REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1914. 85 
skull of La Chapelle-aux-Saints and of its brain cavity, purchased 
from Dr. F. Krantz, of Bonn, Germany. Three skulls of Pata- 
gonians were received as a gift from Mr. Chester W. Washburne, 
of Washington; and a neolithic skull from Belgium was presented 
by Prof. A. Rutot, director, Musée d’Histoire Naturelle de Belgique, 
Brussels. 
Considerable progress was made in cleaning, repairing, cata- 
loguing, and arranging the large Peruvian and other collections 
assembled during the last four years. Every specimen received by 
the division in recent years has also been examined by the curator, 
identified as to sex, and its principal characteristics noted, so that 
the catalogue of the division is gradually becoming more than a mere 
enumeration. The selection of especially valuable specimens for 
exhibition has likewise received attention. 
The investigations by the curator, Dr. Ale’ Hrdlicka, relative to 
“thoroughbred” white Americans, namely, those of at least three 
generations in this country on each side, was continued, but, owing 
to scarcity and comparative inaccessibility of subjects, another two 
years may be required for their completion. They promise results 
of much interest. A special study undertaken was one bearing on 
the history of physical anthropology in America, and more particu- 
larly in the United States, designed in part for presentation at the 
forthcoming Congress of Americanists and in part for use in the 
preparation of the “ Handbook of Physical Anthropology,” which 
will be published by the Bureau of American Ethnology. The main 
research work of the year, however, was that involved in completing 
the memoir on the “ Oldest Authentic Skeletal Remains of Man” 
in existence, which is being printed in the annual report of the 
Smithsonian Institution. The curator also made three shorter 
reports, as follows: On two crania from Saline Creek, Mo., for 
Mr. D. I. Bushnell, jr.; on parts of crania and skeletons from Lake 
Worth, Fla., for Mr. O. Randolph; and on recent skeletal collections 
from Tennessee, for Mr. Clarence B. Moore. 
Among persons who visited the division for purposes of study or 
for instruction were Dr. Ernest A. Hooton, of the Peabody Museum 
of Harvard University; Dr. James 8. Foote, of Creighton Medical 
College, Omaha, Nebr.; Dr. M. Reicher, of the Anatomical Labora- 
tory of Johns Hopkins University; Prof. George F. Eaton, of Yale 
University; Dr. R. W. Shufeldt and Dr. C. A. Hawley, of Washing- 
ton; Dr. G. Werley, of El Paso, Tex.; Dr. W. W. Evans, of Hamil- 
ton, Va.; Mr. Ralph Linton, of Philadelphia, Pa.; Dr. G. Hardy 
Clark and Dr. Margaret V. Clark, of Waterloo, Iowa; and Dr. 
George A. Wilson, of Cleveland, Ohio. 
Mechanical technology—The addition of 20 models of steamboat 
propellers, made from descriptions and drawings furnished by the 
