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tigated the negro brains in the collection, in order to determine the 

 relative proportions of the windings of the Rolandic fissure in this 

 race. Miss Voorhees examined the collections from prehistoric Europe 

 in connection with a stud}^ on the Man of the Drift Gravels and 

 the Cave Dwellers of France. Miss Marie Ruef Hofer, of Teachers 

 College, Columbia University, New York, examined the plan of 

 synoptic series in the Museum as a basis of exercise and manual labor 

 teaching. John P. S. Neligh, of Columbus, Georgia, studied Indian 

 textile art, basketry, beadwork, and weaving, with a view to teaching. 

 Ole Solberg, from Christiania, Norway, spent several days in the 

 Museum, preparing himself for a trip to Arizona, in order to investi- 

 gate the social customs of theHopi (Mold); on his return he examined 

 the Eskimo collection, with a view to enlarging his monograph on 

 Eskimo stone implements. 



Judge James Wickersham, U. S. District Judge, Eagle Cit}^ Alaska, 

 made studies of the works and social customs of the Indians in that 

 region, with a view to deciding their fitness for citizenship, and con- 

 sulted the division of ethnology on what constitutes civilized tribes, 

 with a view to enfranchising certain tribes of his judicial district. 

 Lieut. William E. W. McKinlay, of the First U. S. Cavalry, having 

 been detailed by the Division of Military Information in the War 

 Department to work up grammars and dictionaries. of the chief lan- 

 guages in the Philippines, utilized the resources and methods of the 

 Department of Anthropology to aid him in his labors. Miss Maude 

 Barrows Dutton, Columbia University, New York Chy,-spent Febru- 

 ary 19 to February 29 in the Museum, gathering illustrations for a 

 series of school readers to show the development of primitive indus- 

 tries. Miss Cora M. Folsom, curator of the museum at Armstrong 

 School, Hampton, Virginia, examined cases, methods of exhibition, 

 and the Museum system of caring for the stud} r series; she also received 

 instructions in cataloguing, poisoning, and other museum work. The 

 Director of the Mint, Mr. George E. Roberts, selected from the 

 Museum twenty-eight coins to illustrate a lecture on numismatics, and 

 transparencies were made for him in the Museum laboratory. Mr. 

 Stewart Culin, curator of the division of ethnology in the Brooklyn 

 Institute, made further studies in the games of the American Indians, 

 with reference to a paper being published by the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology. Miss Grace Nicholson, Pasadena, California, spent the 

 month of June at the Museum, studying the classification and care of 

 basketry; and the Immigration Bureau of the Department of Com- 

 merce and Labor, through its statistician, Mr. Wells F. Andrews, 

 consulted the Division of Ethnology for the purpose of obtaining 

 information which would enable the Bureau to classify more exactly 

 by nationality and race the vast number of immigrants into the United 

 States. 



