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Indian conception of their genealogy and migrations. Mr. E. H. 
Hammond, of the Bureau of Education of Manila, examined the 
Philippine collection and furnished a large amount of data as to the 
materials and tribal origin of Philippine basketry. Dr. C. V. Hart- 
man, of the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburg, studied the installation 
and especially the arrangement of the synoptic series, with a view 
to introducing this feature in the new Technical Museum in Pitts- 
burg. Dr. George B. Gordon, of the Free Museum of Science and 
Art, Philadelphia, examined the Eskimo collection for material to 
incorporate in a report of recent explorations among these people. 
Information respecting the forms and materials of the Apache and 
Navaho Indian arrows, necessitating an interesting study, was fur- 
nished by request to the Department of Justice. 
In January the head curator lectured before the students of the 
Naval Medical School on the history of culture, with the special 
object of showing how, as medical officers, they might render im- 
portant service to the National Museum. Later he addressed the 
arts and crafts department of the George Washington University 
on the basket work of the Malaysian area. 
Prehistoric archeology.—The additions to this division comprised 
several of exceptional importance. The Bureau of American Eth- 
nology transmitted nearly 800 archeological specimens, being part of 
the results of joint explorations by the bureau and the Department 
of Archeology and Paleontology of the University of Pennsylvania 
at Key Marco, Florida, in 1896, under the direction of Mr. Frank 
Hamilton Cushing. The collection is of great scientific importance, 
representing a people and a culture of which no knowledge had 
previously been obtained. The series of objects is more complete 
and more valuable than any similar one obtained from a single lo- 
eality or number of closely related sites north of Mexico, and throws 
much new light on the state of culture, the manner of life, and the 
industrial and artistic achievements of the Gulf coast tribes of pre- 
Columbian times. The entire collection was kept together until 1900, 
when it was separated into two nearly equal parts, one passing into 
the possession of the Bureau of Ethnology. A soapstone pot from 
Mecklenburg County, Virginia, and two grooved axes of clay iron- 
stone and a rubbing hammer stone obtained by Mr. Thomas J. Wilson 
near Hughes Springs, Cass County, Texas, were also received from 
the same bureau. 
Among the gifts were a silver image from ruins on an island in 
Lake Titicaca, Bolivia, in the well-known style of the Titicacan 
region, presented by Dr. T. S. K. Morton, of Philadelphia; and a 
series of flint implements from the Fayum desert, Egypt, and one 
of paleolithic quartzite implements, together with two stone hatchets, 
from the Pennaar River Valley, India, contributed by Mr. H. W. 
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