34 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1908. 
sicians and Surgeons, New York; 2 series of the brains of an- 
thropoid apes and of monkeys, 1 from West Borneo the other from 
Sumatra, donated by Dr. W. L. Abbott; 54 specimens, the gift of 
Prof. F. P. Mall, of Johns Hopkins University; 10 well-preserved 
skulls from mounds along the Arkansas River, including 1 example 
of a rave anomaly and several of the flathead deformation, presented 
by Mr. Clarence B. Moore, of Philadelphia; 8 Eskimo skeletons, ob- 
tained on the Smithsonian expedition to Alaska under Mr. C. W. 
Gilmore; 7 brains and 19 skeletons from various medical schools; 
5 Indian skulls and other bones from Casa Grande ruin, Arizona, 
collected by Dr. J. W. Fewkes; and 2 Filipino skulls, 9 brains, and 
15 heads of monkeys, contributed by Dr. Robert Bennett Bean, of 
the Philippine Medical School, Manila. The gift by Mr. J. G. Craw- 
ford, of Albany, Oregon, of a skull with a remarkably low fore- 
head, and a collection of human bones, including another skull with 
low forehead, made by Mr. Gerard Fowke and transmitted by the 
Bureau of American Ethnology, are likewise deserving of mention. 
There were also added to the collection 26 life masks of Indians, 19 
of which were made by the assistant curator with the aid of Mr. 
TE. W. Hendley, at the Jamestown Exposition, and 5 busts, prepared 
from these molds. The Bureau of American Ethnology supplied 
other valuable material besides that above mentioned, and through 
its aid a number of Indians were sent to the Museum for measuring 
and the taking of masks. 
In the preservation and installation of specimens the work of the 
division is entirely up-to-date. A series of skulls with various stages 
of a proatlas and fusion of the atlas with the skull has been arranged 
in the laboratory and proves of much interest to visiting physicians 
as well as anthropologists. The exhibits consist of 32 Indian busts, 
placed in the Catlin Hall, and of such groups of specimens as can 
conveniently be shown in the laboratory cases. The latter comprise 
several collections of crania of special interest, racial pelvises, cranial 
and dental anomalies; brains, human and comparative; fossilized 
human bones, with examples of low-developed recent crania, and 
easts of the European geologically ancient skulls; skulls showing 
teeth filing and carving, painting and tattooing; examples of ancient 
American trephining, and skulls showing types and individual varia- 
tions of artificial deformations. 
The scientific work of the division by Dr. Ales’ Hrdhéka, assistant 
curator in charge, has been mainly a continuation of that of the previ- 
ous year, relating especially to the humerus, which is now nearing 
completion. Tlis paper on skeletal remains and that entitled 
Physiological and medical observations among the Indians of the 
Southwest and northern Mexico will soon be issued as bulletins of 
