REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 27 



scroii of the Pentateuch. The Egyptian exploration fund han presented .«onie 

 valuable Gr?eco-Eg}-ptian papyri. 



Among the accessions to the Division oi Prehistoric Archeology were a collection 

 of implements and other objects obtained b}' Mr. W. H. Holmes from near Kinnns- 

 wick, Mo., with the assistance of Mr. Gerard Fowke, w ho also transmitted a numl:)er 

 of hammer-stones, flint nodules, and other objects from ancient quarries near Carter, 

 Ky., and a series of implements and specimens of ore, whicli had been mined for use 

 as paint, from aboriginal hematite mines at Leslie, Mo., collected l)y ]\Ir. Holmes. 

 About 300 specimens of stone imi)lements, gathered by the late Mr. Frank Hamilton 

 Gushing, including spearheads, arrowpoints, harpoons, and tools of various kinds, 

 and a very important collection made by Dr. J. Walter Fewkes in Porto Rico and 

 Santo Domingo were received from the Bureau of American Ethnology. The ma- 

 terial from Santo Domingo comprises many types new to the Mu.seum, while that 

 from Porto Rico contains several stone rings or collars, sculj>tm-e<l pillow stones, the 

 remains of human skeletons, and various other objects. 



A series of models of United States war vessels, including gunboats, monitors, pro- 

 tected crullers, and rams, deposited in the Museum by the Navy Department, form 

 a very attractive exhibit, being of especial interest to the puV)lic. The War Depart- 

 ment has also deposited a large number of mo<lels of heavy seacoast cannon, mountain 

 howitzers, and other types of oi-dnance formerly used by the Army, and a series of 

 small arms. 



Many relics of General and Mrs. L'. S. Grant, of great intrinsic as well as historic 

 value, have been presented to the Museum by their children, through Brig. Gen. 

 Frederick D. Grant, U. S. Army. They include clothing worn by General Grant 

 during the civil war, commissions to different ranks in the Army, a cabinet presented 

 to Mrs. Grant by the Empress of Japan, said to be 1,000 years old and valued at 

 $20,000, several Japanese vases presented by the Emperor of Japan, and numerous 

 other objects. Eight hundred and thirty-seven gold, silver, and copper coins were 

 donated to the Museum by Mr. F,. M. Chapman, of New York City. 



Casts of the Neanderthal and Prague ancient crania were purcha.«ed for the newly 

 established division of Physical Anthropology, which has also secured five valuable 

 head-hunter's skulls from New Guinea, and a large series of crania and parts of human 

 skeletons from the Army ^Medical Museum, the United States Fish Commission, and 

 other sources. 



The zoological specimens contributed by Dr. W. L. Abbott consisted of a large 

 number of deer, squirrels, porcupines, and a new ape, collected in Sumatra and on 

 the a<ljacent islands, and on the Riou Peninsula south of Singapore. Many of the 

 species are new to science. The donations made by Doctor Abbott as the result of 

 his recent extensive explorations in the East Indies now compri.se about 2,500 mam- 

 mals and nearly 4,000 birds, besides several thousand specimens in other l>ranches 

 of natural history. 



Large collections of bird skins, fishes, corals, moUusks, crustaceans, and other 

 marine invertebrates, obtained during the expedition of the United States Fisli Com- 

 mission steamer AUmtrox!^ to the Hawaiian Islands and to Samoa, have been trans- 

 mitted to the Museum and will be referred to more in detail in the next report. 

 They include interesting series of the birds of the Laysan Islands. 



Dr. \i. A. Mearns, U. S. Army, presented a quantity of mammals from the Yellow- 

 stone National Park and from Fort Snelliiig, Minn., and the Hon. B. S. Kairden, 

 United States consul at Batavia, two undescnbed species ol Tmgulus from Java. A 

 valuable skeleton ot the porpoise, Pseudorat crastudens, from the Hawaiian Islands, 

 the first reported from that region, was contributed by Prof. C. H. Gilbert, of the 

 Leiand Stanford Junior University. 



Several rare birds of paradise and other valuable specimens, including a pair of 

 flight less cormorants, from the Galapagos islands, were received from Mr. A. Boucard, 



