32 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1925 



Of gifts received in the division of Old AYorld Archeology may be 

 mentioned especially a Welsh version of the Bible, a reproduction 

 of the original translation published in 1588, which historically was 

 as important to "the Welsh language as the authorized version was 

 to the English language. This Bible was received from David W. 

 Evans, through the Hon. James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor. An 

 engraved and inscribed passover plate of tin, donated by Miss L. 

 Lieberman, and a collection of polished stone implem-ents from West 

 Africa, presented by Capt. Eobert P. Wild, are also to be mentioned 

 as accessions of especial value. Among the loans may be singled 

 out a very valuable and interesting collection of Egyptian and 

 Graeco-Roman antiquities and ancient glassware, lent by Edward 

 Sampson; a large collection of prehistoric antiquities from France, 

 lent by the Archaeological Society of Washington ; and a small col- 

 lection from excavations at Carthage, in North Africa, also a loan 

 from the Archaeological Society. 



In the Division of Physical Anthropology the accessions deserv- 

 ing special mention include a large collection of skeletal material 

 donated by the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society. 

 Casts of the remains of Pithecanthropus erectus, consisting of the 

 femur, skull cap, three teeth, and a fragment of the jaw, were the 

 gift of Dr. Eugene Dubois, professor in the University of Amster- 

 dam, and a cast of the Broken Hill skull from Rhodesia, South Af- 

 rica, was received as an exchange from the geological department of 

 the British Museum of Natural History. Six casts of the Predmost 

 remains (two of skulls and four of intracranial cavities) were re- 

 ceived from Dr. Karel Absolon, curator of the Zemske Museum, 

 Brno, Moravia, Czechoslovakia, as an exchange. Three casts of 

 Dryopithecus (jaw fragments) were received as an exchange from 

 the American Museum of Natural History, New York City. Two 

 important accessions, transferred from the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology, comprise skeletal material from Florida, one from 

 Weeden's Island, and the other from near St. Petersburg: Skeletal 

 material from Pueblo Bonito and Pueblo del Arroyo was presented 

 to the museum by the National Geographic Society. A good col- 

 lection of human skulls from Palm Beach, Fla., was a gift from E. 

 S. Jackson, and a collection of Iroquois skeletal material from Ak- 

 ron, Erie County, N. Y., was donated by the Buffalo Society of 

 Natural Sciences. Post-paleolithic skeletal material from Solutre, 

 France, was received as a loan from the Archaeological Society of 

 Washington. 



Chief among new specimens in the section of musical instruments 

 are four splendid period harpsichords, beautifully decorated in the 

 style of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, added by Mr. Worch 

 to the Worch collection, together with cases to contain them. The 



