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5,872 specimens, of which 4,345 were transferred from the United 

 States Post Office Department, and of these 2,475 are examples of 

 new issues reaching that department from the International Bureau 

 of the Universal Postal Union. 



Anthropology. — The small number of accessions received in the 

 division of ethnology shows markedly the rapid decline of Indian ma- 

 terial and a corresponding though less rapid disappearance of mate- 

 rial from races less modified by contact with the white man. The 

 receipts included western Indian baskets donated by Miss Ella F. 

 Hubby; valuable material collected during the period of military 

 occupation of the Philippines received as gifts from Mrs. Thomas F. 

 Dwyer and Miss Kline, Gen. Joseph C. Breckenridge and the late 

 Lieut. Col. Duncan Elliott, United States Army; and pottery and 

 objects in silver, pewter, and brass bequeathed to the Museum by Miss 

 Elizabeth S. Stevens. 



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 cura- 

 tor, Mr. Neil M. Judd. The bureau also transferred a collection of 

 archeological specimens obtained by it as a 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 

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

 Dr. William H. 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 

 Jefferson 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 Mr. W. E. Myer ; and from Missouri, collected 

 by Mr. Gerard Fowke; and from Arizona, collected by Dr. Walter 

 Hough, transferred to the Museum from the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology. A Neolithic skull was received in exchange from the 

 University of Liege, Belgium, and a plaster bust representing a form 

 of early man by purchase. The trip of the curator. Dr. Ales 

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