28 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1920. 



The division of American archeology reports its yearly increase 

 due largely to contributions from the Bureau of American Eth- 

 nology, including collections made in Arizona, Utah, and Colorado 

 by Dr. Walter Hough; in Texas by Dr. J. W. Fewkes and Prof. 

 J. E. Pearce; in Missouri by Mr. Gerard Fowke; and in Utah by 

 the curator, Mr. Neil M. Judd. The Bureau also transferred a col- 

 lection of archeological specimens obtained by it as gift from the 

 Otto T. Mallery expedition. 



The collections in Old World archeology benefited too by the 

 bequest of Miss Elizabeth S. Stevens, receiving nearly a hundred 

 objects of Christian and Buddhist religious art in wood, copper, 

 bronze, and silver. Other additions included ancient coins from 

 Captain Clarence L. Wiener; casts of engraved antique gems from 

 Dr. William 11. Dall ; and casts of Oriental seals made in the Museum 

 from originals owned by Mrs. Talcott Williams. The collection of 

 Bibles was supplemented by the two copies of the New Testament in 

 English from which Thomas Jefferson cut the English version of 

 his " The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth " — the so-called " Jef- 

 ferson Bible-' — donated by Miss Bertha Cohen and her nieces. 



In physical anthropology the most important accessions were 

 skeletal material as follows : from New Mexico, gift of the Museum 

 of the American Indian, Heye Foundation ; from Nevada, donated 

 by Hon. William Kent ; from Tennessee and Kentucky, partly gift 

 and partly a loan from W. E. Myer; and Missouri collected by 

 Gerard Fowke, and from Arizona collected by Dr. Walter Hough, 

 transferred to Museum from Bureau of American Ethnology. A 

 Neolithic skull was received in exchange from the University of 

 Eiege, Belgium, and a plaster bust representing a form of early man 

 by purchase. The trip of the curator, Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, to the Far 

 East added to the collections some 2,000 portraits of peoples of that 

 locality. 



Mr. Hugo Worch contributed three pianos and a harpsichord to the 

 series he is building up here representing the history of the piano- 

 forte, and from Mrs. J. Ryan Devereux came a noteworthy collection 

 of 81 musical instruments of various types. 



The additions in graphic arts included a collection of several hun- 

 dred specimens of wood engravings, mezzotints, aquatints, etc., do- 

 nated by Mr. Earle W. Huckel ; miniature mosaics from Mr. Stock- 

 ton W. Jones, showing a method of making pictures not heretofore 

 represented in the division; sephiograph reproductions from the 

 Crane Lithograph Company; and American-made vellum from Mr. 

 George A. Hathaway. The section of photography was enriched by 

 photographic apparatus used by Dr. Edward Muybridge in his 

 study of motion in animals, presented by the Commercial Museum 

 of Philadelphia. 



