EEPORT OF ISTATIONAL MtTSEtJM, 1925 5 



Hubby, with similar material previously presented by her, makes our 

 collection of California Indian baskets the most outstanding one in 

 existence, both in the variety of types represented and in the beauty 

 of individual specimens. Valuable and interesting collections of 

 Philippine and western American Indian material were contributed 

 by Gen. R. D. Potts and by the Misses Catherine M. and Isabelle H. 

 Hardie. The National Geographic Society presented valuable 

 ethnological material collected in China by F. R. Wulsin. 



For archeological material the Museum was dependent principally 

 on transfers from the Bureau of American Ethnology, which in- 

 cluded important collections from mounds near Town Creek, Ala., 

 on the site of the Wilson Dam, Muscle Shoals. Through the interest 

 of Hon. James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor, a Welsh version of the 

 Bible, a reproduction of the original translation published in 1588, 

 was presented by David W. Evans. A large and important collection 

 of skeletal material was donated by the Ohio State Archeological 

 and Historical Society, while unusual interest attaches to the gift 

 by Dr. Eugene Dubois of casts of the remains of Pifhecofnthropus 

 erectus, and the receipt as exchanges from the British Museum of 

 Natural History, the Zemske Museum, Brno, Moravia, and the 

 American Museum of Natural History of casts of important speci- 

 mens relating to early man. The National Geographic Society 

 and the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences presented interesting 

 anatomical material relating to the American Indian, and material 

 of a similar nature relating to postpaleolithic man was received 

 as a loan from the Archeological Society of Washington. Hugo 

 Worch added four harpischords of the sixteenth and seventeenth 

 centuries to his already splendid collection. 



Of outstanding interest in biology is the receipt of the collections 

 of Coleoptera and moUusks bequeathed to the Museum by the late 

 Col. Thomas L. Casey of which the insects are estimated at more 

 than 50,000 specimens, representing about 16,000 species, in which 

 5,000 are types of species described by Colonel Casey himself. Of 

 equal interest are the unusually rich and large zoological and botan- 

 ical collections from China contributed by the National Geographic 

 Society and collected by Joseph F. Eock and F. R. Wulsin; the 

 material collected and presented by Rev. David C. Graham ; and the 

 specimens collected by Arthur deC. Sowerby and presented by 

 Robert S. Clark. Dr. Casey Wood's continued and generous interest 

 resulted in the acquisition of important bird material from Fiji 

 Islands, while Dr. Hugh M. Smith and Dr. S. F. Light contributed 

 interesting and valuable specimens from Siam and China, respec- 

 tively. Large and important additions to the collections were 

 received through transfers from the Bureaus of Biological Survey 



