7 6 Report of the President 



has continued his studies upon the Cretaceous dinosaurs. In 

 the Dinosaur Handbook issued by the Museum Dr. Matthew 

 has given a popular account of this great order of extinct 

 reptiles, with especial reference to the American Museum col- 

 lections and including reprints of a number of notices of 

 important dinosaur specimens first published in The American 

 Museum journal. A Guide Leaflet to the fossil Proboscidean 

 collections, "Mammoths and Mastodons," has also been 

 issued. 



The results of research work upon the collections, by 

 Dr. F. von Huene and by members of the staff, appear in five 

 articles in the American Museum Bulletin. 



EXISTING AND EXTINCT RACES OF MEN 

 DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY 



Clark Wissler, Curator 



Our Peruvian collections received an important addition in 



Mr. A. D. Juilliard's lea collection, particularly rich in exam- 



. ... pies of the textile art. Deserving of mention is a 



Acquisitions . t n . , , 



series of rare embroidered garments and unfinished 



cloths still in their looms, revealing the processes of weaving. 



The Congo Expedition of the American Museum of Natural 



History brought about 4,000 ethnological specimens from the 



Mangbettu and neighboring tribes in the northeastern part of 



the Congo. All the principal industries of these people are 



fully represented and the acquisition of a full assortment 



of earthenware vessels is especially noteworthy, since the 



Museum's African collections have hitherto been particularly 



lacking in pottery. In addition to completed specimens of 



the ceramic art, there are others illustrating the process of 



manufacture. The highly developed basketry technique is 



fully represented, also iron weapons and implements. Physical 



anthropology is represented by a number of casts and a large 



