. '.'i'y.if.' mi iilf tl^Wll<:';M.;,'f 'I':' ■>■.': i;a;ffi!i!:,K i y/9 m^(> Report of U. S. National Museum, 1921. Plate I. D UJ 05 D < Z o 1- < Z CO UJ I- < co Q UJ I- O z 5 _i D CD >- q: o I- -I < I- < Z u. o H- Z o IT Li. X I- O CO SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM REPORT ON THE PROGRESS AND CON- DITION OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1921 *j. WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1921 United States National Museum, Under Direction of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington^ D. 6'., Septemher SO^ 19M. Sir : I have the honor to submit herewith a report upon the present condition of the United States National Museum and upon the work accomplished in its various departments during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921. Very respectfully, William deC. Ravenel, Administrative Assistant to the Secretary^ In charge of the United States National Museum. Dr. Charles D. Walcott, Secretary^ Smithsonian Institution. 3 CONTENTS. -"^^^«' Page. Staff of Museum 7 Inception and history 9 Operations of the year 15 Appropriations 15 Buildings and equipment 16 Collections 18 Freer collections 19 Loeb collection of chemical types 20 Cooperation of the executive departments 20 Partello bequest 20 Visitors . 21 Publications 23 Library : 23 Photographic laboratory 24 Meetings and congresses 24 Organization and staff 32 Necrology 34 Reports on the collections : "39 Department of biology, by Leonhard Stejneger, head curator 47 Department of geology, by George P. Merrill, head curator 81 Department of arts and industries, W. deC. Ravenel, director : Textiles, medicine, woods, and foods, by F. L. Lewton 97 Mechanical technology, by Carl W. Mitman 115 Mineral technology, by Carl W. Mitman 121 Graphic arts, by R. P. Tolmau 123 Division of history, by T. T. Belote, curator 131 List of accessions 143 List of publications 199 <^J ILLUSTRATIONS. South front of Natural History Building of the Museum Facing title Slieleton of smallest horned dinosaur, Brachyceratops montanensis, from Montana. Collected in 1913; mounted during 1920 and 1921. Facing page 90 Skeleton of an extinct bear from a Pleistocene Cave deposit near Cumber- land, Md. Collected in 1915 ; mounted during 1920 and 1921. Facing page 5 90 ^ STAFF OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. [June 30, 1921.] Cbtarles D. Walcott, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, keeper ex officio. William ueC. Kavenel, Administrative assistant to the Secretary, in charge of the United States National Museum. SCIENTIFIC STAFF. Department of Anthropology : Walter Hough, acting liead curator. Division of Ethnology: Walter Hough, curator; .7. W. Fewkes, collaborator; Arthur P, Rice, collaborator. Section of Musical Instrument: Hugo Worch, custodian. Division of American Archeology: Neil M. Judd, curator; R. G. Paine, aid; Philip A. Means, collaborator. Division of Old World Archeology : I. M. Casanowicz, assistant curator. Division of Physical Anthropology : Ales Hrdlicka, curator. Associates in Historic Archeology : Paul Haupt, Cyrus Adler. Depabtment of Biology : Leonhard Stejneger, head curator ; James E. Benedict, assistant curator. Division of Mammals : Gerrit S. Miller, jr., curator. Divisio-n of Birds: Robert Ridgway, curator; Charles W. Richmond, asso- ciate curator ; J. H. Riley, aid ; Edward J. Brown, collaborator. Section of Birds' Eggs : Bradshaw H. Swales, custodian. Division of Reptiles and Batrachians: Leonhard Stejneger, curator; Doris M. Cochran, aid. Division of Fishes: Barton A. Bean, assistant curator. Division of Insects: L. O. Howard, honorary curator; .T. M. Aldrich, asso- ciate curator; B. Preston Clark, collaborator. Section of Hyiuennptera : S. A. Rohwer, custodian ; W. M. Mann, as- sistant custodian. Section of Myriapoda : O. P. Cook, custodian. Section of Diptera : J. M. Aldrich, in charge; Charles T. Gi-eene, as- sistant custodian. Section of Muscoid Diptera : C. H. T. Townsend. custodian. Section of Coleoptera : E. A. Schwarz. custodian. Section of Lepidoptera : Harrison G. Dyar. custodian ; William Schaus, assistant custodian. Section of Orthoptera : A. N. Caudell, custodian. Section of Hemiptera : Edmund H. Gibson, custodian ; W. L. McAtee, acting custodian. Section of Forest Tree Beetles : A. D. Hopkins, custodian. Division of Marine Invertebrates: Waldo L. Schmitt, curator; C. R. Shoe- maker, assistant curator ; H. K. Harring, custodian of the rotatoria ; Mrs. Harriet Richardson Searle, collaborator; I\lax M. Ellis, collaborator. Division of Mollusks: William H. Dall. honorary curator; Paul Bartsch, curator; William B. Marshall, assistant curator; Mary Breen, collaborator. Section of Helminthological Collections : C. W. Stiles, custodian ; B. H. Ransom, assistant custodian. Diinsion of Echinoderms: Austin H. Clarlc, curator. 7 8 REPORT OF nation: AL MUSEUM. 1921. Department of Biology — Continued. Division of Plants {National Herbarium) : Frederick V. Coville, honorary curator ; W. R. Maxon, associate curator ; J. N. Rose, associate curator ; P. C. Standley, assistant curator; Emery C. Leonard, aid; Ellsworth P. Killip, aid. Section of Grasses : Albert S. Hitchcock, custodian. Section of Cryptogamic Collections : O. F. Cook, custodian. Section of Higher Algae: W. T. Swingle, custodian. Section of Lower Fungi: D. G. Fairchild, custodian. Sections of Diatoms: Albert Mann, custodian. Associates in Zoology: C. Hart Merriam, W. L. Abbott, Mary J. Rathbun, David Starr Jordan. Depabtment of Geology : George P. Merrill, head curator. Division of Physical and Chemical Geology (systematic and applied) : George P. Merrill, curator; E. V. Shannon, assistant curator. Division of Mineralogy and Petrology: F. W. Clarke, honorary curator; W. F. Foshag, assistant curator ; Frank L. Hess, custodian of rare metals and rare earths. Division of Paleontology: R. S. Bas.sler, curator; Charles E. Resser, as- sistant curator ; Jessie G. Beach, aid. Section of Invertebrate Paleontology: T. W. Stanton, custodian of Mesozoic collection ; "William H. Dall, associate curator of Cenozoic collection : T. Wayland Vaughan, custodian of Madreporarian corals. Section of Vertebrate Paleontology : Charles W. Gilmore, associate curator; James W. Gidley, assistant curator of fossil mammals. Section of Paleobotany : David White, associate curator ; F. H. Knowl- ton, custodian of Mesozoic plants. Associates in Paleontologj' : Frank Springer. E. O. Ulrich. Associate in Petrology: Whitman Cross. Department of Arts and IxorsTRiEs : William deC. Ravenel. director. Division of TeHiles: Frederick L. Lewton. curator; Mrs. E. W. Rosson, aid. Section of Wood Technology : William M. N. Watkins, assistant curator. Division of Medicine: Charles Whitebread, assistant curator. Divisions of Mineral and Mechanical Technology: Carl W. Mitman, curator; Chester G. Gilbert, associate curator: Paul E. Garber. aid: George W. Spier, custodian of watches. Division of Graphic Arts: R. P. Tolman, assistant curator. Section of Photography : A. J. Olmsted, custodian. Division of History : T. T. Belote, curator; Charles Carey, assistant: J. B. Leavy, philat- elist. ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF. Chief of correspondence and documents. H. S. Bryant. Superintendent of buildings and labor, J. S. Goldsmith. Editor, Marcus Benjamin. Engineer, C. R. Denmark. Disbursing agent. W. I. Adams. Photographer, A. J. Olmsted. Property clerk, W. A. Knowles. Assistant librarian, X. P. Scudder. Shipper. L. E. PeiTy. REPORT ON THE PROGRESS AND CONDITION OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1921. By William deC. Ravenel, AdminiHtrative Assistant to the Secretary, In charge of the United States National Museum. INCEPTION AND HISTOPvY. The Congress of the United States in the act of August 10, 1846, founding the Smithsonian Institution recognized that an opportunity was afforded, in camming out the large-minded design of Smithson, to provide for the custody of the museum of the Nation. To this new establishment was therefore intrusted the care of the national collections, a course that time has fully justified. In the beginning the cost of maintaining the museum side of the Institution's work was wholly paid from the Smithsonian income; then for a time the Government bore a share, and during the past 40 years Congress has voted the entire funds for the expenses of the Museum, thus furthering one of the primary means " for the increase and diffusion of Imowledge among men " without encroaching upon the resources of the Institution. The museum idea was inherent in the establishment of the Smith- sonian Institution, which in its turn was based upon a 10 years' dis- cussion in Congress and the ad^dce of the most distinguished scientific men, educators, and intellectual leaders of the Nation of 75 years ago. It is interesting to note how broad and comprehensive were the views which actuated our lawmakers in determining the scope of the Museum, a fact especially remarkable when it is recalled that at that date no museum of considerable size existed in the United States, and the museums of England and of the Continent of Europe were still to a large extent without a developed plan, although containing many rich collections. The Congress which passed the act of foundation enumerated as within the scope of the Museum " all objects of art and of foreign and curious research and all objects of natural history, plants, and geo- logical and mineralogical specimens belonging to the United States," 0 10 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. thus stamping the Museum at the very outset as one of the widest range and at the same time as the Museum of the United States. It was also appreciated that additions would be necessary to the col- lections then in existence, and provision was made for their increase by the exchange of duplicate specimens, by donations, and by other means. If the wisdom of Congress in so fully providing for a museum in the Smithsonian law challenges attention, the interpretation put upon this law by the Board of Regents within less than six months from the passage of the act can not but command admiration. In the early part of September, 1846, the Regents took steps toward formulating a plan of operations. The report of the committee appointed for this purpose, submitted in December and January following, shows a thorough consideration of the subject in both the spirit and letter of the law. It would seem not out of place to cite here the first pronouncement of the board with reference to the char- acter of the Museum : " In obedience to the requirements of the charter,^ which leaves little discretion in regard to the extent of accommodations to be provided, your committee recommend that there be included in the building a museum of liberal size, fitted up to receive the collections destined for the Institution. * * * "As important as the cabinets of natural history by the charter required to be included in the Museum, your committee regard its ethnological portion, including all collections that may supply items in the physical history of our species, and illustrate the manners, customs, religions, and progressive advance of the various nations of the world ; as, for example, collections of skulls, skeletons, portraits, dresses, implements, weapons, idols, antiquities, of the various races of man. * * * in this connexion your committee recommend the passage of resolutions asking the cooperation of certain public functionaries and of the public generally in furtherance of the above objects. " Your committee are further of opinion that in the Museum, if the funds of the Institution permit, might judiciously be included various series of models illustrating the progress of some of the most useful inventions; such, for example, as the steam engine from its earliest and rudest form to its present most improved state ; but this they propose only so far as it may not encroach on ground already covered by the numerous models in the Patent Office. " Specimens of staple materials, of their gradual manufacture, and of the finished product of manufactures and the arts may also, your ' Since the lustitutioii was not chartered in a legal sense, but established by Conjsress, the nse of the word " charter " in this connection was not correct. REPORT OF NATIONAL, MUSEUM, 1921. 11 committee think, be usefully introduced. This would supply oppor- tunity to examine samples of the best manufactured articles our country affords, and to judge her gradual progress in arts and manu- factures. * * * " The gallery of art, your committee think, should include both paintings and sculpture, as well as engravings and architectural designs ; and it is desirable to have in connexion with it one or more studios in which young artists might copy without interruption, be- ing admitted under such regulations as the board may prescribe. Your committee also think that, as the collection of paintings and sculpture will probably accumulate slowly, the room destined for a gallery of art might properly and usefully meanwhile be occupied dur- ing the sessions of Coongress as an exhibition room for the works of artists generally; and the extent and general usefulness of such an exhibit might probably be increased if an arrangement could be effected with the Academy of Design, the Arts Union, the Artists' Fund Society, and other associations of similar character, so as to concentrate at the metropolis for a certain portion of each winter the best results of talent in the fine arts." The important points in the foregoing report are (1) that it was the opinion of the Regents that a museum was requisite under the law, Congress having left no discretion in the matter; (2) that ethnology and anthropology, though not specially named, were yet as important subjects as natural history; (3) that the history of the progress of useful inventions and the collection of the raw materials and products of the manufactures and arts should also be provided for; (4) for the gallery of art the committee had models in existence, and they proposed, pending the gathering of art collections, which would of necessity be slow, to provide for loan exhibitions b}' co- operating with art academies and societies. In the resolutions which were adopted upon the presentation of the report, a museum was mentioned as " one of the principal modes of executing the act and trust." - The work was to go forward as the funds permitted, and, as is well known, the maintenance of the Museum and the library was long ago assumed by Congress, the Institution taking upon itself only so much of the necessary responsi- bility for the administration of these and subsequent additions to its activities as would weld them into a compact whole, which together ' Resolved, That it is the intention of the act of Congress establishing the Institution, and in accordance with the design of Mr. Smlthson, as expressed in his will, that one of the principal modes of executing the act and the trust is the accumulation of collec- tions of specimens and objects of natural history and of elegant art, and the gradual formation of a library of valuable works pertaining to all departments of human knowl- edge, to the end that a copious storehouse of materials of science, literature, and art may be provided which shall excite and diffuse the love of learning among men, and shall assist the original investigations and efforts of those who may devote themselves to the pursuit of any branch of knowledge. 12 EEPOKT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. form a unique and notable agency for the increase and diffusion of knowledge, for the direction of research, for cooperation with depart- ments of the Government and with universities and scientific societies in America, and likewise afford a definite correspondent to all scien- tific institutions and men abroad who seek interchange of views or knowledge with men of science in the United States. Since that early day the only material changes in the scope of the Government museum have been the addition of a department of American history, intended to illustrate by an appropriate assem- blage of objects the lives of distinguished personages, important events, and the domestic life of the country from the colonial period to the present time, and provision for the separate administration of the National Gallery of Art as a coordinate unit under the Smith- sonian Institution. From 1906 to 1920 the Gallery was adminis- tered as the department of fine arts of the Museum. The development of the Museum has been greatest in those subjects which the conditions of the past three-quarters of a century have made most fruitful — the natural history, geology, ethnology, and archeology of the United States, supplemented by many collections from other countries. The opportunities for acquisition in these directions have been mainly brought about through the activities of the scientific and economic surveys of the Government, many of which are the direct outgrowths of earlier explorations, stimulated or directed by the Smithsonian Institution. The Centennial Exhibition of 1876 afforded the first opportunity for establishing a department of the industrial arts, of which the fullest advantage has been taken, but the department or gallery of the fine arts made little progress, though not from lack of desire or appreciation, until 1906, when cir- cumstances led to its definite recognition. The historical collections have been greatly augmented within the past few years by large col- lections illustrative of the World War, including a' comprehensive series of aircrafts and their accessories. While it is the primary duty of a museum to preserve the objects confided to its care, as it is that of a library to preserve its books and manuscripts, yet the importance of public collections rests not upon the mere basis of custodianship nor upon the number of specimens assembled and their money value, but upon the use to which they are put. Judged by this standard, the National Museum may claim to have reached a high state of efficiency. From an educational point of view it is of great value to those persons who are so fortunate as to reside in Washington or who are able to visit the Nation's Capi- tal. In its well-designated cases, in which every detail of structure, appointment, and color is considered, a selection of representative objects is placed on view to the public, all being carefully labeled in- dividually and in groups. The child as well as the adult has been KEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1»21. 13 provided for and the kindergarten pupil and the high-school scholar can be seen here supplementing their class-room games or studies. Under authority from Congress the small colleges and higher grades of schools and academies throughout the land, especially in places where museums do not exist, are also being aided in their educational work by sets of duplicate specimens, selected and labeled to meet the needs of both teachers and pupils. Nor has the elementary or even the higher education been by any means the sole gainer from the work of the Museum. To advance knowledge, to gradually extend the boundaries of learning, has been one of the great tasks to which the Museum, in consonance with the spirit of the Institution, has set itself from the first. Its staff, though chiefly engaged in the duties incident to the care, classification, and labeling of collections in order that they may be accessible to the public and to students, has yet in these operations made important discoveries in every department of the Museum's activities, which have in turn been communicated to other scholars through its numerous publications. But the collections have not been held for the study of the staff nor for the scientific advancement of those belong- ing to the establishment. Most freely have they been put at the dis- posal of investigators connected with other institutions, without whose help the record of scientific progress based upon the material in the Museum would have been greatly curtailed. When it is pos- sible to so arrange, the investigator comes to Washington ; otherwise such collections as he needs are sent to him, whether he resides in this country or abroad. In this manner practically every prominent specialist throughout the world interested in the subjects here well represented has had some use of the collections and thereby the Na- tional Museum has come to be recognized as a conspicuous factor in the advancement of knowledge wherever civilization has a foothold. OPERATIONS OF THE YEAE. APPROPRIATIONS. The maintenance and operations of the National Museum for the fiscal year from July 1, 1920, to June 30, 1921, were provided for by the following amounts appropriated in the sundry civil bill ap- proved June 5, 1920, and in the first and second deficiency bills ap- proved on March 1 and June 16, 1921, respectively : Preservation of collections $312. 620. 00 Furniture and fixtures 20,000.00 Heating and lighting; 74,000.00 Building repairs 10.000.00 Books 2, 000. 00 Postage 500.00 Printing and binding 64,202.70 483. 322. 70 The item for preservation of collections, from which are paid the administrative, scientific, preparatorial, and clerical staff, the watch, labor, and cleaning force, and the cost of all preservatives, has re- mained at $300,000 from 1911 until the present time. The additional $12,620 this year was given for the extension of the service to cover an additional building — the Freer Gallery of Art — for which it pro- vided watchmen, cleaners, and clerical help and the necessary mis- cellaneous supplies needed in connection therewith. It afforded no cessation of the strictest economy by means of which only is it pos- sible to continue the operations of the Museum. Present conditions can perhaps best be realized when it is mentioned that 10 years ago the item of $300,000 was considered insufficient to cover the needs of the Museum in these lines. Within this half decade, with its tre- mendous decrease in the purchasing power of the dollar, over 3,000,000 specimens have been added to the collections, the scope of the Museum has been materially enlarged, and an additional building has been added to the Museum group, aside from the Freer Gallery. The appropriation alone has remained stationary. During this period increases have been granted, however, in the items for heating and lighting and for printing and binding, owing to the increased cost of coal and the tremendous increase in the cost of labor, paper, and other materials used in printing. On the other hand, even with the greatly extended service, the item for building 71305°— 21 2 15 16 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. repairs is now $5,000 less that it was 10 years ago, when the Natural History Building was new and naturally required comparatively little in the way of repairs. The amount for furniture and fixtures is likewise $5,000 less than it was for a number of years prior to the war when prices of labor and material were from 50 to 75 per cent lower. Of the $64,202.70 appropriated this year for printing, $37,500 was the regular item, and $26,702.70 a deficiency item for the completion during the year of an unusual accumulation of work at the Govern- ment Printing Office. The Museum printing had for several years been held back for lack of sufficient available funds. A comparison of the operating expenses of the United States Na- tional Museum with museums of similar size and scope in this coun- try and abroad is extremely interesting, and brings out very strongly the inadequacy of the appropriations, especiallj^ with reference to the salaries paid to all classes of its employees. The scientific staflf is paid from 40 to 50 per cent less than scientific men of the same grade in similar museums elsewhere. BUILDINGS AND EQUIPMENT. The Aircraft Building was opened to the public on October 7, 1920, wiiereby the Museum added about 14,000 square feet of floor space to its exhibition halls. This metal structure, erected by the War De- partment on the Smithsonian Reservation in 1917 for the use of the United States Signal Service, was transferred to the custody of the Smithsonian after the close of the war. In it has been assembled a collection of aircraft and accessories in production during the war period. In the upkeep of the buildings the more important work performed in the Natural History Building included the construction of a locker room for the engineer force at the east entrance, ground floor; the painting of the ceiling and side walls of the corridor and the rooms in the east hall, ground floor, and of the corridor around the south, east, and west sides of the auditorium; the laying of cork flooring in the west and northwest ranges, ground floor; installing rubber interlocking tile flooring in two elevators at the north entrance ; and the painting of all concrete floors in corridors of the west hall, ground floor; also, the painting of the exterior surfaces of all metal window frames on the first and second floors and the wooden frames and sashes on the ground and third floors, and the preparation of the east court and planting the same with lawn grass. In the Arts and Industries Building the interior work included the pointing up and painting of walls and ceilings in several exhibi- tion halls and office rooms and, in the latter, the replacing of worn- out floors with new ones of pine. On the exterior, the snow brakes .REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. 17 on the roofs were repaired, the roofs painted, and a beginning made of painting the exterior woodwork of all windows of the building. On the Smithsonian Building the only work of importance was the painting of the exterior woodwork of the windows in the east end. Wlien the Freer Building was planned, arrangements were made to procure heat, light, and power from the central heating plant, which the Institution was assured would be in a position to supply the same before needed. In the absence of such service, however, the Freer (iallery was connected with the Museum power plant, which necessi- tated the operation of the old boilers in the Arts and Industries Building during the coldest portion of the heating season. During this 3'ear the use of bituminous coal in these boilers was made possi- ble by the removal of the old flat grates and the installation of hand- operated stokers. The antiquated blow-off valve combination on the boilers in the Natural History Building was also replaced. Though the winter was a comparatively mild one, heat was fur- nished the buildings from October 6, 1920, to May 20, 1921, with a consumption of 3,224 tons of coal. Wliile the cheapest gi-ade is used, the cost of coal averaged $9.59 a ton. At one time it reached $10.70 a ton, about three times the contract price of 1916. The amount of electric current generated was 367,875 kilowatt hours, at a cost of 3.285 cents a kiloAvatt hour. The ice plant, in operation for 4,017 hours, produced 324.7 tons of ice, supplying all the buildings under the iSmithsonian Institution on the Mall. The increasing demand for ice will necessitate a new machine within a few years. The power plant remained shut down during July and August, 1920, and from June 4 to 30, 1921. It is more economical to purchase needed electric current than to operate the Museum plant, since cur- rent can be bought during the summer months at 2^ cents a kilowatt hour by Government departments owning generating plants. This closing down of the plant permits also its operation during the year with fewer men — as the employees then take the greater portion of their leave — and allows a general overhauling of the machinery, obviating trouble during the heating season. Less trouble was experienced during the year than in the past four years in procuring the necessary labor, and for the first time in several years all of the men employed met the civil-service require- ments. While the quality of service rendered was not as high standard as desired, it proved fairly satisfactory. This can be read- ily understood when it is considered that the salaries of the assistant engineers and electricians are from 75 to 90 per cent less than those paid in private business in Washington. 18 BEPOKT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921.. There were acquired during the year 62 exhibition cases (50 steel and 12 wooden), and 165 pieces of storage, laboratory and office fur- niture. Of the exhibition cases, 12 were made in the Museum, the other 50 transferred to the Museum by the Department of the In- terior, having been used at the Panama-Pacific International Ex- position at San Francisco in 1915. Of the 165 pieces of storage, laboratory and office furniture. 96 pieces were manufactured in the Museum workshops and 69 were purchased. It is becoming more and more the policy of the Museum to manufacture its own furniture, as in most cases it can be done more economically, owing to the difference in the cost of labor. At the close of the fiscal year, there were on hand 3,647 exhibition cases and bases and 11,508 pieces of storage, laboratory and office furniture. In addition to these, there were 46,650 wooden unit drawers, 4,712 metal unit drawers, 1,047 wooden unit boxes, 224 double unit boxes, and 11.244 insect drawers; also 752 winged frames, 5,885 special drawers with paper bottoms, and 11,445 special drawers with compo bottoms. COLLECTIONS. The total number of specimens acquired by the Museum during the year was approximately 338,120. Received in 1,730 separate acces- sions, they were classified and assigned as follows: Anthropology, 3,824; zoology, 196,077; botany, 55,436; geology, mineralogy, and petrology, estimated, 21,772; paleontology, estimated, 50,000; textiles, wood, medicine, foods, and other miscellaneous organic products, 943; mineral technology, 466; mechanical technolog}', 162; graphic arts, 2,296 ; and history, 7,144. Additional material, to the extent of 794 lots, mainly geological, was received for special examination and report. While this free de- termination of material sent in from all parts of the countr^^ requires considerable time on the part of specialists, it is not without advan- tage to the Museum in furnishing occasional desirable specimens and in recording new localities. About 25,000 specimens were sent out in exchange, for which the Museum received much valuable material specially desired for the collections. The distribution of specimens for educational work was broadened this year to include objects from the department of anthropology. Of the 6,000 specimens distributed as gifts in aid of education dur- ing the period of this report, over 5,000 were comprised in classified and labeled sets of specimens prepared for schools and colleges, nearly 2,000 being ores and minerals. The other subjects represented were rocks, rock weathering and soil formation, mollusks, marine in- REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. 19 vertebrates, fishes, birds and birds' eggs, insects, pottery, basketry, and prehistoric implements. Another 10,000 specimens left the Mu- seum temporarily as loans to students and investigators in many jfields of science. The reports of the head curators in the natural history departments and of the curators in the other branches of the museum, beginning on page 39, give in detail the additions to and the work upon their collections during the year. FREER COLLECTIONS. In the 1920 report it was noted that the building for the Freer collections was nearing completion and the collections were being shipped to Washington from Detroit. On April 31, 1921, the final work in the construction of the building was completed by the George A. Fuller Co., and the structure was formally transferred to the Smithsonian Institution, being accepted on May 3, 1921, just four years and seven months after ground was broken for its erection. That this result was not reached earlier, as was anticipated at the be- ginning, was largely due to unforeseen delays incident to the World War, but the Avork was at all times conducted with that deliberation and attention to details necessary to stability and permanency of structure, and these it is believed have been obtained. Planned with special reference to accommodating a collection whose various units were known and of affording unusual facilities for study and re- search, the building is an object of art in itself and is bound to become a mecca for art lovers from all over the world. This 3'ear witnessed also the construction, under the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, of the driveways and walks leading to the Freer Gallery and the seeding of the land iramedi- ately surrounding it, which has now been brought up to the standard of the balance of the Smithsonian Reservation. During the summer and autumn of 1920 the remaining portions of the Freer collections were brought to Washington from Detroit and stored in the building. The work of unpacking and installing the specimens was begun in the late autumn, under the able direction of Miss Katharine N. Rhoades, who had been associated with Mr. Freer in their care for some years. It is anticipated that some time must elapse before the exhibits are all in readiness and the halls can be opened to visitors. In December, 1920, Mr. John E. Lodge, curator of the department of Chinese and Japanese art in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, was appointed curator of the Freer Gallery and placed in charge. The Freer Gallery is being administered as an independent unit of the National Gallery of Art, but the heating, lighting, and guarding of the building continues to be carried on in connection with the 20 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921, National Museum sj^stem, since the Freer Gallery is dependent upon the Museum plant for heat, light, and power. LOEB COLLECTION OF CHEMICAL TYPES. Practically no progress was made this year in establishing the Loeb collection of chemical types owing to the diificulty experienced in moving to Washington the steel storage cabinet and other prop- erty purchased from the Morris Loeb fund, and which are still in the library of the Chemists' Club of New York City. Numerous .specimens for the type collection have been promised and will be turned over to the National Museum as soon as the storage cabinet, especially built to protect delicate specimens from deterioration, has been received and installed in its permanent place. COOPERATION OF THE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS. Belonging as it does to the Nation, the National Museum receives important assistance from other governmental agencies. Particularly was this true during the fiscal year 1921. Credit is due to the Navv Department for transporting and installing in the Museum building many attractive exhibits in the World War collections; to the War Department for similar service, including the detail to the Museum of one officer for several months ; to the Dei^artments of Agriculture, Commerce, and the Interior and the Bureau of American Ethnology for many valuable contributions of specimens and much assistance in classifying and labeling objects in the Museum; to the Interior Department also for transferring exhibition cases no longer needed by it; and to the Post Office Department for large series of postage stamps. This cooperation is not entirely one-sided. The Museum renders aid to the executive departments whenever possible, as evidenced by the work of Dr. Ales Hrdlicka for the Department of Justice, by which over a million of dollars in land and money was saved for the Indians. PARTELLO REQUEST. Under the terms of the will of Dwight J. Partello, who died on August 13, 1920. the Museum is bequeathed his collection of musical instruments, bows, and cases, gathered during many years of collect- ing, 37 paintings, a gold and silver box or casket presented to Mr. Partello by the Czar of Russia, and a diploma and medal awarded him for his exhibit of violins at the Chicago Exposition in 1893. The unique collection illustrating the Italian school of violins is well known and of great intrinsic value. It numbers 25 instruments of the violin family, made by the best masters in pure construction, including Amati, Stradavari, Bergonzi, Guarnerius, and others. At the end of the fiscal year Mr. Partello's estate had not been settled. REPORT OF NATIOXAI. MUSEUM, 1921. 21 The present tendency" of museums to aid in the appreciation of the art of music, as evidenced by the lecture-recitals and concerts, now forming a regular feature in many museums of the country, makes it incumbent upon the National Museum to administer this collection so as best to benefit the public. The Museum has already a large and diversified collection of the musical instruments of both aborigi- nal and civilized peoples, exhibited under such conditions at present, however, that its true value can not be appreciated. It is expected that a better installation can be provided when more space becomes available which will undoubtedly lead to additional contributions needed to fill existing gaps. VISITORS. As customary the Museum exhibition halls were open free to the public from 9 a. m. to 4.30 p. m. on all week days during the year (holidays included), with one exception. On May 21, 1921, the various Museum buildings were closed all day out of respect to the late Chief Justice Edward Douglass White, for 10 years a Regent and for 8 years the Chancellor of the Smithsonian Institution. The Natural History Building was also opened to visitors every Sunday afternoon from 1.30 to 4.30. To accommodate strangers in Washington at inaugural time, this was extended on Sunday, March 6, to all-dav service. The exhibition halls in the Smithsonian Building were likewise open on Sunday afternoon, March 27, to afford added opportunity for inspecting the collection of exquisite water-color paintings of wild flowers by Mrs. C. D. Walcott. Sun- day opening of all the buildings, though highly desirable, will only be possible when funds are available to provide additional watch- men and other attendants required. The number of visitors to the Natural History Building during the year aggregated 364,281 for week days and 103,018 for Sundays, being a daily average of 1,167 for the former and 1,981 for the latter. At the Arts and Industries Building the total attendance was 286,397. a daily average of 917. The xVircraft Building, opened to the public for the first time on October 7, 1920 (though subse- quently closed from October 14 to November 3, to permit of the installation of a naval airplane) had an attendance of 31,235. an average of 147 persons daily. The total attendance in the Smith- sonian Building on week days was 90,097, an average of 288, and on the one Sunday 138. The following tables show, respectively, the attendance of visitors during each month of the past year, and for each year since 1881, when the building devoted to arts and industries was first occupied. 22 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. Number of visitors during the year ending June 30, 1921. Year and month. 1920, July August September October November December 1921 January February March April May June Total Museum buildings. Arts and Industries. 27,485 37,645 32, 167 26, 757 17,773 15,306 13,319 12,858 30,488 21,494 22,384 28, 721 286, 397 Natural History. 37, 817 47,936 47,813 43,001 36, 251 30,044 27,055 26,351 54,221 37,868 42,201 36, 741 467, 299 Aircraft. 693 2,841 2,616 2,541 3,157 6,382 4,316 3,795 4,894 Smith- sonian Building. 31,2.35 8,891 10,963 9,729 7,340 5,409 4,606 4,391 4,235 11,323 7,478 7,145 8,725 90,235 Number o/ visitors to the Museum and Smithsonian buildings since 1881. Year. 1881 1882 1883 1884 (half year). 1884-85(fiscal year) 1885-86 1886-87 1887-88 1888-89 1889-90 1890-91 1891-92 1892-93 1893-94 1894-95 189.5-96 1896-97 1897-98 1898-99 1899-1900 1900-1 Museum buildings. Smith- sonian Build- ing. Arts and indus- tries. Natu- ral His- tory. Air- craft. 150,000 167, 455 202, 188 97,661 205,026 174,225 216,562 249,665 374,848 274,324 286, 426 269, 825 319,930 195, 748 201, 744 180,505 229,606 177,254 192,471 225, 440 216,556 100,000 152, 744 104,823 45,565 105,993 88,960 98,552 102,863 149,618 120,894 111,669 114,817 174, 188 103,910 105, 658 103, 650 115, 709 99, 273 116,912 133, 147 151, 563 Year. 1901-2. . 1902-3. . 190:'-4. . 1904-5.. 1905-6.. 1906-7.. 1907-8. . 1908-9. . 1909-10. 1910-11. 1911-12. 1912-13. 1913-14. 1914-15. 1915-16. 1916-17. 1917-18. 1918-19. 1919-20. 1920-21 . Museum buildings. Arts I Natu- and 1 ral Indus- ] His- tries. ! tory. 173,888 315, 307 220, 778 235,921 210,886 210, 107 299,659 245, 187 228, 804 207,010 172, 182 173,858 146, 533 133, 202 146, 956 161, 700 161,298 266, 532 250, 982 286, 397 Total 8,854,641 3,666,796 50, 403 151, 112 281,887 319,806 329, 381 321, 712 381, 228 407, 025 401, 100 1132; 859 422, 984 467,299 Air- craft. 31, 235 31,235 Smith- sonian Build- ing. 144,107 181, 174 143,988 149,380 149,661 153,591 237, 182 198,054 179, 163 167,086 143,134 142, 420 102,645 40,324 48,517 86,335 67,224 101, 504 86,013 90,235 5,012,244 1 Building open only three months of the year. REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. 23 PUBLICATIONS. The publications of the year comprised 9 volumes and 60 separate papers. The former consisted of the Annual Report of the Museum for 1920 and Bulletins Nos. 106 (plates), 109, 110, 111, 112, 115, 116, and 117. Of the 60 papers issued in separate form, three were parts of volume 1 of Bulletin 100 ; one part of Bulletin 104 ; one part of volume 20, three of volume 22, and one of volume 23, "Contributions from the United States National Herbarium"; while five were from volume 57, twenty -nine from volume 59, and seventeen from volume 59 of the Proceedings. In addition to the Museum publications, many contributions based on material in its collections were printed by other bureaus of the Government. All of the publications above referred to are cited in the bibliography forming part of this report. The editorial office, besides supervising the printing of the Museum publications, also has charge of all miscellaneous printing and binding. The distribution of volumes and separates to libraries and indi- viduals on the regular lists aggregated 75,546 copies, in addition to which some 13,367 copies of the publications of last and previous years were supplied in response to special applications. LIBRARY. The library of the Museum is assembled almost exclusively with reference to the working up of the collections, and embraces a wide range of subjects in the sciences and arts, owing to the exceptional diversity of the specimens. The main library is housed in the Natural Histor\' Building, while the publications on the useful arts are pro- vided for in the Arts and Industries Building. Moreover, each of the divisions and principal offices has its own sectional library, con- sisting of the books relating wholly to its subject, which are with- drawn from the main branches and so distributed in order to facili- tate the progress of the work. The use of the library and its sections is not, however, restricted to members of the staff, being extended to all properly qualified persons, and this privilege is extensively availed of by the Government scientific bureaus and other establish- ments in Washington. The increment during the year, largely obtained through gift and exchange, amounted to 2,041 completed volumes and 2,719 pamphlets, increasing the number of books in the library to 150,067, of which 58,658 are bound volumes and 91,409 pamphlets and unbound papers. The most important single acquisition to the geological section of the library since the foundation of the department in 1880 was received this year in the gift through Mrs. Francis D. Cleveland of 24 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. the library of her brother, the hite Dr. Joseph Paxson Iddings, com- prising upward of 1,000 books and pamphlets, chiefly on geological subjects. Doctor Iddings, as is well known, was one of America's leading petrologists, and his 40 years' accumulation of author's ex- cerpts in this branch of science was unusually large. PHOTOGRAPHIC LABORATORY. In illustrating Museum objects, largely for reproduction in the publications and in copying plans, diagrams, etc., required in con- nection with the work of the Museum, there were made in the photo- graphic laboratory during the year 1,954 negatives, 11,267 black and white prints, 42 bromide enlargements, 162 panoramas, and 144 lan- tern slides, besides developing 467 field negatives and mounting 1,008 prints. A number of improvements in the apparatus and equipment make it much easier to handle the work in the laboratory. MEETINGS AND CONGRESSES. As customary the National Academy of Sciences held its annual meeting in the Natural History Building of the Museum on April 25, 26, and 27, 1921, using the auditorium for the scientific sessions, open to the public, on the afternoon and evening of the 25th, and on the morning and afternoon of the 26th; while the adjoining committee room, No. 42-43, was used for the business meetings ex- tending through the forenoon of the 27th. The evening session was devoted to an address by His Serene High- ness Albert I, Prince of Monaco, Agassiz medalist, and was fol- lowed by a reception to the Prince in the halls assigned to the Na- tional Gallery of Art. Other speakers before the academy and their subjects included: Gilbert N. Lewis, "Ultimate rational units"; William Duane, " The quantum law and the Doppler effect " ; P. W. Bridgman, " Preliminary measurements of the effect of high pres- sures on the thermal conductivities of liquids"; C. E. Mendenhall and Max Mason, " The stratification of suspended particles " ; J. R. Carson, " Radiation from transmission lines " ; J. R. Carson and J. J. Gilbert, " Transmission characteristics of the submarine cable " ; W. F. Durand, "Application of the principle of similitude to the hydraulic problem of the surge chamber"; E, H. Hall, (1) " Theories of osmotic pressure," and (2) " Comments on the Borelius space- lattice theory of the metallic state " ; G. P. Merrill, " Metamorphism in meteorites"; W. M. Davis, (1) "The Island of Tagula, New Guinea, its satellites and coral reefs," and (2) " The shallow seas of Australasia "; A. G. Webster, (1) " On the radiation of energy from coils in wireless telegraphy," (2) " On the vibration of gun barrels," and (3) "On the problem of steering an automobile around a REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. 25 corner"; Edward Kasner, "A model of the solar gravitational field"; George D. Birkhoff, "On the problem of three or more bodies"; L. E, Dickson, (1) " Quaternions and their generaliza- tions," and (2) "Investigations in algebra and number theory"; H. F. Blichfeldt, " On the approximate solutions in integers of a set of linear equations"; H, N. Russell, "A provisional theory of new stars " ; F, Schlesinger, " The compilation of star catalogues by means of a doublet camera"; Vernon Kellogg, "The Xational Research Council " ; W. S. Adams, " The order of the stars " ; C. G. Abbot, " Cooking with solar heat on Mount Wilson " ; F. W. Clarke, " The evolution of matter"; Albert Einstein, "Relativity"; Austin H. Clark, " The classification of animals " ; L. O. Howard, " Attempts to acclimatize Aphelinus niali in France, South Africa, New Zealand, and Uruguay " ; C. D. Walcott, " Note on structure of the trilobite " ; J, C. Merriam, " Origin and history of the Ursidae or bears in the Western Hemisphere, with particular reference to the bearing of this question on problems of geographical history " ; H. F. Osborn, " The evolution, phylogeny, and classification of the Proboscidae " ; Simon Flexner, " Experiments in epidemiology " ; Graham Lusk, "Effect of administering various simple metabolites upon the heat production of the dog " ; Jacques Loeb, " The physical and chemical behavior of proteins"; Francis G, Benedict, Edward L. Fox, and Marion L. Baker, "The skin temperature of Pachyderms"; L. R. Jones, " The temperature factor in phytopathology " ; T. B. Osborne and L. B. Mendel, " Results of feeding experiments with mixtures of foodstuffs in unusual proportions " ; C. B. Davenport, " Popula- tion"; and E. L. Thorndike, "Measuring higher grades of intelli- gence." The following papers were presented by title only : J. M. Clarke, "Life of James Hall, of Albany, geologist and paleontolo- gist, 1811-1890"; Franz Boas, "The difference between variable series " ; Raymond Pearl and Charmian Howell, "A study of specific forces of mortality." The National Research Council used the auditorium on the even- ing of February 21, 1921, for a lecture by Dr. C. H. Herty on funda- mental chemistry, illustrated by a small exhibit displayed in the ad- joining foyer. To afford the many men and women throughout the country in- terested in venereal disease control work an opportunity of hearing lectures by leading authorities on the subject, the Bureau of Public Health Service, Treasury Department, conducted an Institute on Venereal Disease Control in the auditorium and committee rooms, from November 22 to December 4, including motion-picture demon- strations on the evenings of November 26 and 29 and December 1, and a meeting of the American Association of Women in Public Health on the evening of November 24. Rooms 45 and 46 and the 26 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. auditorium lobby were devoted to the accompanying exhibits. The institute was followed by an All- American Conference on Venereal Diseases, held in Washington from December 6 to 11, 1920, the large public meetings being in the Museum auditorium, while rooms 44 and 45 were given over to registration, exhibits, etc. For showing moving pictures of various subjects the Public Health Service also had the use of the auditorium on the afternoon of November 12 and on the mornings of January 31, March 9, 10, and 25, and of rooms 42-43 for a noontime meeting on February 21. The Department of Agriculture, because of its proximity, made frequent use of the facilities afforded by the Museum. On the even- ing of March 21, four Department of Agriculture motion pictures were shown to an audience composed principally of department em- ployees. The auditorium was again used on the afternoon of March 2, when the Southern Commercial Congress presented to the Depart- ment of Agriculture a replica of the painting by Szeldaties of the late David Lubin, the founder of the International Institute of Agricul- ture, with headquarters at Rome, Italy, under which 53 nations were federated. Mr. Lubin, from the time of the organization until his death, was the American delegate appointed by the State Department. The leadership of Mr. Lubin in directing the activities of the South- ern Commercial Congress resulted in the Federal farm loan act and other vital State and Federal legislation relating to the economic stability of the country. Through his creative genius he federated the world, based on agriculture, and it was the only tie that held during the World War. The International Institute of Agriculture was the only international body where the belligerent countries did not recall their delegates. Dr. Clarence J. Owens, director general of the Southern Commercial Congress, presided at the meeting and made the presentation. Other speakers were the Hon. Edwin T. Meredith, Secretary of Agriculture ; Hon. D. N. Fletcher, of Florida ; Hon. James Duval Phelan and Hon Julius Kahn, of California ; and the Italian ambassador. Senator Vittorio Rolandi Eicci, who spoke in his native tongue, being interpreted by Madame Olivia Eossetti Agresti, secretary to David Lubin. A message from the King of Italy was read at the meeting. For the benefit of the members of the department's staff who missed this opportunity to hear Madame Agresti, a special lecture by this interesting speaker was arranged in the auditorium on the evening of April 14, when she spoke on international economic problems. The Federal Horticultural Board held an all-day meeting in Eoom 42-43 on December 20, to consider the advisability of restricting importation of fruits and vegetables in raw or unmanufactured state from Cuba, the Bahamas. Jamaica, Canal Zone, India, Philippines, REPOET OF NATIOlSrAL, MUSEUM, 1921. 27 etc., on account of the citrus black fly. On May 16 and 17 the board had the auditorium for an important conference of persons in- terested in the cotton industry with reference to damage threatened by the pink boll worm. The Forest Service had the auditorium on four forenoons — on January 25 and February 16, for general meetings of the employees of the service, for showing lantern slides : on March 25, for a meet- ing of employees in connection with official work; and on June 10, for a meeting of employees to dedicate a memorial tablet in memory of the 19 employees of the Forest Service who lost their lives in the World War, the presentation being made by Mr. Herbert A. Smith, and the address of acceptance by Lieut. Col. William B. Greeley, Forester and Chief of the Forest Service. Music was furnished by the band of the Third United States Cavalry from Fort Myer. This Italian renaissance tablet of Sienna marble, following closely the style of certain old tablets in Italian cathedrals, is believed to be the only work of its kind in America. The Bureau of Plant Industry showed motion-picture films to the scientific staff of the bureau in the auditorium on the afternoon of November 18, and held its phytopathological seminar in room 42-43 on the afternoon of March 10. States Kelations Service used the auditorium on three occasions, as follows: On the morning of November 17 and on the afternoon of April 13, for showing motion and stereopticon pictures relating to its activities, to the employees of the service, and on the forenoon of May 28, for an illustrated lecture by Dr. B. SjoUema, of the Veteri- nary University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, on some of the unique features of the agriculture of his country. The Potomac Garden Club, cooperating with the United States Department of Agricul- ture, held its annual meeting there on the evening of January 17. The members of the staff of the Bureau of Markets were called to- gether in the auditorium on the afternoon of September 24, and an all-day conference of United States game wardens, under the au- . spices of the Biological Survey, occupied room 42-43 on January 6. Twice was the auditorium at the disposal of the Army Medical School — on the afternoon of November 17, 1920, for a lecture by Dr. Hideyo Noguchi. of the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Re- search, delivered before the student officers of the school and members of the Medical Corps of the Army on duty in Washington, and on the afternoon of May 26, for the closing exercises of the 1920-21 session of the school. On April 21 Mr. D. F. Garland, on behalf of The National Cash Register Co., demonstrated welfare work to a group of employees of the Post Office Department. Other governmental agencies making 28 EEPOBT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. use of the meeting facilities were the Commission of Fine Arts, on January 20 and 21, and the Federal Board of Vocational Education on June 13. The eleventh annual meeting of the American Farm Economic Association occupied the auditorium and committee room with after- noon and evening sessions on December 30, morning and afternoon sessions on December 31, and a morning session on January 1. On December 30 room 42-43 was utilized for a conference of representa- tives of national organizations engaged in rural social work with day and evening sessions. The annual convention of the Northern Nut Growers' Association convened in the auditorium, with morning and evening sessions on October 7, and morning and afternoon sessions on October 8, and an exhibit of nuts and mats in room 42-43. The American Institute of Architects was granted the auditorium, committee rooms, and the central portion of the foyer for the fifty- fourth annual convention of the institute, from May 11 to 13, and the Second National Architectural Exhibition, from May 12 to 19, inclusive, for the purpose of promoting and encouraging a wider public interest in architecture. In connection with this convention the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture met in room 42-43, on May 9 and 10, with an evening session in the auditorium on the latter date. The sessions of the institute included, besides meetings each day in the auditorium and room 42-43, one evening ses- sion in the auditorium on May 11 and a morning session on May 14 in room 42-43. The exhibition was inaugurated with a formal view on the evening of May 12, when the foyer and north lobby were opened to the invited guests of the institute and the public from 8.30 to 11 p. m. The drawings, photographs, etc., of this collection were installed on temporary floor screens placed either side and down the central portion of the foyer. A number of the exhibits of the war collections were inclosed by the screens, some of the cases being moved between the piers, and screens built on either side of them. The walls in the auditorium lobby were also used for exhibiting drawings and photographs, and a special exhibit belonging to the Architects' Small House Service Bureau, of Minnesota, was installed on portable screens against the south wall of the north lobby, either side of the entrance to the foyer. The twelfth annual convention of the American Federation of Arts convened in Washington on May 18, 19, and 20, 1921. The afternoon session on the 18th was held in the Museum auditorium and was devoted to the general subject of art and the people. It was opened with a demonstration by Mr. Ross Crane, of the Better Homes Institute of the Art Institute of Chicago, of " Art in the home." The stage was set as a living room, with mantel, windows, REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. 29 and doors; and the furniture, lent by one of the local dealers, was brought' in piece bj^ piece until the room was complete. Thus was shown how the Better Homes Institute, by the use of stage set and actual objects of everyday use, is demonstrating to the people of the Middle West the relation of art to life, creating a popular de- mand for better art in house furnishings and helping to induce a larger market for industrial art products. Mr. Allen Eaton, of the Sage Foundation, spoke on " Pictures for the schoolroom," ex- hibiting a number of prints he had selected for a schoolroom print exhibition for circulation by the federation. Mr. L. M. Churbuck, director of the art department of the Massachusetts State Fair, pre- sented an excellent paper on " Art in State fairs." Miss Mary Powell, of the art department of the St. Louis Public Library, presented the subject, " Art in the public library," and Mr. John L. Braun, president of the Philadelphia Art Alliance, made a telling plea for " The alliance of the arts." On the evening of the same date the Eegents and Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution tendered the members of the federation and their friends a reception, with a special view of the exhibition of war portraits in the National Gallery of Art, Dr. Charles D. Wal- cott, Mrs. Walcott, Mr. Robert W. de Forest, and Mrs. John W. Alexander receiving the visitors. This collection, brought together by the National Art Committee, comprised 21 canvases by American artists, portraits of distinguished leaders of America and of the Allied Nations during the World War, and is to form the nucleus for a National Portrait Gallery. As such it will be shown by the American Federation of Arts in the various cities of the country before being permanently deposited in Wash- ington. In planning the circuit it was arranged to have the collec- tion temporarily in the National Gallery of Art at the time of the convention for the benefit of the members of the federation. The main hall of the National Gallery was given over to the por- trait collection (which was on exhibition from May 5 to May 22), small portions of the halls of ethnology, to the northeast, being screened off to display paintings from the Evans collection tempo- rarily displaced. Opportunity was offered the delegates to see not only the National Gallery exhibits but also those of the Museum in other fields, as the foyer and west ranges of the ground floor and the entire first floor of the building were open for inspection from 8 to 11. The Madame Curie committee of Washington arranged a meeting in the auditorium on the evening of May 20, in honor of Madame Marie Curie, the codiscoverer of radium. Madame Curie was wel- comed by Secretary Walcott, honorary chairman of the committee, and by Miss Julia Lathrop, on the part of the women of Washington, 30 EEPOKT OF NATIONAL, MUSEUM, 1921. after which Dr. E. A. Millikan, of the University of Chicago, de- livered an address on radium. A large number of floral bouquets, contributions from local women's organizations and others, were presented to Madame Curie. The Museum exhibits on the ground and first floors were open to inspection during the evening. In con- nection with Madame Curie's visit, a special exhibit of radium ores, radioactive minerals, and radiographs was prepared by the depart- ment of geology and placed in the main passage of the Art Gallery, being removed later to a permanent location in the east end of the mineral hall on the second floor. Another reception in the Natural History Building, on the even- ing of October 19, enabled the delegates to the convention of the American Bankers' Association, and their friends, to inspect the exhibition halls, as a part of the program for acquainting the bankers with governmental activities in Washington. The American Society of Mammalogists held its annual meeting in the Museum, with day sessions in room 42-43 on May 2, 3, and 4, and an evening session on May 2 in the auditorium. At the latter Mr. Arthur H. Fisher gave a talk on animals in zoological gardens, illustrated with many wonderful motion pictures recently made in the National Zoological Park and in the Philadelphia Zoo. From November 9 to 11 the auditorium was used during the daytime for the thirty-eighth stated meeting of the American Ornithologists Union. Under the auspices of the Geological Society of Washington, Mr. William T. Lee lectured in the auditorium on November 20, on the use of aerial photographs in geography. This was illustrated by stereopticon views of natural scenery and of objects of geographic interest and of submarine objects as seen from an airplane, and by a series of motion pictures taken from hydroplanes showing scenes on the Potomac, the Pacific fleet passing through the Panama Canal, and scenes along the coast of California. The regular annual meeting of the Audubon Society of the Dis- trict of Columbia, held in the hall on the evening of Januarj'- 26, featured two illustrated addresses on bird life. The Washington Academy of Sciences arranged a lecture by Dr. E. B. Rosa, of the Bureau of Standards, on "A reorganization of the civil service," on the evening of October 21, and, under the auspices of the Osteopathic Association of the District of Columbia, Dr. A. G. Hildreth spoke on the evening of November 15 on " How to escape insanity and nervous disorders." Of timely interest also Avas a series of evening lectures in the audi- torium arranged b}^ the School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University on the " History and nature of international relations," REPORT OF NATIONAL, MUSEUM, 1921. 31 the principal phases of the history of relations between sovereign states from the earliest antiquity down to our own day being treated by acknowledged masters in their respective fields, some of the speakers being permitted two evenings to develop their themes. The topics and speakers were as follows: October 21 and 22, 1920, " The concept of international relations in antiquity," by Dr. Mi- chael I. Rostovtseff; November 19, "Medieval diplomacy," by Dr. Carlton J. H. Hayes ; December 3 and IT, " The development of diplomacy in modern times," by Dr. James Brown Scott ; January 7, 1921, "The Far East and Africa as factors in the development of international relations," by Hon. Paul S. Reinsch: January 21, " Latin America as a factor in the development of international re- lations," by Hon. L. S. Rowe; February 11, "Economic factors in international relations," by Dr. James Lawrence Laughlin; March 11, " The effect of the development of juristic science upon interna- tional relations," by Dr. Roscoe Pound; March 18 and April 8, " The United States as a factor in the development of international relations," by Dr. Edwin M. Borchard ; April 22 and May 6, "Arbi- tration and other agencies for the proper conduct of international relations," by Hon. John Bassett Moore ; May 19, " Elements for the scientific study of diplomacy," by Dr. Stephen P. Duggan. The university also had the auditorium on the evening of January 14, when " The future significance of the Slavic world, and particu- larly Russia, in economic affairs," was the topic of short addresses before the School of Foreign Service by Rev. E. A. Walsh, Mr. Jolui Hays Hammond, and Mr. Oscar T. Crosby. The Anthropolog- ical Society of ^Yashington and the Entomological Society of Wash- ington held their regular meetings of the season in room 42-3, Natural History Building. First Pom, Pacific Scientific Congress. — At the First Pan Pacific Scientific Congress, held in Hawaii from August 2 to August 20, 1920, the Musernn was represented by the following members of the staff of the Smithsonian Institution : Mr. John B. Henderson, regent of the Smithsonian, Dr. Paul Bartsch, Mr. Gerrit S. Miller, jr., Mr. T. Wayland Vaughan, and Mr. Gerard Fowke. The meetings were held in Honolulu, excepting those from Au- gust 7 to 12, when an excursion was made to the island of Hawaii to visit the wonderful active volcano Kilauea, various volcanological problems being discussed during the stay there. The rest of the program consisted of a general session each morning, held in the throne room of the capitol, and sectional sessions in the afternoon, the conference being divided into the following sections: Anthro- pology, biology, botany, entomology, geography, and seismology. 71305°— 21 3 32 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. ORGANIZATION AND STAFF. At the close of the year the Museum organization comprises, besides an administrative office, 4 scientific and technical departments and 1 independent division, as follows: The department of anthro- pology, with 4 divisions and 3 sections; the department of biology, with 9 divisions and 16 sections; the department of geology, with 3 divisions and 3 sections; the department of arts and industries, with 5 divisions and 4 sections ; and the division of history, which, while independent of these departments, has not yet reached the dignit}' of a department. History has one section, making a total of 49 recognized subdivisions of the Museum. The scientific staff of the Museum consisted of 1 keeper ex officio, 1 director, 3 head curators, 12 curators, 4 honorary curators, 6 asso- ciate curators, 13 assistant curators, 23 custodians, 4 assistant custo- dians, 8 aids, 10 associates, 7 collaborators, 1 philatelist, and 1 assistant, a total of 94 persons, of whom less than half received pay from the Museiun. This by no means represents all the scientific workers on the collections, for the Museum also has much regular assistance from employees of various other governmental agencies in Washington, particularly the Department of Agriculture and the Geological Survey, in classifying and arranging, and placing on exhibition the specimens in their respective fields of investigation. A synopsis of the work attaching to each position in the Museum was prepared this year and forwarded to the Bureau of Efficiency in connection with a bill before Congress on the subject of the reclassi- fication of the employees of the Government. The changes in organization during the year were numerous. The National Gallery of Art, which had for a number of years been administered as the fine arts department of the Museum, became an independent bureau under the Smithsonian Institution on July 1, 1920, through provision for its separate maintenance in the sundry civil appropriation act for the year 1921. To the new bureau were transferred such of the Museum's collections as had been in the custody of the curator of the National Gallery of Art, consisting of paintings, sculptures, and a few miscellaneous pieces. For the present the gallery continues to be housed in the Natural History Building of the Museum. Dr. William H. Holmes severed his connection with the Museum on July 1, 1920, to become director of the National Gallery of Art, and carries with him to his larger field the good will of the entire Museum staff. Doctor Holmes has long been associated with the Institution and Museum. In the latter he served as curator of aboriginal pottery from 1882 to 1893, as head curator of the depart- ment of anthropology from its organization in 1897 to 1902, when he 1 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. 33 resigned to become chief of the Biu'eau of American Ethnology, returning to the Museum as head curator of anthropology in 1910. The present excellent condition of the anthropological exhibits is a monument to his taste and ability. When, in 1906, it became neces- sary to provide a somewhat definite organization for the department of fine arts of the Musemn, the curatorship of the National Gallery of Art was tendered to Mr. Holmes and accepted by him, in addition to his duties at the Bureau of American Ethnology. During all the intervening time Doctor Holmes has given freely of his time and strength for the National Gallery without financial return. Dr. Walter Hough, curator of ethnology, was made acting head curator of the department of anthropology upon Doctor Holmes's resignation. On July 1, 1920, the division of graphic arts was transferred from the department of anthropology to that of arts and industries, where it more proj)erly belongs, and Mr. Ruel P. Tolman was pro- moted to assistant curator and placed in charge. At the same time the division of histor^^ was removed from the department of anthropolog}^ and made an independent division, re- porting directly to the administrative assistant in charge of the Museum. Capt. J. J. Hittinger, of the Quartermaster Corps of the United States Army, on detail from the War Department to assist in the installation of the World War collections, severed his associa- tion with the Museum in December, 1920, upon retirement from the Department. Captain Hittinger rendered valuable service to the Museum in this connection. The aid in history, Miss Marie V. Schif- fer, resigned on August 26, 1920, and Mr. Charles Carey was ap- pointed an assistant in the division on November 2, 1920, giving special attention to the World War collections. In line of better administration, the collections of mollusks were removed from the division of marine invertebrates on February 1, 1921, and the division of mollusks was reestablished, with Dr. Paul Bartsch in charge as curator, and Mr. Waldo L. Schmitt was ad- vanced to be curator of the division of marine invertebrates. The rotatoria and the helminthological collections went with the divi- sion of mollusks. Mr. Charles R. Shoemaker was promoted from aid to assistant curator in marine invertebrates on March 16, 1921, and Miss Pearl L. Boone's connection as aid in that division ceased on April 7, 1921. Mr. Carl W. Mitman, curator of mechanical technology, was appointed curator also of mineral technology' and placed in charge, with the title " curator, divisions of mineral and mechanical technology." He will be aided by an assistant curator in each of the divisions. Mr. Mitman's early connection with the Museum 34 llEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. was with the collections of mineral technology, of which he was aid and later assistant curator. The aid in mechanical technology, Miss Barbara E. Bartlett, resigned in October, being succeeded on April 1, 1921, by Mr. Paul E. Garber. Beginning May 1, 1921, Mr. Neil M. Judd, curator of American archeology, was granted leave of absence for five months to con- duct explorations for the National Geographic Society, and Mr. John L. Baer was appointed acting curator for the period. Mrs. Lucile Simpson Stelle, aid in paleobotany, resigned on July 31, 1920, and Miss Jessie G. Beach, having met the civil-service requirements, was promoted from the position of typist to that of aid in paleontology on October 16, 1920. Mr. Ellsworth P. Killip, who at the beginning of the year was serving a temporary appoint- ment as aid in the division of plants, was given permanent status as such on August 27, 1920. The combination of the property office and the shipping office effected August 1, 1919, was discontinued August 1, 1920, the two offices being separated, Mr. W. A. Knowles remaining in charge of the former as property clerk, and Mr. L. E. Perry taking over the latter as shipper. On November 12, 1920, in recognition of his activity in building up the collection of pianos in the Museum, Mr. Hugo Worch was given an honorary appointment as custodian of musical instruments. Other honorary members added to the staff during the year were Dr. Whit- man Cross, as associate in petrology, on October 19, 1920 ; Dr. David Starr Jordan, as associate in zoology, on January 13, 1921 ; Mr. Max M. Ellis, collaborator in marine invertebrates, April 25, 1921 ; and Mr. W. L. McAtee, acting custodian of Hemiptera, on December 21, 1921. Under the provisions of the retirement act of May 22, 1920, the Museum was deprived of the services of five members of its force in August, 1920, all of whom had reached the age limit and three had had over 30 years of service each. They were Miss S. E. Latham, and Messrs. A. B. Thorne, W. O. Strieker, W. H. Haney, and D. R. Jameson. The Museum lost by death during the year Dr. J. P. Iddings, asso- ciate in petrology; Messrs. Nelson P. Wood and William Palmer, taxidermists; and Mr. T. W, Reese, watchman. NECROLOGY. Dr. Joseph Paxson Iddings. associate in petrology, died on Wednesday morning, September 8, 1920. Although not actively en- gaged in museum work. Professor Iddings's connection with the de- partment of geology of the Museum was of more than ordinary im- portance. He was one of the most widely and favorably known of REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. 35 American petrologists, and took a deep interest in the development of this particular branch of the science. His large collections of volcanic rocks, made during his extensive trips throughout the prin- cipal volcanic districts of the world, were installed among the collec- tions of the Museum, where they remain accessible for reference and study, and form an important addition to the already large series of studied material in the department. During the early portion of his career, from 1880 to 1895, Doctor Iddings was connected with the United States Geological Survey, and was the author of several publications of importance by that organization. Among the most important may be mentioned : The Obsidian Cliffs of the Yellowstone National Park. On the Development of Crystallization in Igneous Kocks. On a Group of Volcanic Rocks from the Tewan Mountains. The Microscopic Petrography of the Eruptive Rocks of the Eu- reka District of Nevada. The Eruptive Rocks of Electric Peak and Sepulchre Mountains, and the chapters on petrography in part 2 of the monograph of the Yellowstone National Park. His best known personal publications are his translation of H. Rosenbusch's Physiography of the Rockmaking Minerals (1898) ; Rock Minerals (1906) ; Igneous Rocks, 2 volumes (1909) ; and The Problem of Vulcanism (1914). He was also one of the most active and influential of the authors of the Quantitative Classification of Igneous Rocks (1903). A striking feature of his work was his accuracy and careful attention to detail. From 1895 to 1908 he was professor of petrology in the Univer- sity of Chicago, since which time he lived for the most part at Brink- low, Md., devoting himself largely to private work, and particularly to the petrology of the Pacific and South Sea Islands. He was a man of broad culture, dignified and gentlemanly bear- ing, and his loss will be everywhere most deeply felt. By the death of Mr. N. R. Wood, on November 8. 1920, the Na- tional Museum lost one of its most skilled preparators, a man well known over the country as the most expert of bird taxidermists. Mr. Wood was born in New York State in 1852. When about 27 years of age he was employed by Ward's natural history establishment at Rochester, N. Y. Here, for the first time, his work was congenial and he made rapid advances in the general work which was assigned him.. It was soon observed that he was especially interested in the mounting of birds, at which he would work in his own time after hours, and he was assigned as assistant to their best bird taxideraiist. Deficient in natural mechanical ability, it was only after the most per- sistent effort that he finally reached the point where he could make 36 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. the bird skin take the form which he had mentally determined to be the natural and best position. While at Ward's establishment he made advances in the methods, but it was not until he had been in the National Museum for some time that he was at his best. His work on dry skins and dismounting and remounting old birds was per- fected here. Mr. Wood came to the Museum in 1888, and at first was employed to assist Mr. William T, Hornaday in taking care of the live animals in the shed adjoining the Smithsonian Building — the beginning of the National Zoological Park collections. After a little time he began to mount birds for the Chicago Exposition, and his work won the approval of Mr. Robert Ridgway, and when there was a vacancy in bird taxidermy he was placed there and continued in this work until his death. In years to come, as now, Mr. Wood will be known by his fine work displayed in the mounted bird collection on exhibition in this Museum. The hawks and owls, parrots, and game birds, the greater number remounted by him, show the quality of his work and point to the loss which the Museum has sustained in his death. William Palmer, for many years a valued member of the Museum force, died in New York City on April 8, 1921. He was born at Penge, England, August 1, 1856, and came to this country with his father, the late Joseph Palmer, in 1868. The elder Palmer became connected with the Museum in 1873 as its preparator, and was particularly skillful in all matters pertaining to modeling, casting, the coloring of reproductions, and taxidermy. William Palmer, under the tutelage of his father, became, in time, equally adept in these subjects. He joined the Museiun force in 1874 as an assistant to his father. In 1883 he was sent to New Haven, Conn., to prepare the large models of the giant squid and octopus exhibited at the Great International Fisheries Exhibition in London, and later transferred here, where they, and many other examples of his art, still remain. With Messrs, Lucas and ScoUick, of the Museum force, he went to Newfoundland, in the spring of 1903, and took part in the preparation of a mold and skeleton of a 78-foot sulphur-bottom whale. A year later he accompanied Dr. G. P. Merrill to the State of Sinaloa, Mexico, for the purpose of making a mold of the great Bacubarito meteorite. Mr. Palmer was an excellent general naturalist, and was par- ticularly well versed in the local fauna and flora, in which he had specialized for many years. He began a collection of birds in the spring of 1874, which in time became a very important one, and contained many local rarities and records, some of which are still unique. In the course of his ornithological work he had the EEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. 37 distinction of adding two species of birds to the known avifauna of this continent, in addition to describing several previously unrecog- nized subspecies. Palmer's skill and knowledge as a natural history collector caused him to be detailed on various expeditions where the best results were required, and in this capacity he visited Funk Island in 1887 with Doctor Lucas in a very successful search for remains of the extinct great auk. In 1890 he was detailed to make collections on the Pribilof Islands, and in 1900, 1902, and 1916 to visit Cuba. He accompanied Mr. Owen Bryant on a very productive collecting expedition, though one fraught with numerous privations, to western Java, in 1909 and 1910. In the aggregate, he collected many thousands of specimens of animals and plants, as well as fossil remains and miscellaneous material, not only on official expeditions but on those prosecuted on his own account, and most of this material has found its way into the National Museum series over a long period of years. By the terms of his will, Mr. Palmer has also bequeathed his private collection of birds to the Museum. In recent years Mr. Palmer had become much interested in vertebrate fossil remains in the deposits at the Calvert Cliffs, near Chesapeake Beach, Md., and made many trips there in search of material, both officially, and in his own time. He was engaged in studies of cetacean remains from this locality at the time of his death. Mr. Palmer was a Fellow of the American Ornithologists' Union, a member of several scientific socities, and the author of over 50 papers and notes on ornithological and other biological subjects. REPORTS ON THE COLLECTIONS. REPORT ON THE DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY. By Walter Hough, Acting Head Curator. On the appointment of Dr. W. H. Holmes as director of the National Gallery of Art on July 1, 1920, the curator of ethnology was appointed acting head curator of anthropology. A consistent growth is observed in the department year by year. Relieved of responsibilities lately connected with divisions of the museum not germane to its work, it has moved forward more rapidly. The department as now administered comprises the divisions of physical anthropology, ethnology, American archeology, and Old World archeology, which are closely knit sciences, and the sections of musical instruments, ceramics, and art textiles. These branches record commendable progress during the period of this report. Administration of the division of ethnology and the sections of art textiles, musical instruments, and ceramics was continued by the acting head curator, also cooperation with the division of history in respect to installations and anthropological laboratory preparations in the section of period costumes. ACCESSIONS DESERVING SPECIAL NOTICE. The accessions generallj'^ were of diversified character and tending to improve the collections. They were acquired at negligible ex- pense. The crowded condition of the museum, necessitating the ac- ceptance of desirable collections only by gift or bequest without conditions, has limited the accession of loans. The accessions of the year, therefore, are mainly a permanent gain to the museum. Of exceptional value and interest to the division of ethnology is the collection of California Indian baskets from the Missions, a supplementary gift from Miss Ella F. Hubby, of Pasadena and New York. A blanket robe of dog and mountain goat hair, woven by the Cowichan Indians of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, decorated with a Chilkat totemic painting in soft colors, is a unique specimen gift of Mrs. Charles C. Plyde of Washington, D. C. A single specimen of ancient Hawaiian wood carving in form of an image of a god can probably not be duplicated. It was collected by Rear Admiral J. V. B. Bleecker, United States Navy, many years ago. The image is of the Easter Island type. A collection of the very scarce ma- 39 40 REPORT or NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. terial from the Flathead Indians of British Columbia, consisting of carved horn bowls, spoons, fishhooks, etc., was presented by Dr. E. A. Spitzka, Washington, D. C. Twenty-four ancient ivory carv- ings designed as fetishes, mostly from the Walaka and Baluba Ne- groes, Lower Congo, Africa, were purchased. The following accessions to American archeology are deserving of special notice: A collection of 128 archeological specimens, many of which appear to exhibit contact with non-Pueblo peoples, gath- ered b}^ Mr. J. A. Jeancon for the Bureau of American Ethnology from an ancient ruin near Taos, N. Mex., and transferred by the bureau ; a collection of 114 antiquities from cliff dwellings and other prehistoric ruins northwest of the Rio Colorado, made for the Bureau of American Ethnolog}'^ by Mr. Neil M. Judd and subsequently transferred b}'^ the bureau; a bronze ax blade and a highly embel- lished, cylindrical earthenware vase from Salvador, presented by Sr. Emilio Mosonyi ; a series of 183 specimens from prehistoric ruins in the Chaco Canyon National Monument, N. Mex., collected by Neil M. Judd under the auspices of the National Geographic Society, which later presented the material to the national collections; a carved jade tiki or fetish from New Zealand, secured through ex- change with Mr. Louis C. G. Clarke ; and two collections of Mexican antiquities obtained by Maj. Harry S. Bryan. The first of these is a gift of 12 specimens ; the second, a loan, includes 64 specimens. Dr. Walter Hough presented an interesting series of shell beads and pendants and stone fetishes from Keetseel Ruin, Arizona, and the Zuni region, New Mexico. A carved wooden Floridian image, found in reclaimed soil which Lake Okeechobee formerly covered to a depth of 6 feet, was given to the Museum b}^ Mr. M. A. Millar, Venus, Fla. A most noteworthy accession to the division of Old World arche- ology is a valuable collection of Buddhist religious art, consisting of old bronze statues and figures, lacquered shrines, and exquisitely painted kakemonos from China and Japan, gift of Mrs. Murray Warner; another small collection of Buddhist bronze figures de- serves notice, inasmuch as, besides its intrinsic artistic value, it filled some gaps in the Museum collection of tlie Buddhist pantheon, gift of Mrs. John Van Rensselaer Hoff. Mention is also made of a small collection of finely worked embroideries with Christian themes, gift from the estate of Mrs. Mary E. Pinchot ; and the collection of Jewish ceremonial, which includes a considerable number of artis- ticall}^ worked silver vessels from Palestine, lent by Mr. Ephraim Deinard, Of the accessions in physical anthropology which deserve special notice, the foremost place belongs to the " Huntington collection " of skeletal material. This collection is received formally as an " ex- change," but is really in the main a gift from the College of Physicians REPOBT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 19^1. 4l and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York City, through Prof. George S. Huntington. Small portions of this material were already in our possession as the result of exchanges in previous years; it consists of the identified skeletal remains of upward of 1,500 indi- viduals of known sex, age, color, nationality, and cause of decease. It includes in ample number for all desired information representa- tives of the different parts of the white race which are entering into the composition of the American people, and as such will have a con- stantly increasing value for mutual comparisons. The scientific im- portance of this material can hardly be estimated, and it is not too much to say that it practically doubles the value of our collection. No other collection of equal extent is in existence. Another collection of importance is that of 27 human brains donated to the Museum by Dr. Edward Anthony Spitzka, Washington, D. C. The next collec- ttion of note is that of 10 Arikara skulls and 3 skeletons donated by the University of South Dakota, through Prof. Freeman Ward, in return for a report on their collections. These specimens are in good condition and fill what was almost a complete void in our col- lections. Mention should also be made of a quantity of skeletal material collected in Tennessee by Mr. W. E. Myer, of Nashville, Tenn., and transmitted to the Museum by the Bureau of American Ethnology. In addition to the above there were a series of smaller accessions of crania and skeletons from various parts of this continent. A loan collection of rare oriental rugs was received in art textiles, replacing those hung last year. This collection was sent by a public- spirited Washingtonian to be exhibited for the benefit of the public. The weavings number 38 and typify the chief varieties of these artistic textiles. The section of musical instruments reports that the Worch col- lection of pianos has been enriched by the gift of a copy of the harpsichord used by Johann Sebastian Bach, the great composer. The original is in the Museum at Stuttgart, Germany. Two copies were permitted to be made and one of these is now displayed in the Worch collection in the National Museum. The instrument has four pedals and four stops, a surprising mechanical equipment for the period. A dulcitone, an instrument whose sounding apparatus is a succession of graded tuning forks, was procured by Mr. Worch from Glasgow, Scotland. Eleven other valuable pianos, illustrative of the history otthis instrument, were added to the collection by Mr. Worch. A piano liandsomely decorated by Cottier of New York was given by Mrs. Gouverneur Morris, Washington, D. C. The collection of master violins bequeathed to the Museum by the late Dwight J. Partello and whose disposition lias attracted wide 42 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. public interest is subject to litigation, and its acquisition by the Mu- seum depends upon action by the courts. A set of 169 pieces of heavy porcelain with blue decoration was received b}'^ the section of ceramics as a bequest from Miss Caroline Henry. This porcelain was given to Prof. Joseph Henry b}"- the first Japanese minister to the United States. The ware is interest- ing as representative of the first somewhat crude attempts to adapt Euroj^ean forms in Japanese ceramic art; Mr. Grosvenor B. Clark- son, Washington, D. C, presented two Japanese porcelain vases in blue and white ; Miss Freeman and Mrs. B. H. Buckingham, Wash- ington, D. C, presented six large Japanese and Chinese plaques with rich decoration in colors and a Japanese bronze statuette. EXPLORATIONS AND EXPEDITIONS. Dr. W. L. Abbott is a constant contributor of the results of his numerous explorations east and west. At present his material is coming from Haiti and Santo Domingo. The major expeditions of a scientific nature have contributed little material for anthro- pology. Special archeological explorations in Arizona and New Mexico directed by the Museum, the Bureau of American Eth- nology, and the National Geographic Society added much excellent material. The expedition of the National Geographic Society to the Chaco Canyon ruined cities in New Mexico, directed by Mr. Neil M. Judd, of the National Museum, is expected to produce important results. This expedition, which set off in April, contemplates five years researches in Chaco Canyon. The preliminary work on this expedition was carried on during the summer and a large collection of artifacts sent in. Dr. J. Walter Fewkes's epoch-making investi- gations on Mesa Verde, Colo., for the Bureau of American Eth- nology and the Department of the Interior were productive of dis- tinctive scientific and educational results. WORK or PEKSBRVING AND INSTALLING THE COLLECTIONS PRESENT CONDITION OF COLLECTIONS. It is difficult to characterize the multifarious and intricate work accomplished by any department of the Museum. The high stand- ards of the National Museum embrace every feature from the minute to the greatest. The visible Museum must be kept to the highest point of perfection and the work this necessitates is con- stant and exacting. In the background is the tremendous routine of occupational activities which the Geologist Lesley called " dead- work," and which must be completed before specimens are brought to public view. The care of specimens in ethnology presents many problems on account of the character and variety of the material. Some of the REPORT OF NATIONAL, MUSEUM, 1921. 43 older collections which were not cared for under present Museum standards were worked over and tickets and marks restored. Among the installations mention is made of two cases of rare California Mission Indian baskets of the Ella F. Hubby collection and two cases of Chinese minor art displays. The lay figure of a Nez Perce Indian chief was reconstructed and placed on exhibit, and the model of an early Iroquoian stockaded village repaired and again put in place. Hundreds of labels were put on specimens, and the effort to attach a card to every exhibit object was brought close to completion. Plans were also drawn up for the preparation of a series of handbooks describing certain important classes of exhibits in the division of ethnology. The American archeology collection has approximately reached the limits of expansion as to exhibition. By selection and elimination, the exhibit was improved. The collection from the Otto T. Mallery expedition, under the auspices of the Washington branch of the Archeological Institute of America, to the Rio Chama, N. Mex., a locality not heretofore represented in the Museum, was installed. The State collections exhibit received a number of additions. These collections, which are of interest especially to visitors from the various States, were also improved by additional labels and by consolidation with a view to clearness of presentation. The archeo- logical collection as nowl presented may be considered in a satis- factory state of completeness as to arrangement, and with the addi- tion of more labels will take its place as one of the most instructive exhibits. Especial attention was given to the prevention of decay, which frequently occurs in pottery taken from burials, and almost complete success was achieved in halting the disintegration. Re- pairs of broken articles and other routine work in connection with cleaning, numbering, and like duties occupied much time. The records of the division, which had fallen behind in former years, were worked upon with the view of bringing them up to date. It is hoped within a short time to complete indexes which will render it possible to locate each unit without loss of time. Old World archeology, which embraces biblical and other objects connected with ancient religions and art, reports an active year. The chief work was the reinstallation of the collections illustrating Christianitv, Buddhism, and Mohammedanism, which were dis- arranged in removal previously from the Arts and Industries Build- ing. A number of objects of silver, illustrating Jewish ceremonial, were installed, forming an attractive exhibit. Specimens were added to the archeologic exhibits from Great Britain and India and some examples of ancient sculpture and glass placed in cases. Printed labels to the number of 140 were placed on exhibits. 44 REPOET OF NATIONAL, MUSEUM, 1921. The most advanced methods employed in the division of physical anthropology for the cleaning, repair, cataloguing, identification, etc., were applied to the old collections from the Army Medical Museum and from other sources. The collection in general is con- stantl}^ improving in all respects through intensive work continued from year to year. It is the endeavor to keep abreast of the im- provements in the methods of museum science and to maintain the material in a state of effectiveness. Necessarily the rapid increase in specimens received by the division required better facilities for storage which will provide easier access to the accumulating material. The rearrangement of the cases in art textiles greatly benefited the appearance of the hall. The exhibit of laces was also much im- proved by the arrangement of the specimens following the recon- struction of the cases to eliminate as far as possible the entrance of dust. On the south and west walls a splendid collection of oriental rugs was hung. Plans were made for improving the installation of the collection of musical instruments and dust proofing the cases. Steps were taken to j^repare a catalogue and handbook, which should render the exhibit of greater value to the public. The ceramic collection shows the results of several years' work on improving the character of the exhibit. Efforts were made to eliminate material not needed in the collection, much of which had been collected in a haphazard manner. Noteworthy is the exhibit of two cases of rare old Bohemian ruby glass donated by Mrs. C. E. Danforth, of San Diego, Calif. The varied and important work performed in the anthropological laboratory contributed materially to the benefit of the public exhibi- tion. Work was carried on here which could not be performed in the divisions. The necessities of the department occupied the time of the laboratory except for occasional jobs of expert work for other sec- tions of the Museum. Aside from current tasks, original work in modeling lay figures was continued and new methods for expe- diting the work were tried out. The joining of broken pottery ves- sels, skeletons, and other specimens by means of adhesive cements and such materials has been subject to a long investigation, and satis- factory results have been reached. Many specimens which require a degree of restoration were sent to the laboratory for special attention. RESEARCH WORK. The devotedness to scientific work by the personnel of the depart- ment, a feature shared by the entire personnel of the National Museum, is shown by the amount of research work prosecuted by the staff. It is also evident that this work is not limited to the legal hours of labor. REPORT OF NATIONAL, MUSEUM, 1921. 45 The curator of ethnology finished and handed in papers on the racial groups in the National Museum and on the series of specimens illustrating the history of inventions. He also began the preparation of an account of the stoves and other heating devices in the Museum. A summary of his exploration of 1920 was prepared and an account written on Museum specimens germane to the Pilgrim Tercentenary. The examination for publication of the several collections of archeological remains collected in Utah and Arizona by the curator of the division of American archeology for the Bureau of American Ethnology during the past five years was continued. The curator of Old World archeology completed a study of Parsee religious ceremonial objects. He also completed a descriptive cata- logue of Buddhist art, which was published during the year by the Museum. The plan of the curator is to continue this series of instruc- tive handbook catalogues. The materials in the division of physical anthropology are con- stantly drawn upon for comparisons as well as for new observations. During the year the most important piece of research done on the collections was that relating to the finer modeling of teeth ; but much work was done also on Indian and other bones in connection with the preparation of the pending reports on the Sioux Indians and the anthropology of Florida and neighboring regions. In addition measurements for future use were begun on the valuable Mongolian collection and on the skeletal material from Alaska, the latter in connection with the curator's studies on the origin and affinities of the Indian. Doctor Hrdlica performed services for the Department of Justice in differentiating full-blood from mixed-blood Chippewa Indians in important land cases, thereby saving over a million dollars in land and money for the Indians, in accordance with the statement of the department. This is a good illustration of the practical value of studies of recondite subjects. Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, Chief of the Bureau of American Eth- nology^, as collaborator in the division of ethnologj^, has assisted materially in the acquisition of specimens through collections made by himself and members of the bureau. Dr. Arthur P. Rice, also a collaborator, sent in data, photographs, and ethnological material from Yucatan. The department was called upon daily to give information to visitors on many subjects of more or less importance; but little material, and that in the form of photographs with descriptions and publications, was sent to researchers elsewhere. It is difficult to estimate the benefits growing out of personal con- tacts with visitors desiring information, but in many cases it is known to have produced results of importance to the Museum. 46 REPORT OF NATIONAL, MUSEUM, 1^21. DISTKIBCTION AND EXCHANGE OF SPECIMENS. The department began in a systematic way the distribution of duplicate material to educational institutions. Despite the limited variety of duplicates available, series of ethnology were selected with the view of conveying concrete facts of value in culture studies, and sent out to deserving schools. An intelligent distribution of the duplicate materials in anthropology is prospectively of great educational benefit to many institutions in the United States, espe- cially to smaller schools with limited facilities. An increasing number of schools teach art, and such collections as are sent out are adapted for instruction in designing, using Indian art as a basis for the coming American school. Besides the gifts noted above, several exchanges were made in the division of ethnology which added valuable specimens to the collection. The division supplied Rev. Dr. James M. Magruder, Annapolis, Md., with two model arrows of the southern Maryland Indians of 1750, to be sent by the Patriotic Society of the Ark and Dove of Baltimore to the King of England as a reminder of the tribute of arrows sent by the colony of Maryland during the colonial period. From the division of physical anthropology a quantity of un- identified skeletal material was prepared for the George Washington University, at their request, as a gift. The department of anthropolog}'^ sent out 7 gifts, comprising 151 specimens, and 10 exchanges, comprising 237 specimens. There were received in the department, for examination and report, 36 lots of specimens, diversified in character. NUMBEE OF .SPECIMENS ADDED TO THE DEPARTMENT. During the year there were received 149 accessions comprising 2,324 specimens, in addition to the major portion of the Hunting- ton collection of skeletal material, which has not yet been completely catalogued. Of these, 24 accessions, containing 691 specimens, were loans and deposits. The total number of specimens were assigned as follows: Ethnology, 586 specimens; American archeology. 861 specimens; Old World archeology, 414 specimens; physical anthro- pology, 115 specimens besides the skeletal material mentioned above ; art textiles, 133 specimens; musical instruments, 16 specimens; and ceramics, 199 specimens. In addition, 6 accessions, comprising 84 specimens, were entered in the department before the transfer of the recording for the section of period costumes to the division of history and are not included in the figures given. REPORT ON. THE DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY. By Leonhakd Stejnegeb, Head Curator. IMPORTANT CHANGES IN ORGANIZATION AND STAFF. The hope expressed in my last annual report that " in the near future " it might be possible to subdivide further the large division of marine invertebrates was partly realized, when, on February 1, 1921, the old division of mollusks was reestablished, which since October 16, 1914, had been combined with the division of marine invertebrates for economical and administrative reasons in a single division under the latter title. By the new arrangement the curator of the combined division. Dr. Paul Bartsch, remained curator of the division of mollusks, while the associate curator, Mr. Waldo L. Schmitt, was promoted to curator of marine invertebrates. For administrative reasons the collection of living, madreporarian corals, and the helminthological collections remain for the present under the curator of mollusks. The name " division of marine inver- tebrates" has thereby become a misnomer more than ever; but as there is no satisfactory collective term for the heterogeneous collec- tions consisting of crustaceans, worms, sponges, etc., all together or in part, and including fresh-water as well as terrestrial animals in addition to the truly marine forms, it has been thought best to retain the old designation without qualification until further subdivisions in the future shall have made a more suitable nomenclature possible. Unfortunately, this sej^aration of the divisions could not be accom- panied by any increase in the scientific staff. It is not only humili- ating for the leading scientific institution of the Nation to have to depend upon the generosity of other museums and private individuals for aid in answering the numerous inquiries as to the identity of en- tire phyla of the lower animals and in classifying and reporting upon its own unsurpassed collections, but it is positively detrimental to the progress of science, applied as well as unapplied, that there are cer- tain important groups of animals of which we have not a specialist in this country so situated that they can be worked up. It is not pleasant to have to confess that, to mention an example, we have in Washington no person who can classify and identify our spiders and our myriapods, but it seems almost incredible that, in spite of the efforts which have been made for fully 15 years, it has as yet been im- possible to find the means for having the unrivaled collection of sponges in the National Museum named and described by an Ameri- 71305°— 21 4 47 48 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. can zoologist. This collection, one of the finest of its kind, was re- ceived back during the present year from Europe where it was sent many years ago to be monographed by the then leading authority on that group of invertebrate animals. As the vicissitudes of this col- lection point a moral, it may be well in this connection to briefly out- line their history : After negotiations, carried on for several years^ the entire collection of sponges of the National Museum was shipped in 1906 to Prof. R. von Lendenfeld, at Prague, Bohemia, to be worked up, as it has been found impossible to find anybody in America capable of undertaking their stud3\ The financing of this enterprise was assumed by the late Dr. Alexander Agassiz, who was greatly interested in the work. A small portion of the collection comprising specimens sent over previously was returned in 1908, and the result of their study published in 1910, In the meantime Doctor Agassiz's financial position required him to withdraw his subsidy for the working uf) of the Museum material, and he died shortly after. The negotiations with von Lendenfeld for the continuation of the work fell through, because the Museum, in spite of the endeavors of Dr. R. Rathbun, the assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in charge of the National Museum, was unable to spare the necessary amount from the regular appropriation, and no other financial assistance was obtainable. The proposition to establish a position on the scientific staff of the Museum for the study of sponges and recall the collection was discussed, but liad to be abandoned for lack of means. Prof, von Lendenfeld's death in 1913 caused the renewal of the negotiations with his successor, Prof. E. Trojan, but with no better result. Very reluctantly, and only after all efforts to find a satisfac- tory way had failed. Doctor Rathbun, in June, 1914, ordered the collection to be returned for the purpose of storing it until it should be possible to induce a capable American zoologist to devote himself to the important work of making this remarkable collection accessible to the scientific world. Later the World War broke out and nothing was heard from the collection for more than five j^ears. It was scarcely to be expected that this priceless alcoholic collection, which in all these years had been in the enemies' country, should have es- caped destruction in the general collapse of the Austrian Empire. Great relief was therefore felt when early in 1920 a letter was received from Professor Trojan announcing that he had taken care of the collection during the war, and that it was still intact and in good con- dition. Gratefully recognizing his efforts to preserve the specimens, a . satisfactory arrangement was made with Professor Trojan to have the entire sponge collection packed and returned. It was finally re- ceived after an absence of 15 years. The specimens are here, it is true, but we are not one whit nearer the realization of the aim for BEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. 49 which these collections were brought together at the expenditure of much money, labor, and ingenuity,,than we were before they were first sent abroad. They still represent a dead mass of material awaiting proper utilization in the service of scientific progress and must re- main so until the Museum shall be financially able to support a sj)ecialist in this important branch of science. The moral of the above needs not to be pointed out; the danger and futility is too obvious. The department sustained a very serious loss during the year in the deaths of Mr. Nelson R. Wood and Mr. William Palmer, both taxidermists of the first rank. Mr. Wood, who died on November 8, 1920, was undoubtedly the foremost bird taxidermist in this country. The bird exhibit is a lasting monument to his grasp of the character of each individual and his unsurpassed ability to give it lifelike expression. The technical skill with which he handled old and seem- ingly impossible skins and achieved results as if it had been fresh material was no less remarkable, and the saving and rejuvenescence of manj^ rare and valuable old specimens is due to his thoughtful and loving care. The remounting of the great auk is a case in point. Mr. William Palmer, whose death occurred on April 8, 1921, in his 65th year, was an excellent all-around museum preparator. He was as skillful in mounting mammals and birds as in making plaster casts of whales, fishes, and reptiles ; his ability to paint these and to fashion the accessories of the various biological groups was of no mean grade ; and he was equally successful in handling the cleaning and mounting of a large whale skeleton as in preparing an exhibit of dainty butterflies. But Mr. Palmer was more. He had an extensive knowledge of the natural history of the animals and plants of this region; his special knowledge of certain groups of birds and their plumages was considerable ; he had also paid particular attention to collection and studying the fossil remains of whales. In the Museum exhibition series the collection illustrating the fauna of the District of Columbia is almost exclusively his work, and to a great extent also the casts in the whale hall and in the fish and reptile hall. COMPARISON OF INCREMENT OF SPECIMENS OF 1920-21 WITH THAT OF 1919—20. From the numerical standpoint the collections of this department show a healthy growth during the past year, no less than 251,485 specimens having been received as against 136,765 during the previous year. This increase is observable in almost all the divisions. It is even more satisfactory to be able to report that all the curators ex- press themselves as highly pleased with the scientific importance of the new accessions, in instances characterizing the collections received as "of greatly increased value" (mammals), or "of far greater value" (fishes), or "greatly surpassing in value last year's acces- 50 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1^21. sions" (insects). In this connection I wish to emphasize what I alluded to in last j'^ear's report, namely, that an increase in the num- ber of specimens received means additional demands on the time and labor of the staff and that this means less time and chance for scientific work unless additional help can be obtained. The showing this year is gratifying because it seems to indicate a return to normal growth interrupted by the war, but normal growth in the quantity and qual- ity of the accessions requires also a normal growth in the staff and in the appropriations for the maintainance of the ever-growing collections. ACCKS.SIONS DBSBEVING SPECIAL NOTICE, AND WHY. The outstanding features of this year's accession, like those of last year's, are the Australian collections made by Dr. Charles M. Hoy, which we owe to the continued generosity of Dr. W. L. Abbott, and those resulting from the Smithsonian African expedition. To Doctor Abbott we are furthermore indebted for a valuable collection of mammals, birds, and reptiles, collected by C. Boden Kloss in Siam, Anam, and Cochin China, from which countries we have had but scant material before. Doctor Abbott, himself, collected nu- merous birds, reptiles, land mollusks, and, in conjunction with Mr. E. C. Leonard, about 10,000 plants in Haiti. Miscellaneous col- lections of great importance were also received from the Bureau of Fisheries, Department of Commerce, and the Biological Survey, De- partment of Agriculture, as will be detailed below. The more important accessions, distributed among the various divisions, are as follows: Mammals. — The most valuable single specimen received by the entire department was a fine skeleton of a whale, about 45 feet long, which Avas generously presented by Mr. James A. xVllison, presi- dent of the Miami Aquarium Association, to the National Museum on behalf of the association. This specimen which was stranded some years ago at Pablo Beach, Fhi., is of particular interest, as it belongs to a rare species, which hitherto has been represented from North American waters by fragments only. The individual bones are now being photographed and studied with a view to the publi- cation of a monograph, and the skeleton will then be placed on exhi- bition in the whale hall. The Australian mammals collected by Mr. Hoy number 571 specimens, representing about 42 genera and 75 species. The material consists primarily of well-prepared skins, skulls, and skeletons, as well as of many embryos and pouch young preserved in alcohol. The 144 mammals from Siam, Anam, and Cochin China, collected by Mr. Boden Kloss, included 17 types. The C99 mammals from Africa, collected by Mr. H. C. Raven, of the REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. 51 Smithsonian African expedition, in conjunction with the Universal Film Manufacturing Co., form a valuable general collection sup- plementing, in an important manner, the large African collections already in the Museum. The Bureau of Fisheries transferred to the division 4:0 skulls and one skeleton of the Alaskan fur seal from the Pribilof Islands. These skulls, which were collected by Dr. G. D. Hanna, are of very great importance, as they are supplemented with very detailed data as to age, size, etc., and form the basis of Doctor Hanna's studies of the development of this economically important species. Several large Canadian mammals, including mule deer and mountain goats, were collected by Secretary Walcott of the Smith- sonian Institution for the Museum. Mr. A. F. Bearpark, of Cape Town, South Africa, donated a fetus of a whale from South Africa. Bii'ds. — That Dr. W. L. Abbott's interest in the fauna of the farther India is as keen as ever is evidenced by the fine collection of 496 birds made by Mr. C. Boden Kloss, of the Federated Malay States Museums, Kuala, Ijumpur, in Siam, Cochin China, and Anam, which he presented to the Museum. The region was only slightly repre- sented in our collection, so that naturally there are a considerable number of forms new to the Museum, approximately 90 species and subspecies and 3 genera. The collection also contains the types of 6 species recently described by Mr. Kloss. Hoy's Australian birds number 487 skins and 47 alcoholics and skeletons, and contains also a generous proportion of species new to the Museum, though no figures can be given at present. A genus of lyre birds {Hamiohitea) is new to the Museum, as well as a number of local forms from Kangaroo Island, South Australia. Of the several hundred birds personally collected by Doctor Abbott in Haiti and Santo Domingo, several are of particular interest. The thick-knee or stone-plover {Oedicnemus dominicensis) and the local form of the grasshopper-sparrow {Ammo- dramus savannarwrn intricatus) were new to the Museum; while a whippoorwill is apparently new to science. Mr. Kaven, of the Smith- sonian African expedition, collected 162 skins and 47 skeletons and alcoholics. As the collection has not' yet been worked up, the niun- ber of new additions are not known, but at least one genus, Megahias^ has been recognized as hitherto unrepresented in the Museum. An alcoholic specimen of Smithornis will be of great assistance in ascer- taining the correct place of this genus in the system. From the Department of Agriculture several important additions were re- ceived, principally birds, alcoholics, and skeletons, the result of Dr. A. Wetmore's explorations in Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay. From the Swales fund, placed at the disposition of the division by Mr. B. H. Swales as mentioned in last year's report, 41 skins of foreign birds were obtained, representing about 38 species new to the Museum, including seven genera not hitherto contained in the national collec- 52 BEPORT OF I7ATI0NAL MUSEUM, 1921. tion, among them Sypheotis, a genus of bustards, and Ptilolaemus, a genus of hornbills. Two rare Australian species new to the collec- tions were generously donated by Capt. S. A. "White, of Fulham, South Australia. The egg collection received a noteworthy addi- tion by the gift of 8,344 eggs and 10 nests from Dr. Theodore W. Richards, United States Navy, from various parts of the world, among them a number of eggs of foreign species not previously present in the Museum. A single egg of the rare tooth-billed or dodo pigeon {Diclunculus strigirostris) of Samoa, donated by Mr. Mason Mitchell, now American consul at Queenstown, Ireland, is particu- larly noteworthy because it is the first egg of this bird to come to the Museum, and thus represents a family, genus, and species new to the national egg collection. Reptiles and mnphihiwtis. — The Hoy Australian collections con- tained 118 specimens, including many species new to the collection, and Raven's African material, 205 specimens of almost equal im- portance. The South American herpetological fauna is poorly rep- resented in the national collections, and the specimens from Argen- tina and Paraguay collection of Dr. Alexander Wetmore were therefore very welcome. From China, also poorly represented, small but interesting collections were received from no less than three sources, as follows : Twelve from Suifu, Province of Sze Chuan, through Eev. David C. Graham; 16 from the southwestern part of Hunan Province, collected by Dr. Lewis R. Thompson ; and 11 from Che-Kiang, donated by Mr. C. H. Barlow. Mr. C. T. Ramsden, of Guantanamo, Cuba, made the division a very acceptable gift of 24 specimens from that island, mostly representing very rare species. A very interesting addition was presented by the Univer- sity of Michigan, namely, 4 tadpoles of the remarkable discoglossoid toad Ascaphus truei from Washington. Fishes. — By far the largest and most important collection of fishes received in many years was transferred to the Museum by the United States Bureau of Fisheries. It consists of approximately 100,000 specimens, the result of the collecting by the Fisheries steamer Albatross in Philippine waters during the years 1907-1910. It is to be hoped that means may be found to work up within a reason- able time this unrivaled collection, which it has cost the Govern- ment such great efforts and outlay to acquire. The Fisheries Bureau also transferred 7 types and 16 cotypes of malacoj)terygian fishes collected by its schooner GraTnpus, as well as 8,367 specimens from the Potomac River and its tributaries. The Hoy Australian collec- tion contained 52 specimens, including at least one genus, Aracana^ new to the collection. Another Australian collection of 51 speci- mens was obtained in exchange with the Australian Museum in Sydney, containing 8 species new to the National Museum. By EEPOBT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. 53 exchange with the Indiana University Museum 250 specimens col- lected by the Irwin expedition to Chile and Peru, 1918-19, were acquired. The Smithsonian African expedition brought 48 speci- mens from Lake Taganyika, with at least 2 noteworthy additions to our collection. An interesting lot of 10 specimens of fishes, among which several new species, killed by a lava flow from Mauna Loa, Hawaii, into the ocean was presented by Dr. David Starr Jordan. They were collected by Tom Reinhardt and Carl S. Carlsmith about October 6, 1919. Insects. — Several important collections made by private individuals have been donated during the present year. Among them the J. P. Iddings collection of butterflies and moths, presented by the heirs of Doctor Iddings, is in a way unique, since all the 2,500 named speci- mens, mostly from the Tropics, especially of the oriental region, were mounted in Riker and similar mounts ready for exhibition. They were at once placed in suitable cabinets, but the final arrangement and labeling are still in progress. Another collection of Lepidoptera, con- sisting of about 5,000 specimens, was donated by Mr, B. Preston Clark, The W. D. Richardson collection of Coleoptera, about 4,350 specimens, was presented to the Museum b}^ the collector. Another welcome gift consisted of about 2,000 specimens of miscellaneous Phil- ippine insects, chiefly Hymenoptera, from Dean C. F. Baker, Los Baiios, P. I. Another noteworthy acquisition relates to the class Protura, animals similar to a very primitive wingless type of insects, but without antennae. Of this group, of which only 26 species are known in the world, 12 species, 11 new, collected and described by Dr. H. E. Ewing, were donated by him. It should finally be men- tioned that Mr. William Schaus, of the Bureau of Entomology, and an honorary assistant curator in the division of insects, has continued to make gifts of Lepidoptera from his private collection and by pur- chase, and has also donated much material which he has received from other lepidopterists by exchanging portions of his own collection with them. He has also purchased water-color paintings of more than 50 rare butterflies and donated them to the collection. Marine invet'tehrates. — As usual, the Bureau of Fisheries was the largest single contributor, the principal accession being some 360 lots of sponges collected by the Fisheries steamer Albatross in 1902 (Hawaii) and 1904-5 (eastern Pacific) estimated at comprising more than a thousand specimens. These were included in the ship- ment from Prague by Doctor Trojan. They had originally been transmitted to Doctor von Lendenfeld by the bureau direct. Among the other specimens transferred by the Bureau of Fisheries may be noted a rather complete series of juvenile stages in the life history of Uca pugilator, one of the east-coast fiddler crabs, through Mr. O. W. 54 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. Hyman, acting director of the Beaufort station of the bureau. Such material is highly desirable, as the stages in the life histories of crustaceans present a field of investigation but little worked and about which little is known. A valuable lot of about 600 decapod and ampliipod crustacea, part of the material secured by the Ameri- can Museum Congo expedition, was received from that institution, Miss M. J. Eathbun and Mr. C. E. Shoemaker, both of the National Museum, having worked up and reported upon the collections of the expedition. Similarly, 87 specimens, representing 57 species of decapod crustaceans, were received from the Australian Museum, Sydney, being part of the material gathered by the Endeavour expe- dition upon which a report by Miss Rathbun is now in process of publication. By exchange, 28 specimens, 9 species of fresh- water shrimps, part of the material upon which Dr. R. P. Cowles based his paper on the " Palaemons of the Philippine Islands," published in 1914, were obtained from the department of zoology of the Uni- versity of the Philippines, Manila. From Japan two collections of Crustacea were received, namely, 56 from the Pescadores Islands, presented by the Institute of Science, Taihoku, Formosa, through Dr. M. Oshima, and 337 specimens from northern Japan, collected and donated by Dr. Madoka Sasaki, Hokkaido Imperial University, Sapporo. The types of several new species were also added as gifts by their discoverers or describers, thus two parasitic copepods de- scribed by Prof. C. B. Wilson, from the Venice Marine Biological Station, received through Prof. A. B. Ulrey; another parasitic copepod described by the same, and collected and presented by Prof. S. I. Kornhauser, Denison University; and one polychaete worm from Valdez Harbor, Alaska, described by Prof. A. L. Treadwell and collected by Lieut. Col. C. A. Seoane, United States Army, who donated the specimen. Mollusks. — The most important accession of the year is a gift from Mr. Y. Hirase, Kioto, Japan, embracing 3,843 lots from the Japanese islands ; in fact, according to Doctor Bartsch's report, it is one of the most valuable accessions that has ever come to the division of mol- lusks. Together with the Thaanum collection and the material dredged by the fisheries steamer Albatross, it places the National Museum collection of Pacific mollusks " above all other in the world." It is the product of a lifetime's efforts on the part of Mr. Hirase and a corps of private collectors employed by him. The actual number of specimens included in this splendid accession can not be given at the present time, as final unpacking awaits the receipt of printed blank labels and sufficient containers. About 2.500 mollusks from Hawaii, contributed by Dr. Paul Bartsch and Mr. John B. Hen- derson, make another valuable addition to our large collection from REPOET OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. 55 those islands. Quite a number of individual collectors contributed to the Hawaiian series, among others, Miss Olga Smith, Mr. Irwin Spaulding, and Mr. Walter D. Giffard, all of Honolulu, and Mrs. Edna Bowen, of Hanalei, Kauai. To Dr. W. L. Abbott we owe 1,346 specimens of land shells from Haiti and a number of others from Santo Domingo, all of his own collecting, while several of the accessions from Australia are the results of Mr. Hoy's collecting, all of these collections containing large numbers of noteworthy mollusks. The Smithsonian African expedition also contributed several collec- tions of mollusks, and from the Philippine Islands several welcome additions were received from Mr. C. F. Baker, P. I.; Dr. David T. Gochenour, Stuarts Draft, Va. ; and Mr. H. N. Lowe, Long Beach, Calif. ; the latter two containing types of new species. Our relatively small collection of South American mollusks has been increased by several individual collections, nearly all containing new species, from Dr. C. Wythe Cooke, Washington, D. C, specimens from Co- lombia; from Dr. H. Pittier, Caracas, Venezuelan mollusks; from Dr. F, Felippone, Montevideo, specimens from Uruguay and Brazil. Shipworms, material of which is always desirable, were re- ceived from the division of biology of the science and agricultural department of Demerara. Mr. Ralph W. Jackson, Cambridge, Md., contributed a number of marine shells, including types of two new species, and Dr. Mario Sanchez, Habana, Cuba, a similar collec- tion containing five types. Prof. A. S. Pearse, Madson, Wis., deposited a large number of types and other material of parasitic worms, and material transferred by the Bureau of Fisheries contained two of Doctor Linton's cestode types. Echinoderms. — Through Prof. Max Weber the division obtained 267 specimens of unstalked crinoids, from the Dutch East Indies, in- cluding about 40 species new to our collection and many cotypes, all collected by the Dutch Sihoga expedition. From the German South Polar expedition, through Prof. R. Hartmeyer, 23 specimens of unstalked crinoids from the Gauss expedition, all new to our collec- tion, were similarly received. The State University of Iowa's Bar- bados-Antigua expedition, through Prof. C. C. Nutting, contributed 71 specimens of ophiurans, nearly all from localities unrepresented in our collection. Plants. — The National Herbarium has been increased during the year by over 14.000 specimens from Haiti and Santo Domingo col- lected by Dr. W. L. Abbott, and Mr. Emery C. Leonard, of the di- vision of plants. The Bureau of Plant Industry, of the Department of Agriculture, transferred 9,673 specimens, including 4,298 speci- mens of grasses. The collection contained about 3,000 specimens from Siam. Burma, and Assam, recently collected by Mr. J. F. Rock, be- 56 BEPORT OF NATIOITAL MUSEUM, 1921. sides 660 specimens collected in Guatemala and Honduras by Dr. S. F, Blake, and 700 from the western United States collected by W. W. Eggleston. Another transfer from the Biological Survey of the same department, contained 1,198 specimens from Alaska, Canada, and various parts of the United States. The University of Minnesota presented the Museum with 749 specimens from several parts of South America, while the National Geographic Society similarly do- nated 1,180 Alaskan plants collected by the several Katmai expedi- tions under the leadership of Prof. Robert F. Griggs. Other gifts were 730 specimens from Venezueki, collected and donated by Mr. H. Pittier ; 726 specimens of Louisiana plants presented by Brother G. Arsene, Covington, La.; and 1,614 miscellaneous specimens, the herbarium of the late Dr. F. L. J. Boettcher, a gift from Mrs. Boettcher. A large number of specimens were received in exchange, thus 2,308, mostly from the West Indies, with the New York Bo- tanical Garden; 2,938 j^lants from Borneo and the Philippines, with the Bureau of Science at Manila ; 400 specimens from China and New Caledonia, with G. Bonati, Lure, France; 483 specimens from Mexico, with the Direccion de Estudios Biologicos, Mexico; 1,160 specimens, chiefly European, with Eiksmuseets Botaniska Avdelning, Stock- holm; 2,019 United States plants, with the Arnold Arboretum; and 713 specimens, mainly from Quebec, with College de Longueuil. EXPLORATIONS AND EXPEDITIONS. From the standpoint of exploration and expedition the year just completed must be characterized as unusually poor. In fact, were it not for the expeditions still in the field at the beginning of the year, and for Dr. W. L. Abbott's unflagging interest and generosity, the showing would be very poor indeed. It must be set down as an indisputable proposition that a large museum, and most assuredly one aspiring to be among the leading museums, and, moreover, one repre- senting.the richest nation in the world, can not maintain its standing without being able to send out properly planned and properly fitted- out expeditions for the purpose of expanding, supplementing, and . completing its collections. Take these away and the institution must infallibly sink down to an humble place among those striving for the purpose of science and the benefit of mankind, and, incidentally, the benefit and glory of the country they represent. The value of a national museum of natural history is not so much in the display it is able to make as in the opportunity for research and exploration. It is not too much to say that for such a museum exploration is the very breath of life. Even in countries impoverished by war, directly or indirectly, an honorable and, let it be said, not altogether vain struggle is being kept up to continue the work of adding to the workl's knowledge as circumstances will best permit. If we look REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. 57 back upon the past history of our own institution, is it not clear that the high achievement we have attained and the splendid position we have reached are due in a great measure to the surveys and explora- tions which have emanated from here, and the researches and studies of our men based on the material collected? The reputation of the Smithsonian Institution and its child, the National Museum, it is no exaggeration to say is largely based upon just that kind of work. To live up to that reputation, to keep from sliding down from this enviable position, it will be necessary to find means for future ex- plorations maturely planned and energetically carried out. At the end of the year, only one of the previous more ambitious expeditions is still in the field, namely, that of Mr. C. M. Hoy, in Australia, financed by Dr. W. L. Abbott. During the past year his reports in part relate to collections made at the following localities : Farina, S. A. : Work in tlie Farina district was done at Lindhurst, 30 miles east of the town of Farina. Nineteen days were spent liere, resulting in the collection of 110 birds and 64 mammals. A few reptiles and insects were also collected. Kangaroo Island, S. A.: Twenty-six days were spent, in the field, on Kan- garoo Island, with the result of 85 mammals, 51 birds, and miscellaneous rep- tiles, amphibians, and marine specimens collected. Port Lincoln (Eyres Peninsula), S. A.: Twenty-two days were spent in the field resulting in the collection of 86 birds and but 15 mammals. A few miscel- laneous specimens, including reptiles, Crustacea, etc., were also obtained. Busselton, W. A. (50 miles south) : Camp was pitched 50 miles south of the town of Busselton, on the edge of the Government timber reserve. Forty days were spent in camp. The weather was the worst that I have experienced. During the while 40 days there were only 3 days free from rain. Over 18 inches fell in that time. It was impossible to keep things dry, and even the tent fly went green with mold. Despite these handicaps, however, a pretty fair collection was obtained. The collection contains 94 mammals, 46 birds, and a few miscellaneous alcoholic specimens (reptiles and land shells). Derby, W. A. (82 miles southeast) : Twenty-three days were spent in the above locality, August 7-29. The locality visited was very poor in both mammal and bird life, and a collection of only 43 mammals, 68 birds, and 10 reptiles secured. Port Darwin, X. T. (100 miles south) : Forty-four days were spent, in the field, in the Northern Territory of Australia. An area of country 30 miles in extent, running south by west from Brocks Creek to the Douglas River, was worked. On this trip 114 mamals, representing about 15 species, 106 birds, and 17 miscellaneous reptiles and amphibians, etc., were obtained. Ebor District, N. S. W. (52 miles east of Armidale) : Two camps were pitched, one near the highest point on the northern N. S. W. tableland, at an elevation of 5,000 feet and one a thousand feet lower. It was at the first camp that the most successful work was done. Forty-four days were spent in camp (Jan. 18-Feb. 27) and some very interesting results were obtained; 141 mam- mals, 34 birds, and 19 miscellaneous reptiles, land shells, etc., were collected. The weather was very much against me, as heavy, drizzling fogs and rain was an almost everyday occurrence, and there were seldom two fine days at a stretch. 58 EEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. During the year two shipments were received from Mr. Hoy. A total of 571 mammals, well prepared, several of which were hitherto unrepresented in our collection, together with a series of skeletal and embryological material. The birds numbered 534 specimens and represented considerably over 100 species and subspecies. A num- ber of interesting reptiles, amphibians, fishes, and marine inverte- brates were also collected. The Smithsonian African expedition, the organization and start- ing out of which were detailed in my last year's report, completed its biological work on July 14, 1920. In the vicinity of Cape Town, Mr. Raven was able to collect only insects and invertebrates, and from there he went to the Addo Bush, where 19 days were spent in collecting small mammals and birds. Going through Durban and Johannesburg, Mr. Eaven spent two weeks collecting at Ottoshoop in the Transvaal, after which he pro- ceeded to Victoria Falls, and from there he left for the Kafue Eiver region, where he camped for several weeks. After spending some weeks along the Congo, he reached Lake Tanganyika, where camp was made for about a month. The next stop of any length was in Uganda, where a few days over a month were spent in collecting in the Budongo Forest. Though not numerically large, the collections are of unusual in- terest on account of the manner in which the}'^ supplement those ob- tained by other expeditions in which the Smithsonian Institution has been interested. Among the most important material may be men- tioned 699 mammals (including 272 specimens from South Africa, a region hitherto ver}^ imperfectly represented in our collection ; 152 from Lake Tanganyika; the chimpanzee of Uganda) ; 567 birds, 206 reptiles, and 193 fishes, the latter from Lake Tanganyika. About 100 lots of mollusks were also collected. A few new expeditions undertaken during the year have been in- strumental in adding valuable material to our collections. Late in 1920 Dr. W. L. Abbott undertook personally another ex- pedition, this time visiting the north side of Santo Domingo (Villa Riva, Pimentel, Catui, Mao in the Yaqui Valley, and several points on the Samana Peninsula) and returning in May, 1921. He brought back a small but select collection of birds, but his main efforts were devoted to the collecting of plants, approximately 4,000 of which have been received and will doubtless prove of great value. The Biological Survey, Department of Agriculture, anxious to ob- tain first-hand information concerning the movements of North American migratory birds in southern South America, in the spring of 1920 sent Dr. Alexander Wetmore to Argentina, where he col- lected information and specimens in the Provinces of Chaco and For- mosa, as well as in the Paraguayan Chaco, during the winter season. REPORT or NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. 59 Returning to the pampas in the Province of Buenos xA.ires, he later proceeded to northern Patagonia. In January, 1921, he crossed to Montevideo, studying and collecting in Uruguay until the end of February, when he returned to Argentina, extending his explora- tions west to the foothills of the Andes. Crossing the Andes into Chile he returned from there to New York by way of the Panama Canal. Over 2,500 specimens of mammals and birds were brought home by Doctor Wetmore, besides reptiles and lower animals. A feature of his collection of particular importance is that, in addition to paying special attention to the main purpose of his expedition, he secured a large and valuable collection of anatomical material in the form of skeletons and alcoholics. Incidental to his geological explorations in Canada during 1920, Dr. C. D. Walcott, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, as usual had the museum's need of good fresh material for the renewal of its large manunal groups in mind, and among other specimens col- lected two Rocky Mountain goats. During August and September, 1920, Dr. Paul Bartsch, curator of mollusks, was delegated by the State Department to attend the first Pan-Pacific Scientific Congress at Honolulu. He was accompanied by Mr. John B. Henderson. While the meeting of the congress con- sumed the greater portion of their time, they still found oppor- tunity to make a notable collection for the museum, among which were about 2,500 mollusks. These materially increase the value of our rapidly growing and exceedingly important collection of Ha- waiian mollusks, and are remarkable for the fact that fully 80 lots contain few or no duplicates of Hawaiian material already in the collection. Reestablishing the heredity experiments which are being carried on under the joint auspices of the Smithsonian and Carnegie Institutions and which were interrupted by the hurricane in 1919, Doctor Bartsch, during a period of about six weeks in May and June, 1921, visited the Bahamas to secure new stock material and then established a new set of cages for Cerions on Loggerhead Key, Tor- tugas, in which the heredity work is conducted. Incidentally, he se- cured a collection of about 20,000 Bahama Cerions and other mol- lusks, as well as other invertebrates and a few birds, reptiles, and amphibians. Excursions into South America by several experts connected with the Geological Survey resulted in the addition of noteworthy collec- tions of land and fresh-water mollusks, by Dr. C. Wythe Cooke, from Colombia, and Mr. George L. Harrington from Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile. Toward the end of the fiscal year it became possible to take ad- vantage of certain facilities offered over the Government railroad now under construction in Alaska and have Dr. J. M. Aldrich, asso- 60 REPORT OF liTATIONAL MUSEUM, 15^2.1. ciate curator of insects, proceed to the interior of Alaska for the i:»ur- pose of making a general collection of insects from this entomologi- cally almost unknown part of the country. The first step has thus been taken toward the realization of a plan which would eventually extend these explorations into the adjacent parts of Asia, and pos- sibly the entire palearctic regions. Without thoroughly representative material from that part of the world it will be impossible to gain a satisfactory knowledge of our own subarctic and boreal province. T\nien last heard from Doctor Aldrich's expedition had reached the field and begun collecting operations. About the same time Dr. William M. Mann, of the Bureau of Entomology, and assistant custodian in the section of Hymenoptera, division of insects, joined the Mulford biological expedition to South America, which started on June 1, and which, it is hoped, will enrich the Museum's collections materially. Allusion has already been made to Dr. W. L. Abbott's expedition to Santo Domingo, chiefly in the interest of plant collecting. The only other botanical expedition to be mentioned is that of Dr. A. S. Hitchcock, custodian of the grass herbarium, who left in April, 1921, upon an extended collecting trip in the Philippines, Japan, China, and the Indo-Malayan region. At the request of Dr. E. D. Merrill, director of the bureau of science, he will elaborate the grasses for a proposed flora of the Philippines. The primary object of the trip is to gather data for a revision of the bamboos of the world. WORK OF PEESEKVING AND INSTALLING THE COLLECTIONS. PRESENT CONDITION OF COLLECTIONS. The conditions which at present hamper the development of the biological exhibition series and which were detailed in my report of last year have continued. What was then said about lack of space ; the closing of most of the exhibits on the second floor; the incon- venience of the present arrangement to the specialists of the mammal division; all these features remain unrelieved and explain the apparent lack of progress in the exhibition halls, with the result that the renewal of the bird exhibit, on the one hand, and the development of the District of Columbia exhibit, on the other, have come to a temporary standstill. The aim has therefore been to improve, whenever possible, the quality of the specimens already on exhibition, by remounting such skins as are still in good condition or by substituting new material, whenever available, for the old, faded, or poorly mounted animals. Some of the older speci- mens, it must be remembered, date back to the early days when skins were literally "stuffed," while others have come to the Museum in later years ready mounted from dealers or other museums not prac- ticing the most advanced methods of taxidermy. This art has under- REPORT OF NATIONAL, MUSEUM, IS^l. 61 gone a wonderful transformation from the time Mr. Hornaday, as chief taxidermist of the National Museum, and his colleagues intro- duced modern ideas into the craft. By their knowledge of the living animals and improved technique, the National Museum achieved foremost rank, and a large number of lifelike mounts in the collec- tion still testify to their skill and artistic sense. Naturally, how- ever, not all the specimens from that time claim to be first class, and there is evident a tendency to exaggerate the bulk of many animals. Reacting against this tendency, the next generation of taxidermists went to the other extreme, by only considering the bony structure of the animals, with the result that quite a number of prominent specimens look as if the skins had been stretched over the dry skeleton without reference to the soft tissues and organs. Obviously the ideal method of mounting a skin of a dead animal is to model the body from a living specimen of the same species. When it was decided to remount an African leopard in the exhibition series, which, though being of average quality, showed certain obvious de- fects when compared with a living leopard at the National Zoolog- ical Park, arrangements were made with the superintendent, Mr. N. Hollister, to allow Mr. W. L. Brown, the taxidermist, to work at the park in front of the leopard case. The skin was stripped from the old manikin and tanned, and then the necessary alterations made as the living animal posed before the taxidermist. The experiment was highly successful, with the result that, instead of an indifferent specimen, there has now been placed on exhibition a lifelike leopard showing all the characteristics of this graceful, yet ferocious cat. In addition to this, a number of new mammals have been incorpo- rated in the show collection during the year. As Mr. Hoy's Aus- tralian expedition has supplied a number of fine mountable skins representing the unique characteristics of the fauna of that far-away continent, a beginning has been made to renovate the entire Aus- tralian mammal exhibit. In my last annual report I called attention to the fact that the closing of the north and west ranges on the second floor had made it necessary to display the miscellaneous collection of the animals of the District of Columbia in the whale hall. The insistence of the public to see at least part of the mounted insect collection made it desirable to further add to the heterogenous character of the ex- hibits in that hall, by installing there five slide screens holding 80 unit trays of insects, displaying many striking forms from various countries. When the splendid J. P. Iddings collection of butterflies and moths, nearly all beautifully displayed in Riker mounts, was given to the museum it was found expedient to install it, tempo- rarily at least, in a couple of specially constructed cabinets so ar- ranged that the visiting public could themselves pull out the 62 BEPORT OF l^ATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. drawers, thereb}' guarding against the deterioration of the collec- tion by continuous exposure to the light. This collection is not labeled as yet, but the work is a slow one, and the time which the custodian can give to this work so limited that it may be some time before the task can be completed. The curatorial work in the various divisions has progressed as- usual. In the division of mammals no cases for skins were received during the year, so that this part of the collection is rather over- crowded at the present time. The skulls are in much better condi- tion, the improvement in the attic being notable. Additional cases in the latter storage have also been furnished for the rearrangement of the skeletons there, and considerable headway in their proper in- stallation has been accomplished during the year. The alcoholic collection has been gone over and the condition, like that of the rest of the collections in this division, is considered good. All of the larger cetacean material, formerly stored in the northeast basement of the old museum has been removed to tlie new museum, where portions of it are now stored. The valuable collection of small and medium-sized cetaceans has been reinstalled in 30 quarter-unit cases, arranged and labeled, and is now in good condition. The rearrangement in the division of birds, due to the respacing made necessary, was continued during the present year; that of the parrots being completed. The weaver birds (Ploceidae) were also rearranged. Otherwise most of the time has been occupied in label- ing and distributing collections received during the year. A matter causing a great deal of work is the poor quality of the cards furnished for case labels, necessitating frequent renewals. Dur- ing the year 260 cases thus requiring relabeling. One of the most important works of the associate curator consists in posting the old records for data, supplying missing data to entries in the old cata- logues, searching out lost types and work of similar character, but the work is of necessity slow, and but little time is available from daily routine work. The search for old types was rewarded by finding the type of one of Peale's specimens, a nightjar {^CapTimulgus aequi- cavda), and possibly also one of the Polynesian kingfishers, but its absolute identity has not yet been established. Some of the skins have been remade by the taxidermists, but more work of this character is needed. The accessioning this 3^ear of the large Richards egg col- lection of 8,354 specimens, with the necessary cataloguing and label- ing, has occupied a good deal of the time of the division, but as yet it has been found impossible to number the individual eggs, a work absolutely necessary and for which special provision has been asked, as it can not be handled with the present force. The unusually large number of alcoholics and skeletons received this year also received proper attention, being catalogued and tin tagged, but the labeling REPOET OF ISrATIOISTAL MUSEUM, 1921. 63 and placing of the larger specimens in separate containers had to be suspended toward the end of the year on account of lack of suitable jars. A considerable number of older skeletons were cleaned by the preparators, but have not as yet been card catalogued and dis- tributed. In the division of reptiles, the regular routine work of caring for the specimens has continued without interruption and the cata- loguing brought up to date. The card cataloguing which had to be suspended for some time was resumed, arrangement being made for having part of the work done in the head curator's office. All the dry turtle material has now been transferred to the third story and placed in metal-covered quarter unit cases. Similarly, in the division of fishes the collections have been regu- larly inspected, the containers refilled or changed when necessary, jars and shelves cleaned, labels restored, and much of the older undetermined material named and installed. In the division of insects substantial progress has been made in the care of the collections, especially' in introducing the tray system. Inability to obtain a sufficient number of drawers has been the limiting factor in this work. The associate curator reports that the collections, as a whole, are in as good condition as in any large modern museum, the loss from museum pests being exceptionally small, due to the excellent system of cabinets and drawers adopted. The overhauling and putting in good order of the various lots of material in the alcoholic storage of the division of marine inverte- brates has about kept pace with the requirements of the collection. Further sorting of miscellaneous lots of unidentified material into various major groups of invertebrates has been done. Only recently the sorting of the rather comprehensive collections of the Fish Hawk in Chesapeake Bay has been completed. Coincident with the great arrearages in cataloguing, there is considerable named material on hand waiting to be incorporated in the regular study series. Eevi- sion of the collection of brachyuran crustaceans is being carried along with Miss M. J. Rathbun's monographic reports, and the rear- rangement of the entire alcoholic collections begun during the past fiscal year is being continued as time permits. Doctor Bassler, of the department of geology, in connection with his studies of the Bryozoa, is working up the greater part of the recent unnamed mate- rial and rearranging the entire collection of these forms. From the division of mollusks the report is that the usual routine of naming, labeling, cataloguing, and putting in place in the series has been carried on as in former years. The arrangement and re- installation of the west Atlantic Pelecypods has been completed. The west Atlantic mollusks are now arranged according to latest classifications and nomenclature and large quantities of new ma- 7130.j°— 21 5 64 EEPOET OF ITATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. " terial have been identified and incorporated. This places the east coast collection in good order and easily, available for study. Much time has been devoted to classifying the Philippine collection ac- cording to genera and species and arranging it in systematic order. In the course of identifying material sent in by outside correspond- ents a considerable portion of the collections has been arranged ac- cording to most recent classifications. This is j)articularly true of the west coast mollusks. Rearrangement of the collection of Ameri- can shipworms is well under way, with a view to a monograph in the near future. Since last February the time of one man for one day each week has been devoted to the alcoholic mollusk collection. In all cases where necessary new containers have been supplied and the older ones refilled. This Avork is progressing satisfactorily. Micro- scopic slides of molluskan odontophores to the number of 724, be- longing to the Thaanum collection and prepared by the late Rev. R. Boog Watson, were registered and numbered by the use of a dia- mond point. All defective slides were put into good repair. As may be judged, the addition of so many slides has greatly enhanced the already valuable collection of anatomical preparations belonging to this division. A number of slides of odontophores and of the glochidia of several species of naiad have been made as an addition to our collection of microscopic slides. The reclassification and reno- vation of the general recent collection have been continued through- out the year. The North American fresh-water univalves and the great and difficult families Turbinidae and Trochidae, among the marine shells, were gone over in this way. The labeling an,d register- ing of the great Thaanum collection of shells, most of which came from the Hawaiian Islands, have been completed. Identification of Philippine marine mollusks secured by the Albatross during the cruise of 1907-1910 has been continued. As time goes on, more and more of our material is being thoroughly identified, and great prog- ress in this respect has been made throughout the collection, espe- cially in Hawaiian material, Philippine material, and in material from the east coast of North America and the West Indies and land and fresh-water mollusks from South America. The writing of head labels for the species in the collection has been progressing during the year imtil now a large part of all the collections in our charge is furnished with these labels, adding greatly to convenience in con- sulting them. It seems appropriate to mention at this time the vast amount of time and labor saved by the use of the label holders and blocking-sticks equipped with brass clips. Our collection is growing so rapidly it is estimated that the entire time of at least one person is saved by the use of these small inventions, making it possible for us to keep current the work of the division without asking, to date, for additional assistance. The economy of space in our storage cases REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. 65 is also worthy of note. Approximately 5,000 cards have been written during the year, among them complete bibliogi'aphies of the South American Corbiculidae, the AmpuUaridae of world-wide distribu- tion, and the important genera of Philippine fresh-water shells. This saves an enormous amount of time when working with the col- lections mentioned. The card catalogue gazetteer of the Philippine Islands has been brought up to date. This is of material assistance in working with the Philippine mollusks. In the division of echinoderms considerable progress has been made in overhauling the crinoid collection. The entire collection of dried ophiurans has been rearranged in accordance with the classification used by H. L. Clark in his Catalogue of Recent Ophiurans, and a synopsis of the new arrangement has been prepared and hung upon the cases so that anyone can now find any species or specimen of ophiuran in the collection regardless of whether they know anything about these animals or not. All of the specimens have been examined and checked up with the card catalogue. To bring the collection into line with present concepts it was found necessary to transfer many species to new genera and to rename many others which are now placed in synonymy. The entire collection of dried echinoids has also been rearranged in accordance with the classification used in Agassiz and Clark's Hawaiian and other Pacific Echini, and all of the speci- mens have been examined and checked up with the card catalogue; a number of the specimens have been reidentified, and the generic allocation of many of the species has been revised and brought up to date. Curatorial work in the division of plants has proceeded satisfac- torily during the past fiscal year. In particular, Mr. Standley, in the course of his work upon the Mexican trees and shrubs, has identi- fied a large amount of Mexican material which had been mounted but not named beyond the genus, and has redetermined many speci- mens from the same region which had previously been misidentified. Similar important work of revision has been done in several other groups, notably in the composites by Dr. S. F. Blake, the willows by Dr. C. R. Ball, the grasses by Dr. A. S. Hitchcock and Mrs, Agnes Chase, and the ferns by Mr. Maxon. As in several recent years, ma- terial has been received more rapidly than it could be mounted and prepared for the herbarium. This fact and the need of economizing greatly in case room has led to the careful scrutiny of recent acces- sions and the elimination of much material which, under more favor- able circumstances, would have been added to the herbarium. For similar reasons it has seemed desirable to select for immediate mount- ing and installation material in certain groups under investigation (for example, ferns, grasses, cacti) and from tropical America gen- erally, in order to facilitate special investigations previously under 66 EEPOET OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1&21. AAay. The limit of this sort of selection is quickly reached, however, and it is important that additional case room be provided without delay and that means be found of mounting promptly all material needed for permanent preservation. About 26,000 specimens have been mounted during the year. These have been recorded, chiefly through temporary clerical help. The segregation of type and dupli- cate type specimens from the main herbarium has been continued as opportunity offered, mainly in connection with other w'ork, and 10, 136 specimens have now been distinctively labeled, catalogued, and placed in individual covers in the so-called type herbarium. At the beginning of this part of my report the general tendency of the work of the preparators has been mentioned. Apart from the specimens w hich found their places in the exhibition series much work was spent on study material for the various divisions. Skins of mammals and birds were made up or repaired for the study series, many dry preparations made for the division of reptiles; skeletons and skulls cleaned whenever needed for study. jSIr. W. L. Brown, whose remounting of the African leopard I have already alluded to, also mounted a South American brocket deer and a mule deer, wdiich were placed in the exhibition series. A large number of mammal skins were worked up, birds dismounted and made into studj^ skins, etc. Some time before his death Mr. Wood had already begun to instruct Mr. Brown in his way of preparing dry bird skins, as well as in his own particular methods of mounting birds which had given him such a high rank among bird taxidermists. It is therefore felt that Mr. Brow^n and Mr. George Marshall in the future will be able to fully take care of this branch of the exhibits, Mr. Marshall, in addition to a large amount of repair work, skinning fresh material coming in from local collectors and the zoological park, tanning, etc., has mounted a num- ber of smaller mammals, including several monkeys. Mr. J. W. ScoUick, the osteologist, in addition to cleaning a number of .turtle skulls and bones, prepared 179 whole skeletons, some exceedingly delicate. Among the lot were no less than 155 bird skeletons, and 10 skeletons of rats, which were mounted for the Bureau of Animal Industry, Department of Agriculture. Twelve skins of the same series of rats w^ere also mounted bj'^ Mr. Marshall for the same bureau as an exhibit to illustrate the result of certain feeding experiments. The bone-cleaning w^ork under Mr. Scollick's supervision resulted in the cleaning of 57 mammal skeletons and 130 large mammal skulls. Mr. C. E. Mirguet's time was to a great extent taken up w'ith two tasks, the preparation and cleaning of the Florida whale skeleton, donated by the Miami Aquarium Association and mentioned above, and the buildin,g of a drum for the tanning of mammal skins. The REPOET OF NATIONAL IMUSEUM, 1921. 6*7 whale skeleton was being put in shape for photographing, measur- ing, and description as preliminaries for an extensive monograph, after wliich it will be hung in the exhibition whale hall. In addi- tion he prepared a large number of reptile skins and skeletons for the study series, besides plaster casts, repairs, etc., Mr. C. R. W. Aschemeier has been assisting Mr. Brown in the mammal mounting when required, has worked up 105 mammal and 21 bird skins and gone over the entire exhibition collection of alcoholic invertebrates, refilling and otherwise caring for 672 jars. Mr. Palmers work, up to his death, was mostly on the faunal exhibit of the District of Columbia. Unfortunately the crowding of the collections in many of the divi- sions must of necessity increase from year to year until additional space shall be allotted to the department of biology. To that extent the condition of the collections must be considered unsatisfactory and must gradually grow worse. In other respects the conditions must be pronounced as generally good. Nevertheless, the results of the greater activity of the Museum since the stagnation period of the war, which were presaged in my previous report, are already beginning to make themselves manifest, inasmuch as the greater influx of mate- rial is consuming more and more of the time and efforts of the staff, which has remained practically stationary during the last 20 years. The mere physical care of the collections is all that can be accom- plished in many instances. The practice of sending the large mammal skins to the professional tanneries to be tanned has had to be given up because of definite losses and the general poor results. A rotary drum has been built in the taxidermist shop ; and when the necessary motor shall have been re- ceived, it will be possible to handle the work and insure perfect results. The reports of the various divisions generally emphasize the free- dom the collections are now enjoying from the usual destructive museum pests. This is undoubtedly due to the systematic fumigation with bisulphide of carbon. The crowding alluded to above might be relieved, as far as the division of plants is concerned, by the building of a balcony as advo- cated on previous occasions. The plan, although approved and ac- cepted as the only practical solution of a nearly intolerable condition, awaits only the appropriation of sufficient means to be carried out. Otherwise the condition of the National Herbarium is satisfactory, but as far as the cryptogamic section is concerned it has been impos- sible with the small staff to incorporate in it the material received during the past year, and for several years past, though the speci- mens have been pocketed and prepared for the herbarium as soon as 68 REPOET OF KaTIO:NAL museum, 1921. possible after they are received, and held ready for installation, when- ever one or more specialists can be secured. UESEARCHES FOB THE BENEFIT OF THE; MUSEUM. It is mainly by the quality and amount of its research work upon the material intrusted to its care that the reputation of this Museum rests and its existence is justified. I am happy to say that the past year in no wa.y falls short of the traditions of the Institution. The appended bibliography clearly demonstrates this. It does not, how- ever, fully represent the work accomplished during the current year, as of necessity many of the papers published in 1920-21 were prepared previously, nor does publication necessarily reveal the extent of the research work going on. Briefly, the scientific activities of the staff will be enumerated below, but before taking up the work in the divi- sions I wish to call attention to the signal honor which was bestowed by the National Academy upon a member of the staff for one of the publications issued by the Museum. During the April meeting of the academy this year, the Daniel Giraud Elliot gold medal, together with the honorarium, was voted to Dr. Robert Eidgway in recogni- tion of the eighth volume of The Birds of Middle and North America, which forms part 8 of Bulletin 50 of the United States National Museum, an award which is open to the zoologists and paleontologists of the world. When announcing the award the chairman of the Elliot medal committee said : In undertaking this great work Ridgway was not only placing the crown on his labors of a third of a century, but was giving expression to a plan made by Baird a half century before. Ridgway was therefore doubly inspired when, in 1901, he undertook the stupendous task of preparing a 10-volume treatise on all the birds of the Western Hemisphere north of South America. With imremitting zeal, and always maintaining the standard of thoroughnesg and accuracy set by the first volume of the series, he continued his labors until eight volumes have appeared, the last in 1919. Each volume contains about 850 pages, a total of 6,800 pages in all. Nearly 900 genera are defined and over 3,000 species and subspecies described. While giving expression to his exceptional powers of analysis and description trained by years of experience and observation, Ridgway has produced a work which in method, comprehensiveness, and accuracy, as well as in volume, has never been surpassed in the annals of ornithology. This will give you an idea of some of the work which is being quietly and unostentatiously performed in the divisions of this Museum. Taking them up one by one the work of the scientific staff may be epitomized as follows: Mr. Gerrit S. Miller, jr., found but little time for scientific investi- gation during the past year. Some progress was made, in conjunc- tion with the late William Palmer, in investigating the characters of the whale from Pablo Beach, Fla., and in conjunction wath Mr. EJBPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. 69 N. HoUister, in making a preliminary examination of the Celebesian mammals collected several years ago by Mr. H. C. Eaven and presented by Dr. W. L. Abbott. Dr. Robert Eidgway, curator of birds, continued liis work on the ninth part of Bulletin 50, The Birds of North and Middle America. The matter relating to the higher groups, including genera of the Falconiformes, with the illustrations, w^as nearly finished. A large number of bibliographic references for the synonymies not only for part 9, but part 10 also, were collected. It is pleasant to be able to report that the manuscript for part 9 of this monumental work is nearing completion. Dr. Charles W. Eichmond, associate curator, owing to the press of the routine curatorial work, found but little time for research. He made some progress, with Mr. B. H. Swales, in their proposed joint work on the birds of the island of Haiti, but not so nmch as they had hoped. Progress was also made on their proposed list of type specimens of birds in the National Museum, as mentioned in last year's report. Mr. J. H. Eiley, aid, continued his studies of the birds of Celebes and also furnished the curator with certain data on generic characters of vultures and hawks. The study of the North American turtles by Leonhard Stejneger progressed but slowly, due to the lack of leisure from routine work. Miss Doris Cochran, aid, besides identifymg the African and Malaysian snakes in the collection, devoted special attention to the reptiles and amphibians of Haiti with a view to a herx3etology of that island. Mr. B. A. Bean, assistant curator of fishes, reports satisfac- tory progress of the report by himself jointly with Dr. Henry W. Fowler, of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, on the fishes of the Wilkes exijloring expedition and other collections. Dr. J. M. Aldrich, associate curator of insects, when not occupied with general routine duties, identifications, etc., devoted his time mostly to the study of the muscoid group of Diptera, publishing two short papers and nearly completing several others. Bulletin 116 of the Museum, being a monograph of the dipterous genus Dolichofus, the result of the joint labors of Mr. M. C. Van Duzee, Mr. Frank E. Cole, and himself, was completed and published during the year. The scientific activities of the honorary custodians of the various sections will appear from the appended bibliography. Dr. Mary J. Eathbun, honorary associate in zoology, has completed the second paper in the series on crabs obtained by the fisheries inves- tigation ship Endeavour^ 1909-1914; it covers the Brachyrhyncha, Oxystomata, and Dromiacea, and, like the first paper on the Oxyrhyn- cha, will be published by the Commonwealth of Australia. Consid- erable progress has been made on a bulletin on the spider crabs of America. This is the second of her series of valuable monographs, which, when completed, will describe and figure all the species of 70 EEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. crabs known from North and South America. She has also named the crabs of various current accessions, notably of large collections from California and Japan, including Formosa. Mr. Waldo L. Schmitt, curator of marine invertebrates, has had but little time left from routine duties for research work. The first installment, or part, of a report on the Macrura and Anomura of the Australian- Museum, collected by the Endeavour^ covering the families Peneidae, Campylonotidae, and Pandalidae, has been completed. The reports on the Macrura and Anomura of the American Museum Congo expe- dition and the Barbados-Antigua expedition of the University of Iowa are still in progress. Mr. C. R. Shoemaker, assistant curator, has given much of his time to the working up of several large lots of Amphipods, which were sent to the Museum for identification. Sev- eral reports were completed and published as shown in the bibli- ography. Dr. Harriet Eichardson Searle, collaborator, I am happy to report, has resumed her studies on the Isopoda and has recently completed a report on the collection of terrestrial isopods, secured by Dr. E. J. Jakobsen in Java. Mr. Harry K. Harring, custodian of rotatoria, has completed his report on the rotatoria of the Canadian Arctic expedition and the first part of a report on the rotifers of Wisconsin, which includes a revision of the Notommatid rotifers. Both of these papers are now in press. The second part of the report on Wisconsin rotifers is well under way. In addition, he has identi- fied a number of interesting collections. Dr. William H. Dall's completed summary of the West Ameri- can collection from San Diego to the Polar Sea was published as Bulletin 112 of the United States National Museum. It includes the results of research and collections made by west-coast contrib- utors and the honorary curator since 1865, amounting to more than 2,100 species and varieties. A number of interesting new forms, including a second species of the peculiar South American Felipponea, were received and described during the year, as indicated in the bib- liogi-aphic list. Most of the time not occupied by routine matters has been given to a monograph of the marine shell-bearing mollusks of the Hawaiian Islands, based chiefly on the important collection donated by Mr. D. Thaanum, of Hilo, Hawaii, and on the fisheries steamer Albatross dredgings about the islands. This work is well ad- vanced and only certain troublesome and prolific groups of minute shells remain to be worked up of the material in hand. Mr. John B. Henderson, a regent of the Smithsonian Institution, has been en- gaged on a monograph of the Antillean land and fresh-water mol- lusks. A list of the mollusks collected by the Barbados- Antigua ex- pedition of the State University of Iowa has been begun. Considerable time was devoted to the identification of east-coast mollusks sent in by correspondents. In the little remaining time he and the curator REPORT OF NATlOiSTAL MUSEUM, 1921. 71 have continued work on the molhisk fauna of the vicinity of Beaufort, N, C. The report on New Operculate Landshells of Cuba, of which he is coauthor with Dr. Carlos de la Torre, is now going through press, while work on the monograph of American Tectibranchs has been slowly continued. Dr. Paul Bartsch, curator of mollusks, has given much time to routine work of the division. Besides de- voting attention to numbers of groups of mollusks, as shown by a reference to the bibliography, considerable work was accomplished toward a monograph of the American shipworms, the small east American marine mollusks of the genera Triphora, Bittium, Cer- ithiopsis^ and Metaxia; likewise the family Vitrinellidae. In the latter case particular stress has been laid on the examination of the anatomic characters. A little time has also been given to the Philip- pine Nudibranch mollusks and the west American Caecidae, as well as the marine mollusks of the Mazatlanic faunal area. Some additional attention has also been given to the land mollusks of the Windward and Leeward Islands. Owing to the difficulty of securing the services of an artist, the work on the mollusks of the region about Beaufort, N. C, has not been completed, but it is hoped that this will be accomplished during the ensuing year. A new series of heredity experiments wdth Cerions has been begun in the Tortugas to replace those swept away by the hurricane two years ago. Mr. William B. Marshall, assistant curator, had but little time remaining from liis routine curatorial duties for research, and but one paper in addition to that listed in the bibliography was completed and is now ready for the press, describing eight new species of South American naiads, one of them representing a new genus. Dr. Charles Wardell Stiles, custodian of the helminthological collections, and Dr. B. H. Ransom, assistant custodian, have continued their studies of the parasites of man and other animals. Dr. T. Wayland Vaughan, custodian of madreporarian corals, is still engaged in studying the Museum's recent coral collections in connection with his geologic studies. Mr. Austin H. Clark, curator of echinoderms, during the year con- tinued work upon the crinoicls of the Danish /w^oZ/ expedition. In the division of plants the following special investigations were begun, continued, or completed during the year: Mr. Frederick V. Coville, curator, has continued his studies in breeding and propagat- ing the blueberries (Vaccinium), and has made frequent use of the herbarium as heretofore. Mr. J. N. Rose, associate curator, has con- tinued his studies of the Cactaceae, in collaboration with Dr. N. L. Britton, director-in-chief of the New York Botanical Garden, work which has been under way since 1911 under the auspices of the Car- negie Institution of Washington. The publication of volume 2 of the Cactaceae occurred during the past year, and volume 3 will prob- ably appear during the coming year. The manuscript of volume 72 EEPOKT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1&21. 4 is well advanced. Doctor Rose has continued his studies, also, of Ecuadorean plants referred to in the last report. Mr. William R. Maxon, associate curator, has continued his investigation of the pteri- dophyta and has prepared manuscript for Part VIII of Studies of Tropical x\merican Ferns. He has nearly completed a report, also, upon the large collection of Haitian ferns made by Dr. W. L. Abbott and Mr. Emery C. Leonard last year and has reviewed critically the West-American allies of Selaginella rupestris^ describing several new species. A popular article on the botanical gardens of Jamaica has been contributed to the Smithsonian Annual Report. Mr. Paul C. Standiey, assistant curator, has nearly completed manuscript sum- marizing his studies of the trees and shrubs of Mexico, and has sub- mitted parts 2 and 3 for publication; parts 4 and 5 (conclusion) will be turned in for publication during the coming year. He has recently undertaken the preparation of a synoptical account of the flora of Central America and Panama, based primarily upon the collections in the National Herbarium, and in this connection proposes visiting Salvador, in which region practically no botanical collecting has been done. Mr. Standiey also has completed manuscript for the Flora of Alaska. Mr. Ellsworth P. Killip, aid, has finished his revision of the genus Passiflora as represented in Mexico, Central America, and Panama, and the manuscript is nearly ready for publication. Mr. Emery C. Leonard, aid, has continued his study of the genus Scutel- laria. With the assistance of Mr. Standiey he has nearly completed the identification of the phanerogams of his Haitian collection, of last year. i Dr. C. Hart Merriam, associate in zoology, continued his study on North American bears. Mr. N. Hollister has continued work on the African Artiodactyla, but it is greatly delayed b}^ the housing of the mammalian study series on different floors from the basement to the attic. Dr. O. P. Hay, of the Carnegie Institution, has made constant use of the collections in connection with his work on the Pleistocene fauna of North America. The thanks of the Museum are due to Mr. Oldfield Thomas, of the British Museum, for having compared specimens sent to him with types and other material in the collections under his care. Dr. W. L. Abbott, associate in zoology, made two visits to the division of birds for purpose of examining material collected in Haiti and Santo Domingo by him, and giving information about the specimens and localities. Dr. H. C. Oberholser, of the Biological Survey, continued his determination of the Malayan material col- lected by Dr. W. L. Abbott, and made occasional identifications in other parts of the ornithological study series. Dr. A. Wetmore, also of the Biological Survey, although away from Washington most of the year, spent some time in work on the bird skeletons. REPORT OF NATIONAL, MUSEUM, 1921, 73 Dr. E. R. Dunn, of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, identified various rejDtiles and batrachians during his visits to the Museum. Dr. O. P. Ha}^ and Mr. C. W. Gilmore have examined reptilian material from time to time. Mr. Remington Kellogg, of the Bio- logical Survey, has spent considerable time in the division of reptiles identifying and studying the entire collection of American toads of the genus Bufo with a view to preparing a monograph. Mr. "Walter Koelz's studies of the whitefishes in the division of fishes, mentioned in last year's report, were concluded during the present year. Similarly Mr, Carl L. Hubbs, of the University of Michigan, studied the lancelets and lampreys of the collection in connection with a forthcoming review of these groups. Dr. Henry W, Fowler, Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, has greatly aided in the ichthj^ological work of the Museum. It is quite natural that when specialists visit the Museum to examine the collections in connection with the working up or mono- graphing larger groups in their home museums or own private col- lections, a considerable amount of original identification or correc- tion of current identifications of our own specimens must result. In this way the National Museum benefits directly by the visits of scientific workers from other institutions. Again, with the lack in Washington of specialists in many groups, the Museum is entirely dependent upon the generous assistance of many outsiders for proper identification of specimens sent to it. For these favors grateful acknowledgments are due. The division of insects has been par- ticularly fortunate in this respect during the present year. Thus Dr. E. P. Felt, State entomologist of New York, has recently re- turned a large collection of the dipterous gall-miclges (Cecido- mjddae) which were sent him several years ago. He has mounted our material on microscopic slides, the only possible permanent method for these very delicate and tiny flies; most of our material is now returned as types of new species, and he has added a large amount of his own type material, making our collection in the family probably second only to that of the New York State Museum in the world. As usual, Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell, of the University of Colorado, has aided greatly with the bees, while Mr. Nathan Banks and Dr. P. V. Chamberlin, both of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, have identified spiders and myriopods, respectively. So much work of a similar nature has been done by the various mem- bers of staff of the Bureau of Entomology in connection with their other studies that it would be impractical to acknowledge the assistance separatel}?^ and individually. What is true of the division of insects with regard to dependence on the aid of specialists residing outside of Washington for aid in identifying and classifying material due to insufficiency of the 74 REPORT or NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. Museum staff holds good to a still greater extent in the division of marine invertebrates. In fact, so extensive is the number of these specialists, to whom the Museum is under great obligations, that a mere list of their names, with the i^articular group of invertebrates the}' have undertaken to work upon, must suffice for this report. It includes the following: Dr. Henry B. Bigelow (Medusae, Cteno- phora). Dr. L. A. Borradaile (Crustacea: Pontoniiclae), Dr. L. R. Gary (Alcyonarians), Dr. E. V. Chamberlin (x4nnelids and Gephy- rea). Dr. X. A. Cobb (free-living Nematodes), Dr. Wesley R. Coe (Nemerteans), Dr. Leon J. Cole (Pycnogonids), Dr. Henri Coutiere (Crustacea: Crangonidae), Dr. R. P. Cowles (Phoronidea), Dr. Joseph A. Cushman (Foraminifera), Prof. G. S. Dodds (fresh- water Entomostraca ) , Mr. A. A. Doolittle (fresh-water Entomo- straca), Prof. Max Ellis (Discodrilids), Dr. C. O. Esterly (marine Copepods), Dr. A. G. Huntsman (Ascidians), Mr. Fritz Johansen (fresh- water Entomostraca), Prof. Chauncey Juday (Crustacea: Daphniidae), Dr. C. Dwight Marsh (fresh-water Copepods), Dr. Alfred G. Mayor (Scyphomedusae), Dr. Maynard M. Metcalf (Salpa, Pyrosoma, Protozoa), Dr. J. Percy Moore (Leeches), Prof. J, Playfair McMurrich (Actinians), Dr. Charles C. Nutting (Hy- droids), Dr. Raymond C. Osbum (Bryozoa), Dr. Henrj^ A. Pilsbrj^ (Barnacles), Capt. F. A. Potts (Crustacea: Rhizocephalids) , Prof. Frank Smith (Earthworms), Dr. W. M. Tattersall (Crustacea: Mysidacea), Dr. Aaron L. Tread well (Annelids), Dr. Willard G. Van Name (Ascidians), Prof. L. B. Walton (Planarians), Dr. C. B. Wilson (parasitic Copepods). The division of moUusks, although less dependent on outside help, nevertheless gratefully acknowledges assistance received from vari- ous specialists. Thus Dr. Frank Baker, of the University of Illi- nois, and Dr. Victor Sterki, of New Philadelphia, Ohio, have kindly determined material. Through the kind cooperation of correspond- ents several puzzling points concerning Museum material have been cleared up by references to the original types or typical material in the collections under their care. These correspondents are Dr. H. A. Pilsbry, of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia; Dr. F. B. Loomis, of Amherst College; and Mr. W. F. Clapp, of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. The Museum is under great obli- gation to the United States Navy Department for cooperation of a different kind, inasmuch as the investigations by Dr. Paul Bartsch, curator of mollusks, into the shipworm problem were greatly expe- dited through the efforts of the commanding officers of two of our navy yards. The deeper understanding of the subject gained through this investigation has greatly enhanced the value of our shipworm material. The officers referred to are Admiral C. W. Parks, Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, LTnited States Navy Department ; REPORT OF NATIONAL, MUSEUM, 1921. 75 Commander C. D. Thurber, United States naval station, Pearl Har- bor, Oahii. Hawaii ; and Capt. Edward L. Beach, commandant of the Mare Island Naval Station, Calif. As noted in previous reports, the study of fossil mollusks is so dependent on that of the recent forms that the paleontologists of the Geological Survey, notably Dr. AY. P. Woodring, Dr. Julia A. Gardner, Mr. W. C. Mansfield, and Dr. C. W. Cooke spent considerable time studying material in the division of mollusks. The National Herbarium, as in previous years, is used frequently by many members of the scientific staffs of the Department of Agri- culture. In particular Dr. S. F. Blake, Dr. C. R. Ball, Prof. C. V. Piper, and Dr. W. E. Safford have given attention to several critical groups. Mr. Ivar Tidestrom has continued his work upon the plants of Utah and Nevada. RESEARCTIES ELSEWHERE AIDED BY MUSEUM MATERIAL The liberal policy of the Museum in keeping its collections and laboratories open to visiting specialists and in sending out its mate- rial to scientific workers in this and other countries, as outlined in last year's report, was continued during the present year to the mutual advantage of both parties. A nimiber of prominent students visited the various divisions for longer or shorter periods, as shown by the following list : Mr. Rem- ington Kellogg used the cetacean and other osteological mammalian material ; Mr. Herbert Lang, American Museum of Natural History, studied African squirrels ; Mr. H. E. Anthony, of the same museum. South American mammals ; Mr. R. M. Anderson, Geological Survey of Canada, specimens of caribou. The bird collections, besides being freely used by members of the staff of the Biological Survey, were examined b}^ Dr. W. B. Alexander, Perth, West Australia; Dr. Stanley C. Ball, Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii; Maj. Allan Brooks, Okanagan Landing, British Columbia; Dr. H. C. Bryant, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Berkeley, Calif. ; Mr. James P. Chapin, American Museum of Natural History, New York; Mr. H. K. Coale, Highland Park, 111.; Mr. Donald R. Dickey, Pasadena, Calif. ; Dr. Jonathan Dwight, New Y^ork City ; Mr. J. H. Fleming, Toronto, Canada : Dr. Joseph Grinnell, director of Museum of Ver- tebrate Zoology, Berkeley, Calif. ; Mr. Ludlow Griscom, American Museum of Natural History, New York; Mr. A. K. Haagner, Pre- toria, Transvaal; Mr. Romeyn B. Hough, Lowville, N. Y., Rev. H. W. Hubbard, Peking, China; Mr. M. J, Kelly, Everhart Museum, Scranton, Pa.; Mr. F. H. Kennard, Newton Center, Mass.; Mr. H. Matsumoto, N. E. Imperial L'^niversity, Sendai, Japan; Mr. W. DeW. Miller, American Museum of Natural History, New York ; Mrs. M. M. Nice, Norman, Okla. ; Dr. W. H. Osgood, Field Museum of Natural 76 BEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. History, Chicago, 111. ; Mr. C. J. Pennock, Kennett Square, Pa. ; Dr. J. C. Phillips, Wenham, Mass. ; Mr. H. C. Raven, Bayshore, N. Y. ; Mrs. E. M. B. Reichenberger, American Museum of Natural History, New York; Mr. James Henry Rice, jr., Wiggins, S. C. ; Mr. Charles H. Rogers, Princeton, N. J. ; Mr. Ralph H. Rose, South Kortright, N. Y. ; Dr. L. C. Sanforcl, New Haven, Conn. ; Mr. P. A. Taverner, Ottawa, Canada ; Mr. W. E. Clyde Todd, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pa. ; Prof. M. Oshima, of Japan. The above list covers those who ex- amined the skin collection, and includes a goodly number of members of the American Ornithologists' Union, who spent considerable time during the period of the meeting (Nov. 8-11, 1920) in investigating various questions in connection with their work in other museums or in relation to their own private collections. In the office of the divi- sion of birds there is a case reserved for common birds of the Eastern States, and certain birds about which inquiry is most frequent (the nightingale, the robin redbreast of Europe, the starling, etc.), as well as examples of a few birds noted for their bright colors or strange features of bill, plumage, etc. The inquiries of many amateurs and nature-study students are satisfied by reference to this case of birds, but no list of these visitors or statistics as to their numbers has been attemj)ted. The following students have examined the series of North American eggs or parts of it ; Prof. W. B. Barrows, Agricul- tural College, Mich.; :Mr. H. W. Brandt, Cleveland, Ohio; Mr. E. J. Court, Washington, D. C. ; Mr. A. F. Ganier, Nashville, Tenn. ; Mr. A. H. Hardisty, Washington, D. C. ; Mr. R. G. Pape, Texarkana, Ark. ; Dr. A. G. Ruthven, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. ; Mr. W. E. Saunders, London, Ontario, Canada; Mr. J Fletcher Street, Philadelphia, Pa. ; Mr. George H. Stuart, 3d, Philadelphia, Pa. Reptiles and amphibians were examined by Dr. Thomas Barbour, Museum of Comparative Zoology ; and Dr. E. R. Dunn, of the same museum; and Dr. Sidney F. Blake, of the Department of Agricul- ture. An unusual number of outside entomologists made prolonged stays of from several weeks to several months studying our ma- terials; thus Mr. Ray T. Webber, Melrose Highlands, Mass.; Mr. John Tothill, of the Canadian entomological staff; Mr. C. F. W. Musebeck, Dr. W. T. M. Forbes, and Mr. R. T. Shannon, all of Cornell University. Many other entomologists have visited the divi- sion of insects for a few days or a single day at a time, such as Mr. S. W. Frost, of the entomological staff of the Pennsylvania State College ; Dr. W. J. Holland, director of the Carnegie IMusemn, Pitts- burgh, Pa. ; Dr. William Barnes, Decatur, 111. ; and Dr. C. T. Ramsden, Guantanamo, Cuba. While no outsiders pursued any studies in the laboratories of the division of marine invertebrates during the pres- ent year, personal inquiries by members of the scientific staffs of the EEPOET OF JiJ^ATIOlSrAL MUSEUM, 1921. 77 Bureau of Fisheries and of various bureaus of the Department of Agriculture were frequent. Doctor Ball, recentlj^ appointed curator of the Berenice Paliui Bishop Museum, in Honolulu, spent several days in the division of mollusks reviewing the collections to ac- quaint himself with the methods employed. Mollusks were also studied by Dr. G. Dallas Hanna, of the University of California; Dr. Bruce Clark, of the same university; and Hon. Truman H. Aldnch, who brought a lot of his material for comparison with that in the Museum. The division also had numerous personal calls from specialists in the Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Fish- eries, and Geological Survey for information or examination of collections as an aid in their particular lines of research. The visi- tors calling for information on special points at the division of echi- noderms were Mr. Wilfrid B. Alexander, of the Western Australian Museum, Perth, West Australia ,•• Dr. August F. Foerste. Dayton^ Ohio; Prof. T. Harvey Johnston, Queensland University, Brisbane; Prof. Hiko Matsumoto, Sendai University, Japan; Capt. Frank A. Potts, Cambridge, England ; and Dr. S. Yoshida, Osaka, Japan. Mr. Arthur de C. Sowerby, on his way to China to collect for the Museum, stopped for several days and visited with the curators and examined specimens. Dr. R. W, Shufeldt, Washington City, used the mammal, bird, and fish collections considerably in photographing and com- paring material. Among the professional botanists from elesewhere than Washington who have worked in the herbarium during the year are the following : Prof. H. M. Hall and Prof. Frederick E. Clem- ents, of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, who were engaged in studying A triplex, Chrysothamnus, and several other critical genera ; Dr. C. F. Millspaugh, of the Field Museum of Natural History, engaged in preparing an account of the flora of Santa Catalina Island, Calif. ; Dr. P. A. Eydberg of the New York Bo- tanical Garden, in connection with studies of Leguminosae and Com- positae for the North American Flora ; Mr. C. A. Weatherby, of East Hartford, Conn., engaged in the study of certain genera of fems; Prof. S. Mihara, director of the cotton experiment station at Mokpo, Chosen, Japan ; and Prof. Koyomitsu Ryu, of the College of Agri- culture, Morioka, Japan. A large number of specimens were asked for as loans by numerous outside investigators and institutions as an aid in the study of their own material. Mammals were loaned to Dr. J. A. Allen, Mr. H. E. Anthony, and Mr. Herbert Lang, of the American Museum of Nat- ural History, New York; the University of California, Department of Geology ; Mr. Arthur de C. Sowerby, London ; Dr. Oldfield Thomas, British Museum; Dr. G. D. Hanna, California Academy of Sciences; Dr. Joseph Grinnell, University of California; Dr. R. W. Shufeldt, Washington City. Birds were sent to Witmer Stone, Philadelphia 78 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. Academy of Natural Sciences; Messrs. W. de W. Miller and J. P. Chapin, American Musemn of Natural History, New York; Mr. Frank Bond, Washington City; Maj. Allan Brooks and Mr. Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Ithaca, N. Y. ; Mr. Charles B. Cory, Field Museum of Natural History ; Dr. N. Kuroda, Tokyo, Japan ; Mr. H. H. Bailey, Miami Beach Zoological Park, Fla. ; Mr. A. C. Bent and Mr. J. C. Phillips, Cambridge, Mass. Reptiles and amphibians were sent to Dr. Thomas Barbour and Dr. E. R. Dunn, Museum of Comparative Zoology ; Miss M. C. Dickerson, American Museum of Natural His- tory, New York ; Dr. Frank N. Blanchard, Zoological Museum, Uni- versity of Michigan ; and Prof. A. M. Reese, West Virginia Univer- sity. From the division of fishes specimens were loaned to Mr. Carl L. Hubbs, Zoological Museum, University of Michigan, and Dr. Henry W. Fowler, Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. In addition, specimens of fishes havQ been borrowed repeatedly by the specialists of the Bureau of Fisheries. No insect material of any im- portance was transmitted to investigators outside of the Museum. Marine invertebrates were sent to Dr. K. H. Barnard, South African Museum, Cape Town ; Capt. F. A. Potts, Zoological Laboratory, The Museums, Cambridge, England; Mr. W. A. Richter, North Milwau- kee, Wis.; Dr. Frank Smith, University of Illinois; Mrs. Leon S. Stone, New Haven, Conn. ; Mr. Joel H. Swartz, geological laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.; Dr. A. L. Treadwell, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Plants sent out from the Na- tional Herbarium to specialists or institutions outside of Washington for study numbered 4,076, comprised in 71 lots, a slight falling off from the previous year. Only the larger atid more important loans are mentioned in the following list : 208 specimens of Azalea lent to the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, for monographic study by Dr. Alfred Rehder ; 184 specimens of violets of the western United States lent to Dr. Ezra Brainerd, Middlebury, Vt., for study in connection with his forthcoming monograph of the North Ameri- can Vioiaceae ; 298 specimens of Hosachia lent to the University of California, Berkeley, Calif., for study by Prof. W. L. Jepson; 127 specimens of Mimulus lent to Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., for study by Mrs. Adele Lewis Grant, who is engaged in a revision of the North American species of this genus ; 108 specimens of FUix lent to the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University for study by Mr. C. A. Weatherby; 280 specimens of Hypoxis lent to the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University for study by Miss Amelia E. Brackett; 269 specimens of Scrophulariaceae lent to the New York Botanical Gar- den for monographic study by Dr. Francis W. Pennell; 1,474 speci- mens of North American species of Piper lent to Prof. William Trelease, of the University of Illinois, Urbana, 111., for use in connec- tion with his monographic study of this genus. During the year 11 REPORT OF NATIOiSrAL MUSEUxM, 1921. 79 persons connected with the Department of Agriculture have borrowed from the National Herbarium 44 lots of plants, aggregating 1,293 specimens. DISTRIBUTION AND EXCHANGE OF SPECIMENS. DujDlicates distributed to schools, colleges, and institutions aggre- gated 2,925 specimens, of which 1,242 were in 8 sets of molluslvis, regularly prepared for this purpose, and two sets of 91 fishes each similarly prepared. A collection of about 500 glass eels, averaging in length 57 mm.' was collected for and presented to Dr. Johannes Schmidt, of the Carlsberg Laboratorium, Copenhagen, Denmark, to assist him in his studies of the development of the eel. Of the alcoholic specimens of the 17-3'^ear cicada, collected for the use of colleges and similar institutions, as mentioned in last year's report, one lot of 100 speci- mens was distributed this year. Exchanges to the number of 12,530 specimens were arranged, 11,926 being botanical. Of the 604 zoological secimens, the most important exchange consisted of 149 bird skins, which were sent to the Museum of the University of Michigan ; the remainder were disposed of by the divisions of mammals, birds, reptiles, fishes, marine invertebrates, and mollusks in small lots as exchanges with various institutions and individuals. The largest exchanges of plants were sent to the New York Botanical Garden, British Museum of National History, Mr. J. Theriot, Le Havre, France, Gray Herbarium of Harvard University, Field Museums of Natural History, California Academy of Sciences, and the College de Longueuil, Quebec. The others, made up of sets of less than 500 specimens, were exchanged with 53 different insti- tutions and individuals. TOTAL NUMBER OF SPECIMENS IN DEPARTMENT OP BIOLOGY, INCLUDING NUMBER OF DUPLICATE SPECIMENS. As explained in previous reports, the numbers given below can only be approximately correct. It would manifestly be impossible to count the specimens individually. The figures presented are based upon previous estimates, the numbers received during the year being added, and the specimens disposed of by gift's and exchange, or other- wise expended, being deducted. It should be noted that this census does not include the collections of mammals and birds in the custody of the Biological Survey. Duplicates have not been segregated in several of the divisions for various reasons, but more particularly because a large amount of material has yet to be worked over monographically, so as to make it safe to deplete the series. The figures furnished in last year's re- port for the duplicates of fishes contained not only the number of duplicates actually segregated but also a rough estimate as to the 71305°— 21 6 80 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. possible number of duplicates which the rest of the series might yield when eventually worked up. With the receipt this year of approximately 100.000 specimens of Philippine fishes this method of arriving at a fair estimate of the number of duplicates available for distribution proved utterly inadequate. It has therefore been considered the better plan only to list the number of duplicates actually segregated. It may be further noted that the figures for the division of plants are exclusive of the lower cryptogams. In the following table the figures in parentheses indicate the number of duplicates included in the total : Division : Mammals 77, 071 Birds - 299,771 (9,150) Reptiles 74, 329 Fishes 709,987 (25,000) Insects 2, 200, 000 Marine invertebrates 704,539 (10,000) Mollusks 1, 436, 172 (12, 000) Echiuoderms 155,000 (50,000) Plants 1,073,000 (20,000) Total 6,729,869 (126,150) REPORT ON THE DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. By George P. Mbbriix, Head Curator. Considered with reference only to the work actually accomplished along lines of investigation, the year ending June 30, 1921, has, with the possible exception of the year immediately preceding, been one unprecedented in the history of the department. Accessions. — A marked increase in the number of accessions is shown over those recorded in any one of the past 15 years. The total number listed is 231, a gain of 51 over last year, and of 29 over the recorded number in 1914—15, next highest on the list. Of the acquisi- tions of the present year, 151 were received as gifts, 39 as exchanges, 24 as transfers from other departments of the Government, chiefly the Geological Survey, 5 were acquired by purchase, and 5 as deposits or loans. A considerable quantity of the gift and transfer material will, doubtless, on examination prove to be duplicate or undesirable, what proportion it is yet too early to state, but apparently the total value is well up to the average. The additions to the geological, mineralogical, and petrological collections number 1,772 individual specimens and 140 boxes and trays, only a few of which have as yet been unpacked and assorted, but which it is estimated will yield a total of not less than 20,000 specimens, while upward of 50,000 speci- mens have been added to the paleontological collections. The largest contributor to the division of geology was as usual the Geological Survey, whence were transferred 131 boxes and 7 trays of material, much of it being described sets of rocks and ores. From this source also were received 5 specimens of the platinum- bearing covellite from the Rambler Mine, Wyo. ; the type set of specimens from the R and S molybdeum mine, N. Mex., described by E. S. Larsen and C. S. Ross; and a small collection of carnotite minerals and associated ores from Routt County, Colo., collected and reported on by Hoyt S. Gale. Accessions of materials from South America have been especially important. Through the courtesy of the Guggenheim interests, Custodian Frank L. Hess was enabled to add a large series illustra- tive of the Bolivian tin and tungsten ores, and through Messrs L. L. Ellis and Don Stewart, of Oruro, Bolivia, and Prof. Joseph T. SingeAvald, of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, to secure other examples of like nature. From Mr. Tomas A. Le Breton, am- 81 82 REPOET or NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. bassador from Argentina, was received a representative series of Argentina ores and minerals. Important additions were made to the borate collections from California by Assistant Curator Foshag. Other contributions re- ceived through the same source include specimens of rich silver ore from the California Kand Silver Co.,Eandsburg, Calif. ; of cerar- gyrite from the Calico District, gift of J. R. Lane, of Yermo, Calif. ; and an uncommonly large and pure example of cinnabar contributed by the New Alma den Mining Co. Among the radium-bearing materials received are carnotite ore from the Long Park, Colo., properties of the Radium Luminous Materials Corporation, furnished by the Radium InfoiTnation Serv- ice, New York City ; euxenite ore, sent at the request of F. L. Hess by the Orser-Kraft Feldspar Co. (Ltd.), of Perth, Ontario; torber- nite from White Signal, Grant County, N. Mex., gift of the Radium Treatment & Sanatorium Co., Silver City, N. Mex.; and approxi- mately a kilogram of uraninite from Joachimstahl, Bohemia, ac- quired by exchange from Ward's Natural Science Establishment. Among miscellaneous gifts may be mentioned two specimens of gold ore from the Mother Lode, Calif., and one of the White Pine County, Nev., scheelite, received from W, J. Loring, San Francisco, Calif. ; examples of crude talc of unusually fine quality from Death Valley, sent by the Pacific Minerals & Chemical Co., Glendale, Calif. ; bauxite from British Guiana, donated by the Demerara Bauxite Co., Philadelphia; a specimen of a sandstone used as a pulp stone in grinding wood for paper making, contributed by the Inter- national Paper Co., New York City; and a sand-rock used for various industrial purposes, by the National Silica Co., Oregon, 111. An exceptionally large example of filamentous basalt, Pele's hair, from Kilauea Crater, Hawaiian Islands, was presented by Prof. T. A. Jaggar through Dr. H. S. Washington, and four specimens of an unusual form of lava from the eruption of a volcano in San Salvador in 1917, together with photographs of the region, were received from Bartholomew Mclntire, San Francisco, through the Department of State. But four additions to the meteorite collection were recorded dur- ing the year. These comprised two examples of the Forsyth Count}^, N. C, iron, and one of the Chinautla, Guatemala, by exchange with Ward's Natural Science Establishment ; a fragment of the Troup, Tex., stone, deposited by the University of Texas ; and a piece weigh- ing 75 pounds cut from a 475-pound mass of iron found in Owens Valley, Calif., in 1913, by Mr. Lincoln Ellsworth, of New York City. The extent of the mineral collection was materiallj^ increased. A large number of new or rare species, including fine examples of REPORT OF ISTATIOXAL MUSEUM, 1921. . 83 precious opal from Nevada, a suite of rare sulphosalts from the Bin- nenthal, Switzerland, and miscellaneous minerals, chiefly from for- eign sources, were obtained through exchange with Ward's Natural Science Establishment. In a like manner were added a number of Italian minerals, received from Prof. Alberto Pelloux, Genoa ; mis- cellaneous minerals from California, including some rare sulphates and an attractive exhibition specimen of beautifully crystallized pink halite from Searles Lake, received from Mr. M. Vonsen, Peta- luma, Calif.; interesting lead and vanadium minerals sent by Mr. C. A. Heberlein, Supai, Ariz.; and a collection of the unusual zeo- lites from North Table Mountain, near Golden, Colo., received from the School of Mines at Golden. The Rainbow Ridge Mining Co., through Mr. Archie Rice, New York City, presented a suite of precious opal from their mines in Humboldt County, Nev. These show the variations in the coloring of the opal, ranging from the very dark or) "black" opal to the palest opalescent tints. The collection forms a part of an exhibit composed entirely of opals in the matrix. Additional accessions of note include the following gifts: Rare copper minerals from Chuquicamata, Chile, presented by Guggen- heim Bros., New York City; exceptional specimens of wolframite, by J. F. Aguilar Revoredo, Oruro, Bolivia, and of the rare mineral hewettite, by A. O. Egbert, Prescott, Ariz. ; sphenomanganite and catoptrite from Sweden, new to the collections, by Col. W. A. Roe- bling, Trenton, N. J.; inyoite from New Brunswick, by E. J. Arm- strong, Erie, Pa. ; a large specimen of bismuthinite, by W. H. Wey- her, Alta, Utah, and an exceptional specimen of sphalerite, by C. H. Short, Salt Lake City, both obtained through the efforts of Mr. Vic- tor C. Heikes; a large group of fluorspar crystals, by the Diamond Fluorspar Co., Karbers Ridge, 111. ; described specimens of augite and apthitalite, by Dr. Henry S. Washington ; and several examples of semiprecious stones, by F, M. Myrick, Johannesburg, Calif. A most important addition to the collection of gems and gem minerals was afforded by the acquisition, through the Frances Lea Chamberlain fund, of 56 cut and uncut tourmalines from Mesa Grande, Calif. The cut forms include both cabochons and facetted stones and show the rich variety of coloring characteristic of this mineral; the crystals are of varying sizes, showing two to three colors in each example. Through the same means were secured 9 cabochons of chrysoprase; 6 blue zircons from Queensland, Aus- tralia; 4 carved jades; 2 cabochons of Persian turquoise; 2 cut gems each of Madagascar orthoclase and wernerite; 1 Australian opal carved in the form of a pansy blossom ; 4 blue and yellow Australian sapphires; and an Australian opal, cut cabochon, weighing 31.9 84 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. carats. A cut topaz weighing 92.4 carats was received as a loan from Mrs. George P. Merrill. The principal addition to the petrological collection is the ex- tensive and valuable series comprising upward of 300 hand speci- mens of igneous rocks from the islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, collected by the late Dr. Joseph P. Iddings and presented by his sister, Mrs. Francis D. Cleveland, of Cambridge, Mass. These, one regrets to state, have not as yet been fully described. Several brief papers under the joint authorship of Drs. Iddings and Morely are sufficient to show their interest and importance, but it is evident much work upon them remains to be done. Including also the scientific portion of Dr. Iddings's library, as well as valuable collections assigned to other departments, this is considered one of the most noteworthy accessions of the year. Other additions, received by transfer from the Geological Survey, consist of collections of rocks from the western New England and eastern New York lime belt, collected by Prof. T. Nelson Dale, and miscellaneous rocks from Montana, Colorado, and Washington, col- lected by Messrs. Hancock, Pishel, and Beekley. The accessions in the section of invertebrate paleontology are of especial interest on account of the wide range of localities repre- sented. China, Australia, Tunis, Thrace, Java, Philippines, Hawaii, Trinidad, Jamaica, Haiti, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, and Bolivia are the most prominent of the foreign sources. Perhaps the most valuable of these foreign collections are the moUuscan types from Bowden, Jamaica, described by W. P. Wood- ring and deposited by Johns Hopkins University, and important acquisitions of fossil invertebrates and plants collected in China by Prof. George D. Louclerback, of the University of California. Large collections from Haiti, the result of surveys being made for the Haitian Government under the direction of the Geological Survey, through which institution they were presented by the Haitian Re- public, must also be mentioned, as well as a valuable lot of Tertiary fossils from Australia, received as an exchange from the National Museum, at Melbourne. Additions to the Cambrian collections are comprised in three accessions. About 6,000 specimens, collected and studied by Secretary Walcott, were deposited by the Smithsonian Institution; approxi- mately 1,000 from the Upper Cambrian of Wisconsin, received as a gift from Dr. W. O. Hotchkiss, State geologist, were secured through the efforts of Dr. E. O. Ulrich to supplement the monographic studies by himself and Dr. C. E. Eesser; and 332 specimens from Lancaster County, Pa., were presented by Dr. H. Justin Roddy, of Millers- ville. Pa. EEPORT OF NATIOXAL MUSEUM, 1921. 85 Approximate!}^ 25.000 specimens of Silurian and Devonian fossils from Maine, representing the final shipment of collections made by the late Prof. H. S. Williams, have been transferred from the Geo- logical Survey. The collections from these horizons have been further supplemented by valuable and much-needed materials se- cured through three exchanges with Eaymond E, Hibbard, of Buf- falo, N. Y. Additional noteworthy accessions are: An especially selected lot of Carboniferous foraminifera, gift of Hon. Charles H. Morrill, Lincoln, Xebr. ; a large collection containing many new species, par- ticularly of fossil sponges and trilobites, from a hitherto vmrepre- sented area in Nevada, received in exchange from Mr. H. G. Clinton, Manhattan, Xev. ; and a large slab of fossiliferous Ordovician lime- stone from southwestern Ohio, obtained by the curator for exhibi- tion purposes. By far the most important accession to the section of vertebrate paleontology is a collection of more than a hundred specimens of vertebrate remains, mostly mammalian, representing a new Pliocene fauna of 30 or more species, obtained by Mr. J. W. Gidley, working under the joint auspices of the National Museum and the Geological Survey. The collection includes basic material for two skeleton restorations, one of a little-lniown species of mastodon, the other a new species of Glyptotherium. Mr. Gidley also collected from the " bone quarry " at Agate, Nebr., a block or slab, 5^ by 3^ feet, and 14 inches thick, weighing upward of 4,000 pounds, and containing numerous fossil bones, mostly of the little two-horned rhinoceros Diceratherium cooki. Mr. C, W, Gilmore, while investigating certain fossiliferous areas in New Mexico, noted elsewhere, secured interesting mammalian remains. Of the materials acquired by exchange, mention may be made of a fossil turtle, Bystra norms, a rare specimen and the type of the genus, received from the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences; a disarticulated skull and lower jaws of the crested dinosaur Stephan- osaurus, the first representative of this reptile to be secured for the national collections; part of a skull and lower jaw of a Pleistocene elephant from an unknown locality, and an elephant tooth from Otranto, Italy, received from Ward's Natural Science Establish- ment ; approximately 200 specimens of Pleistocene mammals from a cave deposit near Coconino County, Ariz., received from the Uni- versity of Arizona; and two skulls of Diceratheriuin cooki and casts of two Permian reptile skulls from the University of Chicago. The lower jaw of a Pleistocene mastodon from near Yazoo City, Miss., gift of the Yazoo Commercial Club; a jawbone with teeth intact of the fossil shark, Edestus heim^chsii, gift of the Southern 86 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. Coal, Coke & Mining Co., St. Louis, Mo.; and a fossil elephant skull, acquired by purchase, are additional accessions worthy of note. Men- tion may also be made of the acquisition of an original oil painting of a life restoration of the flying reptile Ornithostoma which. was deposited by the Smithsonian Institution. Of prime importance among the accessions to the section of paleobotany are large collections from the Eocene formations of southeastern North America, described and figured by E. W. Berry in Professional Pajoers of the United States Geological Survey. Following these should be noted gifts of unusually well-preserved exhibition and stud}' specimens from Malheur County, Oreg., and Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, the former presented by Mr. Sam Ballantyne, Boise, and the latter by Henry J. Eust, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Valuable material was also included in the extensive collection from China received from Professor Louderback, mention of which is made above. Explorations and expeditions. — Explorations were confined wholly to the division of paleontology. The field season of 1920 was spent as usual by Secretary Walcott in the Canadian Rockies. His work had for its object the determination of the character and extent of the great interval of nondeposition of sedimentary rock-forming material along the Front Range of the Rockies west of Calgary, Alberta, and the clearing up of the relations of the sunmait and base of the great Glacier Lake section of 1919 to the geological forma- tions above and below. Early in July work was begun along the Ghost River northeast of Banff; the Rocky Mountain front was studied and among its cliffs a new formation of Lower Middle Cambrian age was determined. Forty miles north of Lake Louise a geological section was studied in detail that tied in the base of the Glacier Lake section with the Middle and Lower Cambrian formations. Proceeding to the upper valley of the Clear Water River, a most perfectly exposed series of limestones, shales, and sand- stones of Upper Cambrian and later formations was found, which cleared up the relations of the upper portion of the Glacier Lake section to the Ordovician formations above. During July, 1920, and again in January, 1921, Curator Bassler was engaged in the preparation of casts of type specimens of fos- sils in the Walker Museum, University of Chicago, in continua- tion of plans to attain for the national collections their proper com- pleteness by having represented all available type specimens. The casting of all the Devonian, Mississippian, and Pennsylvanian types in the Walker Museum, amounting to some thousands of specimens, was accomplished during these two visits. Dr. E. O. Ulrich, of the Geological Survey, associate in paleon- tology, continued his field researches on the Cambrian and Ordo- EEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1021. 87 viciaii rocks of the Appalacliian and Mississippi Valleys during the first three and last two months of the fiscal year. Accompanied by his assistant, he studied numerous areas to determine doubtful geo- logical points, during the course of which he obtained valuable col- lections which will come to the National Museum. Early in the year Assistant Curator J. W. Gidley was detailed to visit Williamsburg, Ya., to investigate a reported find of some fossil bones in that vicinity. These proved to be the remains of an extinct species of whale of Miocene age, but were incomplete and too badly damaged to make possible the recovery of a sufficient number for an exhibition mount. Two other important field expeditions were undertaken hx Mr. Gidley during the year, the first as the result of reports from Mr. Kirk Bryan, of the Geological Survey, who had discovered some promising localities for fossil A'ertebrate remains while maldng an extensive survey of the underground water resources in the San Pedro Valley of Arizona. Mr. Gidley spent two months or more in the Arizona field, visiting three localities in the San Pedro Valley and one in Sulphur Springs Valley. The last yielded only fragmen- tary remains of Pleistocene mammals, but much better results were obtained in the San Pedro Valley, where two localities, one about 2 miles south of Benson, the other at the Curtis ranch, about 14 miles south of Benson, yielded remains of about 30 species, mostly mam- mals, which seem to represent a new or little-known Pliocene faima. Mr. Gidley shipped 21 boxes, with an aggregate weight of about 4,630 pounds. A portion of this material will be suitable for ex- hibition, the most important being remains sufficiently complete to form the basis of skeleton restorations of a rare species of mastodon and a large edentate. Other remains represent extinct species of camels, carnivorous animals, rodents, turtles, and birds. The second expedition, entirely under Museum auspices, included a trip to Agate Springs, Nebr., where was secured a large slab, or block of limestone containing remains of the little rhinoceros Dicera- therium cooli. This will be cleaned and exhibited with the bones in situ. Mr. C. W. Gilmore was detailed in April to visit a fossiliferoug area some 36 miles north of Santa Fe, N. Mex., for the purpose of making collections of paleontological material, and for determining the advisabilit}" of reserving certain lands for national monument purposes. A skull, lower jaws, and other bones of an extinct rhi- noceros, various limb and foot bones of a camel, and a small collec- tion of miscellaneous specimens were obtained as a result of this trip. Worh of preserving and installing the collections. — Numerous minor changes have been made in the exhibition collections by the addition of new material. A special case to accommodate two large 88 REPORT OF 13"ATlO:SrAL MITSEtJM, 1921. masses of molybdenum ore has recently been installed, and an in- structive addition made by Mr. Shannon to the economic series in the form of weighed samples of some of the more important ores, each of which is accompanied by samples of its constituent elements in their relative portions. The saline series has been greatly im- proved by the addition of materials collected in California by Mr. Foshag. To make space for a collection of ores from Argentina, a series of mercury-antimony ores from Huitzuco, Mexico, was removed from exhibition. Information sufficient for the disposition of some 250 boxes of mis- cellaneous material stored for the Geological Survey in the summer of 1919 having been received from the Director, the task of assorting them was undertaken and carried out so far as the identit}'- of the boxes could be definitely determined. This proved both tedious and difficult owing to careless and incomplete labeling. A part of the boxes were returned to the survey, some turned over to A^arious sur- vey men located in the National Museum, and 128 boxes were acces- sioned as a transfer. Of the last named but a small proportion has as 3'et been unpacked. The work goes slowly since much of the ma- terial is in such a condition that the disposition of each lot requires careful consideration, and in many cases can not be made without thorough investigation and consultation with the survey collectors. Where decision is possible the material has either been rejected as unsuitable for museum purposes or has been catalogued and incorpo- rated in the collections. Two cases supplementing the collection of gems have been added to the exhibits in the mineral hall. One of these contains gem minerals in the matrix or as found in nature ; the other illustrates the varieties and occurrence of precious opal. Incidental to the visit of Madame Curie the exhibit illustrating radio-activity was materially enlarged and reinstalled in two cases at the east end of the mineral hall, where it is more attractive as well as more instructive than as formerly displayed. The study series of minerals has been entirely overhauled, cleaned, and rearranged. A number of specimens were transferred to other series, and the drawer labels improved to facilitate the ready location of specimens. The duplicate collection has likewise been overhauled and a large amount of worthless material discarded. Several hun- dred petrographical specimens selected from old sets broken up have been incorporated in the study series of rocks. The great influx of new collections to the section of invertebrate paleontology has required continued rearrangement of the study series in order to accommodate the new material. Much time has to be spent each year in this purely manual labor, but condensation and elimination of duplicates is necessary since the collections at present REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. 89 nearly fill the available space. The Cambrian collections under the charge of Secretary Walcott were so condensed during the year that an entire room in the Smithsonian building was made available for other purposes. Assistant Curator Resser has also reduced the Cam- brian collections housed in the Museum Building until they now occupy the minimum of space and still remain accessible. Similar work on the post-Cambrian Paleozoic collections has been carried on by Curator Bassler. Additional space afforded by the transfer of a number of steel cases from the department of anthro- pology has made possible the withdrawal of all material from storage, so that all collections are now easily accessible. Lack of time, how- ever, has prevented completion of the arrangement of large collec- tions of Devonian invertebrates known as the Williams collection, although Doctor Resser has devoted considerable time to this work. The preparation and classification of 10 boxes of Cambrian and Ordovician fossils forwarded by the Canadian Geological Survey for study by Secretary Walcott occupied about two months of Doctor Resser 's time. The Mesozoic collections have as heretofore been cared for by Dr. T. W. Stanton, Dr. W. H. Dall has kept the biologic collections of the Cenozoic series up to their usual high standard, and Dr. T. W. Vaughan has cared for the numerous large accessions secured through his activities. Miss Jessie Beach, aid, has assisted in all work on both the exhibi- tion and study series where literary and clerical help were required. Her duties have included reading of proof, preparation of manu- script, registering and numbering specimens, and general routine work of the division. The preparation of photographic material for illustration, par- ticularly of fossil insects, cephalopods, and protozoans, often micro- scopic, has as heretofore devolved on Messrs. Bassler and Resser, and been executed with their customary skill and taste. In addition to the cleaning and rearranging necessary every year exhibition work in the section has included the preparation of a mount illustrating an Ordovician sea beach ; an exhibit of fossil in- sects occupying one-half of an upright case; and work toward the improvement of the stratigraphic exhibit of Paleozoic faunas. The forms are often small and so inconspicuous to the average visitor that in many cases enlarged photographs are now introduced with the specimens. Experience has shown that a picture calls attention to the descriptive label and this to the fossil itself. Dr. Frank Springer has selected from his collection an instructive and showy biological series of fossil crinoids, an exhibit which occu- pies two entire cases, and which can not be surpassed in any museum. 00 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1821. Several additions to the exhibits of fossil vertebrates resulted from the work in that section diirinfi; the year. A skeleton of Brnehijcera- to'ps 1/iontanensis, unique in being the smallest horned dinosaur yet discovered, forms a most interesting addition to the exhibits illus- trative of the Ceratopsia. Mr. N. H, Boss is to be highly commended for the excellence of the mount, which in some respects proved to be a most difficult subject. It might also be mentioned that the Na- tional Museum now has mounted skeletons of the smallest as well as the largest individuals of this race of dinosaurs, and, indeed, the only ones of their kind in any museum in the world (pi. 2). Mr. Boss also prepared the skeleton of the smallest lizard, Smiiwa ensideris, the type, specimen, which had been in the Museum for the past 50 years in the condition as received from the field and described by Leidy. Instead of consisting of but a few bones, the specimen was found to have the greater part of the skull, the backbone, and numerous other bones preserved. This is a most important specimen from a historical standpoint, being the first Varanicl lizard to be de- scribed from North America ; also, it is now known to be the most perfect skeleton of its kind as well as the most ancient. The work of mounting the skeleton of the fossil wolverine, Gulo, from the Cumberland cave deposit, reported as under preparation last year, has been completed by Mr. Home, as has also that of a com- posite mount of a bear. There are now on exhibition three skeleton mounts from the material collected from this deposit several years ago by Mr. Gidley (pi. 3). Mr. Home has also completed mounts of the skulls of Monoclonms ■fl,exus and Eleflias j^rimigenius and cleaned and restored the miss- ing parts of eight large Oreodont skulls from the Miocene of Oregon. A number of Titanothere skulls have been prepared for use in a special exhibit comprising some 26 individuals now being installed in a new case in the southeast comer of the exhibition hall. Mounts for more than half of these are made, and the work is well under way. Mr. Barrett was engaged for the entire year in preparatory repair work, chiefly on specimens from the study collections. Special men- tion should be made of the complete overhauling of the many trays of miscellaneous Titanothere materials. Scattered parts of indi- viduals were assembled, broken bones repaired, and the material ar- ranged in standard trays in the steel cases, thus rendering them easily accessible. Several hundred individual bones of the Cumber- land cave material, several small collections received from the United States Geological Survey, a large cetacean skull from the diatom de- posits of California, numerous Ceratopsian fragments, and a consid- erable portion of a wolf skeleton have also received attention. Report of U. S. National Museum, 1921 . Plate 2. 03 03 Q hi H O UJ _l -I o O < z < I- z o s o CO O) — UJ O) z < Q 1- z z < io ^ Ol Q. — 0 o e specimens of invertebrate fossils prepared by Dr. R. S. Bassler (66014, exchange). CHILDS, L. J., Rialot, Calif.: Speci- men of the mineral bayldonite from Riverside County, California (66570). CHINA, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF, Peking, China ; V. K. Ting, Director : 4 specimens of fossil crabs, Macrop- thalmiis lafrciUci used as medicine in China (65587). LIST OF ACCESSIONS. 155 CHRrSTIANIA, NORWAY, ZOOL- OGISK MUSEUM OF THE UNI- VERSITY: 2 snakes collected by Carl Lumholtz in Borneo (66768, ex- change). CLARK, Austin H., U. S. National Museum : Prehistoric shell imple- ment from Barbados, West Indies (65864). CLARK, B. P., Boston, Mass.: 263 exotic beetles (66199). CLARK, H. Walton. ( See under Miss Eliza Garvin.) CLARKE, Louis C. G., London, Eng- land: A small jade tiki from New Zealand, and a collection of neo- lithic stone implements from Great Britain, Ireland, and Greece (65772, 65954 ) . Exchange. CLARKSON, Gros\'enor B., Washing- ton, D. C. : 2 Japanese vases (65525). CLAUDE- JOSEPH Beotheb. (See under Instituto de la Salle, Correo Nunoa. Chile.) CLEMENS, Mrs. Joseph, Greenville. Calif.: 6 plants (65419); 3 plants from California (66040). CLEVELAND, Mrs. Feancis D., Cam- bridge, Mass. : The entire collection of insects and rocks, and the sci- entific portion of the library of the late Dr. Joseph P. Iddings (65750). CLINTON, H. G., Manhattan, Nev. : Collections of invertebrate fossils from Nevada ( 65692, exchange ) . CLOKEY, iRA W., Denver, Colo.: 13 Colorado plants and 2 ferns (65689, 66223) ; 271 plants (66110, ex- change). COCKERELL, Prof. T. D. A., Boulder, Colo. : Bee, Poeciloconalos mimus, a species and genus new to the Mu- seum collections (65212) ; 86 speci- mens of insects from England, mostly named, and 4 para types and 4 other named species of beetles from the Seychelles Lslands (65927) ; mol- lusks, marine invertebrates, echino- derms, insects and plants from the Madeira Islands (06057, 66238. 66281) ; shells, insects, and flies, beetles, and plants (66174, 66586). COLE, Elmer E., Washington, D. C. : Powder horn with carved cap and spout, used in the early fifties by Thomas Smiley, Meadville, Pa. (65507, loan). COLE, Miss Lillian A., Union, Me.: 11 plants (66356, 66564). COLEGIO DEL SAGRADA CORA- ZON, Guantanamo, Oriente, Cuba (through Brother Hioram) : 26 ferns from Cuba (66316). COLEGIO DE SAN PEDRO APOS- TOL, Cartegena, Colombia (through Brother Heriberto) : 161 Colombian plants (65449,66230). COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. (See under Columbia University.) COLONIAL DAMES OP AMERICA, NATIONAL SOCIETY OF, Wash- ington, D. C. (through Mrs. Carolyn Gilbert Benjamin) : Lady's fan of the colonial period (65396) ; old English china pitcher presented by the poet James Montgomery to the journalist, Joseph Gales (66404) ; uniform coat, vest, breeches, and sash worn during the French and Indian Wars by Capt. Ely Dag- worthy of the British Army (66546) ; miscellaneous relics of the colonial period (G6552) ; 4 documents of the eighteenth centurj' (66604) ; glass tumbler owned by George Washing- ton (66628) ; collection of uniforms of the type worn by American women, members of war organiza- tions during the World War, 1914- 1918 (66674, loan). COLONIAL WARS, GENERAL SO- CIETY OF (through W. W. Ladd, Governor General, New York City) : Bronze war service insignia and certificate for civilian service of the type issued by the General Society of Colonial AVars to members of the society in recognition of patriotic services rendered to the United States during the World War, 1917- 1919 (66311). COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES, Department of Geology. Golden, Colo. : 19 specimens of zeolites from North Table Mountain, near Golden, Colo. (6CG95, exchange). 156 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. COLORADO STATE MUSEUM, Den- ver, Colo. : 8 plants from New Mex- ico (66513). COLORADO, UNIVERSITY OF, De- partment of Biology, Boulder, Colo. : 26 plants (66430). COLTON COaiPANY, Abthxjb, De- troit, Mich. : An automatic tablet machine complete with punches, dies, and electric motor (66765, de- posit) . COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, COL- LEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, New York, N. Y. (through Dr. George S. Hunting- ton) : 172 cases of skeletal material (66480, exchange). COMMERCE, DEPARTMENT OF : Coast and Geodetic Survey: 53 bottom samples taken during the summer of 1919 by the Coast and Geodetic Survey steamer Surveyor on passage between NorfoU?:, Va., and San Diego, Calif., via Panama Canal (65683); chronoscope; dip circle, bought between 184S and 1885 ; verticle circle, bought between 1885 and 1893; geo- detic level, and an astronomical transit, 46 inches, purchased between 1848 and 1852 (65983). Bureau of Fisheries: 10 Turbel- larian worms taken from oysters collected on Port Inglis oyster bar, near Cedar Key. Fla. (65182) ; 2 plants. Opuntia, from North Carolina (65283) ; 25 -f juvenile forms of crabs, Uca pugilator, from the sandy beach south of Diver's Island, Beaufort, N. C. (65516) ; ap- proximately 100,000 fishes col- lected by the steamer Albatross in Philippine waters (65731) ; 15 specimens of dried sponges from Ikatan Baj', Unimak Island, Alaska, collected by Warden Joseph N. Braun (65787) ; 360 + lots of sponges collected by the steamer Albatross, 250 -f- of them from the Albatross Hawai- ian Cruise of 1902, and 110 -f from the Eastern Pacific Cruise COMMERCE, DEPARTMENT OF— Continued. Bureau of Fisheries — Continued, of 1904-5 (65876) ; type speci- men of Peristedion gilberti (65933) ; 9 skulls of fur seals, Callorhinus, from St. Paul Island, and 25 skulls and 1 skeleton of fur seals from St. George Island (65959) ; 6 skulls of branded S-j-ear old fur seals, Callorhinus, from the Pribiloff Islands, Alaska (65960) ; skele- ton of a leather back turtle, and 72 crustaceans (15 species of amphipods and 5 species of isopods), all from Wood's Hole, Mass. (65977, 66504) ; (through Samuel W. Geiser) 5 specimens of a new species of amphipod from Chesapeake Bay, collected by the steamer Fish Hawk (65993) : specimen of croaker, Micropogon undulatus {her- maphroditic) (60140) ; 7 type specimens of 16 cotypes of new mala-copterygian fishes (66257) ; a miscellaneous lot of fishes from the Potomac River and its tribu- taries (66448) ; 211 specimens, 38 lots, of moUusks, Sphaeriidae, from Iowa (66449) ; 54 speci- mens, 1 species, of landshells from Key West, Fla. (66455) ; a miscellaneous collection of ma- rine invertebrates, starfishes, mollusks, fish, and stomach con- tents of fish from Alaska, to- gether with 8 lots of unidentified Philippine sponges (66605) ; 4 microscopic slides and 2 vials of cestode worms including the type and cotypes of Phyllobothrium tumidum (host Carcharodon car- charias) and the type of Phyllo- bothrium loliginis from a sword- fish (66666). (See also under N. H, Cowdrey, and Dr. A. R. Stubbs.) Bttreau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce: A skein of tussah silk. Two Deer Brand, produced by the Chun Yi Filature of Mukden, Manchuria (65626) ; samples of mica from China (66094). LIST OF ACCESSIONS. 157 CONGRESS, LIBRARY OF. (See un- der Ukraine, The Friends of.) CONNER, George W., Hollywood, Calif.: Paper currency of the Re- public of Texas issued 1838-41 (9 specimens) (65455). CONNOR, Buck, Hollywood, Calif.: Lover's flute from the Brule Sioux (65697) ; catlinite pipe and stem, skin pipe bag, 8 arrows, and 2 stone- head clubs (66350). CONZATTI, Prof. C, Oaxaca, Mexico : 2 plants, MammilUria (65699) ; 196 plants from Mexico (65736, 65806, 65838, 66032, 66033) ; plant, Dio- spyros from Oaxaca (66472) ; 10 specimens of cacti (66714). COOK, Dr. E. Fullerton. ( See under United States Pharmacopoeial Con- vention ( Inc. ) , Board of Trustees of the.) COOK, Dr. O. F. (See under Miss Ellen D. Schulz.) COOKE, Dr. C Wythe, U. S. Geologi- cal Survey, Washington, D. C. : 50 specimens, 6 species, of land and fresh-water .shells collected by the donor in Department of Santander, U. S. of Colombia (66267). COOPE, Miss Jessie, W^ashington, D. C. : 18 Chinese ethnological speci- mens (65240). COOPER, Prof. William S., Depart- ment of Botany, University of Minne- sota, Minneapolis, Minn. : Plant from Alaska (65268). COPELAND, E. B., Chico, Calif.: 2 plants, Selaginella, from California (65887). COPENHAGEN, DENMARK, UNI- VERSITY OF COPENHAGEN, ZOO- LOGICAL MUSEUM (through U. S. Department of Agriculture) : Collec- tion of beetle larvae representing 8 species (66339, exchange). COPPEDGE DRUG STORE, Browns- ville, Tex. : Larva of a moth, Argeus labruscae, from Brownsville, Tex. (65504). CORBACHO, Senor Joege M., Lima, Peru : Peruvian document signed in 1735 by the Marquis of Castel Puerte, viceroy of Peru, 1724-1735 (65278). CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Ithaca, N. Y. (through Prof. W. W. Row- lee) : 50 Central American plants (65850) ; 5 fragmentary plants, Sela- ginella; (through C. F. W. Muese- beck) 4 paratypes of parasitic Hy- , menoptera (braconids) (66298,66306, exchange.) CORT, Dr. W. W. Department of Medi- cal Zoology, Johns Hopkins Uni- versity, Baltimore, Md. : About 500 fresh-water snails, Blmifordia for- mosana, from Taichu Province, For- mosa (66022). COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE, Washington, D. C. (through E. K. Ellsworth, Acting Director) : Silk flag presented by the women of Ar- menia, through the Armenian Na- tional Union, to the women of Amer- ica, through the Woman's Commit- tee of the United States Council of National Defense, in recognition of the services rendered to women of Armenia by the women of America during the World War (65729). COVILLE, Dr. Frederick V., Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. : Plant, Azalea arhoresccns, from Great FaUs, Va. (66273). (See also under Agriculture, De- partment of. Bureau of Plant In- dustry, Ellsworth Bethel, F. W. Hunnewell, and Titus Ulke.) COWDRY, N. H., Department of Anatomy, Peking Union INIedical Col- lege, Peking, China : 213 plants from China (65751) ; (through Depart- ment of Commerce, Bureau of Fisheries) 33 Chinese plants (66099). COX, Prof. Philip, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada: 10 fishes, sticklebacks (66368, exchange). CRAMER DRY PLATE CO., G., St. Louis, Mo. : An 8 by 11 inch framed portrait of Mr. Gustav Cramer (66137). CRANE, W. E., Washington, D. C. : 18 species of Pleistocene ( ?) shells from a low bluff 15 to 20 miles west of the port of Batavia, Java, on the China Sea (66490). 158 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. CROSTHWAITE, Miss Fokest M., Washington, D. C. : Military equip- ment owned during tlie Mexican "War by Lieut. Baldwin H. Cross- wait, Third Ohio Infantry; lady's riding saddle of the period of the Revolution, and riding-habit coat of the period of the Civil War ; 2 Ger- man religious books of the eigh- teenth century ; and miscellaneous natural history material (65484). CROTHER, A. H., Laurel, Md. : Egret, Herodias egretta-, from Maryland (65434). CURRAN, Howard, Orillia, Ontario, Canada: 4 flies (66415). CURTIS PUBLISHING CO., PhDadel- phia. Pa. (through Perry R. Long and William Slagle) : 98 printed proofs of four-color work and 24 prints as they come from the press, printed in two colors on both sides (66198). CURTISS AEROPLANE AND MO- TOR CORPORATION, Garden City, Long Island, N. Y. : Photographs of airplanes Eagle, Wasp, and Oriole (65558). CUTLER, Mr. and Mrs. Russell G., Kanab, Utah : Archeological objects found while digging a cellar in Kanab, Utah (65540). CZECHO-SLOVAK ARMY IN RUS- SIA, ARTILLERY SECTION, Vladi- vostok, Siberia (through the Quar- termaster Corps, U, S. Army) : Rus- sian 3-inch gun captured with the armored train " Orlik " from bolshe- vik forces by Czecho-Slovak troops, July, 1918, and used by the latter in their defense of the Trans-Siberian Railroad, 1918-1920 (65821). DALL, Dr. W. H., U. S. Geological Sui'vey, Washington, D. C. : Artist proof wood-engraving of Asa Gray by Gustav Kruel (1843-1907) (66416). (See also under J. G. Malone, and C. R. Orcutt.) DANIEL, Robert E. L., Moqui Indian Agency, Keams Canon, Ariz. : 7 sheets of drawings in color illustrat- ing tribal myths of the Kiowa In- dians, Fort Sill, Okla., an earthen- DANIEL, Robert E. L.— <:;ontinued. ware jar from Marsh Pass, and a stone figurine of ancient Pueblo manufacture (65566). DARBY, Miss Charlotte L., Falls Church, Va. : House wren. Troglo- dytes aedon, from Virginia (66630). DARLING, Nancy, Woodstock, Vt. : Fern, Polysticlmm adiantiforme, from Florida (65760). DAVIDSON, Dr. A., Los Angeles, Calif.: Plant, Petrophyton, from California (65877) ; 8 plants from California (65777, 66642) ; 10 plants (65253, 65440). DAVIDSON, W. M., Vienna, Va. : Syr- phus fly, from southern California, collected by the donor (65677). DAVIS, Prof. Donald W. (See under Eastern State Hospital, Williams- burg, Va.) DAVIS, Rev. John, Hannibal, Mo.: 317 plants (65402, 66450). DAVIS, J. J., Riverton Entomological Laboratory, Riverton, N. J. : 23 para- types of 8 species and varieties of May-beetles, Phyllophaga (65344). DAY, Prof. A. L. (See under Philip- pines, University of.) DAYTON - AVRIGHT Co., Dayton, Ohio: Isometric plan of De Havi- land 4 battle plane, showing military equipment (3 copies) (66633). DEAM, Charles C, Bluffton, Ind. : 17 plants (65428) ; 9 plants, Selagi- nella, from the United States and Canada (65889) ; (through W. W. Eggleston) 66 plants from Indiana (66121). DEAM, Miss Roberta E. (See under Michigan, University of. Museum of Zoology.) DEAN, F. A. W., Alliance, Ohio: 5 specimens representing 5 species of mollusks (65208) ; white metal token commemorating the Hudson-Fulton celebration, 1909, and 2 bronze medalets commemorating the Lin- coln centennial, 1909 (65236). DE GOLYER, E., Chief Geologist, Compania Mexicana El Aguila, S. A., New York City (through Dr. T. Wayland Vaughan) : Type specimen of the fossil pelecypod, Sauvagesia degolyej'i (65615). LIST OF ACCESSIONS. 159 DEINARD, Ephraim, Arlington, N. J. : Collection of objects of Jewish and Mohammaden religious ceremonial, consisting of textiles, specimens of wood, stone, copper, brass, silver, and manuscripts, chiefly from Pales- tine (255 specimens) (65324, loan). DEMERARA BAUXITE CO. (LTD.), Philadelphia, Pa. : Samples of Brit- ish Guiana bauxite (66318). DE- NEALE, Miss Edna, Washington, D. C. : An American Hornbook painted on bone (65390, loan). DENSLOW, Rev. H. M., New York City : Plant, Listera, from New York (66571, exchange). DE RONCERAY, Miss Makie Estelle, Smithsonian Institution : 3 china doll heads, and a lot of doll clothes, aU of the period of 1870, and a lace shawl worn in Porto Rico between 1858 and 1864 by Mrs. Charles de Ronceray ( Henrietta R a s a 1 e e ) (66105). DESPREZ, Mme. Patjl, Paris, France: Gold mounted and jeweled sword presented by the city of Phila- delphia to Maj. General George B. McClellan in 1861 (65865). DETMERS, Miss Feeda, Ohio Agri- cultural Experiment Station, Woos- ter, Ohio: Plant (65250). DETWILER, Frederick Knecht, New York City : 6 water -color drawings by the donor showing the construc- tion of wooden ships in the United States shipyard at Noank, Conn., during the World War, 1918 (66382). DEUTSCHES ENTOMOLOGISCHES MUSEUM, Berlin-Dahlem, Germany (through Dr. Walther Horn) : 196 sawflies (66531). DEVEREUX, Mrs. J. Ryan, Chevy. Chase, Md. : Harp piano (65526). DEWEY, Dr. William A. (See under Dr. Mary E. Hanks and Dr. Lynn Arthur Martin.) DIAMOND FLUORSPAR CO., Kai'- bers Ridge, 111. : Specimen of fluor- spar (65610). DICKENS, Mrs. F. W., Washington, D. C. : 15 pieces of American his- torical chinaware (660S2, loan). 71305°— 21 11 DIRECCION DE ESTUDIOS BIO- LOGICOS. (See imder Mexican Government. ) DIRECCION GENERAL DE AGRI- CULTURA. (See under Guate- mala.) DOBBIN, Frank, Shushan, N. Y. : 55 plants from New York (66341). DODGE & OLCOTT CO., New York City : Sample of bay leaves, Pimenta acris, and 6 medicinal oils (65343, 65870). DOGNIN, Paul, Wimille, France : 200 specimens of pyralidae (lepidop- terous insects) (66625). DOUGHTY, Edward Crosby, Wil- liamstown, Mass. : Framed photo- graphic enlargement on Japanese tissue (66396). DUKES, W. C, Mobile, Ala. : 10 speci- mens of a moth, Aefferia tepperi, new to the Museum collections (66285). DUNN, L. H., Ancon, Canal Zone: 8 mosquitoes (66201) ; fly, Pseudol- fersia mexicancu (66228). DUPLAN SILK CORPORATION, New York City: 7 samples of novelty silk fabric woven at Hazleton, Pa. (66772). DU PONT DE NEMOURS & CO., E. I., New York City : An embossed book- binding of fabrikoid, in imitation of leather (66583). DUTTON, D. Lewis, Brandon, Vt. : 17 plants, chiefly from Vermont (66063). DYAR, Dr. H. G., U. S. National Mu- seum : 350 crane flies from the Pa- cific Northwest (65682). EARLE, Charles T., Palma Sola, Fla. : A collection of fragmentary bones and teeth of fossil vertebrates (66138) ; 22 specimens of fragmen- tary bones and teeth from the Pleis- tocene of Florida (66505). (See also under Harry Walling). EARLE, Charles T., and Harry Walling, Palma Sola, Fla. : Fossil bones and teeth from Bishops Har- bor, Fla. (66690). EARLE, Sir Lionel. (See under British Government, H, M. Office of Works.) 160 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. EASTERN STATE HOSPITAL, Wil- liamsburg, Va. (through Prof. Don- ald W. Davis) : Portions of a fossil whale skeleton (65635). EBERT, Col. R. G., Vancouver, Wash. : Plant, Vancouveria hexandra (65399). ECLIPSE ELECTROTYPE & EN- GRAVING CO., THE, Cleveland, Ohio : A chart showing the various halftone screen effects, 5 photo- graphs, and some miscellaneous pamphlets (15 specimens) (66804). EDMONDSON, Dr. C. H. (See under Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii.) EGBERT, A. O., Prescott, Ariz, (through F. L. Hess) : Specimen of hewettite in gypsum from Paradox Valley, Montrose County, Colo. (65914). EGGLESTON, W. W. (See under Charles C. Deam.) EIGENMANN, Dr. C. H. (See under Indiana University Museum.) ELLIOTT, William E., Chicago, 111. (through F. L. Hess) : Sample of rock showing the occurrence of radio- active minerals, and a small piece of pitchblende (65994). ELLIS, L. L., Oruro, Bolivia (through F. L. Hess) : Specimen of crystal- lized wolframite and 1 of cassiterite from Bolivia (65220). ELLSWORTH, E. K. (See under Council of National Defense.) ELLSWORTH, Lincoln, New York City : A piece weighing 78 pounds cut from the Owns Valley, Calif., meteorite (66591, exchange). EMERY, D. L., St. Petersburg, Fla.: 50 specimens, 3 species, of Crepidula, and 11 lots of marine shells from the west coast of Florida (65862, 65575) ; 3 species of marine shells from St. Petersburg and Longboat Inlet, West Florida (65989) ; 7 species of marine shells from south- west Florida, between Longboat In- let and Caseys Pass, and 1 species from San Diego County, Calif. (66132) ; 4 specimens of mollusks, Marginella, 1 of them from Gulf- port, Fla., and 50 specimens of De- tracia bulloides, 1 of them from Boca Ceiga Bay, Fla. (66320). ENGBERG, Dr. C. C, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebr. : 21 lots of mollusks from the west coast of the United States (65632) ; 12 specimens representing 3 species of marine sheUs from Olga, Wash. (65703) ; 5 specimens, 1 species, of freshwater mollusks from Fidalgo Island, and 1 alga (66512). ENGELHARDT, Geoege P., Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn, N. Y. : 100 specimens of Microlepidoptera from Long Island, N. Y. (65559) ; 3 specimens of rob- ber flies collected by the donor at Great Falls, Va., October, 20, 1920 (65706). ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. (See under Prof. Otto Scheerpeltz and Prof. Emil Moczarski.) EPLER, Mrs. Ltjltt Hiixeary, Govans, Baltimore, Md. : 2 glass decanters formei'ly owned by Henry Clay (65501). ESTACION AGRONOMICA DE HAINA, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: 43 plants (66729). EVANS, Prof. Alexander W., Osborn Botanical Laboratory, Yale Univer- sity, New Haven, Conn. : Specimen of hepatic from Jamaica (65496). EVANS, Victor J., Washington, D. C. : 2 hand-print cloths of the Moros, Philippine Islands (66280, ex- change). FAIR, Henry, Spokane, Wash, (through Mr. L. K. Armstrong) : Basalts from the emnrons of Spo- kane, Wash. (66309). FAIRMAN, Charles E., Washington, D. C. : 4 gum prints and 1 platinum print (66723). FANTUS, Bernard, Chicago, 111.: 49 specimens illustrating candy medica- tion for children (66070). FAR WELL, Oliver A., Detroit, Mich. : Plant, Amaranthus, from Michigan (65429) ; plant, Lacmaria, from Mis- sissippi (65839). FAWCETT, C. T., Fawcett Gap, Va.: Grooved stone ax and 9 chipped ar- rowheads collected at Fawcett Gap, Va. (66157). LIST OF ACCESSIONS. 161 PAYSSOUX, H. A., Hollister, N. C. : 3 pearls found in oysters from Norfok, Va. (66250). FAZ, AxFKEDo, Valparaiso, Chile: A collection of Diptera, comprising 45 species and approximately 130 speci- mens (65313, exchange). FELIPPONE, Dr. Florentino, Monte- video, Uruguay: 11 crustaceans (1 barnacle, 6 shrimps, 4 crabs) ; a sponge, 45 mollusks, 2 echinoderms, 1 fish and a collection of insects (65373) ; 5 specimens representing 5 species of South American fresh- water mollusks (65564, exchange) ; a miscellaneous lot of specimens, in- cluding echinoderms, crustaceans, mollusks, insects, reptiles, and fishes (66165). FELLOWS, Dr. Dana W., Fort Kent, Me. : 690 plants from Maine (65360). FERNALD, Dr. H. T., Department of Entomology, Massachusetts Agricul- tural College, Amherst, Mass.: 2 cuckoo bees (65664). FERRISS, James H., Joliet, IlL: 5 specimens of cacti (65430, 65522) ; 9 plants (cacti) (65460, exchange). FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, Chicago, 111. (through Dr. C. F. MiUspaugh) : 22 plants from the Santa Catalina Islands, Calif. (66477, exchange). FISHBACK, Clifford L., Washington, D. C. : Salamander collected on Blagden's Estate, from a pool near Piney Branch (66235). FISHER, George L., Houston, Tex.: 306 plants (65584) ; 28 plants, chiefly from Texas (66072). FLEMING, J. H., Toronto, Ontario, Canada: 6 bird skins from Celebes (65922, exchange). FLETT, J. B., Ashford, Longmire Springs, Wash, (through Prof. C. V. Piper) : 20 plants and 7 ferns from Washington (66159, 66379). FLORANCE, E. L., Jr., New York City: Cloth shoulder device of the Eighty-first Division, United States Army, worn during the World War (65866). FLORIDA STATE MUSEUM, Uni- versity of Florida, Gainesville, Fla. : Vertebra of a fin - back whale (65992) ; 2 mollusks from Gulfport, representing the species Turbonilla iPyrgiscus) (66333). FLORIDA, UNIVERSITY OF, Agri- cultural Experiment Station, Gaines- ville, Fla. (through J. R. Watson) : 20 specimens of thrips (65676). FLOURNOR, J. C, Laredo, Tex.: Mexican archeological specimens, to- gether with several frauds (66025, deposit). FLYNN, AsHBY T., U. S. National Mu- seum : Combination jackknife, and a cigar ease, gilt lacquer with minia- ture, about 1800 (65317, 66194). FOERSTE, Dr. August F., Steele High School, Dayton, Ohio; Cast of a rare Silurian crinoid type, and a specimen of Dayton flood laminated mud (65725) ; cast of 32 type speci- mens of Paleozoic cephalopods (66549). FOOTE, Dr. J. S., Creighton Uni versify, Omaha, Nebr. : A needle- work illustration of enlarged micro- scopic views of animal cells and tissues, and blood crystals, embroid- ered in colored silks on linen by the wife of the donor (65528). FORBES, Dr. S. A. (See under Illi- nois State Natural History Survey, Urbana, 111.) FORNANZINI, Gervaso, Valtellina, Lanzada, Italy: Detachable fi-ont gun sight for a double-barrel gun (Italian) (65338). FORTIE, M, J., Indianapolis, Ind. : Mosquito, ToxorliuncMtes brevipal- pis, from Africa (66296). FOSHAG, W. F., U. S. National Mu- seum : A group of pink beryl crystals from San Diego County, Calif. (65289). FOSS, Haeold. (See under J. H. Hill.) FOSTER, C. L., Kiating, Szechuan, China: 16 fragments of rocks, and 14 specimens of invertebrate fossils from China (66592, 65979). 162 EEPORT OF NATIONAL, MUSEUM, 1921. FOUR WHEEL DRIVE AUTO CO., THE, Clintonville, Wis.: Model ot four-wheel-drive ammunition truck of the type used by the United States Army during the World War (65267). rOX, R. A., Dawson, Yukon, Canada . Specimen of asbestos (65883). FRAME, A. M., Sutton, W. Va. : Speci- men of pisolitic siderite (66172). FRAXK, Chakles L., Washington, D. C. : 300 Japanese match-box labels printed in color and in black and white (65354) ; lithograph by Jules Arnout partly printed in color, partly colored by hand (66582). FREEMAN, Miss I. C. (See under Mrs. B. F. Buckingham.) FREEMAN, O. M., Washington, D. C. : 4 plants from the District of Co- lumbia (65405, 65741. 66561). FRENCH GOVERNMENT: Bureau of Information, New York City (through Maj. Jean Malye, Director ) : Military relics of the World War (47 specimens) (65458). FRENCH, Col. WiLLABD (through Mrs. Louise D. French, Washington, D. C.) : Mechanical navigator — a math- ematical instrument for the purpose of solving all problems in spherical triangles which arise in navigation (65609, loan). FRIESE, Dr. H., Schwerin, Mecklen- burg, Germany : 45 specimens, rep- resenting 80 species, of bees (66299, exchange). FROST, C, A., Framingham, Mass.: Male cotype of weevil, Allaiidrus brevicornis (65902). FROST, G. Allan, Tubbenden Cot- tage, Farnborough, Kent, England: 13 specimens of English Silurian and Mesozoic fossils (66454, ex- change). FROST, S. W., School of Agriculture and Experiment Station, the Penn- sylvania State College, Arendtsville, Pa. : 195 specimens of parasitic Hymenoptera (65909). FURTH, Charles. (See under Pho- togi'avure and Color Co.) GAERSTE, Dr. Thomas, Curacao, Dutch West Indies : 2 cicadas, Fidi- cina boffotana (65464) ; katydid, be- longing to the group Pseudo- phyllinae, and a lizard, Anolis linea- tus (65509) ; beetle, Ligyrus fossor (65580). GAINES, Marshall R. (See under Dr. Y. Hirase.) GALE, HoYT S., Hollywood, Los An- geles, Calif. : Samples of thenardite from Rhodes Marsh, Esmeralda County, Nev. (66442). GALLAUDET AIRCRAFT CORPO- RATION, East Greenwich, R, I.: Original Gallaudet hydroplane model (66685). GANDOGER, Dr. Michel, Arnos (Rhone) par Villefranche, France: 5 plants (66006). GARDENER, Mrs. Helen H. (See under National American Woman's Suffrage Association. ) GARFIELD, A^bram. (See under Mrs. G. Stanley-Brow^n.) GARFIELD, Dr. Haert A. (See un- der Mrs. G. Stanley-Brovm and Williams College.) GARFIELD, Irwin McD. (See under Mrs. G. Stanlej'-Brown.) GARFIELD, James R. (See under Mrs. G. Stanley-Brown.) GARMAN, Prof. H., Kentucky Agri- cultural Experiment Station, Lex- ington, Ky. : Plant, and 2 micro- scopic slides containing fresh-water Entomostraca from Frankfort, Ky. (65191, 65207). GARRETT, Prof. A. O., Salt Lake City, Utah: 2 plants, Selaginella-, from Utah (65362, 65385). GARRETT, C, Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada : 300 mosquitoes (66144). GARVIN, Miss Eliza, Fort Wayne, Ind. (through H. Walton Clark) : 144 specimens of Japanese algae, 8 bryozoans, and 5 hydrozoans (66502, 66556). GEDEIST, Oliver. (See under Moni- tor Stove Co., The.) GEE, Prof. N. Gist, Summerton, S. C. : 84 specimens representing 32 species of marine mollusks from China LIST OF ACCESSIONS. 163 GEE. Prof. N. Gist— Continued. (65649) ; 16 vials of insects and 7 vials of crustaceans (66488) ; lot of fresh-water sponges from a jQsh pond and 3 fragmentary specimens of millipeds from Summerfcon, S. C. (66670). GEISER, Samuel W. (See under Commerce, Department of, Bureau of Fisheries.) GERMAN SOUTH POLAR EXPEDI- TION, The Berlin, Germany (through Prof. Dr. R. Hartmeyer) : 23 Antartic crinoids (65495). GEROULD, Dr. John H., Hanover, N. H. : 4 braconids, Apanteles flavi- conchae (65454). GERSTENBERG, E., Washington, D. C. : Skull of a hippopotamus (65412). GIDLEY, J. W., U. S. National Mu- seum: 16 cacti from Arizona (66260, 66284). GIES, Mrs. Edward L., Washington, D. C. : Chinese carved sandalwood fan in a lacquer box (66170). GIFFARD, Walter D., Honolulu, Hawaii : 83 specimens, 68 species, of marine shells from Hawaii (65499). GILBRETH, Frank B. (Inc.), Mont- clair, N. J. : 9 photographs illustrat- ing motion study and elimination of fatigue in industry (66763). GILKEY, Miss Helen M. (See under Oregon Agi-icultural College.) GILL, Mrs. Mary Wright, Washing- ton, D. C. : A Florence lock-stitch sewing machine. No. 69948 (65529, deposit) ; a blue-and-white double- woven coverlet (66143, exchange). GILMER, Capt. W. W., U. S. Navy, U. S. Naval Station. Guam : Skull bones found about a half mile north of the village of Yona, betv/een the Pago and Ylig rivers, Guam (65371). GILPIN, LANGDON & CO. (INC.), Baltimore, Md. : Specimen of sassa- fras pith (65653). GLEISSNER, Dr. Max J., U. S. Geo- logical Survey, Washington, D. C. : Specimen of lava from the 1920 Kilauea flow (66649). GLOVER, Dr. Norman C. ( See under American Osteopathic Association), GLUCKSTEIN, Mrs. Sophia Roos, Washington, D. C. (through her daughters Fannie and Nina Gluck- stein. Print on silk, "Apotheosis of Shakespeare " (65376) . GOCHENOUR, Dr. David T., Stuarts Draft, Va. : 38 specimens, 8 species, of mollusks, including the type of a new subspecies, from the Philippines (65224). GODDARD, Dr. H. S., Vancouver, Wash. : Female Indian skull, found in the hills near the Yakima Indian Reservation. Wash. (65452) ; 5 chipped blades (66436). GODING, Dr. F. W., American Consul General, Guayaquil, Ecuador: 1321 specimens of Homoptera, including 38 of Cicadellidae, 58 of Cicadidae, 850 of Membracidae, 300 of Cico- pidae, and 75 of Fulgoridae (66147). GORDON, Alexander, Jr., Baltimore, Md. : Silver punch bowl with tray, ladle, and 10 mugs, presented to Col. George Armistead by citizens of Baltimore in recognition of his serv- ices in connection with the defense of Fort McHenry, against the Brit- ish attack in 1814 (66427). GORDON, Mrs. Mary E., East Frank- lin, Me. : Copy of the souvenir news- paper entitled " Boston, 1630-1880 " issued by Rand Avery & Co., Boston, September 17, 1880 (65624). GOTEBORGS BOTANISKA TRAD- GARD, GOTEBORG, SWEDEN, Stora Anggarden, Dr. Carl Skotts- berg. Director: 84 ferns, mainly from Juan Fernandez (65520, ex- change). GOTTSCHALK, Alfred Louis Moreau (through Mrs. Louise Josephine Gott- schalk, executrix. New York City) : Small collection of antiquities, in- cluding specimens of Inca potteries, Aztec idol, Trojan lamps, etc., pot- tery and porcelains from Spanish America, Eastern brasses, and a col- lection of miscellaneous arms, be- queathed to the National Museum in memory of the late Prof. Otis T. Mason (65571). 164 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. GRAHAM, Mrs. A. F., Washington, D. O. : Silk patchwork quilt embroid- ered with Odd Fellow emblems, made by Mrs. Eliza Rozenkrantz Hussey, grandmother of Mrs. Gra- ham, about 1845 (65537, loan). GRAHAM, DA^^D C, Suifu, Szechuan, China : Collection of insects, reptiles and batrachians, shells, 8 birds, 2 mammals, 2 crabs, 2 fishes, an eel, and parasitic worms (65937) ; fos- sils and insects from China (66009) ; bird skins, fossils, insects, a leech, a bat and a reptile from China (66673). GRANT, J. M., Langley, Wash.: 45 plants, and 150 specimens of crypto- gamic plants from the western United States (66192, 66520). GRAVES, E. W., Bentonsport, Iowa: 74 plants from Iowa (65840) ; 72 plants (66275, exchange). GRAY, L. J., Iron City, Tenn. : Phos- phatic minerals from Iron City, Tenn. (65599). GREENE, F. C, Tulsa, Okla. : 15 ferns from Oklahoma and Missouri ; plant, OpMoglossum, from Kansas ; plant, Selaginella, from Oklahoma (65349, 65427, 65521). GREENE, George M., Philadelphia, Pa. : Dipterous gall on stem of hackberry, Cecidomyia, new species (65453). GREGER, D. K., Fulton, Mo.: Speci- men of ammonite from Pettis County, Mo. (65275, exchange) ; 3 blastoids from the Carboniferous of Oklahoma, and 1 crinoid from the Carboniferous of Texas (66202, ex- change) ; an exhibition specimen of cephalopod from the Lower Missis- sippian of Missouri (66351) ; fossil crinoid, Cactocrinus, from Marion Count, Mo. (66462, exchange). GRIFFIN, W. W., Paskenta, Calif.: Skin of a gopher, Thomomys, from Paskenta (65662), GRIFFITH, Chauncey H., New York City: Martin Luther Bible, dated 1748 (66197). GRIMES, Mrs. G. S., Washington, D. C. (through George Harris) : 1 black negative silhouette, made about the year 1895 (65800). GUATEMALA, GOVERNMENT OF: Direccion General de Agricultura, Guatemala City (through Seiior Don Adolfo Tonduz) : 358 plants, ferns, and cacti from Guatemala (66261, 66371, 66421, 66476, 66602). GUGGENHEIM BROS., New York City (through F. L. Hess) : Copper minerals from Chuquicamata, Chile (66478). GUITERREZ, Seiior Josfi N., Campo Duran, Province de Salta, Argen- tina, via Embarcacion (through Dr. Edwin Kirk) : Bead pouch, 4 cord beaded bracelets, and 2 earrings (66598). GUNNELL, L. C, Smithsonian Insti- tution : 27 specimens of halftone color printing (65329). HAAGNER, A. K., Pretoria, Union of South Africa : Skin of a monkey, Lasiopyga pygerythra, from North Rhodesia, Africa (65892). HABERYAN, H. D., Farmersville, La. : Dragonfly, Progomphus, species (66189). HAITI, REPUBLIC OF, Department of Public Works, Office of the Engi- neer in Chief, Port au Prince, Haiti (through Director of the U. S. Geo- logical Survey, Washington, D. C.) : 6 boxes of geological material col- lected in Haiti by Wendell P. Wood- ring (66093) ; 17 boxes of geological material from the Republic of Haiti (66511). HALE, Prof. Geokge E., Mount Wilson Solar Observatory, Pasadena, Calif. : 2 photographs of the moon (65326). HALL, Mrs. Caklotta C, Berkeley, Calif. : 3 plants, Selaginella, from Colorado (65805). HALL, Prof. H. M. (See under Cali- fornia, University of, Department of Botany. ) HAMILTON WATCH CO., Lancaster, Pa. : Framed panel of parts used in Hamilton watches (66052). HAMLIN, John, Miami, Fla. : Male and female specimens of the fly Neorondama (66229). LIST OF ACCESSIONS. 165 HAMMER DRY PLATE CO., St. Louis, Mo. : A framed portrait of Mr. L. P. Hammer (66195.) HANKS, Dr. Maby E., Ctiicago, 111. (througli Dr. W. A. Dewey, Ann Ar- bor, Mich.) : An old homeopathic medicine case (66733). HANSEN, Peteb L., Washington, D. C. : Pair of wooden shoes from Bloo- hoj, Denmark (66083). HARDING, James E., Potrerillos, Chile: 28 plants from Chile (65759). HARLAN, Habby, Louisville, Ky. : A geode simulating a fossil ear of corn (66225). HARPER, R. M., State Geological Survey, Tallahassee, Fla. : 9 plants (65346, 66419). HARRINGTON, Geoege L., U. S. Geo- logical Survey, Washington, D. C. : 16 specimens, 10 species, of land- shells from Bolivia, Chile,' and Argentina, and 20 specimens, 3 species, of marine shells from Alaska (65861, 66038) ; 2 landshells from Villa Monies, Bolivia (66007). HARRIS & EWING, Washington, D. C. : A bromoil, framed, of Andrew Carnegie (65924). HARRIS, Geoege. (See under Mrs. G. S. Grimes.) HARRIS, Gbaham H., Casa Marina, Key West, Fla. : Dorsal and anal fins of the threadfish, Alectis (66188). HARRIS, J. Aethue, Grantsville, Utah: 24 amphipod crustaceans, Oammarus Uninaeus, from Ice Spring Craters, Sevier Desert, Utah (65325). HARRISON, Mrs. W. La Rue, Domin- ion Heights, Cherrydale, Va. : Sword and scabbard, belt, sash, pair of gauntlets, and pair of spurs, in oak case, presented to Bvt. Brig. Gen. Marcus La Rue Harrison, U. S. Vol- unteers, in 1864, when colonel, by the officers and men of his command, the First Arkansas Cavalry (65314). HARTMAN, Rev. W., Shenchowfu, China (through the American Con- sul, Changsha, China) : 2 original photographs showing poppy fields in bloom (65547). HARTMEYER, Prof. Dr. R. (See under German South Polar expedi- tion, The.) HARTNELL, Geobge, Cheltenham, Md. : Ruby-crowned kinglet, Regulus calendula, from Maryland (65364). HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, Mass. : Arnold Arboretum: (Jamaica Plain) (through C. S. Sargent) : Plant, Campnosperma, from Pan- ama (65590) ; 2,019 plants from the United States (66149, ex- change). Gray Herbarium (through B. L. Robinson, Curator) : 23 plants from Trinidad; 17 photographs of type specimens of plants; 3 plants, Selaginella, from the western United States ; 2 plants, Lophiola, from Nova Scotia (65574, 65742, 65767, 66482, ex- change). Museum of Comparative Zoology: 10 lizards from Peru collected by the Harvard Peru expedition (66437, exchange). HAWAIIAN SUGAR PLANTERS' AS- SOCIATION, EXPERIMENT STA- TION, Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands (through Dr. Francis X. Williams) : 18 paratypes of Philippine wasps (65328) ; 16 wasps nests from the Philippine Islands, collected by Doctor Williams (65598) ; (through Mi-, p. H. Timberlake) 22 specimens representing 6 species of determined bees, 2 of which are new to the Mu- seum collections, and 6 specimens of an undetermined chrysididid (66731). HAWVER, Mrs. Elizabeth Pabsons, Bolinas, Marin County, Calif. : Fern, Polystichum munitum, from Califor- nia (66068). HAY, Dr. O. P., Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D. C. : Pueblo Indian skull (66741, ex- change). ( See also under Dr. J. C. Branner, Frank Janes, and Dr. Adolph H. Schultz), 166 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. HAYES, William McKim, Baltimore, Md. : A lot of 15 pieces representing cetaceans, and several shark's teeth, from Calvert Miocene Cliffs, just be- low Chesapeake Beach, Md. (65461). HAYNES, Caroline C, Highlands, N. J. : 29 specimens of Hepaticae from the United States (65867) ; plant, Seloginclla, from California (65963). HAZEN, Prof. T. E., Barnard College, Columbia University, New York City: 26 photographs of Trinidad plants (65216). HEATON, Mr. and Mrs. Franklin A., Kanab, Utah: Archeological objects from a cave on the east slope of Mount Trumbull, northwestern Ari- zona (65541). HEBARD, Morgan, Philadelphia Acad- emy of Natural Sciences, Philadel- phia, Pa. : 130 specimens of North American Orthoptera from the pri- vate collection of Mr. Hebard (65791, exchange). HEBERLEIN, C. A., Supai, Ariz.: 14 specimens of lead and vanadium minerals (66715, exchange). HEIDEMANN, Mrs. Mica, Chevy Chase, Md. : Gold watch, thin model, silver dial, Swiss make, about the period of 1860 (66501). HEIGHWAY, Dr. A. E., Alexandria, Va. : Samples of tin ore from Battle Mountain, Nev., and of wulfenite from Tecoma, Nev. (65265) ; 2 speci- mens of powellite replacing molyb- denite (65281) ; specimen of long- fibered chrysotile asbestos (65443). HEIKES, Victor C. (See under George H. Short and W. H. Wey- her. ) HEITMULLER, Anton, Washington, D. C. : Indian beads, crucifix, wood carving, horn spill holder, brass candlestick, brass swivel lamp, and poker (66434, 66475). HELLER, A. A., Chico, Calif. : 6 plants from Oregon and California (66317). HELSINGFORS, FINLAND, LABO- RATORIUM ZOOLOGICUM UNI- VERSITATIS (through Dr. Valio Korvenkontio) : 8 skulls and 13 skins of small mammals from Fin- land (66535, exchange). HENDERSON, John B., Washington, D. C. : Sponge, hydroid, 8 annelids, 170 crustaceans, 2,500 mollusks, 3 ascidians, 15 fishes, 5 fungi, echino- derms, and about 50 fossils collected in Hawaii by Messrs. Henderson and Bartsch (65581). HENRY, Miss Caroline, Washington, D. C. (through American Security & Trust Co.) : 169 pieces of Japa- nese blue porcelain (66550, be- quest). HENSHAW, Henry W., Cosmos Club, Washington, D. C. : Plant from Massachusetts (65384). HERIBERTO, Brother. (See under Colegio de San Pedro Apostol, Car- tagena, Colombia.) HERRE, Albert C, Washington State Normal School, Beilingham, Wash. : 79 lichens, 58 mounted specimens of plants, and 301 plants (65228, 65264, 65448). HERRERA, Dr. A. L. (See under Mexican Government.) HERTRICH, William, San Gabriel, Calif.: Plant (66613). HESS, Frank L., U. S. Geological Survey, Washington, D. C. : Tin and tungsten ores from Bolivia, collected for the Museum (66469). (See also under A. O. Egbert, W. E. Elliott, L. L. Ellis, T. Hirabayashi, W. J. Loring, Orser-Kraft Feldspar (Ltd.), Radium Co. of Colorado (Inc.), J. F. Aguilar Revoredo, Alex- ander R. Shepherd, 2d, Prof. Joseph T. Singewald, and Don Stewart.) HEUVRARD, H. (See under Bona- parte, Prince Roland, Herbarium of.) HEWETT, D. F., U. S. Geological Survey, Washington, D. C. : Fossils and minerals from Cuba (65190). HIBBARD, Raymond R., Buffalo, N. Y. : 87 specimens of Devonian cono- douts from western New York (65233) ; 500 specimens of fossil in- vertebrates from the Hamilton group, 18 Mile Creek, Erie County, N. Y. (65442) ; collection of Silurian LIST OF ACCESSIONS. 167 HIBBARD. Raymond R.— Continued, and Devonian fossils (conodonts and annelid remains) from New York (65619, exchange). HIBBERD, Miss JocELYN P., Wasii- ington, D. C. : Collection of stone ar- row and spear heads gathered by the donor from Willistown Township, Chester County, Pa., 8 miles from Valley Forge (65749). HIGGINSON, Mrs. F. L. (See under Woman's Liberty Loan Committee of New England.) HILL, Fredeeick W. (See under An- drew .7. Leach.) HILL, Dr. Gerald P., Australian In- stitute of Tropical Medicine, Hos- pital, Townsville, North Queensland, Australia (through U. S. Depart- ment of Agriculture, Bureau of En- tomology, Washington, D. C.) : 73 named Australian insects (66200). HILL, J, H., Managing Director, Ghazipur Opium Factory, Ghazipur, India (through Harold R. Foss, American Consul in Charge, Cal- cutta, India) : 10 photographs of poppy cultivation and opium manu- facture in India (65674). HINE, Prof. .James S., Ohio State Uni- versity, Columbus, Ohio : 3 speci- mens of Hymenoptera, Aphelinus semiflavidus, and 1 specimen of Pli orocera ( 65952 ) . HINKLEY, A. A., Du Bois, 111.: 414 landshells from Arizona (6.5287). HINSDALE, F. Gilbert, New York City : 7 specimens of whaling appa- ratus (66767, exchange). HIORAM, Brother. (See under Colegio del Sagrada Corazon, Guan- tanamo, Oriente, Cuba. HIPSHER, Edward, Morris College, Barboursville, W\ Va. : 4 living plants (65263, exchange.) HIRABAYASHI, T., Bureau of Mines, Tokyo, Japan (through Mr. F. L. Hess) : Samples of rare earth min- erals from Japan (65915). HIRASE, Dr. Y., Okazaki, Kyoto, Ja- pan (through Marshall R. Gaines) : A collection of mollusks from the Japanese islands, embracing 3,843 lots (66510). HITCHCOCK, Prof. A. S. (See under G. C. Munro.) HOES, Mrs. R. G., Wasliington, D. C. : Lady's straw bonnet used in Vir- ginia during the period prior to the Civil W^ar (66712, loan). (See also under Mrs. Isabel Rives, Mrs. Maddiu Summers, and Mrs. William H. Walker.) HOFF, Mrs. John Van Renssalaer, Washington, D. C. : "The Colonel John Van Renssalaer HofC Collec- tion " comprising Chinese and Japanese jade and bronze, Philip- pine brass, and Porto Rican and American Indian specimens (65251). HOGAN, Mrs. Louise, Neponsit, Long Island, N. Y. : Cashmere shawl (66753, loan). HOLLAND, Dr. W. J. (See under Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pa.) HOLLISTER, N., Washington, D. C. : Thrush, Bylocichla, species, from W^ashington, D. C. (65477) ; head of a ring-necked duck, Marila collaris, from Wisconsin (65636). HOLMES, Joseph A., 2d, Casper, Wyo. : 6 cacti (66559). HOLWAY, Prof. E. W. D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. : Cactus from Chile (65810). (See also under Minnesota, Uni- versity of.) HOLZMAN, Jacob, Reed College, Port- land, Oreg. : 7 slugs from Oregon (66423). HOPKINS, Mrs. Archibald, Washing- ton, D. C. : Cambric frock worn by Charlotte Brooks Everett about 1830 (65827). HORN, Dr. Walther. (See under Deutsches Entomologisches Mu- seum.) HOTCHKISS, Dr. W. O., State Geolo- gist, Madison, Wis. (through Dr. E. O. Ulrich) : 1,000 specimens of Upper Cambrian fossils from Wis- consin (65322). HOUGH, Miss Catherine, U. S. Na- tional Museum : 30 Devonian fossils from Pennsylvania (65406). HOUGH, Dr. Walter, U. S. National Museum : Archeological objects from Keetzeel, and Zuni region, Arizona 168 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. HOUGH, Dr. Walter — Continued. (65302) ; 2 beetles collected in Ari- zona during the summer of 1920 (65754) ; 2 stone pipes found about 30 years ago, one near Morgantown, W. Va., and the other near Chain Bridge, Md. (65848) ; lantern, spirit stove, lamp, lighters, etc., hand bracket, saw frame, battledore, and Hd of coiled basket (66474). HOWARD, Dr. C. W. ( See under Can- ton Christian College.) HRDLICKA, Dr. A., U. S. National Museum: Skull of a cat, FeUs catus, from Cleveland Park, D. C. (65661). HUBBARD, H. W., American Board Mission, Peking, China: 26 bird skins from North China (66652). HUBERT, H. Edwaed, New Orleans, La. : 5 crawfish, 3 shrimps, 1 earth- worm, and 2 fishes (66373). HUCKEL, Eakxe Wentworth, Ger- mantown, Philadelphia, Pa.: Collec- tion of prints, consisting of etchings, engravings, lithographs, wood en- gravings, and photomechanical prints and one sixteenth century bookbinding (125 specimens) (65647) ; a collection of about 317 Bewick wood engravings and 272 American wood engravings dated about 1825-1835, and 85 miscellane- ous prints (674 specimens) (65972). HUNNEWELL, F. W., Cambridge, Mass. (through Dr. Frederick V. Coville) : Plants from the District of Columbia (65679). HUNTER, Dakd, Chillicothe, Ohio: Handmade paper exhibit consist- ing of rags, half-stuff, animal size, hand molds, and various styles of wateiTnarks, dies, and casts for light and shade watermarks; water- marked paper and photographs of beating machines and one of a model of a handmade paper mill in the Science Museum in London, England (66264) ; 2 books, The Etching of Figures, by William A. Bradley, with an artist proof etching by Wil- liam A. Levy, and The Etching of Contemporary Life, by Frank Wei- tenkampf, with an artist proof etch- HUNTER. Dard — Continued, ing by Ernest D. Roth, each being entirely the work of the donor, who made the paper, designed the type, cut the steel punches, struck the matrices, cast the tj^pe, and printed the books all by hand (66548). HUNTINGTON, Dr. George S. (See under Columbia University.) HYDE, Mrs. Charles C, Washington, D. C. : Cowichan Indian blanket with totemic painting (66584). HYDE, Frederick B., Washington, D. C. : Skin and skull of a deer, Odocoileus, collected in Maine (65832). HYDE, John, Washington, D. C. : 2 fans from Capri, a pair of old Eng- lish pattens, an old English hat stretcher, and an English tassel (or teazle) used in the preparation of woolen cloth (65223). ICE, Miss Cleo, U. S. National Mu- seum : Grooved stone ax found in the valley of the Cottonwood River, Chase County, Kans., by Mr. R. A. Ice (66176). IHERING, Dr. Hermann von, Buenos Aires, Argentina: 3 specimens, 2 species, of crabs from Florinapolis, Brazil (66232). ILLINGWORTH, Dr. J. F., Meringa near Cairns, North Queensland, Aus- tralia: 66 flies from Australia (65210,66185). ILLINOIS STATE NATURAL HIS- TORY SURVEY, Urbana, 111. (through Dr. S. A. Forbes) : 12 specimens of Cynipidae, " cotypes " of 5 species described by Prof. C. P. Gillette (66635, exchange). ILLINOIS, UNIVERSITY OF, Ur- bana, 111. (through Dr. Frank C. Baker) : 16 specimens, 2 species (1 amphipod and 15 isopods) from Win- nebago Lake, Wis. (66458). IMPERIAL BUREAU OF ENTOMOL- OGY. (See under British Govern- ment.) INDIA, MYSORE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, BANGALOR : The 3 stages, larva, pupa, and adult, of Sagra, species, collected at Malles- war, India, November 24, 1920, in the stem of Chaprada avarc (65797). LIST OF ACCESSIONS. 169 INDIA, ZOOLOGICAL SURVEY OF, Indian INIuseum, Calcutta, India (tlirougli Dr. B. Prastiad) : 8 speci- mens, 5 species, of fresliwater mol- lusks from India, Ceylon, and the Solomon Islands (66494, exchange). INDIANA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM, Bloomington, Ind. (through Dr. C. H. Eigenmann) : 250 fishes collected by the Irwin expedition to Chile and Peru, 1919 (66451, exchange). INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE, Taihoku, Formosa, Japan (through Dr. M. Oshima) : 56 specimens, 16 species, of crustaceans from Formosa (66023). INSTITUTO DE LA SALLE, Bogota, Colombia : Collections of anthropo- logical material and fossils from Co- lombia (65245) (through Brother Apollinaire-Marie) ; skins and skulls of 5 small mammals (65803, ex- change) ; (through Brother Ariste- Joseph and J. B. Reeside, jr.) : 4 specimens of invertebrate fossils, 5 fossil leaves, and fragmentary re- mains of vertebrate fossils (66394). INSTITUTO DE LA SALLE, Correo Nunoa, Chile (through Brother Claude- Joseph) : 72 grasses (65372) ; 342 plants from Chile (65780, 66601) ; 97 plants (66507). INSTITUTO DE LA SALLE, Havana, Cuba (through Brother Leon) : 10 specimens oi Passiflora (65899). INTERIOR DEPARTMENT : U. S. Geological Survey: A small collection of carnotite minerals and associated ores made by Hoyt S. Gale, from Routt County, Colo. (65389) : A small collection of Eocene fossil plants comprising the types, figured specimens, and other material described by Prof. Edward W. Berry in Professional Paper 125-A, U. S. Geological Survey (65539) ; a collection of 353 species of Eocene fossil plants comprising the types, figured specimens, and other material described in U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 91, INTERIOR DEPARTMENT— Con. U. (8. Geological Survey — Contd. by Professor Berry (65542) ; rocks from the western New England and eastern New York lime belt, collected by Dr. T. Nelson Dale; also 27 boxes of thin sections (65544) ; 25 crates (250 drawers) of Silurian and Devonian invertebrate fossils, chiefly from Maine, with note books, lists, and other data con- cerning them by the late Prof. H. S. Williams (65591) ; portions of skull and jaws of a Plesio- saurian reptile, collected by Mr. John B. Reeside, jr., in south- western Colorado (65763) ; 4 small lots of vertebrate fossils collected by Mr. W. T. Thorn, jr., in northeastern Montana (65779) ; foot bones of a fossil camel from near Dayville, Oreg. (65808) ; miscellaneous rock specimens from Montana, Colo- rado, and Washington, collected by Messi's. Hancock, Pishel, and Beekley (65966) ; specimen of creedite from a type locality, Wagon Wheel Gap, Colo., col- lected and described by Mr. E. S. Larsen (65967) ; 5 minerals (65980) ; a large piece of chal- cocite from Butte, Mont., col- lected by Mr. B. S. Butler (66050) ; 6 miscellaneous min- eral specimens (66134) ; fos- sils from the Coastal Plain re- gion of Texas, Louisiana, and Florida, collected by Mr. C. B. Hopkins (66209) ; 128 boxes of miscellaneous geological mate- rial, and seven trays of miscel- laneous collections (66301, 66443, 66439) ; 20 specimens and 15 thin sections from the molyb- denum mine near Questa, N. Mex., described by Messrs. E. S. Larsen and C. S. Ross in Eco- nomic Geology, November, 1920 (66521) ; 5 specimens of plati- num-bearing covellite from Rambler mine, Wyoming (66594) ; collection of 31 rock 170 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. INTERIOR DEPARTMENT— Con. U. S. Geological Survey — Contd. specimens from Western Aus- tralia (66622) ; rock carrying molybdenum - bearing halotricb- ite from the south side of Du- chesne River, 2 miles southwest of Ouray, Utah, collected by Mr. F, L. Hess in 1917 (66644) ; 2 specimens of dike rock from Hall Quarry, Mount Desert Island, Me. (66672) ; duplicate phosphate specimens from west- ern phosphate fields of Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming, collected by Messrs. H. S. Gale, R. W. Richards, and E. Blackwelder (66706). ( See also under Haiti, Republic of, B. Leo Laird and Dr. Frederick W. Sardeson.) INTERNATIONAL PAPER CO., New York City: Specimen of sandstone used as a pulp stone in grinding wood for paper making (65514). IOWA STATE COLLEGE OF AGRI- CULTURE .\ND MECHANIC ARTS, Ames, Iowa (through Dr. L. H. Pammel ) : 9 flies and beetles (65493). IOWA, STATE UNIVERSITY OF, Iowa City, lowd. (through Prof. C. C. Nutting) : 71 ophiurans from the University's Barbados - Antigua ex- pedition (65732). JACKSON, Prof. H. S., Department of Botany, Purdue University, Lafay- ette, Ind. : Specimen of rust from Indiana (65781). JACKSON, Ralph W., Cambridge, Md. : 2 skins of horned larks, genus Otocoris; 38 specimens, 12 species, of mollusks and larva of 2 species of insects, all from Maryland (65366, 66435) ; skin and skull of a squirrel. Sciurus (66338) ; 51 specimens, 9 species, of mollusks from Little Choptank River, Md., including one type specimen (66340). JACKSON, Rear Admiral R. H., U. S. Navy. ( See under Mrs. Margaret A. S. Smith.) JAEGER, Edmund C, Palm Springs. Calif. : 3 plants, Sclagmella, from California (66407). JAGGER, Prof. T. A., Volcano House, Hawaii (through Dr. H. S. Wash- ington, Washington, D. C.) : A mass of filamentous basalt (Pele's Hair) from Kilauea Crater, Hawaiian Islands (65784). JAMES, H., Bisbee, Ariz. : Tooth of an extinct species of horse (66247). .JAMES, Mrs. Julian-, Washington, D. C. : Purple boudoir cap (65241, loan) ; cut-glass night lamp of the period of 1850 (65554) ; gold locket containing portraits of Mr. and Mrs. James, June 17, 1869 (65565, loan) ; dress worn by Mrs. Julian-James at the Colonial Ball held at the New Willard Hotel, Washington, D. C, on March 31, 1921, when she repre- sented her sixth great-grandmother, Mrs. Hugh Mason (66445, loan). (See also under Mrs. George L. Andrews, Mrs. Charles W. Rich- ardson, and Mrs. J. Kearny Warren. ) JANDORF, Morton L., York, Pa.: 5 specimens of zinc minerals (66215, exchange). JANES, F K A N K, Truman, Ark. (through Dr. O. P. Hay) : Fragment of a tooth and a part of a dorsal vertebra of a mastodon (66428). JARDIN BOTANICO, Trinidad, Para- guay (Dr. Carlos Fiebrig, Superin- tendent) : 20 living cacti and 3 pack- ages of seeds (65282, exchange). JENKINS, C. Francis, Washington, D. C. : A model high-speed motion- picture camera for the analysis of motion (66500) ; a motion-picture camera with a vertical reciprocating motion of lens barrel and film (no lens), and a motion-picture camera with a longitudinal reciprocating motion of lens barrel and film, Tessar Lens, Tessar, No. 133,854, Carl Zeiss (65552, loan). JOHANSEN, Feits, Victoria Memorial Museum, Ottawa, Canada: 9 speci- mens of amphipods representing 2 species, consisting of 3 specimens LIST OF ACCESSTOITS. 171 JOHANSEN, Frits— Continued, of Gammarns limnaeus and 6 speci- mens of Eyalella aztcca (65782) ; 3 specimens of crustaceans, Lepi- durus couesii, from Alberta, Can- ada, and 3 specimens of Ilyalella asteca- from James Bay, Ontario (G5S37) ; 9 sea urchins, Strongylo- centrotus drohachiensis, and a star- fish, Asterias acervata horealis, all from Hudson Bay (66056). JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, Baltimore, Md. : Types and para- types of mollusca from Bowden, Ja- maica, described by W. P. Wood- ring (65234, deposit). JOHNSON, Hon. Ben, House of Rep- resentatives, Washington, D. C. : Nest of a large wasp (66383). JOHNSON, C. W., Boston, Mass. : Fly, EstJieria, species, and 2 beetles, Niptiis Iwloleucus (66214). JOHNSON, D., Clinton, Ky. : 2 adults and 10 larvae of a beetle, Dynastes titytis (66388). JOHNSON, Dr. Duncan S., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. : 2 plants, OxaUs (65930). JOHNSON, J. Chestee, Marine on St. Croix, Minn. : Australian stone im- plements (12 specimens) (65363, exchange) ; coral, Pocillopora, spe- cies (65550). JOHNSON, Myetle E. (See under Scripps Institution for Biological Research. ) JOHNSTON, Ivan M., University of California, Berkeley, Calif. : 25 plants, Selaginella, from Colorado (65630). JOHNSTON, John R., Pruitland Park, Fla. : Worm lizard, RMneura flori- dana, from Florida (66319). JOHNSTON, Prof. T. Haevey, Bris- bane, Queensland, Australia: 13 specimens of Australian flies, in- cluding paratypes of 3 species and named representatives of 4 others (65401). JONES, R. N., Brooksville, Fla. (through ]Mr. H. C. Skeels, Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.) : 270 plants from Florida (66295). JORDAN", Dr. David Staee, Stanford University, Calif. : Fishes killed by a lava flow from Mauna Loa, Ha- waii, collected by Tom Reinhardt and Carl S. Carlsmith (65901). JULIAN, Geoege H., Bluntsville, Ala. : Fragment of a branch of a fossil tree, Lepidodendron, from Blount County, Ala. (66503). JURICA, Prof. Hilary S. (See under St. Procopius College.) KALUSOWSKI, Dr. H. E. (See un- der National College of Pharmacy.) KEENAN, Michael, Springer, N. Mex. : Dried lizard and a mollusk (66411). KELEHER, T. A., Washington, D. C : A Keleher silk culture exhibit in Riker mount (65627). KELLERS, Lieut. H. C. (M. C), U. S. Navy, Washington, D. C. : 3 toads, 2 frogs, 7 lizards, and 14 snakes collected at Bremerton, Wash., and at Gorse Creek, Kitsap County, Wash. (66532). KERBOSCH, Dr. M., Director of the Government Cinchona Plantations Tjinjiroean, Java, Netherlands, In- dia (through S. W. Zeverijn, Am- sterdam, Holland) : 10 specimens of cinchona succirubra bark (65950). KESSLER, Andeew, Washington, D. C. : A series of 9 specimens showing the manufacture of handmade wil- low baskets (66161). KETTERLINUS LITHOGRAPHIC MANUFACTURING CO., THE, Philadelphia, Pa. : 10 lithographic prints in color (66211). KEW, Dr. W. S. W., San Francisco, Calif.: 3 cacti from Mexico (65391) : 19 specimens of cacti (65735, 65869). KEW, SURREY, ENGLAND. (See under British Government.) KEYSER, E. W., Washington, D. C. : Textile specimens from Peru (66075). KILLIP, Ellsworth P., U. S. National Museum: 118 plants from New York and New Jersey (65404) ; 34 plants (65620) ; 57 plants from Panama (66734) ; 122 specimens of grasses from the District of Co- lumbia and vicinity (65801). 172 EJEPORT OF ISTATIOlsrAIi MUSEUM, 1921. KIMBALL, Miss Katherine D. (See under R. R. Stewart.) KINSEY, Dr. Alfeed C, Department of Zoology, University of Indiana, Bloomington, Ind. : 32 cotype flies and 11 cotype galls representing 10 species of cynipids new to the Mu- seum collections (66431, exchange). KIRK, Dr. Edwin, U, S. Geological Survey, Washington, D. C. : Speci- men of wind-polished silicified wood and 4 wind-faceted quartz pebbles, from Neuquen, Argentina (65974) ; 2 small lots of Cretaceous inverte- brate fossils from Argentina and Bolivia, and a small collection of Tertiary invertebrates from Bolivia (66021). (Se also under Senor Jos6 N. Guiteri'ez. KLOSS, C. BoDEffj. (See under Dr. W. L. Abbott.) KNAB, ESTATE OF FREDERICK (through A. N. Caudell, executor) : Bamboo blowgun, quiver and gourd for cotton, from Upper Amazon, South American ( 65291 ) . KORNHAUSER, Prof. S. I., Denison University, GranviUe, Ohio : A microscopic slide with the type of Clausidiurn dissimdle, a commensal copepod, taken from Callianassa at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, N. Y. (65510). KORVENKONTIO, Dr. Valio. (See under Helsingtors, Finland.) LABORATORIUM ZOO L O G I C U M UNIVERSITATIS. (See under Hel- singfors, Finland.) LADD, W. W. (See under Colonial Wars, General Society of.) LAIRD, B. Leo, San Francisco, Calif, (through the Interior Department. U. S. Geological Survey) : A collec- tion of Pliocene and Pleistocene in- vertebrate fossils from the neighbor- hood of La Purissima, Baja Cali- fornia (66363). LAKE, Stuaet N., Rome, N. Y. : Scraper or chisel, probably from the Neolithic period of the Stone Age (66030). LaMANCE, Mrs. Lora S., Lake Wales, Fla. : Scalp-lock headdress (65988). LANE, J. R., Yermo, Calif. : Specimen of cerargyrite from Calico District, Calif. (65218). LANE, M. C, Ritzville, Wash.: 156 beetles from Washington State (66100). LARSEN, E. S., U. S. Geological Sur- vey, Washington, D. C. : 10 crystals of feldspar from Northern Black HilLs, South Dak. (65955). LEACH, Andrew J. (througli Fred- erick W. Hill, executor, Chicago, 111.) : Silk handkerchief decorated with portraits of noted Confederate leaders, captured at Cedar Creek, Ya., October 19, 1864, by Capt. Andrew J. Leach, First New York Dragoons (66346, bequest). Le BRETON, Thomas A., Ambassador of Argentina, Washington, D. C. : A collection of ores and minerals from Argentina and 8 photographs of mining localities (65335). LEE, FiTZHTJGH, Newborn, Ga. : Fun- gus from Georgia (65833). LEE, Olan Ivan, New York Mineral- ogical Club, New York City: Speci- men of lava from Mount Erebus, Ross Island, McMurdo Sound, South Victoria Land (65834). ' LEIM, A. H. (See under Toronto, University of. Biological Depart- ment. ) LEITH, Prof. C. K. (See under Wis- consin, University of.) LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNI- VERSITY, Stanford University, Calif. (through Prof. Le Roy Abrams) : 5 specimens of Selaginella from California and Oregon (65748, exchange) ; fossil fishes, represent- ing 7 species, from the Miocene dia- tom beds at Lompoc, Calif. (65765). LENMAN, Miss Isobel H., Washing- ton, D. C. : Anthropological speci- mens (66043). LEON, Brother. (See under Insti- tuto de la Salle, Havana, Cuba.) LEONARD, Emery C, U. S. National Museum. (See under Dr. W. L. Ab- bott.) LESTAGE, J. A., Uccle, Brussels, Bel- gium: 10 specimens of the coffee borer, Zylotrechics quadripes, and LIST OF ACCESSIONS. 173 LESTAGE, J. A.— Continued, about 30 specimens of 2 species of braconid parasites of the same (66139). LEVY, Edwabd, Philadelphia, Pa. : Set of 12 odd-shaped diaphragms and 12 halftone prints showing their effect on the form of the halftone dot (66648). LEVY, Max, Gemiantown, Philadel- phia, Pa. : Etched master screen for rotary intaglio work (66020). LEVY & CO., Max, Germantown, Phila- delphia, Pa.: Ruling indicator (66291). LEWIS, Walter P., Phillipsburg, N. J. : 2 fossil bryozoans from Mar- tins Creek, Pa. (66101). LEWTON, Fredeeick L., U. S. Na- tional Museum : Bob-white, CoUnus virginmnus, from Maryland (66408). LILLY & CO., Eli, Indianapolis, Ind. : 6 sheets of gelatin ; 13 elastic gelatin capsules; and 4 globules (65345) ; 10 medicinal substances (66054). LINDMAN, Dr. Gael, PJksmuseets Botaniska Avdelning, Vetenskapsa- kademien, Stockholm, Sweden : 2 photographs of ferns in the Swartz Herbarium (65849, exchange). (See also under Riksmuseets Bo- taniska Avdelning.) LINE, Frank, Maurertown, Va. : Nest of ruby-throated hummingbird, Archilochus coluhris, from Virginia (65665). LONDON, ENGLAND. (See under British Government.) LONG, The Misses, Washington, D. C. : Flemish linen damask with macrame lace fringe and gentleman's em- broidered handkerchief with coronet (66611, loan) ; folding pocket lan- tern (Minor's patent, January 24, 1855) (66660). LONG, Perry R. (See under Curtis Publishing Co.) LONGUEUIL, COLLEGE OF, Longu- euil, Quebec, Canada (through Rev. Brother Marine-Victorin) : 713 plants from Quebec (66402), LORING, W. J., San Francisco, Calif, (through Mr. F. L. Hess) : 2 speci- mens of gold ore from the Mother Lode, California, and 1 of scheelite from White Pine County, Nev. (66181). LOTHROP, S. K., Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass. : A decorated effigy jar and a decorated tripod bowl, both found near Filadelfia, Nicoya, Costa Rica (66425). LOUDERBACK, Prof. George D., Uni- versity of California, Berkeley, Calif. : 9 cases of fossil invertebrates and plants from China (66528) . LOWE, H. N., Long Beach, Calif.: 2 mollusks, the type and cotjTie of Cochlostyla santacrusensis, from Sauta Cruz Island, P. I. (65531). LOWE, J. E., Duluth, Ga. : Confederate States Army belt buckle (65259). LOWERY, Robert O., Garfield, Wash. : Dried head of a salmon, Oncorhyn- chus gorbuscha (66268). LUMMIS, George M., Fort Myers, Fla. : 3 specimens of mistletoe from Florida (66065). LUNGREN, Charles B., Ozona, Fla.: 10 specimens, 10 species, of mollusks from the Dutch West Indies ; 3 speci- mens, 3 species, of mollusks, includ- ing the type of a new species from Florida, and 1 barnacle (66551). MacBEAJST, G. G., Assiniboia, Saskatch- ewan, Canada : 2 butterflies, Cata- gramma lyca and Euptychia terres- tris (65274) ; 267 species of Lepidop- tera new to the Museum collections (66538). MacDOUGAL, Dr. D. T., Tucson, Ariz. : 7 plants from California (65686, 66614) ; plant, Populus, from Tucson, Ariz. (66466) ; 3 plants, Echino- cereus (66545). (See also under Carnegie Institu- tion of Washington.) Mcdowell, J. Spotts, Pittsburgh, Pa : Samples of hydromagnesite from Soda Springs, Idaho (66004). McGregor, a. G., Chicago, 111. : Lan- tern slide and a transparency made by the McDonough color process (66724). 174 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. McGregor, E. a., Los Angeles, Calif, (through Prof. Le Roy Abrams) : 39 lichens from Santa Catalina Island, Calif. (66095). MacINNES, Noeman, Miami, Fla. : A spider, Gasteracantha cancriformis, a species belonging to the Gulf States (66148). McINTIRE, Babtolomew, San Fran- cisco, Calif, (through Department of State) : 4 specimens of lava from the eruption of a volcano in San Salvador in 1917, and 16 photographs (65734). McKESSON & ROBBINS (INC.), New York City : 9 medicinal substances from the animal kingdom, and 11 medicinal substances (65415, 65S71). McLEOD, C. Y., Clarksdale, Miss.: Posterior half of an upper molar of the American mastodon (65519). MACE, C. B. (See under Schleswig International Commission.) MAHIN, Mrs. F. W., Washington, D. C. : 4 pieces of old lace (66426, loan). MALDONALDO, Mrs. Estelle, Wash- ington, D. C. : 2 specimens of pot- tery from Guatemala (66053). MALONE, J. G., Newport, Oreg. (through Dr. W. H. Dall) : Plant, Boschniakia strobilaeea (66452). MALYE, Maj. Jean. (See under French Government.) MANN, Dr. W. M., U. S. National Mu- seum : 5 specimens of braiding in fiber illustrating the manufacture of arm bands, from Rubiana Lagoon, New Georgia, British Solomon Is- lands (65284). MARINE-VICTORIN, Rev. Beothek. (See under Longueuil, College of.) MARSHALL, Ernest B., Laurel, Md. : 5 specimens of Cooper's hawk, Ac- oipiter cooperi, and a sharp-shinned hawk, Accipiter velox, all from Mary- land (65478, 66380, 66509) ; skin and skull of a squirrel, Sciurus, and skulls of two opossums, Didelphys, from Marj^land (65524, 6-5845, 66091) ; skull of an opossum, Didel- phys, and 2 skulls of minks, from Laurel, Md. (66155) ; bat, Eptesicus (alcoholic) (66334). MARSHALL, Geokge, U. S. National Museum : Fishes collected from the Patuxent River near Laurel, Md. (65332) ; skull of a fox, Vulpes, from Fairland, Montgomery County, Md. (65846) ; skeleton of a gray fox, Urocyon, from Camp Meade, Md. (65908) ; skin of a cedar waxwing, BomhyciUa cedrorum, with unusual markings (65945) ; bird from Maryland (66658). MARSHALL, Henry R., Wilson, N. C. : 2 birds from North Carolina (66378). MARTIN, Dr. Lynn AETHUE,Bingham- ton, N. Y. (through Dr. W. A. Dewey, Ann Arbor, Mich.) : An old homeo- pathic medicine case owned and used for many years by Dr. Titus L. Brown, of Binghamton, N. Y. (66736). MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE EXPERIMENT STA- TION, Department of Entomology, Amherst, Mass. (through A. I. Bourne) : Lepidoptera larvae col- lected in eastern Massachusetts (65752). MATTHEWS, Ransom, Selma, Calif. : A collection of automobile and mo- tor cycle spark plugs and a vulcan- izing outfit (65294, loan). MAYNE, Bruce, Delta, Utah: 2 flies, Tahanus producUis (65293). MAYNARD, E. A., .Jamaica, Long Is- land, N. Y. : 16 polished crystals of chiastolite from Lancaster, Mass. ( 65441, exchange ) . MEDINA, Lieut. Col. Frederic Diez de, Bolivian Legation, Washington, D. C. : A sheet of gold, gold tassel or pendant, specimens of arrow points and fragments, and a textile woven in colors, all from the State of La Paz, Bolivia (65769, exchange). MELBOURNE, ' VICTORIA, AUS- TRALIA, THE NATIONAL MU- SEUM: 8 lots of Tertiary bryo- zoans from Australia (65701, ex- change). MERRILL, Dr. George P., U. S. Na- tional Museum : 37 wood engravings by American engravers of about 1830, comprising 8 by Alexander An- LIST OF ACCESSIONS. 175 MERRILL, Dr. George P. — Continued, derson, 5 by J. H. Hall, 17 by Abel Bowen, and 7 unknown (65358) ; microscope and accessories in case, owned during the period 1830-1870 by Rev. Elijah Jones, pastor of the Congregational Church at Minot Center, Androscoggin County, Me. (65655). MERRILL, Mrs. Geoege P., Washing- ton, D. C. : A cut topaz weighing 92.4 carats (66151, loan). MESSMANN, Geoege, New York City (through the National Geographic Society, Washington, D. C.) : Piece of scrimshawed whalebone (65342). MEXICAN GOVERNMENT : Department of Agriculture, Mexi- co, D. F. : About 1,000 beetles representing 700 species ( 66757 ) . Direccion de Estudios BioJogicos, Mexico, D. F. (through Dr. A. L. Herrera, Director) : 483 Mexican plants (65243, ex- change) ; 2 phyllopod crusta- ceans, Estheria compleximanus, from Guadalupe Hidalgo (65562) ; 7 specimens, repre- senting 7 species, of marine moUusks from Lower California (65576) ; 2 photographs of a specimen of a starfish, Acan- thaster ellisii, from Lower Cali- fornia (65721) ; 15 scorpions Vaejovis subcristatus (66492, exchange). MEYER, Dr. Reinhold, Landsberg a/W, Germany : 122 specimens, rep- resenting 23 species of bees (66213, exchange). MIAMI AQUARIUM ASSOCIATION, James Asbury Allison, President, Miami, Fla. : Skeleton of a w^hale, Balaenoptera, found on Pablo Beach, Fla. (65394). MICHIGAN, UNIVERSITY OF, Mu- seum of Zoology, Ann Arbor, Mich. ; 2 vials of isopod crustaceans, 3 frogs and 2 garter-snakes from Washing- ton, all collected by Dr. F. N. Blanchard (65789) ; 4 tadpoles of Ascaphus truei. collected in Wash- ington by T. M. and H. T. Gaige (65798) ; (through Dr. A. G. Ruth- 71305°— 21 12 MICHIGAN, UNIVERSITY OF— Con. ven, director) shrimp, Macroch- rahium jamaicense, from Colombia (65836) ; (through Miss Roberta E. Deam) 550 plants, chiefly from Mich- igan and Ontario (duplicates from the C. K. Dodge Herbarium) (66689, exchange) ; frog, paratype of Eleutherodactylus megalops, col- lected in San Lorenzo, Santa Marta ^Mountains, Colombia, by Dr. Ruth- ven (66405). MILLAR, M. A., Venus. Fla.: Old wooden idol plowed up on the north shore of Lake Okeechobee, Fla. (66473). MILLE, Rev. Louis, S. J., Quito, Ecua- dor: Cactus from Ecuador (65398). MILLER, Prof. Aethue M., University of Kentucky. Lexington, Ky. : A block of oolitic carbonate iron ore from Preston, Ky. (65726). MILLER, Geeeit S., jr., U. S. Na- tional aiuseum : Skeleton of a mink, Mustela, from Fairfax County, Va. (65395) ; mollusks, egg and 2 skulls of the wedge-tailed shearwater, Puffinus cuneatus, and 2 incomplete skeletons of Bulwer's petrel, Bul- iveria buUceri; also 6 skins and skulls of rats and 1 rat skeleton, all from the Hawaiian Islands (65604, 66573 ; 3 plants from California (66745). MILLER, Dr. M. G., Philadelphia, Pa. : Indian skull from a shell heap near Cape Blanco, Caloosahatchee River, Lee County, Fla. (65239). MILLIKEN, F. B., Manhattan, Kans. : 14 oil beetles, representing 3 species, namely, Epicarda callosa, Nemog- natha lutea, and Cantharis Mguttata (65296). MILLS, Mrs. Stephen C, Washington, D. C. : Tonto Apache basket bowl and a Tlinkit basket, from the col- lection of her father, Gen. G. G. Lee (66579). MILLSPAUGH, Dr. C. F. (See under Field Museum of Natural History.) MINASSIAN, KiEKOE, New York City : Postage stamps of Afghanistan and Kashmir (55 specimens) ; also 6 176 KEPOET OF li^ATIOlSrAL, MUSEUM, 1921. MINASSIAN, KiRKOB— Continued, leaves (5 of paper and 1 of vellum) from Arabic and Turkish manu- scripts (G5300). MINNESOTA, UNIVERSITY OP, Minneapolis, Minn, (through Prof. C. O. Rosendahl) : 4 specimens of Selaginella (66158, exchange) ; specimen of Selaginella from Brit- ish Columbia (66287) ; (through Prof. E. W. D. Holway) : 749 plants from vpestem South America (66314). MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN, St, Louis, Mo.: Plant, Alironia, from western Colorado (65622) ; 2 plants, Seluginella (66357, ex- change). MITCHELL, H. H., Regina, Sas- katchewan, Canada : Dried skin of a tiger salamander, Amhy stoma Ugri- num, from Saskatchewan (65817). MITCHELL, Mason, American Con- sul, Queenstown, Ireland: Egg of the dodo pigeon, or tooth-billed pigeon, Didunculus strigirostris, from Samoa, new to the Museum collections (65548). MOCZARSKI, Prof. Emil. (See un- der Prof. Otto Scheerpeltz.) MONITOR STOVE CO., THE, Cincin- nati, Ohio (through Oliver Gedeist, Director of Publicity) : Model of caloric pipeless furnace, invented by W. J. Doyle, 1909 (65249). MOORE, Alfked F., Los Angeles, Calif. : A rat, 7 insects, and a collec- tion of rocks and fossils collected nearCalama, Chile (65987). MORELET, Sylvanus G., Carnegie Institute of Washington, Washing- ton, D. C. : 4 lots of potsherds from 4 localities in Central America and Mexico (65863). MORRILL, Hon. Charles H., Lincoln, Nebr. (through Prof. Edwin H. Bar- bour) : A collection of exhibition and study specimens of Carbonifer- ous foraminifera (65277). MORRIS, Mrs. Goua'erneue, Washing- ton, D. C. : Hale piano decorated by Cottier of New York (66347). MORROW, Miss C. F., St. Thomas, Virgin Islands of the United States: 133 plants from St. John and St. Thomas, Virgin Islands of the United States (66171, 66302, 66489, 66730). MORSE, Edward L., Pittsfield, Mass. : Original specimen of a message re- corded by the Morse register, May 25, 1844 (65555). MOSELEY, E. L., Bowling Green, Ohio.: 91 plants (65422) ; 3 plants, Lacinaria (66328). MOSONYI, Emilio, New York City : A highly embellished, cylindrical earthenware vase from "Ataco," northwestern part of Salvador, and a bronze ax blade found in " San Jose Villaneuva," in the southwest- ern part of the same Republic (65351). MOTTER, Dr. MtJRRAY Gaxt, Wash- ington, D. C. : 4 photographs of prominent members of the American Pharmaceutical Association (66348). MOUSLEY, H., Hatley, Quebec, Can- ada: 12 ferns (65221, exchange). MOXLEY, George L., Los Angeles, Calif. : Plant from southern Califor- nia (65447) ; ferns, Asplenium and Clieilanthcs, from California (65900, 66258) ; plant, Selaginella xoatsoni (66327) ; 15 specimens of Selaginella from California (66370, exchange) ; 3 plants from California (66637). MUESEBECK, C. F. W. (See under Dr. C. T. Brues and Cornell Uni- versity, Department of Entomology.) MULFORD CO., H. K., Philadelphia, Pa. : 4 specimens of antitoxin serums (65614) ; 15 charts mounted with specimens, photographs, etc., show- ing the preparation and use of vac- cines and serums for the prevention and treatment of diphtheria, small- pox, pneumonia, tetanus, meningitis, and hay fever; also 1 30cc. vacule package of digitol (66727). MULLIS, Miss Frances, Friday Har- bor, Wash.: 5 specimens, 4 species, of crustaceans from Friday Harbor, Washington, one of them, Spironto- caris grandimann-, being for the first time recorded from American waters (65831). LIST OF ACCESSIONS. 177 MUNDER & CO., Norman T. A., Balti- more, Md. : 125 specimens of type and halftone printing (65639) ; 2 halftones of Lincoln, 2 halftones of Franklin, and 2 broadsides (66349). MUNRO, G. C, Keomuko, Lanai, Ha- waii (through Prof. A. S. Hitch- cock) : 12 plants (65898). MUNZ, Dr. Phillip A. (See nuder Pomona College, Claremont, Calif.) MURDOCK, Miss Eleanor P., Wash- ington, D. C. : A book of poems and songs bj- Robert Burns, in wooden binding (66220). MUSEO NACIONAL. ( See under San Jose, Costa Rica.) MUSEU PAULISTA, Sao Paulo, Bra- zil (through A. d'E. Taunay, Di- rector) : Parasitic worm, Tristoma. species, 14 isopods, representing 3 species, and 3 amphipods, represent- ing 2 species, from Brazil ; also a oollection of Brazilian annelids, one lot of barnacles, and a small collec- tion (duplicates) of parasitic cope- pods (65681) ; 8 skins and skulls of bats from Brazil (66600). MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN IN- DIAN, THE HBYE FOUNDATION, New York, N. Y. (through Dr. Mar- shall H. Saville) : Obsidian from ancient quarry refuse from near Fiscal, Guatemala (65527) ; Pota- watomi sacred medicine bundle (Oklahoma) (65896, exchange). MUSEUM OF HISTORY, SCIENCE, AND ART, Los Angeles, Calif.: A box of shell fragments with bryo- zoans from the Pleistocene of Cali- fornia (66002). MUSGRAYE, W. E. (See under Agri- culture, Department of. Bureau of Biological Survey.) MUSKEGON MACHINE CO., Mus- kegon, Mich. : 23 dovetailed wood samples showing the work of the Linderman automatic dovetail glue jointer (66692). MYER, W. E., Nashville, Tenn. : An adult skeleton and the skeletons of two children found by the donor in a stone slab grave 9 miles northeast of Nashville (65222) ; skull of a young MYER, W. E. — Continued. adult female, found in a stone slab grave at the Love Slound on Whites Creek, 6 miles north of NashvUle (65451) ; skull, 2 skeletons, and a lot of miscellaneous human bones (66631). MYERS, George Hewitt, Washington, D. C. : 38 Oriental raggs (66773, loan). MYRICK, F. M., Johannesburg, Calif., Specimens of blue chalcedony, jasper, and myrickite from California (65331). NATIONAL AJVIERICAN WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION, New York, N. Y. (through Mrs, H. H. Gardener and Miss Lucy Anthony) : Gold and enamel flag pin presented to Miss Susan B. Anthony by ladies of Wyoming on the occasion of her eightieth birthday, *1900, and dis- tinguished service medal awarded to Dr. Anna Howard Shaw in recogni- tion of distinguished services as chariman of the Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense during the World War (65773) ; (through Mrs. Gardener, U. S. Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C.) Official copy of the certifica- tion of the Secretary of State to the effect that the amendment to the Con- stitution extending the right of suf- frage to women has become valid, and the pen used by Secretary Bainbridge Colby when signing the original document, August 26, 1920 (66218) ; (through Mrs. Gardener) gold badge presented to Susan B. Anthony by the Citizens Suffrage Association of Philadelphia, 1881 (66335). NATIONAL COLLEGE OF PHAR- MACY, Washington, D. C. (through Dr. H. E. Kalusowski) : A supposi- tory machine made before 1873 by James Dominic O'Donnell, Wash- ington, D. C. (66307). NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY, Washington, D. C. : 1,180 plants from Alaska, collected by the Katmai ex- peditions under the direction of Prof. Robert F. Griggs (66087) ; arche- 178 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIE- TY— Continued, ological material collected by the National Geographic Society's expe- dition of 192|0 (Neil M. Judd, Direc- tor), from ancient ruins in the Chacp Canyon National Monument, N. Mex., and the Canyon de Chelly, Ariz. (65958). (See also under George Mess- mann.) NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL, Washington, D. C. : Chemical exhibit consisting of topographical model representing a group of chemical in- dustries ; charts ; collection of dyes, explosives, medicinals, etc.; and a series of molecular models (66664, deposit). NATIONAL SILICA CO., Oregon, 111. : Specimen of siliceous sandrock used . for industrial purposes (66028). NAVY DEPARTMENT : United States Navy model F-5-L seaplane with ac- cessories, aeromarine 39-B seaplane complete with OXX Curtiss engine, and 16 enlarged photographs of naval airplanes (65717) ; flying suits and accessories of the type used by the United States Navy during the World War (28 specimens) (65856, loan) ; collection of naval models, ordnance, signal, and marine instru- ments of the type used by the United States Navy during the War with Germany, 1917-18, and German naval material captured during the same period (66742) ; relics re- covered from the wreck of the U. S. battleship Madne in Habana Har- bor, 1911 (66761). NELSON, J. C, Salem, Oreg.: 4 plants from Oregon (66720). NELSON, NoBMAN E., Fort Worth, Tex. : 47 specimens of Lower Cre- taceous bryozoans from Texas (65755, exchange). NEW ALMADEN MINING CO., New Almaden, Calif. : Specimen of cinna- bar from Senator mine. New Al- maden, Calif. (65238). NEWTON, Rev. J. C, Calhoun, Kaw- nesi Gakuin, Kobe, Japan : Photo- graph of the Dragon God (Dai Ja) in Idzumo, Japan (66708). NEWTON, S. H., Reno, Nev. : About 100 specimens representing 6 species of mollusks (65612). NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN, Bronx Park, New York City (through Dr. N. L. Britton, Director) : 25 plants, 190 ferns, 70 specimens of hepatics, 3 specimens of Rubiaceae, 6 plants, 46 mosses, plant, Achy- ranthes, plant, Salvinia, plant, Pas- siflora; (through Dr. S. F. Blake) 5 specimens of Polygala, all from Trinidad (65189, 65722, 66687, 65778, 65911, 66078, 66160, 66568, 66639, 66726, 65932) ; 77 plants from Trinidad and Jamaica (65743) ; 1,513 plants, chiefly from Trinidad, Cuba, and Jamaica (65984) ; 46 liv- ing plants (65200) ; 36 plants (65201, 65246, 65262, 65888, 66096, 66725) ; 14 mosses and 10 specimens of Opun- tia from Florida (65321, 66655) ; 3 living plants, Opuntia (65368) ; cac- tus from Pennsylvania (65418) ; 61 plants fi'om South America (65436) ; plant, Campnosperma, from Panama (65487) ; 25 ferns, from Cuba (65660, 66717) ; (through Dr. S. F. Blake) plant, Senecio, from Cuba (65947) ; fern, Woodsia scopuUna, from North Carolina (65730) ; 47 ferns, collected by Doctor Underwood and Mrs. E. G. Britton in Jamaica, 5 specimens of ferns, HymenopJiyllum, from Jamaica (65956, 66045) ; 48 West Indian plants (65999) ; 19 ferns and 2 specimens of cacti, from Tobago, West Indies (65807, 66481) ; 49 plants from the Southern States, col- lected by Dr. F. W. Pennell (66332) ; plant from Long Island, N. Y. (66243, exchange). NEW YORK STATE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE, CorneU Univer- sity, Ithaca, N. Y. (through Prof. K. M. Wiegand) : 286 plants, chiefly from central New York (66680, ex- change). NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, New York City: A bromide enlargement of the original daguerreotype made of Miss Draper by Prof. John W. Draper, the first photographic por- trait ever made (66292). LIST OF ACCESSIONS. 179 NEW YORK WORLD, THE, New York City (through Mr. Arthur Bennington) : Original photogi-aph of an Indian sent by wire ; bromide general view of sending apparatus; bromide of Mr. Edward Belin, the inventor, and assistant, and a bro- mide of Mr. Belin at the sending in- strument (660S0). NORTH CAROLINA, STATE DE- PARTxMENT OF AGRICULTURE, Agricultural Experiment Station, Raleigh, N. C. (through C. S. Brim- ley) : 1 tachinid fly (exchange), 1 ortalid fly (gift), 2 tachinid flies (loan) (65714) ; 3 flies, 2 presum- ably new, collected at Raleigh, North 'Carolina (65757). NORTON, J. B., HartsviUe, S. C: 53 plants from South Carolina (66019, exchange). NOYES, L G., SomerviUe, Mass.: 2 plants, Mammillaria and Cereus (G6617, 66699). NUTTING, Prof. C. C. (See under Iowa, State University of.) NYLANDER, Olat O., Caribou, Me.: 50 Devonian fossils from Maine (66012). O'DONIGHUE, Prof. Charles H., Uni- versity of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Mani- toba, Canada: 3 specimens of Dip- tera, 4 of Hymenoptera, 5 of Cole- op tera, and a leech (66184). O'KEEFE, Mrs. Mills, Hyattsville, Md. : Photo-engravings and souvenir post cards relating to the Pilgrim Tercentenary, 1920 (13 specimens) (66116). OLDROYD, Mrs. Ida S., Stanford Uni- versity, Calif.: 12 specimens repre- senting 8 species of mollusks, and 13 specimens, 4 species, of land and ma- rine mollusks, all from California (65704, 65996). OLIVA, Senora Ignacia G., Guadala- jara, Mexico: 122 Mexican grasses (65336). OPPERMANN FUR CO., THE, Sagi- naw, Mich. : The skin of a melanistic wildcat (lynx) (66131). ORCUTT, C. R., San Diego, Calif.: 3 specimens of barnacles, Balanus or- cutti, B. amphitrite inexpectatus, ORCUTT, C. R.— Continued, first United States record, and. Tet- raclita squamosa rv.bcscens form elegans, from La Jolla, (65718) ; 8 specimens of cacti from California (66262) ; (through Dr. W. H. Dall) 15 species of fossils from San Quen- tin Bay, Lower California, probably Pliocene or early Pleistocene (66620), OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL- LEGE, Corvallis, Oreg. : 11 plants (65424) ; 6 plants from Oregon (65621) : (through Miss Helen M. Gilkey, curator) plant, Centaurea, from Oregon (66016). ORSER-KRAFT FELDSPAR (LTD.), Perth, Ontario, Canada (through Mr. F. L. Hess) : Samples of euxenite ore (65480). ORTEGA, Senor Don Jesus G., Mazat- lan, Sinaloa, Mexico: 111 plants from Mexico (65923) ; 7 plants (66274). OSHIMA Dr. M. (See under Insti- tute of Science, Taihoku, Formosa, Japan.) OSTERHOUT, Geobge E., Windsor, Colo.: 9 plants (66565, exchange). OTIS, Ika C, Seattle, Wash.: 106 plants from western United States (65912). OTTAWA, CANADA. (See under Canadian Government.) OTTOLENGUI, Dr. R., New York City: 10 noctuid moths, including 2 cotypes and 2 others new to the collection (65560). OWEN, Virgil W., Los Angeles, Calif. : 12 beetles (66491). PACIFIC MINERALS & CHEMICAL CO., Glendale, Calif.: Specimen of crude talc from Acme, Death Valley, Calif. (65518). PALMER, Dr. E. C, Philadelphia, Pa.: Stone club of the Maori, New Zealand (65304). PALftlER, WnxiAM, U. S. National Museum: Black snake, and 7 crabs, Rliithropanopeus Jierrisii, all from South Chesapeake Beach, Md., the latter collected by the donor (65370, 65517) ; 3 birds from the vicinity of Washington, D. C, including a 180 REPOET OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. PALMER, William — Continued, snow bunting, Plectrophenax nivalis (65506) ; salamander from Plummer Island, Md., collected by Mr. H. S. Barber, and a musk turtle from Chesapeake Beach (65642). PAMMEL, Dr. L. H. (See under Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.) PARISH, S. B., Berkeley, Calif.: 2 specimens of cacti (66413) (through G. P. Van Eseltine) : Plant, Selagi- nella, from California (65473). PARISI, Dr. Bruno, Milan, Italy: Specimen of thalassimid, Typhlo- caris letJiaea (66240, exchange). PARKE, DAVIS & CO., Detroit, Mich. : 22 photographs showing lab- oratory operations in the manufac- ture of pharmaceutical preparations (65472) ; 5 specimens of medicinal substances (65953). PARKER, Dr. A. C, Altmar, N. Y. : Young ring-necked snake from Alt- mar, N. Y. (666S1). PARMAN, D. C, Uvalde, Tex. : 33 liv- ing cacti from Texas (66283). PATTEN, Mrs. L. Deak, Washington, D. C. : Ethnologica from the Oglala- Teton Sioux, Pine Ridge, S. Dak. (65596, loan). PATTISON, Mrs. S. L., Canutillo, Tex.: 18 specimens of cacti (66244, 66359). PEABODY MUSEUM, Salem, Mass.: 2 photographs of models of the ves- sels Friendship and Rising States (65S80). PEABODY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. (See under Yale Uni- versity.) PEARSE, Dr. A. S., University of YVls- consin, Madison, Wis.: 36 slides of fish parasites from Lake Valencia, Venezuela (65886) ; 23 microscopic slides of parasitic worms, represent- ing 21 species, 7 of which are types (66536) ; 2 slides of parasitic worms, Crepidostomum Mloba, type and cotypes from Lake Pepin, and CapiUaria catostomi, type, from Sturgeon Bay (66588). PECK, L. H., Delta, Utah: Topaz in matrix and 2 topaz crystals (66117). PELLETT, Frank C, American Bee Joui-nal, Hamilton, 111. : 50 bees and wasps (65712). PELLOUX, Prof. Albeeto, Genoa, Italy : 24 specimens of minerals (66409, exchange). PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, Harrisburg, Pa. (through P. T. Barnes, Executive Assistant) : 9 specimens, 1 species, of slugs, Limax maxlmus (66407). PENNY, F. W., Pointe-a-Pierre, Trini- dad, British West Indies : 14 fossil corals from Trinidad, from type lo- cality of corals described by P. M. Duncan from St. Croix, Trinidad (65929). PEREZ, Gilbert, Bureau of Education, Lucena, Tayabas, Luzon, P. I. : 27 Philippine Island land shells (65217, exchange). PERKINS, John U., Smithsonian In- stitution : Photogravure by Goupil of Winslow Homer's painting The Herring Net (66422). PERRY, Mrs. Ruth Habmison, Wash- ington, D. C. : Rifle and powder horn (66688). PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, GOVERN- MENT OF, Bureau of Science, Manila, P. I. : Skin of a crane, Anti- gone sharpei, and 20 mammals from the Philippine Islands (65339, de- posit) ; 33 plants from Borneo (65423, exchange) ; 2,905 plants, chiefly from the Philippine Islands (65568, exchange). PHILIPPINES, UNIVERSITY OF, Manila, P. I. (through Prof. A. L. Day) : 28 specimens, representing 9 species, of named freshwater shrimps (65969, excliange). PHOTOGRAVURE & COLOR CO., New York City (through Karl Arvidson and Charles Furth) : Photogravures in black and white and 3 colors ; photogravures in colors at one impression ; photo- gelatin prints in black and white and 3 colors ; historical specimens and Muybridge material (66226). PICHON, Miss Eugenie C, Upperville, Va. : 2 beaded bags, 2 beaded neck- laces, beaded belt and a mortar (66746). LIST OF ACCESSIONS. 181 PICKETT, R, v., Edgewater, Colo.: 9 cacti from Colorado (66615, ex- change). PICKREL VENEER CO., New Al- bany, Ind. (through American Wal- nut Manufacturers' Association, Chi- cago, 111.) : Specimen of black wal- nut showing method of cutting ve- neers (66760). PIEDMONT RED CEDAR CHEST CO., Statesville, N. C. : Piedmont red cedar chest (65696). PILKINGTON, H. M., New York City : Plant from Haiti, and 10 cacti, and 2 specimens of cactus wood (65842, 65936). PILLING, Mrs. James W., Coyoacan, D. F., Mexico : Small and finely woven Navaho blanket from Ari- zona (66352). PINCHOT, ESTATE OF MRS. MARY E. (through the executors, care of Hon. Gifford Pinchot, MUford, Pa.) : Collection of period costumes (31 specimens) and 5 small ecclesiastical embroideries (65616). PIPER, Prof. C. v.. Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agri- culture, Washington, D. C. : Plant, Chenopodium, from Maryland (65651) ; 3 specimens, 2 species, of land shells from Key West, Fla., and 6 specimens, 1 species, of fresh- water shells from Everglades, Fla. (65921) ; plant, Selaginella, fi'om Briitsh Columbia (66124). (See also under Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant In- dustry, and J. B. Flett.) PITTIER, Dr. H., care U. S. legation, Caracas, Venezuela : Ethnological objects from Central America, con- sisting of a lime gourd, perforated rattle, bone-handle rattle, spindle, and cotton for spinning (65286) ; 750 plants from Venezuela (66493, 65421, 65747, 66259) ; 17 species of land and fresh-water mollusks from Venezuela (65975). POCAHONTAS MEMORIAL ASSO- CIATION, THE, Washington, D. C. : 3 dolls representing the Indian princess Pocahontas, 1 in native costume, and 2 in English dress (65470). POMONA COLLEGE, Claremont, Calif, (through Dr. Philip A. Munz, Curator, Department of Botany) : 361 plants from southern California (65298, exchange) ; 10 plants (t5i)e collection of Selaginella leucobrj/o- ides, fi-om California (66597, ex- change) (through G. P. Van Esel- tine) ; 2 plants, Belagmella, from California (65474, exchange) ; 49 specimens representing 17 species of crustaceans from California (65675) ; fern, Pellaea, from the Providence Mountains, Calif. (66710, exchange). POOLE, A. J., U. S. National Museum : 22 specimens, representing 4 species, of land and fresh-water mollusks from Niagara Falls, N. Y. (65534). PORTER, Dr. Caklos E., Santiago, Chile : 6 isopods representing ap- parently new species of the family Idotheidae (66233). PORTER, Mrs, .John Biddle, Wash- ington, D. C. : Doll's furniture and doll's china owned by the children of Hon. Richard Rush, United States minister to Great Britain, 1817-25, and member of the first Board of Regents, Smithsonian Institution (65995, loan). PORTS, Peecy L., Clarendon, Va.: 4 cacti from Bolivia (65377, 66245). (See also under Senor Ignacio Arana. ) POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT: 15 sets of specimen stamps, etc., in triplicate (4,413 specimens), received from the International Bureau of the Universal Postal Union, Berne, Switzerland (65192, 65271, 65381, 65410, 65411, 65561, 65753, 65809, 65835, 66061, 66217, 66322, 66343, 66471, 66606) ; coUection of postage stamps, post cards, and stamped pa- per (65875) ; United States 1, 2, and 5 cent postage stamps of the Pilgrim Tercentenary commemorative issue, and $2 postage starnp of the current issue, in triplicate (12 specimens) (65970). (See also under Ukraine, The Friends of.) 182 EEPOET OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. POWERS - WEIGHTMAN - ROSEN- GARTEN CO., Philadelphia, Pa. : 20 specimens of medicinal chemicals (65812). PRASHAD, Dr. B. (See under India, Zoological Sun'ey. ) PRENTISS, Dr. Elliott C, El Paso, Tex. : 2 specimens of cacti (65673) . PRICE, Ernest B., Vice Consul in charge at Canton, China (through Department of State, Washington, D. C.) : 7 photographs of poppy fields in Fukien Province, China (66603). PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, Depart- ment of Geologj^ Princeton, N. J. : (through A. F. Buddington) : 3 speci- mens of minerals from New York (65702, exchange). PRUITT, Beetie, Lomax, N. C. : Eggs of aluna moth (66345). PURDUE UNIVERSITY, Department of Botany, La Fayette, Ind. : 26 specimens of rusts (65728). PURPUS, Dr. J. A., Botanical Garden, Darmstadt, Germany : 8 plants (65723, exchange). QUEHL, L., Halle bei Saale, Germany : plant, Mammillaria (66719, ex- change). RADIUM CO. OP COLORADO (INC.), THE (through Mr. F. L. Hess) : 2 specimens of " Kentsmithite " from Long Park, Montrose County, Colo., collected by James S. James (65986). RADIUM INFORMATION SERVICE, New York City : 3 specimens of car- notite ore from the Long Park, Colo., propei'ties of the Radium Luminous Material Coi-poration (66623). RADIUM TREATMENT AND SANA- TORIUM CO., THE, Silver City, N. Y. : Samples of torbemite from White Signal, Grant County, N. Mex. (66694). RAINBOW RIDGE MINING CO. (through Archie Rice, New York City) : A series of opal specimens in the rough, from the mines of the Rainbow Ridge Mining Co., located in Humboldt County, Nev. (65978). RAMSDEN, Dr. C. T., Guantanamo, Cuba : A collection of reptiles, ba- trachians, moths, and isopods, the latter comprising the type and 14 RAMSDEN, Dr. C. T.— Continued, paratypes of Cubaris ramisdeni, new species, from " El Ocujal," Guan- tanamo, Cuba (65586), 10 isopods representing a new species of Pseu- darmadillo (66312). RAVENEL, William deC, U. S. Na- tional Museum : Memorial certificate issued by the United States Govern- ment and memorial certificate issued by the French Government in com- memoration of the death of Second Lieut. William deC. Ravenel, jr., U. S. Air Service, killed in line of duty June 30, 1918; also a bronze victory service medal awarded to Lieutenant Ravenel by the U. S. War Department, and a bronze cross awarded by the citizens of the Dis- trict of Columbia (65502) ; hobble of finely braided rawhide from Ar- . gentina. South America (65585) ; an old pharmaceutical balance (65893). REED, Dr. Edwyn P., Valparaiso, Chile (through Dr. Alexander Wetmore) : Snake and 3 lizards collected in Val- paraiso (66595). REED, Lieut. Richakd C, U. S. Navy, Supply Corps, U. S. Navy, Tutuila, Samoa : 12 bird skins, 1 fish, para- sitic flies and centipede eggs, all from Samoa (66102, 66440). REESIDE, J. B., Jr. (See under In- stituto de la Salle, Bogota, Colom- bia.) REICHE, Karl, Mexico, Mexico: 23 plants (66398, 66619). REID, Eael D., U. S. National Mu- seum : 33 fishes, and 16 inverte- brates from Chesapeake Beach, Md. (65205, 65333) ; 60 pairs of ear stones (otoliths) dissected from the heads of fishes obtained in the Wash- ington markets (66186). REINHARD, E., Buffalo, N. Y. : 8 specimens of Silurian and Devonian fossils from New York State (66003). REINHARD, H. J., Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, College Station, Tex. : Mollusk, Siiccinea luteola, and a dermestid beetle, Trogoderma, species, from College Station (66618). LIST OF ACCESSIONS. 183 REKO, Dr. Blas P., Oaxaca de Juarez, Mexico: 6 plants (65841, 66433). REMBRANDT INTAGLIO PRINT- ING CO. (LTD.), Queens Mill, Lan- caster, England : 20 specimens of rotary intaglio printing, 17 in black and white and 3 in color, the earliest specimen dated 1894 and the latest 1920 (65476). RENSON, Seuor Don Carlos. (See under San Salvador, El Salvador.) REVOREDO, .1. F., Aguilar, Oruro, Bolivia (through Mr. F. L. Hess) : Specimen of wolframite from Chi- cote Hill, east of Oruro, Bolivia (65513). RICE, Archie. (See under Rainbow Ridge Mining Co.) RICE, A. P., Brookline, Mass. : 4 ears of corn in the husk and 2 samples of cotton from Yucatan (66653). RICE INSTITUTE, THE, Houston, Tex. (through Prof. Asa C. Chand- ler) : Specimen of skate, new species, and a minnow, Zygonectes henshalli (66069). RICE, J. R., Washington, D. C. : Specimen of black granite (gabbro) from Rowan County, N. C. (66417). RICHARDS, Dr. Theodore W., U. S. Navy, Washington, D. C. : Collection of several thousand birds' eggs, chiefly from North America (65320). RICHARDSON, Mrs. Charles W., Washington, D. C. (through Mrs. Julian- James) : Leghorn straw poke bonnet (65567, loan). RICHARDSON, W. D., Fredericks- burg, Va. : 4,380 beetles, comprising the donor's collection, except the family Drj'opidae (65775). RICKER, P. L., U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. : Land planarian from a greenhouse, Fourteenth and B Streets, Wash- ington, D. C. (65532). RIDGWAY, Robert, Olney, 111.: 3 bird skins from Illinois (65365). RIKSMUSEETS BOTANISKA AV- DELNING, Stockholm, Sweden (through Dr. Carl Lindman, Di- rector) : 280 plants, Bryophyta, from northern Europe (65644) ; 880 plants, largely algae and grasses (66282, exchange). RIVES, Mrs. Isabel, Washington, D. C. (through Mi-s. R, G. Hoes) : Smoking cap, Scotch style, embroid- ered in moose hair, from Canada (65437, loan). ROBERTS, E. W., Cincinnati, Ohio: 14 detail photographs of Hiram Maxim's early flying machine, and copy of a photograph of him, also a copy of the Journal of the Society of Automotive Engineers, April, 1918, containing a description of the machine (65903). ROBERTSON, Miss Lida B., Living- ston Normal School, Livingston, Ala. : Plant, Firmiana platanifolia (65266) ; plant (65311). ROBINSON, Col. WniT, U. S. Army, West Point, N. Y. : Shrew (alco- holic), Microsorex winnemanna (65305). ROCK, Prof. Joseph F., U. S. Depart- ment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. : 4 plants, Kokia, from the Hawaiian Islands (65199). ROCKWOOD, L. P., Forest Grove, Oreg. : 2 type specimens of Diptera (66210). RODDY, Dr. H. Justin, Millersville, Pa. : 332 Cambrian fossils from Lancaster County, Pa. (65258). ROEBLING, Col. Washington A., Trenton, N. J. : 3 specimens of min- erals from Sweden (65352). ROGERS, L. E., Washington, D. C. : The nest of a wasp collected at Shin Pond, Patten, Me. (65740). ROIG, Dr. Mario Sanchez, Havana, Cuba: Selenite from Cuba, also 8 specimens, 2 species, of terrestrial isopods (65904, 65968). ROMAN, Dr. A., Entomologiska Afdel- ning, Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden: 2 ichneumon flies, Polysphincta carbon at or (65792). ROSENDAHL, Prof. C. O. ( See under Minnesota, the University of.) ROSS, C. S., U. S. Geological Survey, Washington, D. C. : Specimen of onyx from Lime Creek, Del Norte Quadrangle, near Bidell, Colo. (66051). 184 REPORT OF ITATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. ROST, E. C, Alhambra, Calif. : 8 cacti (65657, 66414, exchange) ; 27 cacti (66444, 66744). ROWLEE, Prof. W. W., Department of Botany, Cornell University, Ith- aca, N. Y. : 3 plants, Ochroma, from Central America ( 65690 ) . (See also under Cornell Uni- versity). ROWLETT, Mrs. S. C, Halifax, Va. : 8 plants (66453, 66562). ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS. (See under British Government.) ROYAL ELECTROTYPE CO., Phila- delphia, Pa.: Exhibit showing lead- molding electrotype and McKee process of treating electrotypes (66196) ; 6 photographs of the Royal Electrotype Co.'s plant (66526). ROYAL TYPEWRITER CO. (INC.), THE, New York City (through G. E. Smith, President) : Royal type- writer, No. 10, latest model ; Royal typewriter, skeleton model, to af- ford inspection of all working parts, working model, double size, of the Royal tjT)ewriter accelerating key lever action, and working model of the Royal typewriter roller trip es- capement (65698). RUNYON, RoBEET, Brownsville, Tex. : 27 cacti from Texas (65652, 65700, 65830, 66067) ; 29 plants (66424, 66518, 66558, 66657, 06747) ; 8 plants, Lophophora, from Texas (66031). RUSH, Mrs. Paul J., Proctor, Tex.: Skin and skull of a pallid white- footed mouse, Peromyscus manicu- latus pallescens (65247), RUST, Henry J., Coeur d'Alene, Idaho: Collection of fossil plants from Coeur d'Alene (66154). RUTH, Prof. Albert, Polytechnic, Tex. : 48 plants, 4 plants from Texas, and a plant, Opuntia (65403, 66041. 66721). RUTHVEN, Dr. A. G. (See under Michigan, University of. Museum of Zoology.) RUZICKA, Rudolph. ( See under the Cartei'et Book Club, of Newark.) ST. PROCOPIUS COLLEGE, Lisle, 111. (through Prof. Hilary S. Jurica) 176 specimens of miscellaneous in- ST. PROCOPIUS COLLEGE— Contd. sects (160 from Lisle, Dupage County, 111., and 16 collected in the Key Islands, Dutch East Indies) (65973). SANCHEZ, Dr. Maeio, Sr., Habana, Cuba : 19 specimens, 9 species, of mollusks from Cuba, including the types of 5 new species (65231) ; 9 specimens, representing 8 species, of fossil mollusks from Yedado, near Habana, Cuba (65669). SAN JOSli;, COSTA RICA, MUSEO NACIONAL (through Dr. A. Al- faro) : 23 crane flies representing 17 species, including the tj'pe of a new species, from Costa Rica (65671, ex- change). SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR, LABORATORIO DE AGRICUL- TURA (through Senor Don Carlos Renson) : 14 plants from El Salvador (65931). SAO PAULO, BRAZIL. (See under Museu Paulista.) SARDESON, Dr. Frederick W., Min- neapolis, Minn, (through Interior Department, U. S. Geological Sur- vey) : Collection of Cretaceous in- vertebrate fossils including about 12 species and over 200 specimens from the Arcturus, Hill, and Walker mines of the Mesabi Iron Range, Minn. (66361). SARGENT, C. S. ( See under Harvard University, Arnold Arboretum.) SASAKI, Madoka, Sapporo, Japan: 337 specimens, 34 species, of crusta- ceans from Japan (66769). SAUNDERS, C. F., Pasadena, Calif.: 3 plants, Selaginell-a, from California (66107, 66636). SAVAGE, M. F., New York City: 4 photographs, a daguerreotype, and 2 tintjTpes of the period of the Civil War, and a souvenir badge issued on the occasion of the dedication of Grant's Tomb, 1897 (65641) ; iron lamp said to have been found in the trench warfare on the Austrian front in the region of Venice, Italy, and bought in Rome, Italy (66321), LIST OF ACCESSIONS 185 SAVILLE, Dr. Marshall H. (See under Museum of the American In- dian, tlie Heye Foundation.) SCALCO, Salvatoee, Washington, D. C. : Banana possum (Mannosa) (65388). SCHAEFFER, Chables. (See under Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Central • Museum, Brook- lyn, N. Y.) SCHAUS, William, U. S. National Mu- seum : 800 specimens of Lepidoptera representing 400 species, new to the Museum collections, and 55 water color paintings of rare species of butterflies to represent these species in the collection (66534). SCHEERPELTZ, Prof. Otto and Prof. Emil MOCZARSKI, Staatsreal- schule, Vienna, Austria (through the Entomological Society of Washing- ton ) : 244 specimens of cave and sub- terranean Coleoptera, representing 100 species new to the Museum col- lections (66077). SCHIEFFELIN & CO., New York City : 6 specimens of pharmaceutical preparations (65874). SCHLESWIG INTERNAT lONAL COMMISSION, Kollund, Schleswig (through C. B. Mace, Secretary Gen- eral) : 3 sets of postage stamps is- sued during the international com- mission's administration of the pleb- iscite area in Schleswig, 1919-20 (65359). SCHMID, Edwabd S., Washington, D. C. : 24 birds, including 2 Amazon parrots (66303, 66447, 66621, 66661). SCHOCK, Oli\'eb D., Harrisburg, Pa. : 2 photographs of a shrub from Penn- sylvania (65957) ; plant, trailing juniper, from Pennsylvania (65962). SCHROEDER, Miss Em-Sidell, Wash- ington, D. C. : A bark cloth (Kapa) pillow cover, 2 samples of hand weaving, and a specimen of a chun- dri with knots united (65433). SCHUCHERT, Prof. Chaeles. (See under Yale University.) SCHULTZ, Dr. Adolph H., Carnegie Laboratory, Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, Md. ( through Dr. O. P. Hay) : Left ramus of lower SCHULTZ, Dr. Abolph H.— Contd. jaw, containing two molars, of the fossil peccary, Tayassii lenis, from the Pleistocene, Calvert County, Maryland ; also an X-ray negative (66362). SCHULZ, Miss Ellen D., San Antonio, Tex.: 212 plants from Texas (2 through Prof. O. F. Cook) (65270, 65498, 66166, 66269, 66682) ; 161 plants from Texas and New Mexico (65583) ; 2 plants, Af a mm ill aria (66563).* SCHWARZ, Dr. E. A., U. S. Depart- ment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C : About 200 beetles, Tenebrionidae, representing genera not in the Mu- seum collections (66749) : 100 beetles collected at Plummer Island, Md., in 1920 (65762). SCHWARZ, Di-. E. A., and Heebeet S. BARBER, U. S. Department of Ag- riculture, Washington, D. C. : 1,000 beetles from Plummer Island, Md. (66758). SCIDMORE, Miss Eliza Ruhamah, Washington, D. C. : 2 Korean straw figures (65511). SCIENCE AND AGRICULTURE DE- PARTMENT, Division of Biology, Georgetown, Demerara, British Guiana : 3 vials of shipworms, mol- lusks, from British Guiana (65530). SCOLLICK, J. W., U. S. National Mu- seum : Daguerreotype, silhouette por- trait, and an ambrotype portrait, also a turtle from Bennings, D. C. (65323, 65413). SCOTT, Geoege, Hollywood, Calif.: African ethnologocal and archeo- logical specimens (66755). SCRIPPS INSTITUTION FOR BIO- LOGICAL RESEARCH, La Jolla, Calif. : 453 specimens representing 45 species of crustaceans from Cali- fornia, and 7 crabs, Pilummis spino- liirsutus (65633, 66401) ; (through Myrtle E. Johnson) : 4 coelenterates from California (66255). SEBASTIEN, E., St. Thomas, Virgin Islands of the United States: Fruit of the screw pine, Pandanus syl- vestris and a photograph of the same (65260). 186 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. SECHRIST, E. Lloyd, Washington, D. C. : Model of Tahitian outrigger canoe, and 3 photographs of scenes in Tahiti (66392). SilGUY, Mons. E., Museum d'Historio Naturelle, Paris, France: 24 speci- mens of mosquitoes, and 29 speci- mens, 12 species of named mos- quitoes (66242, 66300). SEIFRIZ, Dr. William, Johns Hop- kins University, Baltimore, Md. : 2 ferns from Java ( 66128 -). SELLS, Mrs. Cato, Washington, D. C. : White lace veil and black lace veil made by Miss Abigail Sias, of Dan- ville, Conn., about 1830 (66629). SEOANE, Lieut. Col. C. A., Signal Corps, U. S. Army, Seattle, Wash.: Polychaete worm, type of new species (66027). SETCHELL, Prof. W. A. (See under Carnegie Institution of Washington.) SEYMOUR, Mrs. Henry, Ancon, Canal Zone: Earthenware double jar of recent make, from Honduras; me- tate of cellular lava and a pottery jar with painted designs, both from Honduras, also a stone image from Mexico (65350). SHANNON, R. C, Entomological De- partment, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. : Specimen of an unknown drosophilid from Camp Meade, Md., 2 specimens of a very small species of anthomyidae collected at Ithaca, N. Y., and 602 beetles from Wash- ington State (65739, 65776, 66106). SHARKIE, Rev. Antonixjs, Washing- ton, D. C. : Wooden balance for weighing money from Syria (66420). SHAW, Dr. E. W., Washington, D. C. : 200 specimens, 6 species, of land sheUs from Bolivia (66141). SHEPHERD, Alexander R., 2d, Tung- stonia, Nev. (through Mr. F. L. Hess) : Specimen of hubnerite from 60 miles northeast of Ely, Nev. (65505). SHEPPARD, M. J., Washington, D. C. : Fossil pecten from the Tertiary rocks of Contra Costa County, Calif. (66074). SHEPPARD, Walter B., Jackson, Wyo. : Small collection of plants from Wyoming (66036). SHIDELER, Prof. W. H., Miami Uni- versity, Oxford, Ohio : Collection of rare Upper Ordovician fossils from Oxford, Ohio (65818, exchange). SHORT, George H., Salt Lake City, Utah (through Victor C. Heikes) : Specimen of sphalerite from the Judge mine. Park City, Utah (65667). SHREVE, Dr. Forest, Desert Labora- tory, Tuscon, Ariz. : Plant, cactus, from Arizona (65658). SHUFELDT, Dr. R. W., U. S. Army (retired), Washington, D. C. : 7 small mammals from South America (65523) ; plant, Meibomia, from the District of Columbia (65579) ; 2 skeletons of fishes, a dried fish, and skeleton of a hawk (66277). SHUFELDT, Dr. R. W., U. S. Army (retired), Washington, D. C, and Dr. A. d'E. TAUNAY, Sao Paulo, Brazil: 3 skeletons of fishes (66278). SHUFELDT, Mrs. R. W., Washington, D. C. : Common swift from Great Falls, Md. (65471). SHURTLEFP, Arthur A., Boston, Mass. : Original atomizer or vapor- izer made about August 27, 1871, by Asahel M. Shurtleff, Boston, Mass. (66665). SIGMUND, Louis, Goldfield, Nev.: Samples of fibrous opal from Esmer- alda County, Nev. (65184). SIMONS, Mrs. Carrie L., San Diego, Calif. : 10 mollusks representing the species Schismope califomica, from North Coronado Island, Lower Cali- fornia (66024). SIMPSON, Charles T., Little River, Fla. : 36 specimens, 22 subspecies, of mollusks, Liguus, from Florida, rep- resenting type lots of new subspecies described by the donor (65209). . SINGEWALD, Prof. Joseph T., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. (through Mr. F. L. Hess) : Specimen of wolframite and cassiterite from Carmen Mine, Yungas, Bolivia (65916). LIST OF ACCESSIONS. 187 SITHENS, E. H., Millville, N. J.: Victor "ordinary" bicycle (66457). (See also under Lawrence Wor- stall.) SKEELS, H. C. (See under R. N. Jones.) SLAGLE, Wm. (See under Curtis Publishing co.) SLOANE, William, New York City: Gold watch seal owned by Gen. George Washington and presented by him to Judge Bushrod Washing- ton (66076). SLOCUM, A. W., Chicago, 111.: Small collection of fresh-water shells from Crooked Lake, Bay View, Mich., and post-glacial shells and marl from Mud Lake, Mich. (65444). SMALL, Hon. John M., House of Rep- resentatives, Washington, D. C. : Silver loving cup presented in 1920 by the Chinese Chamber of Com- merce, Peking, China, to a party of American Congressmen (of which Mr. Small was chairman) on a tour through China and Japan (6616S, deposit). SMITH, Mrs. F. M., Baltimore, Md. : Sword, sash, and 4 belts owned dur- ing the Civil War by Bvt. Capt. Frank M. Smith, First Maryland Volunteers (65536). SMITH, G. E. (See under Royal T5T)ewriter Co. (Inc.).) SMITH, Dr. Hugh M.] Bureau of Fish- eries, Washington, D. C. : A series of specimens illustrating the chank industry of India (65643). SMITH, J. A., Canon City, Colo.: Specimen of fossil brachiopod from the Manitou limestone, near Canon City, Colo. (65855). SMITH, Capt. John Donnell, Balti- mox'e, Md. : 10 plants from Nica- ragua, collected by A. Tonduz (66114). S:MITH, Mrs. Margaret A. S., New York City (through Rear Admiral R. H. Jackson, U. S. Navy) : Plaster death mask of Rear Admiral Wil- liam T. Sampson, U. S. Navy (1840- 1902) (66759). SMITH, Miss Maby, Areola, Va. : Double egg of a domestic fowl (66369). S^IITH, Miss Olga, Honolulu, Hawaii : 48 si)ecimens, 36 species, of Hawaiian marine shells (65494) ; 36 specimens, representing 5 species of land shells from the island of Oahu, Hav/aii (65597). SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION : An oil painting representing the Pterodactyl Ornithostoma (65185) ; iron wedge used by Abraham Lincoln when a resi- dent of New Salem, 111., 1830- 1834, and given by him to his instructor in surveying, Mentor Graham (65826) ; 2 bronze re- plicas of the medal designed by A. Bonnetain, 1919, in commemo- ration of the services of Marie Depage and Edith Cavell (65828) ; oil portrait of Rear Ad- miral William Harkness, U. S. Navy, and gold chronometer owned by him (65847) ; about 6,000 Cambrian fossils (66540) ; bronze medal commemorating the centennial anniversary of the University of Virginia, 1921 (66628, deposit). Smithsonian African expedition under the direction of Edmund Heller in conjunction tvith the Universal Film Manufacturing Co. (collected by H. C. Raven) : 5 mammals, 3 birds, 3 rep- tiles, and 1 fish (65475) ; collec- tion of mammals, birds, reptiles, mollusks, and insects (65771) ; collection of mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, mollusks, insects, and 3 vials of helminths from East Africa (65961) ; collection of mammals, birds, reptiles, fishes, mollusks, insects, and helminths from East Africa (66059) ; collection of parasites, insects, and a lizard (66097). Bureau of American Ethnology: Skull, bones, and lower jaw, found at a village site near Gatesville, Tex., and presented to Dr. J. W. Fewkes in April, 188 REPORT OF NATIONAL, MUSEUM, 1921. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION— Continued. Bureau of American Ethnology — Continued. 1919 (65334) ; archeological specimens and liuman bones found at Indian Hill, Fla., sent to tlie Bureau by Mr. Charles T. Earle, Palma Sola, Fla. (65551) ; stone arrow polisher, presented to the Bureau of American Ethnology by Dr. Walter Roth, of Georgetown, British Guiana (65625) ; arch- eological material collected in the spring of 1920 in northwest- ern Arizona and southwestern Utah by Mr. Neil M. Judd (65764) ; a pseudo .stone imple- ment of limestone found by Rev. E. N. Kremer, Harrisburg, Pa., in the vicinity of Camphill, Cumberland County, Pa., and presented by him to the Bureau (65795) ; 8 human skulls and a quantity of human bones col- lected by Dr. J. W. Fewkes from the Fire Temple group of ruins on the Mesa Verde Na- tional Park, Colo., during the summer of 1920 (66011) ; 25 skeletons collected during the summer of 1920 from the Fewkes and Gordon Mounds near Nashville, Tenn., by Mr. William E. Myer, of Nashville (66115) ; archeological material collected by Mr. J. A. Jeancon for the Bureau of American Ethnology from a ruin near Taos, N. Mex., in the summer of 1920 (66156) ; antique Russian ax head found at Port Graham, Alaska, in 1913 (66290). National Museum, collected by members of the staff: Bassler, R. S. : 10 slabs of fossils illus- trating an Ordovician sea beach (65819). Foshag, W. F. : Col- lection of minerals from Cali- fornia, obtained in May, 1920 ( 65416 ) . Gidley, J. W. : 14 speci- mens of cacti (66191, 66324) ; 16 plants (66390) ; collection of SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION— Continued. National Museum — Continued, vertebrate remains — mostly mammalian — representing a new Pliocene fauna, from the San Pedro and Sulphur Springs Val- leys, Ariz. (66702) ; a large slab containing numerous fossil bones from the " bone quarry " at Agate, Nebr. (66703). Gil- more, C. W. : A small collection of mammalian fossUs from Santa Fe Marls, near Espanola, N. Mex. (66610). Hough, Wal- ter, a small collection of inverte- brate fossils from Polacca, Hopi Reservation, Ariz. (65244) ; archeological material collected at Polacca, Ariz., during the summer of 1920 (65301). Maxon, William R. : 75 plants from New York, Maryland, and Virginia (65306). Walcott, Charles D. : Skin and skull of a mule deer, Odocoileus, 2 goats, Oreamnos, and a porcupine, Erethizon, collected in Alberta, Canada (65897). National Museum, oMained by purchase: Bronze medal com- memorating the achievements of the American Red Cross War Council, 1917-1919 (2 speci- mens) (66212) ; medal of honor, distinguished service cross, and distinguished service medal, of the type awarded by the United States Navy Department for services during the World War, 1917-18 (65766) ; 3 prints show- ing 3 states of the etching of plate No. 183. "Shoveller Drake" (66728); 112 Mexican plants, collected by C. A. Pur- pus (65799) ; silver Indian peace medals (6 specimens) (66770) ; 112 plants from Painted Desert, Ariz. (65761) ; 109 Uganda plants (65254, 66389) ; 225 specimens of Mis- souri Lower Devonian fossils (65971) ; collection of bees con- taining 222 specimens, 150 LIST OF ACCESSIONS. 189 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION— Continued. National Museum — Continued, species, of which 72 are para- types (65466) ; 98 beetles of the family Tenebriouidae, including cotypes of 64 species (65486) ; '90 plants from Kamerun (65198, 65309) ; effigy jar made by the so - called mound builders (66459) ; 1,838 plants collected by Mr. E. H. Wilson, in eastern Asia (66129) ; 394 Chinese plants collected in Yunnan by Schoch, and 400 Chinese plants collected by Purdon (66326) ; 250 plants from Yunnan, China, collected by Simeon Ten (66365) ; 729 plants from Para- guay (65553) ; 160 plants from Oregon and California (66317) ; 25 mosses (66342) ; paper cur- rency of the type issued in Ger- many and Austria during the World War, 1914-1918 (450 specimens) (65292) ; 6 volcanic rocks from Hegau and Schem- nitz (66126) ; a fossil elephant skull (65481) ; 579 specimens of Diptera, including 215 types and cotypes (66060) ; patchwork quilt, specimens of Javanese cot- ton fabric, and 2 specimens of printed India calico (65628) ; 2 United States silver half dol- lars commemorating the Pilgrim Tercentenary, 1920 (65607) ; foreign postage stamps issued 1914-1920 (688 specimens) (65378) ; 250 plants from Ecua- dor (65290) ; exhibition slab of Silurian crinoids (66693) ; bronze commemorative medals of the World Vv'ar, 1914-1918 (9 specimens) (66112) ; 5 lamps (66046) ; 24 specimens of carved ivory from Africa (66589) ; 3 specimens of minerals consisting of maucherite, phosphosiderite, and klaprothite (66008). National Museum, made in the Anthropological Labo ratory : Plaster casts (in triplicate) of a stone pipe found on the south SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION— Continued. National Museum — Continued, bank of Snake River in Gar- field County , Wash., original furnished by Mr. E. W. Gibson, of Pomeroy, Wash, (65438) ; 4 plaster casts of medicine or pigment plate, the original of which is the property of Mr. A. G. Curtis, Prescott, Ariz. (66175) : 2 plaster casts of an old Indian pipe, the original of which is in the custody of Mr. Edward Butts, curator. Library Museum, Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, Mo. (66289) ; 3 plaster casts of jad- eite "Bird God" (Tuxtla statu- ette) (66325) ; 2 plaster casts of a celt from Brazil, original the property of Dr. H. S. Washing- ton, Geophysical Laboratory, Washington, D. C. (66668). National Museum, made in the Me- ohanical Technology Laboratory: Model of Leonard da Vinci's aircraft 1490 A. D., made from da Vinci's own notes, scale one- fourth (65503) ; model of Hen- sen's "Aerial steam carriage " (66366). National Zoological Park: Griffon vulture. Gyps ftdvus, crowned crane, Balearica pavonia, 2 speci- mens of European robin, Eri- thaous rubecula, 3 specimens of red-billed hilltit, Liothrix luteus, mute swan, Cygnus gibbus, up- land goose, Chloephaga leucop- tera, scarlet ibis, Ouara rubra, whistling swan, Olor columbi- anis, spur-winged goose, Pleo- tropterus gambensis, Australian crested pigeon, Ocyphaps lo- photes, and egg of king vulture, Sarcoramphus papa (65237) ; skin and skeleton of a deer, Mazama simplicicornis, and skin and skeleton of a rat, Myocastor coypus (65337) ; young lion, Felis leo (65603) ; bandicoot, Perameles nasuta (alcoholic), kangaroo, Petrogale penicillata 190 REPORT OF ISTATIONAL, MUSEUM, 1921. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION— Continued. Natalonal Zoological Park — Con. (alcoholic), skull of a coyote, Canis latrans, and skin and skull of a kangaroo, Macropus gigan- teus (65804) ; skin and skull of a fox squirrel, Sciurus niger, and skin and skeleton of a sooty paca, CuniouJus paca (65941) ; golden pheasant, Chrysolophus pictiis, little brown crane, Grus canadensis (2 specimens) ; white eyed duck, Nyroca nyroca, kea parrot, 'Nestor notabilis, white- faced tree-duck, Dendrocygna viduata, sultana, Porphyria cal- vus, scarlet ibis, Ouara. rubra (2 specimens) ; roseate spoon- bill, Ajaja ajaja (6G042) ; skin and skull of a goat, Oreamnos montanus, and a monkey, Ala^ caca rhesus (alcoholic) (66088); egg of the large Indian paro- quet, Conurus n ep al ensis (66178) ; skin and skeleton of a hunting dog, Lycaon pictus (66265) ; skin and skeleton of a monkey, Papio ham,adryas, skin and skeleton of a bandicoot, Peramelcs nasuta, and a nine- banded armadillo, Dasypus nov- emcinctus (alcoholic) (66566) ; piping-crow-shrike, Gymnorhina tibicen, and a sun - bittern, Eurypyga helias (66624). SODERSTROM, LuDOVic, Quito, Ecua- dor : Bulbs of 2 species of plants from Ecuador (65431). SOHNER, Harey L., Washington, D. C. : Indian chief's beaded coat from Valdez, Alaska (66029). SOLIS, Seiior Dr. Octavio, Mexico City, Mexico : 3 plants from Mexico (66412, exchange) ; 3 plants (cacti) from Mexico (66516). SOMMER, Dr. H. Otto, Washington, D. C: A love flute of the Ute In- dians, Ute Mt., S. E. Colorado (65316). SOUTH DAKOTA, UNIVERSITY OF, Department of Geology, Vermillion, S. Dak. (through Prof. Freeman SOUTH DAKOTA, UNIVERSITY OF — Continued. Ward, State Geologist) : Skeletal material, consisting of 3 complete skeletons, 11 skulls, and a few mis- cellaneous bones, excavated and col- lected by the University of South Dakota in connection with the State Geological Natural History Survey, from the old Arikara and Mandan village sites on the flood plains of the Missouri River in South Dakota (65650) ; 140 plants from South Da- kota (65744). SOUTHERN COAL, COKE & MINING CO., St. Louis, Mo. : Jawbone with teeth intact of the fossil shark, Edestus heinrichsii, from the Shiloh mine, near Shiloh, 111. (65964). SPAULDING, Irwin, Honolulu, Ha- waii : 85 specimens, 69 species, of marine shells from the Hawaiian Islands (65500). SPIER, George W., Chevy Chase, Md. : English silver watch, about 200 years old, marked on the works " G. Windle, London, #3926" (65613); French silver watch marked "L'Epine a Paris," and an English silver watch, " Charles Dunning, London " (65646) ; lady's gold watch, Swiss make, 1860; gold watch, en- graved gold dial, English make, 1840 ; silver double-case watch, Irish make, 1760; silver double-case watch, English make, 1820, and old- time gold watch key (66499). SPITZKA, Dr. Edward Anthony, Bu- reau of War Risk Insurance, Wash- ington, D. C. : Human brains, ethno- logical and archeological specimens, shells, fossils, minerals, and 11 echinoderms (66608, 66609). SPRINGER, Dr. Frank, East Las Vegas, N. Mex. : Samples of molyb- denite, from near East Las Vegas (66152). SQUIBB & SONS, E. R., New York City: 15 specimens of pharmaceu- tical preparations (66203). STAHEL, Dr. Gerold, Paramaribo, Surinam : 3 specimens of cacti from Surinam (65392). LIST OF ACCESSIONS. 191 STANBROUGH, William Monell, Custodian, Falls House Memorial Collection, Newburgh, N. Y. : Cast of fragment of carved soapstone Indian head (G5853). STANDLEY, J. E., Seattle, Wash.: Freak tooth of a walrus from the Arctic region (65489). STANLEY-BROWN, Mrs. G., James R. GARFIELD, Dr. Harey A. GAR- FIELD, Abkam GARFIELD, and Irwin McD. GARFIELD (through Mrs. G. Stanley-Brown, Kew Gar- dens, Long Island, N. Y.) : Lavender satin dress worn by Mrs. Lucretia A. Garfield at the inaugural ball on the occasion of the inauguration of her husband. President James A. Gar- field, in 1881 (66111). STANTON, Dr. T. W. ( See under Al- bert L. Beekly, and R. K. Thomas. ) STAPLES, A. H., Douglas, Ga. : Fossil teeth of mammoth, mastodon, and shark (66671). STARR, Douglas N., Washington, D. C. : Gold, nickel, and silver coins of the United States, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, and China (17 speci- mens) (65457, loan) ; 2 United States silver half dollars commemo- rating the Pilgrim Tercentenary, 1920 (65575, loan) ; United States and German coins issued 1834-1913 (8 specimens) (65656, loan) ; a Fili- pino spearhead from Luzon, an In- dian spearhead from Montana, an Indian-made fx*ontier knife, and a pair of Sioux moccasins (65843) ; United States silver half dime issued in 1795, Bechtler gold dollar, and a United States twenty-dollar gold piece issued in 1850 (66554, loan). STATE DEPARTMENT: Bronze re- plicas (set in marble) of the obverse and reverse of the gold medal of honor presented by the Italian Na- tional Committee, founded for that purpose, to King Victor Emanuel III as commander in chief of the army and navy, as a national testimonial of the deeds of heroism and sacrifice performed by the Italian people dur- ing the World War (65545). (See also under Bartolomew Mc- Intire, and Ernest B. Price.) 71305°— 21 13 STEEPLES, Dan P., Sumner, Wash.: A large sheet of " fungus paper," the mycellium of the quinine fungus. Pomes laricis, taken from a cavity in a 4-foot Douglas fir at Hillsboro, Oreg., 1893 (66764). STEVENS, Prof. O. A., Agricultural College, N. Dak. : 15 plants from North Dakota (65687) ; 10 named specimens of bees representing 6 species, of which 4 are represented by types (65796). STEWART, Don, Oruro, Bolivia (through Mr. F. L. Hess) : Speci- men of wolframite from the Con de Auqui district, Bolivia (66150). STEWART, R. R., Gordon College, Rawalpindi, India (through Miss Katherine D. Kimball, Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.) : 32 specimens of Himalayan ferns (66293). STILL, Dr. George A., Kirksville, Mo. : Bust and medallion of Dr. Andrew Taylor Still, founder of osteopathy (66537). STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN. (See under Riksmuseets Botaniska Avdelning.) STOW, Norman C, Washington, D. C. : Pair of epaulets worn by Col. E. W. Chastain, Eighth Georgia Regiment, Confederate States Army, during the Civil War (66506, loan). STUBBS, Dr. A. R., Tampico, Mexico (through Department of Commerce, Bureau of Fisheines, Washington, D. C.) : 9 specimens of fish, 0am- husia nicaraguensis, from Tuxpam, Mexico (66553). SUFFERN, Robert A., Plainfield, N. J. : Small collection of Pleistocene shells from a marl bed at Marks- boro, N. J. (65917). SUKSDORF, W. N., Bingen, Wash.: 14 plants, Selaginella, chiefly from the western United States (66044.) SULLIVANT MOSS SOCIETY, THE, New York City (through Mr. Ed- ward B. Chamberlain) : 60 mosses ( QQ495, exch a nge ) . SUMMERS, Mrs. Maddin, Washington, D, C. (through Mrs. R. G. Hoes: Laces, bed spread, and pillow shams (11 specimens) (66771, loan). 192 REPORT OF INATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. SURR, GoKDON, San Bernardino, Calif. : 2 varieties of minerals, as- bolite and alexandrolite (?), from Tulare County, Calif. (65882). SWALES, B. H., U. S. National Mu- seum: 13 bird skins from the Old World representing species mostly new to the Museum (65595) ; egg of emu, Dromiceius novaeliollandiae (66179) ; 8 bird skins, mostly new to the Museum collections (66276) ; 20 bird skins from the Old World (66701). SWART S, Clifton R., Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico : Living cactus from Mexico (66519). SWASEY, Ambrose, Cleveland, Ohio: Bronze portrait plaque of the donor designed by Victor D. Brenner, 1915 (66081). SWISHER, C. Lee: An exhibition specimen of Devonian starfish from Tucker County, W. Va. (65629). SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA. (See under Austra- lian Museum.) TABER, Prof. Stephen, University of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C. (through Dr. T. Wayland Vaughan) : Fossil coral from Swan Island, West Indies (66479). TABOR, I. C, Danbury, Wis.: Moth. Telea polyphemus (66677). TAUNAY, A. d'E. (See under Museu Paulista, and Dr. R. W. Shufeldt.) TAYLOR, Mrs. Frances Long, Athens, Ga. (through Miss Katherine Woot- ten, Washington, D. C.) : Printed documents relating to the first use of ether as an anaesthetic in surgery in 1842 by Dr. Crawford W. Long (65997) ; articles and documents re- lating to the life and career of Dr. Crawford W. Long, the first to use ether as an anaesthetic in surgery (66216, loan). TAYLOR, Capt. William, Granbury, Tex. : Cast from the interior of a fossil raollusk (66104). TEXAS, UNIVERSITY OF, Austin, Tex. : Specimen of the Throup, Tex., meteorite (65858, deposit). THOIVIAS, R. K., Navajo, Ariz, (through Dr. T. W. Stanton) : Specimens of mollusks, Oreohelix utahensis, from Hardscrabble Draw, near Zuni Sacred Lake, Apache County, Ariz. (66646). THOMPSON, Charles A., Hillsdale, Mich. : Specimen of the fossil cephalopod, Huronm (66073). THOMPSON, Dr. Lewis R., Fincastle, Va. : Bat, reptiles, and insects col- lected in the southwestern part of the Hunan Province, China (65432) ; (through the American Consul, Changsha. China) original photo- graph showing poppy field in bloom (65546) ; 9 bees and wasps and 15 reptiles and amphibians (66079). THOMPSON, Mrs. Otto, Glacier Park, Mont. : 21 plants from Montana (65204). THORNBER, Prof. J. J., University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz. : Cactus from Arizona (65891). THORNTON, C. W., Nome, Alaska: 35 plants from Alaska (65707). THORPE, Col. G. C, U. S. Marine Corps, Washington, D. C. : Speci- mens from Santo Domingo, in eth- nology, ceramics, American arche- ologj', and mechanical technology. (66707, loan). TILLES, George, Jr., Wilmington, N. C. : 2 living specimens of Venus's fly-trap, Dionaea miiscipula, from ' North Carolina (66508). TILLYARD, Dr. R. J., Nelson, New Zealand: 6 specimens of rare two- winged flies from New Zealand, in- cluding two named species (65462). (See also under Cawthron Insti- tute of Scientific Research, the). TIMBERLAKE, P. H., Honolulu, Ha- waii : 32 specimens of determined Opiinae, representing 5 species, with para types of one (65768). (See also under Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association, Experi- ment Station.) TINSLEY, R. W., Southwestern Uni- versity, Georgetown, Tex. : Skin of a bridled weasel, Mustela frenata (66581). LIST OF ACCESSIOjSTS. 193 TITTLE, Walter, New York City: 2 dry-point artist-proof etcliings from life of President Harding (profile and full face), by the donor (66547). TOLMAN, R. P., U. S. National Mu- seum: 5 photographs (portraits) by jM. B. Brady and GO silver prints, plain (portraits) (65330) ; a photo- graph of General Sherman, by M. B. Brady (65556). TONDUZ, Seiior Don A., San Jose, Costa Rica: Cactus from Costa Rica, and 2 plants, Ficus, from Cen- tral America (66005, 66183). (See also under Guatemala.) TORONTO, UNIVERSITY OF, Bio- logical Department, Toronto, Can- ada (through A. H. Leim) : 20 spec- imens, 3 species, of amphipods from Nova Scotia (66529). TORRE, D. Carlos, de la, University of Habana, Habana, Cuba : 8 speci- mens representing 2 species of tei-- restrial isopods from Cuba (65206). TOTHILL, John. (See under Cana- dian Government, Department of Agriculture.) TOTTEN, Maj. George Oakley, Jr., Washington, D. C. : 2 specimens of the l^'ucatan goldfinch, AstragaUnus psaltria joiiyi, from Merida, Yuca- tan (66355). TREADWELL, Prof. A. L., Vassar College, Poughkeep.sie, N. Y. (through Carnegie Institution of Washington) : 2 marine mollusks, Cryptoplax oculatus, from Samoa (65815) ; 2 specimens of a myrio- pod, Leodice rubro-vittata, from To- bago, British West Indies (66136). TREASURY DEPARTMENT: Bureau of Internal Revenue 14 specimens of opium products (65756). TREMPER, Dr. R. H., Los Angeles, Calif. : 6 land shells, Epiphragmo- phora traskii zechae, from Califor- nia (66525). TRUE, W. J., East Falls Church, Va. : Snake fro'm East Falls Church (66446). TSUDA, Miss Ume : Brass crucifix from Italy (66709). TWEED, Mrs. Mary R., Washington, D. C. : Child's doll and lady's bonnet of 1850 (65905). TYLOR, J. E., Washington, D. C. : Congo eel, Amphiiima means, from Fort Myers, Fla. (66496). UKRAINE, THE FRIENDS OF, Washington, D. C. (through the Post Office Department) : Postage stamps of the Ukrainian People's Republic (14 specimens) (66236) ; (through the Library of Congress) postage stamps of the Ukranian People's Re- public (14 specimens) (66254). ULKE, Titus, Washington, D. C. : A framed portrait of Lord Elgin taken in 1855 by Henry Ulke, one of the first photographic portraits worked up in water color and Indian ink (66555, loan) ; through F. V. Co- ville ; 5 plants from the vicinity of Washmgton, D. C. (66678) ; 2 plants from the vicinity of Washington, D. C. (66700). ULREY, Dr. A. B. ( See under Venice Marine Biological Station.) ULRICH, Dr. E. O. (See under Dr. W. O. Hotclikiss.) UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS, Washington, D. C. : Bronze statue, entitled " Crusading for the Right," designed by Charles Raphael Peyre, in commemoration of the services of the United States Marines at the battle of Chateau-Thierry (65733). UNITED STATES PHARMACO- POEIAL CONVENTION (INC.), BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF (through Dr. E. Fullerton Cook, Chairman of the Revision Commit- tee, Philadelphia, Pa.) : Manuscripts, proofs, and historical documents re- lating to the Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Revision of the United States Pharmacopoeia (65788) ; (through Dr. Murray Gait Motter, Washing- ton, D. C.) : A typewritten copy of the Proceedings of the Seventh, Eighth, and Tenth Decennial Con- ventions of the U. S. Pharmacopoeial Convention (Inc.), for the Revision of the U. S. Pharmacopoeia (66344, deposit). 194 EEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. UNIVERSAL FILM MANUFACTUR- ING CO., New York City : Copies of the films of the picture " Ship- wrecked Among the Cannibals " (66207). (See also under Smithsonian In- stitution. ) UPPERCU, iNGLis M., New York City : Gasoline automobile, the sec- ond machine designed and con- structed by Charles E. Duryea, and tested on the road early in Septem- ber, 1893 (65715). VANATTA, E. G., Philadelphia, Pa.: 6 mollusks, Opeas pumiUum, living in decayed boards of fences in Phil- adelphia (65202). VAN ESELTINE, G. P., Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, AVashington, D. C. : 64 plants, chiefly from the United States (65802). (See also under S. B. Parish, and Pomona College.) VAN ZWALUWENBURG, R. H., U. S. Entomological Laboi*atory, Stone- henge, Charlottesville, Va. : 4 type specimens of a beetle, Melanotus hyslopi (66463). VAUGHAN, Dr. T. Wayland, U. S. Geological Survey, Washington, D. C. : 150 specimens, 18 lots, of land and fresh-water shells from Mexico (66460). (See also under J. A. BuUbrook, E. De Golyer, and Prof, Stephen Taber.) VAUPEL, F., Botanisches Garten, Dali- lem, Berlin, Germany : Plant, cactus, from Peru (65680). VEATCH, Chaeles, Kansas City, Mo. : Mollusk, Tellina idae, collected by the donor in the vicinity of Long Beach, Calif. (66667). VENICE MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Calif, (through Dr. A. B. Ulrey) : 10 plus specimens, 3 species, including the type of 2 new species of parasitic copepods from fishes in the aquaria at the Venice Marine Biological Station (65617) ; a collection of VENICE MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION— Continued, mollusks, hydroids, trematodes, bryozoans, echinoderms, and salpa collected in the vicinity of the Venice Marine Biological Station off southern California (65631). VONSEN, M., Petaluma, Calif.: 16 specimens of minerals from Cali- fornia (65219) ; specimen of selenite in colemtmite, from Borate, Calif. (66627). Exchange. WAITE, M. B., Bureau of Plant In- dustry, U. S. Department of Agricul- ture, Washington, D. C. : Plant from Maryland (65774). WALCOTT, Mrs. Charles D., Wash- ington, D. C. : 3 specimens of lichens from Alberta, Canada (65944) ; 3 plants, Trillium (66514). WALFORD, Edwin A., F. G. S., West Bar, Banbury, England : 28 speci- mens of fossil invertebrates from the neighborhood of Banbury, England (65257). WALKER, H. Edward, Baltimore, Md. : 464 miscellaneous microscopic mounts of natural history objects in mahogany slide case, 1 small re- ducing lens for use with microscope, and 1 stone ax (65279). WALKER MUSEUM. ( See under Chi- cago, University of.) WALKER, Robert S., Chattanooga, Tenn. : Gall from Tennessee (65308). WALKER, Mrs. William H., Wash- ington, D. C. (through Mrs. R. G. Hoes) : Articles of infant's costume from the Walker family of Washing- ton, period of 1815-30 (65459, loan). WALLING, Harry (through Charles T. Earle, Palma Sola, Fla.) : 10 specimens of fossil bones from the east coast of Tampa Bay, Manatee County, Fla. (66353). WAR DEPARTMENT: General Staff of the United States Army: Historical Branch: 5 re- productions on tracing paper, actual size, of character sketches found on the walls' of a German dugout in the Mont-Sec region, France, by the American Expe- ditionary Forces, 1918 (65479). < LIST OF ACCESSIONS. 195 WAR DEPARTMENT— Continued. Air Service: Specimens represent- ing 4 standard grades of cotton and linen airplane and balloon fabrics, together witli samples of converted balloon and air- plane cloth (65668) ; chemicals used in watei"proofing and fire- proofing airplane wings (22 specimens) (65813) ; military airplane engines of the type used during the World War (8 speci- mens) (66743). Motor Transport Corps: 2 German motor trucks and a German trac- tor captured by American Expe- ditionary Forces in 1918 during the World War (65361). Ordnance, Office of the Chief of: Progress boards illustrating the manufacture of military explo- sives used during the World War (7 specimens) (65515, loan ) . Quartermaster General, Office of: Wound certificate and death cer- tificate of the type used by the War Department in recognition of services during the World War, 1914-1918 (65299) ; United States Army medals and decora- tions (14 specimens), also 2 victory ribbon bars (65340) ; United States Army nurse's uni- form and insignia (21 speci- mens) (65469) ; United States Army standard B truck with accessories (66043) ; uniform and equipment of Dutch infan- tryman, period of the World War, 1914-1918 (66239). Signal Corps: Carrier pigeon Cher Ami which flew from American lofts during the World War and died June 13, 1919, from the effects of a wound received in action in France (65696) ; 99 sepia bromide enlargements (65878) ; 109 Brady Civil War photographs (65879). (See also under British Gov- ernment.) WARD, Prof. Freeman. (See under South Dakota, University of.) WARDS NATURAL SCIENCE ES- TABLISHMENT, Rochester, N. T. : 2 examples of the Forsyth County, N. C, meteoric iron, and 1 of Chin- autla, Guatemala (65375) ; a crystal of blue zircon from Queensland, AustraUa (65606) ; 100 Ordovician fossils from Nevada (65727) ; skull and lower jaw of an elephant, and a tooth of an elephant from the Pleis- tocene at Otranto, Italy (65824) ; 62 specimens of minerals (65825) ; a small collection of Ste. Genevieve fossils from Fountain Creek, near Waterloo, 111. (66127) ; .skull of the fossil reptile, Stephanosaurus, (66153) ; specimen of lapiz lazuli from Persia (66180) ; 3 trilobites from the Devonian of Gerolstein (66219) ; a kilogram of uraninite from Bohemia (66669) : Exchange. WARNER, Maj. Mxjkkay (through his widow Mrs. Margaret E. Warner), Eugene, Oreg. : Collection of objects of Buddhist religious art (66533). WARREN, Mrs. J. Keakny, New York City (through Mrs. Julian- James, Washington, D. C.) : Cluny lace sun- shade with ivory handle (66539, loan). WASHINGTON, Chables S., U. S. Na- tional Museum: 10 crustaceans, 50 insects, 6 frogs, and 2 lizards col- lected by the donor at Hopkins, Richland Count.v, S. C. (65533). WASHINGTON, Dr. H. S., Geophysi- cal Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D. C. : A columbite crystal from ( ?) Had- dam. Conn. (65711) ; specimen of aphthitalite from Kilauea, Hawaii (65857) ; specimen of rhyolite from Sardinia (65894) ; 2 analyzed speci- mens of augite (66047). (See also under Prof. T. A. Jag- ger.) WATERSON, James. (See under British Government, Imperial Bu- reau of Entomology.) WATSON, Mrs. H. W., Pinos Altos, N. Mex. : 3 prayer sticks from a cave in Steamboat Canon, near Pinos Altos (65417). 196 REPORT or NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. WATSON, J. R. (See under Florida, University of, Agricultural Experi- ment Station.) WEED, Mrs, Charles R., Seat Pleasant Station, Washington, D. O. : Wool spinning wheel, yarn reel, Virginia- gi-own raw flax, 3 willow baskets, and 2 candle molds (65709). WEEKS PHOTO-ENGRAVING CO., Philadelphia, Pa.; 6 prints made from electrically etched copper plate (G6607). WEIK, Kakl W., Lakeside, Conn.: Specimen of igneous rock from Lakeside (66182). WEIR, Dr. James R., LaboratoiT of Forest Pathology, Spokane, Wash.: Plant, Selaginella, from Washington (65288). WELD, L. H., Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. : 517 specimens of gall-making wasps, Cynipidae, rep- resenting 34 new species, described by the donor (65491) ; 30 determined Cynipidae, representing 9 species, 6 of which are cotypes (6G751). WESTLAKE, S. R., Ironwood, Mich.: 12 specimens of iron minerals from Ironwood (66313, exchange). WETMORE, Dr. Alexander. (See under Dr. Edwyn P. Reed.) WEYHER, W. H., Alta, Utah (through Victor C. Heikes) : Specimen largely of bismuthinite from the Sells mine, Alta, Utah (65666). WHERRY, Dr. Edgar T., Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. Department of Agri- culture, Washington, D. C. : Speci- men showing glauberite crystal cavities in shale, from York County, Pa. (65269) ; 30 ferns from the east- ern United States (65688) ; plant from Maryland (65724) ; plant, Sela- ginella, from Maryland (66557) ; 2 plants from the District of Columbia (66641, 66698). (See also under P. B. Arnold.) WHITALL TATUM CO., Philadelphia, Pa. : 6 pieces of pharmaceutical ap- paratus (65273) ; a suppository ma- chine with a set of molds (65353) ; 7 specimens of pharmaceutical equip- ment (65716). WHITE, Mrs. John Jay, New York City: 2 mounted heads of African antelopes, Oreotragiis (65490, de- posit). WHITE, Capt. S. A., Wetunga, Ful- ham, South Australia: 2 bird skins, Apheloccphala pectoralis, and A. nkiricincta, both species new to the Museum collections (65382). WHITFORD, H. N., School of Fores- try, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. : Plant, Cordia, from Mexico (65890). WICKHAM, H. F,, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa: 11 beetles from the Bahama Islands (65357). WIEGAND, Prof. K. M. (See under New York State College of Agricul- ture. ) WILDER, Dr. George D., American Board Mission, Peking, China: 18 bird skins from North China (66651). WILLETT, G., Wrangel, Alaska: 4 mollusks and 3 foraminifera from Forrester Island, Alaska (65611). WILLIAMS, Col. Charles A., U. S. Army (retired), Washington, D. C. : Myriopods (65623). WILLIAMS COLLEGE, Williamstown, Mass. (through Dr. H. A. Garfield, President) : Bronze medal of the type awarded in 1919 by Williams College to all Williams men in good standing, who served in the Army or Navy of the United States, or any of the Allies during the World War (2 specimen s ) ( 65708 ) . WILLIAMS, Dr. Francis X. (See under Hawaiian Sugar Planters' As- sociation.) WILLIAMSON, E. B., Bluffton, Ind. : 26 dragon-flies and damsel flies from the United States, also food of 3 species (65463) ; skull of a bat, Arti- heus jamaicensis, from Rio Frio, Colombia (66354) ; 61 dragon-flies (664S5). WILLIAMSON, Thomas N., Graham, Va. : Pigeon hawk, Falco colum- barius, from Virginia (65468). WILLIS, Mrs. Lewis, Beahm, Va.: Horned grebe, Colymbus auritus, from Virginia (65942). LIST OF ACCESSIONS. 197 WILLYS-OVERLAND CO., Toledo, Ohio: One sectional Willys-Knight one-cylindei- gasoline motor (operat- ing), sliowing the sleeve valves and other working parts in operative re- lation (66187). WILSON, Miss Margaret, AVashiug- ton, D. C. : Dress of Ellen Louise W^ilson, first wife of President Wood- row Wilson, worn during his first administration, 19ia-1917 (66384, loan). WINSLOW, Prof. E. J. Aubumdale, Mass. : Plant, Lycopod'mm sabinae- foUum, from Vermont (66647). WINTERS, Fred E., Santa Barbara, Calif.: 14 specimens of water- beetles from Santa Barbara and Pasadena, Calif. (66130, exchange). WISCONSIN, UNIVERSITY OF, De- partment of Geology, Madison, Wis. (through Prof. C. K. Leith) : Sam- ples of greenalite from Mesabi dis- trict, Minn. (66585). WOMAN'S LIBERTY LOAN COM- MITTEE OF NEW ENGLAND (through Mrs. F. L. Higginson, Bos- ton, Mass.) : 2 paintings by Arthur M. Hazard, entitled " Not by Might " and "The Spirit of the Armistice" used in connection with the Fourth United States Liberty Loan, and the United States and Canadian Victory loans (66470). WOODIN, J. F., Lexa, Ark. : Male In- dian skull and female Indian lower jaw (66527). WOOTTEN, Miss Katherine. (See under Mrs. Frances Long Taylor.) WORCH, Hugo, Washington, D. C: Dulcitone from Glasgow, Scotland (65482) ; 11 pianos (65928) ; Bach harpsichord (66271) ; grand piano made by Andrg Stein, Vienna, Aus- tria (66705). WORSTALL, Lawrence, Millville, N. J. (through E. H. Sithens) : Co- lumbia "ordinary" bicycle (66456). WYND, J. L., Fall Creek, Oreg. : 10 plants from Oregon (66737). YALE UNIVERSITY, PEABODY MU- SEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, New Haven, Conn, (through Prof. Charles Schuchert) : Specimens of Miocene (?) fossils from Zorritos, northern Peru, collected by Dr. E. T. Nelson (66098). YAZOO COMMERCIAL CLUB, Yazoo City, Miss. : Fossilized lower jaw of a mastodon (65589). YOSHIDA, Dr. Sadao: About 300 specimens of fresh-water mollusks, Blanfordia nosoplwra, from Kurume, Kyushi, Japan, the intermediate host of ScMstosomum japonicum (65637). ZETEK, J., Ancon, Canal Zone: 10 vials of miscellaneous beetles (65918). ZEVERIJN, S. W. (See under Dr. M. Kerbosch. ) ZOOLOGICAL MUSEUM. (See under Copenhagen, Denmark.) ZOOLOGISK MUSEUM, UNIVER- SITY. (See under Christiania, Nor- way.) ZUNDEL, George L., State College, Pullman, Wash.: 21 fungi (66315, exchange). I LIST OF PAPEES BY MEMBEKS OF THE IVIUSEUM STAFF AND OTHERS, BASED DIEECTLY OE INDIEECTLY ON MATEEIAL IN THE NATIONAL COLLECTIONS, PUB- LISHED BY THE I^mSEUM AND ELSEWHEEE DUEING THE FISCAL YEAE 192(>-1921.i ALDRICH, J. M. Coloradia paudora Blake, a moth of which the cater- pillar is used as food by Moua Lake Indians. Annals Ent, Soc. Amer., vol. 14, no. 1, Mar. 1921, pp. 36-38. The Muscoid genera Pseudeu- antha and Uramvia (Diptera). Insecutor Inscitiae Men- struiis, vol. 9, nos. 4— 6, Apr.-June, 1921, pp. 83-92. The anthomyiid senus Athe- rlgona in America (Diptera). Insecutor Inscitiae Men- struus, vol. 9, nos. 4- 6, Apr.-June, 1921, pp. 93-98, fig. 2. (See also under M. C. Van BARBOUR, THOMAS. Some reptiles from Old Providence Island. Proc. Ncto Eng. Zool. Club, vol. 7, May 6, 1921, pp. 81-85. and G. K. NOBLE. Amphi- bians and reptiles from southern Peru collected by the Peruvian ex- pedition of 1914-15 under the aus- pices of Yale University and the Na- tional Geographic Society. Proe. U. 8. Nat. Mus., vol. .58, no. 2352, Jan. 6, 1921, pp. 609- 620. BARTSCH, PAUL. A new shipworm. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash- ington, vol. 33, July 24, 1920, pp. 69, 70. The west American mollusks of the families Rissoellidae and Synceratidae and the Rissoid genus Barleeia. Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., vol. 58, no. 2331, Nov. 9, 1920, pp. 159-176, pis. 12, 13. The Caecidae and other ma- Duzee.) ALEXANDER, C. P., and W. L. Mc- ATEE. Diptera of the superfamily Tipuloidea found in the District of Columbia. Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., vol. 58, no. 2344, Dec. 7, 1920, pp. 385-435, pi. 26. ASCHEMEIER, C. R. On the gorilla and the chimpanzee. Joum. Mam., vol. 2, no. 2, May 2, 1921, pp. 90-92. BANGS, OUTRAM, and THOMAS E. PENARD. Notes on some Ameri- can birds, chiefly neotropical. Bull. Mus. Camp. Zool., shipworms and descriptions of some vol. 64, no. ^4, Jan., ^^^^ wood-boring mollusks. 1921, pp. 365-397. p^^^ ^j^j ^^^ Wash- BARBER, H. S. (See under H. F. ington, vol. 34, Mar. Dietz.) 31, 1921, pp. 25-32. • ^ A few papers published prior to this fiscal year are included, having been inadver- tently omitted from previous reports. 199 rine mollusks from the northwest coast of America. Joum. Washington Acad. 8ci., vol. 10, no. 20, Dec. 4, 1920, pp. 565-572. A new classification of the 200 EEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. BARTSCH, PAUL. New marine mol- lusks from the west coast of America. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash- ington, vol. 34, Mar. 31, 1921, pp. 33-39. (See also under Jolm B. Hen- derson. ) BASSLER, R. S. Tlie Cambrian and Ordovician deposits of IMaryland. Maryland Geol. Surv., Cambrian and Ordo- vician, 1919, pp. 1- 424, pis. 1-58. (See also under Ferdinand Canu.) BEAN, Barton A. (See under Henry W. Fowler.) BELOTE, Theodore T. Commemora- tive medals of the World War. Daughters Amer. Rev. Mag., Dec, 1920, pp. 667-699, illustrated. BENT, A. C. The probable status of the Pacific coast Skuas. Condor, vol. 23, no. 3, June 3, 1921, pp. 78-80. BERRY, Edward W. A palm nut from the Miocene of the Canal Zone. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 59, no. 2356, June 10, 1921, pp. 21, 22, text figs. 1-3. Tertiary fossil plants from Costa Rica. Proc. V. 8. Nat. Mus., vol. 59, no. 2367, June 14, 1921, pp. 169-185, pis. 22-27. Tertiary fossil plants from the Dominican Republic. Proc. V. 8. Nat. Mus., vol. 59, no. 2363, June 28, 1921, pp. 117-127, pi. 21. BERRY, S. Stillman. Preliminary diagnosis of new cephalopods from the western Atlantic. Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., vol. 58, no. 2335, Nov. 10, 1920, pp. 293-300, pi. 16. BLAKE, S. F. Nine new plants of the genus Stylosanthes. Proc. Biol. Soo. Wash- ington, vol. 33, July 24, 1920, pp. 45-53. BLAKE, S. F. Five new species of Cedrela. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wasfi- ington, vol. 33, Dec. 30, 1920, pp. 107- 111. Two new Salvias from Guate- mala. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash- ington, vol. 33, Dec. 30. 1920, pp. 113-115, New trees and shrubs from Mexico and Guatemala. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash- ington, vol. 33, Dec. 30, 1920, pp. 117- 120. Neomillspaughia, a new genus of Polygonaceae, with remarks on related genera. BuU. Torrey Bot. Club, vol. 48, no. 3, Mar., 1921, pp. 77-88, pi. 1. The American species of Max- imilianea ( Cochlospermum ) . Journ. Washington Acad. Sd., vol. 11, no. 6, Mar. 19, 1921, pp. 125-132, figs. 1, 2. New trees and shrubs from Yucatan. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash- ington, vol. 34, Mar. 31, 1921, pp. 43-46. Revisions of the genera Acan- thospermum, Flourensia, Oyedaea, and Tithonia. Contr. U. 8. Nat. Herb., vol. 20, pt 10, June 20, 1921, pp. 383- 436, pi. 23. New Meliaceae from Mexico. Proc. Biol. Soc. WasJi- ington, vol. 34, June 30, 1921, pp. 115- 117. A new Aspilia from Ti-inidad. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash- ington, vol. 34, June 30, 1921, pp. 119, 120. BLANCHARD, Frank N. Three new snakes of the genus Lampropeltis, Occasional papers, Mus. of Zool., Univ. of Mich., 81, Apr. 28, 1920, pp. 1-10, pi. 1. A synopsis of the king snakes, genus Lampropeltis Fitzinger. Occasional papers, Mus. of Zool., Univ. of Mich., 87, June 24, 1920, pp. 1-7 and table. LIST OF PUBLICATIONS. 201 BOONE, Peakl L. A new Chinese Iso- pod, Ichthyoxenus geei. Proc. V. S: Nat. Mus., vol. 57, no. 2.319, July 27, 1920, pp. 497- 502, pis. 40, 41. A new genns and species of Isopod from Chile. Rev. Chile)vn Hist. 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