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[[start page]] SIZE OF COLLECTIONS There have been added to the collections during the past fiscal year 6,134 specimens; and there are now in the entire collection catalogue entries running consecutively to 186,103, an increase during the year of 1,539 entries. DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY The principal aim of the department under the prevailing circumstances must be seen in the preservation of the orderly conditions obtaining there at the time when systematic work had to be relinquished, and in the proper storing and listing of new accessions to the collections. The new accessions during the fiscal year covered by the present report, comprise the following items: 1. A fairly complete skeleton found at 204th Street and Academy Avenue, Inwood, New York City. The skeleton was recovered and presented to the Museum by: Vincent Lauria, Jr. Joseph Lauria Rudolph Marquise Richard Marquise William Pertierra 2. Skeletal remains in a fragmentary condition from Phonecia, Ulster County, New York. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. George A. Kinsey 3. Skeletal remains I and II, both in a fragmentary condition from Middletown, New Jersey. Collected by Godfrey J. Olsen 4. Skull fragments from West Long Branch, New Jersey. Collected by Godfrey J. Olsen 5. Skull from Black Lake, Oceana County, Michigan. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. M. DeWolf 6. Skeletal material (Calvaria and several longbones) from Cave on the Rio Tzaconeja, 25 miles east of San Cristobal-las-Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. Collected by David W. Amram, Jr. 16 [[end page]] [[start page]] 7. Skull with lower jaw in good condition, from Saltville, Smyth County, Virginia. Collected and presented by Ralph Space The curator as usual spent the summer of 1933 in Europe in pursuit of scientific aims and lecturing in Hamburg and Berlin. A distinguished visitor to the Annex was Dr. Weston A. Price who accompanied by Mrs. Price examined our material from pathological angles and those of environmental influences. The date of the visit was March 26th of the current year. TREASURER'S REPORT Hereto attached and submitted as a part hereof is the Treasurer's Report for the year ending March 31st, 1934. Respectfully submitted, BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN, HEYE FOUNDATION, George G. Heye, Chairman, Frederic K. Seward, Secretary. 17 [[end page]]