30 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1915. 



metal, and terra cotta from various localities in the United States 

 and Mexico, Many specimens of like nature from the same countries 

 were also received in exchange from the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseum 

 at Stockholm, and the Bureau of American Ethnology transmitted a 

 quantity of pottery displaying a distinct type of decoration from 

 the lower Mimbres Valley, N. Mex. A banner stone of rose quartz, 

 a very remarkable Indian relic and probably one of the finest ex- 

 amples of its kind yet brought to light, from Woodruff County, Ark., 

 and one image of gold and two of gilded copper from Chiriqui, 

 Panama, were purchased. The principal gifts consisted of a notable 

 jade ax from Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, a small stone celt from 

 Ahuachapan, San Salvador, and a clay figurine from Tepecoyo, in 

 the same country, presented by Mr. Emilio Mosonyi, of San Salvador, 

 and a pottery vase from a mound in Marion County, Tenn., con- 

 tributed by Mr. Clarence B. Moore. 



In Old World archeology there were only tAvo relatively important 

 accessions. The first, an exchange from Dr. Rutot, of the Royal 

 Museum of Natural History at Brussels, consisted of 90 Neolithic 

 stone implements from Belgium, representing the first epoch of pol- 

 ished stone culture in Europe, known as the " Spiennian " ; the sec- 

 ond, a gift from Mr. Herbert E. Clark, of Jerusalem, of 19 stone 

 implements, forming a valuable addition to the present collection 

 from Palestine. 



The more important contributions in physical anthropology com- 

 prised skeletal material from a Minsi burial place on the Jersey 

 side of the Delaware River, 3 miles below Montague, N. J., one 

 of the most complete and carefully recorded collections of such 

 specimens so far acquired, from Mr. George G. Heye, of New York ; 

 similar material from Alabama and Tennessee, from Mr. Clarence B. 

 Moore; eight prehistoric skeletons and four skulls from Bohemia, 

 from Prof. J. Matiegka, of the University of Prague; and three 

 nearly complete and four partial human skeletons, from Montana, 

 collected by Mr. C. W. Gilmore, of the Museum staff. 



The electrical collections were enriched by a most noteworthy 

 gift from Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, consisting of 280 pieces of 

 experimental phonographic apparatus and several relics connected 

 with the early history of the telephone. Under a special act of 

 Congress, the Coast and Geodetic Survey transferred a large number 

 of antiquated surveying instruments which are now of much his- 

 torical importance ; and a quantity of guns needed to fill gaps in th^ 

 collection were deposited by the Navy and War Departments. Of 

 especial interest is a gasoline automobile of 1896, presented by the 

 Olds Motor Works. 



The section of musical instruments received during the year such a 

 contribution as places its collection among the most notable of the 



