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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1901. 



Accessions received annually since 1880. 



1881 



1882 







1884 



L885 (January t< 







1887 



L888 



1889 



1890 











1893 



L894 



L895 



1896 



L897 



L898. 







1900 



1901 



June) 



Accession 



numbers i in 

 elusive). 



9890-11000 

 11001-12500 

 12501-13900 

 13901-15550 

 15551-16208 

 16209-17704 

 17705-19350 

 19351-20831 

 20832-22178 

 22179-23340 

 23341-24527 

 24528-25884 

 25885-27150 

 27151-28311 

 28312-29534 

 29535-30833 

 30834r-32300 

 32301-33741 

 33742-: S5238 

 35239-3(171)5 

 36706-38175 



Number of 



accessions 



during the 



year. 



1,111 

 1,500 

 1,400 

 1, 650 

 658 

 1,496 

 1,646 

 I, 181 

 1,347 

 1,162 

 1,187 

 1,357 

 1,266 

 1,161 

 1,223 

 1,299 

 1,467 

 1,441 

 1,497 

 1,467 

 1,470 



EXPLORATIONS. 



The limited appropriations given the Museum have never permitted 

 more than a very small amount of field work by the members of its 

 stall', and their efforts in this respect have necessarily been restricted 

 to expeditions undertaken with the object of securing additions to the 

 collections or of further elucidating the materials already in its posses- 

 sion. Most of these explorations have in fact only been rendered 

 possible through cooperation with other scientific bureaus of the Gov- 

 ernment or with private establishments and individuals. The extent of 

 the field work during the past year was, however, above the average, 

 and its results were of exceeding value. 



Mr. W. II. Holmes, under the auspices of the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology, and in company with Dr. W. A. Phillips, of the Field 

 Columbian Museum, made a detailed examination of the extensive and 

 important Hint quarries in the vicinity of Mill Creek, Union County, 

 Illinois, where prehistoric implements occur in great abundance. In 

 dune. L901, ethnological investigations were begun in the pueblo coun- 

 try b\ Dr. Walter Hough, in conjunction with Mr. Peter G. Gates, 

 of Pasadena. California, and chiefly at the hitter's expense. The 

 work \vas lo be continued during the entire summer. In preparation 

 primarily for the anthropological exhibit at the Pan-American Expo- 

 sition, partly at the expense of the Exposition and partly at that of 



