126 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 
THE series of several thousand plaster casts of the palates of feeble- 
minded and normal children and adults by Dr. Walter Channing recently 
presented to the Museum forms an important addition to our physical 
anthropological collections, serving as comparative material of great 
value in the study of racial characters. ‘The series is available to 
students upon application. 
Mr. G. S. Bowporn has presented to the Museum one of the elab- 
orate feather capes for which the Hawaiian Islands have been famous. 
This specimen is one of the most perfect examples known and forms an 
extremely desirable addition to the collection of the Department of 
Anthropology. 
Proressor Wm. Morton WHEELER has presented to the Museum 
his entire collection of Formicidze, which is the largest in this country 
and one of the three largest in the world. ‘This coliection represents 
such a large portion of the extensive family Formicide that all future 
additions can be readily interpolated in it. Nearly every species in the 
collection is represented by long series of specimens (often many hundreds 
in number) and includes many types, co-types and unique specimens. 
THe Museum suffers serious loss through the acceptance by Pro- 
fessor Wm. Morton Wheeler of the appointment to the professorship 
of Economic Entomology in Harvard University. Professor Wheeler’s 
headquarters and laboratory will be at the Bussey Institution, which is 
located in Forest Hills, Boston, Mass., where he will have exceptional 
opportunity for carrying on research work as to the life history of insects 
inimical to forest trees. 
Mr. G. FreDERICK Norton, a member of the expedition accom- 
panying Commander Peary to the Arctic Regions last summer, has 
presented to the Museum a valuable series of ethnological specimens 
from the Eskimo of Disco Island and Holstenborg, South Greenland. 
The series consists of an unusually good kayak, or native hunting boat, 
about sixteen feet long; harpoons, harpoon points and seal skin floats; 
lines and throwing boards; a paddle; swivel; line receptacle and seal 
skin boots and pants. 
Exuzsits illustrating concretely the acorn, salmon and other in- 
dustries of the Indians of California have recently been installed in the 
Hall of North American Types (No. 102 of the Ground Floor). 
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