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sculpture recovered from the Maya area. By transfer from the 

 Bureau of American Ethnology came over 300 specimens collected 

 by Dr. W. D. Strong from the Bay Islands and from the mainland 

 of Spanish Honduras. Also may be mentioned 214 flint objects 

 from a Paleolithic deposit in Mugharet et-Tabun (Cave of the 

 Oven), near Mount Carmel, Palestine, deposited by the Archeologi- 

 cal Society of Washington; 1,188 stone artifacts, basketry frag- 

 ments, and other material collected by Frank M. Setzler from 2 

 caves in Val Verde County, Tex. ; 3 terra-cotta cones from Ur of the 

 Chaldees, Iraq, bearing inscriptions that date them about 2075 B. C, 

 given by the Bruce Hughes fund; 52 stone implements from South 

 Africa, donated by W. C. Abbott, of Cape Town; and earthenware 

 vessels from Panama, ivory and bone harpoon heads from St. Law- 

 rence Island, Alaska, and Paleolithic implements from the Thames 

 Valley, England. 



Skeletal material received came from Florida, California, and 

 North Carolina, and from Kodiak Island, Alaska, collected by Dr. 

 Ales Hrdlicka. Skeletons collected by Frank M. Setzler, though 

 few in number, were important because of the new type and area 

 represented. 



Biology. — A special feature of this year's biological accretions was 

 the large number of genera and species new to the collections. Much 

 invaluable type material also was received. Many rare species of 

 mammals and birds from Siam and China came from Dr. Hugh M. 

 Smith and Dr. D. C. Graham, respectively, who contributed from 

 these countries also considerable collections of reptiles and amphib- 

 ians, fishes, insects, mollusks, marine invertebrates, and plants. 

 Among the forms now represented for the first time were the Saiga 

 antelope from the Kalmuk Steppes of South Russia (of which the 

 Museum formerly had only a skeleton), a sloth {Scaeopus) and a 

 monkey {Brachyteles) from South America, a porpoise taken on 

 the third Hancock Galapagos expedition, 15 genera of birds, and a 

 number of species of West Indian beetles. Other noteworthy acces- 

 sions include: A large collection of Brazilian reptiles, amphibians, 

 fishes, insects, and mollusks made by Dr. Doris Cochran ; over 3,000 

 fishes comprising the private collection of Dr. G. S. Myers; 2,400 

 Florida fishes collected by C. R. Aschmeier; a collection of South 

 American Homoptera made by the late Dr. F. W. Goding; a collec- 

 tion of Oriental insects made by T. R. Gardner; the J. E. Guthrie 

 collection of Collembola; 3,000 New England insects, mostly Ho- 

 moptera, from P. W. Oman; a valuable series of invertebrates col- 

 lected under the auspices of the late C. C. Nutting, of the University 

 of Iowa ; crustaceans and other forms collected by Dr. W. L. Schmitt 

 on the third Hancock expedition to the Galapagos Islands; about 



