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tbose which I have been already gathering on the surface throughout 

 the United States, and 1 can only conclude that they belong to the 

 same epoch. 



L. H. Jammes, Realinont, Tarn, southwestern France, sent a collec- 

 tion of prehistoric implements, ornaments, etc., from Cambodia, Indo- 

 China. This accession includes stone hatchets ( five of which are a talon, 

 a type peculiar to Indo-Chiua), gouges, sling-stones, pierced disks, and 

 bracelets cf stone, beads of bone and shell, a bone fish-hook, a bone 

 arrow-point, a harpoon, ear ornaments of pottery, a clay vessel, frag- 

 ments of pottery, lower jaw and part of human skull, pieces of a large 

 shell — worked — and a mass of shell formation containing fragments of 

 worked bone; 176 specimens. (Ace. 23024.) 



Duplicate specimens have been sent in exchange as follows: 



To Edward Lovett, West Burton House, Outram Road, Croydon, 

 England (97 specimens). 



To Prof. Henry Giglioli, director of the Zoological Museum, Royal 

 University, Florence, Italy (12 specimens). 



To Frederic Shonnard, Yonkers, New York (6 specimens). 



To Mr. Henry Balfour, Anthropological Department, Oxford Univer- 

 sity, England (7 specimens). 



To Dr. Paulo Mautegazza, professor of anthropology, Florence, Italy 

 (55 specimens). 



The routine work and the preparation of the exhibition and study- 

 series has been carried on during the past fiscal year upon the same 

 basis and with the same organization as in past years, and as I found 

 it when I came into the Museum. All specimens received are entered 

 in the catalogue, giving all known information concerning them, their 

 discovery, locality, association, etc. A catalogue number is given to 

 every specimen and is painted upon the specimen itself. If there are 

 a number of specimens of not great importance, which correspond in 

 all general characteristics, they may be all given the same number. In 

 former years nothing but the number was required; now the State is 

 added, aud if the object is a gift, the name of the donor. 



The record taken from the monthly reports of this office shows that 

 there have been 431 letters written to correspondents. The letters and 

 reports written to officers in the Museum is not included in this num- 

 ber. Since February, when a record of such matters was first kept, 

 2,430 pages of type writing have been written. 



The general character of the work in this department must necessarily 

 be much the same one year with another. There is the same reception 

 of specimens, their entering, numbering, marking, aud display. This 

 year has, however, seen much work done in addition to this. Al- 

 though not perfected, we have partially carried out the new scheme 

 of organization which was advised by Dr. Ran in his last report, and 

 which has been mentioned in all my reports since: i. e., the arrange- 

 ment of specimens according to their geographical location. The sys- 



