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castings of Indians belonging to delegations visiting Washington, have 

 also been made at the expense of the Bureau of American Ethnologj^, 

 and from these a number of busts have been prepared for the Museum 

 exhibits and for exchange with other museums. Some material has 

 already been received from the Field Columbian Museum, the Ameri- 

 can Museum of Natural History, and the Royal Ethnological Museum, 

 Berlin, in exchange for casts. It is expected that these exchanges will 

 result in adding greatly to the collections in the National Museum, and 

 at the same time they will enrich the various museums with which 

 arrangements are made. 



The work of photographing Indians visiting Washington has been 

 greatly enlarged during the year. By special arrangement whole dele- 

 gations have visited the Museum, where photographs of them, either 

 singly or in groups, have been made and measurements taken. 



RESEARCHES. 



In the past ten years, the Museum has been receiving from Dr. 

 William L. Abbott important ethnological collections made by him in 

 the Eastern Continent, especially in southern Malaysia. During last 

 year much time was spent in arranging and classifying this material, 

 and in preparing descriptions and illustrations for publication. The 

 work will be continued during the coming year. Mr. Holmes has 

 continued intermittently the preparation of a monograph on the mines 

 and quarries of the aborigines, based to a large extent upon collections 

 in the division of prehistoric archeology. Mr. Paul Beckwith began 

 a systematic description of the Grant relics in the National Museum, 

 for publication in the form of an illustrated catalogue. He has also 

 prepared a card catalogue of the swords, with the view of studying the 

 evolution of this arm, and has continued his work on a catalogue of 

 the collections of ancient coinage in the Museum. 



Doctor Hrdlicka made measurements on negro children and adults, 

 and on 32 Indians belonging to visiting delegations. He continued 

 his studies on the humerus, atlas, cranial fossa?, parietal and malar 

 bones, and also commenced testing the value and effect of various 

 preservatives on the excised brain. 



The usefulness of the Department of Anthropology to students and 

 investigators is shown b} 7 the number of persons who have derived 

 benefit therefrom. Each year more and more institutions and indi- 

 viduals seek access to these collections, and through the cordial rela- 

 tions thus established the Department has not only contributed to 

 education, but has profited in the increase of its material for study. 

 Among those visiting the Museum for the purpose of carrying on 

 researches in its anthropological material may be mentioned the 

 following: 



Professor Sherrington, of the University College, Liverpool, inves- 



