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the head of a mummy, a mummy and a rectangular coffin. In 

 addition to several wood carvings and stone tablets there are colored 

 casts of 27 stones in Hatshepsa Temple, representing the procession 

 of the Sacred Boat. Of very special interest is a small wax figure, of 

 the Ptolemaic Period, in the form of Osiris, Lord of Bekha (the 

 Eastern Mountain), found at Tehneh, Province of Mirich, Upper 

 Egypt. Within it is the mummy of a falcon. With the figure are 

 images of 4 genii, along with cakes of an undetermined substance. 

 A portion of this accession consisted of a small group of cinerary 

 vessels from Etruria and ancient Roman bronze vessels, now in- 

 stalled in the North Court. The two large Mastaba tombs, ex- 

 cavated under the direction of Mr. Edward E. Ayer at the Necropolis 

 of Sakara, one of them being the gift of Mr. Martin A. Ryerson, re- 

 ferred to in the 1908 report as anticipated accessions, were received 

 at the Museum the past year and given storage in a special brick 

 room constructed at the east unused entrance of the Museum, as it 

 was not considered advisable to erect the tombs in the present build- 

 ing. The tombs filled 206 large cases, some of them ten feet in length, 

 the total shipment weighing 96 tons; the installation of one of the 

 stelae in Egyptian Hall is referred to in another part of this report. 

 Among gifts from Mr. Edward E. Ayer were two rare, carved wooden 

 images from New Ireland. Mr. R. F. Cummings gave a small Mang- 

 yan collection, made by Dr. Fletcher Gardner, Bloomington, Indiana, 

 while serving as a surgeon in Mindoro. This accession is valuable, 

 owing to the extreme scarcity of cave material in the Philippines, 

 about 50 specimens of the lot coming from the burial cave of Pokanin, 

 midway between the towns of Bulalacao and Mansalay in Southern 

 Mindoro. Other interesting gifts were 8 paintings of Hopi Indians 

 by E. W. Burbank, presented by Mr. Stanley McCormick, and a 

 unique woven garment, ornamented with tufts of human hair, found 

 in an old mission of Lower California by Mr. W. H. Dupee of Chicago 

 and by him given to the Museum. Of the important and interesting 

 accessions by purchase, were an Egyptian sarcophagus of granite, a 

 collection of Kabyle (Algiers) jewelry, and several Assanian and 

 Babylonian seals 4 collected by Mr. Ayer. Mention should be made 

 of a small accession from Angola, West Central Africa, which forms 

 a valuable addition to the Woodside-Ovimbundu collection. 



The most conspicuous addition to the herbarium during the year 

 is that of the personal herbarium and library of Dr. J. T. Rothrock, 

 who, as a member of several of the early surveys of the West, not only 

 amassed large and valuable collections himself, but through his asso- 



