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birds in a natural setting, has been executed by inlaying mother-of- 

 pearl, rose quartz, white and stained ivory, and semiprecious stones. 

 A group of 54 ethnological specimens of Eskimo manufacture, col- 

 lected in Alaska in 1908, was presented by Dr. F. F. Fellows, West 

 Linn, Oreg. A representative collection of 104 smoking pipes, mainly 

 from the Near East, India, China, and Japan, was given by Dr. Leo 

 Stoor, of Cleveland. A good collection of 84 Micronesian objects 

 was obtained in exchange from John H. Brandt, of New York City. 

 Among the rare specimens in this group is a type of necklace from 

 Yap no longer obtainable from the natives. 



The division of physical anthropology added to its collection of 

 American Negro skeletal remains 14 skulls and a few miscellaneous 

 bones recovered by the District of Columbia coroner. Dr. A. Ma- 

 gruder MacDonald, when an abandoned cemetery near the Calvert 

 Street bridge in Washington was exposed in the course of building 

 operations. The Zoller Laboratory of Dental Anthropology of the 

 University of Chicago presented the division with 11 standard models 

 for classifying crown characters of human deciduous teeth. The mod- 

 els, accompanied by an explanatory manual, were prepared by Dr. 

 Kazuro Hanihara, of Sapporo Medical College, Japan, and are based 

 on a series of 600 subjects representing various racial groups. 



Zoology. — The division of mammals acquired a total of 4,076 speci- 

 mens, comprising 42 accessions. Dr. Robert E. Kuntz forwarded 

 nearly 1,000 specimens from Formosa and 400 from North Borneo, 

 collected by field parties of U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 2. 

 Bernard R. Feinstein, of the Musemn staff, working in cooperation 

 with the Army Medical Research and Development Command and 

 the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, sent 600 mammals from South Viet- 

 nam. Dr. Robert Traub forwarded 121 additional specimens col- 

 lected by the U.S. Army Medical Research Unit. Capt. Vernon J. 

 Tipton sent 273 manmaals collected in Panama by the Army Preven- 

 tive Medicine Division. E. V. Komarek presented 83 mammals, 

 mostly carnivores, from the southeastern States, as well as an addi- 

 tional lot of 53 small mammals from the Southwest ; Russell E. Mum- 

 ford and Ralph D. Kirkpatrick each sent additional mammals from 

 Indiana; and the Virginia State Department of Health, through 

 J. T. Banks and T. M. MuUman, presented 44 mammals collected in 

 the course of epidemiological surveys. 



The same sources that were responsible for several of the mammal 

 collections referred to above contributed some important accessions 

 for the division of birds. From the lowlands of North Borneo, a 

 series of 512 bird skins was received from the U.S. Naval Medical 

 Research Unit No. 2. A total of 565 bird skins, 6 alcoholic specimens, 

 and 20 skeletons from South Vietnam resulted from the activities spon- 

 sored by the Bernice P. Bishop Museum and the Army Medical 



