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extensive collection, especially rich in household utensils 

 and costumes. 



Mr. Gilbert L. Wilson made a second visit to the surviving 

 Hidatsa and Mandan Indians in North Dakota to continue his 

 ethnological research. He reports this work especially suc- 

 cessful. 



Captain George Comer has returned from the Arctic with 

 a good collection from ancient village sites on Southampton 

 Island and the northwestern shores of Hudson Bay. 



The Curator himself has visited Doctors Goddard and 

 Spinden in the field and made a general survey of the south- 

 western region of the United States. 



Messrs. Stefansson and Anderson have continued their work 

 along the shores of the Beaufort Sea, but the report of their 

 work has not been received. 



The scientific publications have kept pace with the 

 explorations and investigations. An extra volume of the 

 Anthropological Papers has been issued, besides several other 

 papers in Vol. 11. The contributors have been Doctors Wiss- 

 ler and Lowie, and Messrs. Skinner, Finch, Bolton, Harring- 

 ton, Schrabisch and Speck. 



Among the accessions, mention should be made of a 

 Hawaiian feather cape, the gift of Mr. George S. Bowdoin, 

 and the Starr Philippine Collection, acquired by purchase, 

 consisting of specimens of weapons, household utensils, fishing 

 and hunting implements, clothing and ceremonial objects. 



Under an agreement with the War Department, the Museum 

 prepared the Government's Philippine Exhibit at the Alaska- 

 Yukon-Pacific Exposition. The material used for this purpose 

 was part of the collection acquired at St. Louis. The installa- 

 tion was first made in the Philippine Hall of the Museum and 

 later was reassembled at Seattle. 



PHYSIOLOGY 



Department of Physiology. — The preparation of the 

 osteological specimens for the Museum falls largely on this 

 department. 



For cleaning small skulls and skeletons, the digestion 

 method has proved so effective that it has been possible to 



