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work of preparing specimens for exhibit ion. The number of cata- 

 logue cards prepared was 7,140, of reference cards 1,860, and of 

 labels 1,745. Numbers in india ink or oil colors were placed on 

 23,586 specimens, this being the only certain method of securing 

 their identity. A large number of duplicate specimens were made 

 up into labeled sets for sending to educational establishments. 



In the preparation of the Type Catalogue, already referred to, 

 the collections have been greatly benefited, since it resulted in the 

 segregation and appropriate labeling of the several thousand type 

 specimens in the department, which have thereby been made readily 

 accessible. This work has occupied the attention of the several 

 experts in the department during several years, and the time they 

 have put upon it lias been more than justified. 



EXHIBITION COLLECTIONS. 



While the subject of physical anthropology, owing to lack of space, 

 has not been illustrated in the public halls except by a number of 

 Indian busts in the northwest range, several interesting collections 

 have been made accessible in the laboratory of the division, for the 

 benefit of intelligent visitors, as follows: A series of skulls from Peru 

 and Bolivia, showing pre-Columbian trephining; several sets of fossil 

 human bones, skulls from Rock Bluff, Illinois. Lansing, Kansas, 

 etc., forming a series of supposed geological antiquity ; casts of quater- 

 nary human skulls and other bones from Europe and of the calvarium 

 of the Pithecanthropus, with a group of modern Indian skulls show- 

 ing low forms of development; a series of artificially deformed 

 skulls illustrating the three principal types of deformation: painted. 

 graven, and otherwise prepared skulls from North America. New 

 Guinea, and Indonesia; a racial collection of pelvises; the skeleton 

 of an Indian giant and one of an Indian pigmy; a series of types of 

 normal variation in human bones; a series of human and animal 

 brains, etc. 



In ethnology one new group, consisting of live figures of Rouma- 

 nian peasants in costume, was prepared and installed, and a figure of 

 an Aino woman was modeled and added to the Aino case. The pot- 

 tery in the wall cases of the Pueblo court was rearranged. 



The most important additions to the exhibition in the hall of pre- 

 historic archeology consisted of several hundred flint and bone imple- 

 ments and many fossil bones, including fragments of the jawbones 

 and teeth of the mastodon, mammoth, bison, and horse, from a sulphur 

 spring at Afton, Indian Territory, which had been used as a shrine 

 by Indians: the loan collection of Mr. A. II. Blackiston from Casas 

 Grandes Valley, Mexico: and a number of series of cache implements 

 from several localities. 



