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miniature theater set of 130 appurtenances of the Javanese puppet 

 show, wayang, which they obtained from a puppet master in the 

 Sundanese village of Tjiawi, West Java. Mrs. Hoffman Philip gave 

 a collection of religious objects, weapons, jewelry of silver filigree, 

 and accessories of dress, obtained in Abyssinia by her husband, the 

 late Hoffman Philip, while in the diplomatic service. John Smithson 

 and John Smithson, Jr., presented a George II silver tankard, a George 

 III basting spoon, a traveler's silver wine cup, and two English 

 silver luster teapots. 



By transfer from Kiver Basin Surveys, the division of physical 

 anthropology received 78 Indian skeletons selected from 106 burials 

 on Buggs Island in the Roanoke River, near Clarksville, Va. This 

 burial area will be inundated when the dam for the reservoir is com- 

 pleted. 



Zoology. — Received during the year were more than 251,000 zool- 

 ogical specimens, obtained in Alaska, Algeria, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 

 Arabia, Assam, Australia, Belgian Congo, Bolivia, Borneo, Canada, 

 Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Egypt, French West Africa, Gilbert 

 Islands, Japan, Manchuria, Martinique, Mexico, Mozambique, North- 

 ern Rhodesia, Panama, Philippines, Southern Rhodesia, Turkey, 

 United States, and Venezuela. 



The fishery investigations of the United States Fish and Wildlife 

 Service vessel Oregon in the Gulf of Mexico, under the leadership of 

 Stewart Springer, resulted in the transfer to the Museum of im- 

 portant and diverse collections of fishes, crustaceans, and other marine 

 invertebrates from the deeper waters of the gulf. 



An important accession of 579 mammals, including many forms 

 previously not represented in the collection, from Mount Kinabalu, 

 northern Borneo, was received by transfer from the Army Medical 

 Service Graduate School. With the aid of funds furnished by the 

 Office of Naval Research, Dr. Henry W. Setzer of the Museum staff 

 obtained 141 mammals along the Arctic slope of Alaska. Charles O. 

 Handley, Jr., presented nearly 600 mammals, chiefly from the eastern 

 United States. Several shipments of mammals, totaling 133 speci- 

 mens, were received from Dr. W. L. Jellison, of the Rocky Mountain 

 Laboratory, United States Public Health Service. A collection of 

 183 mammals from Labrador was purchased from Dana P. Snyder 

 under the income from the Spencer Fullerton Baird fund. The 

 Biological Surveys collection was increased by 685 specimens, includ- 

 ing a series of Alaskan sea otters, of which a family group will be used 

 in the preparation of a habitat group for display in the Natural 

 History Building. 



Ornithological field work in northern Colombia by M. A. Carriker, 

 .Jr., financed for several years by the income from the W. L. Abbott 



