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meteorite, and the Guffey iron meteorite weighing 6S2 pounds. 

 The last is new to science, and we have all that is known to be 

 in existence of the specimen. The addition of these five speci- 

 mens gives the Museum one of the largest collections of 

 meteorites in the world, and one which can never be duplicated. 

 Other gifts of note are a series of ores illustrating the copper 

 and silver deposits of the Calumet and Hecla Mines, donated 

 by the Calumet and Hecla Mines Company, and an unusually 

 well preserved large fossilized tree stump from an abandoned 

 anthracite coal mine under Scranton, Pennsylvania, received 

 from the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Coal Company. 

 Through the financial aid of Dr. C. E. Slocum, of Defiance, 

 Ohio, and with the cooperation of the Kelley's Island Lime 

 and Transport Company, the Museum has secured two blocks of 

 limestone 8' x 10' and 4' x 4' respectively, from Kelley's Island, 

 Ohio, the surface of each showing deep and perfect glacial 

 grooves as well as glacial polishing. 



LIVING AND EXTINCT RACES OF MEN 



Department of Anthropology. — Special attention has 

 been given to the material in the exhibition halls. In the 

 Northwest Coast Hall the collections have been rearranged in 

 a geographical sequence, so that the visitor in passing from 

 south to north through the hall encounters the tribes as if he 

 were actually traveling from south to north in the country. 

 Four new paintings of Arctic scenes by Mr. F. W. Stokes have 

 been added to the Arctic section of this hall, thereby com- 

 pleting the series of mural paintings provided through the 

 courtesy of Mr. Arthur Curtiss James. 



In connection with the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, a 

 special exhibition of the archaeology and ethnology of Greater 

 New York and the Hudson Valley was installed in the west 

 hall on the first floor, which it is intended shall remain as a 

 permanent part of the North American type series. 



The large ethnological collection from the Fiji Islands, the 

 gift of Mrs. Morris K. Jesup, has been catalogued. 



Under the direction of Dr. R. H. Lowie, progress has 

 been made in the preparation of the African Hall, for which 



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