NOTE. 



The Smithsonian Institution, whose first scientific memoir related 

 to the subject of anthropology, being the work of Squier and Davis 

 on Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley, through the efforts 

 of field workers and friends, early undertook to collect materials for 

 anatomical anthropology. In the earlier years, with the growth of 

 the Army Medical Museum, it was deemed fitting that these collec- 

 tions should be deposited there. More recently they, and with them 

 all the accumulated normal osteological material of the Army Medical 

 Museum, were transferred to the U. S. National Museum. In view of 

 this and the growing importance and educational possibilities of the 

 science of man, a Division of Physical Anthropology was established 

 in the National Museum and placed in charge of Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, 

 who is organizing and arranging the material thus far acquired and 

 has already secured considerable accessions. The present instructions, 

 prepared by him, are designed to increase these collections and fill up 

 the many gaps still existing, with a view of facilitating and advancing 

 the study of the human race, and more especially of those divisions of 

 it inhabiting the United States. 



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