls and skeletons, l)ut there must be several thousand. Many hun- 

 dreds of skulls and skeletons are from the tribes of the northwest 

 coast, the Blackfoot, Algonkin, and allied Indians, from the mounds 

 in Ohio and the prehistoric graves in New Jersey. The Flatheads of 

 the Columl)ia River arc represented b}" a series of complete skeletons, 

 with 100 artificiallj'^ deformed skulls; Peru with over 150 complete 

 skeletons and many skulls. There are also 90 skulls from New Guinea, 

 some Maoris, and a small series from many regions of the earth. An 

 instructive exhibition is made in 33 cases of selected pieces from 

 the large collection. There is one case devoted to each of the follow- 

 ing: Craniometric nomenclature, sexual variation in the skeleton, 

 variation in the cranial sutures; varieties at the glabella, pterion, and in 

 the orbits; variation in the nasal region and degrees of prognathism; 

 variations in the intermaxillary suture, mastoid process, shape of 

 palate, and direction of palatine sutures; variations in the lower jaw, 

 lachrymal bones, and occipital condyles, the clavicle and scapula, 

 the dentition, the sternum and bones of the pelvis, the humerus and 

 the tibia, the femur; skulls of difl'erent capacity and various cephalic 

 indices; skulls showing variations in the orbital, nasal, and dental 

 indices; in the facial, palatal, and bizvgo-stephanic indices; variations 

 in the scapula, lumbar, sacral, and pelvic indices; pathological skulls, 

 artificially deformed skulls, trephined skulls from Peru. Six cases are 

 devoted to disarticulated skeletons showing pathological or anomalous 

 characters; one to models of the brain; one to casts of cranial cavities, 

 including those of animals; two to skeletons of gorillas and men of vari- 

 ous races; two to the chemical constituents of the human bod}-; one to 

 life masks of the races of eastern Asia and of Oceania. There is added 

 to this an anthropometric laboratory, with the needful instruments. 

 This department was specially organized by Dr. Franz Boas, a Ger- 

 man, now at the American Museum, in New York, and professor in 

 Columbia rniversity. I have described the physico-anthropological 

 collection with more relative fullness because a similar one can hardly 

 be found elsewhere, and it ma}' perhaps lead to imitations. The pres- 

 ent competent curator of this department, after a visit to European 

 museums, expressed the opinion that as to the exhibit of physical 

 anthropology none of them could compare with the Field Columbian 

 Museum in Chicago," wherein I agree with him. 



«Ct. a. Dorsey: American AntJiropoIoyist, n. s., I, 1899, p. 463. 



