a2 REPCRT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1908. 
Seton-Karr, of London, England. A carved stone image in the 
form of a standing figure with elaborate headdress, 20$ inches high, 
from the ruins of ancient Tepoxtlan, State of Morelos, Mexico, was 
lent by Mrs. Harriet L. Dowling, of Washington, and 4 collections, 
consisting mainly of prehistoric pottery, together with many shell 
and stone artifacts, were deposited by Mr. A. H. Blackiston, of Cum- 
berland, Maryland. <A cast of the largest known stone celt, found 
near Granite, Illinois, in 1906, was received in exchange from the 
Public Museum of Milwaukee. Many plaster casts of prehistoric 
stone implements owned elsewhere were made in the Museum 
laboratory by Mr. H. W. Hendley. 
Comparatively few additions were made to the exhibition collec- 
tions, which occupy the large upper hall in the Smithsonian building, 
but the labeling and recording of the many specimens received during 
the year occupied much time. The classification and arrangement 
by subjects of the general collections, which are extensive and of 
great importance, were continued. Researches based on this material 
were chiefly carried on by Mr. William H. Holmes, curator of the 
division, and Dr. J. W. Fewkes, collaborator. Several persons not 
connected with the Museum also made use of the collections. Among 
these were Mr. James C. Christie, of Glasgow, Scotland, w ho worked 
on material from the West Indies, Mexico, and Central America; 
Dr. Arthur L. Mitchell, of Aurora, New York, who examined certain 
kinds of stone implements from the United States; and Mr. C. H. 
Gallup, curator of the Firelands Historical Museum, of Norwalk, 
Ohio, who studied the arts of the mound builders. The exchanges 
of specimens, though not unimportant, were limited in number and 
extent. 
The sundry civil act for 1908 provided for continuing the excava- 
tions at Casa Grande ruin, in Arizona, under the direction of the 
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and for the protection and 
improvement of the Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, under the 
supervision of the Secretary of the Interior. Dr. J. W. Fewkes, who 
conducted operations at both of these places, obtained a large and 
valuable collection, but at the end of the year it had not reached the 
Museum. 
Historic archeology—Among the accessions in historic archeology 
may be mentioned a gift from President Roosevelt of a brass model 
of the obelisk of Rameses IT, the original of which stood in front of 
the temple of Luxor, but is now in the Place de la Concorde in Paris; 
some valuable inscribed pottery fragments from Egypt, presented 
by Mr. F. B. Kilmer; and two wax impressions of a signet ring from 
Mr. Benjamin H. Boyadjian, of Turkey. This ring, which 1s en- 
eraved with human busts so that the upper part represents a man’s 
face and the lower end the head of a boar, is interesting from both 
