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presented by Mr. Clarence B. Moore, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 
16 skulls, received in exchange from Prof. David Paul von Hansemann, 
Rudolf Virchow-Krankenhaus, Berlin, Germany; 6 casts of ancient 
human and primitive Australian crania, obtained by purchase; a cast 
of an ancient human lower jaw, known as “‘the Heidelberg jaw,” the 
gift of Prof. Otto Schetensack, of Heidelberg, Germany; 20 human 
skulls, transferred from the Army Medical Museum through Maj. T. T. 
Russell, United States Army, curator; 25 brachycephalic skulls of 
Czechs, received in exchange from Prof. J. Matiegka, of Prague, 
Bohemia; 28 negro skulls, from the Smithsonian African Expedition ; 
6 specimens of articulated hands and feet, through exchange with 
Prof. Gustav Schwalbe, University of Strassburg, Germany; a large 
number of anatomical specimens presented by Prof. F. P. Mall, of 
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; a skeleton of an Australian 
native, in exchange with the Western Australian Museum and Art 
Gallery, Perth, Australia; the skull of a Flathead Indian and 2 
head-flattening pillows, donated by Capt. Newton Chittenden, Brook- 
lyn, New York; 23 important anatomical preparations, contributed 
by Dr. D. S. Lamb, of the Army Medical Museum, Washington; and 
two collections of valuable anatomical material, presented, one by 
Dr. Robert Bennett Bean, the other by Dr. Winsor, both of the 
Philippine Medical School, Manila. 
This division was one of the first to move into the new Museum 
building, and since September attention has mainly been given to 
fitting up the laboratories and rearranging and relabeling the collec- 
tions. A considerable amount of material has been brought together 
preparatory to installation in the exhibition cases now provided in the 
laboratory. The series of Indian busts on general exhibition has been 
increased by the addition of five new casts made in the Museum. 
Investigations were concluded by the curator on the Arkansas and 
Louisiana crania presented by Mr. Clarence B. Moore, and the results 
published by the Academy of Sciences of Philadelphia. Measure- 
ments of the capacity of these crania have been made and await elabo- 
ration. A very important collection of Eskimo skulls and skeletons, 
forwarded by the American Museum of Natural History, was studied 
and the report submitted to that Museum. Some progress was made 
toward the completion of investigations on the humerus in the differ- 
ent races, and a large amount of work was done on the report concern- 
ing the ancient and modern inhabitants of the Oasis of Kharga, 
Egypt. An account of two Texas crania was furnished the Bureau 
of American Ethnology, and detailed measurements of certain south- 
ern California Indian skulls were sent to Dr. P. Rivet, Laboratoire 
d’ Anthropologie, Museum d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris. On April 1, 
1910, the curator sailed for Argentina, South America, to conduct 
