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Collections of musical instruments have been contributed from 
Tiflis, and by Mr. J. H. Foot, of New York. 
The Bureau of Ethnology has just turned over to the museum 
its entire store of pottery, ceremonial apparatus, foods, textile 
fabrics, arms and implements from the Zunis and the Moquis. 
This gift includes many thousands of specimens. 
The most interesting addition made to the museum by any of 
its special agents last year, was that secured by Mr. J. G. Swan, 
of Washington Territory. It consists of miscellaneous objects 
gathered along the north-west coast from Sitka to Puget sound, 
together with exhaustive types from the Haidahs and the Ma- 
s. From the former come the beautiful objects in carved 
slate. Besides the miniature totem posts, with their allegorical 
enters into this industry among this tribe. 
3. The Bureau of Ethnology is under the direction of Major 
J. W. Powell. Its function is to study the anthropology of the 
1 American aborigines, living and extinct. The work of the 
Emna parts of this bureau will be more fully described in the 
ure, 
All of the institutions just described.are more or less officially 
connected with the Smithsonian Institution, under the direction 
of Professor Spencer F. Baird. The first named has for its 
medium of publication the Smithsonian Contributions to Know- 
ledge, Miscellaneous Collections, and Annual Report; the second 
makes nown its operations through the Proceedings of the 
onal Museum ; and the Bureau of Ethnology publishes its 
Annual Report, and Contributions to North American Eth- 
Da The Army Medical Museum, under the official direction of 
K Robert Murray, Surgeon-General, U. S. A., and in charge of 
- John S. Billings, is devoted to anthropology in its more 
ons dsense. Here are deposited crania, skeletons, prepara- 
hu of soft parts, microscopic sections, etc., relating to the 
man body. It is here also that the great Index-Catalogue is 
ndex Medicus is edited. 
Ms The Anthropological Society of Washington, numbering 
Sia Pundred and fifty members, holds its meetings at the 
and is in a flourishing condition. Major J. W. Powell is 
presi Jent for 1884, and Colonel F. A. Seely, U. S. pr Si ai 
aa: to whom all communications should be addres 
doloci] € Many departments of the Government where anthro- 
: sical material is gathered and where excellent contributions 
