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Mr. George C. Maynard has given much time toward unraveling 

 the history of the old locomotive Stourbridge Lion, and has also been 

 engaged on a history of firearms. 



The collections of the Department of Anthropology have been 

 examined by many persons, some of whom have made important stud- 

 ies for official and other purposes. Among these investigators umy 

 mentioned the Statistician of the United States Bureau of Immigration; 

 Prof. C. S. Sherrington, of University College, Liverpool, England; 

 Miss Voorhees, of Indiana, who examined the prehistoric European 

 collections; Miss Marie Ruef Hofer, of Teachers 1 College, Columbia 

 University, New York; Mr. John P. S. Neligh, Columbus, Georgia, 

 who is interested in the study of Indian textile art; Mrs. J. Wells 

 Champney, who is gathering information regarding the Abenaki tribe; 

 Judge James Wickersham, of Eagle City, Alaska, who is investigating 

 the industries and social customs of the Indians of that region; Mr. 

 Ole Solberg, of Christiania, Norway, who is making studies in prepara- 

 tion for an investigation of the social customs of the Hopi Indians; 

 Lieut. W. E. W. McKinlay, U. S. Army, detailed by the Division of 

 Military Information to obtain data to assist in compiling grammars 

 and dictionaries of some of the Philippine languages; Mr. Stewart 

 Culin, Curator of Ethnology in the Brooklyn Institute, to whom speci- 

 mens were also lent for the purpose of reporting upon Indian games 

 for the Bureau of American Ethnology; Dr. H. M. Whelpley, of St. 

 Louis, Missouri, who studied material for a paper on catlinite pipes, 

 and Mr. E. A. Forward, of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 

 who is interested in the history of the Stourbridge Lion already 

 referred to. 



In connection with the Department of Biology research work was 

 extensively carried on both b} r members of the Museum staff and br- 

 others. Dr. F. W. True, the Head Curator, completed his important 

 monograph on the whalebone whales of the western North Atlantic, 

 which will appear in Volume xxxni of the Smithsonian Contribu- 

 tions to Knowledge, and he also published four shorter papers on ceta- 

 ceans. Mr. Gerrit S. Miller, jr., assistant curator of mammals, has 

 continued his studies on Dr. William L. Abbott's large collection of 

 mammals from the Malay Archipelago, having finished one paper on 

 the subject during the year, descriptive of 70 new species, including 1 

 new genus and (3 new species of monkeys, 2 new species of mouse deer, 

 and 6 new species of fl} T ing lemurs. He also prepared several smaller 

 papers and continued work on a new classification of the bats. Dr. 

 Marcus W. Lyon, jr., aid in mammals, completed a revision of the 

 hares and their allies, based upon a detailed study of their anatomical 

 and other characters. 



Among those who had access to the mammal collections or to whom 

 specimens were sent for examination were Dr. J. A. Allen, of the 



