20 REPOET OF NATIONAL, MUSEUM, 1907. 



scapulae, obtained in exchange from the College of Physicians and 

 Surgeons, New York. The specimens were selected by Doctor 

 Hrdlicka with the view of illustrating all of the principal typos of 

 normal variation in size and shape. Twelve skulls of the extinct 

 Huron Indians and a number of other human bones were received 

 in exchange from Laval University, Quebec, through Mgr. J. C. K. 

 Laflamme, and another normal, well-preserved skull of the same 

 tribe was donated by Prof. Henry Montgomery, of the University of 

 Toronto. The skull of a Panama Indian, collected by Edward 

 Parson and transferred by the Bureau of American Ethnology, is 

 the iirst of its kind obtained from the Isthmus. Other interesting 

 specimens were contributed by Lieut. J. P. Harris, assistant surgeon, 

 U. S. Army; Dr. P. II. Fuhrmann, of St. Louis, Missouri; and Drs. 

 ,1. I). Murray, D. S. Lamb. W. J. Tompkins, E. L. Morgan, and 

 J. E. Mitchell, (d* Washington. As in previous years, a considerable 

 number of the brains of mammals and birds were prepared tor the 

 comparative brain series, the specimens from which they were 

 obtained having come mainly from the National Zoological Park, 

 and partly as donations from Mr. E. S. Schmid, of Washington. 



Among the accessions in ethnology were two gifts from the Presi- 

 dent of the United States — an American Indian poncho and .">() speci- 

 men-- collected in the Kongo region of Africa by Mr. Clarence Pice 

 Slocuni, late consul-general at Boma. Maj. E. A. Mearns, surgeon, 

 U. S. Army, made important additions in continuation of his pre- 

 vious contributions, consisting of implements, utensils, and weapons 

 of the Philippine peoples, and especially of a collection of baskets 

 showing remarkable weaving from the rarely visited island of 

 Palmas, oil' the southeast end of Mindanao. Mr. A. F. Dresel, of 

 Nelson, Virginia, donated a Cherokee blowgun and two arrows: Dr. 

 J. P. Harris, U. S. Army, a collection of ethnological specimens 

 gathered by him during service in the Philippines; and Mrs. L. E. 

 Bland, of Whiteabbey, Antrim. Ireland, a nest of Malacca baskets 

 and seven samples of old and modern Malacca native lace. Of loans 

 to (he division mention may be made of sixteen pieces obtained in 

 Mexico by the late Lev. J. I lendrickson McCarty and deposited by 

 Mrs. L. X. F. McCarty. of Washington; a collection of embroideries 

 and oilier art treasures from Mrs. A. ( '. Barney, of Washington; and 

 a superb ancient Korean inlaid silver tobacco box from Dr. William 

 II. Dall. of the Museum. Fifteen specimens, besides photographs 

 and drawings, of Danish, Icelandic, Swiss, and Caucasian weaving 

 devices for making tape were received in exchange from Mr. Henry 

 Yolkart. of St. Call. Switzerland ; and a woman's costume from 

 Dalecarlia. Sweden, together with a child's dress, cap, and apron, 

 from Mrs. J. Howard Gore, of Washington. A collection of Green- 

 land Eskimo specimens and of historical objects from the Greely 



