20 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1918. 



E. Moses, Dr. Thomas O. Menees, Mrs. E. M. Chapman, Eev. Douglas 

 Putnam Birnie, Mr. Ambrose McGarry, and Mrs. F. A. Clark. 



Much advance was made in the marking, repair, and general care 

 of the reserve or study collections of the division, and too much can 

 not be said of the faithfulness and effectiveness with which Mr. E. P. 

 Upham, aid, applied himself to the work of the division. 



Old World archeology. — The Royal Ontario Museum of Arche- 

 ology, Toronto, Canada, by an exchange of specimens, afforded the 

 most important addition to the collections of Old World archeology. 

 The 195 specimens of this increment included 12 Babylonian in- 

 scribed cuneiform tablets, rare and interesting prehistoric stone im- 

 plements from Egypt, France, and England, which form valuable 

 and much desired additions to the collections from these countries, 

 bronze and iron implements from Greece and Italy, besides Egyptian 

 pottery, beads, Coptic cloth, arrow heads, etc. From a collection 

 received as a gift from Capt. Clarence Wiener, of the British Army, 

 should be mentioned a rare and unique nine-pronged iron roasting 

 spit found near the Colosseum in Rome, a fine marble head from a 

 statuette of Hercules, and some Roman coins. Other gifts included 

 a well-modeled Roman bronze lamp resembling in shape the mask 

 of Silenus, from Mrs. Sanders Johnston; a rosary composed of 

 Kentucky coffee beans strung on a Japanese silver chain, from 

 Mr. Frederick J. Braendle; and a prayer book and selections from 

 the Scriptures, arranged for Jews serving in the Army and Navy of 

 the United States, published by the Jewish Publication Society of 

 America, from Dr. Cyrus Adler. 



Physical anthropology. — Although somewhat less extensive than 

 those of the preceding year the additions to the division of physical 

 anthropology were of considerable value. Most noteworthy was a 

 collection of six Indian skulls, with two additional jaw bones, from 

 caves on islands off southeastern Alaska, presented bj^ Dr. Edwin 

 Kirk. Next in value came an excellent plaster restoration of the 

 Gibraltar skull, the gift of Prof. J. H. McGregor. A well-preserved 

 skull, from Fernan Vaz, French Congo, was collected for the Museum 

 by Mr. C. R. W. Aschemeier, of the Collins-Garner Congo Ex- 

 pedition, and an interesting cranium from the Malay Archipelago, 

 collected by Mr. H. C. Raven, was donated by Dr. William L. Abbott. 

 From the Office of Indian Affairs of the Department of the Interior 

 came as a transfer of Government property an old Pueblo skull, 

 found by Mr. F. F. Frisbee on the Navaho Reservation. 



Other additions, received by gift, included two Indian skulls from 

 Captiva Island, Florida, from Mr. Edward D. Tayloe, through Dr. 

 Robert Bennett Bean; four Indian skulls with other bones from 

 Illinois, from Mr. J. G. Braecklein; a skull and part of a skeleton 

 of an Eskimo, from Mr. F. M. Sickler; the skeleton of a man, from 



