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number of calls from persons looking up special points in 

 anatomy, archaeology and ethnology. Such students find our 

 museum storage collections very useful, and it is usually these 

 collections that are strengthened by the many small gifts of 

 our patrons. We desire, therefore, to express our great 

 appreciation of the gifts so far made and the hope that the 

 members and friends of the Museum will encourage further 

 contributions. 



European Archaeology. — The most important work of 

 the year was a study of paleolithic man in western Europe by 

 President Henry Fairfield Osborn. All the important caverns 

 and sites yielding cultural and anatomical remains of paleo- 

 lithic man were visited and the principal museum collections 

 studied. Special attention was given to the correlation of the 

 geological and faunistic characters of the period with the 

 somatological and cultural characters. Some of the results of 

 this investigation were made the subject of a special lecture 

 in the Museum on November 20. 



Special arrangements were made with the leading investi- 

 gators and museums of France and Spain by which type 

 collections for the various successive periods will be placed on 

 permanent exhibition in our Archaeological Hall. Permission 

 was received through the courtesy of Professor Hugo Ober- 

 maier to make a model cross-section of the newly discovered 

 deposit in the cavern of Castillo and to receive type specimens 

 from the successive layers. All this constitutes a very great 

 advance in the development of anthropology in this museum. 



Several type collections were purchased and one small 

 cavern excavated by Professor George Grant MacCurdy of 

 Yale, who accompanied President Osborn on his tour of the 

 caverns. Among the specimens secured by President Osborn 

 is a large slab of stone from Sergeac (Dordogne), bearing 

 the engraving of a horse. This valuable relic of paleolithic 

 man will soon be installed in the European exhibit and will be 

 one of our most important scientific assets. 



North American Research. — The research work of the 

 department has been along the definite lines noted in previous 



