REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1908. BO 
the Bureau of American Ethnology. Descriptions of two especially 
interesting skulls, recently received, are in course of publication in 
the Proceedings of the Museum. A report was furnished to Mr. Clar- 
ence B. Moore on the collection of crania which he donated to the 
Museum, for incorporation in his memoir, and a revision, with addi- 
tions, of the paper on Brain Weight in Vertebrates, has been under- 
taken. Finally, several minor reports and a presidential address be- 
fore the Anthropological Society of Washington by Doctor Hrdli¢ka 
were based upon his Museum investigations, and he also rendered aid 
in the preparation of the second volume of the Handbook of Indians 
for the Bureau of American Ethnology. 
In connection with his researches, as well as for the purpose of 
securing additions to the collections, Doctor Hrdliéka was detailed to 
the Jamestown Exposition, where, with the assistance of Mr. Hendley, 
he measured and made casts of 2 Eskimo, 2 Panama Indians, and 15 
Oglala Sioux. He was in New York in October to arrange for obtain- 
ing examples of such ancient human remains as might be discovered 
in the course of the excavations in Egypt by the Metropolitan Museum 
of Art, which has generously tendered its cooperation in the matter, 
although involving extra labor and expense on its part. Subse- 
quently, in company with Dr. J. EK. Benedict, he visited Ward’s Nat- 
ural Science Establishment in Rochester, the College of Physicians 
and Surgeons, the American Museum of Natural History, the Rocke- 
feller Pathological Institute, the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute, 
and the Wistar Institute of Anatomy, for the purpose of ascertaining 
the more recent improvements in methods of preparing skeletons. 
Technology.—The additions in technology were exceptionally nu- 
merous and valuable. Of greatest importance were many models and 
some full-sized examples of interesting inventions transferred from 
the Patent Office. The latter include a large number of pistols, 
revolvers, carbines, rifles, etc., illustrating noteworthy devices which 
have developed into special systems of firearms now extensively used 
for military and other purposes. Among these are the Hotchkiss and 
Krag-Jérgensen magaziie rifles, Winchester tubular magazine guns, 
North guns and pistols, many of which were made for the United 
States Army in the early part of the last century; the Sharps, Joslyn, 
Lawrence, Jenks, Spencer, Maynard, Merrill, Burnside, Lindner, 
Burton, Berdan, and other breech-loading guns. The early founda- 
tion inventions, on which the Colt and the Smith & Wesson sys- 
tems of revolvers are based, are also represented. Some of the other 
subjects to which the models relate are printing presses, sewing ma- 
chines, typewriters, electrical inventions, telegraph repeaters, time 
bank locks, looms, spinning and knitting machinery,.etc. The col- 
lection of steam machinery models is very important, including sev- 
eral by John Ericsson, who is also represented by his inventions in 
