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David H. Johnson, the division acquired a number of mammal traps 

 fashioned of bamboo by the Dusan natives of North Borneo. Also 

 transferred from the Bureau of American Ethnology was a collection 

 of ethnographical materials, consisting of textiles, weaving para- 

 phernalia, basketry, necklaces, and musical instruments, used by the 

 sub-Andean Indians of southern Colombia. 



For the first time in 50 years the division of physical anthropology 

 received a skull with an anomaly not represented heretofore in its 

 collection of 18,000 human skulls. This irregularity consists of an 

 extra suture dividing one of the parietal bones into two nearly equal 

 parts. This skull was found on the surface of the ground near Cleve- 

 land, Ohio, and was received for identification from the Federal 

 Bureau of Investigation. 



Zoology. — Outstanding among the zoological accessions received 

 were 1,500 small mammals collected in Korea by units of the Army 

 Medical Services in connection with hemorrhagic-fever surveys; 300 

 mammals obtained in North Borneo jointly by the U. S. Army Medical 

 Research Unit and the British Colonial Oflfice Medical Research Unit ; 

 and several lots of mammals from Formosa obtained by Dr. Donald 

 J. Pletsch and medical units of the U. S. Navy. Other noteworthy 

 accessions recorded were 625 mammals from Thailand collected by 

 Robert E. Elbel, a fine series of New England mammals presented by 

 Dr. Harold B. Hitchcock, a collection of southwestern mammals pre- 

 sented by the School of Tropical and Preventive Medicine, Loma 

 Linda, Calif., and 186 specimens from the British Museum (Natural 

 History), adding to the collections several new African and Asiatic 

 species. 



From areas in Thailand an important collection of 1,802 skins of 

 birds and other ornithological material was obtained by H. G. Deig- 

 nan. A valuable gift from Mrs. Charles E. Ramsden of 1,773 skins, 

 75 skeletons, and 59 sets of eggs of birds from eastern Cuba was added 

 to the collections. A gift of 107 bird skins from Donald W. Lamm 

 made a notable addition to earlier donations collected in Mozambique. 

 Dr. A. Wetmore contributed more than 1,200 bird skins and skeletons, 

 and 3 sets of bird eggs collected in Panama. 



A noteworthy representation of Egyptian reptilian and amphibian 

 material comprising 1,042 specimens collected by Dr. Robert E. Kuntz 

 of the U. S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 3 was transferred to 

 the Museum. A valuable gift of 126 Brazilian frogs donated by 

 Dr. C. F. Walker was added to the collections. An exchange with the 

 University of Illinois through Dr. Hobart M. Smith yielded 56 speci- 

 mens, including paratypes of 50 species of reptiles and amphibians. 



About 200 fishes collected in the Gulf of Mexico during the cruise 

 of the Oregon were transferred to the collections by the U. S. Fish 

 and Wildlife Service through Stewart Springer. An entire collec- 



