X CONTENTS. 



Report on the Department of Anthropology for the year 1903-4 — Continued. page. 



Care of the collections 66 



Exhibition and study series 68 



Installation 68 



Models and replicas 69 



Researches 70 



Plans for future development 72 



Changes in the department 74 



Report on the Department of Biology for the year 1903-4 77 



Exhibition collections 78 



Explorations 79 



Accessions 79 



W< irk on the study series 86 



Cooperation of specialists and loan of collections 89 



Distribution of surplus material 90 



Laboratory use of the collections by investigators 90 



Scientific researches and investigations 91 



Personnel 94 



Report on the Department of Geology for the year 1903-4 97 



Accessions 97 



Division of Geology 97 



Division of Mineralogy 98 



Invertebrate Paleontology 99 



Vertebrate Pale< mtology 100 



Paleobotany 100 



Routine 100 



Assistance to individuals and institutions 102 



Present condition of the collections 103 



Research 104 



Changes in personnel 104 



APPENDICES. 



I. The Museum staff 105 



II. List of accessions 107 



III. Bibliography 157 



IV. Report of Charles Schuchert, delegate of the Smithsonian Institution 



and United States National Museum to the Ninth International Geo- 

 logical Congress, held at Vienna, Austria, August 20-27, 1903 185 



PART II. 



Papers Describing and Illustrating Collections in the United States 



National Museum. 



Contributions to the history of American geology. By George P. Merrill 189 



The S. S. Howland collection of Buddhist religious art in the National Museum. 



By Immanuel M. Casanowicz 735 



Flint implements of the Fayum, Egypt. By Heywood Walter Seton-Karr 745 



