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sketches have been made, covered with glass, and neatly bound. 

 These will be laid alongside the specimens in their final arrange- 

 ment on exhibition. 



Donations. — From time to time, for several years past, the 

 Museum has received donations to this department from indi- 

 viduals. Some of these have not been acknowledged in the 

 Annual Reports. A list of such gifts is appended to this report, 

 and the thanks of the Museum are given to the various donors. 

 In the same list are also included gifts from individuals received 

 during the year. 



The Mearns Collection from Arizona. — Dr. Edgar A. 

 Mearns has given to the Museum a large and interesting collec- 

 tion of specimens from the Cliff Dwellings and old Pueblo ruins 

 of the Verde Valley, Arizona. The series includes objects of 

 stone, bone and shell, pottery vessels, materials used in the con- 

 struction of the Cliff Dwellings, articles of apparel, cords, fabrics, 

 etc., etc., and a great amount of food materials, both vegetable 

 and animal, found in these interesting ruins. Dr. Mearns made 

 a large number of photographic negatives of these old dwelling 

 places, and has consented to the Museum having a set of prints 

 made from them. These pictures will add greatly to the interest 

 of this collection. 



Card Catalogue. — As an experiment a card catalogue is 

 being prepared of the Emmons and Bishop Collections from 

 Alaska and British Columbia. Such a catalogue it is believed is 

 of greater value and more permanence than any book record. 

 It will also be of great assistance in the preparation of a bulletin 

 of the department, relative to the Alaska series. No publication 

 work has yet been done in connection with the Department of 

 Archaeology and Ethnology. It is, however, greatly to be desired. 



Lectures. — Two courses of three lectures each have been 

 delivered during the year by Dr. Starr. The first course upon 

 The Stone Age, considered the several topics : (a) The Man of 

 the. Stone Age; (b) The Mounds and their Builders; (c) Mam- 

 moth, Mastodon and Man. The second course was upon the 

 subject : Dress, (a) Deformations ; (b) Dress — its Origin and 

 Development ; (c) Ornament and Religious Dress. These lec- 

 tures were illustrated with stereopticon views, largely taken from 

 objects in the collections of the department. They were intended 

 for the members of the Museum and their friends. 



An Armenian Collection is at present offered for sale in this 

 city at a moderate sum. It illustrates the late Bronze and early 

 Iron Ages in Russian Armenia, and would valuably supplement 

 the Stuart Collections (deMorgan and Feuardent), which finely 

 represent the early and late Stone Ages and the Age of Bronze 



