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ancient maskette from Mexico, beautifully carved from hard stone, 
was presented by Dr. W. H. Holmes. Considerable additions to the 
collections of ancient stone implements from France, collected by 
members of the American School of Archeology in France, were 
deposited through the Archeological Society of Washington. 
Tn the Division of Physical Anthropology, valuable human skeletal 
material of Australian aboriginals was obtained by exchange with 
the Adelaide Museum and through personal collection by Doctor 
Herdlitka. There came also miscellaneous Indian skeletons from 
Mississippi collected by H. B. Collins, jr., and a cast of a Neander- 
thaloid skull presented by the Instytut Nauk Anthropologicznych 
of Warsaw. H 
The fine collection of laces gathered by the late Mrs. H. K. Porter 
remained on exhibition in the section devoted to art textiles through 
the kindness of Miss Annie May Hegeman. 
Biology.—Though the total of accessions in this department was 
smaller than last year, much of the material was of such high quality 
as to offset its lessened amount. The greatest single contribution was 
that of the Dognin collection of lepidoptera purchased by a special 
fund of $50,000 assembled from friends of the Institution by Dr. W. 
Schaus, honorary assistant curator of insects. This collection, mainly 
of New World forms, adds about 82,000 specimens, including 3,000 
types, to the collection. The addition of this material gives the 
National Museum what is undoubtedly the best representation of 
American species in this group to be found in any museum in the 
world. Doctor Schaus, accompanied by Mr. J. 'T. Barnes as assistant, 
went personally to France to pack the collection for transfer to 
Washington. 
The Hamfelt collection of microlepidoptera, secured through the 
United States Department of Agriculture, is another contribution 
of great importance to this group. 
Collections obtained by Dr. W. L. Schmitt from South America 
form large and important additions to the division of marine 
invertebrates. Through the Bureau of Fisheries, further series of 
specimens taken on the Albatross expedition of 1911 to Lower 
California have been transferred to the National Museum. The ma- 
terial recently received includes birds, fishes, and crustaceans, with 
a number of type specimens. 
Considerable contributions have come from China and southeastern 
Asia, excellently supplementing earlier collections from this general 
region received mainly through the generosity and interest of Dr. 
W. L. Abbott. A valuable collection of birds collected by C. Boden 
Kloss in Siam and on the Mentawi Islands west of Sumatra, pre- 
sented by Doctor Abbott, adds material from a new field. Important 
