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of the brain and internal organs of American monkeys, the result of 

 which has been published in the American Journal of Physical 

 Anthropology. In addition, Henry B. Collins, jr., assistant curator in 

 the division of ethnology, conducted an investigation on the pterion 

 in primates. His conclusions will be published in the American 

 Journal of Physical Anthropology. Dr. William L. Straus, of Balti- 

 more, Md., spent the period from July 10 to August 9, 1924, in the 

 division studying the bones of the foot. On September 24, 1924, 

 the curator received in consultation three prominent members of the 

 faculties of the Prague and Brno Universities, Czechoslovakia, 

 Professors Kestner, Bj^dovsky, and Novak. Dr. Francis J. Netusil, 

 an eminent physician and statistician of Czechoslovakia, paid several 

 visits to the division during October and November. On October 18, 

 E. O. Marsh brought his party of " White Indians " for examination 

 and measurement. On November 18 Lieut. Wendell Prescott Roop, 

 of the Construction Corps, United States Navy, spent a day in the 

 division in connection with his studies on anthropogeography. Dr. 

 Milo Hellman, of New York was occupied for four days in the exam- 

 ination of teeth of Mongols and Japanese, and Dr. Paul Johnson, of 

 Washington, D. C, spent several days on the study of ethmoid bones. 

 Dr. A. N. S. Burkitt, associate professor of anatomy. University of 

 Sydney, Australia, made a general examination of the collections and 

 the library. Dr. R. W. Leigh, of the Army Medical Museum, began 

 investigations of the dental pathology of the Indian tribes on 

 January 7, 1925. The results of this are embodied in an article pub- 

 lished in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Through- 

 out the school year from November, 1924, to June, 1925, two medical 

 students of George Washington University, T. Barnette Wilson and 

 G. H. Phillips, prosecuted work in osteology under the curator's 

 direction, and Dr. C. J. Connolly of the Catholic University, Wash- 

 ington, D. C, during the same period, studied the location of the 

 nasion. Instruction in anthropometry was given to several persons, 

 among whom may be mentioned Professor Connolly and Dr. John M. 

 Cooper of Catholic University, Doctor Schapiro, of Washington, 

 D. C, Dr. William R. Morse of the China Medical Board, Rockefeller 

 Foundation, and Marcelo Tangeo of the University of the 

 Philippines. » 



RESEARCHES ELSEWHERE An)ED BY MUSEUM MATERL\L 



At the request of Dr. Clark Wissler, of the Department of An- 

 thropology, American Museum of Natural History, New York 

 City, the division of ethnology forwarded two separate loans of 

 wooden fish hooks to assist in his comparative study of the dis- 

 tribution of wooden fish hooks in the Pacific. E. F. Bissantz, of 



