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5,000 were comprised in classified and labeled sets of specimens pre- 

 pared for schools and colleges, nearly 2,000 being ores and minerals. 

 The other subjects represented were rocks, rock weathering and soil 

 formation, mollusks, marine invertebrates, fishes, birds and birds' 

 eggs, insects, pottery, and prehistoric implements. 



Anthropology. — The department of anthropology accessions were 

 scientifically more valuable than in the former year, because of the 

 number of professionally collected specimens. The great majority 

 of the accessions are unconditional gifts. The geographical source 

 of the accessions in order is the United States, Asia, Africa, Poly- 

 nesia, and scattering. The department received and recorded 2,324 

 specimens, and the work was well in hand at the close of the year. 



Of especial note in ethnology are a collection of rare Mission In- 

 dian baskets given by Miss Ella F. Hubby, of Pasadena, Calif. ; a 

 remarkable Cowichan Indian blanket with totemic paintings, a gift 

 of Mrs. Charles C. Hyde, of Washington, D. C; a finely carved 

 ancient wooden idol from Hawaii, collected many years ago by Rear 

 Admiral J. Y. B. Bleecker, United States Navy; a collection of 

 carved horn dishes and spoons from the Flathead Indians, gift of 

 Dr. E. A. Spitzka, of Washington, D. C. ; and a group of ancient 

 ivory fetishes from the Lower Congo, Africa. 



The division of American archeology received a noteworthy col- 

 lection from an ancient ruin near Taos, N. Mex., excavated by Mr. 

 J. A. Jeancon for the Bureau of American Ethnology; antiquities 

 from cliff dwellings, collected by Mr. N. M. Jucld for the same bu- 

 reau; and antiquities from the ruins of Chaco Canyon, N. Mex., 

 collected by Mr. Judd while conducting the expedition of the Na- 

 tional Geographic Society to this region. Very interesting carved 

 stone fetishes and ancient potteiy from Santo Domingo were con- 

 tributed by Dr. W. L. Abbott. 



Old World archeology reports the receipt of Buddhist bronze fig- 

 urines from China and kakemonos from Japan, gift of Mrs. Murray 

 Warner, of Eugene, Oreg. ; other Buddhist bronze figures, given by 

 Mrs. John A"an Rensselaer Hoff, of Washington, D. C, fill gaps in 

 the collection. 



Physical anthropology received an immense consignment of skele- 

 tal material of individuals of known sex, age, color, and nationality. 

 This collection, which doubles the value of the material in the divi- 

 sion and will require several years' work to put in order and to cata- 

 logue, was received from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 

 New York City, through Dr. George S. Huntington. An important 

 collection of human brains was donated by Dr. E. A. Spitzka, of 

 Washington, D. C. xl number of skulls and skeletons of American 

 Indians was added to the collection through the University of South 

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