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The author discusses the evolution of the cover of the journal "Current Anthropology." He mentions that the cover of the journal presents a list of titles of research papers in a specific issue. He also presents a comparison of the covers of the journal from its inception and reveals that the older cover features a dull matte finish and a plain light gray color while the newer one is shiny and has a distinctive shade of blue. He further points out that one of the features of the cover remain, which is the name of an institution, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research found at the bottom of the cover.

The article offers information on the additional evidence about the books of Baldassarre Castiglione, a Renaissance author in Italy. The author states that there are three more documents that appeared concerning Castiglione's acquisitions of books. These papers are to be found in Cassetta 6 of the Archivio Castiglioni, in the Archivio di Stato at Mantua. He adds that the documents consist of two letters together with a list of payments and expenditures, which a Mantuan merchant Benedetto Adelardo Da Porto addressed to Castiglione in 1523. Furthermore, the author says that the first of these papers is drafted on September 12, 1523 and the others are written around two months later.

The article discusses the Archives's additional Abraham Rattner, Lincoln Rothschild and Henry Hitchings's papers provided by their widows. It mentions that Rattner's widow, Esther Gentle Rattner provided the papers wherein cross-country automobile trip with Henry Miller was the main focus which was described in the 1941 book of Miller entitled "The Air-Conditioned Nightmare." On the other hand, Elisabeth Rothschild donated the historically interesting documents of both men wherein different writer career aspects, editor, arts administrator, sculptor as well as the unpublished book "Painters of Democracy," and "The Pragmatist in Art" were the main concern of the materials. In addition, Henry Hitchings had produced several books on art instruction that were now offered at the Archives.