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Ten large native-made earthenware vessels fivun the Ucayali River, 

 River Amazon, were presented by Captain J. H. Good. 



The Assistant Curator, Mr. P. Entwistle, has been constantly em- 

 ployed in labelling specimens, and adding to them explanatory draw- 

 ings and photographs, which add greatly to the interest and value 

 of the collection, as well as the preparation of the series of enlarge- 

 ments of the Races of Mankind for the Anthropological Room, for 

 the British Museum, and Cambridge University, as well as the illus- 

 trations for the Bulletin of (he Liverpool Museums. 



The enlarged photographs in the Anthropological Room now 

 number 128, together with 25 coloured casts taken from life, and 5 

 maps. 



The following photographs, taken by the Assistant Curator, have 

 been sent to the undermentioned investigators to assist in their 

 studies, or to illustrate works on which they may be engaged : — 



Anglo-Saxon Key and Cross, and lithographic print of ' Lovelace ' 

 Clock, to Messrs. Cassell & Co., reproduced in Gassdl's Magazine: 

 set of prints of hafted stone implements from the South 

 Seas, to Dr. Frobenius, Leipzig; prints of the suite of orna- 

 ments: — tiara, earrings, necklace, brooch, ring, bracelets, and 

 waist buckle of gold, enamelled black and white, and set with 

 onyxes, carved in cameo with various subjects from Roman history, 

 by Girometti, of Rome, to M. Salomon Reinach, Paris ; prints of a 

 carved Pare, or Door Ornament, carved step of a Ko, or digging 

 implement, carved wooden box, paddle, and double war trumpet, 

 all from Xew Zealand, to A. Hamilton, Dunedin, for reproduction in 

 his work on Maori Art. 



In the " Journal of Anatomy and Physiology," Yol. XXXIV., Part 

 II., p. 228, Prof. Paterson, of University College, in conjunction with 

 Mr. Lovegrove, contributes a paper on " Symmetrical perforations of 

 the parietal bones ; including an account of a perforated and distorted 

 cranium from the Liverpool Museums.*' Reference is made to the con- 

 clusion come to by Dr. Robert Munro (" Prehistoric Problems," 1897), 

 where the skull possessed by the Mayer Museum is cited as the solitai y 

 example of double trepanning known in an English skull. Professor 

 Paterson, however, differs from Dr. Munro, and savs, in reference to 



