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West Indian islands, during the winter of 1903, by Dr. J. Walter 

 Fewkes, of the Bureau of American Ethnology, has been transferred 

 to the keeping of the Museum. It contains a great variety of objects, 

 some of the most noteworthy being especially tine examples of stone 

 collars, tripointed stone zemes, earthenware bowls, carved stone faces, 

 amulets, etc., all of which were secured in the course of a thoroughly 

 systematic investigation of the island region between North and South 

 America. The same Bureau also deposited a large series of stone and 

 bone implements, pieces of pottery and woven work, and fragments 

 of animal and human bones, collected by Mr. E. H. Jacobs in caverns, 

 rock shelters, and village sites in the Ozark region of Missouri and 

 Arkansas. 



By bequest of the late Mr. I. H. Harris, of Waynesville, Ohio, 

 there was obtained a large and varied collection of stone implements, 

 with some shell beads and carvings and a few copper implements and 

 ornaments, mainly from the Miami Valley of Ohio, and of typical 

 earthenware vessels from mounds near (Jharlestown, Missouri. Mr. 

 H. W. Seton-Karr, of England, presented an unusually interesting- 

 series of Egyptian stone implements, mainly of a t}^pe peculiar to the 

 desert of the Fayum district, about 10 miles from the present limits 

 of cultivation. From Mr. Felix F. Outes were secured several earth- 

 enware vessels taken from aboriginal graves in the province of Cata- 

 marca, Argentina. 



A number of casts of Assyro-Babylonian, Egyptian, and Grseco- 

 Roman sculptures were obtained by purchase, and several others by 

 donation from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. In this collection is 

 a stela engraved with the code of laws of the Babylonian King, Ham- 

 murabi. A series of heliogravures of Hellenistic portraits was pre- 

 sented by Mr. Theodor Graf, of Vienna, Austria; and knives and Hint 

 implements from the Temple of Osiris, Abydos, were received from 

 the Egyptian Exploration Fund. 



To the recently established Division of Physical Anthropology there 

 were added more than 2,000 crania and skeletons by transfer from the 

 Army Medical Museum, 14 crania of Wasco Indians from the Fred. 

 Harvey collection, and other desirable specimens. 



The additions to the historical collections included a valuable series 

 of relics presented to the Smithsonian Institution by Gen. John Watts 

 de Peyster, who has also made several large contributions of important 

 historical works; the gilt dress sword presented to Gen. Jacob Brown 

 by the State of New York, for services during the war of 1812, donated 

 by his grandson, Mr. Nathan Brown Chase; the sword and epaulets 

 worn by Gen. Alex. McComb, U. S. Army, deposited by Mrs. F. C. 

 d'Hautville; a fine oil painting of ( ieorge Catlin by W. H. Fisk, li. A., 

 lent by his daughter, Mrs. Louise Catlin Kinney, and now hung in 



