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Anthropology. — A plaster cast of the famous bison carved in clay 

 by Upper Paleolithic sculptors from the cave of Tuc d'Audoubert, 

 Ariege, France, was obtained through arrangements made by J. 

 Townsend Russell, and purchased and presented by the Old World 

 archeology fund administered by the Smithsonian Institution. 

 There came also a valuable collection of stone artifacts of Aurignacian 

 age from three localities in the French Pyrenees collected by Mr. 

 Russell as field director, under the Smithsonian Institution, of the 

 Franco-American Union for Prehistoric Research in France. There 

 were further collections of artifacts from several prehistoric sites 

 in Europe and North Africa presented by Mr. Russell from his 

 own collections. In Alaska Dr. Ales Hrdlicka collected on Kodiak 

 Island a series of stone, bone, and wooden implements of a type not 

 previously known, and from the region about Bristol Bay and from 

 Kodiak Island an important series of human skeletons. M. W. Stir- 

 ling forwarded a large collection of costumes and implements from 

 the Indians of Panama, with additional materials from northwestern 

 South Africa. From Nigeria and the Gold Coast of Africa, C. C. 

 Roberts sent further collections of native materials, including pot- 

 tery, textiles, brass castings, and many other objects. Through Mrs. 

 Charles D. Walcott there were obtained from Hawaii several ancient 

 poi bowls cut from wood, which are new to the Museum's collections. 



Biology. — An interesting collection of birds, mammals, reptiles, 

 and plants was obtained by Mrs. L. O. Sordahl while at the solar 

 observatory of the Smithsonian Institution on Mount Brukkaros in 

 Southwest Africa. This arid region is one that has been little vis- 

 ited by naturalists and one from which the National Museum has had 

 little material previously. Dr. Hugh M. Smith, fisheries adviser to 

 the Government of Siam, forwarded further collections of birds, 

 mammals, reptiles, fish, and mollusks, so that the series from Siam 

 is of steadily growing importance. W. G. Sheldon and Richard 

 Borden presented an important collection of mammals made in Brit- 

 ish Columbia from regions which have not previously been repre- 

 sented in the Museum. These gentlemen are continuing work in that 

 area during the coming year, and further material may be expected. 

 The division of birds obtained 23 genera and 340 forms new to 

 its collections, a considerable number coming from Africa through 

 funds supplied by the late Marcus Daly. A huge specimen of the 

 ocean sunfish estimated to weigh about 1,200 pounds, captured in nets 

 of the Bayhead Fisheries (Inc.), off the coast of New Jersey, was 

 presented through the Edward C. Worden Laboratory of Millburn, 

 N. J. Additions to the collections of plants have included important 

 series from South America collected by E. G. Holt along the Bra- 

 zilian-Venezuelan frontier, presented by the National Geographic 



