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similar revision of the geological section should next be made 

 and would have been already initiated had not routine work 

 kept over-busy the limited staff. 



The most notable accession during the year was made 

 possible by the generosity of Mr. Ogden Mills who presented 



a copy of the colored edition of the famous "Anti- 

 Acqmsitions .. . __ . ,, , _ , _.. 



quities of Mexico by Lord Kingsborougn, a monu- 

 mental work in nine folio volumes, published 1831-48. The 

 treatise contains facsimile reproductions of all native manu- 

 scripts from Mexico and Central America known at that time, 

 including many famous codices of the Maya and the Mexicans, 

 and the republication of many valuable government reports 

 relating to Mexican civilization. The work contains one thou- 

 sand plates, colored by hand from the originals, embracing 

 the remains of Mexican picture-writing, architecture and 

 sculpture, thus giving to the world a record of one of the 

 most wonderful civilizations ever known. There are fac- 

 similes of the ancient paintings and hieroglyphics preserved 

 in the royal libraries of Paris, Berlin, Dresden and Vienna; 

 the Vatican Library; the Borgian Museum at Rome; the 

 Library of the Institute at Bologna and the famous Bodleian 

 Library at Oxford. To-day this work, containing as it does 

 the only reproductions ever issued of a number of very impor- 

 tant native manuscripts, is absolutely indispensable to students 

 of Mexican Archaeology. 



Among other acquisitions of importance are : Reptilia and 

 Batrachia of Egypt by John Anderson, 1898; Die Ebore Eossili 

 by Ioannes Fridericus Beyschlag, 1734; Die Kafer Europa's 

 by Dr. H. C. Kiister and G. Kraatz, a set of forty-six parts, 

 1 844- 1 9 1 o ; Association Fran$aise pour V Avancement des Sciences, 

 1872-1913, a set of forty-two volumes; Confessonario en Lengua 

 Mixe con una Construccion de las Oraciones de la Doctrine Chris- 

 tiana, y un compendio de Voces Mixes, para ensenarse a pronunsiar 

 la dicha Lengua by P. Fr. Augustin Quintana, 1733; La Nature, 

 1873-1905, a set of thirty-four volumes ; Faunce Lnseclorum 

 Germanicce initia oder Deutschlands Lnsecten gesammelt, von D. 

 Georg Wolff gang Franz Panzer, Parts 1-190, 17 96- 1844; Bul- 

 letin et Me moires de la Societe" d'Anthropologie de Paris, Series 



