REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1925 39 



to Mrs. E. E. Doolittle, Brattleboro, Vt. Five casts of stone 

 carvings were lent to the Navesink Library Association, Navesink, 

 N. J. A model of Xochicalco and a drawing of another Mexican 

 ruin were lent to the Architectural and Allied Arts Exposition, 

 New York City. Among the exchanges made were 29 arrowheads 

 to John C. Fitch, East Liverpool, Ohio; 19 arrowheads to Harry 

 Harris, Richmond, Va., and 2 grooved stone axes to E. W. Keyser, 

 Washington, D. C. 



A Babylonian inscribed brick and a cuneiform tablet were lent 

 by the division of Old World archeology to Edward C Potter to 

 illustrate a lecture delivered at Walter Eeed Hospital, Washington, 

 D. C. An inscribed Egyptian papyrus was lent to the exhibit of the 

 book fair, under the direction of the League of Pen Women, at 

 Woodward & Lothrop's, Washington, D. C. Three photographs 

 of the Gliddon mummy case were presented to Prof. Jean Capart, 

 of the Royal Museum at Brussels, Belgium, to be used for the illus- 

 tration of a paper. A collection of photographs of Egyptian and 

 Palestinian specimens was presented to the First Presbyterian 

 Church, Newport News, Va. A collection of 21 prehistoric stone 

 implements from France was given in exchange to Williams College, 

 Williamstown, Mass. 



The division of physical anthropology supplied to Columbia 

 University Hospital, New York City, as a gift, a number of foot 

 bones for a skeleton. Three human skulls and ten casts of skulls 

 were sent to the Zemske Museum, Brno, Moravia, Czechoslovakia, in 

 exchange. 



In this and many other unrecorded ways the department of anthro- 

 pology aided in efforts of various educational and scientific or- 

 ganizations to initiate projects for the common good. Frequently 

 advice as to the merits of plans and methods is asked, and in some 

 cases requests are honored for selected educational collection of dupli- 

 cate material so far as the resources of the department admit. In 

 this way the influence of the Museum is extended. 



NUMBER OF SPECIMENS IN THE DEPARTMENT 



During the past fiscal year the department received 116 acces- 

 sions with a total of 4,444 specimens, of which 11 accessions, com- 

 prising 1,228 specimens were loans. The total number of speci- 

 mens received were distributed among the various divisions of the 

 department as follows : Ethnology, 1,241 ; American archeology, 904 ; 

 Old World archeology, 1,265 ; physical anthropology, 924 ; musical 

 instruments, 6; ceramics, 41; and art textiles, 63. 



