REPOET ON THE DEPARTMENT OP ANTHROPOLOGY 

 FOR THE YEAR 1901-2. 



By William II. Holmes, 

 IL'iid Citrafof. 



During the year a number of changes in the personnel of the 

 Department have taken place. Dr. Thomas Wilson, curator of the 

 Division of Prehistoric Archeology, died on May 4, 1902, after an 

 illness of several months. On May 1 Mr. Paul Brockett was trans- 

 ferred from the position of clerk to the Head Curator, to the lil)rary 

 of the Smithsonian Institution, and Mr. Paul Beckwith, Aid in the 

 Division of History and Biography, was designated to till his place 

 temporarily. In June, Miss Louise A. Rosenbusch, stenographer, 

 wcs transferred from the office of the curator of Prehistoric Arche- 

 ology to that of the Head Curator. 



WORK OF THE TEAR. 



The work of the yenv in the Department has been carried forward 

 with all possible dispatch. The extensive exhibit shown at the Pan- 

 American Expositi(Hi in Buffalo has been returned and reinstalled in 

 the Museum, constituting a very considerable addition to tlu^ exhibi- 

 tion series. -The exhibit sent to Charleston was returned about the 

 close of the year and will ))e placed on exhibition at an early date. 



The energies of the Department have been in a great measure 

 expended on the work of reinstalling the exhibits in halls in which 

 galleries were l)uilt' during the year. The occasion was taken to 

 rearrange cases, perfect the ( lassification, and improve thi^ instalhi- 

 tion; and the close of tiu^ yeav tinds the exhibition series of the 

 department nnich enlarged and in every way improved. The new 

 galleries afford nmch additional space for laboratory purposes and for 

 storage. 



colle(;tions. 



The collections received during the yenv are of average importance, 

 and a number of them are enumerated in the following list: 



COLLECTED FOR THE MUSEUM. 



1. Archeological collection, consisting of a large number of flint 

 implements, uten;;.:L; of '^one, and the remains of extinct and recent 



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