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bones of the body, almost all in original specimens, showing the de- 
velopment of these parts from early fetal to adult life, or even towards 
old age. 
The third hall is devoted to racial, sexual, and individual variations. 
The main exhibits consist of ten pairs of original busts, showing impor- 
tant groups of humanity; and over one hundred original bronzed masks, 
illustrating the individual variation in physiognomy among different 
races. The latter series includes the masks of 19 Bushmen, which are 
especially rare and valuable. The wall is covered with charts showing 
racial classification, distribution, and statistics. The middle of the 
hall is given to specially constructed steel fixtures, for over two hundred 
colored and plain portrait transparencies of racial types. These por- 
traits include several special series, such as 'The Indian child in different 
parts of the continent,' 'Beauty among Indians' etc. In the wall case 
are numerous exhibits of original specimens relating to racial, sexual 
and individual variation in the skull and other parts of the skeleton. 
The fourth hall is devoted to the illustration of the causes which, 
outside of strictly normal senility, contribute to the decline of the 
human organism, and in the vast majority of cases cause death. The 
geographical distribution of the principal diseases is represented in 
a series of small colored maps on the wall, and there are charts relating 
to causes and frequency of mortality. The main exhibit in this room, 
however, consists of a very large series of skeletal remains of the pre- 
historic American Indian, showing his entire, or almost entire pathology. 
This exhibit is unique and could scarcely be duplicated. It is supple- 
mented by a large number of Indian crania which show wounds and by 
60 original cases of pre-Columbian Indian trephining for such wounds. 
The fifth hall is fitted out as a modern anthropological laboratory and 
is also used as a lecture room in which frequent demonstrations are given 
bearing on the collections in this section. There are, further, the 
library; two cases of modern anthropometric instruments; anthropo- 
metric charts on the walls, and a series of portraits of the most eminent 
deceased representatives of anthropology. 
It will be seen from the above that the exhibits here briefly described, 
are quite different from the usual exhibits at an Exposition. They are 
of permanent value, have attracted from the first most encouraging 
attention, and are capable of forming the foundation of an anthro- 
pological center in a locality eminently fitted for such a purpose. 
