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comparative studies there is also being assembled in this division a 

 collection of the brains of animals, the principal accessions during 

 the past year having conic from the National Zoological Park, Mr. 

 E. S. Schmidt, of Washington, and Dr. W. L. Abbott. 



The most important additions in historic archeology consisted 

 of 21 Arabic manuscripts and prints, presented by Dr. E. A. Mearns, 

 U. S. Army, who obtained them among the Moros of Mindanao, and 

 23 coins and 18 pottery lamps and jars from the Orient, deposited by 

 Hadji Ephraim Benguiat. 



The division of prehistoric archeology received two collections 

 from Japan in exchange. One comprised 160 specimens of flint and 

 obsidian arrow points, chipped and polished stone hatchets, and 

 fragments of pottery, which had been exhibited at the Louisiana 

 Purchase Exposition by the College of Science of the Imperial Japa- 

 nese University; the other, 76 stone implements and ornaments, from 

 Mr. Y. Ilirase. Other collections from abroad obtained by exchange 

 consisted of 39 stone implements from North Australia, New South 

 Wales, Victoria, and Tasmania, through Mr. E. S. Anthony, of 

 Hobart, Tasmania; 345 specimens of stone implements and frag- 

 ments of pottery, mainly from kitchen-middens and caves in Cape 

 Colony, through the Albany Museum, of Grahamstown, South Africa, 

 and an important series of stone hatchets from Thuringia, Germany, 

 and of bronze dress-ornaments, bracelets, finger-rings, and neck 

 chains from Etruscan graves at Belmonti, Italy, through Dr. Max 

 Verworn, of the University of Gottingen. Mr. II. W. Seton-Karr, of 

 Wimbledon, England, presented two polished stone implements from 

 Bundelkund, India. 



The greater number of important accessions in prehistoric arche- 

 ology represented American countries. From the Bureau of Ameri- 

 can Ethnology there were transferred a cache of 152 rhyolite flaked 

 blades, found by Henry Rogers in 1893 in a crevice between two 

 large rocks in the Pigeon Hills, near Hanover, York County, Pennsyl- 

 vania; 20 large flint blades, part of a cache obtained from a mound 

 in Montezuma Village, Pike County, Illinois; a collection of flint 

 implements, hammer stones, flake age, refuse of blade manufactures, 

 etc., obtained by Mr. Gerard Fowke in aboriginal quarries and work- 

 shops in Illinois, Tennessee, and Missouri, and about 750 stone 

 implements and fragments of pottery, secured by Dr. Ales Hrdlicka 

 in the ancient ruins of the San Carlos River Valley, Graham County, 

 Arizona, on the grounds of the Rice Station Apache school, not 

 heretofore explored. 



Of Mexican antiquities there were several accessions, including 

 227 pieces of pottery, objects representing three different culture areas, 

 constituting the Bauer collection; 13 casts of interesting stone 

 objects, from the American Museum of Natural History; an ancient 



