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the scope of purely ethnographic objects is in the museum. 

 Of the many publications on these collections, it may be in- 

 vidious to single out any one, and not mention others. The 

 articles by Hitchcock and Hough give an idea of the wealth 

 of material from the far East, in the National Museum, 

 while the beautifully illustrated and carefully prepared de- 

 scription of the collections from Tibet by W. W. Rockhill 

 have been published in a typographical form worthy of their 

 great merit. Of particular interest to the student of eth- 

 nography are the aborigines of Japan called the Ainos, a 

 comprehensive collection of objects from which people has 

 been well described by Hitchcock. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY 



A CLASSIFIED record of the yearly progress of science is of 

 utmost importance, and merits the attention of an Institution 

 so well equipped with exchanges as the Smithsonian. The 

 bibliography of anthropology, year by year, has been pub- 

 lished from 1879 to I ^93 inclusive, and the Smithsonian is to 

 be congratulated in being able to call upon Professor O. T. 

 Mason for this work. This series, by one so signally fitted 

 by breadth of knowledge of anthropological literature, con- 

 tains not only a list of publications on this science during 

 each year by different institutions and societies of Europe and 

 America, but also a judicial summary of several, and valuable 

 abstracts or notices of the more important current articles. 

 In order to complete this series, the Smithsonian Report for 

 1879 gives an index to papers on anthropology from 1847 to 

 1878, thus carrying the bibliographical lists back to the time 

 of the foundation of the Institution. 



By the acquisition of the famous Catlin Gallery the Smith- 

 sonian Institution gave a permanent home to one of the most 



