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Paku Alam VIII, through the American Embassy in Djakarta. The 

 Government of Vietnam, through its embassy in Washington, D.C., 

 presented 67 specimens comprising a carved wooden chest, bronze 

 vessels, and textiles. For use in the preparation of new exhibits, 103 

 ornaments, household items, and weapons of the people of Burundi 

 were obtained from David W. Doyle, American Vice Consul at 

 Usumbura, Burundi. Also for exhibition, a Chinese collection of 

 365 specimens was acquired from Taiwan with the assistance of the 

 National Historical Museum and the Provincial Museum, under the 

 direction of the Ministry of Education and Academia Sinica. 



The division of physical anthropology received, from the U.S. Army 

 Research Institute of Enviromental Medicine, a collection of 50,000 

 somatotype negatives. These were made during the U.S. Army sur- 

 vey of male body build in 1945-46 under the direction of E. A. Plooton 

 and form the basis for the Harvard system of rating body build. 

 Largest of its kind, the collection will be available for study by quali- 

 fied professionals. Received for study and exhibit purposes is a new 

 set of casts of the original Neanderthal skeleton, gift of the Rheinisches 

 Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany, and excellent casts of Oreopitliecus 

 from central Italy, received from the Natural History Museum in 

 Basle, Switzerland. Other accessions include human skeletal ma- 

 terials from Mexico, Alaska, and various parts of the United States. 



Zoology. — Staff members and cooperating agencies contributed ap- 

 proximately 9,200 specimens to the division of mammals, most of these 

 being collected by Dr. Charles O. Handley, Jr., and Francis M. Green- 

 well in Panama. Others were collected by Naval Medical Research 

 Unit No. 2, in Formosa; by Dr. Dale Osborn in Turkey; by Gary L. 

 Ranch in Libya and Iran ; by the department of microbiology of the 

 University of Maryland, in West Pakistan and Mexico ; and by Ken- 

 neth I. Lange and James H. Shaw in the Malagasy Republic. Dr. 

 Henry W. Setzer of the Museum staff participated in the last three 

 projects. Other valuable collections were made as follows: by Miss 

 Alena Elbl of the University of Maryland, in Ruanda Urundi; by 

 Dr. L. G. Clark of the University of Pennsylvania, in Nicaragua, and 

 by William J. Schaldach, Jr., in southern Mexico. Important speci- 

 mens obtained for the exhibition series include a large male walrus, 

 collected by Hugh H. Logan, and two paratypes of the bat Phili'p'pin- 

 optems lanei, presented by Dr. Edward H. Taylor. 



To the collections of the division of birds, 2,259 bird skins, 1,011 

 anatomical specimens, and 1 egg from Panama and 198 skeletons from 

 Kenya were received through Dr. Alexander Wetmore ; 642 skins, 128 

 skeletons, and 9 alcoholic specimens from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

 Service; 198 skins from Formosa transferred from the U.S. Depart- 

 ment of the Navy, U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 2, through 



