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during the same month.^ Messrs. Stejneger, Miller, Stiles, and Holmes have also been 

 designated by the Departmeftt, of State as official representatives of the Government 

 on the two occasions named-. 



Additions to the collect i oris. ^-The number of separate lots of material received during 

 the year was 1,703, comprising 241,547 specimens in all, or 5,000 more than the pre- 

 vious year. The total number of specimens recorded in all departments of the Museum 

 is now 5,894,620 si>ecimens, of which more than 4,100,000 l)elong to the Department 

 of Biology, nearly 975,000 to the Department of Anthropology, and about 780,000 to 

 the Department of Geology. 



Collections sent l)y Dr. W. L. Abbott from the Malay peninsula, northern Sumatra, 

 and the adjacent archipelago contain the most interesting additions in Anthropology, 

 and in conjunction with his previous contributions from the same and other parts of 

 Asia constitute an exceedingly valuable and unique feature of the ethnological 

 exhibits. Dr. E. A. Mearns, U. S. Army, who has continued his scientific work in 

 the Philippine Islands, presented collections of special interest obtained by himself 

 during the campaign against the Moros. Another Moro collection, consisting of 

 edged weapons, spears, and costumes, was received from Dr. R. B. Grubb, also of 

 the United States Army. The very valuable collection of archeological objects 

 obtained in Cuba, Trinidad, (irenada, Barljados, Dominii'a, Porto Rico, and other 

 West Indian islands by Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 

 during the winter of 1908, has been transferred to the keeping of the Museum. It 

 contains a very large variety of objects which will probal)ly aid materially in solving 

 the problem of the ancient relations between North and South America. The same 

 Bureau has also deposited a large series of specimens recently taken from caverns, 

 rock shelters, and village sites in the Ozark region of Missouri and Arkansas. A 

 number of Tlinkit house posts and totem poles was obtained from Dr. George A. 

 Dorsey, of the Field Columbian Museum, and a valuable lot of art objects from south- 

 western Alaska, consisting of carved clubs, knives, embroidered blankets, etc., from 

 Lieut. G. T. Emmons, U. S. Navy. Some curious earthenware vessels from alxjriginal 

 graves in Argentina were presented by Mr. Felix F. Outes, of Buenos Aires, and 

 several knives with handles and blades in one piece, as well as flint implements, 

 from the temple of Osiris, Abydos, were contributed by the Egypt exploration fund. 



The collections in prehistoric archeology have been enriched by a series of Egyptian 

 stone implements presented by Mr. H. W. Seton-Karr, of England, and representing 

 a type peculiar to the Fayum district, as well as by a large series of specimens chiefly 

 froui a few localities in the Miami Valley, and forming part of the bequest of the 

 late I. H. Harris, of Waynesville, Ohio. The latter contril)ution also includes a 

 typical series of earthenware vessels from mounds near (Charleston, Mo. 



To the recently established Division of Physical Anthropology have been added 

 more than 2,000 crania and skeletons by transfer from the Army Medical Museum, 

 11 crania of Wasco Indians from the Fred Harvey collection, and other desirable 

 specimens. 



The additions to the historical collections have included a valuable series of relics 

 presented by Gen. John Watts de Peyster, who has also made several contributions 

 of important historical works; the gilt dress sword presented to Gen. Jacob Brown, 

 by the State of New York, for valual)le services during the Revolutionary war, 

 donated by his grandson, Mr. Nathan Brown Chase; an oil portrait of George Catlin, 

 painted by W. H. Fisk, R. A., in 1849, deposited by his daughter, Mrs. Louise 

 Catlin Kinney; numerous relics deposited by the National Society of the Daughters 

 of the American Revolution, and the sword and epaulettes worn l)y Gen. Alex. 

 McComb, U. S. Army. 



The technological exhibits have been materially increased; among the accessions 

 of special interest being a collection of rifles, muskets, and other firearms of his- 

 torical value, 615 in number, deposited by the Bureau of Ordnance of the War 



