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many different kinds, some of which were hitherto unrepresented in 
the Museum’s collections. A unique specimen in the form of a carved 
altar stone was presented by Admiral William F. Halsey, who had 
received it from a New Caledonian native chief. Other important 
ethnologic material came from the Southern Shan States, Korea, Java, 
and Sumatra. The North American Continent was represented by 
two outstanding accessions: one a collection of basketry, skin gar- 
ments, and dance robes obtained in 1890 from the Hupa Indians of 
central California and from the Indians of the Great Plains, and 
the other a collection of weavings from the Navaho and Chilkat In- 
dians. A specimen of antiquarian interest was a copy of the Holy 
Bible, with the Apocrypha, which was printed from stereotype plates 
originally used for the third (1819) edition of the Isaac Collins Bible. 
In addition, several dozen pieces of antique glassware were added to 
the ceramics collections. The section of period art and textiles received 
an important collection of 10 pieces of Belgian needlepoint and 
bobbin-made laces dating from the period of World War I. 
To the physical anthropology division came about 480 specimens 
of Indian skeletal remains from various counties in Illinois, Arkansas, 
and Missouri, and also skeletal material from Calhoun, Jersey, and 
St. Claire Counties, Ill. Twenty-one cleared human fetuses were 
added to the valuable embryological collection received last year. 
Biology.—Nearly twice as many biological specimens were received 
this year as the previous year. 
Large numbers of birds and mammals from the South Pacific region 
and the Orient came by transfer from the Army Medical School, the 
Naval Medical School, and the U. S. A. Typhus Commission, while 
several hundred North American mammals and birds were transmitted 
by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Five handsome bear- 
skins and skulls and an unusually well-prepared skeleton of a beaked 
whale from La Jolla, Calif., were among other outstanding mammalian 
gifts. Ornithological field work in Colombia under the W. L. Abbott 
fund yielded about 1,350 birds to the Museum’s collections. Nearly 
650 birds were collected for the Museum in Darién, Panama, and 60 
from the atom-bomb test site at Bikini Atoll. Other important avian 
specimens from Admiralty Islands, Manchuria, Ceylon, Pert, Vene- 
zuela, and Canada found their way to the Museum’s division of birds. 
Reptiles and amphibians were added to the number of 2,177, about 
two-thirds of which were received from the Naval Medical Research 
Unit No. 2 or from Service personnel. In addition, about 125 herpeto- 
logical specimens resulted from the Smithsonian Institution-National 
Geographic Archeological Expedition in México; 85 came from a 
donor in Haiti; and 20 taxonomically important frogs from Brasil. 
