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2. NAME, IN THE ORDER OF THEIR IMPORTANCE, THE ACCESSIONS OF THE YEAR WHICH DESERVE [[underlined]] SPECIAL NOTICE [[/underlined]], AND STATE IN EACH CASE WHETHER GIVEN, LENT, RECEIVED IN EXCHANGE OR PURCHASED.

The Department has received from the University of Pennsylvania, through Mr. Stewart Culin, a rare collection containing 622 pieces illustrative of the serious or divinitory games of various peoples of the earth. The value of this collection is greatly enhanced by the fact that Mr. Culin has familiarized himself with these games and has furnished to the Museum manuscript descriptive of each one; its method, its serious purport and its distribution. In connection with this collection, obtained through exchange, it may be interesting to know that now the Museum possesses a tolerably complete collection of divinitory apparatus which Mr. Culin has kindly labelled. 

From Mr. J. H. Camp the department has received 275 articles from West African especially illustrative of the arts and industries of tribes from which the collection had not before been enriched. Here also Mr. Camp made the collection under instructions of the Curator and this has made the collection extremely valuable. 

Mr. William Astor Chanler continues to favor the Museum with beautiful gifts and through him the department has received during this fiscal year 22 articles illustrative of the arts of Western Africa around Mt. Kilimanjaro and also 49 articles. As these specimens belong to types not hitherto represented in the Museum, and as they were intelligently collected they are looked upon as an extremely valuable gift. 

From the Museum of Royal Antiquities, Copenhagen, the Museum has received 82 articles collected in East