REPORT ON THE DEPARTMENT OF PREHISTORIC ANTHROPOLOGY 

 IN THE U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1891. 



By Tfiomas Wilson, Curator. 



A general review of the work of the departmeut for the year covered 

 by this report, will coiu5)are favorably with that of the year previous. 



The last half of the fiscal year was employed in the new classification 

 and arrangement of the collection. The changing of cases necessary 

 upon the removal and grouping of the Pueblo models in the west end 

 of the hall, the establishing of new synoptical cases, the classification 

 of arrow or spear-heads or knives, and the entire rearrangement of 

 specimens according to geographic locality are some of the difterences 

 between the work of this and former years. 



During the past year we have been engaged in making series of plas- 

 ter casts of tyi)ical specimens of stone implements, sufficient to make one 

 hundred sets, each containing one hundred casts, for distribution among 

 educational institntions. About fifty sets have been completed during 

 the fiscal year. 



I comiDleted during the past fiscal year the report of my \isit to Paris 

 and the French Exposition, and of my attendance as a delegate to the 

 International Congresses of Anthropology and Prehistoric Archaeology, 

 of Criminal Anthropology, of Hygiene and Demography, and of the 

 French Association for the Advancement of Science; as well as my 

 investigations into the Prehistoric Museums of France. The part re- 

 lating to Anthropology at the French Exposition is to be published in the 

 Annual Report of the U. S. National Museum, 1890; that on Criminal 

 Anthropology in the Annual Eeport of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 1890. My report on the International Congress of Hygiene and Demogra- 

 phy was published in the report of the Commissioners of the District of 

 Columbia for 1890, and that of the International Congress of Anthro- 

 pology and Prehistoric Archaeology appeared in serial form in the Amer- 

 ican Naturalist, 1891-'92. 



IMPORTANT ACCESSIONS RECEIVED DURING THE YEAR. 



The Moohehead collectiox of aboriginal relics, comprising many beautiful 

 specimens, from Warren County, Ohio. In this collection will be found chipped 

 flint objects (such as arrow and spear points), polished hatchets, grooved axes, 

 pestles, discoidal stones, a large number of cercmionial objects, carved stone 



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