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easily located. Many of them are comple- 

 mentary parts of complete volumes, the other 

 papers of which are in his main pamphlet 

 collection. 



The date of receipt should always be written 

 on the pamphlet as soon as it comes to hand. 

 With some series no date of publication is 

 given on the separate papers, and as they may 

 have been issued in advance of the appearance 

 of the complete volume, it often becomes im- 

 portant to know their dates of receipt, as in 

 the case of papers describing new species of 

 animals or plants. 



In summary, then, the writer would recom- 

 mend that a pamphlet collection be placed in 

 cloth-covered cardboard cases open only at the 

 back and not larger than 12 x 8 x 2^ inches, ' 

 that it be arranged alphabetically by authors' 

 names and chronologically under authors, 

 that the corner of each pamphlet be annotated 

 with the author's name, the date, and a catch 

 title, and that a subject index be maintained 

 to facilitate the location of particular pamph- 

 lets. A collection so arranged and housed 

 renders the greatest amount of service, and is 

 reasonably insured against deterioration. 



Tracy I. Storer 

 Berkeley, California 



THE BRAIN COLLECTION OF THE U. S. 

 NATIONAL MUSEUM 



The division of physical anthropology of 

 the United States National Museum has been 

 recently enriched by a most valuable accession 

 of brains of some of the higher anthropoids. 

 The accession consists of no less than eleven 

 well-preserved brains of gorillas, and three 

 chimpanzees. With the exception of two of 

 the specimens belonging to young animals, the 

 brains are in excellent condition for study. 

 No less than six of the fourteen brains are 

 those of adults, while most of the remaining, 

 though not quite adult, are full-grown or 

 nearly so. 



A justifiable allusion may perhaps be made 

 in this place to the rest of the collection of 

 primate brains now in the division of physical 

 anthropology, TT. S. N. M. 



The total collection, which was started by 

 the writer thirteen years ago, counts now ap- 

 proximately 1,500 human and animal brains. 

 Of these 223 are human, including 128 of other 

 races than whites; while 348 belong to other 

 primates. The latter are distributed as 

 follows : 



Gorilla 11 (5 adults) 



Chimpanzees 6 (1 adult) 



Orangs 36 (23 adults) 



Gibbons and siamangs 55 (most adults) 



Nasalis larvatus 17 



Baboons 22 



Presbytis 75 



Other Old World monkeys ... 64 



American monkeys 45 



Lemurs 17 



A large proportion of the above valuable 

 material has been collected directly in or for 

 the institution, and is in a very good condi- 

 tion for study. The number of adult anthro- 

 poid brains, excepting those of the chimpan- 

 zees, exceeds probably that of all other known 

 collections of similar material not only 

 singly, but even collectively. 



Besides those of the primates, there are now 

 in the collection the brains of 165 carnivora 

 and cetacea; 50 insectivora; 266 ungulata; 81 

 rodentia; 47 edentata and marsupialia; and 

 287 aves and reptilia. 



The whole collection, in common with others 

 in the division and in the U. S. National Mu- 

 seum in general, is freely accessible for consul- 

 tation to well-qualified scientific workers; and 

 in suitable cases facilities could be extended 

 for full elaboration and description of some of 

 the series of specimens. 



Ales Hrdlicka 



PROGRAM OF THE YALE CHAPTER OF 

 SIGMA XI FOR 1916-1917 



The meetings of the Tale Chapter of Sigma 

 Xi for the present college year promise to be 

 of unusual interest, for there are to be pre- 

 sented, instead of the usual mutually irrel- 

 evant papers, a series of lectures which to- 

 gether will constitute a symposium on the 

 origin and evolution of the earth and its 

 inhabitants. Each paper will be authoritative, 

 the result of original research, and the series 



