24 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1911. 



Museum d'Histoire Naturelle at Paris in world-wide material. The 

 principal accession consisted of skeletal material from South America, 

 including 3,400 crania and over 6,000 long and other bones, collected 

 by the curator of the division, Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, under the auspices 

 of the Smithsonian Institution. Of ancient skeletons and crania 

 from the northeastern pueblo region of New Mexico two important 

 collections were obtained. One was received in exchange from the 

 School of American Archaeology of the Archaeological Institute of 

 America; the other, resulting from joint explorations by the same 

 school and the Bureau of American Ethnology, was a transfer from 

 the bureau. A series of 76 ancient skulls and skeletons from Arkan- 

 sas and Mississippi, some of the crania showing a remarkable preser- 

 vation of the denture, were donated by Mr. Clarence B. Moore, of 

 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Additional material secured through 

 exchange comprises some 2,000 long and other bones, identified as to 

 class, age, and nationality, and of fundamental value, from the ana- 

 tomical department of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, of New 

 York ; five Kaffir skeletons from the Albany Museum, Grahamstown, 

 Cape Colony; a cast of the Gibraltar fossil human skull, from the 

 Royal College of Surgeons, London ; and a cast of an Australian and 

 one of an African pigmy, from Prof. A. Thomson, of Oxford, Eng- 

 land. The division is also indebted to Dr. D. S. Lamb, of Washing- 

 ton, for a number of anatomical specimens. 



The reclassification and rearrangement of the collections, made 

 necessary by their transfer to the new building, has been completed, 

 and all of the material is now in good condition as regards both 

 preservation and recording. A beginning was also made in preparing 

 and cataloguing the South American collections. An important step 

 in installation was the placing of six exhibition cases in one of the 

 rooms of the division for series of special anthropological and ana- 

 tomical value. While this work was not finished, it has already 

 attracted much attention from scientific men, and during convocation 

 week, at the end of December, it was visited by over 70 members of 

 the American Institute of Dental Pedagogics, which was then in ses- 

 sion in Washington. The selection of certain material which can 

 be placed to advantage among the public exhibits of the department 

 of anthropology was commenced. 



The principal studies of the year related to the South American 

 explorations described below. They were completed and the results 

 submitted for publication. Some progress was also made on the 

 report of the anthropological researches at the Kharga Oasis, Egypt, 

 and in the subjects of brain weight and cranial capacity. Investiga- 

 tions were conducted in the division by Dr. A. B. Emmons, of Boston, 

 Massachusetts, who worked on the racial characteristics of the pelvis; 

 and by Prof. J. S. Foote, of Omaha, Nebraska, who studied the his- 



