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regarded as of such scientific interest that a special paper describing 

 it has been prepared and submitted for publication. Another acces- 

 sion of particular beauty and rarity was the remainder of the 

 collection of California Indian baskets bequeathed by the late Miss 

 Ella F. Hubby, of Pasadena. 



Among additions in American archeology may be mentioned col- 

 lections from Town Creek, Ala., on the site of Wilson Dam, Muscle 

 Shoals, and from Weeden Island, St. Petersburg, Fla., collected by 

 Gerard Fowke and Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, respectively, and trans- 

 ferred from the Bureau of American Ethnology. The first of these 

 is especially valuable, since it comes from a locality that will be 

 covered by water when impounded by the dam. 



The accessions in the division of Old World archeology include a 

 copy of the Welsh version of the Bible from David W. Evans and 

 numerous Egyptian and Graeco-Roman antiquities and ancient 

 glassware loaned by Edward Sampson. 



In physical anthropology there were added several casts of the 

 remains of the famous Trinil man of Java, Pithecanthro'pus erectus, 

 received from Dr. Eugene Dubois, who has been engaged in ex- 

 haustive studies of this highly important fossil. Also there has 

 been received from the British Museum a cast of the skull found re- 

 cently at Broken Hill in Rhodesia. Other important casts repre- 

 sent remains of ancient man from Czechoslovakia. These will all be 

 of great assistance in studies of ancient man. The Bureau of Ameri- 

 can Ethnology transferred skeletal material from Florida, and the 

 National Geographic Society presented important skeletons found in 

 excavations at Pueblo Bonito and Pueblo del Arroyo, Xew IMexico. 

 The Bufl'alo Society of Natural Sciences donated a collection of Iro- 

 quois skeletal material collected in Erie County, N. Y. 



Mr. Hugo Worch lias added to the Worch collection of pianos 

 four splendidly decorated harpsichords of the sixteenth and seven- 

 teenth centuries. Miss Frances Densmore completed her stud}'^ of the 

 collection of musical instruments and submitted a manuscript de- 

 scriptive of it. 



The ceramic collection was augmented by a collection of English 

 porcelain and glass, gift of Mrs. Frances Roome Powers. 



In art textiles, the valuable laces of the late Mrs. H. K. Porter 

 were continued as a loan by her daughter. Miss Hegeman. By be- 

 quest of the late Miss Emily Tuckerman, all specimens belonging 

 to her on deposit in the Museum were made a gift. The Misses 

 Long contributed several fine specimens of embroidery and lace. 



The department profited especially through explorations by the 

 Bureau of American Ethnology, the National Geographic Society, 

 and the Marsh-Darien expedition. Neil M. Judd, in charge of 



