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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, 1919
WASHINGTON
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OmCE
1920
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United States National Museum,
Under Dikection of the Smithsonian Institution,
WaJ^hinfffon, D. C, October 7, J919.
Sir : I have tlie 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, 1919.
Very respectfully,
William deC. Ravenel,
Administrative Assistant to the Secrctat^,
In charge of the United States National Mitseum.
Dr. Charles D. Walcott,
Secretary, Smithsmiian Institution.
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CONTENTS.
Page.
Inception and history 7
Operations of the year 13
Death of Assistant Secretary in charge of IMuseum 13
War activities 13
Finances 14
Buildings and equipment 15
Collections 18
War collections 19
Other collections 20
National Gallery of Art (W. PI. Holmes, Curator) 23
Freer collections 26
Visitors 27
Publications 28
Library 30
Meetings and congresses 31
Organization, and changes in staff 35
Necrology 38
Immediate needs of the Museum 51
Detailed reports on the collections 53
Department of Anthropology, by W. H. Holmes, Head Curator 53
Department of Biology, by Leonhard Stejneger, Head Curator 71
Department of Geology, by George P. Merrill, Head Curator 97
Department of Arts and Industries, William deC. Ravenel, Director — 113
Textiles, Woods, Medicines, and Foods, by F. L. Lewton 113
Mineral Technology, by Chester G. Gilbert 123
The Museum staff 127
Accessions 129
Publications Issued by Museum 175
Publications pertaining to Museum collections 181
ILLUSTRATIONS.
1. South front of Natural History Building Facing title.
2. North front of Arts and Industries Building
3. Mounted skeleton of Dimetrodon gigas Cope
4. Ground floor of Natural History Building
5. First floor of Natural History Building
6. Second floor of Natural History Building
7. Floor and gallery of Arts and Industries Building.^.
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REPORT ON THE PROGRESS AND CONDITION
OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM
FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1919.
By WlIXIAM DEC. Ravenel,
Administrative Assistant to the Secretary,
In charge of the United States 'National Museum. LlB^AI^T
NEW YORK
BOTANICAL
INCEPTION AND HISTOEY. CiAkweN
The Congress of the United States in the act of August 10, 1846,
founding the Smithsonian Institution recognized that an opportunity
was afforded, in carrying 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 col-
lections, 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 knowledge 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 advice of the most distinguished scientific
men, educators, and intellectual leaders of the Nation of 70 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
O many rich collections,
C3^ The Congress which passed the act of foundation enumerated as
within the scope of the Museum " all objects of art and of foreign and
cc curious research and all objects of natural history, plants, and geo-
:2z logical and mineralogical specimens belonging to the United States,"
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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 m so fully providing for a museum in
the Smithsonian law challenges attention, the interpretation put
upon this law by the Board of E«gents 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 cabmets 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 tlie Patent Office,
" Specimens of staple materials, of their gradual manufacture, and
of the finished product of manufactures and the arts may also, your
committee think, be usefully introduced. This would supply oppor-
1 Since the Institution was not chartered in a legal sense, but established by Congress,
the use of the word " charter " in this connection was not correct.
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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, being
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 during the
sessions of Congress 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 concen-
trate 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 by 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
form a unique and notable agency for the increase and diffusion of
1 Resolved, That it is the intention of the act of Congress establishing the Institution,
and in accordance with the design of Mr. Smithson, 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 histor5' 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 themse/ves to the
pursuit of any branch of knowledge.
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knowledge, for tlie 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 change in the scope of the
Government museum has 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.
The development of the Museum has been greatest in those subjects
which the conditions of the past three-quarters of a centur}^ have
made most fruitful — the natural history, geology, etlmology, and
archeolog}' 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 190G, when cir-
cumstances led to its definite recognition.
Wliile 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 pei'sons who are so fortunate
as to reside in Washington or who are able to visit the Nation's Capi-
tal. In its well-designed cases, in which every detail of structure,
appointment, and color is considered, a selection of representative ob-
jects is placed on view to the public, all being carefully labeled indi-
vidually and in groups. The child as well as the adult has been pro-
vided 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.
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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 nu-
merous 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.
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OPERATIONS OF THE YEAR.
DEATH OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY IN CHARGE OF MUSEUM.
It is with profound sorrow that I record the death at his home
in the city of Washington, on July 16, 1918, of Dr. Richard Rathbun,
Assistant Secretary of the 'Smithsonian Institution since 1897 and,
as such, in charge of the United States National Museum since 1898.
Out of respect to his memory the flags on the buildings of the
Institution were carried at half-mast until after the interment of his
remains in Rock Creek Cemetery on July 18. Business was sus-
pended in the offices and the public exhibition halls were closed on
the day of his funeral.
This is not the place to give an adequate review of the work of
Doctor Rathbun as a man of science, or to recall his contributions
to the upbuilding of the institution with which he was so long con-
nected. I may be permitted, however, to express here my sense of
bereavement in the passing of a man whose friendship and personal
and official confidence I was permitted to enjoy. Coming to the
Museum from the Bureau of Fisheries in 1902 to assist Doctor Rath-
bun in the administrative work of the Museum, our official associa-
tion here, as in that Bureau, was long and exceedingly cordial.
During Doctor Rathbun's disability and after his decease, the ad-
ministration of the Museum devolved upon the writer as next in
authority.
On November 1, 1918, the position of Assistant Secretary of the
Smithsonian Institution in charge of the United States National
Museum was discontinued and the writer was placed in charge of
the administrative affairs of the Museum, with the title of Adminis-
trative Assistant to the Secretary. In addition to the general
duties of the above assignment, he was designated Director of Arts
and Industries in the Museum.
WAR ACTIVITIES.
As mentioned in the last report, the Board of Regents of the In-
stitution, at the request of the President of the United States, closed
the Natural History Building to the public on July 16, 1918, thus
enabling the Museum to furnish the Bureau of War Risk Insurance
of the Treasury Department with 138,600 square feet of space for
office purposes on the ground and two exhibition floors. This was
done with the understanding that the Museum would be vacated
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upon the completion of the building then being erected for the
Bureau at the corner of Vermont Avenue and H Street, and that
the JMuseum space would be turned back to the Museum authorities
in the same condition in which was received by the Bureau. Late
in March the Bureau moved to its own structure, but its funds were
then so depleted that it was unable to carry out the agreement as to
renovating the building. It was therefore unfortunately necessary
to reopen the Natural History Building without making the needed
repairs, the first floor being opened to visitors on April 11 and the
second floor on April 22.
From the beginning of the fiscal year until the signing of the
armistice on November 11 members of the Museum staff in all de-
partments continued along the same general lines as last year to
render service to the various govermnental agencies more directly
engaged in prosecuting America's part in the great conflict. Much
valuable assistance was thus given, and the cooperation of the Mu-
seum in this work has resulted in bringing it into even closer rela-
tionship with the executive departments, with beneficial results.
Advantage was taken of the closing of the exhibition halls to give
additional attention to classifying, arranging, labeling, and other-
wise putting in shape the study series in the various departments.
In the department of geology this also afforded opportunity to thor-
oughly clean and to some extent rearrange the exhibition series, so
that when reopened to visitors the halls were more interesting than
ever.
FINANCES.
The maintenance and operation of the Museum for the fiscal year
July 1, 1918, to June 30, 1919, were provided for by the following
items of appropriation in the sundry civil bill approved July 1,
1918:
Preservation of collections $300, 000
Furniture and fixtures 15,000
Heating and lighting 55, 000
Building repairs 10, 000
Purchase of books 2,000
Postage 500
Printing and binding 37, 500
Total 420, 000
Although the Museum has received many and some exceedingly
valuable additions to its collections by bequest, it is only recently
that financial assistance has been rendered it in this way. During
the year the Museum made its first purchases from the Frances Lea
Chamberlain Funds. These two funds, as mentioned in previous
reports, were created by Dr. Leander Trowbridge Chamberlain for
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promoting, respectively, the increase and the scientific value and
usefulness of the Isaac Lea collection of gems and the scientific
value and usefulness of the Isaac Lea collection of moUusks. While
the full amount of the bequests has not yet reached the Institution,
the income from the first installment of the principal has permitted
the addition of some very desirable material in both lines. These
collections were made by the eminent naturalist Dr. Isaac Lea and
reached the Museum some years ago through the generosity of Doc-
tor Lea, his daughter, Mrs. Frances Lea Chamberlain, and his son-
in-law, Doctor Chamberlain. By frequent gifts of both specimens
and money for making purchases, Mrs. Chamberlain during her life-
time, and afterwards her husband, continued their upkeep, and Doc-
tor Chamberlain's generous provision in his will for perpetuating
the assistance so long rendered in person is a benefaction of unusual
importance to the Museiun.
Through the generosity of one of the members of the staff, a small
purchase fund, known as the Swales Fund, was available during the
year for adding to the collection of birds' skins.
BUILDINGS AND EQUIPMENT.
The more important repairs in connection with the Natural History
Building were the reconstruction of the floor of west entrance and
providing cesspool with sewer connection on the outside of the build-
ing so as to make the space sanitary, the laying of composition cork
flooring in the engine room, the repointing of all the horizontal and
vertical joints in stones and sides of pilasters in the different parts
of the building, the cutting out and repointing seams between stones
in platform and steps on south side of the building, the maintenance
and repairs to the roofs, replacing of broken glass in windows and
skylights in exhibition halls and the painting of all the radiators in
the exhibition halls.
In the Arts and Industries Building special attention was paid to
the roofs, skylights, and windows which involved tlie repainting of
the roofs over the four courts, four main halls and the rotunda, the
reputtying of all skylights, and reinforcing the irons on the sixteen
large triple windows around the rotunda. A new Georgia pine floor
was laid in one of the administrative offices in the northwest Davil-
ion. and the old wooden floor at the west end of gallery in west hall
removed and a terrazzo flood laid, so that this section of the gallery
might be used for exhibition purposes. Eoom 80 in the southeast
pavilion was repainted and fitted up for the use of the States Rela-
tions Service, Department of Agriculture, in cooperation with the
Museum for home demonstration work, canning, etc. A new dark
room was provided in the photographic laboratory, and a number of
the halls, offices, and laboratories repainted.
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In the west end of the basement of the Smithsonian Building new
cement jfloors were laid in rooms 14, 15, and 18, which completes the
substitution of fireproof floors throughout the western portion of
that building. Repairs to the roofs consisted chiefly in the refasten-
ing of the flashing on gutters, painting the roofs, and repairs to flag-
pole and replacing broken glass in the windows of the exhibition
halls and offices.
The building erected in the east court of the Natural History Build-
ing by the Bureau of War Risk Insurance and turned over to the
Museum at the expiration of their occupancy of the building, part of
which is intended for use as a taxidermist shop, was improved by
the installation of a galvanized iron gable skylight on roof and the
replacing of ground glass in the west section with clear glass.
As the building for the Freer collections approached completion it
became necessary to remove the old two-story brick workshop, con-
structed in 1875 for housing the preparators and the photographer
of the Museum during the preparations for the Philadelphia Cen-
tennial Exhibition. This structure has for some years now been used
as a taxidermist shop, garage, and machine shop. The building
was condemned and after advertisement was sold for the sum of $252,
the purchaser being required to remove all of the material within
30 days. Provision for the taxidermist shop was made in the east
court of the Natural History Building and for the garage and ma-
chine shop of the Astrophysical Observatory in the shed at the rear
of the Smithsonian Building.
The power plant was closed down from July 1 to September 4,
during which time the electric current for light and power purposes
was purchased from the Potomac Electric Power Co. at the usual
rate of 2| cents a kilowatt hour, which is a special rate given to
Government establishments having plants for the generation of
current. The chief object in closing the plant is to permit of repairs
to the machinery and to allow the employees to take the greater part
of their leave. It was extremely difficult to have the plant placed
in proper" condition by September, as several of the engineers,
firemen, and laborers, owing to the high rates of pay offered else-
where, resigned during the late spring and early summer. The situ-
ation became so acute that it was necessary, in order to retain any
of the old men, to increase their compensation by $10 to $15 a
month, but even this increase failed to hold them, so that when the
heating season arrived all of the assistant engineers had been re-
placed by new men and most of the firemen and laborers. Fortu-
nately, the only important repair required was the retubing of the
feed-water heater.
It is gratifying to report that although the cost of coal was greater
than the preceding year, the cost of electric current was somewhat
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less, being 2.512 cents against 2.795 cents the year before. This
was due primarily to the fact that steam was required for heating
purposes a greater number of days than usual, although the winter
was mild, so that the production of current was to a certain extent
a by-product.
The coal furnished by the Government fuel yards was extremely
poor and not suited for the type of stokers in the Museum. After
the 1st of April a better grade was furnished. In addition to the
increased cost of coal the cost of the removal of ashes was several
hundred per cent greater than ever before, due to the large amount
of ash in the coal and great increase in cost for cubic yard in re-
moval.
The total amount of coal used was 3,156.50 tons, of which the
Bureau of War Risk Insurance paid for 499.88 tons.
Owing to the closing of the building and its use for office pur-
poses a heavier electrical load was carried, which with the change
in the operating force and the impossibility of keeping on a suffici-
ent number of men caused greater wear and tear on the machinery.
Among the important changes made in the plant during the year
which will materially aid in its operation v/as the purchase of an
oiling system for the main bearing of the engines which has never
been satisfactory. By the use of this apparatus the oil passing
over the main bearing flows by gravity to a large receiving tank in
the pump pit from which it is lifted by a double-ended steam pump
to a filter placed on the main engine room floor, where all dirt and
entrained water is removed. The pump then lifts the oil from the
filter to a receiving tank near the ceiling of the engine room in
which is a continuous pipe coil for circulating cooling water. From
this tank the oil passes by gravity back to the reservoir on each
engine, thence to the individual bearings. It is expected that this
arrangement will do away with the common danger of burning the
main bearings of the engine, and will greatly prolong the life of
the bearings.
The ventilating system for the engine room, which had been
exceedingly unsatisfactory', has been changed, greatly improving con-
ditions. The 30-inch fan originally installed for forcing hot air
from the engine room into the rooms and shops in the east hall base-
ment is now utilized for forcing fresh air through a system of ducts
running along the ceiling of the engine room. And provision has
been made for more efficiently heating the adjacent rooms and shops
by the installation of radiators connected with the hot-water system.
The ice plant was operated 5,215 hours, producing a total of 331.8
tons of ice at a cost of $3.70 a ton. Although the cost of ice was less
than the preceding year, it was still much higher than it should have
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been, due primarily to the fact that the plant is becoming less efficient
each year. The cost of labor and material was $246.18 and for cur-
rent for operating the motor $982.51, making a total of $1,228.69.
All of the fire extinguishers were recharged and thoroughly over-
hauled during the year. The electric fire alarm systems in all of the
buildings were inspected every three months. The system is not
entirely satisfactory, and it will undoubtedly be necessary to replace
it as soon as a more satisfactory system can be tested.
In view of the large amount of miscellaneous work which the
Museum was called upon to do for the Bureau of War Risk Insur-
ance, the Bureau provided an electrician and furnished all the electric
lamps for replacements on the three floors occupied by it, at a cost
of $1,126.98.
There were acquired during the year 4 exhibition cases and 199
pieces of storage and laboratory furniture, besides 682 unit drawers
and 400 insect drawers. The inventory of furniture at the close of
the year showed 3,556 exhibition cases, 11,178 pieces of storage, lab-
oratory, office, and other furniture, 45,867 wooden unit drawers,
4,712 metal unit drawers, 10,742 insect drawers, 10,671 special
drawers with compo bottoms, and 7,991 miscellaneous drawers, wing
frames, etc.
During the period of the war heavier demands were made on the
members of the watch force than ever before, and in addition to this
many of the best men were called into the service. At one time the
force was reduced s'o low that there were not sufficient men to guard
the buildings and collections. The situation became so serious that
the Civil Service Commission, not having any eligibles on its regis-
ters, authorized the Museum to appoint men from the outside with-
out examination. Through the United States Employment Bureau
and other agencies a sufficient number of men was procured and the
force kept in a fair condition.
COLLECTIONS.
Tlie total number of specimens acquired by the Museum during the
year was approximately 526,845. Received in 1,198 separate acces-
sions, they were classified and assigned as follows: Department of
anthropologj', 12,333; zoology, 442,383; botany, 40,357; geology and
mineralogy, 4,750; paleontology, 26,050; textiles, woods, medicines,
foods, and other miscellaneous animal and vegetable products, 884;
mineral technology, 62 ; and National Gallery of Art, 26. As loans
for exhibition, 3,096 articles were also obtained, mainly for the divi-
sions of history and American archeology and the Gallery of Art.
Material to the extent of 539 lots was received for special exami-
nation and report.
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The distribution of duplicates, mainly to schools and colleges for
educational purposes, aggregated 3,441 specimens, of which 1,378
were contained in seven regular sets of fossil invertebrates averag-
ing 47 specimens each and six regular sets of moUusks of 174 speci-
mens each. The balance comprised 19 special lots, consisting of ma-
rine invertebrates, reptiles, fishes, fossils, minerals and ores, stone
unplements, and basketry specimens.
In making exchanges for additions to the collections, a total of
5,227 duplicate specimens were distributed. These consisted largely
of plants.
Material sent out to specialists for study on behalf of the Museum
amounted to 19,851 specimens, mainly biological.
War collections. — In furtherance of its extensive historical ex-
hibits, the Museum, early in the year, through cooperation with the
War and Navy Departments, undertook the assembling and installa-
tion of a collection of materials connected with the World War, which
will form one of its most important collections and may, ultimatelyj
require a separate building. It is proposed to perpetuate the part
taken by the United States in this war by preserving and exhibiting
objects graphically illustrating the military, naval, and aerial activi-
ties not only of our own side of the conflict but of that of our op-
ponents as well.
The value of such a collection can not be overestimated from the
popular or the scientific standpoint, not only forming a fitting and
serviceable supplement to the written and printed records relating
to the histor)^ of the war, but constituting a most notable memorial
to the patriotic individuals who have contributed to the preservation
of civilization. It will also be of the highest value for historical and
scientific research.
The scope of this exhibit includes not only the general and in-
dividual military and naval equipment of the various branches of the
service, but accessories of all kinds, military and naval decorations
and medals, commemorative medals of notable events, mementos,
trophies, pictorial and printed material, manuscripts, and other ob-
jects relating to the war in all its phases.
As the National History Building was closed and every available
foot of space in it assigned to the Treasury Department, the material
received during the year for the War Collections was mainly in-
stalled in the Arts and Industries Building. Some of the large and
heavy objects were placed in the open to the west of the building.
By the close of the year material for the War Collections was coming
in such quantity that it became necessary to also assign to this sub-
ject all of the central portion of the ground story and the rotunda
of the Natural History Building, space usually reserved for special
exhibitions of a very temporary nature.
20 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 11>19.
Of the many articles received during the year for the War Col-
lections, special mention is made of the combined order of battle
map corrected to November 11, 1918, with its accessories, as used by
General Pershing and his staff at Chaumont, France, throughout the
progress of the American military movements; a collection of Ger-
man military paraphernalia captured during the various engage-
ments in which the American troops participated, and assembled in
France by Maj. Gen. H. L. Rogers, United States Armj?; two French
military airplanes used on the western front, the first battle plane
built in this country for the United States Government, and a
Curtiss training plane such as used at all the training fields in the
United States. The Museum is particularly fortunate in having a
very excellent series of objects showing the development of the air-
plane, beginning with the Langley models which have been in its
possession for a number of years, and the first Government-owned
aeroplane of the world purchased by the United States from Wright
Brothers in 1909.
Through arrangement with the Army and Navy, the Museum is
also planning to exhibit examples of every plane, engine, radio ap-
paratus, and other accessory in production in the United States at
the time of the armistice, and has secured for this exhibit the tem-
porary metal structure erected on the Smithsonian grounds in 1917
by the War Department for the use of the Air Service.
The inauguration of the War Collections gave great impetus to the
division of history and added largely to the duties of its extremely
small staff. Representing the War Department in the historical
phase of the matter. Col. C. W. Weeks, Chief of the Historical
Branch of the General Staff, Army War College, was of much as-
sistance in connection with the inception of the work. Capt. J. J.
Hittinger, Quartermaster Corps, detailed to the Museum by the War
Department, gave general supervision to the assembling and instal-
lation of the exhibits, and to his efforts are due the success of many
phases of the development of the collections.
Other collections. — Aside from the War Collections, the Museum
received this year much material of value and interest in other lines.
In the division of history these additions included a large series of
costumes worn by the actor Richard Mansfield in some of his leading
roles, donated by Mrs. Mansfield; the gold medal awarded by Con-
gress in 1800 to Capt. Thomas Truxtun, lent by Mr. Thomas Truxtun
Houston ; a telescope owned by Thomas Jefferson, lent by Brig. Gen.
Jefferson Randolph Kean ; and a jeweled sword belonging to and pre-
sented to the Museum by Maj. Gen. John R. Brooke. Other important
acquisitions in the department of anthropology were archeological
material from Arizona collected by the curators of ethnology and of
KEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919. 21
archeolog}'; costumes, ornaments, and implements collected for the
Museum in Celebes by Mr. H. C. Raven under the auspices of Dr.
William L. Abbott; skeletal material from the ancient pueblo region,
presented by the Museum of the American Indian through Mr. F. W.
Hodge ; ancl crania and other physical remains from Alaska, the gift
of Dr. Edwin Kirk.
The large increase this year in the department of biology was
chiefly due to the incorporation of the unrivaled collection of Antil-
lean land moUusks of approximately 400,000 specimens, donated by
Mr. John B. Henderson, a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution.
Other important biological accessions included the final installment
of Mr. Raven's Celebes collections, resulting from Doctor Abbott's
generosity ; a large amount of interesting material from the Collins-
Gamer Expedition to the French Congo, and several much desired
large mammals collected by Secretary Walcott during his explora-
tions in British Columbia.
Among the additions to the National Herbarium should be men-
tioned a donation, chiefly Mexican, from Brother G. Arsene, repre-
senting the result of eight years' botanical collecting by himself and
associates among the Christian Brothers ; two large series of Philip-
pine plants, one received in exchange from the Bureau of Science,
Manila, the other acquired by purchase; two collections of Vene-
zuelan plants, the first the gift of Dr. H. Pittier, and the other an ex-
change from the Museu Goeldi in Para, Brazil; the Museum's share
of specimens from the Ecuadorean Andes collected by Dr. J. N.
Rose on an expedition undertaken jointly with the New York
Botanical Garden and the Gray Herbarium, and exchanges with the
last-mentioned institution added still other South American plants.
In the department of geology the somewhat fewer additions this
year than last was in part compensated for by the unusual value of
sundry individual specimens. Among these may be mentioned exam-
ples of tungsten minerals both from domestic and foreign sources,
including a magnificent specimen of scheelite presented by Dr. J.
Morgan Clements, of New York City, and upward of 16.5 kilograms
of the extraordinary meteorite which fell at Cumberland Falls, in
Whitley County, Kentucky, on the 9th of April, 1919.
The availability of the Frances Lea Chamberlain Fund enabled
the department to begin once more a systematic building up of the
Isaac Lea gem collection, a 7-gram kunzite, a 16-gram black opal
from Nevada, and 5 beautiful examples of Australian opals of a
variety heretofore unrepresented in the collections being among the
more important additions.
The Middle Cambrian collections obtained by Secretary Walcott
from Burgess Pass in British Columbia, numbering nearly 7,000 in-
22 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919.
dividual specimens, form an addition of unusual value. The same is
true of a collection including both fossil invertebrates and plants,
mainly from Carboniferous and Silurian rocks of Indiana, and espe-
cially rich in beautifully preserved crinoids. This collection, com-
prising not less than 10,000 specimens, was a gift of Mr. Alva
Schaefer of Brazil, Indiana.
Excellent exhibition materials in the line of vertebrate fossils,
including part of a skeleton with a skull of the curious amphibial
Diplocaulus copei from the Permian of Texas ; a skull of Monoclo-
nius; a skull, partial skeleton, and two hind paddles of Tylosaui^s;
and an articulated series of caudal vertebrae of Platycarpus are
among the more important accessions. Mention should be made of
the addition to the exliibition series of the mounted skeleton of
Dimetrodon gigas which was secured som.e few years ago. This
forms the most complete restoration of this extraordinary animal
that has thus far been secured by any museum in the world.
To the collections under the charge of the curator of textiles — •
which, besides textiles, embrace wood technology, medicine, food, and
animal and vegetable products — the most important addition was the
collection received by transfer from the Office of the Surgeon Gen-
eral of the War Department, consisting of the apparatus, hospital
appliances and field equipment used by the medical department, in-
cluding the dental and sanitary divisions in the war with Germany,
showing examples of all kinds of equipment of a thousand-bed
hospital overseas. At the end of the year this was being made ready
for the public in connection with the War Collections on the ground
floor of the Natural History Building.
Other acquisitions included medicinal plants, pharmaceutical
products, pile fabrics, novelty dress fabrics, leather cloth, and other
waterproof textiles extensively used during the war, knitting and
crocheting yarns with examples of pattern stitches, an extensive col-
lection illustrating the production, classification, and service of
foods with many such from the Department of Agriculture and the
United States Food Administration, and an exhibit illustrative of
neglected sources of supply of fats and oils for food purposes.
In making the food exhibits as useful as possible, a cooperative
arrangement was entered into with the States Relations Service of
the Department of Agriculture whereby regular demonstrations on
the value, use, preparation, and conservation of foods were given at
the Museum by experts of the Department. A large room in the Arts
and Industries Building was fitted up as a demonstration kitchen and
space provided for displaying foods, household equipment, etc. Miss
A. Chinn was detailed by the Department of Agriculture to take
charge of this work, which soon broadened into a household consul-
tation center, with lectures and demonstrations covering a wide
REPORT OF NATIONAL, MUSEUM, 1910. 23
range of subjects. Through classes for housekeepers in the morning
and afternoon and special classes for war workers at 5 p. m., over
2,100 persons were reached.
In mineral technology the customary work of the division was
shelved in favor of special activities with a more direct bearing on
the national emergency, and as the war progressed the call for spe-
cialization on the part of its technical staff increased. While the
country was still actively involved on a basis of war, scarcely a day
passed without bringing calls from some governmental agency for
assistance with reference to one or another industrial issue up for
consideration on an emergency rating, the questions ranging from
determining a fair price for mica to determining the likelihood of
a paralyzing petroleum shortage. As the year advanced, however,
two absorbing lines of special investigation developed to such a de-
gree that during the latter half of the year they largely engrossed
the attention of the staff. Their general nature may be gathered
from the titles imder which the results were issued. One, " A Eeport
on the Political and Commercial Control of the Nitrogen Eesources
of the World," represents an effort to unravel the complexities of
the nitrogen situation left behind in the passing of the war. The
other, "The Energy Eesources, a Field for Eeconstruction," coordi-
nates and summarizes the work of several years.
The reports of the head curators in the natural history departments
and of the curators in the department of arts and industries, be-
ginning on page 53, give in detail the additions to and the work on
their collections during the year.
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART.
The National Gallery of Art has, in the judgment of Dr. William
H. Holmes, its curator, been lifted to a position in the art world
inferior to but few of our American galleries by the munificent con-
tribution of ISIx. Ealph Cross Johnson, of Washington, comprising
24 rare works by European masters — Italian, French, English, Flem-
ish, and Dutch.
Mr. Johnson has long been a friend of the Gallery. When it was
first opened to the public in its present quarters on March 17, 1910,
nine paintings of exceptional merit lent by him graced the walls of
one of the small north rooms, and that room continued to display a
varying number of valuable paintings on loan through his generosity
until the spring of 1919, when the larger hall immediately south was
assigned to Mr. Johnson's pictures. Twenty-four of his masterpieces
were here installed, some of which had previously been exhibited and
others new to the Gallery. As soon as the adjustment of the wall
space was completed and the effect satisfactory, Mr. Johnson made
deed of gift of the paintings to the Gallery, as follows :
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REPORT OF NATIONAL, MUSEUM, 1919.
GiTT intee-\t;vos.
I hereby give, grant, and set over unto The National Gallery of Art, now lo-
cated in the National Museum at Washington, D. C, a collection of paintings,
specifically enumerated and entitled in the attached Schedule, to be held by the
said National Gallery of Art absolutely and in fee simple. It is my express
desire and wish that said collection be hung in a room by itself without addi-
tion or diminution.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 19th
day of June in the Year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nineteen.
Ralph Cross Johnson, [seal.]
Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of —
Richard W. Hynson.
Charles P. Light.
Schedule.
Ruins and Figures
Portrait of a Pope
A View in Rome
Lord Mulgrave
Lord Abercorn
(large canvas
(canvas
(canvas
(canvas
(canvas
Holy Family (panel
Landscape — Sunset (canvas
Holy Family, Joseph and St. Elisabeth (canvas
Portrait of a Man with Large Hat (canvas
Landscape and Figures — Evening (canvas
Autumn Landscape (canvas
A Venetian Senator (panel
Holy Family and Two Angels (circular panel
"Edinburgh," or Sunlight and Air (canvas
The Duchess of Ancaster (canvas
Summer Afternoon — Landscape
Portrait of Viscount Hill
Sir Sampson Wright
Archibald Skirving
Madonna and Child
A Burgomaster
The Marriage of St. Catherine
Portrait of Mrs. Price
Portrait of Mrs. Towry
(canvas
(canvas
(canvas
(canvas
(canvas
(canvas
(panel
(canvas
(canvas
F. Guardi (signed).
Titian.
F. Guardi.
Thomas Gainsborough.
Sir Thomas Lawrence,
P. R. A.
Bernard van Orley.
Richard Wilson, R. A.
P. P. Rubens.
Rembrandt (signed).
Thomas Gainsborough.
David Cox.
Lorenzo Lotto.
Sebastiano Mainardi.
J. M. W. Turner.
S ir J. Reynolds,
P. R. A.
Richard Wilson, R, A.
Sir Joshua Reynolds.
George Romney.
Sir Henry Raeburn.
G 0 v a e r t Flinck —
Flemish School.
N. Maes (signed),
Dutch.
Innocenzo da Imola.
William Hogarth.
Sir Thomas Lawrence.
P. R. A.
The other permanent accessions to the Gallery during the year
were the portrait of Hon. Franklin K. Lane, painted by Ossip
Perelma in 1918 and donated by Mr. Frank B. Noyes, of Washington,
and a marble bust of S. F. B. Morse by Horatio Greenough, 1831, the
gift of Mr. Edward L. Morse, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
The loans were two paintings in oil by William H. Powell, " Wash-
ington at Valley Forge," and Portrait of Alphonse Marie Louis de
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Lamartine, 1790-1864, painted from life, lent by Mrs. W. H. Powell,
of New York; oil painting, " Interior of Levardin Church, Florence,
Italy," by S. Jerome Uhl, from Mr. R. P. Tolman, United States
National Museum ; oil painting, " The Infant Jesus and Saint John,"
by Rubens, 1633, from Hon. Hoffman Philip, Department of State;
oil painting, " Madonna and Child," attributed to Raphael, from
Mr. Thomas B. O'Sullivan, of Washington; water color, "Rhone
Valley," by John M. W. Turner, from Miss Elizabeth Ogden Adams,
South Lincoln, Massachusetts; and two portraits in oil, Maj. E.
Alexander Powell, 1919, and Miss Clara J. Gordon, 1916, by Wilford
Seymour Conrow, received from the artist.
In May Secretary Walcott, accompanied by the curator of the
Gallery, visited New York to attend a meeting of the American Fed-
eration of Arts, on which occasion Doctor Walcott presented an
address on the " National Gallery, Its Present Status and Prospects."
Visits were made to various art museums and to the residence of
Rev. A. D. Pell, who announced his intention to present to the Gal-
lery a large selection from his vast stores of French and other art
objects. At the close of the A^ear the first installment of this collec-
tion had reached the United States National Museum and its instal-
lation was initiated in the north alcove of the Gallery.
The year marks the inauguration of purchases by the Council of
the National Academy of Design from the Henry Ward Ranger
Fund. The first acquisition, a landscape by Bruce Crane entitled
" December Uplands," was assigned to the Syracuse Museum of Art,
and under the conditions prescribed by Mr. Ranger can be reclaimed
by the National Gallery of Art at any time during the five-year
period beginning 10 years after the artist's death.
Fourteen oil paintings from the collection by leading contempo-
rary European artists deposited in the Gallery by the American Fed-
eration of Arts in June, 1915, were withdrawn by the Federation
in October, 1918, for exhibition on circuit, being shipped to the
Arnot Gallery, Elmira, New York. At the end of the year 12 of
these had again been deposited in the Gallery by the Federation.
The Gallery, like other portions of the Natural History Building,
was closed to visitors the middle of July, and before opening again
to the public in April it was thoroughly renovated and the burlap
on the walls in part renewed. Important changes were also made in
the installation during the year, so that it is now in more perfect con-
dition than at any previous period.
The Advisory Committee on the National Gallery of Art was un-
fortunate during the year in losing by death two of its valued mem-
bers, Mr. Frederic Crowninshield on September 18, 1918, and Mr.
C. Y. Turner on January 1, 1919. The latter, as chairman from
April 12, 1913, gave liberally of his time and talent, while the former
26 EEPOET OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919.
served as a member of the committee from its organization on xYpril
16, 1908. By the appointment of Mr. Edmund C. Tarbell and Mr.
Douglas Volk, the committee is now constituted as follows: Dr. W.
H. Holmes, chairman and secretary, Mr. Edwin H, Blashfield, Mr.
Herbert Adams, Mr. Tarbell, and Mr. Volk.
The recent formation by a group of public spirited and patriotic
men and women of a National Art Committee to secure for the Na-
tional Gallery of Art a series of portraits of military, civil, and
religious leaders in the World War, painted by American artists, is
of special significance since, aside from valuable additions to the
Gallery, it evidences the awakening of public interest in the welfare
of the nation's art collections. Hon. Henry D. White (one of the
peace commissioners) is the chairman of the committee; Mr. Her-
bert L. Pratt, of New York, secretary and treasurer ; and among the
members are Mr. J. P. Morgan, Mr. Henry Frick, Mrs. E. H. Harri-
man, Mr. Robert W. de Forest, Mr. Guy Lowell, and Dr. Charles
D. Walcott. There will be 20 or more portraits and the fund, already
underwritten, is in excess of $200,000.
FREER COLLECTIONS.
Much progress was made this year on the building for the
Freer collections being erected by the Institution, at the expense of
Mr. Charles L. Freer, on the southwestern comer of the Smithsonian
Reservation. The building was entirely enclosed at the end of the
year, the exterior granite and marble walls and the roofs being com-
pleted. Work on the interior is now progressing satisfactorily.
All interior limestone work is complete, ready for cleaning, and
the interior marble work, including marble floors, is four-fifths fin-
ished, and the plastering, plmnbing, heating, ventilating, and elec-
trical installations are likewise nearing completion. It is expected
that the structure will be entirely finished in the autumn.
This building is specially designed and will be used for the Freer
collections of American and oriental art, which are by far the most
important within their particular fields in existence, and are valued
at several million dollars. The most recent transfer to the Institu-
tion by Mr. Freer aggregated ^28 objects, as mentioned in the
Museum report for 1918, bringing the number of items in the Freer
collections to upv/ard of 6,200. It will be recalled that in the
original agreement between Mr. Freer and the Institution, entered
into in 1906, the collections were to remain in the donor's possession
during his life, and only subsequently was the building to be con-
structed and the collections moved to Washington. The building
fund, as provided by Mr. Freer in the same deed of gift, was then
fixed at $500,000. Owing to the very gi^eat increase in the size of
the collections and the increased cost of building operations this
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27
was later doubled. Waiving the condition as to the time of transfer
of the collections, Mi". Freer, in 1915, decided upon the early erection
of the building, and the structure now nearing completion is the
result of much care and attention on his part and on that of the
architect, Mr. Charles A. Piatt, being especially designed for the
convenience of students and others desirous of an opportunity for
uninterrupted study of the collections.
VISITORS.
Owing to the occupancy of the exhibition halls of the Natural His-
tory Building by the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, this building
was closed to the public from July 16, 1918, to April 11, 1919. Dur-
ing the approximate three months that the building was open the
attendance of visitors was 94,240 for week days and 38,619 for Sun-
days, making an average of 1,149 for week days and 2,758 for Sun-
days. From November 10 to April 6 the opening of the Arts and
Industries Building was extended to include Sundays as well as
week days, the number of visitors for the year being 225,927 on week
days and 40,605 on Sundays, a daily average of 721 for the former
and 1,845 for the latter. At the Smithsonian Building, which is
open only on week days, the total attendance was 101,504, with a
daily average of 324.
In view of the excellent Sunday attendance at the Arts and Indus-
tries Building during the short period that it was opened on that day,
it seems highly desirable that both Museum buildings should be
open every Sunday. This will only be possible when additional
funds are provided to cover the extra watchmen and other attendants
required.
The following tables show the attendance of visitors each month
of the past year and for each year since 1881, when the building
now devoted to the arts and industries was first opened to the public :
Number of visitors during the year ending June 30, 1919.
Year and month.
1918,
July
August
September.
October
November.
December. .
Museum buildings.
Arts and
Indus-
tries.
17,323
19, 151
19,776
15,3.39
20, 805
26, 721
Natural
History.
19,262
Smithso-
nian
Building.
8,419
9,485
9,754
5,633
8,468
9,375
Year and month.
1919.
January
February. ..
March
April
May
June
Total .
Museum buildings.
Arts and
Indus-
tries.
24, 393
24,147
31,451
23, 060
19,511
24,855
266,532
Natural
History.
29, 404
40, 619
43,574
132, 859
Smithso-
nian
Building.
8,170
8,067
9,666
9,166
7,155
8,146
101,504
28 EEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919.
Number of visitors to the Mustiem and Smithsonian buildings since 18S1.
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
1895-96
1896-97
1897-98
1898-99
1899-1900
1900-1
Museum buildings.
Arts and
Indus-
tries
150,000
167,455
202, 188
97,661
205, 026
174,225
216,562
249,665
374, 843
274,324
286,426
269,825
319, 830
195, 748
201, 744
180,505
229, 606
177, 254
192,471
225,440
216,556
Natural
History.
Smithso-
nian
Building.
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 ,
1903^
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
Total
Museum buildings.
Arts and
Indus-
tries
173, 8SS
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
8,317,262
Natural
History.
Smitliso-
nian
Building.
50,403
151,112
281,887
319, 806
329,381
321,712
381, 228
407, 025
401, 100
1 132, 859
2,776.513
144, 107
181,174
143, 988
149,380
149,661
153, 591
237, 182
198, 054
179, 163
167, 085
143, 134
142,420
102, 645
40,324
48,517
86, 335
67, 224
101,504
4, 835, 996
1 Building open only three months of the year.
PUBLICATIONS.
The publications of the year comprised 8 volumes and 71 sep-
arate papers. The former consisted of the annual reports of the
Museum for 1917 and 1918; volumes 52 and 53 of the Proceedings;
and the following four Bulletins: No. 50, Part VIII, "The Birds
of North and Middle America," by Eobert Eidgway, containing
descriptions of the jacanas, thick-knees, oyster-catchers, turnstones,
surf birds, plovers, snipes, phalaropes,- avocets and stilts, skim-
mers, terns, gulls, skuas, and auks; No. 100, volume 3, "Contribu-
tions to the biology of the Philippine Archipelago and adjacent
regions. Starfishes of the Philippine seas and adjacent waters,"
by Walter K. Fisher; No. 102, volume 1, "The mineral industries of
the United States. The energy resources of the United States: A
field for reconstruction," by Chester G. Gilbert and Joseph E.
Pogue; and No. 105, "Catalogue of the postage stamps and stamped
envelopes of the United States and possessions, issued prior to Jan-
uary 1, 1919," by Joseph B. Leavy.
Of the 71 papers issued in separate form 2 were parts of Bulletin
No. 99, "East African mammals in the United States National Mu-
seum," by N. Hollister, as follows: "Part I. Insectivora, Chirop-
REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919. 29
tera, and Carnivora," and "Part II. Eodentia, Lagoniorpha, and
Tiibutidentata"; 2 Avere parts of volume 1, and 2 of volume 2, of
Bulletin 100, "Contributions to the biology of the Philippine x^rchi-
pelago and adjacent regions," as follows: Volume 1, part 4, "Re-
port on the Chaetognatha collected by the United States Fisheries
Steamer Albatross during the Philippine expedition, 1907-1910,"
by Ellis L. Michael; and part 5, "Hydromedusae, Siphonophores,
and Ctenophores of the Albatross Philippine expedition," by Henry
B. Bigelow ; volume 2, part 1, "The Salpidae collected by the United
States Fisheries Steamer Albatross in Philippine waters during the
years 1908 and 1909," by Maynard M. Metcalf; and part 2, "The
Salpidae: A taxonomic study," by Maynard M. Metcalf and Mary
M. Bell. Three parts of Bulletin 102, "The mineral industries of
the United States," were issued, namely, part 5, "Power: Its sig-
nificance and needs," by Chester G. Gilbert and Joseph E. Pogue;
part 6, "Petroleum: A resource interpretation," by Chester G. Gil-
bert and Joseph E. Pogue; and part 7, "Natural Gas: Its produc-
tion, serA'ice, and conservation," by Samuel S. Wyer. Bulletin 103,
"Contributions to the geology and paleontology of the Canal Zone,
Panama, and geologically related areas in Central America and the
West Indies," represents the work of a number of specialists, whose
papers were issued, in separate form, as follows: Pages 1-13, "On
/some fossil and recent Lithothamnieae of the Panama Canal Zone,"
by Marshall A. Howe; pages 15-44, "The fossil higher plants from
the Canal Zone," by Edward W. Berry; pages 45-87, "The smaller
fossil foraminifera of the Panama Canal Zone," by Joseph Augus-
tine Cusliman; pages 89-102, "The larger fossil foraminifera of the
Panama Canal Zone," by Joseph Augustine Cushman; pages 103-
L16, "Fossil echini of the Panama Canal Zone and Costa Eica," by
Pobert Tracy Jackson; pages 117-122, "Bryozoa of the Canal Zone
and related areas," by Ferdinand Canu and Ray S. Bassler; pages
123-184, "Decapod crustaceans from the Panama region," by Mary
J. Rathbun; pages 185-188, "Cirripedia from the Panama Canal
Zone," by H. A. Pilsbry; pages 525-545, "The sedimentary forma-
tions of the Panama Canal Zone, with special reference to the strati-
graphic relations of the fossiliferous beds," by Donald Francis Mac-
Donald; and pages 547-612, "The biologic character and geologic
correlation of the sedimentary formations of Panama in their rela-
tion to the geologic history of Central America and the West In-
dies," by Thomas Wayland Vaughan. One part of Bulletin 104,
"The foraminifera of the Atlantic Ocean," by Joseph Augustine
Cushman, namely, "Part 1. Astrorhizidae," was also issued. Of the
remaining separates 2 formed parts of volume 20, "Contributions
from the United States National Herbarium." while 19 were from
volume 64, and 29 from volume 55 of the Proceedings, as listed in the
30 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919.
bibliography at the end of this report. A brief guide to the Arts
and Industries and History Building was also issued.
The distribution of volumes and separates to libraries and indi-
viduals on the regular mailing lists aggregated 103,870 copies, in
addition to which some 14,456 copies of the publications of last and
previous years were supplied in response to special applications.
In addition to the Museum publications, many contributions based
on material in its collections were printed by other bureaus of the
Government and by private institutions, all of which are cited in
the bibliography. Those issued by the Smithsonian Institution com-
prise the following, which appeared in the Miscellaneous Collections :
" The mosses collected by the Smithsonian African Expedition,
1909-10.'' and " Uganda mosses collected by R. Diimmer and others,"
by H. N. Dixon; "Cambrian geology and paleontology, IV, No. 4,
Appendages of trilobites," by Charles D. Walcott; "Begoniaceae
Centrali-Americanae et Ecuadorenses," by Casimir de Candolle;
"A Lower Cambrian edrioasterid, Stromatocystites walcotti," by
Charles Schuchert, and " Explorations and field-work of the Smith-
sonian Institution in 1918."
The editorial office, besides supervising the printing of the Museum
publications, also has charge of all miscellaneous printing and bind-
ing.
LIBRARY.
The library of the Museum, assembled with reference to the work-
ing up of the collections, embraces a wide range of subjects in the
sciences and arts. The main library is housed in the Natural History
Building, while the publications on the useful arts are provided for
in the Arts and Industries Building. Moreover, each of the divisions
and the principal offices of the Museum has its own sectional library,
consisting of the books relating wholly to its subject; these are with-
drawn from the main branches and so distributed in order to facili-
tate the progi'ess of work. The use of the library and its sections
is not, however, restricted to members of the Museum staff, but is
extended to all properly qualified persons, a privilege extensively
availed of by the workers in other Government scientific bureaus
and similar establishments in Washington.
During the year the library was increased by 2,172 volumes and
2,614 pamphlets and unbound papers, most of which were obtained
by gift or exchange. Two hundred and eighty-seven books were
purchased and 106 periodicals secured by subscription. There are
now in the library 141,794 books, consisting of 54,685 volumes and
87,109 pamphlets and unbound papers.
The most important acquisition was a set of catalogues of the
art collection of J. Pierpont IMorgan, which was presented to the
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librar}^ by his son, J. Pierpont Morgan, jr. Many of these were
printed privately in numbered editions, and for tliis reason are rare
and vahiable. Acknowledgment is due to the heirs of Dr. Eichard
Rathbiin for the gift of his valuable library relating to museums
of the world and to natural history subjects, and to the University
of Michigan for donating the 12 volumes which have been published
of the humanistic series. Others contributing valuable material
were Dr. Charles D. Walcott, Mr. B. H. Swales, Mr. William Schaus,
Dr. O. P. Hay, Dr. C. W. Eichmond, Dr. W. IT. Dall, Dr. Mary J.
Eathbun, Mr. Austin H. Clark, and Mr. W. E. Maxon.
MEETINGS AND CONGRESSES.
The auditorium and committee rooms in the Natural History
Building were not available during the first six months of the year.
Shortly after the signing of the armistice, however, the auditorium
was vacated by the Bureau of War Eisk Insurance. As soon as
it could be repainted and the chairs replaced, the Smithsonian In-
stitution inaugurated a series of free popular illustrated lectures
on alternate Saturday afternoons between 4.45 and 5.30 o'clock, the
lecturers and their subjects being as follows:
January 18 : Dr. Charles D. Walcott, " Photographing in the Canadian
Eockies."
February 1 : Dr. Charles G. Abbot, " Sun Rays in Many Lands."
February 15 : Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, " The Indian as a Stone IVIason."
March 1 : Dr. George P. Merrill, " Meteorites and Shooting Stars."
March 15 : Prof. William H. Holmes, " The Story of our Local Aborigines —
Historic and Prehistoric with Demonstrations of their Instrument Making."
March 29 : Dr. L. O. Howard, " Harmful and Beneficial Insects and How
the National Museum Helps in their Study."
April 12 : Mr. F. L. Lewton, " The Story of Silk."
April 26 : Mr. F. V. Coville, " Why the Wild Flowers are so Wild."
As soon as the auditorium was available the meeting facilities
afforded by the Museum were in demand by Government depart-
ments and scientific societies, as in previous years.
The Department of Labor used the auditorium on the evenings of
January 9, 10, and 14, for lectures under the training section of the
United States Employment Bureau, Doctor Meeker speaking on
gathering and interpreting statistics, and Doctor Prosser on train-
ing of the handicapped; and on the morning of May 8 for a con-
ference on child welfare standards, with an illustrated lecture, under
the auspices of the Children's Bureau. On the evening of the latter
date the scientific and technical Federal employees occupied it for
the purpose of forming an organization with a view to joining the
Federal Employees Union.
The hall was granted the Department of Agriculture on the after-
noon of Februarv 11 for the use of the Forest Service for a lecture
32 KEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919.
and motion pictures; on the afternoon of April 15 for the Oflfice of
Home Economics for a lecture, with motion pictures, by Col. Jolm
A. Murlin on efficiency and sanitation in the feeding of United States
troops, and on the afternoon of May 28 for a meeting of the War
Relief Association of that Department.
The Treasury Department occupied the auditorium on February
1 for an exhibition, under the Public Health Service, of the moving
picture film " Fit to Win," before the faculties and students of the
departments of medicine and dentistry of Georgetown University,
the speakers being Asst. Surg. Gen. C. C. Pierce, Dr. George M.
Kober, and Dr. Bruce L. Taylor; and the Bureau of War Risk In-
surance on December 31 for a farewell meeting to the retiring assist-
ant director, Capt. John J. Crowley, United States Army ; on Jan-
uary 17 for the annual meeting of the Allotments and Allowance
Division; on January 31 for instructing its timekeepers; on Febru-
ary 3 for organizing the employees of the Allotments and Allow-
ance Division to constitute a branch of the Federal Employees
Union ; on February 4 and 5 for lectures, under the auspices of the
Commission on Training Camp Activities, before the female em-
ployees of the Bureau; on February 9 to show moving pictures be-
fore the female employees; on February 14 and 15 for all-day meet-
ings of insurance officers from the demobilization camps ; on Febru-
ary 17 for an informal meeting at which Mr, Gates, chief of the
Allotments and Allowajice Division, addressed the employees; on
March 10 and the afternoon of March 19 for lectures to different
sections of its employees; and on March 24 for moving pictures of
the Bureau's activities overseas, before the director and other mem-
bers of the staff of the Bureau.
The Ordnance Department of the War Department was assisted in
its work by illustrated lectures in the auditorium on the afternoons of
May 3 and 17, when Lieut. Col. G. M. Barnes spoke, respectively, on
the battle scenes in the World War and the method of camouflaging
used by the Artillery Division of the United States Army during
the war.
The National Academy of Sciences met this year on April 28 to
30, the afternoon of the last day being devoted to a joint session with
the National Research Council. The main hall, range, and chapel
of the Smithsonian Building were prepared for these meetings, but,
after the first day's sessions, adjournment was had to the Museum
auditorium and committee rooms, as affording better accommoda-
tions. Dr. James Henry Breasted, of the University of Chicago,
delivered in the auditorium the two lectures under the William Ellery
Hale foundation on " The origin of civilization, from the old stone
age to the dawn of civilization," the first on the evening of April
28, and the second on the next afternoon. The first was followed
REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919. 33
by a reception by the Secretary and Regents of the Smithsonian
to the members of the Academy and their friends, all the exhibition
halls of the first floor including those of the National Gallery of
Art being opened to the guests.
Other speakers before the Academy and their subjects included the
following : Alfred G. Mayer, The Age of the Fringing Reef of Tu-
tuila, American Samoa ; Charles D. Walcott, Seaweeds and Sponges
of the Middle Cambrian ; Robert G. Aitken, The Spectra of the Vis-
ual Binary Stars; George E. Hale, F. EUerman, S. B. Nicholson,
and A. H. Joy, The Magnetic Polarity of Sun Spots; Walter S.
Adams and A. H. Joy, The Motions in Space of Some Stars of High
Radial Velocity; Walter S. Adams and G. Stromberg, The Use of
the Spectroscopic Method for Determining the Parallaxes of the
Brighter Stars; Adriaan van Maanen, Evidence of Stream-motion
Afforded by the Faint Stars in the Orion Nebula ; Graham Lusk and
H. V. Atkinson, The Production of Fat from Protein After Giving
Meat in Large Quantity to a Dog; William S. Halsted, End-to-end
Anastomosis of the Jntestine — Experimental Study; Robert M.
Yerkes, Psychological Examining in the United States Army ; Fred-
erick H. Scares, Relation Between Color and Luminosity for Stars
of the Same Spectral Type; Frederick H. Scares, A. van Maanen,
and F. EUerman, Deviations of the Sun's General Magnetic Field
from that of a Uniformly Magnetized Sphere; W. W. Campbell,
The Solar Corona; Herbert E. Gregory, Plans for Exploration
of the Pacific; Francis G. Benedict, W. R. Miles, and Alice John-
son, The Temperature of the Human Skin; S. J. Meltzer and
M. Wollstein, The Influence of Degeneration of a Vagus Nerve
upon the Development of Pneumonia; Edwin H. Hall, (1) The
Effect of Great Pressure on the Electric Conductivity and Thermo-
electric Properties of Metals, (2) Comments on the Results of
Bridgman's Experiments, (3) Thermal Conduction in Metals, from
the Standpoint of Dual Electric Conduction, and (4) The Thermo-
electric Equation P=TdV/dT once more; Charles Lane Poor,
Line of Position Computer ; Irving Langmuir, The Arrangement of
Electrons in Atoms and Molecules; Henry F. Osborn, (1) Palseomas-
todon, the Ancestor of the Long-jawed Mastodons Only, and (2)
Seventeen Skeletons of Moropus: Probable Habits of this Animal;
Thomas B. Osborne and Alfred J. Wakeman, The Preparation of
Vitamine-free Proteins; Arthur G. Webster, (1) Tentative Results
in Interior Ballistics, (2) Tentative Results in Elastic Hysteresis,
(3) The Most Perfect Tuning Fork, and (4) Angle of Repose of
Wet Sand; Edward Kasner, Geometiy of the Wave Equation; C.
G. Abbot, (1) Rotating Projectiles from Smooth-bore Guns, (2)
Means for Measuring the Speed of Projectiles in Flight, and (3)
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Recent Simultaneous Measurements of the Solar Constant of Radi-
ation at Mount Wilson, California, and Calama, Chile; John C.
Merriam, Human Remains from the Pleistocene of Rancho La Brea ;
George E. Hale, The Past Work and Future Plans of the National
Research Council ; John C. Merriam, The Division of General Rela-
tions, Section of Relations with Educational Institutions and State
Committees; R. A. Millikan, The Division of Physics, Mathema-
tics, Astronomy, and Geophysics; Dayton C. Miller, Pressures and
Velocities, Internal and External, due to the Discharge of Large
Guns; E. W. Washburn, The Division of Chemistry and Chemical
Technology; A. A. Noyes, Nitrate Investigations; Wliitman Cross,
The Division of Geology and Geogi-aphy ; R. G. Hussey, The Divi-
sion of Medicine and Related Sciences; R. M. Yerkes, Psychology
in Relation to the War; C. E. McClung, The Division of Agricul-
ture, Botany, Forestry, Zoology, and Fisheries ; and G. H. Clevenger,
The Division of Engineering.
The auditorium was used for a conference on the American mer-
chant marine on January 22 and 23, with Hon, Joseph E. Ransdell
presiding, and during official hours on June 4 for a joint shipping
industrial conference, under the auspices of the United States Ship-
ping Board. On the evening of the same day, the Louisiana Society
of Washington arranged an illustrated lecture by Hon. M. F. Alex-
ander, Commissioner of Conservation of Louisiana, on the work of
the commission.
The Biological Society of Washington met in the auditorium on
the evening of January 25, and on April 3 and 4 the American Soci-
ety of Mammalogists held its sessions in the auditorium and one of
the committee rooms. The Wild Flower Preservation Society occu-
pied one of the committee rooms on the afternoon of April 14, and, in
connection with the meeting in Washington of the American Rose
Society, the Florist Club of Washington gave a lecture on the culti-
vation of roses in the auditorium on the evening of June 3.
The annual meeting of the District of Columbia Chapter of Sigma
Xi in the auditorium on March 6 was preceded by an illustrated lec-
ture by Maj. R. M. Yerkes on the relationship of Army tests to edu-
cation and vocational guidance. On JMarch 24 a widely attended
meeting of officers and men of the American Army, presided over by
Col. E. Lester Jones, resulted in the organization of the General
Pershing Post No. 1 of the American Legion.
The Minimum Wage Board of the District of Columbia used the
auditorium on April 29 for a conference, and on June 23 there was a
lecture, under the auspices of the National Women's Trade Union
League, by Miss Margaret Bondfield, of England, on the new spirit
of British labor.
EEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919. 35
The employees of the Smithsonian Institution and its branches
used the auditorium on May 1 for the purpose of organizing the
Smithsonian branch of the Federal Employees Union No. 2, and a
few days later for the nomination of candidates and the election of a
representative to the central committee of the Smithsonian Institu-
tion on the Joint Congressional Commission on the Reclassification
of Salaries. A representative of the American National Red Cross
addressed the employees of the Institution in the north hall of the
Natural History Building on August 8, explaining the purpose of its
salvage department in collecting old materials, such as waste paper,
metals, bottles, and other objects, and converting the same into funds.
The meetings of the Smithsonian Red Cross Auxiliary, the Smith-
sonian Relief Association, and other similar bodies, were held in
rooms on the third floor of the Natural History Building, as was also
the lecture by Doctor Rabe before the women employees of the In-
stitution on January 3, at the instance of the War Camp Community
Service.
ORGANIZATION, AND CHANGES IN STAFF.
The scope of the United States National Museum embraces many
subjects, which may be classed under the following headings :
1. Natural historj^, comprising zoolog;^', botany, geology, mmeral-
ogy, paleontology, physical anthropolog}^, ethnology, and archeology.
2. Applied science and art (Arts and Industries).
3. The fine arts (National Gallery of Art).
4. American history.
At the capitals of the principal countries abroad there are gen-
erally'' several separate Government museums for these various classes,
notably in London and Paris, resulting from the independent origin
of the different collections. In London, for example, the subjects
combined in the United States National Museum are distributed
between two sections of the British Museum (Bloomsbury and South
Kensington), the Victoria and Albert- Museum, the Science Museum,
the Museum of Practical Geolog}^ Bethnal Green Museum, the Yv^al-
lace Collection, the several national galleries of art, and others. In
Washington, on the contrary and very fortunately, the entire museum
scheme has, by law, been essentially combined under one administra-
tion, which not only insures greater economy in management, but
permits of a more logical classification and arrangement, the elimina-
tion of duplication, and a consequent reduction in the relative amount
of space required.
The national collections of the United States are not yet to be
compared as a whole with those of certain European capitals, though
in natural history they are probably not surpassed there. In respect
to the fine arts, the Freer collection comprises the most important
36 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919.
representation of oriental art in the world. However, in the fine
arts generally and in the useful or industrial arts the National
Museum has a great task before it, possible of accomplishment only
when requisite facilities are supplied.
Steps were taken during the year looking to the more definite
organization of the department of arts and industries. Elaborate
classifications have been proposed from time to time, but none of
these have been strictly followed in the arrangement of the collec-
tions, due mainly to the limitation of space. Work is being chiefly
centered at present on those subdivisions which are most prominent
in relation to current industrial affairs, but there are other subdivi-
sions with important collections which are not represented by experts
on the staff from lack of funds for their employment. As at present
constituted the department of arts and industries may be consid-
ered to consist of: The division of mineral teclinology; the divi-
sion of textiles; the section of wood technology; the section of foods;
the di'V'ision of medicine ; and the division of mechanical technology,
the latter transferred from the department of anthropology at the
close of the fiscal year.
There were a number of changes in the scientific staff. On March
31, 1919, Mr. J. C. Crawford resigned his position as associate cura-
tor of insects, though continuing to serve as custodian of Hymenop-
tera. Dr. John M. Aldrich, earlier in the year made custodian of
Diptera, was transferred on April 4, from the Department of Agri-
culture to succeed Mr. Crawford as associate curator. Dr. "W. M.
Mann was made assistant custodian of Hymenoptera, Mr. William
Schaus assistant custodian of Lepidoptera. and Mr. Charles T.
Green assistant custodian of Diptera.
After long carrying the administrative duties of the division, Dr.
Charles W. Eichmond, assistant curator, was advanced to the posi-
tion of associate curator of birds on September 1, 1918. The section
of birds' eggs was, on August 20, placed in charge of Mr. Bradshaw
H. Swales, as custodian.
On his return to the Museum on January 1, from military duty,
Mr. Neil M. Judd was promoted to curator of American archeology'',
Doctor Holmes wishing to be relieved of the immediate charge of that
division. Mr. Philip A. Means was appointed a collaborator in
archeology for two years, from March 1, 1919.
Dr. Joseph E, Pogue was advanced on September 30, from assist-
ant curator to curator of mineral technologv. From October 1 to
April 8 he was furloughed from the Museum to the Fuel Adminis-
tration, to assist in formulating a conservation program with refer-
ence to petroleum resources. Mr. Cai*l W. Mitman, who severed
his connection with the scientific staff of the Museum in 1917, re-
turned to the Museum on October 9, 1918, as assistant curator of
REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919. 37
mineral technology, by transfer from the Department of Agriculture.
The resignation of Dr. James C. Martin as assistant curator of
physical and chemical geolog}', on May 6, resulted in the appoint-
ment of Mr. Earl V. Shannon to that position, and Mr. William F.
Foshag was made assistant curator of mineralogy and petrology on
June 27. Mrs. Eula D. McEwan resigned as aid in pa.leobotany on
September 25, 1918, and was succeeded on April 1 by Miss Lucile
Simpson.
By a readjustment of the routine of the department of biology,
Dr. James E. Benedict's title was changed on December 4, from
chief of exhibits to assistant curator, with duties directly under the
head curator of the department. Mr. Isaac Ginsburg, aid in the
division of fishes, severed his connection with the Museum on De-
cember 19, 1918.
Pending the appointment of a curator of mechanical technology
to succeed Mr. Maynard, Dr. Walter Hough was asked to give a
certain general oversight to the division of mechanical technology,
and Mr. Richard G. Paine was transferred to the division as aid on
October 1.
On November 1, 1918, Miss Marie V. Schiffer, stenographer and
typewriter in the division of history, was advanced to the position of
aid in that division.
During the first half of the year the following were gi-anted fur-
loughs to enable them to render military or naval service to the
country: W. M. N. Watkins, assistant curator of wood technology;
E. J. Weiskoff, electrician; Fred Kaske, skilled laborer; William F.
Best, watchman, and Charles Dishman and Alfred Frazier, laborers.
The following, upon completion of military or naval duty, re-
turned during the year to their positions in the Museum: Neil M.
Judd, E. J. Weiskoff, Fred Kaske, Louis Goldberg, William F. Best,
R. E. Eoper, Alfred Frazier, Bernard I. Jackson, J. E. Baldel,
Roland Wells, and Charles Dishman. The last four, however, soon
severed their connection here for more remunerative employment
elsewhere.
The year was marked by the passing away of an unusual number
of persons long connected with the Museum. Besides Mr. Eathbun,
Mr. Turner, and Mr. Crowninshield, whose deaths have been hereto-
fore noted, mention should be made of Mr. George C. Maynard,
curator of mechanical technology; Mr. A. Howard Clark, honorary
curator of history; Mr. E. P. Upham, aid in American archeology;
Mr. Frederick Knab, honorary custodian of Diptera; Mr. W. E.
DeEiemer, of the clerical staff; Mr. W. C. Weeden, of the watch
force, and Eldridge Hawkins, a laborer, who was for many years
a familiar figure about the Smithsonian Building.
38 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919.
NECROLOGY.
Richard Rathbiin, late assistant secretary of the Smithsonian In-
stitution, and for nearly 20 years in charge of the United States Na-
tional Museum, was born in Buffalo, New York, January 25, 1852,
and died in Washington, D. C, July 16, 1918. He attended the
public schools until the age of 15 years, when he entered the service
of a firm of contractors, AVliitmore, Rathbun & Co., the owners of
several quarries in western New York. He continued with this firm
for a period of four years as bookkeeper, financial clerk, and over-
seer of work, thereby obtaining a good knowledge of business
methods.
At the age of 16 years, attracted by the fossils in the quarries
referred to, he began a study of the paleontology of the region about
Buffalo, to which, however, he could only devote his holidays and
evenings. He founded the collection of paleontology in the museum
of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, of which section he be-
came the curator. The unique and undescribed species obtained by
him were, however, turned over later to the Museum of Comparative
Zoology of Harvard University.
In 1871, when 19 years old, he met Charles Frederic Hartt, pro-
fessor of geology at Cornell University, and a former pupil of Louis
Agassiz, by whom he was persuaded to give up business and devote
his life to science. He accordingly entered Cornell University, and,
while pursuing a regular course, his special studies were in geology
and paleontology.
Professor Hartt had accompanied Professor Agassiz to Brazil on
the famous Thayer expedition, and had made two subsequent trips
to that country. The Emperor, Dom Pedro II, had offered Hartt
his patronage in the organization of a geological survey of his coun-
try, and Mr. Rathbun, becoming imbued with the enthusiasm of his
chief, put himself in training for that field.
Soon after entering Cornell, the collections of Devonian and Cre-
taceous fossils previously obtained by Hartt in Brazil were turned
over to him for working up. The monographs on these two gi'oups
were finished in about two years, to the extent possible at Cornell
University. Mr. Rathbun then completed the work on the Devonian
paper at Albany, New York, with the assistance and advice of Prof.
James Hall. It was printed in 1874.
The paper on Cretaceous fossils required extensive studies at the
Museum of Comparative Zoology, whither he went in the spring of
1873, the last year of the life of Louis Agassiz, whose lectures he
attended. From this famous naturalist he received every kindness
and obtained free access to the collections. This paper was published
in 1875.
REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919. 39
The delay characteristic of Brazil retarded the establishment of
the survey, and, on the advice of Hartt, Mr. Rathbiin remained east,
not returning to complete his course at Cornell. He was the as-
sistant in zoology at the Boston Society of Natural History from
1873 to 1875, and during the same period continued work at the
Museum of Comparative Zoologj^, through the courtesy of Dr. Alex-
ander Agassiz. During the summers of 1874 and 1875 he also served
as a volunteer scientific assistant under Professor Baird in the ma-
rine explorations of the Fish Commission on the New England
coast, this being his first connection with the Smithsonian Institu-
tion.
In the autumn of 1875 he received directions from the Brazilian
minister at Washington to report at Kio de Janeiro, as geologist of
the Geological Commission of Brazil. He reached his destination
in December, and remained in Brazil until March, 1878, when his
chief. Professor Hartt, died of yellow fever. As the party was
small, the duties of each member were unusually varied and exten-
sive, being divided between the field and the headquarters at Rio de
Janeiro. Mr. Rathbun began field work in the region about the Bay
of Bahia, and continued thence down the coast of the Province of
the same name to near its southern end. Extensive deposits of coal,
reputed to occur in parts of this region, constituted one of the special
objects of the trip, but the geology was studied in all respects and
also the extensive coral reefs which lie along this coast and the
ethnology of the Indian tribes living but a short distance inland.
The report upon the geology and coral reefs was published in the
archives of the National Museum of Brazil.
Mr. Rathbun's second piece of field work was through the central
and southern parts of the Province of Sao Paulo to determine the
mineral and especially the coal resources, which proved very unim-
portant, though he had the opportunity of working out the origin
of the rich red lands which produce the famous coffee of that region.
On returning to the United States, Mr. Rathbun brought with him
complete series of the Devonian and Cretaceous fossils and of the
corals, which have since, through exchange, become the property of
the United States National Museum. He began the study of this
material and published a few papers upon it, but new duties occupy-
ing all of his time, the remainder was turned over to other specialists.
In the spring of 1878 Mr. Rathbun was offered by Professor Baird
and accepted the position of scientific assistant on the United States
Fish Commission. He continued in this service, with promotions,
until the close of 1896. In the beginning there was not room at
Washington for the Fish Commission collections and they were kept
at the Museum of Yale Univei'sity under Professor Verrill, to whoip
40 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919.
he was detailed as assistant. He was also during that time assistant
in zoology at Yale University.
In 1880, owing to the near completion of the brick structure of the
United States National Museum, now the Arts and Industries Build-
ing, he was transferred from New Haven to Washington, and brought
with him a part of the collections which had been stored at the
former place. He was also made curator of the department of
marine invertebrates in the National Museum, an office which he
held until 1914. For some time after 1880, therefore, he was both an
assistant on the Fish Commission and a curator in the Museum.
Professor Baird, acquainted with his early business training, as-
signed Mr. Rathbun to many administrative duties, which increased
in amount and responsibility until the former's death in 1887.
Although Professor Verrill, of Yale University, was the nominal
head of the summer investigations of the Fish Commission up to
1887, during much of the time Mr. Eathbun was expected to take the
active charge of the laboratories, steamers, and equipment, and to be
responsible for the arrangements in general. The collections were
mostly assorted under his supervision for distribution to specialists.
His own studies related to the commercial fisheries and to the work-
ing up of the natural history of several groups of invertebrates. To
the latter he continued to give attention until his administrative
duties compelled him to turn the material over to some half dozen
experts, whose reports are being published from time to time by the
National Museum.
Before his death Professor Baird arranged that Mr. Rathbun's
duties should be transferred wholly to the Museimi. Dr. G. Brown
Goode, then Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, tem-
porarily succeeded Professor Baird as Fish Commissioner, and at
his request Mr. Eathbun remained with the Commission, in conse-
quence of his experience in the work. Col. Marshall McDonald was
soon made permanent Commissioner, and Mr. Eathbun continued with
him until his death in 1895, as chief executive officer and in charge
of the scientific work. He was acting commissioner during three or
four months of each year, and entirely revised the methods and
purposes of the scientific inquiries, directing them in practical chan-
nels to meet the laws of Congress.
The Fish Commission having changed in character in 1896,
Mr. Eathbun was glad to accept the invitation of Secretary Langley
to enter the administrative service of the Smithsonian Institution,
two vacancies having occurred through the death of Doctor Goode
and Mr. Winlock. He was first put in charge of the office and ex-
changes, but after a year and a half was given direction of the
Museum, with which he had been connected since 1880.
REPORT OF NATIOliTAL MUSEUM, 1919. 41
Some of the special work performed by him in connection with
the Fish Commission was as follows:
In 1880 and 1881 he was employed upon the fishery investigations
of the Tenth Census, reporting as follows : On the natural history
of, and the fisheries for, the commercial lobsters, crabs, shrimps,
corals, and sponges; the marine fishing grounds of North America
and the ocean temperatures of the Atlantic coast of the United
States; amounting in all to 550 quarto pages, with lOG plates.
In 1891, at the request of the Secretary of State, he assisted Gen.
John W. Foster in preparing material for the United States case at
the Paris fur-seal tribunal. He had the services of several experts,
and was called to report upon the laws of all nations relating to the
extra-limital fisheries for whales, hair seals, fishes, precious corals,
pearls, trex)ang, etc., and also upon the distribution and habits of
these forms. Eeports of progress were made daily to General Foster
and the completed rejjort consisted of two large volumes of type-
writing, the more essential parts of which were incorporated in the
extended brief of the American agent.
During the entire period of the fur-seal inquiries Mr. Eathbun
was in charge of the investigations, except those of the first inter-
national commission. The steamer Albatross made yearly trips to
Bering Sea with one or more experts, who were charged with the
Etudy of the habits of these animals, and with making an annual
comparative record of their distribution and numbers by written
notes and identical series of photographs. The work was also ex-
tended to the Russian islands.
The most important international commission to the Fur Seal
Islands was the one dispatched in 1896. This expedition, with the
cooperation of the Secretary of State, was conducted by the Treasury
Department. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Charles S. Hamlin
was in immediate charge of the case and Mr. Rathbun was called to
be his chief adviser. The latter was asked to become the head of
the American commission, but, declining, was requested to nominate
its members, which he did. Mr. Rathbun also prepared the instruc-
tions for the commission, which entered into every detail and every
accusation on the part of Canada.
In December, 1892, Mr. Rathbun was appointed by President Har-
rison, as the American representative on the Joint Commission with
Great Britain to study the condition of the fisheries in the boundary
waters between the United States and Canada and the seacoast waters
adjacent to the two countries, and to report such measures as might
be deemed necessary to insure the protection of these fisheries. No
similar investigation of such magnitude and importance Avas ever
before attempted and four years were required for its accomplish-
42 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919.
ment. A large part}' of experts was put in the field on the part of
the United States, and Canada assisted to the extent of its facilities.
Mr. Rathbun himself visited every point of interest, starting with
the Gulf of St. Lawrence, continuing through the fresh-water sys-
tems, including the Great Lakes, and ending at Cape Flattery at the
west. The report submitted to the Department of State on December
31, 1896, was transmitted by the President to Congress and pri"nted.
On February 1, 1897, Mr. Eathbun was made an Assistant Secretary
of the Smithsonian Institution, and on July 1, 1898, was given, in
addition, charge of the National Museum. He continued in this posi-
tion up to the time of his death. During this period he served as
Acting Secretary during three or four months of each year, and also
during the year following the death of Secretary Langley, in Feb-
ruary', 1906.
It is almost impossible to attempt to consider in detail the many
ramifications of the great work that he accomplished, and naturally
the minor, but certainly not unimportant, interests are obscured by
the larger events to which he gave the later years of his life.
The most important of these was the construction of the new Mu-
seum building, in which the natural history collections are preserved.
His intense interest in this undertaking, which never flagged during
the many years of preparation and construction as well as his re-
markable capacity for studying detail, is perhaps best shown by
his careful preliminary study, " The United States National Mu-
seum. An Account of the Buildings Occupied by the National Col-
lections," that appeared in the annual report of the United States
National Museum for 1903, and in the descriptive account of the
Natural History Building of the United States National Museum,
that forms No. 80 of the bulletin series, published in 1913 on the
completion of the building.
With an interest equal to that shown by him in the construction of
the new Museum building, he undertook the development of the
National Gallery of Art, an important feature of the Smithsonian
Institution, which, although the one mentioned first in the funda-
mental act, had remained dormant for lack of adequate facilities.
A permanent record of this development has been left b}' Mr. Eath-
bun in Bulletin No. 70 of the United States National Museum, under
the title of " The National Gallery of Art, Department of Fine Arts
of the National Museum," a volume remarkable for its artistic ap-
pearance, to every detail of which he gave his personal attention.
In his later years his spare time was devoted to gathering data for
a history of the National Museum from its beginnings. In connec-
tion with these studies a first volume was issued on " The Columbian
Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences. A Washington
Society of 1816-1838. which established a Museum and Botanic Gar-
EEPORT OF j^ATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919. 43
den under Government Patronage," which was published in 1917 as
No. 101 of the bulletin series of the National Museum. A second
volume on the National Institute, 1810-1862, established for the pro-
motion of science, is nearly completed.
The last report prepared by Mr. Rathbun and issued shortly be-
fore his death is that entitled " The Smithsonian Institution, United
States National Museum," occupying pages 381r-398 of " Public
Buildings in the District of Columbia," a report of the Public Build-
ings Commission, presented to Congress in the interest of adequate
Government buildings. Here are set forth briefly and comprehen-
sively the value and the needs of the different branches of the Mu-
seum, with recommendations as to the best methods of supplying
those needs in the immediate future.
LIST OF PtJBLISHED WRITINGS BY EICHABD BATHBTJN.
On the Devonian Brachiopoda of Erei'^, Province of Pard, Brazil. Bull. Buf-
falo Soc. of Nat. Sci. for 1874, vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 236-261, pis. 8-10.
Morgan expedition, 1870, Ch. Fred, Hartt, in charge. Preliminary report
on the Cretaceous lamellibranchs collected in the vicinity of Pernambuco, Bra-
zil. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist, for 1874, vol. 17, pp. 241-256.
Morgan expedition, 1870-71, Ch. Fred. Hartt, in charge. On the Devonian
Trilobites and moUusks of Erere, Province of Parfi,, Brazil. (Joint author with
Ch. Fred. Hartt.) Annals, Lyceum of Natural History, New York, vol. 11,
pp. 110-127. (May, 1875.)
The geological commission of Brazil. Additions to the Echlnoid fauna of
Brazil. Amer. Jouru. Sci. and Arts, ser. 3, vol. 15, pp. 82-84. (1878.)
The Devonian Brachiopoda of the Province of Para, Brazil. Proc. Boston
Soc. Nat. Hist, for 1878, vol. 20, pp. 14-59.
Notes on the coral reefs of the Island of Itaparica, Bahia, and of Parahyba do
Norte. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist, for 1378, vol. 20, pp. 39-41.
Observagoes sobre a Geologia aspecto do Ilha de Itaparica, na Bahia de Todog
OS Santos. Archivos do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro, vol. 3, pp. 159-
183. (1878.)
Explorations in Brazil. Work of the late Professor Hartt. New York Daily
Tribune, May 4, 1878.
Sketch of Prof. C. F. Hartt. Pop. Sci. Month., vol. 13, pp.. 231-235, with por-
trait as frontispiece. (June, 1878.)
Work of the Fish Commission. New York Daily Tribune, Nov. 5, 1878.
Sketch of the life and scientific work of Prof. Charles Fred. Hartt. Proc.
Boston Soc. Nat. Hist, for 1878, vol. 19, pp. 338-364. Reprinted. New Haven,
1879. Pp. 38.
Translation from the Portuguese of " The artificial mounds of the Island of
Maraj6, Brazil," by Orville A. Derby. Amer. Nat., vol. 13, pp. 224-229. (April,
1879.)
A list of the Brazilian echinoderms, with notes on their distribution, etc.
Trans. Connecticut Acad, of Arts and Sciences for 1879, vol. 5, pp. 139-158.
List of marine invertebrata from the New England coast, distributed by the
United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Series I. (Distributed in 50
sets, put up by Mr. Richard Rathbun, under the direction of Prof. A. E. Verrill,
1879.) Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1879, vol. 2, pp. 227-232.
44 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919.
List of the dredf^ing stations of tlie United States Fisli Commission from 1871
to 1879, inclusive, with temperature and other observations. Arranged for pub-
lication by Sanderson Snuth and liichard Rathbun. Ann. Rep. Commissioner of
Fish and Fisheries for 1879, pp. 1-43.
Professor Hartt on the Brazilian sandstone reefs. Amer. Nat., vol. 13, pp.
347-358. (June, 1879.)
Review of O. A. Derby's " The geology of the Lower Amazonas." Amer.
Journ. Sci. and Arts. ser. 3, vol. 17, pp. 464-468. (June, 1879.)
Brazilian corals and coral reefs. Amer. Nat., vol. 13, pp. 539-551, one text
tigure. (Sept., 1879.)
Review of O. A. Derby's "The geology of the Diamantiferous region of the
Province of ParanA, Brazil." (Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, May 16, 1879.) Amer.
.Tourn. Sci. and Arts. ser. 3, vol. 18, pi). 310, 311. (Oct., 1879.)
The littoral marine fauna of Provincetown, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Proc.
U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1880, vol. 3, pp. 116-133.
Re\aew of lecture of Prof. A. E. Verrill on the Devil-fish of the North Atlantic.
New York Times, March 13, 1880.
Review of lecture of Prof. William H. Brewer on the Triumphs of science over
disease. New York Times, March IS, 1880.
Researches in science. [This and the three following are discussions of the
National Academy.] New York Times, April 22, 1880.
Onward steps in science. Results of the work of investigators. New York
Times, April 23, 1880.
Work in scientific paths. Investigations presenting and comparing results.
New York Times, April 24, 1880.
Seeking facts in science. New York Times, April 25, 1880.
Review of Orville A. Derby's " On the age of the Brazilian gneiss series. Dis-
covery of Eozoon." Amer. .Tourn. Sci.. ser. 3, vol. 19, pp. 324-326. April, 1880.
Studying the sea bottom. Golden Days, vol. 1, No. 16, June 19, 1880.
Remarks on the scientific results of the season's explorations. Ann. Rept.
Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries for 1881, pp. 38-41.
List of marine invertebrates, mainly from New England coast, distributed by
the United States National Museum. Series II. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1881,
vol. 4. pp. 298-303.
List of marine invertebrates from the New England coast, distributed by the
United States National Museum. Series III, Educational Series. Proc. U. S.
Nat. Mus. for 1881, vol. 4, pp. 304-307.
The giant squid. St. Nicholas, vol. 8, pp. 266-270, 5 plates. (Feb., 1881.)
Reports on the Department of Marine Invertebrates in the United States Na-
tional Museum for years 1881-1892, inclusive. By Richard Rathbun, curator.
Annual Reports of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing
the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution for the several
years. Washington, Government Printing Office, various dates.
Dredging stations of the United States Fish Commission steamer Fish Hawk.
Lieut. Z. L. Tanner commanding, for 1880, 1881, and 1882, with temperature and
other observations. Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. for 1882, vol. 2, pp. 119-131.
Notes on the shrimp and prawn fisheries of the United States. Bull. U. S.
Fish Comm. for 1882, vol. 2, pp. 139-152.
List of duplicate marine invertebrates distributed by the United States Na-
tional IMuseum. Series IV — Educational series No. 2. Prepared under the
direction of. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1883, vol. 6, pp. 212-216.
The United States Fish Commission steamer Albatross. Science, vol. 2, pp.
6-10, 66-72. (1883.)
Sponge culture in Florida. Science, vol. 2, p. 213. (1883.)
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Collection of economic crustaceans, worms, ecliinoderms, and sponges. Great
International Fisheries Exhibition, London, 1883. U. S. of America. B. Wash-
ington, 1883, pp. 31. Keprinted in Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1884, No. 27, pp.
107-137.
Descriptive catalogue of the collection illustrating the scientific investigation
of the sea and fresh waters. Great International Fisheries l-jxhibitlon, London,
1883. U. S. of America. G. Washington, 1883, pp. 109. Reprinted in Bull.
U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1884, No. 27, pp. 511-622.
The American initiative in methods of deep-sea dredging. Science, vol. 4, pp.
54-57. (1884.)
American appliances for deep-sea investigation. Science, vol. 4, pp. 146-151,
225-229, 400-404, with numerous text illustrations. (1884.)
Annotated list of the described species of parasitic Copepoda (Siphonostouia)
from American waters contained in the United States National Museum. I'roc.
U. S. Nat. i\Ius. for 1884, vol. 7, pp. 4S3-492.
Notes on the decrease of lobsters, [A paper read before the Fishcultural As-
sociation.] Forest and Stream, vol. 23, p. 89. (Aug. 28, 1884.)
Notes on the decrease of lobsters. Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. for 1884, vol. 4,
pp. 421-426.
Crustaceans, worms, radiates and sponges. The fisheries and fishery indus-
tries of the United States, prepared through the cooperation of the Commis-
sioner of Fisheries and the Superintendent of the Tenth Census by George
Bro\\na Goode, Assistant Director of the U. S. National Museum, and a staff of
associates. Section I, Natural history of aquatic animals. Part V, pp. 759-850,
pis. 260-277. Washington, Government Printing Office. 1884.
Report upon the Echini collected by the United States Fish Commission
steamer Albatross, in the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of ivlexico, January to May,
1884. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1885, vol. 8, pp. 83-89.
Report upon the Echini collected by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer Alba-
tross in the Gulf of Jlexico from January to March, 1885. Proc. U. S. Nat.
Mus. for 1885, vol. 8, pp. 606-620.
Notice of a coUectiou of stalked crinoids made by the steamer Albatross in
the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, 1884 and 1885. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.
for 1885, vol. 8, pp. 628-635.
A crab invasion. Science, vol, 6, pp. 135, 136. (1885.)
Catalogue of the collection of recent Echini in the United States National
Museum (corrected to July 1, 1886). Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1886, vol. 9,
pp. 255-293.
Descriptions of parasitic copepods belonging to the genera Pandarus and
Chondracanthus. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1886, vol. 9, pp. 310-324, pis. 5-11.
Notes on lobster culture. Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. foi- 1886, vol. 6, pp. 17-32.
Catalogue of the species of corals belonging to the genus Madrepora, con-
tained in the United States National Museum. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1887,
vol. 10, pp. 10-19.
Annotated catalogiie of the species of Porites and Synarsea in the United
States National Museum, with a description of a new species of Porites. Proc.
U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1887, vol. 10, pp. 354-366, pis. 1,5-16
Descriptions of the species of Heliaster (a genus of starfishes) represented
in the U. S. National Museum. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1887, vol. 10, pp.
440-449, pis. 23-26.
Descriptions of new species of parasitic copepods. belonging to the genera
Trebius, Perissopus, and Lernanthropus. Proc. U, S. Nat. Mus, for 1887, vol.
10, pp. 559-571, pis. 29-35.
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The fishing grounds Of North America. Edited by Richard Rathbun. The
fisheries and fishery industries of the United States, prepared through the co-
operation of the Commissioner of Fisheries and the Superintendent of the
Tentli Census by George Brown Goode, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian
Institution, and a staff of associates. Section III, pp. vii-xviii, 5-154, 49 charts.
Washington, Government Printing Office, 1887.
Ocean temperatures of the eastern coast of the United States, with 32 charts.
The fisheries and fishery industries of the United States, prepared through the
cooperation of the Commissioner of Fisheries and the Superintendent of the
Tenth Census by George Brown Goode, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian
Institution, and a staff of associates. Section III, pp. 155-238, 32 plates.
Washington, Government Printing Office, 1887.
The crab, lobster, ci-ayfish, rocli-lobster, shrimp and prawn fisheries. The
fisheries and fishery industries of the United States, prepared through the co-
operation of the Commissioner of Fisheries and the Superintendent of the
Tenth Census by George Brown Goode, Assistant Secretary of the Smitlisonian
Institution, and a staff of associates. Section V. History and methods of the
fisheries. II. Part XXI, pp. 627-810, pis. 24&-252. Washington, Govern-
ment Printing Office, 1887.
The leech industry and trepang fishery. The fisheries and fishery industries
of the United States, prepared through the cooperation of the Commissioner of
Fisheries and the Superintendent of the Tenth Census by George Brown Goode,
Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and a staff of associates.
Section V. History and methods of the fisheries. II. Part XXII, pp. 811-
816. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1887.
The sponge fishery and trade. The fisheries and fishery industries of the
United States, prepared through the cooperation of the Commissioner of Fish-
eries and the Superintendent of the Tenth Census by George Brown Goode,
Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and a staff of associates.
Section V. History and methods of the fisheries. II. Part XXIII, pp. 817-841,
pis. 2.53-255. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1887.
Results of investigations by the schooner Grampus on the southern mackerel
grounds in the spring of 1887. (Joint author with D. E. Collins and T. H.
Bean.) Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. for 1887, vol. 7, pp. 217-267.
Sponges and sponge fishery. The Chautauquan, March, 1887, pp. 352-354.
The transplanting of lobsters to the Pacific coast of the United States.
Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. for 1888, vol. 8, pp. 453^72, pi. 71.
Reports upon the inquiry respecting food fishes and the fishing grounds.
Ann. Reports U. S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Reports of the com-
missioner for years 1888-1896, inclusive. Washington, Government Printing
Office, various dates.
The United States Fish Commission. Some of its work. Century Mag., vol.
43, pp. 679-697, 19 text figures. (1892.)
Jerome Henrj' Kidder. Bull. Philos. Soc. of Washington, vol. 11, pp. 480-
488. (1892.)
Report of the joint commission of the United States and Great Britain
relative to the preservation of the fisheries in waters contiguous to the United
States and Canada, under agreement of December 6, 1892, by Richard Rathbun,
representative on behalf of the United States, and William Wakeham, repre-
sentative on behalf of Great Britain. Transmitted to the Congress of the
United States by the President under date of February 24, 1897. Washington,
D. C. Government Printing Office, 1897, pp. 178.
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A review of the fisheries in the contiguous waters of the State of Washing-
ton and British Columbia. Report of the U. S. Commissioner of Fish and
Fisheries for 1899, pp. 251-350, pis. S-16.
Reports upon the condition and progress of the U. S. National Museum
during the years ending June 30, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902. 1903, 1904, 1905, and
1906, b.v Richard Rathbun, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution,
in charge of the U. S. National Museunf. Annual reports of the Board of
Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures,
and condition of the Institution for the years ending June 30, 1899, 1900, 1901,
1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, and 1906. Reports of the U. S. National Museum. Wash-
ington. Government Printing Office, various dates.
Reports upon the condition and progress of the U. S. National Museum
during the years ending June 30, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914,
1915, 1916, and 1917, by Richard Rathbun, Assistant Secretary of the Smith-
sonian Institution, in charge of the U. S. National Museum. Washington,
Government Printing Office, various dates.
The United States National Museum : An account of the buildings occupied
by the national collections. Ann. Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1903, pp. 177-309,
pis. 1-29.
Statement relative to the United States National Museum, the national mu-
seums of London, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna, and the American Museum of
Natural History in New York City. New building for the U. S. National
Museum. 57th Cong., 2d sess., H. Doc. No. 314, pp. 2-18, 4 plates. Govern-
ment Printing Office, 1903.
Address of welcome to the U, S. National Museum, Washington, D. C. BI-
Monthly Bulletin, Amer. Institute of Mining Engineers, No. 4, July, 1905,
pp. 923-928.
Statement to the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. November
28, 1906, pp. 12. Privately printed.
The National Gallery of Art. Department of Fine Arts of the National
Museum. Bull. 70, U. S. Nat. Mus. Washington, Government Printing Office,
1909, pp. 140, 26 plates. Reprint, with additions. 1916. Pp. 189, 26 plates.
A descriptive account of the building recently erected for the departments of
natural history of the United States National Museum. Bull. 80, U. S.
Nat. Mus. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1913, pp. 131, 34 plates.
The Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences. A Wash-
ington society of 1816-1838 which established a museum and botanic garden
under Government patronage. Bull. 101, U. S. Nat. Mus. Washington, Govern-
ment Printing Office, 1917, pp. 85.
The Smithsonian Institution. United States National Museum. Public
Buildings in the District of Columbia. Report of the Public Buildings Com-
mission. 65th Cong., 2d sess., S. Doc. No. 155, pp. 34&-398. Government
Printing Office, 1918.
Alonzo Howard Clark was born in Boston, April 13, 1850. He
was educated at Wesleyan Uniyersity, from which he received the
honorary degree of M. A. in 1906. After eight years of mercantile
business in New York, Mr. Clark entered the Government service
in 1879, in charge of the United States Fish Commission station
at Gloucester, Massachusetts, and special agent of the Tenth Census.
In 1881 he came to the United States National Museum as curator
of the division of history, and latei- was made editor of the Smith-
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sonian Institution, which position he held until his death on Decem-
ber 31, 1918.
Mr. Clark was deeply interested in all matters of a patriotic and
historic nature, and was connected with many patriotic organiza-
tions, among them the Sons of the American Revolution, of which he
was secretary general and registrar general; the Society of May-
flower Descendants; and the Society of Colonial Wars. He served
as assistant United States commissioner to the International Expo-
sition in London, 1883, expert commissioner and member of the jury
of awards at the Paris Exposition of 1889, delegate to the Interna-
tional Geographic Congress at Paris in 1889, and was decorated by
the President of France with the cross of an OfScier du Merite Ajrri-
cole of France.
It was through Mr. Clark's efforts, under the opportunities afforded
by the generous administrative policy of Dr. G. Brown Goode, that
the beginnings were made of the present great historical collections
in the National Museum. His experience in historical and genea-
logical research and his wide connection with historical and patriotic
societies especially fitted him for the task of developing an exhibit
in the Museum which would show by means of relics and mementos
the various periods in the history of the country. Closely related
to this phase of Mr. Clark's activity was his work as secretary of
the American Historical Association from 1889 to 1908 and as cura-
tor from 1889 until the time of his death.
George Colton Maynard died July 28, 1918. He entered the Mu-
seum as custodian of the section of electricity in 1896. Subsequently
he was made curator of the division of mechanical technology, which
position he filled at the time of his death.
Of distinguished New England ancestry, he was born in Ann
Arbor, Michigan, on October 23, 1839. After the usual common-school
education, his attention was directed to the then growing subject of
telegraphy, and he became an expert operator. In this specialty
he became so proficient and his patriotism was so great that during
the Civil War he gladly proffered his services to his Government,
and he was called to Washington, where he participated in the great
work of those eventful years, being a sad witness of the culminating
tragedy in Ford's Theater, in 1865.
His interest in his vocation was not a nominal one, and possessing
mechanical acquaintance of the details of telegraphy, his Imowledge
was sought by the larger corporations which at that time were de-
veloping. His valuable service was recognized and he had much to
do with the building of important telegraph lines.
As the telegraph yielded to the telephone, he became associated
in the early history of its development with Gardiner Greene Hub-
bard and Alexander Graham Bell, and had general control of the
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Bell telephone system in the District of Columbia. He made himself
the historian of the beginnings of this industry by his many reminis-
cent articles, both on the telephone and the telegraph.
As he grew older his knowledge was often sought by the authori-
ties of the United States National Museum, and his interest in the
growth of the collection was so genuine that is 1886 he was called
to the care of the section of electricity. His association with the
greatest minds in the inventive world gave him opportunities to add
materially to his section. It may be said that his contributions to
the division of mechanical technology, of which he became curator
in 1912, though in charge from 1903, have been such as to render
its present enlargement in great part the result of his untiring energy''.
Edwin Porter Upham, who had been associated with the archeo-
logical collections of the Museum since 1878, died on August 7, 1918.
He was bom in Weston, Massachusetts, March 6, 1845, the son of Joel
and Elizabeth Upham. He received a public school education, and at
the age of 19 joined the Forty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteer Eegi-
ment and was with that regiment during the remaining nine months
of the Civil War. In 1878 he came to Washington, where he entered
the service of the Smithsonian Institution as assistant to Dr. Charles
Rau, the noted archeologist. He remained with Doctor Eau until
the latter's death, and later became associated with Dr. Thomas Wil-
son. In 1906 he was made aid in the division of prehistoric arche-
ology, which position he held at the time of his death. His services
in the National Museum, always faithful and efficient, extended over
the exceptionally long period of 39 years and 8 months. Mr. Upham
early developed musical talent, and for a long period was violinist
in the Georgetown Orchestra. His proficiency as a musician was ap-
plied to the study of the scales of the numerous prehistoric musical
instruments in the national collections and formed the basis of sev-
eral papers by Doctor Wilson, including his chapters on wind instru-
ments in the Report of the United States National Museum for 1896.
Frederick Knab was born in Wurzburg, Bavaria, September 22,
1865, and came to the United States with his parents, who settled
in Chicopee, Massachusetts, in 1873. He inherited the artistic tem-
perament of the family and early devoted himself to drawing and
painting; but at the same time an interest in natural history led to
the accumulation of a collection of beetles and a study of their
biologies. This interest became so strong that in 1885-86 he made
a trip up the Amazon River as far as Peru, accumulating much ma-
terial and information which in his later studies of entomology were
of utmost importance to him.
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On his return to the United States he resumed his artistic work,
and in 1889 went to Munich, where he studied art for two years, after
which he established a studio in Chicopee, where for several years he
made landscape painting his profession.
During all this time he continued his study of the biologies of
North American beetles with Doctor Dimmock, and through the
latter, in 1903, secured the work of studying the life histories of the
New England species of mosquitoes for the monogi'aph of the mos-
quitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies, then
undertaken by Dr. L. O. Howard under a grant from the Carnegie
Institution of "Washington. This led to the further employment of
Mr. Knab on the same project, during which he made several trips
to the Tropics, and his increased activities in the subject and excel-
lent work in making the drawings of the larA'ae for this book led
to his being made coauthor of the monograph with Doctore Howard
and Dyar.
On October 26, 1910, he was made honorary custodian of Culicidao
in the division of insects, United States National Museum, and after
the death of ISIr. Coquillett he was made honorary custodian of
Diptera on September 1, 1911.
Alwaj'S an earne>=t student, he soon attained preeminence in his
newly chosen field, especially in the subject of insect-borne diseases,
and the amount of Avork done by him may be judged b}^ the long
list of titles of articles which he published, as well as by the numer-
ous notes published on the discussions of articles read before the
Entomological Society of Washington, all of which show his breadth
of knowledge and deep perception into all entomological problems.
During the last years of his life although constantly sulfering from
an obscure tropical disease, probably insect-borne, which finally
caused his death on November 2, 1918, he was always cheerful and
ready to help others, and he lived to see completed the monumental
work on mosquitoes to which he had so gi'eatly contributed.
The death of Mr. William T. Evans, at Glen Ridge, New Jersey,
on November 25, 1918, removes a benefactor to whom the National
Gallery of Art is greatl}^ indebted. By a series of donations, con-
tinuing through a period of some eight years, from March, 1907,
Mr. Evans presented to the Gallery what is regarded as one of the
choicest and best collections of contemporary American paintings
existing. This contains 150 paintings and 1 fire etching, represent-
ing 106 American artists, besides 1 bronze by an American sculptor,
and 115 examples of the work of 16 of the foremost American wood
engravers. The gift was made most unostentatiously, with the sole
purpose of establishing a gallery of American painting in the Na-
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tional Gallery, and represented the most valuable pictures in Mr.
Evans' private collection at the time.
Mr. Evans, of Welsh-Irish ancestry, vras born at Clough Jordan,
Ireland, in 1843, and was brought to this country by his parents
when a year old, fii-st settling in Scotch Plains, New Jersey, and later
moving to Jersey City. Mr. Evans graduated at the New York
Free Academy, studied architecture two years, and finally went into
business as an employee of E. S. Jaffray & Co. There he attracted
the attention of the late Philo Mills and John Gibb, and when they
founded their dry goods house of Mills & Gibb they entrusted the
financial management to Mr. Evans. Displaying marked business
ability he soon became a partner and later its president. He was an
intense worker day and night throughout the larger portion of his
life.
Mr. Evans formed three art collections. The first consisted of
modern foreign paintings and was sold in 1890, his interest in foreign
art leading to the decoration of St. Michael being conferred on him
by the Bavarian Government. Deciding to devote his energies and
purse to the advancement of American art, Mr. Evans began collect-
ing American paintings, buying judiciousl}'^ as well as generousl}^, and
in most instances from the artists who were struggling and unknown
to fame. He became a life member of the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, a member of the National Arts Club, Lotos Club, and Salma-
gundi Club, gave an annual prize for the American Water Color
Society, and developed his art work in manj^ other directions. The
sale of his second collection of paintings in January, 1900, was re-
garded as the turning point when American art came into its own.
In 1913 a third sale of paintings of his collecting again marked an
advance in the estimated worth of American paintings, and virtu-
ally ended his work as a collector. Mr. Evans did more than almost
any other collector to promote interest in American art, and to his
patronage many of the leading American artists to-da}^ owe their
first step toward success.
IMMEDIATE NEEDS OF THE MUSEIBI.
The pressing needs of the IMuseum are those for additional space
for the accommodation of collections and additional funds for the
increase in the scientific and technical staff. It is clearly manifest
that these needs must be met if the institution with its numerous
departments is to keep reasonable pace with the development of
the country as a whole. The space congestion especially becomes
more pronounced and embarrassing with each passing day.
The natural history collections and the laboratories connected
therewith require for their reasonable accommodation and admin-
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iistration the entire Natural History Building, a structure erected
especially for this particular purpose. To-day, however, large areas
in the building are assigned — and that from necessity — to the rapidly
growing collections of the National Gallery of Art and, in larger
measure even, to the great accumulations of historical material relat-
ing to the late war which are just now demanding adequate atten-
tion. The older building, designed to accommodate the nationally
important department of arts and industries — and not adequate in
space to serve this purpose — is half filled, and from absolute neces-
sity, with a great body of unrelated exhibits, representing history,
anthropolog}^, and art.
The National Gallery of Art, now for the first time taking an
enviable place among the galleries of the country, is crowded into
the Natural History Building without possibility of expansion, and
many liberally inclined collectors of art works, who seek a perma-
nent home for their treasures and who may be generously disposed
toward Washington, are necessarily met with the statement that
additional collections, if acquired, must go into storage. These pos-
sible benefactors of the nation are thus turned to other institutions
or toward the auction room. The Nation is accordingly deprived
of the possibility of building up, even by gift and bequest, collec-
tions of art such as are highly prized and fully provided for by
civilized nations generally. The sooner a building devoted to the
fine arts is provided, the more readily will the American people find
themselves in the forefront in all that characterizes to the highest
level of civilization.
American histor}^, one of the most essential and vital of the de-
partments of Museum activity, is not better provided for than art.
A building of an order commensurate with a great national purpose
is an absolute essential, and its erection should be provided for with,
the least possible delay.
DETAILED REPORTS ON THE COLLECTIONS.
REPORT ON THE DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY,
By W. H. Holmes, Head Curator.
In preparing the report of the Department of Anthropology for
the year the reports furnished by the several curators have been
freely utilized and in each case due credit has been given for the
work accomplished. In some of the divisions the work of the year
has been conducted under exceptional difficulties due to the occupa-
tion of certain exhibition halls of the Natural History Building by
the War Risk Bureau. The exhibits belonging to theise halls had to
be stored in other exhibition halls which were thus necessarily closed
to the curators as well as to the public. It is gi-atifying to observe,
however, that the restoration of the exhibits to their places has
afforded the opportunity of making noteworthy improvements in
their installation.
It may not be inappropriate to note in this place that the head
curator's lifelong interest in art. has led during past years to a con-
sidei^able expansion of his duties ; first to the care of the art works
and to consideration of the art side of installation generally, and
finally to his appointment as curator of the rapidly developing
National Gallery of Art — a work which has added greatly to his
responsibilities. In the 'administration of the two departments the
head curator has been assisted by Miss Louise A. Eosenbusch, re-
corder.
The additions to this department were received in 400 accessions,
with a total of 15,421 specimens, of which 3,088 were loans or de-
posits, classified and distributed as follows: Division of etlmology,
1,140 specimens; art textiles collections, 62 specimens; section of
musical instruments, 2 specimens ; section of ceramics, 476 specimens ;
division of physical anthropology, 233 specimens ; division of Ameri-
can archeology, 1,718 specimens; division of Old World archeology,
119 spocimcns; division of history, 10,274 specimens; historical cos-
tumes collections, 82 specimens; division of mechanical technology,
182 specimens; division of graphic arts, 1,127 specimens; section of
photography, 6 specimens. There were also received from various
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sources for examination and report 29 lots of specimens, diversified
in character and importance.
Ethnology. — The division continued under the curatorship of Dr.
Walter Hough, who, in addition, supervised the division of mechani-
cal technology, the sections of ceramics, art textiles, musical instru-
ments, and the collection of period costumes. In these varied duties
he was assisted by Mr. E. A. Allen. The diversified activities were
carried forward with the usual thoroughness, although some em-
barrassment resulted from the occupation of portions of the space
assigned to ethnology by the War Risk Bureau. The installation
is now, however, quite restored to the normal condition. Toward the
close of the year the curator was fortunate in obtaining, under the
auspices of the Bureau of American Ethnology, the opportunity
of undertaking certain researches among the ancient ruins of the
pueblo country.
Additions to the ethnological collections were somewhat less
numerous than during the preceding year, but the high standard
of scientific value was fully maintained. Accessions of exceptional
value are an interesting collection from the Celebes Islands, East
Indies, received as a gift from Dr. W. L. Abbott. It was collected
by Mr. H. C. Raven, and consists of basketry, costumes of bark
cloth, personal ornaments, charms, lime gourds, flutes, small bronze
castings, horn carvings, cocoanut shells, etc. The collection illus-
trates the extensive employment of decoration on articles of daily
use by the Celebes Islanders. Important material relating to the
life of the Haida and Tlinkit Indians of southeastern Alaska was
presented to the Museum by Dr. Edwin Kirk, of the United States
Geological Survey. It consists of baskets, burial chests, stone im-
plements, ceremonial headdresses, etc., numbering about 100 speci-
mens. A collection of 6 specimens of fine weavings, consisting of
pouches and blankets of Aymara Indians of Bolivia, South America,
was acquired. The fineness of the texture and the beauty of the dyes
relate these specimens to the ancient textiles of Peru and Bolivia.
Col. William B. Davis, United States Army, presented to the Mu-
seum an interesting collection of 21 pieces of Cuthead Sioux Indian
work secured by him at Fort Totten, Dakota, in 1878. Miss Isobel H.
Lenman added to her former loan contributions four accessions con-
sisting principally of Americana, notably several very old Bolivian
weavings of the finest materials and dye.
The exhibit collections being closed for reasons above stated,
the work was largely concentrated on the materials in the labora-
tories and in divisional storage. The curator continued investiga-
tion on the mutations of decorative designs on specimens from the
Celebes.
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Additions were made to the collection of data on heating and
illumination. A report on the explorations of the habitations of
New Mexican pit-dwellers investigated by the curator was finished
and printed. Interest was taken by the curator in war activities
and was extended to the Army Medical Museum, the Red Cross, the
National Research Council, and the Girl Scouts.
The division values its correspondents who have been in the past
instrumental in adding to its collections. Among these is Mr. Victor
J. Evans, who is collecting extensively in American ethnology and
whose collections are destined for the National Museum.
American archeology. — Owing to the absence in military service
of the assistant curator, Mr. Neil M. Judd, and to the failing health
of Mr. Edwin lP. Upham, aid, the division was under the direct
charge of the head curator during the first part of the year. On his
return, January 1, Mr. Judd was made curator of the division.
Toward the close of the year he, under temporary detail to the Bu-
reau of American Ethnology, was able to resume his archeological
researches in southwestern Utah and northwestern Arizona.
Although the new accessions are not so numerous as in preceding
years, the scientific value is well maintained. Some of the more
important of these are: A collection of 558 gold ornaments, with
shell and bone beads, from Colombia, South America, a loan from
Capt. Edward H. Watson, United States Navy, through Mrs. C. C.
Marsh, Washington, District of Columbia. A second large collec-
tion, lent by Mr. Robert Hinckley, Washington, District of Colum-
bia, consisting of prehistoric stone and earthenware artifacts from
the neighborhood of San Salvador and certain pottery vessels and
images made by natives in imitation of antiquities, 192 in all ; col-
ected by the late Hon. Thomas Hinckley, former United States
consul general and fii'st secretary of legation at Salvador, Central
America. A valuable collection of 155 Peruvian slings presented by
Dr. Ale§ Hrdhcka, of the United States National Museum. Two
hundred and nineteen stone objects of various types, potsherds and
fragments of soapstone vessels from ancient village sites on the
Susquehanna River at Great Bend, Pennsylvania, presented by Capt.
Richard C. Du Bois, United States Army (retired), Hallstead, Penn-
sylvania. Two fragments of human bones in which brass arrow
heads are imbedded, received as a transfer from the United States
Navy Department; they were discovered by Mr. C. S. Burrell, in
charge of the construction of new barracks at the United States
submarine base, New London, Connecticut, and are probably of
Norse origin.
Old World archeology. — Aside from the archeological problems
proper, Dr. I. M. Casanowicz, assistant curator of the division, has
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charge of the valuable relics of religious art which have a separate
installation. The accessions for the year are noteworthy for artistic
as well as for archeological value. A few of the more noteworthy
examples may be mentioned.
A Russian ecclesiastical cloth of silk, measuring 19 by 18 inches,
richly embroidered in gold and silk threads of various colors with
the figures of the Trinity, cherubim and seraphim and an inscription
in old-Slavonic letters, containing the words of the institution of
the Lord's Supper, Matthew xxvi, 27 and 28, which would indi-
cate that it was used as a cover for the chalice during the celebration
of the mass in a Russian church ; exchange with Mr. E. W. Keyser.
A finely executed bronze statuette of Dionysus (Bacchus), with
marble base about 12 inches high which, though found in Egypt, is
evidently of Roman origin. It represents the god of wine adorned
with a wreath of vine and wearing a panther skin, in a graceful
pose ; and two Phenician iridescent ointment bottles of peculiar shape
with concentric circles and undulating lines in relief; lent by Hon.
Hoffman Philip, Department of State. A bronze representing a
lamp, probably from a temple in India. From the semicircular res-
erv^oir project two graceful nozzles for wicks. From the base of
the reservoir rises a handle terminating in a palmette. The reservoir,
adorned with floral designs in relief, rests uj)on a tripod, the feet
of which terminate in claws and are joined by palmettes in openwork.
Lent by Miss Isobel H. Lenman. Another specimen, a Phenician
double glass bottle with a triple handle on the sides and an overarch-
ing handle on top, is lent by Miss Lenman.
The exhibition collection of historic religions was transferred from
the Arts and Industries Building toward the close of the year to the
Natural History Building, space being assigned the subject on the
first floor of the north wing.
Physical anthropology. — This division, which is under the di-
rection of Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, curator, is steadily advancing in prac-
tical usefulness and scientific importance. It is perhaps not too
much to say that it is fast becoming the recognized center of soma-
tological research and instruction in America. The collections of the
division, already very rich, are being steadily augmented by valu-
able additions, among which are : A large collection of skeletal ma-
terial from the ruined village of Hawikuli, Zuni, New Mexico, the
result of two seasons of excavating by Mr. F. W. Hodge for the
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, presented to the
National Museum with the imderstanding that it be described for
publication later. It comprises the remains of upward of 200 hu-
man skeletons and will be added to as further excavations are
undertaken. The scientific value of a collection so carefully made
and involving so many practically complete skeletons is very great.
REPORT OF ISTATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919. 57
Seven undefornied skulls in excellent state of preservation and a
lot of miscellaneous bones, from rarely visited parts of the territory
of the Tlingit and Haida Indians of the northwest coast, were re-
ceived as a gift from Dr. Edwin Kirk. A skeleton of an Indian,
possibly prehistoric, found on Snead's Island, Manatee County, Flor-
ida, was presented by Mr. Charles T. Earle, of that place. It is
well preserved and is a typical specimen of the broad-headed type
of Florida Indian.
Progress in caring for the collections and in new installation was
retarded during the earlier pait of the fiscal year by the lack of
help, in consequence of which a part of the recently acquired ma-
terial could not be marked. The lack of requisite space for storage
and installation is also keenly felt. However, the older collections
in the division are in excellent condition for study, and progress
has been made in installation.
Mechanical technology. — The collections of the division of mechan-
ical technolog}', since the demise of curator George C. Maynard,
were under the general supervision of the curator of ethnology,
assisted by Mr. E. G. Paine, aid, and Miss Barbara E. Bartlett,
clerk. Accessions of the year worthy of special mention are as
follows :
A remarkable sundial adapted for the latitude of Jerusalem, north
latitude 31° 47', presented by Mr. Claude L. WooUey, Baltimore,
Maryland. During the last few years Mr. "Woolley has contributed
19 sundials, which with the various types already in the collection
cover nearly all the different forms. A type L-2 grafonola equipped
with a nonset automatic stop, gift of The Columbia Graphophone
Co. A Cardew voltmeter of an early type, acting by the expansion
of a hot wire, gift of Mr. Charles Wirt, Germantown, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. A portable voltmeter invented by Jolin W. Kowell,
and patented September 2, 1890, gift of Mr. W. S. Andrews, General
Electric Co., Schenectady, New York. A lamp indicator or engine-
room voltmeter invented by John W. Howell, patented March 30,
1886, and January 11, 1887, gift of The Koller-Smith Co., New York
City.
An exhibit illustrating the early development of the telephone was
assembled in chronological order and placed in a special case which
includes, in part, a reed sounder which gave the first clew to the
transmission of sound over wires, the first instrument through whicti
the sound of the human voice was heard, the first long-distance tele-
phone, some early commercial hand telephones, and a pioneer desk-
telephone set.
The gun court was cleared of all unrelated specimens, and two
cases of gun accessories, powderhorns, powderflasks, bullet molds,
and shot bags installed. The Nordenfeldt machine gun has been
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provided with a more uniform case and placed with the Gatling gun,
which form the nucleus of a machine-gun exhibit.
The collection of sundials was installed in two cases that are to be
placed in the metrology section which is now ready to be assembled,
due to the recent removal of the Chinese gate"way from the east hall.
Musical instruTiients. — The collection of musical instruments to
which Mr. Hugo Worch has contributed in a most generous and com-
mendable manner has had but few additions during the year. A
melotrope representing an early stage in the invention of mechanical
players for the piano was presented by Mr. Carl Hering, Pliiladel-
phia, Pennsylvania. A second accession is a piano made by hand by
Gerhardt Feldhar in 1844, and presented by Mrs. William P. Spens-
ley, Chicago, Illinois.
Ceramics. — The exhibition collections of ceramics, Avhich are cared
for by the curator of ethnology, remain in the gallery of the northeast
court of the Arts and Industries Building pretty much as arranged
by the head curator in former years.
Accessions added during the year exceed those of last year in both
number and scientific value. An interesting collection of pottery
and porcelain, a portion of the Hussey-Knight-McLane collection,
received as a bequest from Mrs. Allan McLane, consists of English
blue ware with scenes, Spode, Derby, Wedgwood, luster, and other
varieties of English ware ; and of " East Indian " pieces, that is,
Chinese after European forms, glass, lacquers, bronzes, and jade. A
collection of 78 specimens of lacquer, porcelains, glass, and ormolu
and art glass was received as a gift from Mrs. B. H. Buckingham and
Miss Isabellef C. Freeman, Washington, District of Columbia. Other
accessions are two gold lacquer chests from Japan, lent by Mr.
Harold I. Sew all, New York City.
Graphic arts. — The field occupied by the division of graphic arts
is a wide one and of exceptional museum interest and practical im-
portance. The many rapidly developing branches of these arts re-
quire constant and close attention in order that the collections, and
especially the exhibits, shall be kept fully up to date, thus filling their
proper functions. Mr. Paul Brockett, custodian of the division, was
assisted by Mr. R. P. Tolman, aid. Some of the more important addi-
tions to the collections pertain to the group of Japanese wood-block
cutters and printers. A lay figure representing the cutter was pre-
pared and installed. Essential assistance in this work was rendered
by Mr. Eizo Kondo, of New York, and by Mr. Albert J. Osgood,
Washington, District of Columbia, who supplied the oriental wood
required in making the table. Twenty-nine lithographic progressive
proofs of the Edison mazda calendar were presented by the Forbes
Lithograph IManufacturing Co. of Boston, Massachusetts. These
REPORT OF N-ATIOITAL MUSEUM, 1919. 59
illustrate the series of stages through which the most modem color
print passes in printing. Dr. Marcus Benjamin's gift of two sets of
chrome lithographic progressive i)roofs of Dr. Kunz's Gems and
Precious Stones, published in 1890, furnishes interesting material
for comparison. The material in both of these accessions is of the
best lithogTaphic work of 1890 and 1918. One ancient book binding,
gift of Mr. Joseph Stewart, Washington, District of Columbia. This
book bears the date of 1604 and was apparently rebound in 1754.
Books bound at this time were all done by hand and a gi-eat deal of
thought was given to the binding. The leather is remarkable in that
it is as strong to-day as it was when first put on.
The collections of the division are in excellent condition.
At the suggestion of the Administrative Assistant, Mr. Tolman
imdertook the reinstallation of the cases containing the relics of
James Smithson.
The collection of 99 remarkable water-color paintings of native
flowers, by Mrs. Charles D. \Yalcott, was placed on exhibition and
will remain on view in the main hall of the Smithsonian Building
during tlie summer.
Although the number of accessions to the section of photography
for the year is small, it exceeds that of last year in historical value.
A bronze statuette. The Genius of Photography, by Lafon de
Camarsac, was received as a gift from Thomas W. Smillie, through
his sister, Miss Lydia Smillie. Because of its artistic excellence
the statuette would merit a place in any art collection, but it was
Miss Smillie's desire that it should be placed in the section of pho-
tography as a memiorial of her brother, who devoted much of his
life to the development of the section. Five specimens of doro-
types were accessioned as a gift from the Eastman Kodak Co., of
Rochester, New York. These dorotypes are of gi-eat interest, as
they represent a modern application of the ambrotype process,
one of the earliest developments in photographic processes.
History. — During the past year this division acquired extensive
exhibits of diversified character and great scientific value through
the assembling by the Museum of a special collection of material
relating to the recent war with Germany. Owing to the essentially
historical character of this material the principal work of its se-
lection devolved upon the curator of history, Mr. T. T. Belote, and,
through the courtesy of the War Department, Capt. J. J. Hittinger,
Quartermaster Corps, was detailed, in addition to his other duties,
to assist the Museum authorities in connection with the acquire-
ment and installation of the collection which is known officially as
the "War Collection." More than half of the accessions received
by the division of history during the past year relate to this coUec-
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tion, which illustrates iiumy different phases of the world conflict
and includes the following classes of matter: Air Service, military
and naval equipment, battlefield relics and trophies, and military
and naval uniforms and insignia.
Among the objects received in this connection the following are
the most notable: From the United States Air Service, the first De
Haviland-4 battleplane built in America, which was completed by
the Daj^on-Wright Airplane Co., October, 1917, and installed with
the first 12-cylinder Liberty engine. This airplane was flown for over
1,000 hours, including trips from Dayton to Indianapolis, Detroit,
Akron, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, New York, Philadelphia, and Wash-
ington, chiefly by Howard Kinehart, and has carried Orville Wright,
Glenn Martin, and others of national reputation. It was used as a
model by the Dayton-Wright Co. and other makers, and is fully
equipped with guns, bombs, camera, radio apparatus, and other ac-
cessories; a training plane of the Curtis JN4-D type, used at all
United States fields for primary instruction of aviators, 1918; the
fuselage of a De Haviland-4 military airplane equipped with two
Lewis aircraft machine guns on double yoke, and two Marlin
aircraft machine guns, and other accessories; a Voisin military
airplane for bombing at night and a Caudron airplane for photo-
graphing and reconnoitering, both used by the French on the west-
ern front during the European War, are of special interest as the
first notable relics of aerial warfare to be received by the Museum.
From the Air Service was also received a number of other interest-
ing exhibits consisting of aerial accessories and including an avi-
ator's fur-lined flying suit equipped with an electric harness which
may be attached to batteries for extra warmth.
From the Ordnance Department was received a very complete
exhibit relating to the activities of that department, including a
6-ton special tractor military tank, model of 1917. This tank is
of the armored 2-man type equipped with a 37-millimeter gun. It
is driven by a 4-cylinder gasoline engine which imparts the drive
through a transmission gearset and reduction gearing to a track-
laying or crawler traction mechanism. The main structure of the
body is made up of six-tenths-inch armor plates capable of with-
standing machine gun or rifle fire ; a Browning machine gun, water
cooled, model of 1917, with a belt filling machine, water boxes,
filling cup, steam condensing device, cleaning rod, ammunition boxes
and leather fillers, ammunition belts, flash hider, and a hand carry-
ing case with small accessories; a Browning machine rifle with spare
parts and accessories, model of 1918; a battery commander's tele-
scope, with accessories, one of the most important instruments used
in the control and observation of field artillery fire; a battery com-
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mander's periscope for use in a trench or sliellhole for observation
purposes; a sitogoniometer used for rapid approximate measure-
ments and especially fitted for rapid preparations of indirect firing;
an aiming post used in the field as an auxiliary aiming point when
no suitable natural object is visible; a Jacob's staff used as a sup-
port for field glasses ; a pair of Wilson goggles with amber glasses
used by anti-aircraft gunners to protect their eyes when viewing a
target in the direction of the sun; a time interval recorder or stop
watch, used to correct the height or burst of shrapnel, to check the
time of flight of shells and also in various systems of sound and
flash-range finding ; a prismatic compass, clinometer and accessories,
used to ascertain the direction or course toward a sighted object,
or to measure the included angle between any two given points; a
tachyscope used in anti-aircraft fire for obtaining the speed of
an airplane and also for determining the wind velocity ; and a col-
lection of adapters and boosters, mechanical fuses and shell and
shrapnel, many pieces sectionalized.
From the Chemical Warfare Service were received 12 large panels
installed with military gas masks and accessories showing in a very
complete and interesting manner the development of these objects by
the United States Chemical Warfare Service during the war.
From the Quartermaster and Ordnance Departments were re-
ceived large collections of examples of the individual equipment
of the enlisted men of the various branches of the Army, including
infantry, cavalry, and artillery, such as clothing, mess outfit,
trench tools, haversacks, ammunition belts, and horse equipment.
Among the battlefield relics and trophies received the following
are the most notable : From Gen. John. J. Pershing, United States
Ai'my (Chaumont, France), through the War Department, as a
transfer, the combined order of battle map and accessories used at
his headquarters at Chaumont during the progress of the American
military movements in France. This map was developed and kept
posted to date daily by members of the third section of the general's
staff and used by them and other superior officers during active op-
erations for strategical studies and purposes of general information,
and shows in a vivid fashion as at present installed the exact situa-
tion at the hour of the armistice, November 11, 1918. In general
this map gives the following information : Location of all divisions,
both enemy and allied, on the western front; correct battle line;
commanding generals; location of headquarters and army bound-
aries; and various other information concerning divisions, as, for
example, whether they were fresh or tired. As an aid to clearness
and in order to obviate the need of referring to a legend, national
flag designs were used on the map where possible in the make-up of
the tags. Those representing the American divisions are, however,
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colored in red in order to emphasize them. The map, which is 8
feet by 10 feet in size, was brought to the National Museum with all
of its accessories and installed by members of the third section of
General Pershing's headquarters. The accessories consist of the
secret chamber walls in which the map was kept, the sliding door
which covered the map when not in use, the platform and floor mat-
ting and four chairs and a table which were used in the chamber.
From Maj. Gen. H. L. Eogers, Quartermaster General, United States
Armj'-, was received as a loan, a very interesting collection of ob-
jects consisting for the most part of German military parapherna-
lia captured during the various engagements in which the American
troops participated, and assembled in France by General Eogers
while serving as chief quartermaster of the American Expeditionary
Forces. This includes helmets of different types, one camouflaged
and one showing the effects of shrapnel and machine-gun fire, gas
masks for men and horses ; a gas-proof cage for carrier pigeons, with
an opening for extracting the pigeons when under gas attack, found
in a captured trench on the Chateau Thierry front; trench knives
and bayonets, one of the latter of the double saw-edge type used by
German pioneer troops, and picked up in the Argonne Forest by
the Second American Division; a leather belt with buckle inscribed,
"Gott mit uns," with bayonet and scabbard and knot attached, worn
by a noncommissioned officer of German artillery and found on the
Chateau Thierry front ; a field telephone found in a captured trench
by the Fifth American Division during the Argonne-Meuse offen-
sive; cartridge cases of various types, including one for the 420-
millimeter howitzer, which is the largest fixed ammunition in the
world, and was used by the Germans in shelling the Belgian forts,
which before 1914 were considered impregnable; a trench mortar
captured in the Argonne Forest ; an anti-tank gun, a water-cooled
machine gim, a field operating chair, trench tools, grenades and
grenade throwers, pieces of steel armor, and various other objects
salvaged from the battlefields. In addition to the captured mate-
rial, this collection also includes a French rifle and trench helmet,
a British pistol for firing star signal shells, and a special designa-
tion flag of the American Eighty-first, or "Wild Cat," Division.
General Eogers also lent a collection of captured German military
paraphernalia made of paper, including a large bolt of paper cloth
of a blue-gray color; two rolls of belting; a wagon cover; a saddle
blanket; a cannon seat cover; a nose bag; saddlebags; shovel, spade,
and pick and various other tool and instrument carriers; and mis-
cellaneous pieces of harness made of paper reinforced with leather.
From the Ordnance Department was received, as a loan, a German
o7-millimeter machine gun captured by the American Seventy-ninth
Division, November, 1918, practically complete, with accessories,
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and including fourteen cartridges in an ammunition box, two belts,
two belt reels, a belt reel box, a belt feeding rack, a loading machine,
two magazines, and a base and upper part of mount. Also an Ital-
ian 37-millimeter mountain cannon, with tripod. From the histori-
cal branch of the General Staff of the Army was transferred a col-
lection of American, French, and German propaganda balloons and
printed propaganda of the type used during the European War.
A very interesting collection of French gas masks and accessories,
showing the development of these objects during the war, from a
simple cloth covering to a complicated device, was received as a
gift from the High Commission of the French Eepublic m the
United States. A notable collection of relics of Lieut. Benjamin
Stuart Walcott, United States Army, who entered the French Air
Service as a member of the Lafayette Corps and was killed in aerial
combat and fell within the German lines Decem.ber 12, 1917, was
received during the fiscal year. The collection includes a luiiform
coat, a pair of breeches, a cap, a tie, and a belt worn by him as
sergeant, French aviation service; the croix de guerre with palm
and accompanying citation, awarded to him by the French Gov-
ernment; the French aviation pilot badge owned by him; and the
certificate of "Pilote Aviateur" awarded to him by the Federa-
tion Aeronautique Internationale; the diploma and bronze war
medal of the Aero Club of America awarded to him ; the Lafayette
Flying Corps badge worn by him ; his commisson as first lieutenant,
Air Service, United States Army; and his diploma as bachelor of
science, Princeton University, 1917. From Madame Claude Lang-
lais, of Washington, District of Columbia, was received as a loan,
three uniforms worn by Monsieur Claude Langlais, a member of the
Thirty-third French Infantry, machine gun unit, who participated
in many engagements of the European War from May, 1915, until
September, 1916, vrhen he was wounded during the battle of the
Somme. These uniforms bear the croix de guerre bar, indicating
the award of this decoration to Monsieur Langlais, a wound bar
with a red star indicating that blood was shed for France, and
wound and war service chevrons.
Notably large collections of United States military and naval uni-
forms and insignia of the type used during the war with Germany
have been added to the large amount of material of this character
already in the possession of the division relating to other wars in
which the United States participated. Among these are representa-
tive sets of the devices indicating the ranks and corps of commis-
sioned officers of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps ; sets of chev-
rons and specialty marks showing the various grades and special
duties of the enlisted personnel ; types of the uniforms worn by the
enlisted personnel, including those of the yeowomen and marinettes;
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and a set of the shoulder badges indicating divisions, corps, armies,
or special units, which were developed during the recent war.
Another important addition to the War Collection received dur-
ing the 3^ear is a group of 121 paintings and two pieces in plaster,
by American artists, consisting of war scenes and portraits of per-
sonages connected with the war. These were executed for the publi-
city committee of the Second Federal Reserve District Liberty
Loan Committee for display in connection with its work for the fifth
or " Victory loan " and the collection was deposited in the Museum
by the publicity conmiittee, through Capt. H. Ledyard Towle, chair-
man.
Many collections of note not connected with the recent war were
also received by the division during the past fiscal year. Worthy
of special mention in this connection are the following: From Mrs.
Beatrice Cameron Mansfield was received as a gift, a large number
of costumes and accessories worn by the late Eichard Mansfield in
his extensive repertoire of historic characters. The costumes and
armor are accurate reproductions of the objects of this type of the
periods represented and consist of copies from such originals as
exist, or from such accurate sketches of others as sur\dve. A relic
of special note is the gold medal awarded by resolution of Congress
to Capt. Thomas Truxtun, United States Navy, March 29, 1800, in
recognition of the defeat of the French ship Vengeance, February 1,
1800, when captain of the United States frigate Constellation.
This was received as a loan from Mr. Thomas Truxtun Houston and
is the earliest original medal of this type in the possession of the
Museum. Another loan of interest consists of a silver-mounted
telescope owned by Thomas Jefferson and used by him in 1781 when
he made his escape from Monticello previous to its capture by
British troops, and a miniature portrait of him by St. Memin, re-
ceived from Brig. Gen. Jefferson Randolph Kean, Medical Corps,
United States Arm3^ From Miss Mary E. Thackara and Mrs.
Eleanor Sherman Thackara Cauldwell, tlirough Mr. P. T. Sherman,
New York City, were received as a gift, a saddle, bridle, pair of
holsters, and blanket roll, owned by Gen. William T. Sherman,
United States Army, during and subsequent to the Civil War.
Another accession relating to General Sherman consists of a United
States flag and an army headquarters flag owned by him, which were
presented by Miss Mary E. Sherman, Boston, Massachusetts. A
sword and scabbard presented to Col. Stephen H. Long, United
States Topographical Engineers, in recognition of his Rocky Moun-
tain and other explorations, 1818-1824, was received as a bequest
from William Foulke Johnes, through Mrs. Myrtle Giffen Johnes,
executrix. New York City. The medicine scales and case used by
Dr. GustaAT.is Richard Brown, of Maryland, during his attendance
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upon Washington at the time of liis last iUness in 1799, were pre-
sented by Mr. William H. Gray, of Washington, District of Colum-
bia, and Mr. C. G. Brown, Texarkana, Texas. From Maj. Gen. John
E. Brooke, United States Army, Washmgton, District of Columbia,
was received as a gift, a notable collection of military relics, includ-
ing a jeweled sword presented to him by American and Cuban
friends in 1899 ; a saddle, saddle cloth and pad, a chapeau, two pairs
of epaulets, dress and service belts, and various pieces of military
insignia worn by him during his long career as an xVrmy officer.
Dr. Alfred S. Hopkins, Bethesda, Maryland, has loaned a very inter-
esting collection of seventy-three early American and foreign swords,
the conmiission of Nahun P. Monroe as surgeon. Twentieth Maine
Volunteers, dated August 29, 1862, a uniform worn by him during
the Civil War and a photogi-aph of him in uniform ; and a uniform
worn by Francis Schroeder when United States minister plenipoten-
tiary and envoy extraordinary to Sweden and Norwa}^, 1849-1857.
A drum carried during the Civil War by John C. Hutsler when
drummer boy. Company H, Seventh Maryland Volunteers, was
received as a loan from Lieut. Francis L. Hutsler, United States
Army, Washington, District of Columbia.
The numismatic section of the historical collections was enriched
by a number of military decorations of the type awarded by the
Allied Powers prior to and during the European War, 1914-1918.
Among these the following are the most notable: The Belgian war
cross, established in 1915, and awarded with citation in army orders ;
three types of the French war cross, established in 1915 ; one with
palm awarded with citation in army orders, one with silver star
awarded with citation in division orders, and one with bronze star
awarded with citation in brigade orders ; and the silver British mili-
tary cross, estabished in 1914. In addition to the decorations men-
tioned a number of commemorative medals, of which the following
are the most notable, have been received : Two bronze replicas of the
medal issued by the American Numismatic Society, in commemora-
tion of the visit of the French and British war commission to New
York in 1917, and two bronze replicas of the medal issued by that
society commemorating the unveiling of a memorial to Lafayette in
Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Mr. J. Sanford Saltus presented, through
the American Numismatic Society, New York City, a silver replica
and a bronze replica of the medal of T. Spicer Simson, issued by the
society, commemorating the aerial crossing of the English Channel
by the King and Queen of the Belgians in 1918. The Victory me-
dallion of the Art War Belief, designed by Paul Manship and sold
for the war relief fund, was also added to the collection. From the
Indiana Historical Commission, Indianapolis, Indiana, was received
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as a gift a bronze medal commemorating, 1916, the centennial anni-
versary of the admission of the State of Indiana to the Union, 1816.
A collection of United States coins, consisting of gold $3 pieces, $2.50
pieces, and dollars, silver half dollars, quarter dollars, and coins of
smaller denominations, all in fine condition, many proofs and uncir-
culated pieces, were lent by Mr. Douglas N. Starr, Washington, Dis-
trict of Columbia.
During the year the collection of philatelic material in the care of
the division of history has been increased by 3,725 specimens, of
which 2,699 have been received by transfer from the Post Office De-
I^artment, and of these 1,270 are examples of new issues received by
that department from the International Bureau of the Universal
Postal Union, Berne, Switzerland. In building up here a collection
of stamps relating to the war, our Allies have, in response to requests
through the Department of State, indicated their intentions of as-
sisting, the British Government having already supplied 71 varieties
of stamps used in its colonies, the French Republic 62 varieties of
colonial and charity stamps, and the Italian Government 20 varieties,
while the International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, has
contributed a series of 93 envelopes showing various types of war-
time stamps and franks. A number of stamps have also been re-
ceived from individual contributors.
Historical costumes. — The collection of costumes, one of the most
interesting and popular in the Museum, is developing rapidly and
favorably. Much aid was given as in former years by Mrs. Julian-
James and Mrs. R. G. Hoes, who have contributed substantially to
the acquirement of new exhibits and have assisted in the increasingly
difficult task of display in the limited space provided. Additions
to the collection are 82 in number and present many features of
particular interest. Among these may be mentioned a Chantilly
lace shawl worn by Mrs, Abraham Lincoln, lent by Mrs. Henry J.
Finley ; costumes worn by the Society of Friends or Quakers in the
nineteenth century, presented by Mrs. Charles D. Walcott.
A complete series of engraved lithographic and photographic por-
traits of the Presidents of the United States, 1789-1917, were received
in the Hussey-Knight-McLane collection bequeathed to the Museum
by Mrs. Allan McLane, and were installed in the historical costumes
hall.
Art textiles. — Additions to the art textile collection have been less
numerous than in previous years. The main feature of interest in
the hall devoted to this section is a collection of 50 oriental rugs dis-
played on the south and west walls of the hall. It comprises ex-
cellent specimens of the varieties of rug weavings. Especially note-
worthy is a large Persian rug known as " Ispahan " of Herati pat-
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tern and dating from the sixteenth century. The collection is lent
for temporary display by a resident of Washington.
A Brussels lace fichu of 1840 was received from Mrs. Richard D.
La Garde, Washington, District of Columbia, and installed in one
of the cases containing the collection of the Misses Long. A chased
brass oval stand repousse and ferce a jour, of thei sixteenth century
Florentine work which belonged to the Convent San Marco, Naples,
Italy, was received as a loan from Mrs. Charles D. Walcott. A
specimen of fifteenth century pewter communion plate of German
work was received as a loan from Miss Isobel H. Lemnan, Washing-
ton, District of Columbia, and placed in a case with other art objects
in the lace hall.
Work of preparators. — The department laboratory was conducted
by Mr. W. H. Egberts, with Mr. Frank Kotrba as preparator. The
work is greatly varied and requires skill in many directions, con-
sisting largely, however, of modeling in clay, casting in plaster, the
building of models of various kinds, and the repair of specimens.
Much work was done on the preparation and installation of lay figure
groups, the principal of which are the Japanese wood-block cutter
for the division of graphic arts and the Zulu-Kaffir, Carib, Kiowa
Indian, and Eskimo groups for the division of ethnology. This work
was carried on largely under the immediate supervision of the head
curator.
Mr. R. A. Allen, preparator in the division of ethnology, has
given systematic attention to freeing from destructive insects all ob-
jects as they are received at the Museum, and in otherwise preserving
material in the department collections. The actual handling and
markinir of the diversified collections of the division have fallen
largely to his share. He also assists in looking after the interests of
the section of historical costumes and in every division and section
where his services are required.
Present condition of collection. — There can be no doubt that the
exhibition collections of the department are to-day in better general
condition than at any previous period ; but the ideal is still far dis-
tant. The most serious shortcoming is due to the fact that the collec-
tions and work are not assembled under a single roof, or in a single
exclusive space. Serious defects difficult of remedy are due to in-
heritance of furniture and fixtures of antiquated forms and the
resultant heterogeneity of the new. The shortage of space also is a
serious embarrassment, causing disorder. On the receipt of new and
important collections room must be made for them, causing changes
in installation or removal to storage of valuable exhibits. Satisfactory
conditions depend upon the systematic assemblage of the entire de-
partment in such a manner as would characterize a well organized
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business establishment in which a definite body of interests is han-
dled. With respect to duplicate and storage collections, I am sure
that the very best that can be done for them is being done by the
several curators.
Field explorations. — The field researches of the year were limited
to three brief explorations by members of the anthropological staff
and to certain explorations by Mr. Gerard Fowke, the well-known
archeologist. All were conducted under the auspices of the Bureau of
American Ethnologj^ and resulted in each case in the acquirement of
valuable collections of relics left by the ancient peoples. During
May and June Dr. Walter Hough, curator of etlmology, was engaged
in examining certain heretofore unexplored sites formerly occupied
by the ancient cliff dwellers on the White Mountain Apache Reserva-
tion, Arizona. He was still in the field at the close of the year. Mr.
Neil M. Judd, curator of American archeology, explored a number of
caves formerly occupied by the cliff and cave dwellers of western
Utah, securing many relics of interest, and Mr. Fowke carried for-
ward his cavern explorations in Missouri. His collections, which
have not yet reached the Museum, are said to be important. Dr.
Ales Hrdlicka spent a month in Florida, devoting his attention to
the exploration of the little-known region of Ten Thousand Islands,
the object being to trace along the western coast of the peninsula
certain anthropological types characterizing the former aboriginal
population, at the same time conducting studies of such Seminole
Indians as could be found roaming the islands.
Doctor Hough had the good fortune to discover ancient occupied
sites covering several acres of ground on Blagden Plains, overlook-
ing Piney Branch, District of Columbia. These sites were recognized
by the occurrence of chipped implements of quartzite and quartz and
a very large number of unfinished a,nd broken specimens. It is ap-
parent that these sites, in part at least, are the finishing shops occu-
pied by the workers of the boulder quarries located in the neighbor-
ing ravine, examined by Dr. W. H. Holmes and described in detail
in the Fifteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American
Ethnolog}^
Closely related to field work as ordinarily interpreted are official
visits of members of the Museum staff to distant cities, for the pur-
pose of getting information on subjects related to their Museum
functions or to attend conferences or deliver lectures on subjects of
Museum interest. In September the curator of history, Mr. T. T.
Belote, visited New York, with the view of obtaining needed infor-
mation regarding the acquirement for the Museum of military and
naval insignia and war relics and materials generally. The infor-
mation obtained led to excellent results now materializing in exten-
sive war collections. Later the curator of history, accompanied by
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the head curator, visited Baltimore, to inspect war exhibits assembled
at the Armory in that city, with corresponding results. Early in
1919 he visited Philadelphia and New York for like purposes. In the
latter instance he was accompanied by Capt. J. J. Hittinger, Quarter-
master Corps, who is taking a prominent part in the activities of
the Museum in this branch.
In May Doctor Hrdlicka, curator of the division of physical an-
thropology, under instructions from the Secretary, attended a con-
ference of the National Committee for Constructive Inmiigration
Legislation. The various important problems were carefully con-
sidered, and on the suggestion of Doctor Hrdlicka a committee of
especially qualified persons was appointed to outline, as far as
possible, the whole scope of the question and to suggest the measures,
agencies, and methods necessary to a practical solution of the many
problems constantly being presented.
REPORT ON THE DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY,
By Leonhaed Stejneger, Head Curator.
Notwithstanding the fact that the war practically came to an end
during the first half of the year covered by this report, the effect of
the war activities, as far as this department is concerned, were felt
with even greater force than during the previous year. Not only was
the exhibition series closed and practically inaccessible till within a
short time of the end of the year, but the falling off in the accessions
and the decrease in the scientific output is more pronounced than a
year ago.
It is true that the total number of specimens received this year,
namely, 482,740, vastly exceeds that of last year, which was only
99,660, but that is solely due to the incorporation of a single collec-
tion of 400,000 specimens mentioned in some detail below. This col-
lection, however, was not in any sense the result of this year's ac-
tivity, as it had been accumulated during many years.
Tliis slackening of the pace has not been without its compensation.
It is a deplorable fact that the scientific staff of the department of
biology for many years past has been too small to keep abreast of the
accumulation of material which it is not in a position to control or
regulate. During the past period of diminished intensity it has been
possible to catch up many loose ends and to bring the work up to
date in several of the divisions. This has been accomjjlished to a
great extent by the employment of temporary assistance.
It need therefore cause no surprise that the number of accessions
(560) and their scientific value, on the whole, did not equal that of
normal years, and scarcely even that of last year. I am happy, how-
ever, to be able to report one conspicuous exception, namely, the
donation by Mr. John B. Henderson of his unrivaled private collec-
tion of Antillean land mollusks, consisting of about 30,000 lots
(approximately 400,000 specimens). According to the report of the
curator of marine invertebrates, Dr. P. Bartsch, " it is by far the
most complete and extensive collection of Antillean land shells in the
world, and is notable not only for the fact that it contains almost all
the known species of this exceedingly rich fauna but because it in-
cludes so large a proportion of types, cotypes, topotypes, and author's
specimens. These author's specimens have been acquired during the
past 25 years by purchase of numerous collections from men who a
generation ago exchanged with the original collectors and authors of
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this Antillean field. These collections include the Sanderson Smith,
John Ford (Antillean section), C. W. Jolmson, Henry Prime, Theo-
dore Gill, and John H. Eedfield collections, as well as a series from
Maynard, Jarvis, Vendreys, and Brown. The Redfield collection was
almost wholly made up by full series of specimens acquired by him
from Poey, Arango, Gundlach, and Wright in Cuba; from C. B.
Adams and Chitty in Jamaica ; from Shuttleworth, Knox, and Riise
in Haiti and Santo Domingo, together with many contributions from
Bland, Cuming, Petit, and Swift. A most valuable element in the
collection is the series of Cuban rarities contributed by Dr. Carlos
de la Torre, of Havana, consisting of shells from early collectors,
together with cotypes of all his own species. The bulk of the Hen-
derson collection, however, consists of the results of twelve or thirteen
expeditions to the Antilles made by himself and assistants for the sole
purpose of visiting regions unexplored or little known to the nat-
uralist. These expeditions have yielded very large series for study
purposes, as well as a wealth of type material."
I have dwelt the more upon this magnificent acquisition as it
points a moral. VHij is this collection unsurpassed, why is it of
such great scientific importance? Surely not only or even chiefly
because of its vast size. The all-important factor in its formation
is that it was made for a purpose and according to a plan. It would
seem self-evident that such motives should always guide in the accu-
mulation of material for a biologic museum. Unfortunately, such
is not the case with regard to the zoological and botanical collec-
tions of the United States National Museum. The bulk of the ma-
terial which is deposited in it is the result of uncoordinated efforts
of other departments without regard to its own needs and its own
organic and harmonious development. The biological branch of the
National Museum is dependent to a great extent on the activities of
various bureaus belonging to many Government departments, such
as the Bureau of Fisheries, the Bureau of Plant Industry, Bureau
of Entomology, Biological Survey, Public Health Service, etc., for
whose collections the National Museum by law is made the deposi-
tory. Naturally these branches of the Government pursue their own
aims in their own way. The utilitarian questions and interests for
which they were created and which it is their principal duty to
study and promote m.ust of necessity engage their energies. It is
therefore unavoidable that the material received from these sources
must be more or less one-sided. I bear here grateful testimony to
the fact that the men at the head of these various bureaus are not
only aw'are of this fact, but that they are constantly endeavoring
as far as lies in their power to remedy this defect. They realize, as
possibly no one else does, how necessary it is that the collections,
upon the study of which they must rely for the fundamental facts
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of their own applied science, should be complete and harmonious
even in those fields which on superficial consideration would seem
remote and unconnected. But not only their field, but also their
power and resources are limited, thus leaving big gaps in our ma-
terial without which really basic scientific work can not be expected.
It is a privilege to acknowledge our indebtedness to a few generous
friends of the Museum who by directly going into the field collecting
or by sending out collectors at their own expense are striving to fill
some of these gaps, conspicuous examples being the work done by
by Dr. W. L. Abbott in the Malayan Archipelago, as well as that ac-
complished in various parts of Africa by a number of private ex-
peditions. Cooperation with other institutions, such as last year's
botanical explorations in South America by Dr. J. N. Rose, have
also been helpful in building up our collections more systematically.
Finall}', it is occasionally possible to obtain material needed for the
solution of the many questions which arise by exchange with other
museums. The small sum which in most years has been less than
$800 which it has been found possible to expend in purchases foi this
department has only partly been available for the above purpose,
having been mostly utilized for filling gaps in the exhibition series.
A noteworthy exception which for" that very reason most distinctly
illuminates the general rule is presented by the Francis Lea Cham-
berlain Fund, from which the section of mollusks is able to supple-
ment some of the deficiencies in its series. Were each division simi-
larly provided, it would be possible within a reasonable time to
round out the collections in such a way that the conclusions based on
their study might be given out with the confidence that they can be
relied upon as solid foundations for future work in the applied
branches of the biologic science.
It is of even greater importance, however, that the scientific staff
should be enabled whenever necessary to study their subject in the
field no less than in the Museum. It is regarded as a matter of course
that paleontologists spend part of each year in the field, while the
zoologists and botanists studying the recent organisms are supposed
to be able to do full justice to the material under their care by work-
ing at their desks all the year round over collections brought to the
Museum by outside agencies. True, most of the biologist's material
consists of dead specimens, but many of the problems placed before
him depend for their proper understanding upon the relation be-
tween the living specimens and their environment. The time is past
when the work of the zoologist and the botanist was done by merely
naming and describing the objects on the shelves of the Museum.
That could be done in the laboratory, as well as the study of their
histology and embryology. But with the renaissance of biologic
science, following the establishment of evolution as its governing
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principle, other and more important requirements are made on th©
systematic zoologists and botanists. The whole proposition is so self-
evident that to be admitted it only needs to be propounded. Never-
theless, it is a deplorable fact that the Museum has no adequate mean9
at its command to meet such an essential factor in the proper dis-
charge of its functions.
The establishment of the Walter Rathbone Bacon Scholarship of
$50,000 provided for in the will of Mrs. Virginia Purdy Bacon is to
be hailed as a first step in the right direction. It is designated a trav-
eling scholarship under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution
for the study of the fauna of countries other than the United States
of America. There can be no doubt that it will eventually help
remedying the unsymmetrical development of the Museum collections
pointed out above. On the other hand, it would greatly benefit the
work in the Museum, both by improving the collections and by in-
creasing the usefulness of the staff, if numerous smaller amounts were
available each year for travel. It is of great importance for the
proper development of the exhibition series that the men engaged
in its jrrowth and care be enabled from time to time to visit other
similar institutions. The United States National Museum has to
keep abreast of the best efforts in this line. There is great competi-
tion between the various establishments everywhere to make the
collections as illuminating and as attractive to the visiting public as
possible, but only by seeing what others are doing in the same field
is it possible to keep up with the progress. It is also necessary for
members of the scientific staff in the course of their work to consult
material in other museums, especially type specimens which, as a rule,
are not allowed to leave the institutions to which they belong.
The question of type specimens is one of extreme importance to
every working taxonomist. Modern botanical and zoological nomen-
clature depends to an ever-increasing degree on these specimens upon
which the first name of a newly discovered organism were bestowed.
So much depends on the correct interpretation of these priceless
specimens — priceless because they can not be replaced when lost or
destroyed — ^that it is often necessary for the scientific worker to
travel long distances in order to be able to inspect them personally.
It is manifestly a great disadvantage that type specimens are scat-
tered through hundreds of museums, some of them even in private
collections exposed to dangers of many kinds. The ideal condition
would undoubtedly be to have one single depository where the
scientific student could go sure of finding aU the existing type ma-
terial relating to his work gathered together in one place. I need
not emphasize that such an idea is Utopian at the present time, but
it would seem possible to have the great majority of types assembled
in a few of the largest institutions which would have ample facilities
REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919, 75
for their permanent security and care as well as for their study and
accessibility. Many smaller museums with laudable ambitions of be-
coming centers of scientific activity in certain fields are endeavoring
to maintain type collections in order to attract visiting biologists or
to facilitate the studies of some scientists of their own faculty or of
some neighboring institutions. But what does it benefit them to
have such ready access to a few types when in any event they must
consult the much larger number accumulated in the great museums
which, because of their age, have been the depositories of types de-
scribed by several generations of species-makers? The National
Museum has long been recognized as possessing one of the richest
type collections in America. Eealizing the obligations to scientific
workers all over the country which this possession involves it has
been our aim to make the care and accessibility of the types one of
the leading features of this institution. The specimens are being
segregated, specially housed and marked, card-catalogued and con-
stantly inspected. The building and fixtures are fireproof, and their
handling is reduced to a minimum. Descriptive catalogues are being
prepared and will be published from time to time. In this way it
is hoped that the type collection of the National Museum may be-
come a Mecca where botanists and zoologists may find material for
the settlement of so many vexing questions. Many taxonomists real-
izing the importance of this work have in recent years voluntarily
deposited the types of their descriptions, knowing that here they
would be safe and accessible.
The curators have continued during the past year their efforts in
this direction. Many types are undoubtedly yet undiscovered among
the general collections, but diligent search is constantly being made.
Quite a number of interesting finds of old types were made during
the term of this report in practically all divisions. It is expected
that detailed accounts of several of these collections may soon be
available. In the meantime it is hoped that authors all over the
country will avail themselves of the opportunity to have their types
properly preserved for future generations of biologists.
The operations of the department of biolog}^ by divisions have been
as follows :
Mammals. — The most noteworthy of the accessions received was
the result of Dr. W. L. Abbott's continued generosity and consisted
of 423 mammals from central Celebes collected by Mr. H. C. Raven.
This collection is extremely important, as it supplements in an ad-
mirable manner our Malayan material and illustrates the fauna from
a region from which we have hitherto had no specimens. It includes
several genera not before represented in the Museum, some of them
probably undescribed.
76 KEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919.
The 217 specimens received as the first result of the Collins-Gamer
expedition to the French Congo and collected by Mr. C. K. Asche-
meier form another valuable addition, including as it does 2 gorillas,
7 chimpanzees, 10 buffaloes, 28 antelopes, and parts of an elephant.
Several large mammals, including a mule deer, Eocky Mountain
goat, and Eockj^ Mountain sheep, were collected for the Museum by
Secretary Walcott during his exploration in British Columbia. Two
species of banana opossums from Yucatan hitherto unrepresented
in the Museum were presented by Dr. George F. Gaumer. Another
interesting donation consisted of seven embryos of insectivores and
carnivores from Mr. Arthur Loveridge in Nairobi, East Africa, a
material especially important for compai^tive study.
Additional storage cases furnished during the year has resulted
in greatly relieving the crowded condition of part of the skin col-
lection. The completion of the rearrangement of the entire collec-
tion of small and medium skulls has also accomplished a betterment
especially among the carnivores.
Owing to various conditions the curator, Mr. Gerrit S. Miller, jr.,
found it impracticable to devote much time to original investigation
during the past year. Such work of this kind as has been done has
consisted chiefly of routine identification of material for catalogu-
ing. The translation of an important paper on the classification of
the Cetacea ^ has been nearly completed. The present inconvenient
arrangement of the study material caused by the storing of the speci-
mens on the second floor, while the workrooms and the library are
located in the basement, has also hampered the work of Mr. N. Hol-
lister, superintendent of the National Zoological Park, who is now
working up the primates for part 3 of the East African Mammals
in the National Museum, part 2 having been published during the
year as part 2 of Bulletin No. 99. Dr. C. Hart Merriam, associate
in zoology, has continued his work on North American bears. The
members of the Biological Survey, as usual, made constant use of the
collections, as did Dr. O. P. Hay, of the Carnegie Institution of
Washington, in connection with his work on the Pleistocene fauna
of North America. Dr. J. L. Wortman completed his studies of
insectivores and primates and submitted a paper for publication as
a result of his studies. Specimens were lent for study to Dr. J. A.
Allen, of the American Museum of Natural History, New York
City ; Dr. Glover M. Allen, of the Museum of Comparative Zoology,
Cambridge, Massachusetts ; Mr. Oldfield Thomas, of the British Mu-
seum, London, England; Mr. O. A. Peterson, of the Carnegie Mu-
seum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Mr. William Beebe, of the New
York Zoological Park ; Mr. E. H. Sellers, of the Florida State Geo-
1 Winge, H., Udsigt over Hvalernes indbyrdes slsegtskab, Vidensk. Meddel. fra
Dansk naturh. Foren., vol. 70, pp. 59-142, 1918.
REPORT OF NATIONAL, MUSEUM, 1919. 77
logical Survey. One weasel skin and skull were abo loaned to the
Provincial Museum, Halifax, Nova Scotia, while seven samples of
mammal hairs were sent to Mr. Leon Augustus Ilausman, of Cornell
University.
Birds. — Dr. W. L. Abbott, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, con-
tributed 952 skins, 87 alcoholics and skeletons, and 10 eggs. The
bulk of this material was collected in middle Celebes by Mr. H. C.
Eaven, and constitutes an important addition to the collection. It
contains representatives of 2 genera and 13 species (and subspecies)
new to science, descriptions of which have lately appeared. Doctor
Abbott personally collected 68 skins, 16 alcoholics and skeletons, and
10 eggs in Santo Domingo. Familiar with the desiderata of the
Museum, he went there for the purpose of filling gaps in the collec-
tion, and managed to obtain several desirable species and plumages.
Probably the most interesting item in this collection was a clutch,
of 4 eggs of the palm chat, possibly the first to reach any museum,
though the species, its nest, and general habits, have been known
ahnost since the discovery of America. The palm chat is very com-
mon on the island, conspicuous, lives in colonies, and builds an enor-
mous community nest, sometimes 5 feet or more in diameter, of small
sticks, placed in the top of a high palm tree. The eggs were de-
scribed by a French writer in 1851 as white, but they proved to be
spotted, and large for the size of the bird. Doctor Abbott also sent
2 eggs of the ruddy quail-dove {Oreofeleia montana)^ unusual in col-
lections. From Mr. B. H. Swales, honorary custodian of the sec-
tion of eggs, were received 645 birds, chiefly from North America, in-
cluding a number of important desiderata among foreign birds.
Among the latter were representatives of 28 genera not previously in
the Museum. There were also six sldns of a recently described new
diving petrel from the island of South Georgia. Large and im-
portant shipments of specimens of birds from the Collins-Garner
Congo expedition were received during the j^ear. The Bureau of
Fisheries transmitted two lots from Alaska, chiefly from the Pribilof
Islands, including 21 species not hitherto recorded from that group,
of which 4 were also unrecorded from North America. The latter
were the falcated teal {Eunetta falcata)^ Polynesian tattler {He-
teroscelus hrevipes), Kamchatkan sea eagle {Tludasoaetus pelagicus),
and Japanese pipit {Anthus spinoletta japonica).
The Biological Survey, Department of Agriculture, transmitted
161 alcoholics and skeletons, chiefly birds of special interest, for
anatomical investigation. From the National Zoological Park were
received several accessions of consideral^le interest, namely, a trum-
peter swan, one of the fast-vanishing species of this country ; a crested
eagle from Liberia, a Cape Barren goose, and a weka rail. Mr. Ed-
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ward J. Brown, of Los Angeles, California, forwarded 137 skins and
4 skeletons from California, among which were a goodly number of
well-prepared gulls and wading birds.
Early in July, 1918, at the time preparations were being made for
closing the exhibits to the public, a number of rare and extinct birds
were removed from the exhibition halls and brought to the office for
safe-keeping. At the same time search was made for certain type
specimens in the mounted collection, two being recovered, namely, a
sparrow from Cuba and a species of Petroica from Australia. Not
much has been attempted in arranging the eggs and nests received
in recent years, but Mr. B. H. Swales, who was designated honorary
custodian of the section of birds' eggs during the year, has started
work on the collection. All of the material received during the year
was catalogued and stored in temporary quarters. The numerous
foreign alcoholic specimens received during the year were catalogued
and supplied with tin tags, determined as far as the ma,terial would
allow, placed in suitable containers, supplied with fresh alcohol, and
labeled. Unfortunately, the number of uncleaned skeletons is in-
creasing each year, owing to the fact that the preparators are not
able to keep up with the accumulation of material, so that a number
of rare genera from Celebes, Santo Domingo, etc., remain unavail-
able for study. Mr. Wetmore, of the Biological Survey, has gener-
ously continued to look after the arrangement of the skeleton col-
lections.
The curator. Dr. Eobert Ridgway, continued his work on the .un-
completed portion of Bulletin 50, The Birds of North and Middle
America. A very considerable part of the time during the year
was employed in correcting proof sheets and superintending prepara-
tion of the index of part 8, which was published before the end of
the year. Work on part 9 has consisted of descriptive work relating
to the first major group to be treated, namely, the Gruiformes. The
associate curator. Dr. Charles W. Richmond, was occupied as usual
very largely with routine and miscellaneous duties partlj^ relating to
seeing part 8 of Bulletin 50 through the press, partly furnishing
the curator with data for the groups to be treated in part 9, and
continued his work on the office card catalogue of species of birds.
He also made considerable progress toward correcting and com-
pleting early records of the office and its collections, such as piecing
together and filling out records for the United States Exploring Ex-
pedition material, some interesting data having been obtained from
Peale's original journals in the Library of Congress. He also began,
with Mr. Swales, the accumulation of data for a report on the birds
of Santo Domingo and Haiti, during which work he formulated
a list of desiderata of materials and facts for the use of Doctor Abbott
in future trips to the island.
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The aid, Mr. J. H. Riley, besides attending to routine work,
studied the Celebes collection, publishing two preliminary papers
on the subject. As stated above, Mr. Swales has been engaged in
the various investigations. The report upon the African collections,
begun by the late Di'. Edgar A. Meams, has remained unchanged,
no successor having been found thus far.
The subject of ornithology does not lend itself readily to actual
war work. However, some information on "protective coloration"
was given to an official connected with the military service who was
developing the camouflage work for the Army. In this connection
the associate curator calls attention to the interesting fact that at
the time the late Secretary Langley was engaged in solving the prob-
lem of mechanical flight in taking a soaring bird as a model, a
quarter of a century or more ago, he turned to the division of birds
for information, receiving many data and material as well as books
on the subject. References to literature on bird flight, descriptions
of soaring powers of birds, records of square-wing area in proportion
to weight, and data in relation to the center of gravity in birds were
supplied, and several birds of soaring types mounted in the attitude
of flight were used in his experiments. Living birds of high soaring
ability were secured for his investigations. This took place over a
period of 13 years, from 1887 to 1900. It may also be mentioned
that Mr. Pentz, who had submitted to the naval board a plan for
the use of gulls as a means of detecting the presence of submarines,
called at the office for information, and some time was spent looking
up literature on gulls and on their habits, searching for data bearing
on the project.
As in former years, members of the Biological Survey, including
Messrs. Vernon Bailey, E. A. Preble, F. V. Eamshaw, T. T. Bloxsom,
Francis Harper, A. H. Howell, and Dr. Walter P. Taylor had full
access to the collection in connection with their work; Dr. H. C.
Oberholser worked largely through the year on collections both in
connection with survey business and in his own time on the various
East India and Malayan material; Mr. Alexander Wetmore like-
wise worked frequently among the various collections, partly upon
survey projects, but more particularly in his own time on various
anatomical investigations undertaken by him.
Dr. W. L. Abbott on three occasions examined the recent accessions
from Celebes and Santo Domingo, especially the genera of possible oc-
currence in the last-named island. A large number of other ornitholo-
gists visited the division at various times consulting specimens in the
study series, namely, Dr. Glover M. Allen, of Cambridge, Massachu-
setts; Mr. Edwin Ashby, of Blackwood, South Australia; Mr.
Harry B. Bailey, of Newport News, Virginia; Dr. Peter Brancato,
of Wyckoff, New Jersey; Mr. H. W. Brandt, of Cleveland, Ohio;
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Dr. Frank M. Chapman, of the American Museum of Natural His-
tory, New York City; Mr. Eobert E. Coker, of the Bureau of Fish-
eries, Washington, District of Columbia; Maj. Alfred M. CoUins,
of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; Mr. Edward J, Court, of Washing-
ton, District of Columbia; Mr. W. A. Deane, of Washington, Dis-
trict of Columbia; Dr. Jonathan Dwight, of New York City; IVIr.
H. J. Elwes, of England; Mr. J. H. Fleming, of Toronto, Canada;
Mr. C. L. Fitzgerald, of the Eoyal Nayj^; Mr. L. A. Fuertes, of
Ithaca, New York; Mr. Leon L. Gardner, Philadelphia, Pennsyl-
vania; Dr. G. Dallas Hanna, of the Bureau of Fisheries; Mr. E. B.
Hough, of Lowville, New York ; Mr. Chas. M. Hoy ; Mr. Carl Lum-
holtz; Mr. Eobert Cushman Murphy, of Brooklyn Museum; Mr.
John T. Nichols, of the American Museum of Natural History, New
York City; Mr. G. K. Noble, of Cambridge, Massachusetts; Mr. J.
Parker Norris, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; Mr. W. H. Osgood,
of the Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois ; Mr. H. C. Eaven ; Mr. Chas.
H. Eogers, of the American Museum of Natural History, New York
City; Dr. L. C. Sanford, of New Haven, Connecticut; Dr. E. W.
Shufeldt, of Washington, District of Columia ; Mr. Henry Steele, of
Highland Park, Illinois; Mr. George H. Stuart, of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania ; Miss Katherine Stuart, of Alexandria, Virginia.
There were an unusual number of inquiries for titles of books on
the birds of France, and a number of men in uniform called at the
office to see books on this subject.
Specimens were lent for study to the American Museum of Natural
History, New York City ; Judge E. M. Barnes, Lacon, Illinois ; Brook-
lyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York; Bureau of Engraving and Print-
ing; California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California;
Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Mrs. John W. Daniel,
Lynchburg, Virginia; Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago,
Illinois; Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachu-
setts; Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Berkeley, California; Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Arthur T.
Wayne, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.
Reptiles oMd hatrachians. — Although the accessions as a whole were
rather disappointing, there are nevertheless a few noteworthy addi-
tions. Thus Lieut. H. C. Kellers, L^nited States Navy, sent
in 139 specimens from Savage Island and the American Samoa,
Polynesia. The Biological Survey transferred 354 specimens, mostly
from western United States, but including 35 from France collected
by Maj. E. A. Goldman. From the Museum of Comparative Zoology,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 20 specimens from Kamerun, Madagascar,
the Weet Indies, and Peru were obtained in exchange. To Dr. W. L.
Abbott we are indebted for 19 specimens collected by Mr. H. C. Eaven
in Celebes, and 8 specimens collected by himself in Santo Domingo.
REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919. 81
The American Museum of Natural History, New York, presented
four paratypes of species recently described in its bulletin. Finally,
grateful mention should be made of 12 turtles, mostly Kinosternons,
donated by the Mexican National Museum through its director, Dr.
A. L, Herrera, as this material is of particular importance in clearing
up some of the confusion existing in relation to the species of this
group of turtles. The usual annual examination of all the jars in
the collection for the purpose of replenishing the alcohol was com-
pleted.
The curator, Dr. Leonhard Stejneger, with many interruptions,
continued his study of the turtles north of Panama, principally the
mud turtles of Central America and Mexico. The material at hand,
although considerable and probably greater than in any other mu-
seum, is still insufficient to solve the many intricate questions involved,
and efforts are being made to obtain specimens from all parts of the
region mentioned. Dr. F. N. Blanchard, who was appointed aid
during the year, made good progress and nearly completed his mono-
graphic study of the American milk snakes. He published a prelimi-
nary paper describing two new species of the genus. Dr. Thomas
Barbour, of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, during several
visits studied West Indian reptiles and batrachians, determining about
60 lizards on one occasion. Dr. J. C. Thompson, United States Navy,
identified about a hundred snakes from Malaysia, and Mr. E. R. Dunn,
of Smith College, studied and identified a considerable number of
salamanders during occasional visits. Other herpetologists who have
examined material in the collection from time to time were : Mr. G. K.
Noble, of the American Museum of Natural History ; Dr. O. P. Hay,
of the Carnegie Institution ; and Dr. R. W. Shuf eldt, of Washington,
District of Columbia. Specimens were lent for study to the Museum
of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, for Dr. Tli. Bar-
bour; American Museum of Natural History, New York City, for
Miss M. C. Dickerson, and to Dr. Alex. G. Ruthven, director of the
Museum of the University of Michigan.
Fishes. — The Bureau of Fisheries transferred 31 specimens! of
Macruroid fishes, among them two types, collected during the Alba-
tross Philippine cruise, 1907-1909; also an Apsilus dentatus from
Campeche Banks, Gulf of Mexico, received from the Warren Fish
Co., Pensacola, Florida. Mr. Philip Cox, University of New Bruns-
wick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, donated four specimens of an
undescribed form of Dace (Leuciscus) collected in a brook tributary
to Miramichi Ba}'.
The upper floor and about one-half of the lower floor of the
storage containing the study series has been gone over thoroughly,
alcohol replenished or changed where needed, shelves and containers
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cleaned, many labels restored, and the family members added to the
labels for convenience in locating specimens. The collection of type
specimens has been gone over carefully and many specimens removed
to more suitable jars. The card catalogue has been brought up to
date as far as possible.
Mr. B. A. Bean, the assistant curator of fishes, prepared an anno-
tated list of a second lot of fishes collected by officials of the Geo-
logical Survey of Canada and forwarded it to Ottawa for inclusion
in the report upon the fishes collected around Vancouver Island, now
in the hands of the editor. At the suggestion of Dr. David S. Jor-
dan, he has undertaken a detailed description of the unique type
specimen of Steinegeria rubescetis to accompany the publication of
an illustration of this little-known form. Dr. O. P. Hay, during the
year, examined various skeletons in the collection in comparison with
fossil remains from different localities. Mr. W. W. Welsh, of the
United States Bureau of Fisheries, also examined various specimens
in connection with his study of recently collected material. The
fishes collected by Mr. W. H. Brown with the United States Eclipse
Expedition to West Africa, 1889-90, as well as those collected by
Mr. Eolla P. Currie, of the Department of Agriculture, in the St.
Paul River, Siberia, in 1907, were sent for examination and report
to Mr. Henry W. Fowler, of the Academy of Natural Sciences of
Philadelphia, who has submitted for publication a manuscript based
on these collections. The fishes of the United States Exploring Ex-
pedition under Captain Wilkes were also sent to him for study and
report. A large number of fishes collected during the Smithsonian
Biological Survey of Panama were sent to Mr. S. F. Hildebrand, of
the United States Bureau of Fisheries, at present located at Key
West, Florida, for study. Also 13 specimens of chub mackerel
{Scomher colias) to Prof. E. C. Starks, Stanford University, for
study and comparison with west coast material.
Injects, — Owing to the very small number of transfers from the
Department of Agriculture the increase in the entomological col-
lections has been slight as compared with previous years. The only
accession worthy of special mention is the deposit bj^ Mr, J. R. de
la Torre Bueno, of White Plains, New York, of part of the Kirkaldy
collection of Hemiptera. The late G. W. Kirkaldy was one of the
foremost authorities on the order Hemiptera, and the collection
contains the material on which his valuable work on that order
was done. Owing to a lack of drawers there has not been any
great advance in the arrangements of the collections. Some prog-
ress, however, has been made in the Lepidoptera, the Coleoptera, and
to a lesser extent in the Hymenoptera where the North American
bees have been assembled.
KEPORT OF NATIONAL, MUSEUM, 1919. 83
The bibliography for the year indicates what the staff of the
division has published during the year. Most of the work done is
of a taxonomic character, and consists primarily and in the main
of determining specimens submitted to the Bureau of Entomology.
Incidentally, revision work of a more general character is undertaken
usually in conjunction with or necessitated by the above. Thus
several monographic revisions of families or greater groups have
been begim or developed during the year, and one, a synopsis of
the tribes and genera of muscoid flies of the world, by Dr. C. H. T.
Townsend, has been completed, though not yet published.
Prof, T. D. A. Cockerell, of the University of Colorado, has con-
tinued his studies of and described a large number of bees in the
national collection. Mr. R. V. Chamberlain, of the Museum of Com-
parative Zoology, has begun the revision of our entire collection,
of Myriopoda. During the past year the collections have been con-
sulted by the following entomologists, in addition to the specialists
of the Bureau of Entomology, who have always had free access to
the specimens: Messrs. E. T. Cresson, jr., and J. A. G. Rehn, of
the Academ.y of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia : C. C. Crampton,
of the ISIassachusetts Agi'icultural College, Amherst, Massachusetts ;
C. B. Williams, of Trinidad, West Indies ; and H. G. Barber, William
T. Davis, C. W. Leng, and L. B. Woodruff, of New York. The en-
tire collection of Myriopoda, contained in 509 bottles and jars, were
sent to Mr. R. V. Chamberlain, as noted above. A few Diptera were
sent for study to Prof. C. L. Metcalf , of the Ohio State University,
Columbus, Ohio, and 31 Lepidoptera to Sir George F. Hampson, of
the British Museum, London, for study in connection with his re-
vision of the Noctuidae.
Marine invertebrates. — With the exception of the John B. Hen-
derson collection of Antillean land mollusks, already referred to
above, the accessions for the rest of the marine invertebrates are not
as valuable as in past years, chiefly because the activities of the
vessels of the Bureau of Fisheries have been shifted to work con-
nected with the war, thus interfering with the normal lines of in-
vestigation which in times of peace have resulted in transfer of
large collections to the United States National Museum. Neverthe-
less, there are a number of very notable accessions meriting special
mention, such as 50 specimens of land shells from the Philippine
Islands, among them no less than 7 types of new species and sub-
species, donated by Mr. Walter F. Webb, of Rochester, New York.
These additions are the more valuable as they are chiefly from un-
explored regions in the archipelago, and in most cases unique speci-.
mens, presented with characteristic generosity to the National Mu-
seum to the detriment of his own private collection. Mr. R. L.
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Mestayer and Miss Marjorie Mestayer, of Wellington, New Zealand,
donated a number of New Zealand mollusks. including paratypes
of 5 new species, and 4 slides of foraminifera, including 1,241
specimens dredged by H. M. S. Hinemoa and containing many forms
new to science. Dr. Joseph A. Cushman has made the latter ma-
terial the basis of a monographic report now going through the
press. Dr. W. L. Abbott's own exploration in Santo Domingo re-
sulted in the addition of about 500 specimens (25 species) of land
and fresh-water mollusks from Santo Domingo, while the Raven
collection contained 5 marine invertebrates from Borneo. The
Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, presented a first
set of duplicates of decapod crustaceans, 15 species in 42 specimens,
secured by the Endeavour's investigations in Australian waters and
reported on by Dr. Mary J. Rathbun. The land and marine shells
donated by Mr. W. E. Crane, of Washington, District of Columbia
(414 specimens), from various localities are especially valuable to
the Museum, not only because many are exceedingly rare, but also
because they are selected with a view to filling gaps in the Museum
collections discovered by Mr. Crane during his research in this
division. Dr. F. Felippone, of Montevideo, Uruguay, has added
48 species, mostly mollusks, to his previous contributions, which
have more than tripled the Museum's collections of the Uruguayan
fauna, including types of several new genera and species. A collec-
tion of about 2,000 specimens of Australian chitons was obtained
in exchange from Mr. Edwin Ashby, of S^^dney, New South Wales,
admirably filling the gaps and rounding out our series, and con-
taining besides many paratypes. Mr. B. Preston Clark, of Boston,
Massachusetts, donated 35 specimens of Philippine land shells of
the genus Amphidromus. Hon. Jaime C. de Veyra, Resident Com-
missioner from the Philippines, United States House of Representa-
tives, Washington, presented 22 Philippine mollusks, among them
the type of Columbella deveyrai described by Doctor Bartsch. One
hundred invertebrates were received from Prof. N. Gist Gee, of the
Soochow University, China, among which the type of a new species
of isopod crustacean. Dr. A. L. Herrera, the director of the Na-
tional Museum of Natural History of Mexico, generously con-
tributed an unusually rare and perfect gorgonocephalid echino-
derm, which was described by Mr. Austin H. Clark in the Museum
Proceedings as a new genus and species under the name Astro-
cynodus herrerai. Doctor Herrera also contributed 10 microscopical
preparations of bio-artifacts. Mr. William H. Weeks, of Brook-
lyn, New York, donated 21 mollusks from various localities, among
them the type of Leptopoma nitidv/n weehsi Bartsch, from Bohol,
Philippine Islands. Another collection of Philippine mollusks,
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containing manj new and rare forms, is due to the generosity of
Mr. C. M. Weber, Balabac Island, Philippine Islands. A large
number of invertebrates from the coast of California were received
from Mr. E. P. Chase, of Los Angeles, California, in exchange and
as gift, among them the type of a new species. Types of three new
species of shells from the Philippine Islands were contained in a
donation by Mr. Gilbert S. Perez, industrial supervisor, Lucena,
Tayabas. Various types were also presented, with other valuable
material, by Mr. G. Willett, of Los Angeles, California, Mr. T.
Urita, Kogoshima, Japan, and Prof. Carl C. Engberg, of the Uni-
versity of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska.
With regard to the condition of the collections. Dr. Paul Bartsch,
the curator, reports that all collections have been overhauled and
as far as possible put in order, solutions, containers, and labels
renewed in all cases where necessary. The mollusk collection, as
a whole, has been rendered more useful by the intercalation of
label blocks containing the names of the genera and subgenera at
the head of the various sections and by cards placed in each drawer
showing the species contained. For a number of years Dr. W. H.
Dall, the honorary curator of mollusks, has been adding to the col-
lection of Brachiopoda by exchange or purchase. He has now sys-
tematically arranged this collection, bringing the nomenclature and
labeling up to date and naming the unidentified specimens. Includ-
ing the European specimens in the Jeffrej^s collection the number of
species represented in our series of recent Brachiopoda is 175, repre-
sented by more than 6,000 specimens. Thirty-two of these species are
new to science. From information recently received in regard to
the Davidson collection of recent Brachiopods now in the British
Museum, which has always been considered the finest in any museum,
it is apparent that the collection in the National Museum far
exceeds it, both in number of specimens and species, and of original
types. It is without doubt the finest collection of recent Brachiopods
extant.
Doctor Dall completed the revision of the collection of mollusks
from the west coast of America. In the course of this work many
new species were discovered and described, being the largest contri-
bution to the marine molluscan fauna of the Pacific coast since 1886.
He also prepared a check list of the marine gastropods from the
Arctic Ocean to San Diego, California, containing references to
2,055 species exclusive of cephalopods and nudibranchs as against
only 492 species, including these groups, in Carpenter's list published
in 1872. He furthermore revised for publication the large collec-
tion of recent brachiopods, comprising over 6,000 specimens repre-
senting 175 species, of which 32 are new to science, and began a study
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of the mollusks collected by the Bureau of Fisheries steamer Alba-
tross during 1902 in the deeper waters around the Hawaiian Islands.
Mr. John B. Henderson, a regent of the Smithsonian Institution, has
continued his studies of the east American mollusks. He has also
begun a monograph of the American tectibranchs and in addition has
cooperated with the curator in a report on the mollusk fauna of the
Beaufort, North Carolina, region for the Bureau of Fisheries. The
text of his monograph on the Western Atlantic Scaphopoda has been
comi:)leted for some time, its publication awaiting the making of a
large number of illustrations. Dr. Mary J. Eathbun, associate in
zoology, continued her study of the brachyuran crabs of the Amer-
ican Museum Congo expedition, 1910-1916, referred to in last year's
report. She has also identified the brachyurans collected by the Bar-
bados-Antigua expedition of the State University of Iowa.
The lectures delivered by the curator at Camp Lee and Camp
Meade are referred to here as " war work," and frequent advice to
correspondents how to destroy noxious pests, particularly slugs
which have made serious inroads upon the war gardens in cities
may be similarly classified. Mr. Austin H. Clark, assistant curator,
has completed a second part of his Monograph of the Existing
Crinoids, the first part of which was published by the Museum in
1915 as Bulletin 82. Work on a third part of this monograph is
well under way. His investigations in the larval crinoids of the
Gauss expedition have been completed, as well as his report on the
ophiurans and crinoids of the Barbados- Antigua expedition of the
State Universtiy of Iowa. He has continued his investigations on
the crinoids of the Ingolf expedition. Mr. Waldo L. Schmitt, as-
sistant curator, has begun a report on the Macrura and Anomura
of the American Museum Congo expedition, 1910-1916, and another
on the Macrura and Anomura of the State University of Iowa Bar-
bados-Antigua expedition, 1918. He also spent three months, from
August to October, 1918, in California, on detail to the United States
Bureau of Fisheries, in connection with his studies upon the life
history of the California spiny lobster. He has also continued his
studies upon the hermit crabs of Japan and the American East Coast
Macrura. His report on the Schizopods of the Canadian Arctic
expedition is going through press. Mr. William B. Marshall, assist-
ant curator, has devoted the greater part of his time to routine work
incidental to the distribution of old and receipt of new molluskan
collections, including identifications of large gi'oups of mollusks
submitted by other institutions and individuals for examination.
Such time as could be spared for research work was devoted to
the study of the pearly fresh-water mussels which has resulted in
the completion of two papex's, He also continued his study of the
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diplodons and anodontites. Mr. C. R. Shoemaker, aid, in what
little time could be spared from routine work, continued his studies
of the amphipods, completing his report on those collected by the
Canadian Arctic expedition, as well as a report on the amphipods of
the American Museum Congo expedition, 1910-1916. Miss Pearl
L. Boone, aid, continued her studies of the isopods, which resulted
in the preparation of three papers for publication. Her report on
the isopods of the Canadian Arctic expedition is being expanded
into a report upon those crustaceans for the entire region. She has
also begun a comprehensive report on South American isopods.
Dr. T. Wayland Vaughan, custodian of the Madreporarian corals,
has devoted the major portion of his time to war work under tha
Geological Survey. The little time remaining for research he has
devoted to consideration of fossil material in connection with which
he had consulted the recent coral collections of the United States
National Museum. Asst. Surg. Gen. Charles Wardell Stiles, cus-
todian of the Helminthological collections ; Dr. B. H. Ransom, assist-
ant custodian; and Dr. P. E. Garrison, United States Navy, have
continued their investigations on the parasites of man and other
animals. Mr. Harry K. Harring, custodian of Rotatoria, has con-
tinued his studies of the rotifers of the District of Columbia, Wis-
consin, and other States.
The facilities of the division have been extended to a number of
other specialists prosecuting investigations in our collections, as fol-
lows: Dr. Charles W. Cook, United States Geological Survey, has
consulted the recent mollusk collections in connection with his study
of the Eocene and Oligocene fauna, continued in the intervals of
field work for the United States Geological Survey. Mr. W. E.
Crane, of Washington, District of Columbia, has spent about six
months studying the various collections of mollusks, comparing and
identifying his own private collection thereby. He has liberally
donated several lots of rare shells from his private collection to fill
gaps in the collection of the Museum. Mr. Edwin Ashby, of Black-
wood, South Australia, studied the Australian chitonidae collections
in the United States National Museum during the month of July,
which, in addition to a revision of our collections, resulted in an ex-
change of valuable paratypes and other valuable Australian chitonidae
for North American specimens. Dr. Ralph V. Chamberlin, of the
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, spent
a couple of days examining the annelid collections, making a pre-
liminary examination of the Arctic marine annelids and the gen-
eral collection of sipunculid worms, both of which he has undertaken
to monograph, his reports to be published by the National Museum.
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Dr. Max Ellis, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, spent
seA'eral days examining the crustacean collections for discodrilid
worms. The parasites found have been referred to him for mono-
graphic report, to be published by the National Museum. Dr. E, W.
Shufeldt, of Washington, District of Columbia, spent several days in
the division selecting specimens of mollusks and crustaceans to be
photographed for use as illustrations for a series of popular articles.
Fifty or more specialists from the various branches of the United
States Department of AgTiculture, the Bureau of Fisheries, and the
Geological Survey have made personal calls, seeking assistance with
various phases of their respective problems.
There are a large number of groups of marine invertebrates on
which the Museum, unfortunately, possesses no staff specialist.
Whenever material in these groups arrives for determination or de-
posit it is sent to men engaged in research upon these lines, and
while this arrangem.ent is undoubtedly also of advantage to these
coworkers, the Museum is nevertheless under great obligations to
them for their cordial and valuable cooperation. The list embraces
some of the highest authorities in their specialty in this country,
as well as abroad, as follows: Dr. Henry B. Bigelow (Medusae,
Ctenophora) ; Dr. L. R. Cary (Alcyonarians) ; Dr. R. V. Chamber-
lin (Gephyrea) ; Dr. Hubert L. Clark (Holothurians) ; Dr. Wesley
E. Coe (Nemerteans) ; Dr. Leon J. Cole (Pycnogonids) ; Dr. Joseph
A. Cushman (Foraminifera) ; Prof. G. S. Dodds (Fresh Water
Entomostraca) ; Dr. Max Ellis (Discodrilids) : Dr. C. O. Esterly
(Free-swimming Copepods) ; Dr. Walter Faxon (Crayfishes) ; Prof.
Ernest Carroll Faust (Trematodes) ; Dr. Walter K. Fisher (Star-
fishes) ; Dr. Maurice C. Hall (Discodrilids) ; Mr. Sanji Hozawa
(Calcareous sponges) ; Dr. A. G. Huntsman (Ascidians) ; Prof. Eene
Koehler (Ophiurans) ; Prof. Chauncey Juday (Daphniidae Crus-
taces) ; Dr. C. D wight Marsh (Free-swimming Copepods) ; Dr.
Alfred G. Mayor (Scyphomedusae) ; Dr. Maynard M. Metcalf
(Salpa and Pyrosoma) ; Dr. J. Percy Moore (Annelids, Leeches) ;
Dr. Theodor Mortensen (Echinoids) ; Dr. Charles C. Nutting (Ply-
droids) ; Dr. Eaymond C. Osburn (Bryozoa) ; Dr. Henry A. Pilsbry
(Barnacles, Mollusks) ; Mr. Madoka Sasaki (Cephalopod Mollusks) ;
Prof. Frank Smith (Earthworms) ; Dr. Victor Sterki (Sphaeriidae) ;
Prof. Harry B. Torrey (Actinians) ; Dr. Aaron L. Treadwell (An-
nelids) ; Dr. Willard G. Van Name (Ascidians) ; Dr. A. E. Verrill
(Starfishes); Prof. L. B. Walton (Planarians) ; Dr. Charles B.
Wilson (Parasitic Copepods).
Several large collections were sent out to specialists mentioned
above, thus a large number of foraminifera to Dr. Joseph A. Cush-
man, of the Boston Society of Natural History, in connection with
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his forthcoming monographs ; all the arctic marine aimelids and all
unidentified sipunculids to Dr. Ralph V. Chamberlin, of the Museum
of ComparatiA'e Zoology. In addition various smaller lots were sub-
mitted for identification, or as supplementing previous sendings.
Bottom samples to the number of 175, secured by the Bureau of
Fisheries steamer Albatross^ ojff Oregon and Washington, were for-
warded to Dr. C. H. Edmunston, of the University of Oregon, for
examination and report.
Plants. — The number of accessions received as well as the number
of specimens entered in the record books during the present year is
considerably less than the annual average, though the scientific value
of the specimens received is about equal to that of the previous year.
The low number of entries resulted from the difficulty in securing
mounters. "With the exception of the Mexican and Philippine plants
mentioned below, the more important accessions relate to material
from South America, a region from which a special effort is being
made to obtain specimens at the present time. In the order of their
importance the larger accessions are as follows: Approximately
12,000 specimens of plants, chiefly from Mexico, presented by Brother
G. Arsene, representing a nearly complete series of the extensive
botanical collections secured by him and his associates among the
Christian Brothers during about eight years' residence in Mexico.
Some 3,995 specimens of Philippine plants were obtained by pur-
chase. Prof. H. Pittier, of the Bureau of Plant Industry, donated a
total of 1,761 specimens of Venezuelan plants of particular interest
as coming from regions of great importance historically. From the
bureau of science, Manila, Philippine Islands, 5,612 Philippine plants
were received in exchange. Dr. J. N. Rose's expedition to Ecuador
added about 2,000 specimens to the National Herbarium from the
Andes of Ecuador, a region not well represented in American her-
baria. From the Museu Goeldi, Para, Brazil, 1,077 specimens, from
Brazil, chiefly leguminous trees, an unusually complete and well-pre-
pared collection, obtained in exchange.
Notwithstanding the shortage of curatorial help and the difficulty
of securing mounters, the work connected with the upkeep and in-
crease of the National Herbarium has progressed satisfactorily dur-
ing the past fiscal year. Approximately 13,000 specimens have been
mounted, while more than 20,000 remain to be mounted, this work to
be accomplished in large part by orders already issued. All the
specimens mounted have been entered in the record books of the divi-
sion, and the gi'eater part distributed into the herbarium together
with specimens remaining from last year. This work has been made
possible by the employment of temporary help. The remainder of
the grass herbarium has also been stamped and catalogued. Work
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in the general herbarium has included the identification of several
thousand Mexican phanerogams by Mr. P. C. Standley, the assistant
curator, in connection with his study of the trees and shrubs of
Mexico.
The associate curator, Mr. William R. Maxon, again calls atten-
tion to the crowded condition of the herbarium and the difficulty of
making provision for normal increase. Cases actually required have
been installed temporarily, but at a sacrifice of table space which is
badly needed. A small amount of space can be released by the dis-
tribution of duplicates, but this would require additional clerical
assistants. Real relief can only be had by providing a balcony in
the west half of the herbarium as previously suggested and hope is
expressed that it may be possible to have one constructed at an early
date. The sectional library has been extended and completely rear-
ranged during the latter part of the year. The work, in charge of
Mr. Brockett, involved the deposit of many volumes received from
the Biltmore Herbarium and of others selected from the Museum
library.
The curator, Mr. Frederick V. Coville, continued his studies of
Vacdniimi and related genera, making use of material in the Na-
tional Herbarium as in previous years. Dr. J. N. Rose, associate
curator, since his return from the expedition to Ecuador in October,
1918, continued his studies of the Cactaceae in collaboration with Dr.
N. L. Britton, director in chief of the New York Botanical Garden.
The first volume of The Cactaceae has recently been published by
the Carnegie Institution, under whose auspices the work has been
done, and the second volume is in proof. Mr. Maxon continued his
studies of the North American ferns and has published several
l^apers. He has begim the preparation of a catalogue of the pteri-
dophji;a of Cuba. Mr. Standley carried forward his work upon the
Rubiaceae and has submitted manuscript for part 2 to be published
in the North American Flora, i^art 1 having been issued during the
year. He also submitted the first part of a synoptical account of the
trees and shrubs of Mexico, and completed Studies of Tropical
American Phanerogams, No. 3, which will appear shortly.
During the year the herbarium has been consulted frequently, as
in previous years, by members of the staff of the Department of
Agriculture. Among the botanists from other cities who have
worked in the herbarium during the year are the following: Prof.
C. S. Sargent and Dr. Camillo Schneider, of the Arnold Arboretum,
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts; Prof. W. W. Rowlee, of Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York; Dr. J. K. Small, Dr. P. A. Rydberg,
and Dr. H. A. Gleason, of the New York Botanical Garden, Bronx
Park, New York City; and Dr. J. M. Greenman, of the Missouri
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Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri. The same condition which
prevailed during the previous years resulted in the sending out for
study a smaller number of specimens than usual, namely, 2,394, in
39 lots. The following deserve special notice: 136 specimens of
South American orchids, lent to Mr. Oakes Ames, North Easton,
Massachusetts, in connection with his monogi-aphic study of this
group; 235 specimens of Salix lent to the Arnold Arboretum, Ja-
maica Plain, Massachusetts, for the use of Dr. Camillo Schneider
in connection with his extended treatment of North American wil-
lows; 61 specimens of African mosses sent to Mr. H. N. Dixon,
Northampton, England, for identification, this material including
many new species, will form the basis of a forthcoming paper;
155 specimens of ferns of the genus Pityrogramma lent to the
Gray Herbarium, Cambridge, Massachusetts, for study by Mr. C. A.
Weatherby in connection with a revision of the southwestern repre-
sentatives of this genus ; 85 specimens of Vemonieae lent to the Uni-
versity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, for monographic study
by Prof. H. A. Gleason. During the year 14 persons connected with
the Department of Agriculture have borrowed from the National
Herbarium 66 lots of plants, aggregating 1,918 specimens.
Work of prepar'ators. — ^The storing away of the whole exhibition
series at the beginning of the year and its later partial reinstallation
with the incidental cleaning and repair has occupied a great amount
of the time and labor of the preparators. The removal of the work
shop of the osteologist and of the bird taxidermist due to the evacu-
ation of their former quarter in the stable; the further removal of
the mammal taxidermists and the modeler from the south shed to
the building in the east court of the Natural History Building ; and
the transfer of the bone cleaners' shops from the south to the north
side of the south shed further reduced the time available for work
on specimens. Finally, the absence of several of the men during
part of the year due to sickness and temporary detail to another de-
partment contributed to the comparative lack of progress in this
division. Under those circumstances but little new work was ac-
complished. On the other hand, this release of the preparators
from work on the exhibition material has been of great benefit to
the study series, both of mammals, birds, and reptiles. Again, the
receipt of the large consignments of material from the Collins-
Garner expedition to the French Coiigo, which on account of trans-
portation difficulties had been long on the way and exposed to most
untoward conditions, necessitated the concentration of the prepara-
tory force on the work of saving this exceptionally valuable ma-
terial. Thanks to the originally excellent preparation of the speci-
mens and to the timely interference of the taxidermists on their
arrival, the condition of these valuable collections is now very
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satisfactor3\ The cleaning of skeletons and skulls has progressed
as usual, with the necessary interruption due to the change of quar-
ters, alluded to above. Mr. N. L. Brown completed the mounting of
the American tapir and the Asiatic leopard mentioned in last year's
report. He also tanned by hand 47 skins of large and medium sized
mammals, among them 3 chimpanzees, 8 antelopes, a number of
buffaloes, deer, etc. The tanning of valuable specimens by commer-
cial tanners, as has been practiced during late years is becoming less
and less satisfactory, and the hope is expressed that it may be pos-
sible to do all the necessary work of the kind in the Museum shop.
Mr. Brown also assisted Mr. Wood in his bird taxidermy, skinning
and making up 23 birds. Mr. George Marshall, besides assisting Mr.
Brown in much of the above work, was chiefly employed in miscel-
laneous work connected with the moving, cleaning, and repairing of
exhibits. A number of mammal skins were dismounted or made
over and some bird skins prepared. Toward the end of the year
much of his time was taken up with repairing the large collection
of mammal heads preparatory to their being hung on the walls of
the main staircase. They had suffered considerably from long stor-
age in unsuitable cases since the Department of Biology moved into
the Natural History Building. Mr. Nelson R. Wood, the bird taxi-
dermist, was absent from the Museum during a considerable period
on account of ill health. He mounted two specimens for the exhibi-
tion series, but was mostly engaged in making over skins for the
study series so valuable that they could not be entrusted to less ex-
perienced hands, 141 skins being attended to in all. Mr. J. W.
Scollick, the osteologist, cleaned 4 mammal skeletons, 82 bird skele-
tons, 5 reptile skeletons, 44 mammal skulls, and 52 reptile skulls.
Under his supervision 147 mammal skeletons and 414 slmlls, and 1
set of leg bones were cleaned, and 3 skeletons roughed out. JSIr. C. E.
Mirguet, preparator, in addition to the work incidental to moving^
etc., was employed on a great variety of work, cleaning skeletons
and skulls of birds and reptiles, tanning of mammal skins, including
those of porpoise and sea-cow. He also mounted a large land tor-
toise for the exhibition series, made plaster cast of a type skidl of
bear, and changed the installation of the North American bear case
after the opening of the exhibition. He was lately occupied with
the task of hanging of the mammal heads on the walls of the main
staircase. Mr. William Palmer, preparator, continued his work on
the District of Columbia faunal exhibit. As mentioned in last
year's report, plans were being made for a reinstallation of the
District collection in the form of a series of habitat groups. One
of these containing turkey vultures, bobwhite, dove, wild turkey,
etc., was prepared as an experiment. He also completed the com-
plete rebuilding of the old Flamingo group, a very difficult and time-
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consuming work. He made molds and casts of turtles and fishes, also
a group of green frogs for the District exhibit. For the general fish
collection he made a gi^oup of a mother and four young of the cow-
nosed ray {RMnohatm) . During the period following the moving
of the exhibition cases he assisted in their reinstallation and rehabili-
tation.
Exhibition collections. — When last year's report closed, 41,600
square feet of floor space had already been vacated to furnish office
room for the Bureau of War Risk Insurance of the United States
Treasury. At that time part of the exhibits on both floors, notably
the big groups of African mammals collected by the Smithsonian
African expedition under direction of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, was
still accessible to the public. During the first week of the year the
Biological Department received orders to evacuate the rest of the
exhibition space allotted to it, in order to furnish additional room
for the War Risk Insurance Bureau. As a result, the big ranges on
both floors were cleared of their cases by moving them into the
skylight hall and the range in which are located the African groups,
as it was found practically impossible to move the big habitat groups.
The bird collection was moved into the adjacent alcoves and stored
there. On the second floor the skeleton hall and the fish and reptile
halls were cleared by moving the cases into the whale hall. The
cases had to be so closely crowded that in most instances it was im-
possible for a man to squeeze in between them. Enough space was
left, however, for an efficient inspection which was undertaken regu-
larly every week by Dr. J. E. Benedict and two preparators, with a
view to detecting possible damage by insects or any other causes. In
order to save the exhibits from unnecessary exposure to the light,
the curtains were kept down wherever furnished, and in special in-
stances the cases were darkened by covering them with thick black
paper. Before storing away the exhibition collection specimens
which, if damaged, could not be replaced, such as the great auk,
the Labrador duck, etc., were removed from the cases and placed
safely in insect-proof, dust and light tight unit storage cases. As a
result of these precautions and the great care in handling the cases
when moving them, the collection, as a whole, suffered surprisingly
little damage.
The War Risk Bureau having moved out of the building at the
end of Marcli, 1919, the task of moving the stored exhibits back into
their former places was begun at once. Within a short time the first
floor exhibits were placed in position. On the second floor the ver-
tebrate skeleton hall, and the fish and reptile halls were also re-
stored to their former state. The exhibition rooms thus cleared and
reinstalled were thrown open to the public on April 11. Unfortu-
nately it was found impracticable to move the reserve series of the
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division of mammals and the Biological Survey back to the ground
floor. As a consequence, the entire north and northwest range are
inaccessible to the public, and the whale hall, although open to
visitors, is still filled with a large amount of heterogeneous exhibits,
mostly part of the synoptic series and the District of Columbia
fauna.
As soon as the cases were back in their former positions, a thor-
ough overhauling of the collection was made. Some repairs, of
course, had to be made, but as already remarked, on the whole, the
specimens had suffered but little. The specimens mounted in the
meantime were then placed in their respective cases, thus the tapir
in the great tropical American floor case filling a serious gap in the
series. The floor of the North American bear case was sanded, and
the specimens on polished walnut bases dismounted from their
stands. At the same time a new arrangement was undertaken by
which the appearance of the case was greatly improved. The ungu-
late case on the north side of the same hall was similarly improved.
Explorations. — The expeditions mentioned in last year's report
have come to an end during the present year. Mr. H. C. Raven,
who had been doing field work for the Museum in Borneo and
Celebes, under the direction of Dr. W. L. Abbott, returned to this
country on September 20, 1918, having been called home on account of
the war. This closes, at least for the time being, a work that has been
of the utmost value to the Museum, not only because of the richness
of the collections, comprising as they do about 1,500 mammals and
2,800 birds, many of which are new to science, besides an extensive
series of ethnological specimens, but especially because this material
admirably supplements the collections previously made by Doctor
Abbott himself in the more western part of the Malay Archipelago
and by Doctor Mearns and others in the Philippines. The collec-
tions which Mr. Raven brought back with him cover the period from
August 1, 1917, to February 28, 1918, and were made chiefly at
Gimpoe, Rano Rano, and Pinedapa, in the middle region of Celebes.
Dr. W. L. Abbott undertook a short expedition to Santo Domingo
in the early part of 1919, reaching there at the beginning of Febru-
ary and returning to New York on June 14. He spent some time
working in the region of Samana Bay, after which he visited the
mountains, making Constanga his headquarters, whence he made
several brief excursions to neighboring localities. Among the col-
lections received were the eggs of the palm chat already alluded to
and about 500 mollusks. Dr. C. D. Walcott's explorations in the
Canadian Rocky Mountains during the field season of 1918, although
primarily geological, resulted in several desirable additions to the
mammal collection. Mr. "Waldo L. Schmitt, of the Division of
Marine Invertebrates, spent the months of August, September, and
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October, 1918, in California, engaged in a study of the life history
of the west coast spiny lobster under the auspices of the Bureau of
Fisheries. Incidentally, shore and tide pool collections were made for
the Museum. Dr. P. Bartsch, curator of marine invertebrates, made
two trips to Florida during the spring of 1919, necessitated by his
Cerion breeding experiments continued under the auspices of the
Carnegie Institution of Washington. At the same time he collected
a large number of specimens for the Museum, including some birds,
reptiles, plants, about 10,000 mollusks, and other invertebrates. The
botanical expedition under the joint auspices of the New York Botan-
ical Garden, the Gray Herbarium, and the National Museum for the
exploration of the Ecuadorean Andes was conducted very success-
fully by Dr. J. N. Eose, associate curator of plants. This is the
first field expedition under a cooperative plan organized by the above
institutions for the investigation of the flora of Northern South
America, which it is hoped will not only enrich our botanical collec-
tions, but also furnish information regarding economic plants which
will be of much value to the horticultural and agricultural interests of
this country. The share of the Museum in this expedition was about
2,000 plants. Doctor Rose also added various other specimens, nota-
bly reptiles and fishes to the collection. During the month of
August, 1918, Mr. A. S.Hitchcock, custodian of the section of grasses
of the division of plants, visited certain parts of the Southwestern
States for the purpose of studying the grasses. Collections were
made at Fayetteville and Pine Bluff in Arkansas, Stillwater in
Oklahoma, and Fort Worth, in northeastern Texas, and various
other places.. A fuller illustrated report is found in the Smithson-
ian Exploration Pamphlet for 1918, Smithsonian Miscellaneous
Collections (vol. 70, No. 2, pp. 50-61). The Collins-Garner Congo
expedition in the interest of the Smithsonian Institution came to a
close during the year. Mr. Garner and Mr. Aschemeier left the
French Congo in March, arriving in New York in May. Major Col-
lins was unfortunately prevented by the war from joining the party
so that essentially the whole burden of collecting and preserving
specimens fell on our representative, Mr. Aschemeier. As a result
of his work about 1,200 mammals and more than 1,100 birds were
obtained. Most of these specimens reached Washington before the
end of the fiscal year, but so late that it has been impossible to
include them in the accessions covered by the present report. All
that have been received are in excellent condition. The collection
of mammals includes, besides the smaller species, 5 gorillas, 9 chim-
panzees, also numerous buffaloes, antelopes, and pigs. The material
gathered by this expedition will be of great value for comparison
with our East African collections, reports upon which are now being
prepared by specialists.
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The only new expedition sent out during the year we owe to Doctor
Abbott's continued interest in the Museum. On the retirement of
Mr. Raven, he generously arranged to send Mr. Charles M. Hoy to
Australia for the benefit of the Museum. Mr. Hoy sailed early in
May and has reported his safe arrival in Sydney. The object of his
work will be mainly to procure series of the birds and mammals
which are in danger of extermination. Many of these are not now
properly represented in our collections. Hence this expedition prom-
ises to be of very unusual importance. The first collecting field will
probably be in the vicinity of Cape York.
Distribution and exchange of specimens. — Duplicates distributed
to schools, colleges, institutions, and individuals aggregated 3,917
specimens, of which 1,044 were in 6 sets of 174 mollusks, each regu-
larly prepared for this purpose. One hundred and five bird skins
from Polynesia, part of the collections made during the Albatross
Pacific Expedition, 1899-1900, under the direction of Dr. Alexander
Agassiz, were sent to the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cam-
bridge, Massachusetts. To the British Museum a collection of 390
named Lepidoptera was presented as well as a few isopods, and to the
Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1,982 specimens, mollusks,
reptiles, and fishes. The remaining specimens were sent to various
institutions and specialists.
Exchanges to the number of 4,352 specimens were arranged, 3,836
of which were botanical. Of the 516 zoological specimens, 57 hum-
ming birds and 100 mollusks were sent to Mr. E. Ashby, Blackwood,
South Australia; 244 mollusks to Dr. F. Felippone, Montevideo,
Uruguay; while the remainder were disposed of by exchange with
various institutions and individuals. The largest exchanges of plants
were sent to the Oregon AgTicultural College ; British Museum ; Cali-
fornia Academy of Sciences; Gray Herbarium, Cambridge, Massa-
chusetts ; Missouri Botanical Garden ; New York Botanical Garden ;
Field Museum of Natural History; College de Longiieuil, Quebec,
Canada ; and the Botanic Gardens, Sydney, Australia. The remain-
ing exchanges were mostly with individual botanists.
REPORT ON THE DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY,
By George P. Meebill, Eead Curator.
The period covered by this report, as may be readily imagined, has
been anomalous in the history of the department. From the begin-
ning of the year until the April following, the exhibition halls were
closed to the public, a portion of the working force was either in
the Army or engaged in work incidental to the war, while the demand
for expert services was so great that it was found impossible to fill
important vacancies until after the declaration of the armistice in
November. Further than this, the distractions incidental and conse-
quential to this world-wide catastrophe naturally turned the atten-
tion of both the Museum workers and the world at large to purely
utilitarian matters, and the Museum suffered as a result. Neverthe-
less, in the quiet of the laboratories, workrooms, and offices much that
was of importance has been accomplished.
General admirdstration of Jiead curator's office. — The routine of the
department has not changed materially since a report on this sub-
ject was first called for in 1912. Sundry instructions that have since
been issued seemingly make it desirable to repeat in substance what
was then given.
All correspondence relating to official matters passes through the
office of the head curator, whence it is distributed to the proper divi-
sions or sections. This centralization has been found necessary to
avoid delays, duplication of work, and other undesirable results. In
like manner it has been found advisable that all papers relating to
materials pass into the hands of one individual who is made respon-
sible for the records. These include accessions, material for exam-
ination and report, and the invoicing and packing of all specimens
for distribution. This same individual, the recorder, performs or
supervises the mechanical work incidental to cataloguing for all divi-
sions of the department, thus having under observation all materials
from the time they are received in the department until their final
placement in the collection or return to the sender. This method,
it is found, assures a uniformity and degree of accuracy impossible
under the one-time prevalent system in which the head of each divi-
sion or section handled matters at his own convenience and after his
own methods.
All letters containing requests for information and referred to the
department are likewise distributed from the head curator's office, to
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be returned once more to him for approval and thence to the adminis-
trative office. During the fiscal year under consideration, 206 letters
were thus referred. No record is kept of these for a longer period
than one year. Reports on material sent in for examination are,
however, made a matter of permanent record. We are thus able at
the present time to refer back to a copy of any original report that
has been made since the organization of the office.
No official papers are retained in the office longer than is seemingly
necessary in order to obtain the information desired, or, in the case
of accession papers, to catalogue the material. In cases where de-
tailed cataloguing is not immediately possible, the entire lot is en-
tered under one number and the papers returned to the official files,
a cross reference to the original number being made when the speci-
ments are finally registered individually.
The above system is an outgrowth of experience, and has been
found, so far as the department has information, to answer well for
all purposes. The failures, if such there be, are due to individual pe-
culiarities which can not be overcome in all cases.
Accessions. — The additions to the collections during the year were
comprised in 135 accessions, aggregating a total of approximately
30,800 specimens classified and distributed as follows: Division of
Systematic and Applied Geology, 2,150 ; Mineralogy and Petrology,
2,600; Invertebrate Paleontology, 25,000; Vertebrate Paleontology,
50; Paleobotany, 1,000. These figures show a slight decrease from
last year in number of accessions, but an increase in individual si^eci-
mens. The average standard of value of the material is upheld, with
a marked increase over last year in that of the paleontological acces-
sions. There were received for examination and report 230 lots of
rocks or supposed mineral-bearing materials, and 26 lots of fossils.
The accessions of especial interest are as follows :
Systematic and applied geology. — Through Mr. Frank L. Hess,
of the United States Geological Survey, and honorary custodian of
rare earths and rare metals, numerous additions have been made to
the collection of ores of the rarer metals, particularly those used in
the manufacture of steel. Among these are several examples from
foreign sources, including the tungsten minerals wolframite and
scheelite, the latter largely in crj^stal form, from Korea, donated
by Mr. George R. Allen of the Chosen Mineral Co., Keijyo,
Korea ; wolframite from China, gift of Sir Paul Chater, Hongkong,
China; and wolframite from Bolivia, presented by Mr. B. Bryan.
Domestic tungsten ores are represented by a large specimen of
scheelite from AVliite Pine County, Nevada, gift of Mr. E. A. Stent,
San Francisco, California, and ferberite from the Katy mine, in
Boulder County, donated by Mr. H. Devries, Boulder, Colorado. A
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large msiss of molybdenum ore was presented by the Climax Molybde-
num Co., Denver, and two specimens of ferrotungsten by the Tung-
sten Products Co., Boulder, Colorado.
The collection of tungsten ores was further augmented by speci-
mens of scheelite and wolframite from Korea, presented by Dr. J.
Morgan Clements, New York City, and by scheelite from Glenorchy,
New Zealand, acquired by purchase.
By transfer from the United States Geological Survey was received
a collection of igneous rocks and miscellaneous ores from various lo-
calities in Utah and Colorado, including the Leadville zinc ores
recently described by Mr. G. F. Loughlin in Bulletin 681 of the
Survey. Other materials from the same source include zirconiferous
sandstone from near Ashland, Virginia, and vanadium ores from
Placerville, Colorado, both described by Mr. F. L. Hess.
Collections by members of the staff comprise large exhibition
specimens illustrating various geological phenomena, and several
hundred pounds each of glauconite and chert, secured by Dr. E. S.
Bassler ; minerals and ores collected by Dr. C. E. Eesser in southern
Pennsylvania; rocks, minerals, and ores from New York, New Jer-
sey, and Pennsylvania, obtained by Dr. J. C. Martin; and. granite-
gneiss and decomposition products showing the process of weather-
ing, collected in Eock Creek Park by Dr. J. C. Martin and Mr. H.
Warner.
Other interesting accessions include tin and bismuth ores from
Bolivia, donated by Mr. Rowland Bancroft, Denver, Colorado; a
partial replacement cast in copper of a boulder, gift of Mr. Paul H.
MacNeil, Washington, District of Columbia; and a sample of vol-
canic sand which fell on the deck of the Belgian steamer President
Bungo^ on October 23, 1918, supposed to be from the volcano of
Hekla, Iceland, gift of Lieut. Commander John C. Soley, New Or-
leans, Louisiana.
To the collection of building stones was added a large slab of Mar
Villa marble from Cockeysville, Maryland, gift of Mr. J. C. Matthai,
Baltimore, Maryland.
Material of unusual interest, including that of two new falls, has
been added to the meteorite collection. The most important of these
comprises two nearly complete individuals and upward of 50 frag-
ments of a meteorite which fell near Cumberland Falls, "Wliitley
County, Kentucky, on the 9th of April, 1919. The stone belongs
to the rare type of achondrites. and is of peculiar interest on account
of its brecciated stricture and other evidences of stress which it
presents. The Museum is fortunate in ' having secured, through
Prof. Arthur M. Miller of the L^niversity of Kentucky, and Mr.
L. E. Bryant. Eobei-ta, Tennessee, the largest complete individual
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as well as such a quantity of fragments as to assure a full representa-
tive series of this most remarkable stone. One complete and two
nearly complete individuals of a chondritic stone which fell at
Eichardton, North Dakota, on June 30, 1918. were also acquired
through the aid of Prof. T. T. Quirke of the University of Minnesota.
In addition to these, fine large exhibition slabs of the San An-
gelo, Texas, and Staunton, Virginia, meteoric irons, weighing 1,917
and 1,162 gleams respectively, were presented by Mr. C. S. Bement,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, whose like public-spirited acts have
been many times noted in previous reports. A slab weighing 1,393
grams, of the Kenton County, Kentucky, iron was received in ex-
change from Ward's Natural Science Establishment, and examples
of the Crumlin, Durala, and Nellore meteoric stones, and the Uwet
iron, in exchange from the British Museum, London.
Mineralogy mid petrology. — A remarkably large and perfect
crystal of scheelite, 3| inches in maximum diameter, and weighing
529 grams (about 1^ pounds), was included in material secured by
Dr. J. Morgan Clements, of New York City, while traveling in
Korea in the interest of the Federal Trade Commission, and pre-
sented by him to the Museum. In form this crystal is a simple
tetragonal octahedron (double pyramid), all of the faces being
wholly or partly represented. It is probably one of the most per-
fect, if not the most perfect, crystals of its size known. Two crystals
of cassiterite are also included in this accession.
Two arsenic minerals, realgar and arsenolite, from Hunan, China,
especially interesting on account of the locality, were presented by
Mr. Ralph W. Weymouth, New York City, through Mr. F. L. Hess;
large specimens of chlorite, one with included ankerite and one with
pyrite crystals, were acquired by purchase; and two rare minerals,
hodgkinsonite, from Franklin, New Jersey, and riversideite, from
Crestmore, California, were added by exchanges, the former re-
ceived from Mr. M. L. Jandorf, York, Pennsylvania, and the latter
from Mr. William F. Foshag, Berkeley, California.
An example of the new mineral ferrierite, from British Columbia,
gift of Dr. W. F. Ferrier, Toronto, Canada ; a large exhibition speci-
men of jarosite from California, transferred by the United States
Geological Survey; several hundred pebbles of thomsonite and lin-
tonite from the north shore of Lake Superior, gift of Miss Mary W.
Peckham, Providence, Rhode Island; six minerals from Westfield,
Massachusetts, described and presented by Mr. Earl V. Shannon;
and a specimen of aguilarite from Mexico, a mineral before unrepre-
sented in our collections, presented by Prof. William E. Ford, Yale
University, are all worthy of note.
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Through the Frances Lea Chamberlain Fund, the following were
added to the Isaac Lea collection of gems : Five opals from Austra-
lia, of a variety heretofore unrepresented; a cut zircon weighing 51
carats ; two turquoises, figured by Dr. J. E. Pogue in his memoir on
The Turquoise; one kunzite, weighing 7 carats; one 16-carat black
opal, from Nevada; two stones cut from the rare mineral benitoite;
one pendant carved from nephrite and one, cut cameo, of chal-
cedony ; 32 fresh-water pearls from Tennessee ; and 30 gems cut from
minerals in the Museum collection.
The collection of gems was further enriched by six cut garnets
from Arizona, presented by Mr. Frank Springer, East Las Vegas,
New Mexico, and the exhibit of imitation and artificial stones by
a brilliant cut gem manufactured from uranium oxides, gift of Maj.
Harry S. Bryan, Phoenix, Arizona.
But two accessions of imj^ortance were added to the petrological
collections, one being a series of Brazilian eruptive rocks, gift of Dr.
Mathia,s G. de Oliveira Roxo, Eio Janeiro, Brazil, and the other a
collection from Sinaloa, Mexico, accompanied by a map of the region, •
sent to the United States Geological Survey for examination by Mr.
Jesus G. Ortega, and thence transferred to the Museum.
Invertebrate paleontology. — Notable additions to the Cambrian col-
lections include about 7,000 Middle Cambrian fossils, obtained by
Secretary Walcott from the celebrated locality at Burgess Pass, Brit-
ish Columbia, recorded as a deposit from the Smithsonian Institu-
tion; approximately 400 from the classic Lower Cambrian locality
at Troy, New York, gift of Prof. A. F. Foerste, Dayton, Ohio ; about
500 from southern Pennsylvania, collected by Assistant Curator
Dr. C. E. Resser; and 200 from the Lower Cambrian at Lancaster,
Pennsylvania, obtained from Dr. H. J. Roddy, Millersville, Penn-
sylvania.
A valuable collection, including both invertebrates and plants,
mainly from the Carboniferous and Silurian rocks of Indiana, and
numbering at least 10,000 specimens, was presented by Mr. Alva
Shaeffer, Brazil, Indiana. The collection is especially rich in beau-
tifully preserved and excellently prepared crinoids, and the Museum
is fortunate in having been chosen as the depository for the results
of Mr. Shaeffer's life-long collecting.
Several thousand Upper Cretaceous fossils from New Jersey and
about 1,500 from the Middle Ordovician of Kentucky resulted from
the field work of the curator. Dr. R. S. Bassler. These were ob-
tained chiefly for the study series, and their collection was incidental
to explorations for exhibition material. A large slab of fossilifer-
ous sandstone, crowded with well-preserved shells, and needed as
an introduction to the stratigraphic series of fossils, was secured from
the Eocene at Aquia Creek, Virginia.
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Additions to the Tertiary collections include a large shipment of
fossils fi'om Panama, presented by Dr. D. F. MacDonald, Houston,
Texas; about 500 specimens received in exchange from Dr. \F. C.
Clark, Los Angeles, California; and a collection from St. Paul
Island, Alaska, obtained by Mr. G. Dallas Hanna and transferred by
the Bureau of Fisheries.
Other accessions worthy of note comprise eight masses of limestone
penetrated by the boring shell Pholas^ especially selected for exhibition
and donated by Dr. F. C. Clark, Los Angeles, California ; and a col-
lection of Cretaceous and Tertiary fossils from England, gift of Col.
L. Worthington Wilmer, Eyde, Isle of Wight. The latter forms a
valuable addition to the foreign stratigraphic series, to which Colonel
Wilmer has contributed so generously in the past.
Vertebrate paleontology. — Excellent exhibition specimens, hitherto
unrepresented by adequate material, were acquired during the year.
These include part of a skeleton, with the skull, of Diplocaulus copei^
a curious amphibian from the Permian of Texas; a skull of Mono-
clonius; a skull, partial skeleton, and two hind paddles of Tylosauinis,
and an articulated series of caudal vertebrae of Platycarpus.
Next in importance, and forming a valuable addition to our series
of types, are 24 described specimens from the Pleistocene and Mio-
cene deposits, received from the geological department of the State
of Florida as an exchange.
A considerable portion of the skeleton of a large mastodon, with
which was associated the top portion of a human cranium, was do-
nated by Mr. Frank L. Clark, Winona Lake, Indiana ; the skull, lower
jaws, vertebrae, and ribs of a fossil porpoise from cliffs along Chesa-
peake Bay, Maryland, were obtained by Messrs. Norman Boss and
William Palmer of the Museum staff ; a complete set of casts of the
type skeleton of the giant fossil bird Diatryma steinii, was presented
by the American Museum of Natural History, and an enlarged pho-
tograph of the skeletal restoration of the large dinosaur Diplodocus
carnegii by the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Paleohotany. — The fossil plants included in the collection donated
by Mr. Alva Shaeffer, noted earlier in this report, constitute the
most important accession received in this section. These plants were
derived from the coal measures of Indiana and are a valuable addi-
tion to the stratigraphic series.
Work on the collectioTis, special researches^ etc. — Throughout the en-
tire year, until after the middle of April, 1919, the exhibition halls
of the department were closed to the public and the exhibition collec-
tions made wholly inaccessible by giving over the building to the
use of the War Risk Bureau. When again they became available
at the date mentioned, the first objective was their restoration to their
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pre-war condition. Hence the cases were, for the most part, simply
shifted back to their original positions, without attempting any
serious rearrangement, the accumulation of dust removed, and dis-
placed specimens readjusted. This work is not yet fully completed.
The collection of gems, as noted elsewhere, it was decided to entirely
rearrange and catalogue, a work which is still in progress. In the
paleontological halls only, have important changes been made, to con-
form to the " open aisle " arrangement of the other divisions of the de-
partment. The general appearance of these halls is much improved as
a result. Under the present arrangement the exhibits are better sys-
tematized and of greater value from an educational standpoint. In
the hall of invertebrate paleontology an educational series showing
the characteristic fossils and rocks of each geological period occupies
the north side; a line of low-standing exhibits, illustrating strati-
graphic paleontology, extends through the center, while a series of
high cases along the south side contains the characteristic fossils of
each group of the animal kingdom arranged in biological order. In
this hall, therefore, three distinct aspects of paleontology are pre-
sented, and the arrangement of the cases is such that now, as in the
other halls, the visitor, by merely passing through the center aisle,
can gain at a glance an idea of its entire contents.
All of the large vertebrate exhibits have been thoroughly cleaned
and renovated, faded labels replaced, and cases cleaned and in some
instances rearranged.
The newly completed free mount of the skeleton of Diraeirodon
gigas has been installed, and, being beyond question the most perfect
skeleton of its kind anywhere displayed and the only one thus ar-
ticulated, it forms a striking addition to the exhibits (see pi. 3).
A similar arrangement to that in the hall of invertebrate paleon-
tology has been made of the cases in the paleobotanical hall, where a
broad, uninterrupted aisle throughout the entire length affords the
open aspect. Exhibits of fossil plants of general interest are now
placed along the south wall, while standard upright cases along the
north side contain the stratigraphic series.
The closing of the exhibition halls during the greater part of the
year afforded an unusual opportunity for work on the study and
duplicate collections and for research. This was taken advantage
of in all divisions of the department. In the division of systematic
and applied geology much time was devoted to the preparation of
100 sets of 21 specimens each, illustrating the secular decay of rocks
and intended primarily for distribution to agricultural schools. - The
work of preparing 100 sets of ores and minerals has made considerable
progress, but as this must be done at odd moments and no special
funds can be applied to it, progress is necessarily slow. Over one- '
104 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919.
half of the specimens have been assembled, numbered, labeled, and
wrapped, ready for packing.
The study series in physical geologj^ has been rearranged, but
some work still remains to be done in the way of cleaning and
labeling.
To make space for some of the larger objects of the war col-
lections the miscellaneous large masses of iron ore that have for
years lain at the west front of the arts and industries building were
transferred to the east side of the natural history building. The
arrangement can not be said to be satisfactory, and it is recom-
mended that space be prepared for them along the adjoining curb
to the east.
A series of wall charts, or labels, giving the salient features of dis-
tribution and genesis of the principal metals has been completed.
The subjects include gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc, and iron,
each chart being hung on the wall adjacent to the case in which
the material characterized is exhibited.
Systmatic research, under the conditions imposed upon a head
curator, naturally progresses but slowly. Incidental to his work
sundry preliminary publications have been made, practically all
relating to meteorites. A second report on the investigations under
a grant from the J. Lawrence Smith fund of the National Academy
of Science is in press, and two comprehensive papers dealing with
the history of geological science in America are pending.
Much of the head curator's time was devoted to activities in con-
nection with the war, brief mention of which was made in last
year's report. While not strictly research on the collections, it is
thought advisable to insert here a summary of this work.
Early in the spring of 1918 there unexpectedly arose a demand on
the part of the naval experimental station at New London, Connecti-
cut, for a considerable quantit}^ of clear quartz crystals. As the Mu-
seum's supply was not sufficient, the head curator was authorized to
visit the principal museums and cities of various States in an effort
to procure a larger quantity, and was later requested to secure any
suita'ble quartz that might come under his observation during a
prospective trip into North Carolina. Shortly after the National
Research Council asked that he assume the responsibility of finding
a sufficient supply of the needed material from whatever sources
might be found available. The matter was, therefore, taken up
systematically through correspondence, and at the same time,
through the interposition of Secretary Walcott and the State De-
partment, information was sought regarding the supply that might
be obtained from Brazil. The results of the work can best be
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summed up in the final report made to the chairman of the National
Research Council, which is given in part below:
November, 25, 1918.
Sir: Assuming that with the signing of the armistice with Germany my
services as special agent for the purcliase of quartz for supersonic purposes
will be no longer in demand I beg leave to makH> the following report :
Acting in accordance with instructions from Secretary Walcott, and at the
request of Chief Signal Officer Squier and Colonel Millikan, dated February 1,
1918, I left Washington on February 5, proceeding to Rochester and Albany,
New York ; Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts ; New York City ; and Phila-
delphia in search of the desired material among private collectors and in pub-
lic museums. The available supply from all sources was disappointingly
small, but a couple of hundred pounds or such a matter. Incidentally, how-
ever, there was found in the hands of Tiffany & Co. approximately 900 pounds
of Brazilian material, which was subsequently disposed of to the New York
subcommittee of the National Research Council.
On May 10, under the same joint authorization, I proceeded to western
North Carolina, visiting all the principal localities known to have furnished
materials of the quality desired, and was able to secure several hundred
pounds, of which perhaps 300 pounds were found to be of a quality suitable
for cutting. The combined results of these two trips were delivered under
proper authorization to Maj. R. W. Wood of Johns Hopkins University ; to
Profs. Geo. B. Pegram and H. W. Farwell of Columbia University ; and Prof.
Geo. E. Hale of Pasadena, California. Some 200 pounds of material now in
the National Museum and of doubtful value still awaits disposal.
It having become evident that sufficient supply was not available in North
Carolina, among dealers, museums, or private collectors, a somewhat exten-
sive correspondence was entered into with parties who were thought likely to
be in a position to assist in all sections of the coimtry and in South America,
and I was able to locate two lots of material imported from Brazil, one of
3,500 to 4,000 pounds in the hands of W. J. Kindgen of the Mineral Products
Co., and the second of 3,368 pounds in the hands of Adolph Hirsch Co., both
of New York.
* * :(: 4: * ^ 1:
In view of the possible difficulties of further importation of material from
this source, it was deemed advisable to thoroughly investigate the resources
of our o^Ti country, and Prof. Austin F. Rogers of Stanford, California, was
authorized * * * to look into the resources of that State. Professor
Rogers visited the most promising localities, found nothing immediately avail-
able, and, in vi^ of the importance of the matter, recommended that steps
be taken toward reopening an old gold mine on Mokeliamne Hill which was
reported to have furnished excellent material while in active operation some
years ago.
Further correspondence developed uncertainty both as to the expense of re-
opening the mine and the probabilities of its yielding the material and also
some question as to authorities in control. I therefore did not recommend the
undertaking. In view of what I have to state below, I now advise strongly
against it, believing such would be a very unwise and wasteful proceeding.
Very early in my work T took steps toward gaining information regarding
the Brazilian sources of these quartzes, going so far as to have the Secretary
of the Smithsonian ask the State Department to investigate the matter through
106 REPORT OF NATIONAL, MUSEUM, 1&19.
the various consular agents. A portion of the reply * * * i inclose here-
with. You will perceive from this that there is ample supply of material at
present available, and which, now that the war is over and if steps are taken
within a reasonable length of time, can be landed in New York long before the
approximate 900 pounds of crystals now on hand will be exhausted. It should
be noted further that there still remain in the hands of the Hirsch Co. up-
wards of 7,500 pounds of material, a portion of which is ceii:ainly of a quality
suitable for the desired uses.
Incidentally it may be mentioned that the workroom of the depart-
ment was placed at the disposal of the experimental station through-
out the period that the Museum was occupied by the War Risk
Bureau. The offer, though tendered by Secretary Walcott, was not,
however, accepted.
To the above may be added the statement that the head of the
department seems still to be regarded by the Government as an
expert on building stones, and subject to call for advice vvdienever
occasion arises. No facilities whatever for acquiring the necessary
information or experience are afforded, however, except as he may
undertake personally and at his own expense.
It may be added here that no better illustration of the practical
value of a museum could be desired than that afforded during the
past two years under the exigencies of war. From the first evidences
of trouble until the close of hostilities the department was subject to
call for material for experimental purposes, particularly along the
lines of electricity, radioactivity, light and sound transmission, from
all branches of the Government, the Geophysical Laboratory, and
numerous private investigators. These demands were not infre-
quently for quality of material and in quantities that seriously im-
poverished the Museum's supply, and for one particular mineral it
culminated in the authorization which has been explained in detail
above. Further, it was fortunate that the Museum methods (lines of
procedure through which the supplying of these materials was made
possible) were fully mapped out, though, through lack of means,
not carried out in detail. It is safe to state, however, that the depart-
ment met satisfactorily every reasonable demand made upon it dur-
ing this trying period, and this notwithstanding a diminished work-
ing force, and collections in part almost inaccessible through the
occupancy of the halls by the War Risk Bureau.
Since the resignation of Dr. Edgar T. Wlierry, assistant curator,
in August, 1917, no systematic work in the division of mineralogy
and petrology has been possible. The collections have, nevertheless,
been drawn upon heavily for research materials, as already indi-
cated, but no radical changes or additions have been made, and all
suggestions left for the new incumbent, Mr. William F. Foshag, who
took charge of the division on June 27, only four days before the
closing of the fiscal year.
REPORT OF NATIONAL, MUSEUM, 1919. 107
The collection of gems and precious stones it is deemed advisable
to separate from the mineral collections and the work of recata-
logiiing, weighing-, and measuring has been placed in the hands of
Miss Margaret Moodey, recorder, in addition to her other duties.
Naturally the work must progi'ess slowly, but it is being done very
satisfactorily.
In the division of paleontology preparatory work on the remain-
der of the material collected by Secretary Walcott's party during
the field season of 1917 was completed. Other work undertaken in
his laboratory was the preparation of the Middle Cambrian algae
and sponges, the study of which has been the secretary's principal
scientific work during the year. His paper on the Appendages of
Trilobites was completed and issued in December, 1918.
The curator. Dr. R. S. Bassler, devoted much time to placing in
final condition the thousands of types and thin sections figured in
Bulletin 106 of the United States National Museum, in proof read-
ing, and other work incidental to this and other paleontological
papers in course of publication by the Museum. His special in-
vestigations have been directed toward the completion of a mono-
graph on the Late Tertiary Bryozoa of North America, in collabora-
tion with M. Ferdinand Canu, of Versailles, France, and to the
determination of the geological horizon of numerous rock samples
from, deep-well drillings at various points along the Atlantic and
Gulf Coastal Plains, submitted for report by the United States
Geological Survey and other Government bureaus. This latter work
was part of the war activities, undertaken in order to determine the
underground geolog}' and to locate the water zones and the geological
horizons of other economically important materials. As the bryozoans
can be determined from microscopic fragments, they often prove to
be the only class of fossils preserved in these borings which can be
used in such work. A purely scientific result was the practical com-
pletion of the monograph mentioned above. This, with its com-
panion work on the Early Tertiary Bryozoa of North America, com-
pletes the study of the group.
Doctor Bassler has also completed a volume on the geology and
paleontology of the Cambrian and Ordovician systems of Maryland,
under the joint auspices of the Geological Survey of that State and
the United States National Museum. Most of the paleontological
material upon which the report is based is in the collections of the
National Museum.
Dr. C. E. Eesser has assisted in a general rearrangement of
the Lower and Middle Ordovician stratigraphic collections, and
spent much time in the preparation and placing of materials ac-
quired during the year. All of the Cambrian study collections, ex-
clusive of those under the direct charge of Secretary Walcott, which
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are in the Smithsonian Building, have now been classified and as-
sembled. Doctor Resser continued work on his bibliographic index
of Cambrian fossils, but its completion was delayed in order to
devote more time to a study of the Upper Cambrian rocks and fossils
of the upper Mississippi Valley, in which he is collaborating with
Dr. E. O. Ulrich, of the United States Geological Survey and asso-
ciate in palentology, United States National Museum. Sufficient
progress has been made on the latter to lead to the hope that it can
be completed during the coming fiscal year.
In addition to the work just mentioned, Doctor Ulrich has ex-
tended his studies on fossil crinoids to a monographic treatment of
all Ordovician crinoids in the Museum collection. Several hundred
species have been determined and described, but the illustrations are
still in course of preparation.
Mr. Frank Springer, associate in paleontology, on account of
personal duties, was absent a large part of the year in New Mexico,
from whence, however, he directed the work of his assistants, who
were engaged in preliminary work looking to the preparation of a
descriptive catalogue of his collection of fossil echinoderms. He
hopes for the issue in the early fall of his monograph on the Cri-
\ioidea Flexibilia.
Dr. T. W. Stanton reports that the important collection of Cre-
taceous invertebrates from Coon Creek, Tennessee, obtained from
Mr. Bruce Wade last year, has been prepared for final preservation
by Mr. Williard. It proved to contain a much larger amount of
valuable material than was estimated, being especially rich in gas-
tropods and pelecypods of many species.
Dr. W. H. Dall reports that the most important work on the Ter-
tiary collections has been carried out by the generous assistance of
Mr. W. E. Crane, who has overhauled the entire collection of foreign
Tertiary moUusks, put it in order, written thousands of labels, iden-
tified hundreds of specimens, and added, incidentally, from his own
stores several hundred species not previously contained in the
Museum collection. This work has long been needed, but the pres-
sure of more immediate matters has obliged postponement. Doctor
Dall further reports that the work of indexing the Teritiary col-'
lections is nearly complete. He has prepared a brief report upon
fossils from the Pribilof Islands, and a check list of recent and
Pleistocene marine mollusks of the west American coast from San
Diego, California, to the Arctic coast was completed, summing up the
researches of niany years. A summary of observations on Alaskan
volcanoes, made during his coast survey work there, was published
in the Scientific Monthly. A complete revision of the recent and
Tertiary Brachiopoda was made, and the collection arranged,
labeled, and indexed.
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Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell has completed a monograph on fossil
insects from the oil-bearing shales of the west, based on material
belonging to the Museum. The chief value of the work lies in the
fact that insects are the most characteristic fossils of these oil shales.
Dr. Edwin Kirk, paleontologist of the United States Geological
Surrey, with an office in the Museum building, has aided in the care
of the collections by assembling all Paleozoic faunas from the west-
ern United States and Alaska and assiuning responsibility for their
preservation. His researches in Alaska during the past year resulted
in an unrivaled collection from that region.
In the section of vertebrate paleontology the free mount of the
skeleton of Dimetrodon gigas was finished and placed on exhibition.
Work was resumed on the mount of Brontothenumv TiatcTieH^ tempo-
rarily laid aside last year, and considerable time has been devoted to
cleaning, repairing, and restoring Titanotherium skulls, 15 of which
were completed. These will be placed on exhibition as soon as
proper case facilities are provided. A skeleton of the primitive
Permian reptile Dmdectes 'phaseolinu^ Cope; a skull, lower jaws,
and other parts of the skeleton of an extinct, long-snouted porpoise
from Chesapeake Beach; and the type specimen of Delphinodon
dividum True have also been prepared, the last two having been
mounted for exhibition. The skeleton of the huge swimming reptile
Tylosaurus^ recently acquired, is also in course of preparation.
The preparation of fragmentary^ vertebrate remains designed or
suited only for the study series must necessarily be secondary to that
of exhibition material. Considerable progress has been made along
these lines, particularly with the recently acquired Dimetrodon ma-
terial from Texas and the dinosaurian from Canon City, Colorado,
Progress has also been made in the preparation of the Cumberland
Cave collections, 12 specimens of the fossil peccary Platygonus and
several specimens of carnivores, including four fairly good skulls
and other pieces representing three new species of the dog family,
having been cleaned sufficiently for study. Mr. Gidley's studies of
the fossil peccaries from this deposit have been completed and that
of the carnivores from the same source begun. Mr. Gidley has also
published a brief paper entitled Significance of divergence of the
first digit in the primitive mammalian foot. Some progress was
also made in continuation of the work on the Fort Union mammals
and on the combined investigation of the rodents, living and extinct,
the joint work of Mr. Gidley and Mr. Grerritt Miller.
Mr. C. W. Gilmore has transmitted to the United States Geological
Survey for publication an extended paper on the reptilian faunas
of the Torrejon, Puerco, and underlying Cretaceous formations of
San Juan County, New Mexico. He has also submitted a short paper
on the newly mounted skeleton of Dimetrodon gigas, with notes on
110 EEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919.
the skeletal anatomy, and a paper describing new fossil turtles, with
notes on described species. He has continued work on the mono-
graphic study of the carnivorous dinosaur materials in the National
Museum collections, and it is hoped that this long delayed paper can
be brought to completion during the coming year.
Dr. F. H. KnoM^lton has supervised the work of arranging and
labeling of the collections of Mesozoic and Cenozoic plants. He has
completed a memoir on geologic climates in which the paleobotanic
data was based on the study collections of the Museum, and has fin-
ished a bibliographic catalogue of Mesozoic and Cenozoic plants of
North America, which is now in course of publication by the United
States Geological Survey.
Mrs. Eula D. McEwan, aid. resigned early in the fiscal year, but
with the appointment of Miss Lucile Simpson as her successor, active
work on the plant collections was resumed. Besides assisting in gen-
eral exhibition work, Miss Simpson has assembled all of the type
specimens of Tertiary plants and arranged them in final Museum
form. This particular collection is now located in one room and
the work is up to date.
As in previous years, the collections have been studied by nu-
merous workers not connected with the Institution, and the methods
of installation, recording, and general system of management have
been matters of investigation by those engaged in or about to enter
upon similar work elsewhere. Among the more prominent of these
were the members of the British Educational Commission ; Prof. A.
F. Foerste, of Dayton, Ohio; Maj. C. J. Hamlin, director of the
Buffalo Society of Natural History; Prof. G. D. Harris, Ithaca,
New York; Dr. S. B. Howell, Princeton University; Dr. E. Ruede-
mann, of the New York State Museum; Dr. Thomas L. Watson,
State geologist of Virginia; Mr. Barnum Brown, of the American
Museum of Natural History ; Dr. Roy L. Moodie, of the University
of Illinois; Prof. E. W. Berry and Dr. Harvey Bassler, of Johns
Hopkins University; Miss Carlotta J. Maury, Dr. J. L. Wortman,
and Dr. O. P. Hay.
Present condition of the collectio7is. — Both the exhibition and
study series in the division of systematic and applied geology are
in fairly good condition as regards arrangement, labeling, and rec-
-orcls. The division of mineralogy is, however, greatly behind and
will require much care and attention to bring it back to its original
standard.
In the division of paleontology, both the study and exhibition col-
lections are now in better condition than ever before, although the
amount of material received for permanent preservation each year
exceeds the ability of the force to place it in final museum form.
The collections are, however, accessible for reference, and while
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there are a number of gaps in the series, it is hoped they may shortly
be filled.
Field explorations. — The principal expedition of the year was that
of Secretary Walcott during the field season of 1918 in the Canadian
Rockies of British Columbia and Alberta, with the object of find-
ing an Upper Cambrian fauna, and also ascertaining if there was
any considerable variation on the strike of the Cambrian formations
from the section along the Bow Valley northward. Nothing was
discovered of importance with relation to the Upper Cambrian fauna
and no material change found in the formations as far as the Sas-
katchewan River. A large number of photographs were taken, illus-
trating the stratigraphy and the scenery of the upper Bow Valley,
also the area in the vicinity of Wolverine Pass, about 30 miles south
of Lake Louise.
Explorations for large objects to illustrate the various phases of
structural geology and stratigraphic paleontology were continued
during the summer of 1918 by Dr. R. S. Bassler, curator. Field
work was started in the Cretaceous and Tertiary rocks of New Jersey,
where glauconite, calcareous marl, and numerous fossils were ob-
tained. The Lancaster and Cumberland Valleys of Pennsylvania and
Maryland were then explored and several large specimens illustra-
ting folding and faulting and attendant phenomena were found.
The east front of the Alleghany Mountains of Maryland afforded
some very interesting blocks of fault breccia in which recementation
had occurred, in one case by silica and in another l^y iron ore. Exam-
ples of these were shipped to the Museum and are now ready for
exhibition. Following this work in the Appalachians, Doctor Bass-
ler spent some tim.e in Kentucky and Indiana locating exhibition
material and collecting fossils. The most important shipment from
this region was a layer of limestone so carved out by underground
water that it can be used to illustrate cave formation in miniature.
Dr. E. O. Ulrich spent the field season of 1918 in stratigraphic
and paleontologic work on the Upper Cambrian rocks of the upper
Mississippi Valley. Important collections of fossils and several
large exhibition specimens resulted from his work.
Distribution and exchcmge of specimens. — ^There have been pre-
pared and sent out from the department 385 specimens, in 8 lots as
gifts; 245 in 12 lots as exchanges; and 2,846 in 20 lots as loans for
study or to be consumed in scientific research. In addition, 6 sets
of invertebrate fossils, aggregating 281 specimens, have been dis--
tributed to schools. _^-*--^t'''l-^-*'"' ' --^ —
REPORT ON THE DIVISIONS OF TEXTILES AND MEDICINES AND THE
SECTIONS OF WOOD TECHNOLOGY AND FOODS,
By F. L. Lewton, Curator of Textiles.
1. General administration of divisions and sections. — Owing to the
necessity of emphasizing certain lines of work due to the war activi-
ties of the countrv, and the fact that two assistant curators from this
office had entered the military service, the attention of the curator
has very largely been directed to war work and war-time exhibits,
and to keeping active the work of the absent assistant curators. These
conditions have preveiited any very well defined plans of administra-
tion from being carried out.
lA. Accessions of the year. — The accessions received during the
year numbered 76, 9 less than the preceding year, and without count-
ing the large number of unlisted specimens included in the exhibit
of the Medical Department of the United States Army, comprised
884 entries, which are 648 less than were received in the fiscal year
1918.
These entries may be divided into five groups, as follows : Textiles
183, medicines 293, woods 3, foods 336, and organic products 69;
each group, with the exception of foods, showing fewer entries than
last year. The smaller number of entries not only shows that the at-
tention of the curator and assistant curators was given to many
things outside of their special work, but also the disturbance of war-
time conditions upon time and attention of all of the Museum's
contributors. A large number of business firms were giving their
whole attention to supplying the war needs of the Government, and
could not be expected to devote time or to assist in building up the
Museum's collections. Under these conditions the showing made is
better than could reasonably be expected.
Accessions of importance. — By far the most important ac^iession
was that covering the material transferred from the Office of the
Sui'geon General, War Department. This collection consists of ap-
paratus, hospital appliances, and field equipment used by the medi-
cal department, including the dental and sanitary divisions in the war
with Germany, 1917-18, and includes examples of all the kinds of
equipment used in a 1,000-bed overseas hospital. The greater part
of this material may easily be arranged for exhibit purposes into six
groups: The furniture and appliances used in the ward for the
care of the sick and wounded; X-ray apparatus for the examina-
tion of the wounded; apparatus and instruments used in the gen-
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eral operating room; the equipment for sterilization of bandages,
instruments, etc., the apparatus and instruments used in operating
a dental clinic and laboratory ; and various types of equipment used
in the field to preserve the health of the soldier and care for the
wounded. To this last group belong two large specimens on wheels
which have a general interest: The liberty kitchen, for preparing
and serving hot food to the men on the front line; and a portable
disinfector, capable of disinfecting the clothing and bedding of a
company of men by means of live steam, formaldehyde, or ammonia
gas.
Several important accessions received during the year represent
gifts of specimens and books for the historical section of the divi-
sion of medicine. Included in the plan for illustrating the develop-
ment of the healing arts were exhibits intended to demonstrate the
fundamental principles of different schools of medicine. To the
average person health and disease are terms which define conditions,
one desirable and the other to be avoided. Little thought is given
the problems which perplex scientists and divide the medical profes-
sion into great factions and schools. Inquiry is often made, how-
ever, concerning the salient features of the different schools of medi-
cine, and the division of medicine has undertaken the task of illus-
trating the history and principles of the more important of these
schools by means of specimens, charts, and photographs. In pre-
paring these exhibits the Museum assumes a neutral attitude so
far as the relative merits of one school compared with another is
concerned, the object being to show the most conspicuous and dis-
tinguishing features, so that a comparison of each series of speci-
mens would demonstrate wherein the schools differ in theory and
practice. A beginning has been made with exhibits to illustrate
homeopathy and the eclectic school. The opportunity thus offered
was brought to the attention of The American Institute of Home-
opathy by Dr. W. A. Dewey of the Homeopathic Medical School,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Doctor Dewey was
designated to cooperate with the ISIuseum in the work, and much
credit is due him for the valuable assistance which he has rendered.
Additions to the collections b}'- gift through his efforts are as follows:
From Doctor Dewey, 23 specimens of photographs, engravings^
etc., Boericke & Tafel (Inc.), Philadelphia, Permsylvania, 123
specimens of chemical, mineral, metallic, Acgetablc, and animal
pharmaceutical products in the different forms in which they are
administered, namely, tinctures, dilutions, globules, tablets, disks,
and pellets, and four colored plates of medicinal plants with de-
scriptive texts, together with a small model of the Washington
Hahnemann Monument; Dr. J. B. Gregg Custis, of Washington,
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District of Coiunibia, an original letter written by Hahnemann, and
15 volumes of the Transactions of the American Institute of Home-
opathy.
The Museum is also indebted to the following persons for the
contribution of books relating to homeopathic medicine:
Dr. John H. Wilms, Cincinnati, Ohio, for King's History of
Homeopathy, in four volumes; Dr. John C. Calhoun, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, for Millspaugh's I^Iedicinal Plants, in two volumes;
Dr. William E. Leonard, Minneapolis, Minnesota, for Lindsley's
Homeopathic Bibliography of the United States, Ameke's History
of Homeopathy, and Cleave's Biographical Cyclopaedia of Home-
opathic Physicians and Surgeons; Dr. William Boericke, San
Francisco, California, for a copy of Boericke's Compend of the
Principles of Homeopathy; Mr. F. L. Lewton, Washington, District
of Columbia, for the twelfth edition of Laurie and McClatchey's
Homeopathic Domestic Medicine; and Dr. F. M. Dearborn, New
York City, for Dearborn's Diseases of the Skin.
Through the cooperation of Dr. John Uri Lloyd, of Cincinnati,
Ohio, 23 volumes of the Transactions of the National Eclectic Medi-
cal Association were donated for the exhibit of eclectic medicine,
by Dr. Joseph A. Munk, of Los Angeles, California.
The exhibition series arranged to illustrate a few of the more
important medicinal plants was increased by the gift from Parke,
Davis & Co., Detroit, Michigan, of 17 specimens of official prepara-
tions of opium products recognized in the United States Pharmaco-
poeia and National Formulary ; 18 specimens of official preparations
containing nux vomica or its products, contributed by Sharp &
Dohme, Baltim.ore, Maryland ; a specimen of nux vomica and seven
specimens of alkaloids and alkaloidal salts, the gift of Merck &
Co., New York City, and from Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis, In-
diana, a specimen of cascara sagrada bark and four specimens of
its official preparations.
The medicinal form series which was arranged to show the ma-
terial forms in which medicinal substances are used and prepared
for administration was increased by 15 specimens of organic and
inorganic chemicals, the gift of Chas, Pfizer & Co. (Inc.), New
York City.
For the exhibit of pharmaceutical equipment, the Torsion Balance
Co., of New York City, contributed a torsion counter balance, a
torsion prescription balance, and sets of weights of different types.
Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis, Indiana, also contributed three asep-
tic metal pocket cases for physicians, one for bacterial vaccines,
another for hypodermic tablets, and the third for ampoules for hy-
podermic injection, all of them complete with syringe and needles.
116 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919.
The most important accession of textile specimens received during the
year was a collection of thirty-one samples of pile fabrics andamohju
automobile rug, contributed by Sidney Blumenthal & Co, (Inc.),
of New York City, in addition to the numerous specimens from their
looms already on exhibition. These beautiful fabrics for dress and
upholstery use, comprise all silk chiffon velvets ; fur fabrics of mohair
and artificial silk, made in imitation of mole, fox, beaver, and seal
furs; novelty dress fabrics of artificial silk and combinations of wool,
artificial silk, schappe silk, tussah, and cotton. The specimens com-
prising this accession were carefully chosen, and though difficult to
install, present a very fine appearance.
To the Hewlett & Hockmeyer Co. (Inc.), New York City, the
Museum is indebted for ten specimens of cotton corduroys, twilled
suitings, and leather cloth; the last-named being adapted for army
trench coats, submarine coats, aviators' costumes, pocketbooks, and
military novelties. Other types of waterproof textiles extensively
used during the war with Germany were included in a series of coated
cotton fabrics and articles made therefrom, which were contributed
by the Standard Textile Products Co., New York City.
H. E. Mallinson & Co. (Inc.) , New York City, replaced the samples
of printed silk dress goods, formerly contributed by them, with four-
teen specimens of their " La Victoire " silks illustrating the influence
of the war upon textile design. From J. A. Migel (Inc.), also of
New York City, were received two specimens of novelty dress silks.
The Museum's collection of oriental shawls has been enriched by
the acquisition of two cashmere shawls of wonderful beauty due to
the unusualness of the patterns and exceptionally fine workmanship,
one received as a loan from Mrs. Ralph Cross Johnson, and the other
deposited by Mrs. C. D. Walcott, both of Washington, District of
Columbia.
A popular exhibit and one which attracted a great deal of attention,
contributed by S. B. & B. W.Fleisher, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was
of timely intrest, for the reason that it was received at a time when the
American Red Cross, by various methods of publicity, were pointing
out to the women of the United States a method by which they could
be of service to their country and add to the comfort and welfare of
American soldiers, who were enduring hardships g^nd dangers of
warfare on land and sea, by knitting articles of wearing apparel.
This exhibit consists of a series of knitting and crocheting yarns of
wool, wool and silk mixtures, and mohair, in various weights, together
with a crocheted or knitted square of each specimen, to show the
different pattern stitches. Also handmade garments for both per-
sonal and service wear, as well as afghans and a blanket.
For the purpose of calling attention to the importance and wide
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uses of a number of native American plants, space in exhibit cases
for specimens and products of potatoes, peanuts, corn, and beans
■was provided.
The scarcity of fats and oils for food purposes called for the
preparation of exhibits pointing out neglected sources of supply of
this necessary class of foods. In addition to the transfer from the
Department of Agriculture and the United States Food Administra-
tion of 149 samples of food products, models of fruits and vege-
tables, photographs and charts, specimens of food products were
contributed by the following firms :
J. B. Worth Co., Petersburg, Virginia, commercial varieties of
raw peanuts; the Hauck Food Products Corporation, Kingston,
New York, samples of peanut oil, peanut oil foots and grease;
Beech-Xut Packing Co., Canajoharie, New York, peanut butter;
the Soj'-Lac Food Products Co., London, Ontario, soy bean prod-
ucts; California Associated Eaisin Co., Fresno, California, raisin
seed products; Boyer Oil Co., New York City, commercial oil seeds;
The Southern Cotton Oil Co., New Orleans, Louisiana, samples of
cottonseed oil; Essenkay Products Co., Chicago, Illinois, rubber sub-
stitute articles made from vulcanized corn oil.
The most important accessions of miscellaneous exhibit material
derived from animal and vegetable sources received during the year,
were a collection of industrial oils from Spencer Kellogg & Sons
(Inc.), Buffalo, New York; chemicals used in the production of cellu-
lose acetate from raw cotton, contributed by the Chemical Company
of America, New York City; a series of specimens showing the by-
products obtained in the production of oil from cotton seed, a
gift from the Southern Cotton Oil Co., New Orleans, Louisiana;
a rubber poncho made in Guatemala and coated with pure "Ule"
gum, the gift of Mr. Wilson Popenoe, Washington, District of
Columbia; and a series of twenty-nine specimens illustrating the
manufacture of casein glue for waterproofing aircraft, which was
transferred from the DepartmxCnt of Agriculture.
IB. Work on the collections and sfeciaZ researches. — At the begin-
ning of the fiscal year an extensive exhibit illustrating the produc-
tion, classification, and conservation of foods was undertaken at the
request of the Food Administration, under the direction of the
curator of textiles.
The rotunda in the Arts and Industries Building was temporarily
assigned for this special exhibit to show the classification, use, and
conservation of foods. This was opened to the public on November 1,
1918, and attracted a great deal of attention. After the closing of the
activities of the LTnited States Food Administration, the exhibit was
moved to another hall.
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In order to make the food exhibits as useful as possible, and to
bring them to the attention of a large number of people, a coopera-
tive arrangement was entered into with the States Relations Service
of the Department of Agriculture, whereby regular demonstrations
on the value, use, and preparation of different classes of foods were
given at the Museum by experts from the Department of Agriculture.
Under this arrangement a large room was furnished in the Arts and
Industries Building as a demonstration kitchen, and exhibit space
provided for foods, models, museum specimens, and household equip-
ment.
Classes and demonstrations for housekeepers were held in the
mornings and afternoons, and for war workers employed in the Gov-
ernment service special classes were held at 5 o'clock in the after-
noon. Through the work carried on in this room over 2,100 persons
were reached during the year. The work of the demonstration
kitchen very soon broadened so that its name was changed to " House-
hold Consultation Center," and the lectures and demonstrations
given there included a wide range of subjects. Of the more important
lectures and demonstrations given in addition to the class instruc-
tion, the following may be mentioned :
Lectures :
Business of the Household.
Food for the Family on $2 per Day.
Direct Marketing.
What Becomes of the Consumer's Dollar?
What Do You Give Your Children to Eat?
Milk, its Nutrition and Use.
Meat Substitutes.
Housekeepers' Use of Market Schedules.
The Influence of Weave Structure upon the Durability of Fabrics.
Demonstrations :
Labor Saving Appliances for the Kitchen.
Fireless Cooker.
Pressure Cooker.
Electric Washing Machine.
Dried Milk Powder.
Preserving Eggs.
One Dish Meal.
Cooking Dinner in 30 INIinutes.
Invalid Cookery.
Christmas Sweets.
Sugarless Candies.
Fruit Juices in Summer Drinks.
The east and south sides of the gallery of the east hall containing the
exhibition collections of the division of medicine were opened to the
public since the writing of the last report, and great efforts have been
made to fill all the space available. Many of the exhibits arranged
for are still incomplete owing to disturbed business conditions. The
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series to illustrate the homeopathic and eclectic schools of medicine
have been greatly benefited by the gift of a number of rare books
dealing with these subjects. All the books assigned to the division of
medicine, \Yhether specimens for exhibition or reference works, have
been catalogued, both by author and subject, which will greatly
facilitate their use by students. Where these volumes have not been
needed as exhibits they have been placed with the books on pharmacy,
materia medica, and therapeutics, which were transferred last year
from the Hygienic Laboratory.
Numerous visitors made inquiry at the curator's office concerning
special information suggested by the exhibits, and made particular
use of the technical books in the sectional library.
Mrs. Laura Allen, for many 3'ears teacher of hand-loom weaving
at the Mechanics Institute, Rochester, New York, spent several weeks
studying the textile collections and the technical books in the sec-
tional library. She gave valuable assistance in the construction of a
hand loom for demonstration purposes..
Mrs. George C. Zwiebel, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, devoted
several days to studying the collections and technical books dealing
with the following subjects: Artificial pearls, utilization of trade
waste, and dehydration of foods.
Assistance was rendered by the curator from time to time during
the year to the Salvage Board, Bureau of Ordnance, War Department,
and the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Department of
Commerce, in furnishing special information on industrial raw
materials and the identification of specimens. The identification of
specimens of fibers, fabrics, gums, resins, seeds, and woods for nu-
merous individuals, both in and out of the Government service, has
been a regular part of the work of this division.
The curator has furnished the identification of the cottons intro-
duced by the Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction and Dis-
tribution, and for inquirers outside of the Government service he has
made bibliographical compilations on the hydrogenation of oils,
phosphorus content of foods, composition of baking powders, con-
servation of sugar, a list of illustrations of the use and preparation of
coffee in olden times, use of ozone as a disinfectant and bleaching
agent, use of bezoars in medicine, and the siliceous substance found
in bamboos.
2. Wo7'k of fre'parators^ modelers^ etc. — Modeling. — Four models
were completed during the year in the laboratory of the division.
The most important of these is a model covering a space, 9 by 12
feet, illustrating the wood pulp and paper industry, on a scale of
one-forty-eighth actual size. This model shows the reduction of
logs of wood by two separate processes into mechanical and chemical
wood pulp, and the manufacture of this into print paper. In con-
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nection with the chemical pulp, the model also illustrates the manu-
facture of sulphuric acid.
The second model is 2. by 4 feet, and was made to illustrate the
manner of distilling oil of sweet birch in Tennessee and North
Carolina.
Two small models, showing the reclamation of arid land, were
made for the Interior Department.
Installing. — The time of the preparators has been fully occupied
in indexing, cataloguing, and installing new exhibits and in rear-
ranging some of the older ones. The textile exhibits received during
the year have been promptly acknowledged, accessioned, and cata-
loged, and most of them are installed. The installation work done
on the five cases of plush and upholstered goods is especially credit-
able, for this material is heavy and requires great skill in its hang-
ing and arrangement. The cases containing dress silks, shawls, and
knitted fabrics, each presented different problems for solution.
Several thousand samples in the study collection of textiles were
dated, mounted on cards, and classified, and an exhibit of small
samples showing typical weave structures was made.
The 10-saw cotton gin, which has always been an object of great
interest to visitors, particularly the school children, was overhauled
and as much as possible of the wood and iron work replaced by
glass, so that the method of removing the cotton fiber from the seeds
can be clearly seen.
In the division of medicine, four new exhibits were installed, and
the cases containing the study collections were rearranged so as to
separate them from the workroom where new material is held
pending identification, labeling, and installation. The anatomical
jars containing the glands and glandular tissues obtained from
slaughtered animals were replaced by rectangular containers, and
fresh Francis's preser\'ing solution supplied.
In the absence of the assistant curator, section of wood technology,
no new installation was completed other than the setting up and
casing of the large model illustrating the manufacture of wood-pulp
paper.
Considerable time was given to the arrangement and installa-
tion of the food exhibits. These were contained in 20 upright floor
cases arranged in a circle around the rotunda, and radiating from
the statue in the center. Except in a few cases where the foods were
placed in shallow glass saucers or were left in original packages,
the specimens other than liquids were placed in rectangular jars, and
presented a fine appearance on the glass shelves.
Lahelmg. — The labeling of the exhibits in this division has been
greatly improved. Case labels have been printed for certain exhibits
on the medicine gallery and the wood court. All the giunmed-letter
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labels were gone over and repaired where necessary, and many type-
written cards were added. The jars containing the food specimens
and those in the exhibit illustrating organotherapy were all newly
labeled with gummed letters. Large temporarv^ case labels em-
phasizing the importance of food conservation were prepared on the
printasigii machine and placed on the ends of the cases forming a
circle in the rotunda.
Cataloguing. — The cataloguing on cards of the new specimens re-
ceived has been kept right up to date, and with the assistance of a
temporary cataloguer for a few months the large permanent con-
secutive registers have been practically completed, with the excep-
tion of that for the section of wood technology.
Extracting and indexing. — The examination and indexing of new
textile terms and other special information contained in the large
number of trade papers and periodicals sent to the section libraries
of textiles, woods, medicines, and foods, occupy the time of the
preparators when not engaged in other duties.
3. Present condition of the collections. — ^All of the collections
under the care of the curator have been carefully inspected for in-
sects, and certain materials like wools and foodstuffs have been fumi-
gated several times.
In several of the halls the light has faded a number of textile
specimens, but in most cases these can be replaced. Several of the
large panels of Philippine woods have become warped, due to the
effects of this climate, while other specimens have checked and split
from the same cause. With these exceptions there has been no ma-
terial deterioration of the exhibit or study material assigned to this
division.
4. Distribution and exchange of specimens. — At the request of the
National Library Service, Bureau of Education, Interior Depart-
ment, two small models illustrating the reclamation of arid land
were made in the laboratory of the division of textiles for the spe-
cial exhibition of the work of the Interior Department in May, 1919.
These models were made to show the possibilities and value of co-
operation between museums and libraries in interesting and educat-
ing the public in matters of local importance.
REPORT ON THE DIVISION OF MINERAL TECHNOLOGY,
By Chkstek G. Gilbert, Curator.
Following the declaration of war the customary work of the Divi-
sion of Mineral Technology was laid aside, as stated in the last re-
port, in favor of special activities having a more direct bearing on
the national emergency. As the war progressed the call for speciali-
zation on the part of the technical staff of the division increased, till
little or no opportunity was left for developing Museum exhibits.
By way of exception to this rule, however, participation in the con-
servation work of the Fuel Administration resulted in developing
plans for an exhibit covering the natural-gas industry. The plans
took shape in a remarkably fine model which brings out to advantage
the tragic story of how the country's tremendous resources of natural
gas have been all but squandered. Another model, the gift of the
Midwest Refining Co., which aids in the telling of an altogether
similar story for the still greater and more important petroleum re-
sources of the country, was also completed and placed on exhibition.
Three other accessions of incidental importance, making but 5 in all
with a total of 62 catalogue entries, complete the record of addi-
tions for the year. Taken in comparison with the 33 accessions and 287
catalogue entries of the preceding year, the showing is indeed meager,
but in demonstrating a change of focus to the critical issues of the
day this very meagerness is a source of satisfaction rather than regret.
For the first six months of the year, while the country was still
actively involved on a basis of war, scarcely a day passed without
bringing calls from some governmental agency for assistance with
reference to one or another industrial issue up for consideration on
an emergency rating. The questions ranged from determining a fair
price for mica to determining the likelihood of a paralyzing petro-
leum shortage, and the work of prejDaring their answers ranged
as variously from minutes to months. As the year advanced, how-
ever, two absorbing lines of special investigation developed to such a
degree that during the latter half of the year they have largely en-
grossed the attention of the staff of the division. Their general
nature may be gathered from the titles under which the results were
issued. One, A Report on the Political and Commercial Control of
the Nitrogen Resources of the World,^ represents an effort to un-
ravel the complexities of the nitrogen situation left behind in the
passing of the war. The other. The Energy Resources, a Field for Re-
construction, coordinates and summarizes the, work of several years.
1 This paper, prepared primarily for the information of officials of the Government,
•was issued to such onlj^ in a limited mimeograph edition, but it will later appear in print.
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The natural gas exhibit ah'eady referred to as the most important
accession of the year embodies a new principle in model construc-
tion. Heretofore the division's industrial models have been built
to a uniform scale, commonly a quarter inch to the foot. This leaves
it impossible to bring out the working of small features, however im-
portant, whereas large but relatively inconsequential features, such
as warehouses, loom up in altogether imdue prominence. With a
view to overcoming this objection, the natural gas model was con-
structed to a diminishing scale of perspective. Features deserving
of prominence or important as to detail, such as the operation of
well-drilling, stand in the foreground with the larger and less
consequential generalities relegated to the middle distance or back-
ground, which latter passes off imperceptibly into a painted landscape
carrying on back to the horizon.
This newer type of model not only does away with the shortcom-
ings attendant on adherence to a uniform scale, but lends an appeal-
ing realistic effect. Its manifold advantages proved too great to be
ignored in respect to other exhibits already installed, and, after
meeting the emergency calls of wartime, the remaining energies
were directed to revising the soda, sulphur, and gold exhibits. In
particular, the large model designed with a view to depicting the
occurrence and mining of gold was practically rebuilt as to topog-
raphy and industrial layout.
As it now stands this reconstructed gold model represents a beau-
tifully realistic expanse of mountain country cut by a river valley
and reaching back as far as the eye can see. All manner of gold
mining project is disclosed, from the lone miner with his pan in a
mountain brook to a battery of giant rams demolishing the land-
scape and a great dredge combing the river bottom; from the
"pardners" prospecting a little claim nestled away on a mountain
side to a great fully equipped lode-mining project. Here, in short,
the whole story of gold mining, a month's trip, an accumulation of
information beyond the range of more than the merest few specialist
engineers, awaits the visitor with a minute or two to spare in passing.
The lead exhibit, too, has been notably advanced as to interest and
instructiveness in the Course of the year by the addition of a wall
chart and systematically grouped specimens, showing the develop-
ment of lead products and their uses. Otherwise the industrial ex-
hibits in mineral technology stand much as they were when reported
on a year ago with only incidental changes here and there. No field
work has been carried on; there has been little or no soliciting of
materials, and no distributions or exchanges negotiated. In all par-
ticulars, so far as practicable, matters of more restrictively museum
import were put aside.
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Dr. Joseph E. Pogue, associate curator, was furloiighed to the
Fuel Administration on October 1 to assist in formulating a con-
servation program with reference to the petroleum resources, and
since his return to the division staff in April has continued re-
searches on the same subject. Mr. Carl W. Mitman, who was earlier
on the division's staff and severed his connection in June, 1917, re-
turned to the Museum early in the year and has been devoting his
time to furthering the work on the metals, notably lead and gold.
Mr. Joseph A. Doj^le, of Xew York, though not regularly asso-
ciated on the Museum's staff, contributed so largely of his services
that his share in the year's activities deserves special mention in this
connection. Much of the credit for what the division has been able to
accomplish in its work on the energy resources belongs to Mr. Doyle.
Likewise to Mr. Samuel S. Wyer, of Columbus, Ohio, belongs the
credit for a large share of the results achieved for natural gas.
In conclusion, the work of the division during the past year of
national emergency has been largely investigative with reference to
special problems, notably the energy resources and the nitrogen
situation. To a great extent the results have been contributed in
the form of reports for governmental use and are not yet generally
available at this writing. Completed researches have, however, re-
sulted in the publication of three papers prepared jointly by the
two curators, Mr. Chester G. Gilbert and Dr. Joseph E. Pogue,
three papers by Doctor Pogue, a paper by Doctor Pogue assisted
by Mr. Isador Lubin, and a paper by Mr. Samuel S. Wyer.
In " Power : Its significance and needs," Mr. Gilbert and Doctor
Pogue develop the general nature of the power situation in this
country, where tremendous emphasis is placed on the use of power
resulting in a growing burden on transportation and suggest the
character of remedial action demanded.
Another paper by the same authors, " Petroleum : A resource
interpretation," is particularly timely, since of all our important
resources petroleum is the most limited and involves the highest
percentage of waste, scarcely one-tenth of the value of the resource
being recovered under present circumstances, while the unmined
supply available under current practice is only about 50 barrels
to each person. This is an economic study of the resource and the
industry engaged in its development, tracing the causes of waste to
certain maladjustments in the economic situation and pointing out
how these may be remedied by a constructive economic policy. The
desirability of developing shale oil to replace petroleum and the
advisability of using benzol and alcohol as substitutes for gasolixie
are considered, and the natural-gas industry is also treated.
The third paper by the two curators, " The energy resources of
the United States: A field for reconstruction," mentioned elsewhere
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as coordinating and summarizing the work of several years, contains
the substance of the two preceding papers and of an earlier one on
coal published last year, together with an introduction and a con-
clusion that coordinate the details of the discussion and draw forth
the -main issues. It is concluded that the whole matter involves the
threefold problem of fuel supply, power supply, and transportation,
and that the entire field may be cleared by (1) providing a common-
carrier system of electric transmission lines which will {a) lead to a
balanced development of coal-power and water-power, and (b) serve
as a coordinating influence in stimulating by-product recovery from
coal in central power stations and especially in municipal public
utility fuel plants; and by (2) applying a constructive economic
policy and appropriate legislation to the conditions surrounding
petroleum production, so as to bring the method of production into
conformance with the geological occurrence of the resource. It is
believed that these measures would affect economies offsetting, in
large part, the cost of the war,
Mr. Wyer in " Natural gas : Its production, service, and conserva-
tions," aims to analyze the cause of waste of natural gas — the least
appreciated, and, consequently, the most abused of the mineral re-
sources in popular use — with a view to pointing the way to adequate
remedial measures.
Assisted by Mr. Lubin, Doctor Pogue prepared a paper, published
by the Fuel Administration and the War Industries Board, entitled
" The prices of petroleum and its products during the war," in which
is included an evaluation of the price factors peculiar to the ex-
ploitation of petroleum; a commercial history of the petroleum in-
dustry, and a detailed record and interpretation of the run of prices
for petroleum and its products from 1913 to 1918.
The three papers solely by Doctor Pogue were published through
other than Governmental agencies. Doctor Pogue gives a detailed
analysis of the motor-fuel problem in An interpretation of the en-
gine fuel situation in the Journal of the Society of Automotive
Engineers for April, concluding that the automotive engine must so
adapt itself as to gain higher thermal efficiency and to use less vola-
tile fuel. In "A review of the motor-fuel situation," appearing in
Automotive Industries of June 12, 1919, he reviews the limitations
and possibilities of the various fuel sources, discusses the interrela-
tion of engine and fuel developments, and comments on the essentials
of a research organization needed. In his third paper, " The engine-
fuel problem," printed by the Society of Automotive Engineers,
Doctor Pogue analyzes the motor-fuel problem and urges the forma-
tion of a motor-fuel research organization with the threefold function
of economic analysis, laboratory research, and industrial coordina-
tion.
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THE MUSEUM STAFF.
[June 30, 1919.]
Chaeles D. Walcott, Secretary of the Smitlisoiiiau Institution, Keeper ex
officio.
William deC. Kavenel, Administrative Assistant to the Secretary, in charge of
the United States National Museum.
SCIENTIFIC STAFF.
Department of Anthropology :
William H. Holmes, Head Curator.
Division of Ethnology: Walter Hough, Curator ; ,T. W. Fewkes, Collabora-
tor ; Arthur P. Rice, Collaborator.
Division of American Archeology: Neil M. Judd, Curator.
Division of Old Word Archeology: I. JI. Casanowicz, Assistant Curator.
Division of Physical Anthropology: AleJ5 Hrdlicka, Curator.
Division of Mechanical Technology: 11. G. Paine, Aid.
Division of Graphic Arts: Paul Brockett, Custodian; Ruel P. Tolioan, Aid.
Section of Photography : Loring W. Beeson, Custodian.
Division of History: T. T. Belote, Curator ; IMarie V. Schiffer, Aid ; Joseph
B. Leavy, Philatelist.
Associates in Historic Archeology : Paul Plaupt, Cyrus Adler.
Collaborator in Archeology : Philip A. Means.
Department of Biology :
Leonhard Stejneger, Head Curator ; James E. Benedict, Assistant
Curator.
Division of Mamtnals: Gerrit S. Miller, jr., Curator.
Division of Birds: Robert Ridgway, Curator; Charles W. Richmond, Asso-
ciate Curator ; J. H. Riley, Aid ; Edward .T. Brown, Collaborator.
Section of Birds' Eggs : Bradshaw H. Swales, Custodian.
Division of Reptiles and BatracMuns: Leonhard Stejneger, Curator ; F. N.
Blanchard, Aid.
Division of Fishes: Barton A. Bean, Assistant Curator.
Division of Insects: L. O. Howard, Honorary Curator; J. Id. Aldrich, Asso-
ciate Curator ; A. H. Pottinger, Aid ; B. Preston Clark, Collaborator.
Section of Hymenoptera : J. C. Crawford, Custodian ; W. M. , ]Mann,
Assistant Custodian.
Section of Myriapoda : O. F. Cook, Custodian.
Section of Diptera : J. M. Aldrich, in charge ; Charles T. Greene, Assist-
ant Custodian.
Section of Bluscoid Diptera : C. H. T. Townsend, Custodian.
Section of Coleoptera : E. A. Schwarz, Custodian.
Section of Lepidoptera : Harrison G. Dyar, Custodian ; ^^■illlam Schaus,
Assistant Custodian.
Section of Orthoptera : A. N. Caudell, Custodian.
Section of Hemiptera : Edmund H. Gibson, Custodian.
Section of Forest Tree Beetles: A. D. Hopkins, Custodi;in.
Division of Marine Invertehraics: Paul Bartsch, Curator; William H. Dall,
Honorary Curator of Mollusks ; Waldo L. Schmitt, Assistant Curator ;
Austin H. Clark, Assistant Curator ; William B. Marshall, Assistant
Curator; C. R. Shoemaker, Aid; Pearl L. Boone, Aid; II. K. Har-
ring. Custodian of the Rotatoria ; Harriet Richardson Searle, Colla-
borator ; Mary Breen, Collaborator.
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Department of Biology — Continued.
Division of Marine Lnrerte'brates — Continued.
Section of Helmintliological Collections: C. W. Stiles, Custodian; B. H.
Ransom, Assistant Custodian.
Division of Plants (National Herbarium) : Frederick V. Coville, Honorary
Curator ; J. N. Rose, Associate Curator ; W. R. INIaxon, Associate
Curator; P. C. Standley, Assistant Curator; Emery C. Leonard, Aid.
Section of Grasses : Albert H. 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.
Section of Diatoms : Albert Mann, Custodian.
Associates in Zoology: C. Hart Blcrriam, W. L. Abbott, Mary J, Rathbun.
Associate in Botany : John Donnell Smith.
Depaktment of Geology:
George P. Merrill, Head Curator.
Division of Physical and Chemical Oeologij (Systematic and Applied) :
George P. Merrill, Curator ; E. V. Shannon, Assistant Curator.
Division of Mineralogij and Petrology: F. W, Clarke, Honorary Curator;
W. F. Foshag, Assistant Curator; W. T. Schaller, Custodian of Gems
and Precious Stones; Frank L. Hess, Custodian of Rare Metals and
Rare Earths.
Division of Paleontology: R. S. Bassler, Curator; Charles E. Resser, As-
sistant Curator.
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 ; .Tames W. Gidley, Assistant Curator of Fossil Mammals.
Section of Paleobotany : David "White, Associate Curator ; F. H. Knowl-
ton, Custodian of Mesozoic Plants ; Lucile Simpson, Aid.
Associates in Paleontology : Frank Springer, E. O. Ulrich.
Associate in Petrology : Joseph P. Iddings.
Department of Abts and Industries :
William deC. Ravenel, Director.
Division of Tertiles: Frederick L. Lewton, Curator.
Section of Wood Technology : William M. N. Watkins, Assistant Curator.
Division of Medicine : Charles Whitebread, Assistant Curator.
Associate in Medicine: James M. Flint, United States Navy (retired).
Division of Mineral Technology: Chester G. Gilbert, Curator; Joseph
E. Pogue, Curator ; C. W. Mitman, Assistant Curator.
National Gallery of Art:
William H. Holmes, Curator.
ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF.
Chief of Correspondence and Documents, H. S. Bryant.
Disbursing Agent, W. I. Adams.
Superintendent of Buildings and Labor, J. S. Goldsmith.
Editor, Marcus Benjamin.
Assistant Librarian, N. P. Scudder.
Photographer, Loring W. Beeson.
Registrar, S. C. Brown.
Property Clerk, W. A. Knowles.
Engineer, C. R. Denmark.
LIST OF ACCESSIONS TO THE COLLECTIONS DURING
THE FISCAL YEAR 1918-19.
[Except when otherwise Indicated, the specimens were presented or were transferred
by bureaus of the Government in accordance with law.]
Abbott, Thomas. (See under Bri-
tannia Mining Company, Havana,
Cuba.)
Abbott, Dr. William L., Philadelphia,
Pa.: 359 ethnological specinaens, 1
specimen of banana fiber, about 425
mammals, 19 reptiles, 5 marine in-
vertebrates, 12 insects, and 929 birds
collected in the Celebes by Mr. H. C.
Raven (62904) ; 84 birds, 10 eggs, 8
reptiles, 500-|- specimens, 25 species
of land and fresh-water shells, 70
insects, 5 specimens of plants, 37
bats, and a miscellaneous lot of bones
and 4 archeological specimens, all
from Santo Domingo (63531).
Abrams, Prof. Le Roy. (See under
Leland Stanford .Junior University.)
Adams, Miss Elizabeth Ogden, South
Lincoln, Mass. : Water-color painting
of the Rhone Valley by John M. W.
Turner (63739, loan).
Adams, J. B., Stuart, Fla. : Skin of
great horned ovi^l, Buho virginianus,
from Florida (63642).
Adrian, Dr. H., Tampico, Tamps,
Mexico (through Dr. J. Walter
Fewkes) : Pillar stone found at
Cerro Cebadilla, State of Vera Cruz,
Mexico (63523).
Agbicultube, Department of :
Bureau of Animal Industry: A se-
ries of 29 specimens illustrating
the manufacture of casein glue
for use in waterproofing air-
craft (63216).
Bureau of Biological Surve;/: 3
specimens of cacti, Mamillaria,
from North Dakota (62.598) ; 10
specimens, 2 species, of mol-
lusks and 3 specimens, 2 species,
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Agriculture, Department of — Contd.
of crustaceans from various lo-
calities (62661) ; 112 specimens
of plants from Florida, col-
lected by Mr. A. H. Howell and
Mr. C. H. M. Barrett (62664) ;
specimen of eel, OpMchthus
retropinnis (62705) ; 129 speci-
mens of plants from Utah, col-
lected by Mr. Ales. Wetmore
(62722) ; 2 specimens of plants
collected in New Mexico by Dr.
A. K. Fisher (62946) ; 30 speci-
mens of plants, chiefly from
North Carolina (62959) ; collec-
tion of alcoholic mammals, birds',
reptiles, amphibians, and
fishes (63010) ; 124 birds (80
alcoholics and 44 skeletons)
from the western United States
(63181) ; 23 specimens of birds
( alcoholics and skeletons)
(63428) ; 445 specimens, 96
species, of coleoptera ; 675 speci-
mens, 17 species, of hymenop-
tera ; 50 specimens', 10 species, of
diptei-a, and 3 vials of collem-
bola (1 type) (63617).
Bureau of Clwmistry: Samples- of
sugar substitutes and dehydrated
foods (63215).
Bureau of Entomology : 10 speci-
mens of mollusks. Helix (Eupa-
rypha) pisana, collected at La
Jolla, Calif. (63140) ; type and
24 paratypes of coleoptera, At-
tica wood si (63429) ; moUusk,
Zonitoide^ niinusciilus, taken by
N. Perrine at Arlington Farm,
Virginia (63582) ; 3 land shells
collected on citrus trees near
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Agbictjltuke, Department of — Coutd.
Downey, Calif., by R. S. Wog-
luui (63579) ; 2 isopod crusta-
ceans, AtiuadiUidiuni vnlgare,
from boxwood imported from
Naardan, Holland, and located
at Gude Nursery in Anacostia,
D. C. (63747).
Office of ExJiihits: Sample ears of
various types of sugar corn,
and heads of two types of grain
sorghums (63213).
Federal Horticultural Board: 21
specimens, 2 species, of land
shells collected at San Diego,
Calif. (63210).
Office of Foreign Seed and Plant
Introduction: 10 photographs
illustrating the manufacture of
soy bean products (63214).
(See under O. Gay lord Marsh.)
Bureau of Plant Industry: 31
specimens of plants from Cali-
fornia (62596, 62685, 63149,
63152) ; 108 specimens of plants
(62602) ; 2 specimens of plants
from South Carolina (63631,
62644) ; 799 specimens of grasses
(62655, 62921, 63183) ; 62 speci-
mens of grasses from Jamaica
(63562) ; 377 specimens of
Hawaiian plants collected by Mr.
A. S. Hitchcock (62688, 62695,
62923, 63176) ; 4 specimens of
plants collected in Colorado by
Mr. Hitchcock (62790) ; 15
specimens of plants from ilary-
land, collected by Mr. Frederick
V. Coville (63112, 63816) ; part
of type specimen otJuncus traciji
from Utah (62871) ; 2 .speci-
mens of plants from the vicinity
of Washington, D. C. (62896) ;
3 specimens of plants from
Florida (62949, 63477, 63527) ;
specimen of fern, Cheilantlies,
from Arizona (62955) ; 3 speci-
mens of fern from Algeria
(62996) ; 25 specimens of plants
collected by Mr. R. M. Harper
(63114) ; 2 specimens of plants
collected in Arizona by Mr. E.
Agkiculture, Depaktmekt oe — Cuutd.
O. Wooton (63178) ; specimens
of seeds, nuts, fruits, and sirups,
models of potatoes and apples,
and photographs of orchards
and field crops (63212) ; 2 speci-
mens of plants from Delaware
(63390) ; 5 specimens of ferns
from Florida, collected by
Messrs. J. B. Norton and R. M.
Jones (63469) ; specimen of
plant from Jamaica (634.50) ; 2
specimens of plants from Texas
(63528, 63679) ; through Mr. G.
P. Van Eseltine, 2 specimens of
Selaginella collected in Cali-
fornia by Mr. H. M. Hall
(635.59) ; specimen of plant from
Honduras, and 2 specimens of
plants from Guatemala (63.595,
63673) ; specimen of plant from
Mississippi (63862) ; 2 speci-
mens of plants from Mexico,
collected by Mr. Wilson Popenoe
(63686).
AiNSLiE, George G., Knoxville, Tenn. :
11 mollusks, Umax maxiimis, from
Knoxville. Tenn. (62727).
Allen, Mr. Andrew Hussey. (See
under Mrs. Abby Knight McLane.)
Allen, George R., Chosen Mineral
Co., Keijyo, Korea (through Mr.
Frank L. Hess) : Specimen of
scheelite, largely showing crystal
form, and of wolframite, from
Korea (63470).
American Ambassador to France.
(See under France, Government of,
French ministry of foreign affairs.)
American Ambassador to Italy. (See
under Italy, Government of, the min-
istry for foreign affairs.)
American Committee for Armenian
AND Syrian Relief, New York City :
5 posters (63360).
American Embassy at London, Eng-
land. (See under Great Britain,
Government of. )
American Jewish Relief Fund.
Washington, D. C. : Poster, " Jew-
ish War Sufferers," by Leo Mayer
(63361).
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AMiiBiCAN Library Association, Lib-
rary of Congress, Wasliiugton,
D. C. : 3 posters (63373).
American Museum of Natural His-
tory, New York City (througli Dr.
W. T. Sclialler) : Casts of 4 plat-
inum nuggets brought from Russia
by Mr. F. W. Draper in 1917
(626S2) ; complete set of casts of
the skeleton of a fossil bird, Dia-
tryma (63203) ; about 50 specimens
of exotic Diptera, most of which
are paratypes (63392) ; casts of
limb bones of 3 specimens of the
fossil primate Xotharctus (63417) ;
4 paratypes as follows: turtle,
Clemnvjs nuchaUs; salamander,
riethodon yoiwhlossee; 2 lizards.
Eremias nitida garnmhcnsis, and
Chamaeleon itiiriensis (63622).
American Numismatic Society, New
York City: Cuban Army insignia
(96 specimens) (63410, loan). (See
also under J. Sanford Saltus.)
American Red Cross, The, Washing-
ton, D. C. : 145 posters (6336S).
American Red Stab Anijial Relief,
National Headquarters Military De-
partment, Albany, N. Y. : 5 posters
(63353).
American Smelting And Refining
Co., New York City (through Tacoma
Smelting Co., Tacoma, Wash.) :
Specimen of metallic arsenic
(63552).
Ames, Oakes, North Easton, Mass.:
187 specimens of orchids from the
Philippine Islands (62652, 62686,
exchange).
Anderson, E. M., Regina, Saskatche-
wan. Canada: About 2,000 insects
(the private collection of the donor)
(62927).
Anderson, J. M. (See under Britannia
Mining Co. )
Andrews, W. S., Schenectady, N. Y. :
An old style portable Howell volt-
meter (63413).
Anect, Brother, St. Paul's College,
Covington, La.: 61 specimens of
plants from Louisiana (63652).
Apollinaire-Marie, Brother, Bogota,
Colombia: 169 specimens of plants
from Colombia, collected by Brother
xVriste- Joseph (63599, 62811) ; small
collection of coleoptera (63046).
(See also under Bogota, Colombia,
Institute de la Salle.)
Armour & Co., Chicago, 111.: 3 tubes
of plain sterile surgical catgut liga-
tures, and 3 tubes of chromic sterile
surgical catgut ligatures (635(X)).
Armstrong, E. J., Erie, Pa. : 100 speci-
mens of New York Devonian bryo-
zoans (63009, exchange).
Aesene, Brother G., Philadelphia, Pa. :
Several thousand specimens of
plants, chiefly from IMexico (62601) ;
615 specimens of plants from Mary-
land and New Jersey (62832).
Arthur, Dr. J. C, Purdue University,
Lafayette, Ind. : 4 specimens of
plants (63535).
Ashby, Edwin, Blackwood, South Aus-
tralia: About 2,000 specimens, 89
lots, of mollusks, Chitonidae, from
Australia (62706) ; 13 bird skins
from Australia (63739, exchange).
Asherman, George, Cincinnati, Ohio:
.50 specimens of Upper Ordovician
trilobites, sponges, and crinoids
(63050).
Asheville Mica Co., Asheville, N. C. :
5 specimens grade A mica (63772).
Ashworth, W. W., Hopewell, Va.:
Bronze military belt buckle of the
period of the Civil War (63224).
Al'guste, Mrs. Florence S., Rich-
mond, Va. : Medicine scales of the
colonial period in case, and doU and
doll's bed of the early part of the
nineteenth century (63379).
Australian Museum, The. (See un-
der Sydney, New South Wales, Aus-
tralia.)
Bain, Dr. and Mrs. H. Foster, Wash-
ington, D. C. : A collection of Chi-
nese, Japanese, and other art ob-
jects (63571, loan).
Bakee, Prof. C. F., Los Banos, P. I. :
About 1,500 specimens of lepidoptera
from the Philippine Islands (63478).
132
REPORT OF NATIONAL, MUSEUM, 1919.
Bakek, Dr. Charles Lawrence, Berke-
ley, Calif, (through Dr. O. P. Hay) :
Molar tooth of a mammoth, Elephas
columhi, from Bexar County, Tex.
(62925).
Bakeb, Dr. Fred., Point Loma, Calif. :
18 specimens, 5 species, of marine
shells from Japan and Siam (63654).
Bakeb, Dr. F. H., Richmond, Victoria,
Australia : 40 specimens of Austra-
lian insects (63555, exchange).
Bakeb, John A., Washington, D, C. :
Golden eagle, Aquila chrysaetos,
from near Upperville, Va. (63329).
Baujwin, Maj. B. T., S. C, U. S. Army,
Takoma Park, D. C. : Incomplete
skeleton from an old Indian burying
place at Northbrook, on west branch
of the Brandywine, Chester County,
Pa., collected by the donor (63563).
Baix, C. R., Bureau of Plant Industry.
U. S. Department of Agriculture,
AVashington, D. C. : 9 specimens of
willows, chiefly from the western
United States (68015).
Bancroft, Howland, Denver, Colo,
(through Mr. F. L. Hess) : 5 speci-
mens of tin ore and 2 of bismuth
from Bolivia (62S25).
Barber, H. S., Bureau of Entomology,
U. S. Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D. C. : Snake, Elaps
(631.59). (See also under Dr. E. A.
Schwarz.)
Barber, Manly D., Knoxville, Tenn. :
150 specimens of fossils from the
Holston (Ordovician) marble of
Tennessee (63029, exchange) ; 43
specimens, 7 species, of moUusks
from France and the United States
(63728).
Baeboue, Dr. Thomas, Museum of
Comparative Zoology, Cambridge,
Mass. : Specimen of lizard, Scelo-
porus woodi (63512).
Barrett, Edward. ( See under Indiana,
Department of Geology.)
Barrett, H. L., Silver Spring, IMd. :
Young snake from Maryland
(62768).
Bartsch, Henry, Washington, D. C. :
A salamander from Maryland
(62761).
Battle Ceeek, Mich., Museum of the
PtTBLic Schools : 2 exhibition slabs
from the Lower Carboniferous rocks
of Michigan (63144, exchange).
Bauthells, Mrs. Theodob William,
Washington, D.C. : An album of
flowers of the Holy Land, bound in
covers of olive wood (63715).
Beach, Froman A. (See under J. W.
Mackelden. )
Beech-nut Packing Co., Canajoharie,
N.Y. (through H. C. Thompson, U.S.
Department of Agriculture) : Sam-
ples of peanut butter put up in three
sizes of jars (62774).
Bement, C. S., Philadelphia, Pa. : An
etched slab of San Angelo, Tex.,
meteoric iron weighing 1,917 grams,
and one of Staunton, Va., weighing
1,162 grams (63261).
Benedict, J. E., jr., Woodside, Md. :
Shrew (alcoholic) (62676) ; 11 sala-
manders and 3 lizards (63161) ; 6
specimens of fishes comprising 4
dace, Lendsctis sp., and 2 black-
nosed dace, Rhmichtliys atronastis,
collected near Occoquan, Virginia,
June 14, 1919 (63732).
Benjamin, Mrs. Carolyn Gilbert.
(See under National Society of the
Colonial Dames of Amei'ica.)
Benjamin, Dr. Maecus, U. S. National
Museum : Bound volume containing
2 sets of chromolithographic pro-
gressive proofs, showing the process
of printing the illustrations for Dr.
George F. Kunz's " Gems and
Precious Stones," Louis Prang, litho-
grapher (101 specimens) (62885).
Berry, Mrs. Grace, and Mrs. Chables
W. Richardson, Washington, D. C.
(through Mrs. Julian- James) : Shawl
of Persian design printed on cash-
mere (63255, loan).
BsBEY, S. S., Redlands, Calif.: 2 crab
claws from the Pleistocene, Point
Loma, Calif. (62982) ; 2 specimens
LIST OF ACCESSIONS.
133
Bebey, S. S. — Continued,
of mollusks, representing the species
Ischnochiton (Lepidozona) asthenes
and L. heatlii, paratypes, from Cali-
fornia (63661).
Berwick, F. C, Washington, D. C. :
Wooden statuette of a saint holding
the Christ child, found in a deserted
shrine near Porto Velho, Brazil
(63983, loan).
Bethel, Ellsworth, Denver, Colo. :
82 specimens of plants from New
Mexico and Colorado (62746, 62818,
68111).
BiLLiNGTON, C. (See under Chandler,
estate of B. F.)
Blake, S. F., care U. S. Department
of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. :
Specimen of plant, Lycopodium, from
New Hampshire (62862).
Blanchakd, F. N., U. S. National
Museum : Snake, Lampropeltis, from
Emmett County, Mich. (68421) ; 2
snakes and 2 salamanders (634.51) ;
4 snakes, 5 salamanders, 1 lizard,
and 9 frogs from Maryland (6362.5,
63627, 63650) ; 15 snakes, 8 lizards,
and 4 turtles from Virginia (63623,
63624, 68626, 68690).
Blanchaed, p.. W., Washington, D. C. :
Water snake from Great Falls, Md.
(63618).
Bleeckee, Waeeen, president, Tungsten
Products Co., Boulder, Colo,
(through Mr. F. L. Hess) : Specimen
of ferrotungsten (62650).
Blumenthal, Sidney & Co. (Inc.),
New York City : 31 samples of pile
fabrics for decorative upholstery
and dress wear, and a Mohju rug
(62834).
Boebicke, Dr. Williaii, San Fran-
ci.sco, Calif, (through Dr. W, A.
Dewey, Ann Arbor, Mich.) : Copy of
Boericke's " Conipend of the Prin-
ciples of Homeopathy" (63482).
Boericke and Tafel, Philadelphia, Pa.
(through Dr. W. A. Dewey, Ann
Arbor, Mich.) : 123 specimens of
homeopathic medicinal preparations,
Boericke and Tafel — Continued.
3 colored plates of medicinal plants
with descriptive text, and 1 small
model of the Hahnemann monument
in Washington (63405).
Bogota, Colombia, Instituto de la
Salle: 84 specimens of plants from
Colombia ; also anthropological ma-
terial (6.3235, 63682).
Bonapaete, Prince Roland, Paris,
France (through H. Heuvrard) : 2
photographs of type specimen of a
fern, Pteris latiuscula (C3289, ex-
change).
BooNE, Miss Peael L., U. S. National
Museum : Specimen of snake from
Virginia (62626) ; specimen of
plant from Maryland (68680).
Boedages, Mons. L., Paris, France:
Collection of stone implements, cast
of a Greco-Roman cameo, a piece
of Gallo-Roman mosaic, and a clay
bead (63532, exchange).
Boutwell, J. M., Grand Canyon,
Ariz, (through Dr. Charles D. Wal-
cott) : Cambrian brachiopoda from
the Grand Canyon, Arizona (62883).
B0\^ng, Dr. A. G. (See under J. P.
Kryger. )
Boyeb Oil Co., New York City
(through Dr. J. H. Shrader) : 6
samples of oil seeds (62783).
Beackett, Mrs. Julia S. McG. (See
under Mrs. E. N. McGowan.)
Bramlet, Lieut. Hubert B., Chemical
Warfare Service, U. S. Army, Wash-
ington, D. C. : Hat cord of the type
worn by the enlisted men of the
U. S. Chemical Warfare Service,
1918 (63093).
Bbigham, Miss G. R., Smithsonian In-
stitution : Crested English canary
(63275).
Bbind, W. L.. New York City: Speci-
men of a goby, Gobiws pleui'ostignui,
from Soerabaia, Java (62743).
Bbitannia Mining Co., Havana, Cuba
(through Thomas Abbott and J. M.
Anderson) : Sample of Cuban Malva
blanca fiber, Vrena lohata (63008).
134
EEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919.
British Museum (Natural History).
(See under London, England.)
Britton, Dr. N. L. (See under New
York Botanical Garden.)
Broadway, W. E., Port of Spain,
Trinidad, British West Indies:
Specimen of fern, Pteris grandifolia
from Trinidad (62903) ; 3 specimens
of ferns and 3 specimens of plants
from Trinidad, (63414, 63619,
63651) ; pocket herbarium booklet of
Tropical American ferns (63072).
Brockett, Paul, Smithsonian Institu-
tion: 1 four-color relief reproduc-
tion and 1 chromolithographic re-
production (63364) ; collection of
four-color halftones, coUotj'pe and
chromolithograph (14 specimens)
(63759).
Brooke, Maj. Gen. John R., U. S.
Army (retired), Washington, D. C. ;
Jeweled sword presented to the
donor by American and Cuban
friends in 1899, and saddle, saddle
cloths, chapeau, uniform belts,
epaulets, and pieces of military in-
signia owned by him (40 speci-
mens) (63543) ; a miscellaneous
collection of historical photographs
(54 specimens) ; historical books, a
bolo, a dagger, and a copper replace-
ment of a boulder (63760).
Brown, A. J., Sulphur City, Ark. : 100
specimens, 17 species, of land shells
from Sulphur City, Ark (63147).
Brown, C. G. (See under William H.
Gray.)
Brown, Edward J., Los Angeles,
Calif.: 137 bird skins and 4 bird
skeletons from southern California
(63018).
Brown, Stephen C, U. S. National
Museum : Sponge, 24 corals, 14
echinoderms, 1 barnacle, 350 mol-
lusks, 1 sawfish blade, 60 shark
teeth, turtle shell, 1 arrow, 55 arrow-
heads, 4 .stone hatchet heads, iron
lamp (1835), 60 minerals and rocks,
12 fossils and 15 plants (63229) ; a
copy of "The Conchologist's Text-
Book," ninth edition, by William
Brown, Stephen C. — Continued.
Macgillivray, Esq. (63230) ; early
American newspapers, namely, Ul-
ster County Gazette, vol. 2, No.
88, January 4, 1800 (copy) ; the
Maryland Journal and the Balti-
more Advertiser, vol. 1, No. 1, Aug.
20, 1773 (copy), and the Dally Na-
tional Intelligencer, vol. 19, No. 1,
5807, September 16, 1831 (63465).
Bruce, Mr., Rampart, Alaska (through
Hon. Charles A. Sulzer) : Skin and
sternum of a whistling swan, Olor
columbianus, from Alaska (62725)
Bryan, B., W^ashington, D. C. (through
Mr. F. L. Hess) : Specimen of
wolframite from Bolivia (62740).
Bryan, Maj. Harry S., Phoenix, Ariz. :
A cut gem manufactured from urani-
um oxides (63505).
Bryant, L. E., Virginia Mining Co.,
Roberta, Tenn. : 190 grams of mete-
oric stone which fell at Cumberland
Falls, Whitely County, Ky., on April
9, 1919 (63605).
Buckingham, Mrs. B. H., and Miss
Isabelle C. Freeman, Washington,
D. C. : Collection of lacquers, porce-
lains and glassware, ethnological,
archeological, and historical objects,
also a gla.ss sponge (63783).
Buenos Aires, Argentina, Instituto
UE Botanica y Farmacologia : 286
specimens of plants from Argentina
(63583, exchange).
Bullock, D. S., University of Wiscon-
sin, College of Agriculture, Madison,
Wis. : 25 specimens of fishes collected
in Chile (63534).
Bltinham, Stewart H., Hudson Falls,
N. Y. : 12 specimens of plants from
New York (63293).
Burrell, G. S. (See under Navy De-
partment.)
BuscK, Dr. August, U. S. Department
of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. :
2 turtles from C. Lerdo, Durango,
Mexico (63327).
Bush, B. F., Courtney, Mo. : 264 speci-
mens of plants from Missouri (63079,
LIST OF ACCESSIONS.
135
Bush, B. F. — Continued.
63236) ; 2 specimens of plants and a
specimen of fern, Cheilanthes eatoni,
from Oklahoma (62926,63069).
BusHNELL, D. I., Jr., Washington,
D. C. : A necklace and wristlet of
wampum (about 125 years old) from
Oldtown, Me. (62711, exchange) ;
blowgun and dart, Choctaw Indians,
Louisiana, and a pocket sundial and
compass, Nuremberg, Germany
(62828).
Caldwell, Col. Bert M., M. C. N. A.,
Office of the Surgeon General, War
Department, Washington, D. C. : A
stone metate or mealing plate
(62964).
Calhoun, Dr. John C, Pittsburgh, Pa.
(through Dr. W. A. Dewey, Ann
Arbor, Mich.) : Millspaugh's Medi-
cinal Plants in two volumes (63422).
California Academt of Sciences, San
Francisco, Calif, (through Miss Alice
Eastwood) : Specimen of plant from
California (62795) ; 1631 specimens
of plants (63272, exchange).
California Associated Raisin Co.,
Fresno, Calif, (through Dr. J. H.
Shrader, U. S. Department of Agi-i-
culture) : 6 samples of raisin seed
products (62772).
Callow, Robert Richard, Washington,
D. C. : The head of a mollusk,
Loligo pealei, taken off the bar, Bar
Harbor, Me. (62978).
Canada, Biological Board of,
Nanaimo, B. C. (through Dr. C. Mc-
Lean Fraser ) : 5 specimens, 2 species,
of Pinnotherid crabs from Mudge
Island and Nanoose Bay (62939).
Canada, Geological Survey of, Ot-
tawa, Ontario, Canada (through
James M. Macoun) : 5 specimens of
ferns from Arctic Canada (63341) ;
17 specimens of Canadian ferns col-
lected in Jasper Park (63468, ex-
change).
(See also under Dominion.)
Candler, Hon. E. S. (See under Mrs.
Anne Jonas McWilliams.)
Carnegie I^Iuseum, Pittsburgh, Pa.
(through Dr. O. E. Jennings) : 143
Carnegie Museum — Continued,
specimens of plants, chiefly from the
Isle of Pines, Cuba, and 115 speci-
mens of plants from Ontario (62997,
63073, exchange) ; a copy of the
plate showing restoration of the
fossil reptile Diplodociis carnegil
(63581).
Carter, R. E., Naskeag, Me. : Small col-
lection of miscellaneous skulls and
bones from Maine, and an arrow
point of black slate (63081).
Case Research Laboratory, Auburn,
N. Y. : Dyscrasite box and receiving
tube, of the type used in the U. S.
Army, 1917-1918 (63751).
Case, T. W., Auburn, N. Y. (through
Dr. G. Winchester, Wyoming, 111.) :
4 audions showing Western Electric
Co. construction ; 8-inch receiving
dyscrasite mirror, 4 dyscrasite tubes,
and holder for dyscrasite tube, of the
type used during the European War,
1914-1918 (63700).
Cauldwell, Mrs. Eleanor Sherman
Thackara. (See under Miss Mary
Elizabeth Thackara.)
Cavanaugh, Col. J. B., U. S. Army.
(See under James F. Mclndoe.)
Cayman Islands, Go\'Ernment of the
(through the Colonial Secretary's
Office, Kingston, Jamaica, and the
Secretary of State for the Colonies
at London, England) : Postage
stamps issued by the Cayman
Islands during the European W^ar,
1914-1918; 3 London printings (12
specimens) (63462).
Ceasa, Brazil, Museu Rocha: 60
specimens, 12 species, of mollusks
from Brazil (63257).
Chace, E. P., Los Angeles, Calif. :
Mollusk, tJTpe of a new species, from
San Pedro, Calif. (62869) ; 2 bryo-
zoans, 15 annelids, 10 ophiurans,
312+crustaccans, 10 pycnogonids,
25+insects, and 2 nudibranch mol-
lusks from the coast of California
(63299) ; 7 sponges, 6 worms, 12 ochi-
noderms, 131 crustaceans, 3 mol-
lusks, and 12 insects from California
(63382, exchange).
136
REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919.
Chambeelain, a. M., La Grulla, Tex. :
Nest of an oriole from Texas
(63094).
Chamberlain, E. B., New York City:
8 specimens of plants from the vicin-
ity of Washington, D. C. (63420).
Chamberlain Fund, Frances Lea,
Smithsonian Institution : 1 black
opal (16.65 carats) and 1 kunzite
(7.15 carats) (63037) ; 1 nephrite
pendant composed of 3 carved links,
and 1 chalcedonic pendant, cut
cameo style (63038) ; 1 cut gem of
zircon (51.30 carats) (63146) ; 2
cut gems of turquoise and 2 of
benitoite (63268) ; 5 cut opals from
Australia (63575) ; 129 specimens,
79 lots, of land shells from various
localities, purchased from Com-
mandant E. Caziot, director, Museum
of Nice, Nice, Alpes Maritimes,
France (63600) ; 32 fresh water
pearls, from near Knoxville, Tenn.
(63784) ; 30 cut gems, including ama-
zonstone, thomsonite, unakite, satin
spar, moss agate, lapis lazuli, and
beryl (63735).
Chamberlin, T. S., Chicago, 111. :
Printed and written papei-s bearing
on the discovery of chloroform by
Dr. Samuel Guthrie (63319).
Chandler. Estate of B. F. (through
C. Billington, executor, Detroit,
Mich.) : Private herbarium of B. F.
Chandler, consisting of about 500
ferns and flowering plants of Michi-
gan (63530).
Chase, Mrs. Agnes, U. S. Department
of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. :
Specimen of plant from Maryland
(62913).
Chateb, Sir Pafl, Hongkong, China
(through Ralph W. Weymouth, New
York City) : A specimen of wolfra-
mite from the New Territory, Hong-
kong, China (63324).
Chemical Co. of America, The, New
York City: A sample each of acetic
anhydride, acetic acid (glacial), raw
cotton and cellulose acetate, manu-
factured at Springfield, N. J. (63189).
Clapp, W. F., Cambridge. Mass. : 16
specimens, 4 species, of Philippine
mollusks (62735) ; 2 specimens of a
land shell, Cainaena amis, from the
Philippine Islands (62753).
Cl:\rk, Altstin H., U. S. National
Museum : Young house sparrow.
Passer domcsticiis, showing partial
albinism ( 62651 ) ; photographic copy
of the painting in the Bristol Art
Gallery by Ernest Board, R. W. A.,
depicting the marriage of William
Penn and Hannah Callowhill at the
Friends' Meeting House, Bristol, on
January 5, 1696 (63132) ; a 25-cent
note issued by the Dominion of
Canada, January 2, 1900 (63165).
Clark, B. Preston, Boston, Mass. : 35
specimens, 2 species, of Philippine
landshells, Amphidroimis, from Kida-
pan, Mindanao (62989) ; 5 specimens
of Diptera from North Borneo
(63439).
Clark, Dr. F. C, Los Angeles, Calif.:
500 specimens of invertebrate fossils
from the Pleistocene at Santa
Monica, Calif. (62848, exchange) ; 8
exhibition specimens of limestones
bored by Pholas (63260).
Clark, Frank L., Winona Lake, Ind. :
A collection of mastodon bones
(63194).
Clements, J. Morgan, New York City :
3 samples of mica from Korea and
a pebble of antimony oxide from
China (62763) ; tungsten minerals,
including scheelite, wolframite, and
cassiterite from Korea (63601).
Cleveland, Chas. E., Overly, N. Dak. :
Specimen of an abnormal egg of a
domestic fowl (62831).
Climax Molybdenum Co., Denver,
Colo, (through Mr. F. L. Hes-s) : A
specimen of molybdenum ore from
Climax, Colo. (632.51).
Clokey, Ira W., Denver, Colo. : 160
specimens of plants from Colorado
(62894, exchange).
Cockerell, Prof. T. D. A., University
of Colorado, Boulder, Colo. : 2 speci-
mens of plants (62612) ; 18 speoi-
LIST OF ACCESSIONS,
137
CocKEEELL, Prof. T. D. A. — Continued,
mens of plants from Colorado
(62723, 62789) ; 8 cotj'pes of Philip-
pine Halictiis ; 7 other named Philip-
pine bees and 16 other Hymenoptera
(63330, exchange, gift).
CoE, Cyeil, Grand Cayman, West In-
dies (through the Governor of Ja-
maica, Colonial Secretary's Office,
Jamaica, West Indies) : 8 postage
stamps, 4 each of the first and second
local printing, issued by the Cayman
Islands during the European War,
1914-1918 (63378).
CoKEE, Prof. W. C, Chapel Hill, N. C. :
7 specimens of plants from North
Carolina (62648).
Cole, Miss Lillian A., Union, Me. : 85
specimens of plants from Maine
(62656, 62857).
CoLEGio De " San Pedbo Apostol,"
Cartegena, Colombia : 4 snakes, 1
turtle, 4 fishes, 1 myriapod. 1 spider,
1 plant, and 17 marine invertebrates
from Cartegena, Colombia (63300).
Collins-Gaenee Congo Expedition,
Fernan Vaz, French Congo, Africa :
217 mammals, 30 bird skins, a turtle,
and a small collection of plants, col-
lected by Mr. C. R. Aschemeier
(63233, collected for the Museum).
Columbia Gbaphophone Co., Balti-
more, Md. (through W. S. Parks,
manager) : A type L-2 grafonola
equipped with the nonset automatic
stop (63376).
Commeece, Depaetment of: Italian
revenue stamps as follows : 5, 10, 20,
25 centesimi, in duplicate (8 speci-
mens) (62816) ; 4 posters (63358) ;
postage stamps of Honduras issued
1907-1918 (174 specimens) (63639).
Bureau of Fisheries: 10 specimens
of larvae of the spiny lobster from
Key West, Fla. (62701) ; 1 specimen
of fish, Apsilus clentatus, from the
Campeche Banks, Gulf of Mexico,
received from the Warren Fish Co.,
of Pens'acola, Fla. (62794) ; 27 speci-
mens of fishery products and 1
mounted specimen of cod (62824,
Commeece, Depaetment of — Contd.
loan) ; 12 specimens of fresh-water
Medusae from Augusta, Ga. (62830) ;
specimens of fishes, reptiles, and in-
vertebrates collected in the summer
of 1918 by S. F. Hildebrand at Au-
gusta, Ga., and vicinity (62980) ; 6
specimens of sperm whale teeth
(62S89) ; 117 skins and skulls of
mammals, mostly seals, a small col-
lection of birds, 102 specimens of
plants, and a collection of Tertiary
fos'sils, collected by Mr. G. Dallas
Hanna in Alaska (63047) ; 21 bird
eggs from Alaska (63054) ; bearded
seal, skin and skull, from St. George
Island, Alaska (63271) ; type speci-
mens and others of macruroids col-
lected by the steamer Albatross in
the Philippine Islands (31 speci-
mens) (63048) ; skull of a crab
coon, Procyon (63234) ; lobster. Ho-
marus americanus, with abnormal
claw, purchased in New York City
(63246) ; skull of a walrus from
Round Island, Bering Sea (63294) ;
20 specimens of plants collected in
Iowa by H. Walton Clark (63731) ;
miscellaneous reptiles and batra-
chians from Berrian County, Ga.
(63744). (See also under Prof. N.
Gist Gee, and Dr. George Mott. )
Bureaii of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce: Dutch postage, postage
due, receipt, statistics, security tax,
and government savings bank stamps
(111 specimens) (63030).
Commercial Museum, The, Phila-
delphia, Pa. : 8 samples of foreign
food products (62765, exchange).
Committee on Public Information,
Division of Films, New York City :
Bureau of War Photographs: 16
photographs (6* by 8i inches)
illustrating military aerial activities
in the United States and France
(G3031).
CoNKow, WiLFORD Seymoue, New York
City : Portrait of Maj. E. Alexander
Powell, and portrait of Miss Clara
J. Gordon, by Wilford Seymour Con-
row, 1919 and 1916, respectively
(63770, loan).
138
KEPOKT OF NATIONAL IMTTSEUM, 1919.
CoNZATTi, Prof. C : Oaxaca, Mexico :
Specimen of lichen from Mexico
(63113).
CoBBiN, Mrs. H. C, Washington, D. C. :
Miniature model of a 10-inch disap-
pearing gun, made in the Electrician
Sergeant's Department, School of
Submarine Defense, Fort Totten, N.
Y., and presente<l by the school to
Lieut. Gen. H. C. Corbin, U. S. Army
(62851, loan).
Cornell University, Department of
Botany, Ithaca, N. Y. (through Prof.
K. M. Wiegand) : 31 specimens of
plants fa-om New York (62807, ex-
change).
Costa, Dr. J. Simao da. (See under
Para, Brazil, Museu Goeldi.)
Cox, Philip, University of New Bruns-
wick, Fredericton, New Brunswick:
4 specimens of dace, Leuciscus per-
leiji (63499).
Craighead, F. C, Bureau of Ento-
mology, U. S. Department of Agri-
culture, Washington, D. C. : Speci-
men of young tortoise, Gopherus
agassizi, from Arizona (62669) ; 2
snakes, CarpliopMs amoenus, from
Fairfax County, Va. (63589).
Crane, W. E.. Washington, D. C. : 414
specimens of land and marine shells
from various localities, collected by
the donor (63674).
Crompton, C. E., St. George, Pribilof
Islands, Alaska: 2 crustaceans,
Pagurus alaslcensu and Oregonia
gracilis, fish stomach contents, from
the vicinity of St. George Island
(62677).
Cbovo & Co., Washington, D. C.
(through Smithsonian Institution,
National Zoological Park) : Speci-
men of tree frog, imported in a
bunch of bananas (62621).
Curban, H. M., Laurel, Md. : Sample of
carapicho fiber, Triumfetta, sp., col-
collected by the donor at Bahia,
Brazil (63345).
CusTTs, Dr. .T. B. Gregg, Washington,
D. C. (through Dr. W. A. Dewey,
Ann Arbor, Mich.) : 15 volumes of
CusTis, Dr. J. B. Gregg — Continued.
Transactions of the American Insti-
tute of Homeopathy (63510) ; an
(trigimil letter written by Hahne-
mann, the founder of homeopathy,
in 1805 (63558).
Dall, Dr. W. H. (See under Dr. R.
H. Tremper.)
Danforth, Mrs. Charlotte Ellis,
Washington, D. C. : An English
hunting watch, gold case (62760) ;
ethnological and archeological ma-
terial from various localities, nest
of a wren from Ireland, section of
bark of California redwood, 15
specimens of Ordovician trilobites
and crinoids, and a fossil plant
(63206) ; an ivory and pearl shell
silk reel, a scent bottle of Bohemian
red glass, and a perforated spade-
shaped gorget (slate) from Ohio
(63456) ; a French cashmere shawl,
an old Paisley shawl, an Indian
scarf, a Turkish hanging, a Rus-
sian art-iron watch stand, and 2
Cypraea shells (63507) ; small
Swiss watch, blue enamel with
initials O. M. E.. set with brilliants,
which formerly belonged to the
owner's mother, Olive M. Ellis
(63569, loan) ; furniture of the
early part of the nineteenth century
(10 specimens) (63663).
Danglade, Ernest, Vevay, Ind. : Mol-
lusk, Quadrula heros, collected in
Eagle Creek, Ky., October 10, 1917
(63083).
Darton, N. H., U. S. Geological Sur-
vey, Washington, D. C. : A frag-
ment of meteoric iron from San
Rafael, N. Jlex. (628S0).
Davidson, Dr. A., Los Angeles, Calif. :
14 specimens of plants from Cali-
fornia (62624, 63202, 63419).
Davis, Sergt. A. H., Washington.
D. C. : Skin, skull, and skeleton of
a Belgian police dog (63237).
Davis, George II., Mount Rainier,
M(\. : An exhibition specimen of
tine-grained sandstone containing
fo.ssil tracks (63187).
LIST OF ACCESSIONS.
139
Davis, Rev. John, Hannibal. Mo.
(tlirough Prof. A. S. Hitchcock) : 5
specimens of plants, Cyperaceae
(62930).
Davis, Col. Wm. B., U. S. Army, The
Hospital, U. S. Soldiers' Home,
Washington, D. C. : Ethnological
material ("Cut Head" Sioux
Indian) collected by the donor about
1878 at Fort Totten, Dakota Terri-
tory (63135).
Deam, Charles C, Bluffton, lud. : 28
specimens of plants from Indiana
(63397).
Dearborn, Dr. F. M., New York City
(through Dr. W. A. Dewey, Ann
Arbor, Mich.) : Copy of " Diseases of
the Skin," by Frederick M. Dear-
born, M. D. (63706).
Deliens, Paul, San Jos6, Costa Rica :
Skin of a hummingbird, Lophoniis
adorabilis, from Costa Rico (63095).
Denslow, Rev. H. M., New York City :
75 specimens of orchids from the
eastern United States (62941, ex-
change).
Densmore, Miss Frances, Red Wing,
Minn. : A string of dried squash,
Mandan Indian, Fort Berthold, Minn.
(63519) ; ethnological material from
the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota,
and the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Teton
Sioux of North Dakota, 12 speci-
mens collected by the donor (63564).
Detmers, Miss Freda, The Ohio State
University, Columbus, Ohio : 2 speci-
mens of plants from Ohio (63280).
Devries, H., Boulder, Colo, (through
Mr. F. L. Hess) : A specimen of
tungsten ore (ferberite) from Katy
mine, Boulder County, Colo. (62846).
Dewey, Dr. W. A., Ann Arbor, Mich. :
23 specimens of photographs, en-
gravings, labels, and printed docu-
ments on the subject of Homeopathic
Medicine (63404). (See also under
Dr. William Boericke, Boer i eke &
Tafel, Dr. John C. Calhoun, Dr. J.
B. Gregg Custis, Dr. F. M. Dear-
born, Dr. William E. Leonard, Dr.
John H. Wilms.)
Dionne, Mons. C. E. (See under
Laval University, Quebec, Canada.)
Dixon, H. N., Northampton, England :
2 specimens of mosses (62617).
Doane College, Crete, Nebv. : Speci-
men of plant, Laciniaria, from Ne-
braska (62786, exchange).
Dodge, Pickering, Washington, D. C. :
Pair of ladies' slippers of the early
part of the nineteenth century, and
2 fragments of an Egyptian wooden
coffin, painted and inscribed (63250).
Dominion Commission of Fisheries,
Department of Naval Service, Ot-
tawa, Canada : 4 echinoderms repre-
senting the species Btrongylocen-
trotus drohachiensis, collected at
Station 63-D, Walker Bay, Prince of
Wales Strait, by the Canadian
Arctic Expedition (63484).
Dominion Entomological Laboratory,
Frederickton, New Brunswick : 17
specimens of Diptera fi-om New
Brunsv/ick (63561).
Dorian, Mrs. James M., East Falls
Church, Va. : Basket bowl, Kern
Valley, Calif., collected by Mr. Ed-
ward L. Brooks (63518, loan).
DoRSEY, N. W., Smithsonian Institu-
tion : 2 specimens of manganese ore,
pyrolusite, from 3 miles west of Lin-
den, Va. (62962).
Drew, William J., and Fred I. Nobles,
Washington, D. C. : Photogravure
copy of the joint resolution of Con-
gress declaring that a state of war
exists between the Imperial German
Government and the Government and
the people of the United States, April
6, 1917, supplemented by facsimile
autographs of the IMembers of Con-
gress at the time of the passing of
the resolution (63610).
Du Bois, Capt. Richard Catlin, U. S.
Army (retired), Hallstead, Pa.:
Collection of archeological relics
from ancient village sites on the
north bank of the Susquehanna
River at Great Bend, Pa. (62770).
140
REPORT OF NATIONAL MXTSEUM, lf>l&.
Dunn, E. R., Alexandria, Va. : Snake
skin, 8 siilanianders and 1 frog; 4
skinks ; snake, Coluber constrictor,
and 2 young turtles, all from Vir-
ginia (02891, 63515, 63533, 63614).
DXJPSE, D. L., National Zoological
Park, Washington, D. C. : Snake,
Coluber constrictor, from Washing-
ton, D. C. (02950)..
Dyer, Fkancis J., American consul at
Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and Nogalos,
Sonora, Mexico : A collection of in-
sects and cacti (62712) ; 20 speci-
mens of plants and some entomo-
logical specimens from Honduras
(63075) ; specimen of cactus, Opiin-
tia (63620) ; 3 specimens of cacti
(63683) ; horned lizard, Phrynosoma
solare, and some insects (63691) ; 5
specimens of living cacti, earthworm,
oak galls and insects, 2 lizards and
a frog (63777). (See also under W.
Cameron Towusend.)
Eakle, Chables T., Palma Sola, Fla. :
Skeleton of an Indian found in a
shell mound on Snead's Island, Mana-
tee County, Fla. (63455).
Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N. Y. :
5dorotypes (62850).
Eastwood, ]\Tiss Alice. (See under
California Academy of Sciences.)
Ebeet, Col. II. G., Vancouver, Wash,
(through Brig. Gen. T. E. Wilcox,
U. S. Army (retired) : 3 specimens
of plants from Washington, collected
by Mary and Frances Fiala (63656).
Edge, E. E., Washington, D. C. : Flint-
lock pistol and Indian bow (62973).
Edmonston, a., Chevy Chase, Md. :
Skins and skulls of 2 flying squirrels,
Glaucomys (63304).
Edwaeds, Vinal N., Woods Hole,
Mass. : 2 specimens of hornpout,
Amiuvus sp., attacked by fungus
growth (63006).
Eggleston, W. W., U. S. Department
of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. :
15 specimens of plants from Indiana
(63035).
Emeeine, Charles A., Baltimore, Md. :
3 notes issued by the Susquehanna
Emeuine, Charles A. — Continued.
Bridge & Bank Note Co. in 1831, as
follows: $5, No. 4252; $10, No. 484,
and $20, No. 699 (63541).
Engberg, Dean Carl C, University of
Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebr. : Crab,
Pinnixa franciscana, from Friday
Harbor, Wash. (62872) ; 26 speci-
mens, 11 species, of mollusks from
San Juan Island, Gulf of Georgia,
Wash. (63027).
Eewin, RicnARD P., Boise, Idaho : 12
salamanders from Idaho (62759).
Essenkay Products Co., Chicago, lU.
(through Dr. J. H. Shrader) : 10
samples of rubber substitute products
made from vulcanized corn oil
(62812).
Evans, Prof. A. W. (See under Yale
University, New Haven, Conn.)
Falkland Islands, Government of
(through the Governor of the
Colony, Stanley, Falkland Islands,
and the Secretary of State for the
Colonies, London, England) : Half
penny, 1 penny, and 1 shilling post-
age stamps of the Falkland Islands
overprinted " W^ar Stamp " issued
during the European War, 1914-
1918 (3 specimens) (63738).
Felippone, Dr. Florentino, Monte-
video, Uruguay: 1 barnacle; 69
specimens, 46 species, of mollusks ;
and 1 specimen of cordate, Cephalo-
discus dodecalaph'us, from various
localities in South America (63058).
Fenton, Carroll Lane, Charles City,
Iowa: A large exhibition specimen
of fossil coral. S t ro mat o para, from
the Devonian of Iowa (62976, col-
lected for the Museum).
Ferrero, Joseph, Washington, D. C. :
A tree frog, Hyla septcntrionalis,
imported in a bimch of bananas
from Cuba (63481).
Pebeier, Dr. W. F., Toronto, Ontario,
Canada : Specimen of a new mineral
(ferrierite) from British Columbia
(63139).
LIST OF ACCESSIONS.
141
Fewkes, Dr. J. Walter. (See under
Dr. H. Adrian, and Dr. John M.
Muir.)
Field Museum of Natural History,
Chicago, 111.: 7 small mounted
mammal skins and skulls from
North America (63295).
FiLLius, James P., Berwyn, Md. :
Specimen of hawk from Maryland
(62733).
FiNLEY, Miss Bliss. (See under Mrs.
Calvin White.)
FiNLEY, Mrs. Henry J., Washington,
D. C. : Chantilly lace shoulder shawl
originally owned by Mrs. Abraham
Lincoln (63502, loan).
Fish ano Game Commission oe Cali-
fornia, Long Beach, Calif. : Isopod
crustacean, Tylos punciatus, from
Long Beach, Calif. (63726).
Fisher, George L., Houston, Tex. :
201 specimens of plants from Texas
(62654, 62910, 62968) ; 94 specimens
of plants from Missouri (63503).
Brisker, Dr. Walter K., Stanford Uni-
versity, Calif. : 16 specimens of
lizards from Antigua Island, West
Indies (62707) ; 21 bats, 9 of Arti-
beus and 12 of Nyctinomus, in alco-
hol (62748).
Fiske, Wllbur A., Librarina, ChalTey
Library, Ontario, Calif.: Chaffey
Library bookplate (62935).
Fleisher, S. B. & B. W. (Inc.), Phila-
delphia, Pa. : A series of worsted
knitting and crocheting yarns and
handmade articles showing the use
of these yarns (63045) ; 3 specimens
of crocheted and knitted sweaters
showing the use of worsted yarns
(63756).
Florida Federation of Women's
Clubs, Homestead, Fla. (through C.
A, Mosier) : Specimen of turtle,
Kinostemon bauri, from Florida
(62681).
Florida, Geological Department of
THE State of, Tallahassee, F!a.
(through Dr. E. H. Sellards) : Types
of 24 vertebrate fossils from Florida,
Florida, Geological Department of
THE State of — Continued,
including 16 reptiles, 3 birds, and 5
mammals (63124, exchange).
Florida State Museum, Gainesville,
Fla. (through T. Van Hyning) :
Mollusk from Florida (62868).
Floyd, F. G., West Roxbury, Mass. :
Specimen of plant from Nantucket
Island, Mass. (63049).
Foerste, Prof. August F., Dayton,
Ohio (through Dr. Charles D. Wal-
cott) : 400 specimens of Lower Cam-
brian fossils from Troy, N. Y.
(63020).
Foote, Mrs. E. M., New York City: 3
specimens of plants, Dotrycliium,
fi-om Connecticut (63001).
FooTE, Dr. J. S., College of Medicine,
The Creighton University, Omaha,
Nebr. : 2 Indian skulls found by H.
O. Drew in the first bluff of the
Missouri River opposite Omaha,
Nebr. (63017).
Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing
Co., The, Boston, Mass.: 1 set
of chromo-lithographic progressive
proofs of the painting for the calen-
dar of the Edison Lamp Works of
the General Electric Co. (29 speci-
mens) (63365).
Foed, Prof. William E., Sheffield
Scientific School, Yale University,
New Haven, Conn.: A specimen of
aguilarite from Mexico (63553).
Forney, R. L., Forsyth, Mont. : Pebbles
of chalcedony, fragments of silicified
wood and specimens of invertebrate
fossils (63433).
Foshag, William, Berkeley, Calif.: A
specimen of riversideite and 1 of
wilkeite from Crestmore, Riverside
County, Calif. (62854, exchange).
France, Government of: (through
French ]\Iinistry of Foreign Affairs
and the Department of State) :
French Red Cross and Orphans of
the AVar stamps issued 1914-1917 (14
specimens) (62972) ; French postage
stamps issued during the European
War, 1914-1918 (54 specimens)
(63103).
142
EEPORT OF NATIONAL, MUSEUM, 1919.
Fkancis, Miss Maby E., Elva, Fla.
(through Mr. W. E. Safford) : 140
specimens of plants from Florida
(62806).
Feaser, Dr. C. McLean. (See under
Canada, Biological Board of.)
Fkeeman, Miss IsABEixE C. (See
under Mrs. B. H. Buckingham.)
French Pictorial Service, New York
City : 6 photogi'aphs illustrating the
adjustment of human and equine gas
masks (63539).
Frierson, L. S., Frierson, i^a. : 2
pearly fresh-water shells from Pat-
saliga Creek, Ala. (02797).
Fulton, Robert Burwell, 2d, Wash-
ington, D. C. : Silver cross from an
Indian burying ground about 4 miles
northwest of Tupelo, Miss., and 17
jasper beads found in Copiah
County, Miss. (63153).
Furlong, Maj. C. W., U. S. Army, care
Salmagundi Club, New York City :
Reptiles, fishes, marine invertebrates,
spiders, scorpins, and insects from
various localities (629S6).
Garner, G. W., Snyder, Tex. : A con-
cretion of pyrite imitating in form
a small lower limb and foot (63138).
Garrett, A. O., Salt Lake City, Utah :
2 specimens of plants from Colorado
and Wyoming (62908).
Gaumer, Dr. George F.. Izamal, Yuca-
tan : 5 specimens of banana opos-
sum, Marmosa, alcoholics (63173).
Gee, Prof N. Gist, Soochow University,
Soochow, China : About 30 speci-
mens of freshwater moUusks and
110 insects from China (62608) ;
10 insects from China (62742) ;
(through Department of Commerce,
U. S. Bureau of Fisheries) : 48
specimens. 2 species, of isopods, in-
cluding the type and paratypes of a
new species, 2 leeches and about 20
nemathelrainthes parasitic on the
Chinese carp (62796).
General Electric Co., Engineer Divi-
sion, Schnectady, N. Y. (through
Dr. G. Winchester, Wyoming, 111.) :
General Electric Co. — Continued.
5 hand signal lamps and a russet
leather electric signal battery case,
of the type used during the War
with Germany, 1917-18 (63701).
German, A. T., Alexandria, Va. : A
specimen of fossil wood and a pot-
shaped concretion (62607).
Gettys, L. a., Shelby, N. C. : A crystal
of magnetite (02642).
Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony,
Office of the Resident Commissioner,
Ocean Island (through the Secre-
tary of State for the Colonies, Lon-
don, England) : Sheet of war tax
postage stamps issued by the Gilbert
and Ellice Islands, 1918 (60 speci-
mens) (63435).
Gilbert, E. O., Berkeley, Calif. : Speci-
men of plant from California
(63034).
Gilbreth, Maj. Frank B., Army War
College, Washington, D. C. : Chrono-
cyclegraph motion devices for
measuring achievements (models)
(62920).
Gill, De Lancey, Bureau of American
Ethnology, Washington, D. C. : Ob-
jects of slate, fractured naturally,
resembling artificial forms, from the
shore of Conesus Lake, western New
York (62784) ; an Eskimo harness
for a seven-dog team (63219, ex-
change).
GocHENAUER, Brooke B., LTpperville,
Va. : Bald eagle, HaUaeettis leuco-
phalus, from Virginia (62938).
Godson, Lieut. W. F. H., U. S. Army,
Washington, D. C. : Bow and arrows
made by the Negritos living near
Camp Stotsenbury, Parapanga, Lu-
zon, P. L (63434).
Goldsmith, G. W., College Station,
Tex. : 2 swamp treefrogs, Pseiidacris
ornata (63175).
Gordon, John, Rio Janeiro, Brazil
(through H. S. Washington, Geo-
physical Laboratory) : Samples of
monazite sand from the State of
Espiritu Santo, Brazil (62756).
LIST OF ACCESSIONS.
143
GoKMAN, M. W., Portland, Oreg.
(through C. V. Piper) : 4 specimens
of plants from Oregon (63489).
Gorton, G. R., San Diego, Calif. : 4
mollusks, Helix {Euparyphya) pis-
ana, from San Diego, Calif. (62994).
Graves, E. W., Spring Hill, Ala.:
Specimen of plant, Ophioglossus,
from Alabama (63487).
Gray, George M., Marine Biological
Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass. : 2
lizards from Florida (63026, ex-
change).
Gray, William H., Washington, D. C,
and C. G. Brown, Texarkana, Tex.
(through Mrs. Mary J. Roach) :
Medicine scales with case used by
Dr. Gustavus Richard Brown of
Maryland during his attendance upon
George Washington at the time of his
last illness in 1799 (63609).
Great Britain, Government of;
(through the American Embassy at
London, England, and the Depart-
ment of State) : 6 stamps of the
British occupation of Palestine, is-
sued 1918, as follows : four 1 piaster
and 2 milliemes on 1 piaster (63835).
(See also under Cayman Islands,
Falkland Islands, Gilbert and Ellice
Islands Colony, India, Jamaica, Lee-
ward Islands, New Foundland, St.
Kitts, St. Lucia, Straits Settlements,
Tringanu, Federated Malay States,
Trinidad.)
Greely, Maj. Gen, A. W., U. S. Army
(retired), Washington, D. C. : 1,000
marine mollusks, 3 corals and 8
echinoderms from the Philippine Is-
lands, about 61 pieces of Chinese
money and 3 painted masks (63675).
Greene, F. C, Tulsa, Okla.: Specimen
of fern, Cheilanthes tomentosa, from
Oklahoma (62943).
Greenman, Dr. J. M. (See under Mis-
souri Botanical Garden.)
Gregg, IMrs. Alfred Pierce, Atlantic
City, N. J. : A coat of dark-green
cloth AAith green velvet collar and
Gregg, Mrs. Alfred 1'ierce — Coutd.
four shoulder capes, which belonged
to William H. Love, a Quaker of
Philadelphia, Pa., about the year
1829 (63437, loan).
Griggs, Robert F. (See under Ohio
State University.)
Grinnell, George Bin.'), New York
City: 53 specimens of plants from
Montana (62619).
Grubbs, Lieut. Col. Robert B., U. S.
Army (retired), Walter Reed Gen-
eral Hospital, Takoma Park, D. C. :
Fragments of shell showing shrap-
nel imbedded in sulphur and rosin,
and lead bullets for shrapnel
(63284).
Hall, Henry R., Indianhcad, Md. : A
specimen of folded quartz from
Indianhead, Md. (63632).
Hanna, G. Dallas, U. S. Bureau of
Fisheries, AVashiugton, D. C. : 23
specimens of mollusks from Una-
laska (62948).
Hanson, Herbert C, Houston, Tex. :
479 specimens of plants from Texas
(G2909, 63118, 63179, 63302, 63418,
63630, 63723).
Harper, Roland M., U. S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture, Washington,
D. C. : Specimen of plant from
Maryland ; specimen of plant, Cus-
cuta, from Maryland ; specimen of
plant, Lycopodium lucidulum, from
Virginia (62647, 62961, 62914).
Harvard Unh'ersity, Cambridge,
Mass. :
Ai'nold ArboreUini (Jamaica
Plain) (through Dr. C. S. Sargent) :
383 specimens of plants from Alaska
(62898, exchange).
Gray Herhariv.in: 154 specimens
of plants collected on the island of
Curacao, and 285 specimens of
plants from northern Venezuela, col-
lected by Messrs. Curran and Hamau
(62988, 63586) ; photogi-aph of type
specimen of a plant, Alomia dubia,
from Brazil (63022) ; specimen of
fern from Guatemala (63347) ; 59
144
REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919.
Habvabd Univebsity — Continued,
mounted specimens of ferns col-
lected in Venezuela by A. Fendler
(63697). Exchange.
Musewm of Comparative Zoology:
20 specimens of reptiles and batra-
chians (62805, exchange).
Hauck Food Products Coepobation,
The, Kingston, N. Y. (through Dr.
J. H. Shrader) : 5 samples of peanut
oil, foots and grease (62691).
d'Hautpoul, Countess, Paris, France
(through Department of State) :
Brass seal with onyx handle owned
by George Washington (62800).
Hawaii, The College of, Honolulu,
Hawaii (through J, F. Rock,
botanist) : 62 specimens of plants
from the Hawaiian Islands (63458,
exchange).
Hay, Dr. O. P., Carnegie Institution of
Washington, Washington, D. C. :
Sora, Porzana Carolina (62861).
(See also under Dr. Charles Law-
rence Baker and R. L. More.)
Hedley, Chakles, Australian Museum,
Sydney, New South Wales, Aus-
tralia : 20 specimens, 4 species, of
brachiopod mollusks from New South
Wales (63678).
Heiner, Mrs. Adam, Baltimore, Bid. :
Cap pistol adapted from flintlock
("Grosmann, Giessen"); and flint-
lock horse pistol found in an old
house at Baltimore (63480).
Heitmtjller, Anton. ( See under Miss
Isobel H. Lenman.)
Henderson, John B., Washington, D.
C. : About 30,000 lots ( approximately
400,000 specimens) of Antillean land
mollusks (62858) ; 300 + miscellane-
ous marine invertebrates dredged off
Florida by the yacht Eolis (63707).
Hebtng, Carl, Philadelphia. Pa. : Melo-
trope (very early mechanical player
for piano) with accessories (62985).
Heeeeba, Dr. A. L. ( See under Mexico,
Mexico, Museo Nacional de Historia
Naturale. )
Hess, Frank L. ( See under George R.
Allen, Howland Bancroft, Warren
Hess, Frank L. — Continued.
Bleecker, B. Bryan, Climax Molybde-
num Co., H. Devries, Molybdenum
Products Co., E. A. Stent, Tungsten
Products aiining Co., The, Ralph W.
Weymouth. )
HEtrv'RABD, H. (See under Prince Ro-
land Bonaparte.)
Heydenreich, R. R., Staunton, Va. :
Specimen of semi-albino crow,
Co7-rus brachyrhyncJios, from Vir-
ginia (63061).
High Commission of the French Re-
public IN the United States, Wash-
ington, D. C. : Gas masks, with ac-
cessories, of the type used in the
French Army during the European
War, 1914-1918, and a German gas
mask captured in 1918 (17 speci-
mens) (63198).
Hill, Dr. J. I\I., Wise, Va. : Pig, Sus,
in alcohol (62749).
Hill, Thomas S., Entwistle, Alta,
Canada : 5 specimens, 3 species, of
mollusks from western Canada
(63141).
Hinckley, Robert, Washington, D. C :
Archeological material from the
region adjacent to San Salvador, to-
gether with specimens of recent
origin made in imitation of objects
of prehistoric ceramic art, collected
by Thomas Hinckley, late United
States Consul General and First
Secretary of Legation at Salvador,
1911-1913 (192 specimens) (63265,
loan ) .
HioRAM, Brother, Guantanamo, Ori-
ente, Cuba: 6 specimens of ferns
from Colombia (63012).
Hioetdahl, Mrs. Frithjof, Hyatts-
ville, Md. : Piece of art needlework,
oriental landscape (62674).
Hitchcock, A. S. (See under Agri-
culture, Department of. Bureau of
Plant Industry, and Rev. John
Davis.)
Hoes, Mrs. R. G., Washington, D. C.
(through Mrs. Julian- James) : A
bound volume entitled " Godey's
Lady's Book" (Philadelphia, 1868,
LIST OF ACCESSIONS.
145
Hoes, Mrs. R. G. — Continued.
384 pages ) ( 63769, loan ) . (See also
under Miss Catherine W. Philipse,
and Mrs. Francis Leroy Satterlee.)
Hoffman, W. A., Monticello, Fla. : 70
specimens of Diptera from Florida
(63492).
HoLcoMB, Benton, Simsbury, Conn. : 32
specimens, 5 species, of mollusks
from Connecticut (63091).
Holmes, William H., U. S. National
Museum : Bronze medal designed by
Theodore Spicer-Simson, commemo-
rating the entrance of the United
States into the war against Ger-
many, April 6, 1917 (62781) ; an ax
of fribrolitic schist (as identified
by Howe), collected in 1875 by the
donor at Cliff House, Mesa Verde
Park, Colo. ; an earthenware bottle,
jar, toy jar, pottery spindle, and 2
rosaries (63438).
HoLWAY, Prof. E. W. D., Minneapolis.
Minn. : 10 specimens of plants from
British Columbia (62911) ; 7 speci-
mens of fungi from British Co-
lumbia (62984, exchange).
Hopkins, A. A., New York City: 5
photographs illustrating the manu-
facture of steel trench helmets for
use in the U. S. Army during the
AVar with Germany, 1917-18 (63712,
loan).
Hopkins, Dr. Alfred S., Bethesda,
Md. : A collection of early American
and foreign swords, also miscella-
neous relics of the period of the
Civil War (82 specimens) (63377,
loan).
HoKNE, Commander Fkederick J.,
Office of Naval Intelligence, Navy
Department, Washington, D. C :
Sword and scabbard of the latter
part of the seventeenth century,
presented to Commander Frederick
J. Home, U. S. Navy, by the Associa-
tion of Japanese Shipbuilders in
recognition of his courtesy and fair-
ness while in charge of the Ship and
Steel Exchange with the United
States Shipping Board, Tokyo,
Japan, March 22, 1919 (63573, loan).
143943°— 20 10
Hough. Dr. Walter, U. S, National
Museum : 80 specimens of land shells,
and 14 specimens of plants from
Arizona (62605, 62609).
Houston, Thomas Truxtun, Washing-
ton, D. C. : Gold medal awarded by
act of Congress, March 29, 1800, to
Capt. Thomas Truxtun, U. S. Navy,
and a letter written to him by John
Adams, November 30, 1802 (63339,
loan ) .
Howlett & Hockmeyer Co. (Inc.),
New York City : 10 specimens of
corduroy, cotton suiting, and leather
cloth (63634).
Hoyt, H. C, Rochester, N. Y. : Album
containing envelopes made during
the period of the Civil War and
decorated with patriotic designs
(63574, loan).
Hrdlicka, Dr. A., U. S. National
Museum : Skins, skulls and 1 embryo
of squirrels, Sciurus (62675, 62900,
63172, 632.59) ; skin and skull of a
jumping mouse, Zaptis (62750) ;
flageolet of the San Carlos Indians,
Arizona (62821) ; models (reduced)
of 2 horses as they appeared at the
coronation ceremonies of the present
Emperor of Japan, and 3 figurines
of ethnic types, presented to the
donor by Dr. Mitsuru Okada, of
Tokyo, Japan (62888) ; 3 coon skulls,
Procyon, and skull of a rabbit,
SylvUagus (63120) ; 4 archeological
specimens from the Valley of Mexico
(63522) ; 155 specimens of textiles
from Peru, collected by the donor
(63780).
Humphrey, Allen, Glen Echo, Md. :
Ring-necked snake and a water
snake (63607).
Hurley, Edward N., President, U. S.
Shipping Board, Emergency Fleet
Corporation, Philadelphia, Pa. :
Bronze coin of Diocletian, 284-30.5,
A. D. (62918).
HuTSLER, Lieut. Francis L., U. S.
Army, Washington, D. C. : Drum car-
ried during the Civil War by John
146
REPORT or NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919.
HuTSLEB, Lieut. Fkancis L. — Contd.
C. Hutsler, when drummer boy, Com-
pany H, Seventh Maryland Volun-
teers (63466, loan).
Hyacinth, Bro. F., Ammendale, Md. :
388 specimens of plants from Mary-
land (63080, 63239).
Illing WORTH, Dr. F. L., Meringa, near
Cairns, North Queensland, Australia :
48 specimens of named beetles and
parasites (16 species of beetles and
3 species of parasites) from Aus-
tralia and Fiji (63549).
India, Government of (through Secre-
tary of State for the Colonies, Lon-
don, England) : Postage stamps of
the Indian Expeditionary Forces in
Europe, 1914, as follows: 3 pies, J,
1. 2, 2i, 3, 4, 8, 12 annas, and 1 rupee
(63269).
Indiana, Depaetment of Geology, In-
dianapolis, Ind. (through Edward
Barrett, State Geologist) : Specimen
of plant, Laclniaria, from Indiana
(62977, exchange).
Indiana Historical Commission, In-
dianapolis, Ind. : Bronze medal com-
memorating, 1916, the centennial an-
niversary of the admis-sion of the
State of Indiana to the Union, 1816,
and a bound volume entitled " The
Indiana Medal " (63003).
Ingeesoll, William R., National Di-
rector, Department of Four Minute
Men, Committee on Public Informa-
tion, Washington, D. C. : Written and
printed documents, posters, and
photographs concerning the activities
during the War with Germany of
the Department of Four Minute Men
of the Committee on Public Informa-
tion (43 specimens) (63464).
Instituto De BotAnica y Faemacolo-
GiA. (See under Buenos Aires.)
Instituto De La Salle. (See under
Bogota, Colombia, and Brother Apol-
linaire-Marie. )
Interior Department : 32 posters
(63.352).
United States Geological Survey;
Jgpeons rocks ^nd miscelJajieous of-es
Interior Department — Continued,
from various localities in Utah and
Colorado (62606) ; zirconiferous
sandstone from near Ashland, Va.,
described by Mr. F. L. Hess in Vir-
ginia Geological Survey Bulletin No.
8 and U. S. Geological Survey Bulle-
tin 530-P (62844) ; a specimen of
metallic bismuth from the American
Smelting & Refining Co.'s Omaha
plant (628.59) ; specimens of vanadi-
um ore from Placerville, Colo., do-
scribed by Mr. F. L. Hess in Bulletin
530, U. S. Geological Survey; also
miscellaneous bismuth and other
specimens (62882) ; jarosite sent to
the survey by Mr. Frank Chancy,
Cima, Calif. (63019) ; Pleistocene
fossils representing 12 species, from
terraces at Scammon's Lagoon,
Lower California, collected by
Messrs. H. S. Gale and E. R. Lloyd,
May 1, 1918 (63071) ; a specimen of
zircon-bearing sandstone from Ash-
land, Va. (63087) ; 4 specimens of
Triassic crinoids from Alaska, in-
cluding types described by Dr. F. A.
Bather (63323) ; a collection of
rocks, with list and map, sent to the
survey for examination by I\Ir. .lesus
G. Ortega, Mazatlan, S i n a 1 o a,
Mexico (63446).
Ireneo, Bro. G., La Salle College, An-
con. Canal Zone: 38 specimens of
Lepidoptera (63059).
Italy, Government or: (through the
Ministry for Foreign Affairs and
the Department of State) : Collec-
tion of Italian postage stamps show-
ing the types issued during the Euro-
pean war (49 specimens) (62937).
Iturbe, Dr. Juan, Caracas, Venezuela :
I specimen of crab, PsenuJothelphusa ,
near garmani, from Rio Guiare, near
Caracas, Venezuela, August 4, 1918,
through Dr. A. S. Pearse (62764) ;
II specimens of fresh-water crabs
from Venezuela (63427).
Jackson. Dr. Hartley H. T., U, S,
Department of Agriculture, Wftf*!h
LIST OF ACCESSION'S.
147
Jackson, Dr. Hartley H. T. — Gontd.
ington, D. C. : Landshell from Wis-
consin (62947).
Jackson, Ttie Misses Sheldon, Wash-
ington, D. C. : Carved slate plaque
inlaid witli ivory, Haida IiKlians,
soiitlieastern Alaska (63011).
Jacot, Arthub, Brooklyn, N. T. : 25
Pyramidellid luollusks from Beau-
fort, N. C. (62969).
Jamaica, Government of, Kingston,
Jamaica, Britisli West Indies
(througli tlie Governor of Jamaica
and the Secretary of State for the
Colonies, London, England) : 12
Jamaican war stamps (63070) ; 4
specimens each of the 1 penny and
3 penny War Stamps of Turks
and Caicos Islands, issued 1916-1918
(8 specimens) (63155).
Jamaica, Go\'ernob of. (See under
Cyril Coe.)
James, C. W., Newport, Oreg. : 2 speci-
mens of mollusk, Pholadidea penita,
embedded in rock, from Oregon
(63320).
James, Mrs. Julian-, Washington, D.
C. : Photograph of John Bigelow,
Minister to France, 1865-^6 (62628) ;
a platinum and gold chatelaine of
the latter part of the nineteenth cen-
tury (63016) ; 2 white embroidered
dresses formerly the property of
Mrs. Abby Knight McLane (63306) ;
an umbrella with pearl handle, a
pair of white satin slippers, and a
lady's basque of blue camels hair
(63568) ; a boot or shoehorn which
belonged to " T. B. M." (63766, loan).
(See also under Mrs. Grace Berry,
Jlrs. R. G. Hoes, Mrs. Abby Knight
McLane, Mrs. Sidney Mason, Mr.
and Mrs. Partington, Mrs. Charles W.
Richardson, and Miss du Viviers.)
Jandorf, M. L., York. Pa. : A specimen
of hodgkinsonite from Parker Shaft,
Franklin, N. .L (63616, exchange).
Jennings, Dr. O. E. (See under Car-
negie Museum, Pittsburgh. Pa.)
.ToHANSEN, Frits. (See under Victoria
Memorial Museum, Ottawa, Canada.)
.loiiNEs, William Foulke (through
Mrs. Myrtle Giffen Johnes, execu-
trix. New York City) : Sword pre-
sented to Col. Stephen H. Long.
U. S. Topographical Engineers
(1784-1864), in recognition of his
Rocky Mountain and other explora-
tions, 1818-1824 (62887, bequest).
Johnson, Charles, keeper, Tortugas
Light, by way of Key West. Fla. : 20
specimens of birds (alcoholics) from
Dry Tortugas, Fla. (63191, 63724).
.TOKNSON, Ralph Cross, AVashington,
D. C. : 24 oil paintings (63755).
Johnson, Mrs. Ralph Cross, Washing-
ton, D. C. : A German Bible of the
year 1704 (63591) ; Cashmere shawl
(63784, loan).
Jones, Marcus E., Salt Lake City,
Utah : 3 specimens of plants, cacti,
from Utah (63645).
Jones, M. B. ( See under New England
Telephone & Telegraph Co.)
JuDD, Neil M., U. S. National Museum :
A shell bead found by the donor on
the Old Post parade ground at Fort
Sill, Okla., in December, 1918
(63127).
JuDSON, Mrs. HosEA F., Fullerton,
Nebr. : An American powder horn
and ox-team whip, 1852-53 (62867).
Kansas State Agricltltural Coli.ege.
Manhattan, Kans. : 2 specimens of
plants, Laciniaria (62633, ex-
change).
Kean, Brig. Gen. Jefferson Ran-
dolph, Medical Corps, U. S. Army,
Washington, D. C. : Silver-mounted
telescope o\\Tied by Thomas Jeffer-
son, and a miniature portrait of him
by St. Memin (63004, loan).
Kellers, Lieut. H. C, U. S. Navy,
Seattle, Wash.: 114 lizards, 25
snakes and 2 fishes (63538).
Kennedy, William, Fort Worth, Tex. :
Skull and leg bone of a bear, Ursvs
(63119).
Keyser, E. W., Washington, D. C. :
Sampler made by .lane Godfray.
aged 7 years, 1814 (68163) ; ethno.
148
EEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919.
KtYSEK, E. \\'.— Continued.
logical material from various parts
of the world, and a Russian em-
broidered ecclesiastical square
(63668, exchange).
Kiixip, Ellswobth p., Pittsford, N.
T. : 109 specimens of ferns and
plants from Panama (63204. 63593) ;
8 .specimens of plants from New Jer-
sey (a3721).
Kimball, Mi.ss Kathabine D.. Smith-
Si^jnian Institution : Specimen of
plant from New Jersey (62663).
Kingston, Jamaica. (See under Cay-
man Islands, Government of the.)
KiBK, Dr. Edwin, U. S. Geological Sur-
vey, Washington, D. C. : 6 Haida
skulls and a lot miscellaneous
bones, and a Tlingit skull, collected
by the donor during the summer of
1918 (62866) ; ethnological material
collected by the donor in southeast-
em Alaska during the sMmmer of
1918 (6324.5).
KoNDO, Eizo, New York City : 1 un-
used .Tapunese wood-block for wood-
block cutting (6.3.567).
Kkygeb, J. P., Gentofte, Denmark
(through Dr. A. G. B0ving) : CoUec-
tion of insects (63158).
I.AB0E, Depaetment OF :
rnited States Housinf/ Corpora-
tion; United States Hom^ Registra-
tion: 1 poster (63351).
La Gabde, Jlrs. Richabd D., Washing-
ton, D. C. (through the Misses
Long) : Brussels lare fichu, 1840
C63501. loan) ; pair of mounted mal-
lard ducks, mounted on a plaque
(63716).
Langfokd, Geobge, Joliet, 111. : 4
plaques with relief figures of restora-
tions of prehistoric animals, and 2
plaques v.-ith relief figures of restora-
tions of prehistoric man (63655).
Langlais, Madame Claude, Washing-
ton, D. C. : French Army winter and
summer uniforms worn during the
European War by Monsieur Claude
Langlais, Machine Gun Unit, Thirty-
Langlais, Madame Claude — Contd.
third Infantry (8 specimens) (63496,
loan ) .
Lathbop, Mrs. John E., Washington,
D. C. : 2 pieces of Auraucanian pot-
tery from Chile, South America
(62732, loan).
Laughlin, Miss Emma E., Barnesville,
Ohio: 2 seciraens of plants (62618) ;
3 specimens of plants from Ohio
(63722).
Laval Univeesitt, Quebec. Canada
(through Mons. C. E. Dionne, curator
of the Zoological Museum) : 6 skulls
and some fragmentary bones, and 5
potsherds and a fragment of a pipe,
found in the cemetery of a Huron
village called Ihonatiria. County of
Simcoe, Province of Ontario, Canada
(63395, exchange).
LaVakre, William J., Jr., New York
City : Poisoned arrows, poisoned ar-
row case, and basket for silk tree
fiber, used by the Akawoia Indians
of British Guiana, collected on the
upper ;Maz9runi River. British Gui-
ana, in 1917. by the donor (63736).
Lawrence, Prof. William E. (See
under Oregon State Agricultural Col-
lege. )
Layton, Jliss Florence W., Washing-
ington. D. C. : 2 specimens of plants
(62646) ; specimens of plants from
Maryland (63491. 63649).
Leabn, Geobge A.. Wood Island, Ko-
diak, Alaska : 43 specimens of marine
mollusks, 1 barnacle, 1 v\-orm tube,
1 fragmentary bryozoan, and 1 frag-
mentary calcareous alga from Kodiak
Island, Alaska (63657).
I/Eewabd Islands, Government of
(through the Governor, and the
Secretary of State for the Colonies
at London, England) : Postage
stamps of the Leeward Islands issued
during the European War, 1914-1918
(32 specimens) (63463).
Leland Stanford Junior Unrxrsitt,
Stanford University, Calif, (through
Prof. L^ Roy Abrams) : Specimen
LIST OF ACCESSION'S.
149
LeLAND StAXFOBD JlTJaOB U^rrVEBSITY —
Continued.
of fern, Polifstichum dudleyi, from
California (62863) ; specimen of a
fern, Woodwardia, from California
(63584, exchange).
LE:vi£Ajf, Miss IsoBEL H., Washington,
D. C. (through Mr. Anton Heit-
muUer) : Collection of ethnologica
from North American Indians, the
Philippine Islands, Solomon Islands,
British Columbia, and Europe (31
items) (62752) ; ethnological and
archeological specimens from various
localities (63057) ; 3 blankets of the
Amasari Indians, Bolivia, South
America (63375) ; collection of an-
tiquities, including specimens from
Egypt. Asia, Scandinavia, and New
Guinea (29 specimens) (637.54,
loan).
I.EOx, Brother, Ck)legio de la SaUe,
Vedado. Havana, Cuba: 38 speci-
mens of plants and 24 specimens of
ferns from Cuba (63(X)3. 63677).
I.EOSAKD, Dr. William E., ilinne-
apolLs, Minn, (through Dr. W. A.
Dewey, Ann Arbor, Mich.) : 3 books
illustrating the Historj- of Homeo-
pathic Jledicine ( 63403 ) .
Lewtox, F. L., U. S. National Mu.seum :
German trench helmet, gas mask,
and belt buckle use^l during the
European War, 1914-1918 (63389,
loan) ; copy of Laurie and Mc-
Clatchey's Homeopathic Domestic
Medicine, 12th e<Jition (63485).
I-iLLY & Co., Eli, In/lianapolis, Ind. :
6 bromide enlargements, 8 by 10
inches, of photographs showing
stages in the manufacture of elastic
filled capsules (62787) ; 3 asceptic
metal pocket cases for physicians;
No. 39 bacterial vaccine case. No.
47 hypodermic case, and No. .50
ampoule case (63282) ; specimen of
Cascara sagrada bark and 4 speci-
men-s of official preparations of Cas-
cara .sagrada (63636).
LiNDMAN, Dr. Gael. (See under
Stockholm. Sweden.)
Lloyd, Dr. John Ubi. (See under Dr.
Joseph A. Munk.)
LoDiNG, Dr. H. P., Mobile, Ala.: 5
salamamlers, Amhystoma opacum,
from near Mobile (6.3.^93) ; sala-
mander, Necturus pitn<:tatus (63495).
LoxDON, England, British Museum
(Natubal History) : Samples of
the Crumlin (Ireland), Durala (In-
dia), and Nellore (India) meteoric
stones, and of the Uwet (Southern
Nigeria) meteoric iron (63.506, ex-
change).
Long, M. C. Kansas City, Mo. : An In-
dian .skull showing slight deforma-
tion, found in .some dredging opera-
tions in the Missouri River near
Kansas City (63190).
Long, the Misses. (See under ilrs.
Richard D. La Garde.)
LONGLTTUIL. COLLEGE OF, LoUgUeuil,
Quebec, Canada (through Brother
^Marie-Yictorin) : 379 specimens of
plants from Quebec (6.3.504, ex-
change).
LooMis, Miss Mabtha L.. Sherborn,
Ma.ss. : 91 specimens of plants from
Massachusetts (62-593. 62714, 62726 1 :
7 specimens of plants (62623).
LovEBiDGE, Abthub, The East Africa
and Uganda Natural Hi.story Soci-
ety, Nairobi. British East Africa :
Skins and skulls of 6 bats from Ger-
man East Africa (62792) ; 4 elephant
.shrew.s, Rhijnchocyon, and 3 mon-
goose, ITelogale (alcoholics) (63705).
Lowe, H. N., Long Beach, Calif. : 8
.specimens of inollusks, Ephiphrag-
mcphora traslcii traskii, collected by
the donor betwef^n Point Fermin and
Point Vincent. Calif. (62615) ; 35
specimens, 10 species, of Califomian
cru.staceans (62625).
Lowe, S. H., Leechville, N. C. : A spec-
imen of fossil coral from Hyde
County. N. C. (63296).
LuDi>ow, Dr. Claba Southmayd,
Washington, D. C. : Addition of 20
family relics to " The Sutphen-
Schenck-Hunt Memorial O>llection "
(63517).
150
KEPORT OF ISTATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919.
LxjDwiG, George W., Camp Lee, Va. :
A specimen of fossil wood from the
Lower Cretaceous at Camp Lee
(63424).
LuMMis, George M., Fort Myers, Fla. :
3 specimens of plants from Florida
(63729).
McAtee, W. L., U. S. Department of
Agriculture, Washington, D. C. : 79
specimens of plants from Maryland
and Virginia (62683, 63055, 63193) ;
3 specimens of plants (63150).
MacDonald, Dr. D. F., Houston, Tex. :
16 boxes of fossils from Panama
(63188).
McGowan, Mrs. E, N. (through Mrs.
Julia S. McG. Brackett, Washington,
D. C.) : 2 Alaskan Indian boxes (1
carved and 1 painted) (63274).
McIndoe, James F., care Col. J. B.
Cavanaugh, U. S. Army, Office of the
Chief of Engineers, War Department,
Washington, D. C. : A miscellaneous
collection of fragments of the Ger-
man airships L-49 and L-50 (27
pieces), and a copy of the French
magazine Illustration of October 27,
1917, containing a view of L-4^
(63781, loan).
McLane, Mrs. Abby Knight (Mrs.
Allan McLane ) (through Mrs.
Julian- James, Washington, D. C.) :
White Canton cr§pe shawl, solidly
embroidered, with long, heavy fringe,
accompanied by a lacquer box to
hold the shawl (63307) ; (through
Mr. Andrew Hussey Allen, execu-
tor) : The Hussey-Knight-McLane
Collection of ethnologica, art objects,
souvenirs, porcelains, etc., from vari-
ous parts of the world, and engraved,
lithographic, and photographic por-
traits of the Presidents of the United
States (1789-1917) (63786, bequest).
IMcMiLLAN, B. S., Brewton, Ala. : Nest
of a hornet (63315).
McWiLLiAMS, Mrs. Anne Jonas, Alex-
andria, Va. (through Hon. E. S.
Candler) : Printed copy of a poem
entitled " In Memoriam " and writ-
ten on tlie back of a Confederate
McWiLLiAMS, Mrs. Anne Jonas — Con.
note in 1865 by Maj. S. A. Jones,
Confederate States Army, bearing
the autograph of the author (62780).
Mackelden, J. W., St. Louis, Mo., and
Froman a. Beach, Jerseyville, 111. :
9 Evans king snakes from Illinois
and 3 young mice disgorged by one
of the snakes (634.53).
Mackelden, J. W., St. Louis, Mo. : 10
snakes from IMissouri and Illinois
(63342).
Mackle, Mrs. H. I., Washington, D. C. :
Commission of James R. Stephenson,
second lieutenant. Seventh Regiment
of Infantry, U. S. Army, dated Feb-
ruary 1, 1822, and signed by Presi-
dent James Monroe and Secretary
of War, J. C. Calhoun (62878, loan).
Macneil, Paul H., Washington, D. C.
(through Mrs. Elizabeth D. Macneil,
Hammond, Ind.) : Partial cast, in
copper, of a bowlder, and bone and
stone implements from various locali-
ties in the United States, and a
minute Chinese drum (63088).
Macoun, James M. (See under Can-
ada, Geological Survey of.)
Maiden, J. H. (See under Sydney,
Australia, Botanic Gardens.)
Maize, Mrs. Mary Ready, Lakeland,
Fla. : A walrus tusk with engraving
in black by a native Eskimo artist,
collected by William H. Ready,
brother of the donor, while in Alaska
with the Stoney Expedition in 1880
or 1884 (63197).
Mallinson & Co. (Inc.), H. R., New
York City : 14 samples of " La Vic-
toire " silks, illustrating the influence
of the war upon textile design
(63204).
Man, Albert P., Washington, D. C. :
A sandstone concretion from Bright-
wood, D. C. (63425).
Mann, Dr. William M., U. S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture, Washington,
D. C. : 1,000 specimens, 5 species, of
moUusks from The Bluff, Eleuthera,
Bahamas, and 13 .specimens, 2 spe-
LIST OF ACCESSIONS.
151
Mann, Dr. William M. — Continued,
cies, of isopod crustaceans from
Porto Rico (62614) ; sponge from
Isabel, British Solomon Islands
(63209) ; 11 specimens of beetles,
Cicindelidae, etc., from Brazil
(63430) ; 35 specimens of Lycidae
from Brazil and 21 specimens of
Telephoridae (63431, deposit) ; 433
specimens of beetles from Brazil and
Africa (63432).
IMansfikld, Mrs. Richard, New Lon-
don, Conn. : The Richard Mansfield
collection of theatrical costumes and
accessories, worn by Mr. Mansfield
in his principal historical roles,
18S2-1907 (478 specimens) (62906).
Marie-Victorin. (See under Longu-
euil, College of.)
Marriott, Crittenden, Washington,
D. C. : Collection of prehistoric flint
implements and bone fragments from
the valley of the Izere River, Depart-
ment of Dordogiie, France, collected
by Crittenden Marx'iott, Y. M. C. A.,
and M. Peyrony, representative of
the French Government, January,
1919 (63670).
Marsh, Mrs. ChxVbles C. (See under
Capt. Edward. H. Watson, U. S.
Navy. )
Mabsh, O. Gaylord, U. S. consul, Pro-
greso, Yucatan, Mexico (through U.
S. Department of Agriculture, Office
of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduc-
tion) : A miniature bale of Henequen
fiber (63391).
Marshall, Ernest B., Laurel, Md. : 2
squirrels, Sciurus (62899) ; 3 bird
skins from Laurel, JMd. (63040) ;
skulls of 2 coons, Procyon, skulls of
18 muskrats. Ondatra, skull of a
squirrel, Sciurus, and skulls of 4
minks, Mustela (63116, 63171,
63406) ; marsh hawk. Circus hiul-
sonicus (63160).
Marshall, George, U. S. National
Museum ; 6 specimens of pirate
perch, Aphredoclerus sayanus, and 1
specimen of darter, Hadropterus
peltatus (62662) ; 8 specimens of
plants from Maryland (62693).
Mason, Mrs. Sidney, Philadelphia, Pa.
(through Mrs. Julian- James, Wash-
ington, D. C.) : Child's bonnet of
shirred pink satin and blonde lace
(63220) ; pair each of red, white, and
blue cotton socks, worn by Miss-
Helen Mason, of Philadelphia
(63767). Loan.
Massachusetts Horticultural So-
ciety, Boston, Mass. (through Wm.
P. Rich, secretary) : Fragment from
the type specimen of a fern, Cheilan-
thes fHirillosa, from California
(62741).
Massachusetts Mohair Plush Co.,
Boston, Mass. : 2 samples of mohair
pile fabrics (63635).
M.' tthai, J. C, Baltimore, Md. : A
large slab of Mar Villa marble from
Cockeysville, Md. (63042).
Mayfield, W. H., Miami, Ariz. : Speci-
men of moth, Telca polyphemus
(62757).
Me^vd, W. J., University of W^isconsiu,
Madison, Wis.: 2 concretions from
Panama (63602).
Merck & Co., New York City: Speci-
men of nux vomica seeds and 7
specimens of nux vomica products
(63745).
Mereiam, Dr. C. Hart, Washington,
D. C. : 2 specimens of a fern, Poly-
sticliwni munitum, from California
(63340).
Mestayer, Miss Marjorie K., Welling-
ton, New Zealand : 64 specimens, 20
species, of New Zealand moUusks,
including the paratypes of 5 new
species (62678, part).
Mestayer, R. L., Wellington, New Zea-
land : 4 slides of Foraminifera, in-
cluding 1,241 specimens from a
dredging off the " Poor Knights "
islands, east coast of New Zealand,
by H. M. S. Einemoa (62678, part).
Mexico, Mexico, Museo Nacional de
Historia Naturale (through Dr. A.
L. Herrera, director) : 1 gorgono-
cephalid echinoderm, the type of
Astrocynodus herrera-i, from the
Gulf of Mexico (62979) ; 13 Mexican
152
REPORT OF NATI057AT. MUSEUM, 1919.
Mexico, Mexico Museo Nacional de
HiSTOKiA Natubat.e — Continued,
turtles (63123) ; 10 microscopical
preparations of Bio - artifacts
(63207).
Meter, H. F,, Smithsonian Institution :
MoUusk, Pleurodonte aspera, found
on a bunch of bananas in Washing-
ton, D. C. (63733).
Michigan, University or, Ann Arbor.
Mich. : 277 specimens of plants from
Michigan (62645, exchange).
Midwest Refining Co., Denver, Col. ;
Model of Salt Creek (Wyo.) oil
field (63776).
MiGEL, J. A. (Inc.), New York City: 2
samples of dress silks (62992).
Miller, G. S., jr., U. S. National Mu-
seum: Bat, Nycteris borealU (alco-
hoUc) (63115).
MiLLiKAN, Lt. Col. R. A. (See under
Edward E. Nichols.)
MiLLNEE, I. B., U. S. Geological Sur-
vey, Washington, D. C. : Basket of
interlaced palm leaf from Tutuila,
Samoa (63400).
Miner, Mrs. M. J., Washington, D. C. :
A straw basket brought from Ma-
deira in 1840, and a cup and saucer
of old English ware (62730).
Minnesota, University of, Minneapo-
lis, Minn. : A complete Individual of
meteoric stone weighing I.ISO kilo-
grams, from Richardton, N. D.
(63126, exchange).
Misak, Fred, Infantry School of
Arms, Camp Banning, Columbus, Ga.
(through Mr. W. E. Safford) : A
specimen of fossil cephalopod from
near Columbus, Ga. (63386).
Missouri Botanical Garden, St.
Louis, Mo. (through Dr. J, M. Green-
man, curator) : Specimen of a fern,
CJieilanthes feet, from Jlissouri
(62912) ; specimen of plant, Sela gi-
rt ella landii, from Mexico (63014,
exchange).
]\Iitchell, S. a., U. S. Food Adminis-
tration, Washington, D. C. : Rubber
life-saving suit for use in case of
submarine attack, of the type worn
Mitchell, S. A. — Continued,
during the European War, 1914-1918
(63264).
Molybdenum Products Co., Minneapo-
lis. Minn, (through Mr. F. L. Hess) :
Concentrates of molybdenite (62847) .
MooNEY, Walworth Merritt (through
Miss Carolina J. Mooney, Brooklyn,
N. Y.) : A collection of 151 horse-
nails (62853).
INIoRBY, Miss Mildred, Chenowith,
Wash. : Specimen of oil beetle, MeJoe
strirujiilosus (63592).
More, R. L., Vernon, Tex. (through Dr.
O. P. Hay) : Tooth and jaw or mam-
moth and bone fragments of an eden-
tate (62922).
Moeeira, Dr. Carlos, Museu Nacional,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil : Crustacean,
Aefllea intermedia, collected in
Santa Catharina, Brazil, by the
donor (63287).
Morse, Edward L., Pittsfield, Mass. :
Marble bust of S. F. B. Morse, by
Horatio Greenough, 1831 (\vlth
pedestal) (63089).
MosiER, C. A., Homestead, Fla. : Box
turtle from Homestead, Fla. (63396).
(See also under Florida Federation
of Women's Clubs. )
Mott, Dr. George, Caxambas. Fla.
(through Bureau of Fisheries) :
Specimen of fish, Dules suhUgarius,
collected by fishermen at Caxam-
bas (62839) ; 8 specimens, 8 species,
of echinoderms, crustaceans and
mollusks from Caxambas (63536).
Motter, Dr. IMuRRAY Galt, Washing-
ton, D. C. : 4 old books on the sub-
ject of Materia Medica and Thera-
peutics (63688).
MoxLEY, George L., Los Angeles,
Calif. : Specimen of fern, Cheilmi-
thes covillei, from California
(62673) ; specimen of fern from
Vera Cruz, Mexico (63560).
MuiE, Dr. John M., Tampico, Tamps,
Mexico (through Dr. J. Walter
Fewkes) : 3 well-made clay heads
from the neighborhood of Panuco,
Mexico (63524).
LIST OF ACCESSIONS.
153
MuNK, Dr. Joseph A., Los Angeles,
Calif, (through Dr. John Uri Lloyd,
Cincinnati, Ohio) : 23 volumes of
the Transactions of the National
Eclectic Association (63689).
MuNROE, Miss Helen, Smithsonian In-
stitution : Small piece of German
cloth woven from paper yarn, picked
up at Fere-en-Tardenois, France, at
a ruined German railhead by the
brother of the donor, a member of
the American Expeditionary Forces
(63121).
MusEU GoELDi. (See under Para,
Brazil.)
MusEu RocHA. (See under Ceara,
Brazil. )
Museum of the American Indian, the
Heye Foundation, New York City :
Skeletal material from excavations
at Hawikuh, New Jlexico, collected
during the field seasons of 1917 and
1918 by Mr. F. W. Hodge (63196).
Myee, W. E., Carthage, Tenn. : Mol-
lusk, lo spinosa, from Tennessee
(63232).
Myers, George Hewitt, Washington,
D. C. : Collection of art rugs em-
bracing the principal varieties from
Persia, Asia Minor, Syria, Armenia,
Anatolia, Turkestan, Bakhara, Cau-
casia, etc. (50 specimens) (63570,
loan ) .
Myntti, Mike, Ophir, Alaska : A jaw-
bone and other bones of a fossil
horse from Alaska (62860).
National Lead Co., New York City :
Lead ore (3,000 pounds); "pig"
lead (2 specimens) ; corroded and
uncorroded buckles; 5 corroding
pots, and 11 specimens of lead com-
pounds (2 quarts each) (63775).
Nationai, Society of the Colonial
Dames of America, Washington, D.
C. (through Mrs. Carolyn Gilbert
Benjamin ) : Shoe buckle, match box,
and seal owned by Gen. Washington
and a pin decorated with a miniature
portrait of him ; eyeglass, 2 pins,
and a piece of lace owned by Mrs.
Washington ; original inaugural ad-
National Society of the Colonial
Dames of America — Continued,
dress of President James Monroe
and a pair of gloves worn by him,
lent to tlie society by Miss Nannie
Randolph Heth (63544, loan).
National War Garden Commission,
Washington, D. C. : 8 posters (633.50) .
Navy Department (through G. S.
Burrell and Commander John
Rodgers, U. S. Navy) : An Indian
skeleton, 2 bones of which are pene-
trated, by metal arrowheads, found
by G. S. Burrell, civil engineer, dur-
ing recent excavation^' at United
States submarine base, New London,
Connecticut, and forwarded through
Commander John Rodgers, U. S.
Navy, commander of the base
(62729) ; 2 emergency rations of the
type used in the U. S. Navy, 1918
(62945) ; United States naval uni-
forms, equipment, rating badges and
specialty marks, 1918 (225 speci-
mens) (62954) ; United States naval
rating badges as follows: Chief
signalman (blue) ; signalman, first
class (blue) ; chief carpenter's mate
(white) (63110) ; (through M. D.
Schaefer, Washington, D.' C.) 29
recruiting posters issued by the U.
S. Navy Department, 1917-18, dur-
ing the European War (63313).
Bureau of Cwistruction and Re-
pair: Models of the U. S. cruiser
Denvei; and the battleships Con-
necticut, Yermmit and Oklahoma,
launched, respectively, 1902, 1904,
and 1914 (63749, loan).
Bureau of Navigation: 2 bronze
badges of the type awarded by the
Navy Department for services dur-
ing the Nicaraguan campaign. 1912,
and the Haitian campaign, 1915, re-
spectively (62966).
17. S. CoaM Guard: 46 U. S. Coast
Guard rating badges, 1918 (62952).
v. S. Marine Corps : Uniform and
equipment of the type issued to en-
listed men of the U. S. Marine Corps,
1918 (12 specimens) (62971) ; uni-
form chevrons and specialty marks
154
REPORT OF NATIONAL. MUSEUM, 1019.
Navy Depaetment — Continued,
of the type worn by noncommissionetl
officers and enlisted men of tlie U. S.
Marine Corps, 1918 (85 specimens)
(63062) ; winter Held unifoi-m of tlie
type worn by enlisted women of the
U. S. Marine Corps, 1918 (9 speci-
mens) (63266) ;
U. S. Marine Corps, Recruiting
Publicity Bureau: 25 recruiting post-
ers (63370).
Neufeldt, Mrs. John, Zionsville, Pa. :
13 freshwater pearls from near
Palm, Pa. (63445).
New England Telephone & Tele-
GKAPH Co., Boston, Mass. (through
M. B. Jones, first vice president) :
2 sections of submarine telephone
cable (62631).
Newfoundland, Goveknment of, St.
Johns, Newfoundland (through Sec-
retary of State for the Colonies, Lon-
don, England): War stamps of New-
foundland issued in 1919 (24 speci-
mens) (63243).
New Jersey Zinc Co., The, New York
City : 43 specimens of metallic zinc
products and zinc compounds
(63773).
New Yokk Botanical Garden, Bronx
Park, New York City (through Dr.
N. L. Britton, director) : 8 specimens
of plants and 4 specimens of ferns
from Jamaica (62604, 63192, 63713) ;
specimen of plant from New York
(62611) ; 5 specimens of ferns and 1
specimen of moss from the West
Indies (62820, 63587) ; specimen of
plant from Florida (62877) ; 14 speci-
mens of plants from the Isle of Pines,
Cuba (62987, 63169) ; 94 specimens
of mosses from the United States and
Canada (62995) ; 293 specimens of
mosses, chiefly from the United
States (63145) ; 20 specimens of
plants (63238, 63594) ; specimen of
fern from South Carolina (63318) ;
specimen of fern from Colombia
(63415) ; 500 specimens of plants
collected in Colombia by Messrs.
Rusby and Pennell (63526) ; 3 speci-
New Yoek Botanical Garden — Contd.
mens of ferns from T o r t o 1 a
(63646). Exchange.
Nichols, Edwakd E., Manitou Springs,
Colo, (through Lieut. Col. R. A. Mil-
likan) : Specimen of smoky quartz,
1 of milky quartz, and 3 of iron
pyrites (62704).
Nicholson, Miss Grace, Pasadena,
Calif.: A series of 21 photographs
showing the method employed and
various stages in the chipping of
obsidian blades by Theodore Orcutt,
a Karok Indian, of northern Cali-
fornia ; also a series of 16 chisels of
antler, one attached to handle, illus-
trating the different sizes used by
Mr. Orcutt in the chipping process
(63276).
NiTOBE, Mrs. Inazo, Tokyo, Japan
(through Dr. Charles D. Walcott) :
2 Malay head hunter's bags from
the east coast of Formosa Island,
Japan (63068).
Nobles, Fred I. (See under William
J. Drew.)
Norton, J. B., U. S. Department of
Agriculture, Washington, D. O. :
Specimen of plant from Masai-
chusetts (62856).
NoYES, Frank B., Washington, D. C. :
Portrait of Hon. Franklin K. Lane,
by Ossip Parelma (62670).
NoYES, John, R., Kenwood, N. Y. :
United States 5-cent piece issued
1913 (63063).
Ohio State University, Columbus,
Ohio (through Prof. Robert F.
Griggs) : 3 specimens of plants from
Alaska (63444).
Ohlingeb, Mrs. F. E., Frostproof, Fla. :
Specimen of plant from Florida
(63687).
Oldroyd, Mrs. T. S., Stanford Uni-
versity, Calif. : 21 specimens, 11
species, of moUusks from California
(62886) ; 300-f crustaceans from
the west coast of the United States
(63148).
LIST OF ACCESSIONS,
155
Olmsted, Mrs. H. F., Washington, D.
C. : Foot stove made during tine
Colonial period by Benjamin Farmer
of Rutland, Vt. (1742-1840) (63164).
Oppenheim, Richaed, Roseville Nurs-
eries, St. Helier, Channel Islands:
12 siiecimens of Tlurella singularis
and 1 specimen of Heleciutn pusillus
(coelenterates) from the British
Channel Islands (62793).
Okcutt, Charles R., La Jolla, Calif. :
17 species of shells from the beach
at La Jolla (63007) ; 30 species of
Quaternary fossils from La Jolla
(63256) ; 4 salamanders from San
Diego, Calif. (63467).
Oregon State Agkicultxtral College,
CorvaUis, Oreg. (through Prof. Wil-
liam E. Lawrence) : 148 specimens
of plants from Oregon (62798, 62907,
03720, exchange) ; 139 specimens of
plants from Oregon (63084, 63494) ;
tlu-ough Miss Grace M. Cole: speci-
men of plant from Oregon (62782).
OsBXiBN, Raymond C, Ohio State
University, Columbus, Ohio: 79
microscopic slides with notes and
sketches made by Oscar Harger in
connection with his report on New
England isopods (62897).
OsTERHOUT, Geo. E., Windsor, Colo. :
5 siiecimens of plants from Colorado
(62855).
O'Sttllivan, Thomas B., Washington,
D. C. : An oil painting entitled " The
Madomia and Child," attributed to
Raphael (63669, loan).
OuELLET, Rev. J., Outremont, Quebec:
2 specimens of flies — Hippelates n.
sp., and HydrelUa cruralis (63603).
Owen, E. T., University of Wisconsin,
Madison, Wis. (through Mr. William
Schaus) : About 1,000 Lepidoptera
and 500 Hymenoptera from Argen-
tina (63331).
Pack, H. J., Salt Lake City, Utah : 15
lizards' from Great Salt Lake, Utah
(62785).
Palmer, William, U. S. National Mu-
seum : Skin and skull of a mounted
rabbit, Sylvilagus (63228) ; speci-
Palmek, William — Continued.
men of summer flounder, ParalicJi-
thys dentatus, from near South
Chesapeake Beach, May 7, 1919
(63557) ; flicker. Colapten miratu-i
luteus, from Virginia (63727).
Paea, Brazil, Museu Goeldi (through
Dr. J. Simao da Costa, Director) :
1,017 specimens of plants collected
in Brazil by Dr. A. Ducke (63262,
exchange).
Parke, Davis & Co., Detroit, Mich. : 18
official preparations of opium, and
a series of specimens showing steps
in the manufacture of glass ampoules
(63550).
Parks, W. S. (See under Columbia
Graphophone Co.)
Partington, Mr. and Mrs. F. E.
(through Mrs. Julian- James, Wash-
ington, D. C. ) : Specimens of infants'
wearing apparel of 1856-7, and a
lady's velvet handkerchief-bag of
1830, all from the State of Maine
(63765, loan).
Paska, John, Selleck, Wash. : Bar-
nacle from Point Gamble, Wash.
(63303).
Pateeson, William, Cresson, Pa.
(through David White) : Fragments
of mineral charcoal from No. 7
mine of Pennsylvania Coal & Coke
Corporation at Amsby, Gallatin
Township, Cambria County, Pa.
(63326).
Peael Peoducts Co., The, Benton Har-
bor, Mich. : 2 inollusks of the species
Lymnaca palustris, bred from un-
known parentage (63247).
Peasse, Dr. A. S., University of Wis-
consin, Zoological Laboratory, Madi-
son, Wis. : 13 specimens, 3 species,
of decapod crustaceans collected in
Venezuela (63043). (See also under
Dr. Juan Iturbe.)
Peckham, Miss Maey W., Providence,
R. I. : Pebbles of thomsonite and
lintonite collected by Stephen F.
Peckham on the north shore of Lake
Superior (63085).
156
REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919.
Pelant, Chables, Czec'hoslovac Na-
tional Alliance, New York City :
Postage stamps of Austria, Czecho-
slovakia and Jugo-Slavia, issued
1916-17 (38 specimens) (63710).
Penny, F. W., Pointe-a-Pierre, Trini-
dad, British West Indies (through
Dr. T. Wayland Vaughan) : A col-
lection of fossil corals fi-ora Trinidad
(63186).
Perez, Gilbert S., Lucena, Tayabas, P.
I. : 75 specimens, 4 species, of shells,
including the types of 3 new sub-
species from the Philippine Islands
(62703).
Perkins, Cecil F., Ogonquit, Me. : A
cluster of fish eggs, probably sculpin,
Myoxocephalus sp. (62640).
Perry, Lewis E., U. S. National
Museum : Specimen ear of White
Leaming corn grown in Perry Town-
ship, Fayette County, Ohio (63039).
Pester, Capt. L. C, Chicago, 111. :
Shed skin of a blacksuake, Coluber
constrictor (63693).
Pfizer & Co. (Inc.), Chas., New York
City : 15 specimens of organic and
inorganic medicinal chemicals
(63208).
I'HiLip, Hon. Hoffman, care Depart-
ment of State, Washington, D, C. :
Bronze statuette of Dionysius on a
marble base ; part of stone statuette
of an Egyptian lady or goddess ; a
Phenician iridescent glass vase
found in Syria and a Neopolitan
dressed terra-cotta figurine of a Kur-
dish porter at Cairo, Egypt (63520) ;
an oil painting " The Infant Jesus
and St. John," by Rubens (1633)
(63521, loan).
Philippine Islands, Government of
THE, Manila, P. I. :
Bureau of Science: 12 photographs
of type specimens of plants (62643) ;
5,600 specimens of plants chiefly
from the Philippine Islands (63185.)
Exchange.
Philipse, Miss Catharine W., New
York City (through Mrs. R. G.
Hoes) : White cotton counterpane, 2
Philipse, Miss Catharine W. — Con.
polonaise dresses (incomplete), and
a pair of white kid gloves, of the
latter part of the nineteenth century
(63025, loan).
PiLSBRY, Dr. Henry A., Academy of
Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pa. :
15 specimens, 2 species, of mollusks
from Bermuda and California, topo-
types of Vertigo (62970) ; land shell,
Biclimvlus nigromontanus, from Pina
Blanca Canyon, above Oro Blanco
road, Pina County, Ariz., collected
by J. H. Ferriss (63708).
Piper, Prof C. V., U. S. Department of
Agriculture, Washington, D. C. :
Type specimen of a plant, Yaccinium
coccineiim (02610) ; 5 land shells
from Moclips, Wash., collected by
the donor (62754). (See also under
M. W. Gorman.)
Pittier, H., U. S. Department of Agri-
culture, Washington, D. C. : 900
specimens of Venezuela plants
(63036, 63288) ; about 600 specimens
of plants from Venezuela (63184).
PooLE, A. J., Washington, D. C. : Skin
and skull of a white-footed mouse,
Peromyscus (62747).
PoPENOE, Wilson, Washington, D. C. :
Rubber poncho made in Guatemala
and covered with pure gum " Ule "
(63788).
Pobterfield, Charles, Charles Town,
W. Va. : Daguerreotype portrait of
Alexander D. Bache (1806-1867)
(63317).
Post, George, Sebastopol, Calif. : Col-
lection of obsidian chips and rejects
found beneath the surface near Se-
bastopol, Calif. (62802).
Post Office Department: 10 sets of
specimen stamps, etc., in triplicate
(1,324 specimens) received from the
International Bureau of the Univer-
sal Postal Union, Berne, Switzei-land
(62632, 62736, 62884, 63060, 63060,
63134, 63332, 63490, 63577, 63779) ;
United States postage stamps, issue<l
in 1918 (21 specimens) (62700) ;
United States postage stamps as fol-
LIST OF ACCESSIONS.
157
Post Office Department — Continued,
lows: Ordinary stamps, offset print-
ing, imperforate, three sheets of 400
3-cent stamps each ; ordinary stamps,
current series, three $2 stamps and
three $5 stamps, airplane stamps, cur-
rent series, three 16-cent stamps
(1,209 specimens) (62S01) ; United
States stamped envelopes, circular
die, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 cent denomi-
nations, on white, amber, buff, blue,
and manila paper, design of 1915 (6G
specimens) (62843) ; Belgian and
French Red Cross postage stamps in
triplicate (51 specimens) (63013) ;
United States postage stamps, in
triplicate, namely, 1-cent, offset
printing; 6-cent, air mail; and 13-
cent (63211) ; 3 specimens of the
3-cent Victory stamp, issued in 1919
(63388) ; postage of the Czecho-
slovak Republic issued in 1919 (16
specimens) (63443).
PowEix, IMrs. W. H., New York City:
2 oil portraits by William H. Powell,
A. N. A. ; " Washington at Valley
Forge," and " Alphonse Marie Louis
de Lamartine." 1790-1864, painted
from life (62779, loan).
Preble, E. A.. Washington, D. C. :
Specimen of wood turtle from Vir-
ginia (62744).
Pretz, Harold W., AUentown, Pa. :
80 specimens of plants from Penn-
sylvania (63052, exchange).
Prince, Prof. Edward E., Ottawa, Can-
ada: 2 specimens of crabs, Elamene
lacustris, from Lake Takapunza,
Auckland, New Zealand, collected by
the donor in September, 1914
(62745).
Prince, Harold W., Detroit, Me. : A
type specimen of fossil pclecypod,
Grammy sia ( Grammy sioidea ) prin-
ciana (62957, exchange).
Ramsden, Charles T., Guantanamo,
Cuba: 5 specimens, 2 species, of
crustaceans from Cuba (63454).
Rand, Nathaniel D., Columbus, Ohio :
2 watches (63005, loan).
Ravenel, W. deC. U. S. National
Museum : Service uniform coat with
insignia, breeches, cap, hat, leather
puttees, shoes, gauntlets, woolen
sweater and helmet, and leather
coat, worn by a second lieutenant.
Aviation Section, Signal Corps,
U. S. Army (62826) ; the certificate of
graduation of William deC. Ravenel,
jr., from the United States School
of Military Aeronautics, Princeton,
N. J., dated November 17, 1917 ; his
honorable discharge from the
United States Army as private, first
class, Aviation Section, Signal En-
listed Reserve Corps ; and his com-
mission as second lieutenant Avia-
tion Section, Signal Officers' Reserve
Corps, both dated April 25, 1918
(63277). Loan
Red Cross, The International Com-
mittee OF, Geneva, Switzerland
(through Department of State) :
Collection of foreign envelopes show-
ing various types of stamps and
franks used during the European
War (93 specimens) (62932).
Reed, F. M., Riverside, Calif. : 19 speci-
mens of ferns from California
(63074, 63177, 63253).
Reid, Earl D., U. S. National Museum :
A series of otoliths (ear stones) dis-
sected from the heads of codfish,
haddock, whiting, weakflsh, red
snapper, black bass, j'^ellow perch,
rockfish, cero, and salmon, obtained
in the Washington market (63097) ;
58 pairs of otoliths (ear stones) dis-
sected from the heads of fishes ob-
tained in the markets of Washing-
ton, namely, shad, snook or sergeant
fish, black-spotted sea trout, pickerel,
silver jenny, spot, flounder, kingfish,
large mouth black bass, mullet, mul-
let sucker, yellow perch, rockfish,
and channel bass (63597).
Reko, Dr. B. P., Oaxaca, Mexico: 243
specimens of plants from Mexico
(62713, 62875, 63077, 63596) ; 2 speci-
mens and 3 photographs of cacti
(62813).
158
BEPORT OF N'ATI0:N'AL, MUSEUM, 1919.
Renson, Dr. Carlos, San Salvador, El
Salvador: 12 specimens of plants
from El Salvador (63349).
Reynk, a., Entomologist, Agricultural
Experiment Station at Paramaribo,
Dutch Guiana: 5 specimens, 3
species, of wood-boring marine mol-
lusks from Dutch Guiana (63640).
Reynolds, A. G., Gulfport, Fla. : Speci-
men of Gulf toad fish, Opsanus tau
pardiis (63100).
Rich, Wm. P. (See under Massa-
chusetts Horticultural Society.)
Richardson, Mrs. Charles W., Wash-
ington, D. C. (through Mrs. Julian-
.Jaraes) : 3 ladies' bonnets and a
bandbox of the early part of the
nineteenth century, and 5 small
books for children, same period
(62936) ; a bound volume entitled
"Godey's Lady's Book" (Philadel-
phia, 1857, 570 pages) (63768) Loan.
(See also under Mrs. Grace Berry.)
RiDGWAY, Robert, Olney, lU. : 18 snakes
and toads, 5 mice, 2 bats, and 1
shrew (63449).
RiEDEL, F. A., Rocky Ford, Col. : Fish
teeth from the Cretaceous, Rocky
Ford, Colo. (63551, exchange).
Riley, J. H., U. S. National Museum :
16 bird skins from Argentina
(63633).
Roach, Mrs. Mary J. ( See under Wil-
liam H. Gray.)
Rock, J. F, (See under Hawaii, The
College of. )
Roddy, Dr. H. Justin, Millersville,
Pa. : A fine exhibition slab of Lower
Cambrian trilobites (62639, ex-
change).
RoDGERS, Commander John, U. S.
Navy. (See under Navy Depart-
ment.)
Rogers, Maj. Gen. H. L., Quartermaster
General, U. S. Army : Trench mortar,
rifles, helmets, armor, cartridge
cases, and other relics of the war
with Germany, 1917-18 (64 speci-
mens) ; United States cartridge clip
with fragment of shrapnel imbedded
Rogers, Maj. Gen. H. L. — Continued,
therein showing a direct hit, found
September 12, 1918, in the Forest of
Nesles, France; German steel man
trap, military insignia, and small
paraphernalia, captured by the
American forces during the war with
Germany, 1917-18 (51 specimens)
(63472; 63638; 63782, loan); Ger-
man military paraphernalia made of
paper during the European War,
1914-18 (43 specimens) (63590).
Roig, Dr. Mario Sanchez, Havana,
Cuba : 22 specimens of isopod crusta-
ceans representing the species Ligyda
haudiana, from La Puntilla, Vedado,
Havana, Cuba (63201) ; 11 species
of fossil invertebrates from Tejar
Consuelo, Cerro Cienaga, and Mari-
anao Beach, near Havana, probably
Pleistocene (63695).
Roller-Smith Co., New York City :
An early lamp indicator engine-room
voltmeter (63067).
Roper, Miss Ida M., Redland. Bristol,
England: Map of the United States
(18 by 30 inches), published by J.
H. Colton, 1862 (63131).
RouNDY, Paul V., U. S. Geological
Survey, Washington, D. C. : 58 speci-
mens of marine moliusks from Maine
(63612).
Rowan, Mrs. Hamilton, Washington,
D. C. : 4 paintings of native Philip-
pine life, by Filipino artists, brought
from Manila by Vice Admiral S. C.
Rowan in 1870, and 5 specimens of
Sioux and other Indian beadwork
(63666).
RowLEE, Prof. W. W., Cornell Uni-
versity, Ithaca, N. Y. : 12 specimens
of plants, Ochroma, from Central
America (63621).
RowLETT, Mrs. S. C, Monroe, Va. :
Specimen of dragon plant, Dracnn-
culus Tulgaris (63714).
Roxo, Mathias G. de Oliveira, Rio
Janeiro, Brazil : A collection of Bra-
zilian eruptive rocks (62791).
Ruth, Prof. Albert, Polytechnic, Tex. :
50 specimens' of cacti and plnnts
from Texas (62597, 62940),
LIST OF ACCESSIONS.
159
RtrTH\'EN, Dr. Alexander G., Univer-
sity Museum, Ann Arbor, Mich. :
Type and paratype of Ainbystoma
stejnegeri from Iowa (62905).
Saffobd, W. E., Washington, D. C. :
Piece of striped cotton fabric used
by Guatemalan Indians as a garment,
purchased by the donor in Guate-
mala City (63787). (See also under
Miss Mary E, Francis and Fred
Misak. )
St. George, R., East Falls Church, Va. :
Worm snake, Carphophis amoenns
(63513).
St. Kitts, West Indies, Government
OF (through Secretary of State for
the Colonies, London, England) : 4
specimens of each of the war stamps
of St. Kitts-Nevis, namely, li-pence
war stamp and ^-penny war tax
stamp iss-ued during the European
War, 1914-1918 (63195).
St. Lxjcia, British West Indies, Gov-
ernment OF (through Secretary of
State for the Colonies, London, Eng-
land) : 50 specimens of the St. Lucia
1-penny war tax stamp issued during
the European War, 1914-1918
(63199).
Salttjs, J. Sanfobd (through the
American Numismatic Society, New
York City) : A silver copy and a
bronze copy of the medal by T. Spicer
Simson commemorating the aerial
crossing of the English Channel by
the King and Queen of the Belgians,
1918 (63442).
Sanchez, Dr. Mario, Sr., Havana,
Cuba: 100 specimens, 50 species, of
mollusks and 2 specimens, 1 species,
of echinoderms from Cuba (63343).
Sanford, Dr. Leonard C, New Haven,
Conn. : 11 skins of petrels from the
west coast of South America (63182,
exchange).
San Jose, Costa Rica, Museo Naci-
onax (through A, Tonduz) : Speci-
men of plant from Costa Rica
(63078).
Sargent, Dr. C. S. (See under Harv-
ard University, Cambridge, Mass.,
Arnold Arboretum.)
Satterlee, Mrs. Francis LeRot, New
York City (through Mrs. R. G.
Hoes) : White cotton petticoat, polo-
naise dress, pair of white kid gloves,
pair of slippers, and pair of white
silk stockings, of the latter part of
the nineteenth century (63024, loan).
ScHAEFER, M. D. ( See under Navy De-
partment. )
SCHAI.LEE, Dr. W. T. (Se(^ under
American Museum of Natural His-
tory.)
ScHATTS, William. (See under Prof.
E. T. Owen.)
Schmid, Edward S., Washington, D. C. :
4 weaver birds (63644) ; white cocka-
too, Cacatua galerita (03711).
Scheoeder, Miss Em-Sidell, Middle-
burg, Va. : 11 specimens of woven
and dyed fabrics, and 3 Japanese
stencils (63498, loan).
Schuchert, Prof. Charles, Yale Uni-
versity, Department of Geology, New
Haven, Conn. : 15 species of Pleisto-
cene shells from the " Leda claj'S " of
western Newfoundland, collected by
Dunbar and Edwards 1 mile south of
Parson's Point, a few feet above the
sea (62963).
ScHULZ, Miss Ellen B., San Antonio,
Tex.: 6 specimens of plants from
Texas (6.3471, 6.8629).
Schwarz, Dr. E. A. and Mr. H. S.
Barber, Bureau of Entomology, U. S.
Department of Agriculture, Wash-
ington, D. C. : 3 tree frogs and 2
lizards from Florida (63381).
Scofield, Kendrick, Washington, D. C. :
A bottle-form vase from British
Guiana, amphora from Cyprus, and a
pierced copper foot warmer from
western China (63525, exchange).
Scott, George S., New York City
(through Dr. Edgar T. Wherry) :
A specimen of iridescent quartz
(62809).
Sellards, Dr. E. H., University of
Texas, Austin, Tex. : 16 specimens of
landshells from Texas ( 63297 ) . (See
also under Florida. Geological De-
partment of the State of.)
160
REPORT OF NATIONAL, MUSEUM, 1919.
Sewall, Harold I., New York City:
2 gold lacquer chests, Japan (62852,
loan).
Shaeffer, Alva, Brazil, Ind. : A col-
lection of fossil invertebrates and
plants from the Carboniferous and
Silurian rocks of Indiana, and the
Tertiary rocks of Mississippi and
Florida (62638).
Shannon, Earl V., U. S. National
Museum : 6 specimens of minerals
from Westtield, Mass., described by
the donor (63599).
Sharp & Dohme, Baltimore, Md. : 18
specimens of official preparations of
Nux Vomica (63746).
Sheldon, G. L., Denver, Colo. : 7 speci-
mens of fluorspar from Jamestown.
Central Mining District, Boulder
County, Colo. (63615).
SHERAiiD, Mrs. John H., Sherard,
Miss. : Nest of a Baltimore oriole.
Icterus galhula, from Mississippi
(63096).
Sherff, Eabl E., Chicago, 111.: 21
specimens of plants (62738, ex-
change).
SHE2BMAN, MiSS MaRY ELIZABETH, BoS-
ton, Mass. : United States flag with
pole and cord, and United States
Army Headquarters flag with pole
and cord, owned by Gen. William
T. Sherman, U. S. Army (62827).
Sherman, P. T. ( See under Miss Mary
Elizabeth Thackara, and Mrs.
Eleanor Sherman Thackara Cauld-
well.)
Shrader, Dr. J. H. (See under Boyer
Oil Co., California Associated Raisin
Co., Essenkay Products Co., the
Hauck Food Products Corporation,
the Southern Cotton Oil Co., Spencer
Kellogg & Sons (Inc.).)
Shxifeldt, Dr. R. W., U. S. Army (re-
tired), Washington, D. C. : Banana
rat, Nyctomys, and young (alcoholic)
Shufeldt, Dr. R. W. — Continued.
(62718) ; 2 salamanders (63452) ; 2
lizards, 2 salamanders, 2 butterflies
and a spider (63578) ; 7 lizards from
various localities in the United
States (63604) ; a toad and a lizard
from Florida, and 2 turtle eggs
(63628) ; 2 weaver birds, Erytlmra
prasina (63643) ; salamander, Ple-
thodo-n glutmosMS, from Dyke, Va.
(63671).
Simpson, C. B., Okeechobee, Fla. :
Tooth of a mastodon, from near
Okeechobee, Fla. (62766).
Simpson, James, Banff, Alberta, Can-
ada (through Dr. Charles D. AVal-
cott) : A small collection of carbonif-
erous fossils from the Brazeau
River District, Alberta, Canada
(63021).
Simpson, Mrs. W. J., Selah, Wash.:
A specimen of opal (63032).
Slater, Mrs. H. D., Washington, D. C. :
27 specimens of plants from Texas
(62680).
Smillie, Thomas W. (through Miss
Lydia E. Smillie, AYashington, D.
C. ) : Bronze statuette, " The genius
of Photography," by Lafon de
Camarsac (63136).
Smith, Aixyn G., Berkeley, Calif. : 12
specimens, 7 species, of mollusks
from California, including the types
of 4 new species (62870).
Smith, Charles Piper, Maryland
Agricultural College, College Park,
Md. : 34 specimens of plants from
the United States (62924).
Smith, C. R., Toledo, Ohio: Foot
warmer of Binghamton ware, 80 or
more years old (62641).
Smith, Capt. John Donnell, Balti-
more, Md. : 18 specimens of plants
from Central America (62653) ;
specimen of plant from Costa Rica
(63200) ; 4 specimens of mosses from
Florida (63647).
Smith, Malcolm, Bangkok, Siam:
Snake, ThalassopMs amomalM
(63076, exchange).
LIST OF ACCESSIONS.
161
Smithsonian Institution:
About 7,000 speriniens of Cam-
brian fossils (63702, deposit).
Bureau of American Ethnology:
2 skeletons and 2 skulls found on
the property of the Roxana Petro-
leum Co. of Oklahoma. South Wood
River, III., and presented to the
Bureau (62630) ; 12 prehistoric pot-
tery heads found in Huaxtec
mounds, and presented to Dr. J. Wal-
ter Fewkes by .John M. Muir, of
Tampico, Mexico (62931) ; archeo-
logical specimens obtained by Mr. F.
W. Hodge at Hawikuh, N. Mex., in
1917, as part of the cooperative work
of the Bureau of American Ethnol-
ogy and the Museum of the Ameri-
can Indian, Heye Foundation
(63154) ; archeological specimens
and an Indian skull from different
localities in Arizona, collected by
Dr. Walter Hough in 1918 (63156) ;
archeological specimens and skeletal
remains from Gourd Creek, Mo., col-
lected by Mr. Gerard Fowke in 1918
(63157) ; a specimen of slag vrith
embedded charred corn collected by
Dr. J. AYalter Fewkes from a ruin
in Jlancos Valley 3 miles west of
the bridge on the Cortez Ship-rock
Road, Colo. (63174) ; sandstone
pipe found on Black Warrior River,
Tuscaloosa County, Ala., and pre-
sented to the Bureau by Mr. F. H.
Davis, U. S. Engineer Office, Little
Rock, Ark. (63509).
National Museum, collected by
members of the staff: Bartsch,
Paul: Logser-head sponge from
Florida (63283) ; specimen of
cactus, Opuntia, collected in Florida
(63684) ; a collection of birds,
reptiles, fishes, insects, mollusks,
and other marine invertebrates
from Florida (63725). Bassler, R.
S. : 32 large exhibition specimens
illustrating ^geological phenomena,
300 pounds of glauconlte, 250 speci-
mens of chert, several thousand
specimens of Upper Cretaceous in-
vertebrates from New Jersey, and
143943°— 20 11
Smithsonian Institution — Contd.
1..500 IMiddle Ordovician fossils from
Kentucky (62762) ; an exhibition
slab of fossiliferous sandstone from
the Eocene at Aquia Creek, Va.
(63694). Boss, Norman H. and Wil-
liam Palmer: Skull, lower jaws,
vertebrae, and ribs of a fossil por-
poise from the cliffs along Chesa-
peake Bay (62S10). Hrdlicka, A.:
Conch shells, pick-like implement
without the haft, from Hamilton's
Hammock, Lostman's River, Fla.,
November, 1918 (62984). Martin,
Dr. J. C. : Collection of rocks, min-
erals, and ores for school duplicates,
from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and
New York (62667). Martin, J. C.
and H. Warner : A collection of gran-
ite gneiss and decomposition prod-
ucts showing the process of weather-
ing from Rock Creek Park, for
school series (62879). Resser,
Charles E. : A collection of approxi-
mately 200 specimens of minerals
and ores and 500 .specimens of Lower
Cambrian fossils (62637). Rose, J.
N. : 2,000 specimens of Ecuadorean
plants, also shells, 2 birds, skull of
a mammal, and a specimen of fossil
leaf collected in Ecuador in 1918
(63041). Schmitt, Waldo L. : 26
specimens of fishes collected in the
tidepools at La Jolla, Calif. (63448).
Standley, Paul C. : 5 specimens of
plants from the vicinity of Wash-
ington, D. C. (63730). Walcott,
Charles D. : Skin, skull, and leg
bones of a deer, Odocoileus; skin,
skull, and ankle bones of a goat,
Oreamnos; skins of 2 sheep. Oris, and
skin and skull of a wolverine, Gnlo
luscus (62901) ; skin and skull of a
black bear, Ursus; skulls and leg
bones of 2 sheep. Oris; and skull
of a moose, Aloes (63170).
National Museum, obtained by pur-
chase: 2 copies in bronze of the
medal issued by the American
Numismatic Society in commemora-
tion of the visit to New York of
the French and British War Com-
missioners in 1917 (62708) ; insignia
162
REPORT OF NATIONAL. MUSEUM, 1919.
Smithsonian Institution — Contd.
of the United States Army, Navy,
Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Public
Healtli Service, Army Transport
Service. Shipping Board, Boy Scouts,
Salvation Army, Y. M. C. A., Y. W.
C. A., and K. of C. (790 specimens)
(63409) ; 2 bronze copies of the
medal by A. Lukeman, commemorat-
ing the unveiling of a memorial to
Lafayette, Brooklyn, 1917, and a
bronze copy of the medal by T.
Spicer Simson, commemorating the
aerial crossing 'of the English Chan-
nel by the King and Queen of the
Belgians, 1918 (63441) ; Victory
Medallion of the Art War Relief,
designed by Paul Manship (63338) ;
etched portrait of Theodore Roose-
velt, by Otto Schneider (63314) ;
bat, spider, fish and 4 reptiles
(62902) ; specimens of foodstuffs
(63221) ; 2 Mexican land turtles
(63122) ; 194 specimens of plants
from Missouri (63281) ; national
flags of Belgium, France, Great
Britain, Italy, Greece, Japan, and
Roumania (63098) ; 80 specimens of
Uganda plants (62689) ; 202 speci-
mens of plants from British East
Africa (63180) ; postage stamps of
Bermuda, British Honduras, Domi-
nica. Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago,
Turks and Caicos Islands, Virgin
Islands, French India, Ivory Coast,
Middle Congo, Morocco Protectorate
Senegal, Tunis, Italy, Eritrea, and
Libia, issued 1915-1918 (29 speci-
mens) (62634) ; postage stamps of
Great Britain and Russia, issued
during the European War, 1914-
1918 (14 specimens) (63401) ; 3,995
. specimens of Philippine plants
(62603) ; specimens of foodstuffs
(63222) ; an ancient California In-
dian pestle of exceptional form and
finish (62864) ; collection of ponchos
and blankets of the Amasari In-
dians, Bolivia, South America (6
specimens) (62769) ; 356 specimens
of plants from Argentina (62799) ;
postage stamps of Great Britain and
Italy issued during the European
Smithsonian Institution — Contd.
War, 1914-1918 (21 specimens)
(63459) ; specimens of ankerite and
pyrite in chlorite from near Charle-
mont, Mass. (62928) ; specimens of
foodstuffs (63226) ; 338 specimens
of plants from South Carolina
(63692) ; plaster casts of restorations
of the following skuUs: Pithecan-
thropus erectus; Homo heidelber-
gensis and Chapelle - aux - Saints
(63516) ; United States military in-
signia (74 specimens) (63133) ;
United States naval officers' insignia.
Legion of Honor fourragere, and
collar insignia of unassigned officers,
U. S. Army (98 specimens) (63308) ;
Aj-my, Army Corps, Division, and
Special Unit Insignia, worn by of-
ficers and enlisted men of the U. S.
Army during the War with Germany,
1917-1918 (113 specimens) (63785) ;
complete individuals of meteoric
stone which fell at Cumberland
Falls, Whitley County, Ky., April 9,
1919 (63580) ; 46 fragments, weigh-
ing 13,436 grams, of an individual
of the Cumberland Falls, Whitley
County, Ky., meteoric stone (63704) ;
postage stamps of Czechoslovakia.
Fi'ance, Great Britain, Greece, and
Russia, issued during the European
War, 1914-1918 (82 specimens)
(63402) ; large chipped blade, brown
obsidian, of recent manufacture,
made by an Indian living near
Mount Shasta, Calif. (63278) ;
crystal of quartz (627.58) ; postage
stamps of Hungary surcharged for
Jugo-Slavia (29 specimens), and
postage stamps of Bosnia surcharged
for Jugo-Slavia (16 specimens)
(63699) ; postage stamps of Nica-
ragua, issued 1907 (24 specimens)
(62665) ; 261 specimens of Venezue-
lan plants (62600, 63672) ; 22 models
of raw and cooked foods (62823) ; 2
meteoric stones, weighing 327 and
645 gi'ams, from the Richardton,
North Dakota, fall (63301) ; banner-
stone of rose quartz (63546) ; 40
specimens of Devonian fossils
(63125) ; 15 specimens of reptiles
LIST OF ACCESSIONS.
163
Smithsonian Instittttion — Contd.
and anixihibians from Florida
(G2622) ; specimen of frog, Rana
aesopus, from Marion County, Fla.
(62679) ; polislied stone bead (im-
pure serpentine rock) from tlie
Agnan U. District, Spanisli Honduras
(6.365S) ; model sliowing occurence,
mining, transportation, utilization,
and waste of natural gas (63774) ;
200 specimens of Lower Cambrian
fossils from Lancaster County, Pa.
(62837) ; military decorations of the
type awarded by the Allies and the
Teutonic powers during the Eu-
ropean War, 1914-1918 (15 speci-
mens) (63002) ; skull and part of
skeleton of the fossil reptile, Diplo-
caiilus copei (62636) ; fossil rep-
tilian material consisting of 1 skull
of Monoclonius, 1 skull and partial
skeleton of Tylosaurus, 1 articulated
series caudals of Platijcarpus, and 2
hind paddles of Tylosaurus (63263) ;
skull and small bones of a beaked
whale, and skins and skeletons of 2
porpoises from Alaska (62808) ; 7
specimens of turtles (62737) ; speci-
mens of foodstuffs (63218) ; 3 speci-
mens of scheelite and 2 of scheelite
with native gold, from New Zealand
(63461).
National Museum, made in All'
thropological Laboratory: Lay figure
of "The Japanese Wood-block Cut-
ter." and specimens to be included in
the exhibit as follows : Unused .|?lock
for the wood-block cutter, wood-
block with original drawing pasted
face downward and partly engraved,
and an engraver's table (63758).
National Museum, made in the
Laboratory of the Division of Tex-
tiles: Model of a typical wood pulp
and paper mill (63334) ; model of
oil of sweet birch still, showing
the still, condenser, and receiver
(63335).
N ational Zoological Park: 6
etchings by A. Bouveure. after
Delacroix, namely tiger in the
mountains, tiger and a tree, stand-
ing lion, lioness and lion in a
Smithsonian Institution — Contd.
cave, 2 reclining lions, and a tiger
drinking (62629) ; skull and skele-
ton of a bear, Ursus americanus per-
niger (62658) ; skeletons of 19 birds
(62699) ; weka rail, Ocydroinus ati.s-
tralis, black swan, Chenopis atrata,
ferruginous rough-leg, Archibuteo
ferrugineus, 2 specimens of wood
duck, Aix spensa, and a touraco,
Ttiracus corythaix (62717) ; skin
and skull of anoa, Anoa depressi-
corni.'<; wallaby, Onychogale frenata
(head in alcohol), skin and skull of
a kangaroo, Macropus rufus, and
skin and skull of a cavy, Dolichotis
patagonica (62734) ; South Ameri-
can guinea pig, Cavia, alco-
holic (63258) ; 2 young lions, Felis
leo (alcoholics) (63537) ; tiger,
Felis tigris longipilis (alcoholic)
(63588) ; skin, skull, and skeleton
of an agouti, Dasyprocta cristata
(63598) ; young wood duck, Aix
sponsa (63641) ; kea parrot, Nestor
notabilis, whistling duck, Dendro-
cygna arcuata, severe macaw, Ara
scvera, brant, Brant a benUcla glau-
cogasfra, upland goose, Cliloephaga
leucoptera, crowned hawk eagle,
Spi::aetus coronatus, and Cape Bar-
ren goose, Cereopsis novaehoUandiae
(63653) ; skull of a bear, Ursus hor-
rihilis (63659) ; 2 eggs of California
condor, Gymnogyps califortiiamcs,
and cinereous vulture, Vultur mon-
achus (63703) ; whistling duck, De^v-
drocygna arcuata, Garganey teal,
Qucrqucdula qucrquedula, trumpeter
swan (female), Olor buccinator,
crested screamer, Chauna chavaria,
stout-billed euphonia, Tanagra cras-
sirostris, mute swan, Cygnus gibhus,
and crimson-backed scarlet tanager,
Ramphocelus dimidiatus (63718) ;
specimen of bronze-winged pigeon,
Phaps chalcoptera (63719). (See
also under Crovo & Co.)
Smithsonian Victory Liberty Loan
Committee: German helmet cap-
tured by American troops and
awarded to the chairman of the
Smithsonian Victory Liberty Loan
Committee, 1919 (63763).
164
KEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919.
Snyder, Thomas F., Bureau of Ento-
mology, U. S. Department of Agri-
culture, Washington, D. C. : 5 speci-
mens, 3 species, of mollusks col-
lected by the donor from black
humus, Paradise Key, Lower Ever-
glades, Fla. (63416) ; 38 specimens.
2 species, of landshells collected at
Miami Beach, Fla. (63305).
SoLEY, Lieut. Commander John C, U.
S. Navy, New Orleans, La. : A sample
of volcanic sand which fell on the
deck of the Belgian steamer Presi-
dent Biinge, October 23. 1918, 170
miles, 160° from Hecla (63273).
SoMES, M. P., Kalispell, Mont. : 2 frogs,
Rana pretiosa, from Montana
(62944).
South Dakota, University of. Uni-
versity Mltseitm, Vermillion, S.
Dak. : 2 specimens of Scolopendra
morsitans (63394).
Southern Cotton Oil Co., The, New
Orleans, La. (through Dr. J. H.
Shrader, U. S. Department of Agri-
culture) : 6 samples of cottonseed
oil (62771) ; a series of specimens
showing the production of oil from
cotton seed (63227).
Soy-Lac Food Products Co., London,
Ontario, Canada
specimens '^f
soy bean products, bread, breakfast
cereal, and " eocolate " (62687).
Spencer Ketxogg & Sons (Inc.) Buf-
falo, N. Y. (through Dr. .T. H.
Shrader, U. S. Department of Agri-
culture) : 21 samples of vegetable
oils (62773).
Spensley, I^Trs. William P., Chicago,
111. : A piano made by hand by Ger-
hardt Feldhar in 1844 (63676).
Spier, George W.. Washington, D. C. :
Pair of spectacles, McAllester, Phila-
delphia, 1800, and an American
watch, "Tremont Watch Co., Bos-
ton, No. 1323" (63547).
Springer. Hon. Frank, East Las Vegas,
N. Mex. : 6 cut garnets from Fort
Defiance, Ariz. (63606).
Squibb, E. R. & Sons, New York City :
Copy of Squibb's Atlas of Official
Drugs (63511).
Standard Textile Products Co., The,
New York City : Samples of oilcloth,
leather cloth, and articles showing
the application of the same (63748).
Starr, Douglas N., Washington, D. C. :
United States gold, silver, and nickel
coins, issued 1794-1918 (133 speci-
mens) ; United States silver dollars,
issued 1796, 1797, 1798. 1800, and
1847, one each ; 3 United States silver
dollars issued, respectively, in 1798,
1803, and 1836 ; United States dollars
issued, respectively, 1795 (2 speci-
mens), 1801, and 1836, and Massa-
chusetts threepence, pine tree shil-
ling, and oak tree shilUng, dated 1652
(7 specimens) ; 2 Massachusetts
silver pine tree shillings, 1652
(63065. 63102, 63166, 63384, 63664,
loan) ; 3 photographs showing, re-
spectively, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant dur-
ing his last illness, his funeral pro-
cession in 1885, and his temporary
tomb on Riverside Drive ; also 2 Ger-
man silver coins and 6 specimens of
paper currency ; 5 specimens of Fili-
pino arms and weapons ; 3 French
coins, namely, quarter franc, silver,
1804, 25 centimes, nickel, 1917, and 1
franc, silver, 1919 (63167, 63244,
63665).
State, Department of. (See under
France, Government of ; Great
Britain, Government of; Italy, Gov-
ernment of ; Countess d'Hautpoul ;
Red Cross, International Committee
of. at Geneva, Switzerland.)
Steele. E. S., Washington. D. 0. : 10
specimens of plants from the vicinity
of Washington (62720).
Stent, E. A., San Francisco, Calif,
(through Mr. F. L. Hess) : A speci-
men of scheelite from White Pine
County, Nev. (62836).
Stephens. IMrs. Kate, Natural His-
tory Museum. Balboa Park, San
Diego, Calif. : 33 specimens, 4 spe-
LIST OF ACCESSIONS.
1G5
Stephens, Mrs. Kate — Continued,
cies, of crustaceans from the west
coast of the United States (G3231) ;
50 amphipod crustaceans. Talitrus,
sp., and 1 isopod crustacean, Anna-
dilUdium vulgare, collected from a
park in San Diego, Calif. (63426).
Stewart, Joseph, Washington, D. C. :
Pigskin bookbinding by Christopher
Welsh, 1604, and rebound under the
direction of Rev. Father I.eander
Luegmayr, 1754 (63566).
Stockholm, Sweden, Riksml'seets
BoTANisKA Avdelning (through Dr.
Carl Lindman) : 4 photographs of
the type specimen of AcrosticJmm
nicotianaefolium (62694, exchange).
Straits Settlements, Government of,
Singapore, Straits Settlements
(through Secretary of State for the
Colonies, London, England) : Local
Relief and Lord Roberts fund, and
Red Cross stamps, issued by the
Straits Settlements during the Euro-
pean War, 1914-1918 (7 specimens)
(63328).
SuLZEK, Hon. Charles A. (See un-
der Mr. Bruce.)
StTLZEE, Elmer G., Madison, Ind. :
About 200 specimens of Richmond
fossils from Madison, Ind. (62865).
Swales, B. H., U. S. National Museum :
419 specimens of bird skins, chiefly
from Louisiana and Mississippi
(62613) ; 6 skins of diving petrel,
Pelecanoides georgicits, new to the
Museum (62788) ; 190 birds from the
United States (63474) ; 30 bird
skins from various localities, repre-
senting genera new to the Museum
(63709).
Swanton, Miss Maby A., Washington,
D. C: 4 pieces of early American
silverware, consisting of a teapot,
coffee pot, sugar bowl, and cream
pitcher (63737, loan).
Sydney, New South Wales, Austra-
lia, Av.stbalian Museum, The: 42
specimens, 15 species, of crustaceans
collected by the Endeavour (63753).
Sydney, New South Wales, Austra-
lia, Botanic Gardens (through .T.
H. Maiden, Director) : 2.50 speci-
mens of Australia plants (63476),
exchange.
Sykes, Miss Mildred, Los AJigeles,
60 specimens, 28 species, of moUusks
from the west coast of America
(63286).
Tacoma Smelting Co. (See under
American Smelting & Refining Co.)
Taeoya, Pedro A., Las Vegas, N. Mex. :
Muster roll of Company E, Third
Regiment, New Mexico Mounted
Volunteers, for the month of De-
cember, 1861 (63548).
Takahashi, R., Forest Experiment
Station, Meguro, Tokyo, .Japan:
Diptera, consisting of 6 specimen'^
of Syrphus ribesii, 1 specimen of S.
latMS, 18 specimens of S. nectarinus,
1 specimen of Didea alneti, male,
and 1 specimen of Chilosia, new
species (63637).
Taylor, George H.. Marble, Colo.: 2
specimens of manganese ore (psil-
omelane) from near Marble, Colo.
(62838).
Thackara, Miss Mary Elizabeth.
Boston, Mass., and Mrs. Eleanor
Sherman Thackara Cauldwell,
Washington, D. C. (through P. T.
Sherman, New York City) : Saddle,
bridle, pair of holsters, blanket roll,
and saddle cloth owned by Gen. Wil-
liam T. Sherman. U. S. Army, during
the Civil War (62710).
Thompson, H. C. (See under Beech-
Nut Packing Co., Canajoharie, N. Y.,
and J. B. Worth Co.)
Thornton, Charles W., Nome, Alaska :
98 specimens of plants from Alaska
(62881).
Tidestrom. Ivar, U. S. Department of
Agriculture, Washington. D. C. : 25
specimens of mosses from Colorado
(62594)
166
REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919.
TiNGMAN, A. G., The Encinitas Im-
provement Association, Encinitas,
Calif. : 25 pounds of montmorillonite
from San Diego County, Calif.
(62649).
TiNKLEPAUGH, O. L., El Paso, Tex. :
Tooth of a mammoth from New
Mexico (63086).
ToLMAN, RxjEL P., U. S. National Mu-
seum : A German uniform cap found
in the Argonne Forest, 1918; an oil
painting by S. Jerome Uhl, " Interior
of Levardia Church, Florence,
Italy ;" a pastel painting, portrait of
Theodosia Wallace, by P. Caldwell
(63436; 63457; 63741, loan); por-
trait of President Woodrow Wilson,
etched by the donor (63508).
ToNDTJZ, A. (See under San Jos6,
Costa Rica, Museo Nacional.)
Topping, D. Le Roy, Treasury Bureau,
Manila, P. I. : 226 specimens of
Philippine ferns (62698).
ToEEE-BuENO J, R., DE LA, White
Plains, N. Y. : Part of the late G. W.
Kirkaldy's collection of Hemiptera
(63336, deposit).
ToEsiON Balance Co., The, New York
City : 2 Torsion balances with apo-
thecary and avoirdupois Aveights
(63757).
Townsend, Dr. C. H. T., Bureau of
Entomolgy, U. S. Department of Agri-
culture, Washington, D. C. : 16 speci-
mens of plants from Arizona (63398).
Townsend, W. Cameron, Comayaguela,
Honduras, Central America : A lower
molar tooth of an extinct species of
horse, Hipparion, from western Hon-
duras (62709) ; through Mr, Francis
J, Dyer, portion of symphysis of a
lower jaw of a mastodon from the
vicinity of Tegucigalpa, Honduras
(63028).
Transvaal Museum, Pretoria, Union
of South Africa, Africa: Rat, Mys-
tromys (skin and skull) ; skull of
Bathyergus, and skins and skulls of
2 bats, Miniopterns (62719, ex-
change) .
Teeasuby Depaetment :
Division of Liberty Loan Public-
ity: 213 posters (63366).
St. Louis Liberty Loan Committee,
St. Louis, Mo. : 18 complete kinds of
posters, consisting of 113 specimens
(63363).
Liberty Loan General Publicity
Committee, San Francisco, Calif. :
Bound pages of newspaper Liberty
Loan advertising (6 specimens)
(63357).
Tenth Federal Reserve District,
Liberty Loan Committee, Kansas
City, Mo. : 4 posters (63362).
TJiird Federal Reserve District,
Philadelphia, Pa. : 4 posters ( 63355 ) .
War Savings Committee, Washing-
ton, D. C. : 14 posters (63369).
Woman^s Liberty Loan Commis-
sio7i of New England, Boston, Mass. :
17 Liberty Loan posters (63356).
Teemper, Dr. R. H., Ontario, Calif,
(through Dr. W. H. Dall) : 2 speci-
mens, 2 species, of marine shells and
about 20 worm tubes from Cali-
fornia (62841).
Teenchaed, Edwaed, Babylon, N. Y. :
Insignia of the following patriotic
societies : Naval Order of the United
States ; Society of the War of 1812 ;
Military Order of the Loyal Legion,
and Veterans of the War with Mex-
ico (63385, loan).
TEiNGANxr, Fedeeated Malay States,
Goveenment or (through the British
Agent at Tringanu, and the Secre-
tary of State for the Colonies, Lon-
don, England) : Red Cross stamps
of Tringanu, issued during the Eu-
ropean War, 1914-1913 (16 speci-
mens) (63483).
Teinidad, Government of, Trinidad,
British West Indies (through Secre-
tary of State for the Colonies, Lon-
don, England) : Postage stamps of
Trinidad issued during the European
War, 1914-1918, namely, half penny
(four types), and one penny (seven
types) (11 specimens) (63168).
LIST OF ACCESSIONS.
167
Thudell, H. W., Philadelphia, I'li.
(through Dr. Edgar T. Wherry) : 2
specimens of plants from New Jer-
sey and West Virginia (62715).
True, Dr. F. W. (through W. P. True,
Smithsonian Institution) : Sandstone
charm or ornament from fli'st shell-
heap west of Naskeag Point, Brook-
lin, Me., and a soapstone pipe from
Tower Babson Island, Eggemoggin
Reach, Me. (63408).
Tungsten Products Mining Co., The,
Bouldex-, Colo, (through Mr. F. L.
Hess) : A specimen of ferrotungsten
showing oxidation colors (63151) ; a
large exhibition specimen of ferro-
tungsten (63325).
Tyleb, F. J., Perry, Ohio : Specimen of
plant from Ohio (62690).
Uhlenhuth, Dr. E., The Rockefeller
Institute for Medical Research, New
York City : 20 salamanders from,
New York (62724) ; (through Dr. T.
W. Stanton) 12 concretionary peb-
bles of calcium carbonate ("cave
pearls") from Boyett's Cave, near
San Marcos, Tex. (63117).
Ulke, Titus, Washington, D. C: 2
specimens of plants, Selaginella,
from Colorado (62874).
Undeewood, Maj. Beet Elias, Wash-
ington, D .C. : 50 lantern slides illus-
trative of chemical warfare (62967,
loan).
United Cigae Stoees Co., New York
City: 3 posters (63359).
United States Food Administeation,
Washington, D. C. : 26 specimens
of commercial varieties of beans
(63217) ; 14 posters (63371.) Trans-
fer.
United States Feinting & Litho-
graph Co., Brooklyn, N. Y. : Speci-
men of rubber offset printing
" They're Back " (63740).
United States Railroad Administra-
tion, Washington, D. C. : 10 posters
(63374, transfer).
United States Shipping Boakd:
Emergency Fleet Corporation: 70
posters (63307) ; Emergency Fleet
badge, sliipyurd volunteer's badge
and certificate of enrollment, of the
tj'pe issued by the United States
Shipping Board, 1918 (63540.) Trans-
fer.
United War Work Campaign, Wash-
ington, D. C. : 35 posters (63372).
Ueita, T., Kagosima, Japan: 23 speci-
mens, 21 species, of decapod crus-
taceans from Japan, including the
types of 3 new species (63475).
Van Eseltine, G. P. (See under Agri-
culture. Department of, Bureau of
Plant Industry.)
Van Hyning, T. (See under Florida
State Museum.)
Vaughan, Dr. T. Wayland. (See
under F. W. Penny.)
Veesanel, Rev. A., S. J., Catholic
Mission, Benque Viejo, British Hon-
duras, Central America : Snake,
Bothrops atrox (63514).
Veyea, Hon. Jaime C. de, Washing-
ton, D. C. : 11 specimens, 5 species,
of Philippine land shells (62660) ;
skin of a flying lemur, Cynoceplialus,
from Mindanao Island, Philippine
Islands (62697) ; marine shell, the
type of a new species, from Batanes
Islands, Philippine Islands (62716) ;
10 specimens, 9 species, of Philip-
pine mollusks (62829).
Victoria Memorial Museum, Ottawa,
Canada : 12 amphipod crustaceans,
Ganunartis linnaeus, fi'om Cabin
Lake Creek, Canada (62833, ex-
change) ; 4 amphipods from Canada
and 4 fi.shes from Malta, Mediterra-
nean Sea (62929) (through Fritz
Johansen) ; a small fish, goby, Eleo-
tris radiata, from New Zealand
(63099).
VioscA, Peecy, Jr., New Orleans, La.:
6 tree frogs from Louisiana
(63316).
168
REPORT OF NATIONAI. MUSEUM, 1919.
A'lviEKs, Miss DU ( through Mrs. Julian-
James, Washington, D. C.) : A fillet
for the hair (63742, loan).
Von Lengebke, J., New York City: 30
specimens of hawks, of 6 species,
from New Jersey (62890).
Waxcott, Dr. Charles D., Secretary,
Smithsonian Institution : Bronze
medal commemorating the inaugura-
tion of President Woodrow Wilson,
1913 ; 9 bronze and ribbon badges,
and 3 bronze and enamel buttons, is-
sued 1844-1917, also a pottery
plaquette (62915) ; uniform, decora-
tion, aviation insignia, and diplomas
of Benjamin Stuart Walcott, ser-
geant, French Aviation Service, and
lieutenant. United States Army, also
a photograph of him and his pub-
lished letters (12 specimens)
(62953) ; bronze medal of the Aero
Club of America, awarded to Ben-
jamin Stuart Walcott, 1918, in recog-
nition of his distinguished services
as sergeant, French Aviation Serv-
ice, and 2 photographs of him
(6.3000) ; the commission of Ben-
jamin Stuart Walcott as first lieu-
tenant. Air Service (Aeronautics),
U. S. Army, dated June 17, 1918
(63044) ; royal blue vase v/ith
painted medallions and lid, French,
and a doll head of French porcelain
(63051) ; a collection of mounted
and n n m o n n t e d photographs
(63082) ; bronze membership tablet
presented to Dr. Charles D. Walcott
in 1901 by the " Reale Accademia
dei Lincei, Rome" (63128, de-
posit) ; certificate of Benjamin
Stuart Walcott as "Pilote Avia-
teur," awarded by the Federation
Aeronautique Internationale, Feb-
ruary 15, 1918 (63130) ; photograph
Of a letter written by President Lin-
coln to Mrs. Lincoki, April 2, 1865
(63137) ; an extension candle brac-
ket for piano, of European make, of
period about 1880 (63142) ; portion
of skull of a bufEalo, Bison, collected
by Charles D. Walcott, jr., in Mon-
tana (63407) ; a decorative ribbon
Walcott, Dr. Charles D. — Continued,
awarded by the French Government
to Benjamin Stuart AValcott in
recognition of his services as a
member of the Lafayette Flying
Corps, 1917, and 2 French docu-
ments relating to the decoration
(63479) ; 2 specimens of plants,
moss and alga, from Maryland
(63585).' (See also under J. M.
Boutwell, Prof. August F. Foerste,
Mrs. Inazo Nitobe, James Simpson,
and Lieut. Sidney S. Walcott.)
Walcott, Mrs. Charles D., Washing-
ton, D. C. : Plume formerly worn by
officials of high rank, China (62627) ;
chased plated Florentine oval stand
from the Convent of San Marco,
Naples, Italy, sixteenth century, de-
signed by Beneveuuto Cellini (62731,
loan) ; a specimen of Aleut basketry
of the older period (62934) ; 13
specimens of plants from Canada
(62956) ; 35 specimens of calcite
from Mount Field, British Columbia
(62974) ; 17 specimens of Lymnaea
palustris from a pond on Bear
Creek, north of Pinnacle Peak, Al-
berta, Canada (63248) ; 3 specimens
of plants from Canada (63346) ; 3
specimens of plants from the vicinity
of Washington, D. C. (63529) ; cos-
tumes and accessories (25 specimens
in all) worn by members of the So-
ciety of Friends, or Quakers, during
the early life of the nineteenth
century (63764) ; Cashmere shawl
(63789, deposit).
Walcott, Lieut. Sidney S., Air Serv-
ice, U. S. Army (through Dr. Charles
D. Walcott) : Enlisted man's uni-
form and officer's uniform worn by
Lieut. Sidney S. Walcott, Air Serv-
ice, U. S. Army, 1918 (63101).
Walker, "Robert S., Chattanooga,
Tenn. : The skull of a Cherokee
Indian dug up on a farm near Chat-
tanooga (63270).
Wallace, W. N., Farmington, N. Mex. :
A remarkable stone pestle found on
the Arizona side of the Navaho
Reservation (63667),
LIST OF ACCESSIONS.
169
Walter, Mrs. Maby T., Washington,
D. O. : 6 specimens of plants from
Virginia (62960).
Walton, G. P., Bureau of Chemistry,
U. S. Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D. C. : Nematode, Ich-
tliijonema sp., from tlie liver of a
rock fish purchased in Washington,
D. C. (63696).
Walton, W. R., Bureau of Entomology,
IT. S. Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D. C. : Diptera consist-
ing of type of Neochrysops globosa,
allotj-pe of Laphria aktis, allotype of
L. itliypyga, and tj'pe of L. index
(63554).
War Department:
United States Army Medal of
Honor -with ribbon and rosette
(62666) ; a belt and contents and an
emergency case and contents of the
type used by officers, and a belt and
contents of the type used by the en-
listed men, of the Medical Depart-
ment of the U. S. Army (109 speci-
mens) (62728) ; a Distinguished
Service Medal and ribbon with 2
ribbon bars, a silver star, a bronze
cluster of oak leaves, and a bronze
oak leaf (62777) ; military uniforms,
firearms, swords, flags, transporta-
tion models, and ordnance models,
showing various types of these same
objects, used in the U. S. Army
1776-1908 (63242) ; (through Gen.
John J. Pershing, U. S. Army, Com-
manding General, American Expedi-
tionary Forces, France) : Order of
battle map and accessories used by
General Pershing, U. S. Army, and
his staff, at American Headquarters
in Chaumont, France, during the
War with Germany, 1917-18 (12
specimens) (63681).
Bureau of Aircraft Production:
Coat, hood, scarf, mask, goggles, and
pair of moccasins of the type used
by aviators, U. S. Army. 1918
(62951) ; 3 French military air-
planes (incomplete) used in 1916 on
the western battle front during the
W^ar with Germany (62999) ; avia-
War Department — Continued,
tor's flying suit with electric har-
ness of the type used in the U. S.
Army, 1918 (62023) ; a bottle of ace-
tone (63107) ; caracul lined leather
helmet of the type worn by aviators,
U. S. Army, 1918 (63108) ; fuselage,
with accessories, of a De Haviland
military airplane of the type used in
the U. S. Army, 1918 (63109) ; 6
bottles of chemicals of the type used
by the Bureau of Aircraft Produc-
tion, 1917-18, as follows: 1 ounce
phosphorus oxychloride; 1 ounce
Phenol ; 1 ounce Benzyl benzoate ; 1
ounce Benzyl actetate; ^ ounce
Urea, 2 ounces Phenol phosphate
(63225) ; 12 fabric-covered frames
representing the stages in the dop-
ing of an airplane, 1 bottle contain-
ing airplane dope, and 10 bottles
containing airplane dope ingredients
(63241) ; 7 pint bottles of chemicals
of the type used by the Bureau of
Aircraft Production 1917-18, namely
Ethyl Alcohol; Malt Grain; Vine-
gar; Lime; Calcium acetate; Crude
Acetone, and Pure Acetone (63267) ;
aviator's knitted helmet of the type
used in the U. S. Air Service, 1917-
18 (63310) ; 2 Lewis aircraft ma-
chine guns and 12 magazines. Model
1918 (63311) ; 7 Lewis aircraft ma-
chine guns, and 2 Marlin aircraft
machine guns, with spare parts and
accessories (9 specimens) (63312) ;
Very pistol of the type used in the
U. S. Air Service, 1918 (63337) ;
Browning aircraft machine gun with
accessories, model of 1918 (63399) ;
airplane radio equipment, 1918
(137 specimens) (63411) ; original
De Haviland-4 airplane with origi-
nal Liberty motor, the first battle
plane built in the United States,
made by the Dayton Wright Air-
plane Co. in 1917 (63440).
Air Service: Photographs illustrat-
ing the work of the Willys-Overland
Co., Toledo, Ohio, for the United
States Government, during the War
with Germany, 1917-18 (111 speci-
mens) (63460) ; 2 Browning air-
170
REPORT OF 2?^ATI0NAL MUSEUM, 1919.
Wab Depaktment — Continued,
craft machine guns, model 1918
(63473) ; Lewis machine gun, Vick-
er's machine gun, and scarf mount,
of the old type, and incomplete gear
and telescope sight (5 specimens)
(63572) ; aviator's oxygen appara-
tus for high altitudes, of the type
used in the U. S. Air Service,
1917-18 (installed on a panel, 6
specimens) (63613).
Army Medical Museum: 15 snakes
collected in northern Virginia
(62635).
Army War College — General Staff
of the United States Army, Histori-
cal Branch: 5 propaganda balloons,
2 packages of propaganda, a propa-
ganda balloon release, 2 propaganda
rifle grenades, 2 propaganda fuses,
and a bullet showing types of these
objects used by American, French,
and German forces during the Euro-
pean War, 1918 (13 specimens)
(63223) ; 5 frames containing Cana-
dian military insignia and 1 frame
containing United States military
insignia (250 specimens) (63249) ;
collection of gas masks and ordnance
accessories of the tji)e manufactured
by the Pennsylvania Rubber Co.
during the European War, 1914-18
(12 specimens) (63285) ; incendiary
and explosive bombs, etc., taken
from Baron Friederich Walter Von
Rautenfels, German secret agent,
who was arrested in Christiana,
Norway, June 16, 1917 (9 speci-
mens) (63380). Pictorial Section,
Historical Branch, W. P. D.
(through Maj. K. Banning, General
Staff) : 2 sets of Boy Scout insignia
(224 specimens) (63545).
Chemical Warfare Service, U. S.
Army : 12 panels installed with mil-
itary gas masks and accessories
.showing the development by the
U. S. Chemical Warfare Service
during the War with Germany,
1917-18 (63608).
Military Aeronautics, Bureau of:
United States military airplane of
Wab Depabtment — Continued.
the type used at training camps,
1918 (62998) ; aviator's oxygen
mask with tubing, and a Dreyer
oxygen apparatus for high altitudes
of the types used in the U. S. Army,
1918 (63092) ; 2 Marlin aircraft ma-
chine guns and 2 Lewis aircraft ma-
chine guns, with accessories (10
specimens) (63240) ; miscellaneous
documents and photographs relating
to the U. S. Air Service, 1918 (7
specimens) (63309).
Ordnance, Bureaxi of (through
Lieut. E. G. Tewes) : A Colt's re-
volver and cartridge clip, an auto-
matic pistol and 2 magazines, a cav-
alry bandolier, a bolo scabbard, and
an officer's dispatch case, of the type
used in the U. S. Army (8 speci-
mens) (62804) ; BroAvning machine
Gun, water-cooled model of 1917, and
accessories (78 specimens) (62892) ;
Browning machine rifle, model of
1918, and accessories (31 specimens)
(62893) ; pair of spurs with straps,
and a leather pistol holster, of the
type used in the U. S. Army, 1918
(62919) ; Cavalry, Infantry, and
miscellaneous military equipment of
the type used in the U. S. Army,
1918 (120 specimens) (62990) ;
Lewis machine gun, Airplane Model,
1918, with accessories (62991) ; a
noncommissioned officer's saber, with
scabbard, of the type used in the U.
S. Army, 1918 (63104) ; a defensive
hand grenade, a gas hand grenade,
and a Stokes 3-inch trench mortar
shell (unloaded), of the type used in
the U. S. Army, 1918 (63105) ; steel
trench helmet of the type used in the
U. S. Army, 1918 (63129) ; rifle
grenade of the type used in the U. S.
Army, 1918 (63322) ; range finder,
tripod and mount, and 2 carrying
cases (63486) ; prismatic compass
and clinometer, telescope, periscope,
sitogoniometer, steel tape, aiming
post, Jacobs staff, time interval re-
corder, goggles, flashlight, slide rule
and ruler, with accessories and car-
rying cases (21 specimens) (63542) ;
LIST OF ACCESSIONS.
171
Wae Depaetment — Continued,
artillery ammunition gauges and ac-
cessories (141 specimens) (63565) ;
aiming circle, Model 1916, and Hitt-
Brown rule for fire control (63576) ;
Bouchon Assembly, Mark II, un-
loaded (63611) ; tachyscope, shells
fuses, adapters and boosters (21
specimens) (63660) ; 6-ton special
tractor (military tank), Model of
1917, of the type used in the U. S.
Army during the War with Ger-
many, 1917-18 (63711) ; German ma-
chine gun and accessories, Italian
mountain cannon, bayonets, shot
guns, pistols, and a Belgian rifie, of
the type used during the European
War, 1914-18 (63750) ; 16-inch armor
piercing shell; 14-inch shell section-
alized; and a 21-second fuse, sec-
tionalized, of the type used during
the War Avith Germany, 1917-18
(63752) ; German caisson captured
during the War with Germany,
1917-18 (63761) ; fuse forgings and
fuses of the type used in the U. S.
Army during the War with Ger-
many, 1917-18 (5 specimens)
(63762); 4 sectionalized fuses; an
adapter and booster, Mark III; a
booster case, Mark VI ; adapter and
booster assemblies, Mark IV-D;
and a rocket board, of the type used
in the U. S. Army during the War
with Germany, 1917-18 (8 speci-
mens) (63778, loan).
Quartermaster General, Office of:
Samples of the equipment of an
enlisted man of the U. S. Army
(70 specimens) (62778) ; winter cap,
pair of overshoes, hat cords, repre-
senting the following branches of the
service: Cavalry, Artillery, En-
gineers, Signal Corps, and field
clerks, of the type issued to enlisted
men of the U. S. Army, 1918 (8 speci-
mens) (62803) ; pair of jersey knit
gloves of the type issued to enlisted
men of the U. S. Army, 1918
(62814) ; a comb, a hairbrush, a
toothbrush, a Gillette safety razor,
and a towel of the type issued to en-
\\'Au Department — Continued,
listed men of the U. S. Army, 1918
(62815) ; a pair of canton flannel
gloves of the type issued to enlisted
men of the U. S. Army, 1918
(62819) ; a collection of bronze collar
insignia, chevrons, and specialty
marks of the type worn by noncom-
missioned officers and enlisted men
of the U. S. Army, 1918 (101 speci-
mens) (62822) ; a pair of trousers;
a pair of spiral puttees, an overseas
cap, and hat cords of the Infantry,
Medical Corps, Ordnance Corps, and
Air Service, of the type issued to
enlisted men of the U. S. Army, 1918
(8 specimens) (62840) ; 2 emer-
gency rations of the type used in
the U. S. Army, 1918 (62917) ; hat
cord of the type worn by interpre-
ters and military police, U. S. Army,
1918 (63106) ; chevrons and hat
cords of the type used in the U. S.
Army, 1918 (224 specimens) (63321).
Snrgeon General, O-fflce of; Col-
lection of apparatus, hospital appli-
ances, and field equipment used by
the Medical, Sanitary, and Dental
Corps in the War v/ith Germany,
1917-18 (63790).
Ward's Natural Science Establish-
ment, Rochester, N. Y. : 9 speci-
mens, 7 species, of fossil cephalo-
pods (62721) ; a fossil fern stem
from the Rock Castle formation,
Kentucky (62942) ; a slab, weigh-
ing 1,393 grams, of the Kenton
County (Ky.) meteoric iron (63383).
Exchange.
Washington, Prof. H. S. (See under
John Gordon.)
Watson, Capt. Edward H., U. S. Navy
(through Mrs. Charles C. Marsh,
Washington, D. C.) : Collection of
gold ornaments from Colombia,
South America (63205, loan).
Wayne, Arthur T., Mount Pleasant,
S. C. : 2 bird skins from South Caro-
lina (63657).
172
REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919.
Weatherby, C. a., East Hartford,
Conn. : 199 specimens of plants from
the northeastern part of the United
States (63290).
Webb, Walter F., Rochester, N. Y. :
33 specimens, 10 species, of Philip-
pine land shells, including the types
of 1 new species and 2 new sub-
species (62668) ; 16 specimens of
Philippine land shells, including the
type of a new subsi^ecies (62702) ;
9 specimens, including 3 types, of
Philippine land shells (63344) ; 15
specimens, 6 species, of land shells
from Panay, P. I. (63648).
Weber, C. M., Balabac, Balabac Island,
P. I. : About 500 specimens of mol-
lusks from the Philippine Islands
(62692).
Webster, Clement L., Charles City.
Iowa: 57 specimens of Stromatop-
oras from the Devonian of Iowa
(62975, exchange).
Weeks, W. H., Brooklyn, N. Y. : 4
specimens, 2 species, of mollusks
from Bohol, Philippine Islands
(62620) ; 5 specimens, 5 species, of
mollusks from Alaska (62981) ; 1
mollusk from British Guiana and 5
mollusks from Alaska (63053) ; 6
Philippine land shells, Leptopoma
nitidum iveekei, Including the type,
from Bohol, P. I. (63348).
Weills, Isaac M., Vero, Fla. : Gopher
turtle (62965).
Wetb, J. R., Missoula, Mont. : 10 speci-
mens of plants (62616, exchange).
Weiss, Mrs. W. J., Washington, D. C. :
2 mounted specimens of the ruffed
grouse, Bonasaumbellus, from Fenn-
.sylvania (63292).
Welsh, Ensign W. W., U. S. Navy,
Philadelphia, Pa. : Skull of a logger-
head turtle from Cape Henry, Va.
(62842).
Wesgate, Walter, Houston, Tex. : 167
specimens, 29 species, of mollusks
from various localities in the United
States (63143).
Weymouth, Ralph W., New York City
(through Mr. F. L. Hess) : 2 speci-
mens of arsenic minerals from
Hunan, China (632-52). (See also
under Sir Paul Chater.)
Wharram. S. v., Hastings, Fla.: 6
mollusks representing the species
AiiipvUaria depressa from Florida
(62958,63298).
Wherry, Dr. Edgar T., U. S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture, Washington,
D. C : Specimen of plant from Vir-
ginia (62.595) ; 3 specimens of ferns
from Virginia and Vv^est Virginia
(62684) ; 7 specimens of diabase
from Belmont Park, Va. (62767) ;
specimen of club moss, Lycopodiuni
annotinum, from Pennsylvania
(62776) ; 9 specimens of plants from
Maryland, and a specimen of fern
from Maryland (62876,63291,63685;
63447). (See also under George S.
Scott and H. W. Trudell.)
White, Mrs. Calvin, Teng Chow, China
(through Miss Bliss Finley, Wash-
ington, D. C.) : Chinese costumes,
consisting of 2 skirts, a coat, and a
richly embroidered Mandarin's robe
(63412, loan).
White, David. (Seen under William
Paterson.)
WiEGAND, K. M. (See under Cornell
University, Ithaca, N. Y.)
Wight, W. F., Takoma Park, Md. : 5
enlarged and mounted photographs
taken in the potato regions of Peru,
Bolivia, and Chile (62845, loan).
Wilcox, Brig. Gen. Timothy E., U. S.
Army (retired), Washington. D. C. :
40 specimens of plants collected in
France by Lieut. Glover B. Wilcox
(63056) ; specimen of moss collected
in France (63493). (See also under
Col. R. G. Ebert.)
Wild, William, East Aurora, N. Y. : 5
specimens of Lepidoptera including
1 topotype of Coleophora albianter-
maella (63743).
LIST OF ACCESSIONS.
173
Wilkinson, Lieut. Commander T. S.,
U. S. Navy, Navy Department,
Bureau of Ordnance, AVashington, D.
C. ; Fragment of the envelope of the
first Zeppelin airship, completed
in Germany, December 12, 1901
(62916).
WiLLETT, G., Los Angeles, Calif. : 6
mollusks, Epiphragtiwphora traski
traski, taken in sand hills near El
Segundo, Los Angeles County, Calif.
(62993) ; 3 land shells from Colusa
County. Calif., including the type of
a new sub.species, Epiphragmophora
tudiculata loillctth (63333).
WiLMER, Col. L. WORTHINGTON, Loth-
ian House. Ryde, Isle of Wight :
About 500 specimens of Cretaceous
and Tertiary fossils from England,
and 30 specimens of algae (63556).
Wilms, Dr. John H., Cincinnati, Ohio
(through Dr. W. A. Dewey, Ann
Arbor, Mich.) : King's History of
Homeopathy in four volumes
(63423).
Wilson, Woodrow, The White House,
Washington, D. C. : Roman coin is-
sued during the reign of Antoninus
Pius, 138-161 A. D., and unearthed
in 1918 on the battle line in north-
em France by Lieut. L. H. A. La-
Brecque, Eleventh Battalion, Cana-
dian Railway Troops, British Ex-
peditionary Forces (62671, deposit).
Winchester, Dr. G., Wyoming, 111. :
Austrian portable telephone set cap-
tured by Italian forces during the
European War, 1914-1918, and a box
of Brock light filters and goggles
(6.3698). (See also under General
Electric Co., Engineer Division.
Schenectady, N. T., and T. W. Case.)
Wirt, Charles. Germantown, Pa. :
Cardew voltmeter (63090).
Wood, Nelson R., U. S. National
Museum: 19 young solft-shelled
Wood, Nelson R. — Continued,
turtles from Florida ; 2 lizards from
Florida (62696, 62755; 63279).
AYoodhouse, Henry, New York City:
3 envelopes forwarded from New
York to Washington, D. C, by the
first aeroplane mail at reduced post-
age rate of 16 cents, July 15,
1918 (62933).
Woodson, W. H., Berwyn, Md. : Stone
pestle found on the bank of the
Illinois River, Ind. T. (62751).
Woollet, Claude L., Baltimore, Md. :
Aluminum sundial adapted for North
latitude from 0 to 65 degrees (62672) ;
aluminum sundial adapted to the
latitude of .Jerusalem, Palestine (N.
Lat 31° 47') (63064).
Worth Co.. J. B., Petersburg, Ya.
(through H. C. Thompson, U. S. De-
partment of Agriculture) : 4 samples
of raw peanuts (62775).
Wren. Christopher. Plymouth, Pa.:
Skeleton dug up on an Indian village
site on the north bank of the north
branch of the Susquehanna River, at
Dorranceton Borough, Pa. (626.59).
Wyckoff, Nathaniel C, Construction
Division, War Department, Wash-
ington, D. C. : 2 specimens of a beetle
Passalus cornutus (63497).
Yale University, Department of Bot-
any, New Haven, Conn, (through
Prof. A. W. Evans). Parts of 3 type
.specimens of plants, Hepaticae, from
Cuba and Mexico (62895, exchange).
Yottng, Mrs. C. E., Washington, D. C. :
200 specimens of ferns from the
United States and Canada (62873).
Young Men's Christian Association
OF the United States, New York
City: 1 poster. The Red Triangle
(63354).
Zanofsky, Charles A., Baltimore,
Md. : Albino English sparrow. Passer
domesticus (63488).
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES NA-
TIONAL MUSEUM ISSUED DURING THE FISCAL YEAR
1918-19.
EEPOETS.
Report on the Progress and Condition
of tlie United States National Mu-
seum for the year ending June 30,
1918.
8vo., pp. 1-175, pis. 1-4.
PROCEEDINGS.
Proceedings of the United States Na-
tional Sluseum. Volume 53.
8vo., pp. i-xi, 1-669, pis.
1-79, 153 figs.
BULLETINS.
No. 102. The Mineral Industries of the
United States.
Volume 1. The energy
resources of the United
States: a field for recon-
struction. By Chester G.
Gilbert and Joseph E.
Pogue, of the Division of
Mineral Technology
United States National
Museum.
8vo., pp. i-x, 1-165, pis.
1-8, 15 figs.
No. 105. Catalogue of the postage
stamps and .stamped en-
velopes of the United
States and possessions, is-
sued prior to January 1,
1919. Compiled by Joseph
B. Leavy, Philatelist,
United States National
Museum.
8vo., pp. i-x, 1-204, pis.
1-3.
PAPERS PUBLISHED IN SEPARATE FORM.
SEPARATES FROM THE BULLETINS.
From No. 99. East African Mammals in the United States National Museum.
By N. Hollister
Part I. Inscctivora, Chiroptera, and Carnivora. pp. 1-194, pis. 1-53, 3 flgs.
Part n. Rodentia, Lagomorpha, and Tubulidentata. pp. i-x, 1-184, pis. 1-44, 1 fig.
From No. 100. Contributions to the Biology of the Philippine Archipelago and
Adjacent Regions.
Volume 1, Part 4. Report on the Chaetognatha collected by the United States Fish-
eries steamer Albatross during the Philippine expedition, 1907-1910. By Ellis
L. Michael, pp. i-iv, 235-277, pis. 34-38.
175
Report on the Progress and Condition
of the United States National Mu-
seum for the year ending June 30,
1917.
8vo., pp. 1-184.
Proceedings of the United States Na-
tional Museum. Volume 52.
8vo., pp. i-xiii, 1-693, pis.
1-47, 649 figs.
No. 50, Part VIII. The Birds of North
and Middle America. By
Robert Ridgway, Curator,
Division of Birds.
8vo., pp. i-xvi, 1-852, pis.
I-XXXIV.
No. 100. Contributions to the Biology
of the Philippine Archi-
pelago and Adjacent Re-
gions.
Volume 3. Starfishes of
the Philippine seas and ad-
jacent waters. By Walter
K. Fisher, Director of the
Hopkins Marine Station of
Stanford University, and
Curator of Invertebrate
Zoology, California Aca-
emy of Sciences.
8vo., pp. i-xi, 1-712, pis.
1-156.
176 EEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919.
Volume 1, Part 5. Ilydromedusae, Siphonophores, and Ctcnophores of the Albatross
Philippine Expoditlon. By Henry B. Bigelow. pp. i-iii, 279-362, pis. 39-43.
Volume 2, Part 1. The Salpidae collected by the United States Fisheries steamer
Albatross in Philippine waters during the years 1908 and 1909. By Maynard
M. Metcalf. pp. 1-4.
Volume 2, Part 2. The Salpadae : a taxonomic study. By Maynard M. Metcalf, -wilh
the assistance of Mary M. Bell. pp. 1-193, pis. 1-14, 1.50 figs.
From No. 102. The Mineral Industries of the United States.
Part 5. Power : its significance and needs. By Chester G. Gilbert and Joseph E.
Pogue. pp. 1-53, 2 figs., 2 tables.
Part 6. Petroleum : a resource interpretation. By Chester G. Gilbert and Joseph E.
Pogue. pp. i-v, 1-76, pis. 1-3, 12 figs.
Part 7. Natural gas : its production, service, and conservation. By Samuel S.
Wyer. pp. 1-67, pis. 1-7, 20 figs.
From No. 103. Contributions to the Geology and Paleontology of the Canal Zone,
Panama, and Geologically Related Areas in Central America and the West
Indies.
On some fossil and recent Lithothamnieao of the Panama Canal Zone. By Marshall
A. Howe. pp. 1-13, pis. 1-11.
The fossil higher plants from the Canal Zone. By Edward W. Berry, pp. 15— i4,
pis. 12-18.
The smaller fossil foraminifera of the Panama Canal Zone. By Joseph Augustine
Cushman. pp. 45-87, pis. 19-33.
The larger fossil foraminifera of the Panama Canal Zone. By Joseph Augustine
Cushman. pp. 89-102, pis. 34-45.
Fossil echini of the Panama Canal Zono and Costa Rica. By Robert Tracy Jackson.
pp. 103-116, pis. 46-52.
Bryozoa of the Canal Zone and related areas. By Ferdinand Canu and Ray S. Bass-
ler. pp. 117-122, pi. 53.
Decapod crustaceans from the Panama region. By Mary J. Rathbun. pp. 123-1S4,
pis. 54-66.
Cirripedia from the Panama Canal Zone. By Henry A. Pilsbry. pp. 185-188, pi. 67.
The sedimentary formations of the Panama Canal Zone, with special reference to
the stratigraphic relations of the fossiliferous beds. By Donald Francis Mac-
Donald, pp. 525-545, pis. 153, 154.
The biologic character and geologic correlation of the sedimentary formations of
Panama in their relations to the geologic history of Central America and the
West Indies. By Thomas Waylaad Vaughan. pp. 547-612.
Form No. 104. The Foraminifera of the Atlantic Ocean. By Joseph Augustine
Cushman.
Part I. Astrorhizidae. pp. i-vii, 1-111, pis. 1-39.
FROM VOLUME 2 0 OF CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM.
I'art 4. The North American species of Aquilegia. By Edwin Blake Payson.
pp. i-ix, 133-157, pis. 8-14.
Part 5. The allies of Selaginella rupestris in Ihe southeastern United States.
By G. P. Van Eseltine.
pp. 1-vii, 159-172, pis. 15-22, 8 figs.
FROM VOLUME 5 4 OF THE PROCEEDINGS.
No. 2237. New species of North Ameri-
can fossil beetles, cock-
roaches, and tsetse flies).
By T. D. A. Cockerell. pp.
301-311, pis. 54, 55.
No. 2240. Notes on mimetite, thauma-
site, and wavellite. By
Edgar T. Wherry, pp.
373-381, pi. 56.
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS.
177
No. 2241. A newly mounted skeleton of
the armored dinosaur,
Stegosaurus stenops, in
the United States Na-
tional Museum. By
Charles W. Gilmore. pp.
883-390, pig. 57-68.
No. 2242. The comparative morphology
of the order Strepsiptera
together with records and
descriptions of insects. By
W. Dwight Pierce, pp.
391-501, pis. 64-78.
No, 2243. Further notes on the Plain-
view, Texas, meteorite.
By George P. Merrill, pp.
503-505, pis. 79, 80.
No. 2244. Mannnals and reptiles col-
lected by Theodoor de
Booy in the Virgin
Islands. By Gerrit S.
Miller, jr. pp. 507-511, pi.
81.
No. 2245. Bones of birds collected by
Theodoor de Booy from
kitchen midden deposits
in the islands of St.
Thomas and St. Croix.
By Alexander AVetmore.
pp. 513-522, pi. 82.
No. 2246. Two new land shells of the
Epiphragmophora
traskii group. By Paul
Bartsch. pp. 523, 524, pi.
83.
No. 2247. Report on the calcareous
sponges collected by the
United States Fisheries
Steamer Albatross in the
northwestern Pacific dur-
ing 1906. By Sanji H<>-
zawa. pp. 525-556, pis.
84, 85.
No. 2248. On the Fayette County,
Texas, meteorite finds of
1878 and 1900 and the
probability of their repre-
senting two distinct falls.
By George P. Merrill, pp.
557-561, pis. 86, 87.
No. 2249. Descriptions and notes on
some ichneumon - flies
from Java. By S. A.
Rohwer. pp. 563-570.
No. 2250. New marine shells from
Panama. By Paul
Bartsch. pp. 571-575, pi.
88.
No. 2251. On the anatomy of Nyctibius
with notes on allied birds.
By Alexander Wetmore.
pp. 577-586.
No. 2252. Four new African parasitic
Hymenoptera belonging to
the subfamily INIicrogas-
terinae. By A. B. Gahan.
pp. 587-590.
No. 2253. Description of ten new iso-
pods. By Pearl L. Boone,
pp. 591-604, pis. 89-92.
No. 2254. A new West Indian fossil
land shell. By Paul
Bartsch. pp. 605, 606, pi.
93.
No. 2255. Annotated catalogue of a
collection of birds made
by Mr. Copley Aniory, jr.,
in northeastern Siberia.
By J. H. Riley, pp. 607-
626.
No. 2256. Fossil plants from the late
Tertiary of Oklahoma. By
Edward W. Berry, pp.
627-636, pis. 94, 95.
No. 2257. A new genus and species of
multibrachiate ophiuran
of the family Gorgono-
cephalidae from the Ca-
ribbean Sea. By Austin
H. Clark, pp. 637-640,
pi. 96.
FROM VOLUME 5 5 OF THE PROCEEDINGS.
No. 2258. The adult Taenioid cestodes
of dogs and cats, and of
related carnivores in
North America. By Mau-
rice C. Hall. pp. 1-94.
143943°— 20 12
No. 2259. A heretofore undescribed
meteoric stone from Kan-
sas City, Missouri. By
George P. Merrill, pp.
95, 96, pis. 1, 2.
178
REPORT OF N-ATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919.
No. 2260. A new restoration of Tricer-
atops, with notes on the
osteology of the genus.
By Charles W. Gilmore.
pp. 97-112, pis. 3-9.
No. 2261. New reared parasitic Hy-
menoptera with some
notes on synonymy. By A.
B. Gahan. pp. 113-128.
No. 2262. The birds of the Tambelan
Islands, South China Sea.
By Harry C. Oberholser.
pp. 129-143.
No. 2263. Descriptions of new African
earthworms, including a
new genus of Moniligas-
tridae. By Frank Smith
and Bessie R. Green, pp.
145-166.
No. 2264. Bees in the collection of the
Unitetl States National
Museum.— 3. By T. D. A.
Cockerell. pp. 167-221.
No. 2265. Notes on the wrens of the
genus Nannus Billberg.
By Harry C. Oberholser.
pp. 223-236.
No. 2266. Additions and corrections to
" The Type-species of the
Genera of the Cynipoidea
or the Gall Wasps and
Parasitic Cynipoids." By
S. A. Rohwer and Mar-
garet M. Fagan. pp. 237-
240.
No. 2267. The branchiobdellid worms
in the collections of the
United States National
Museum, with descrip-
tions of new genera and
new species. By Max M.
Ellis. pp. 241-265, pis.
10-13.
No. 2268. Notes on birds collected by
Dr. W. L. Abbott on
Pulo Taya, Berhala
Strait, Southeastern Su-
matra. By Harry C.
Oberholser. pp. 267-274.
No. 2269. Hemiptera collected by the
Yale-Dominican Expedi-
tion of 1913. By Ed-
mund H. Gibson, pp.
275-277.
No. 2270. IMiocene fossil plants from
northern Peru. By Ed-
ward W. Berry, pp. 279-
294, pis. 14-17.
No. 2271. Five new species of ptinid
beetles. By W. S. Fisher,
pp. 295-299.
No. 2272. New land shells from the
Philippine Islands. By
Paul Bartsch. pp. 301-
307, pis. 18-20.
No. 2273. On certain genera of atherine
fishes. By David Starr
Jordan, pp. 309-311.
No. 2274. A new species of parasitic
copepod, with notes on
species already described.
By Charles Branch Wil-
son, pp. 313-316, pi. 21.
No. 2275. Distribution and use of
slings in pre-Columbian
America, with descrip-
tive catalogue of ancient
Peruvian slings in the
United States National
Museum. By Philip Ains-
worth Means, pp. 317-
349, pis. 22-27.
No. 2276. A revision of the subspecies
of the white-collared king-
fisher, Sauropatis chloris
(Boddaert). By Harry C.
Oberholser. pp. 351-395.
No. 2277. On a rare species of half-
be^k, Hemiramphus ba-
lao, from Cuba. By David
Starr Jordan, pp. 397,
398.
No. 2278. The races of the Nicobar
megapode, Megapodius
nicobariensis Blyth. By
Harry C. Oberholser. pp.
399-402.
No. 2279. Notes on some genera and
species of chalcid-flies be-
longing to the Aphelini-
nae with description of a
new species. By A. B.
Gahan. pp. 403-407.
No. 2280. Exploration of a pit house
village at Luna, New
Mexico. By Walter
Hough, pp. 409-431, pis.
28-38.
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS.
179
No. 2282. Notes on Dr. W. L. Abbott's
second collection of birds
from Simalur Island,
Western Sumatra. By
Hari'y C. Oberholser. pp.
473-498.
No. 2283. Descriptions of new species
of chitons from the Pacific
coast of America. By
William Healey Dall. pp.
499-516.
No. 2284. Descriptions of new North
American ichneumon-flies.
By R. A. Cushman. pp.
517-543.
No. 2285. Report on a collection of
copepoda made in Hon-
duras by F. J. Dyer. By
C. Dwight Marsh, pp.
,545-548, pi. 49.
No. 2286. North American parasitic
copepods belonging to the
new family Sphyriidae.
By Charles Branch Wil-
son, pp. 549-604, pis.
50-59.
No. 2287. Descriptive catalogue of the
collection of ecclesiastical
art In the United States
National Museum. By I.
M. Casanowicz. pp. 605-
649, pis. 60-97.
Eight-page folder. Brief guide to the
Arts and Industries and
History Building.
LIST OF PAPERS BY MEMBERS OF THE MUSEUM
STAFF AND OTHERS, BASED DIRECTLY OR INDI-
RECTLY ON MATERIAL IN THE NATIONAL COLLEC-
TIONS, PUBLISHED BY THE MUSEUM AND ELSE-
WHERE DURING THE FISCAL YEAR 1918-1919.
Aldfich, J. M. Two new Hydrotaeas
(Diptera, Anthomyidae).
Can. Ent., vol. 50, no. 9,
Sept. 10, 1918, pp. 311-
314.
The type of one of the speclea
described in this paper Is in the
United States National Museum.
New and little-known Cana-
dian Oscinidae.
Can. Ent., vol. 50, no. 10,
Oct. 10, 1918, pp. 336-
343, five text figs.
Of the species described in this
paper the types of two and
paratypes of the other two are
in the United States National
Museum.
The Dipterous genus Iraito-
niyia Tns. (Himantostoma Lw.)
Can Ent., vol. 51, no. 3,
Mar. 31, 1919, p. 64.
Gives notes on synonymy and
distribution of the American /.
sugens Loew.
Two new genera of Antho-
myidae (Dipt.).
Proc. Ent. Soc. Washing-
ton, vol. 21, no. 5, May
5, 1919, pp. 106-109, one
text figure.
Describes Pergandea apivora,
new genus and new species from
Missouri, and Sphenomyia kincaidi,
new genus and new species from
Alaska.
Leiomyza in North America
(Dipt.; Drosophilidae).
Ent. News, vol. 30, no. 5,
May, 1919, pp. 137-141.
Describes two new species, giv-
ing a key, paratypes of both species
having been deposited in the
United States National Museum.
Allen, Glov'er M. The American Col-
lared Lemmings (Dicrostonyx).
Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol.
62, no. 13, Feb., 1919,
pp. 509-540, 1 pi., 1 fig.
A revision of the group, based
partly on material in the United
States National Museum.
Bangs, Outram. A new striated grass
warbler from the Philippines.
Proc. New England Zool.
Club, vol. 7, June 6,
1919, pp. 5, 6.
The Philippine bird is separated
from the typical form of Java, and
named Megalurus palustris farbe»i.
and G. K. Noble. List of birds
collected on the Harvard Peruvian
expedition of 1916.
Auk, vol. 35, no. 4, Oct.,
1918, pp. 442-463.
Notes and comment on 151
species and subspecies, of which 9
are described as new.
and Thomas E. Penaed. Some
critical notes on birds.
Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol.
63, no. 2, June, 1919.
pp. 21-40.
Corrections of nomenclature and
descriptions of new forms, based
on a study of the Lafresnaye col-
lection now in the Museum of
Comparative Zoology. Cnemosco-
PU8 is designated as new genus of
sparrows.
Barber, H. S. Notes and descriptions
of some orchid weevils.
Proc. Ent. Soc. Washing-
ton, vol. 19, nos. 1-4,
Sept. 23, 1918, pp. 12-22.
pi. 4.
Describes variation in Cholus
forhcsii. C. cattleyae, Acythopeus
181
182
REPORT OF NATIONAI. MUSEUM, li>19.
Barber, H. S. — Continued.
atterimus and A. orchivora ; de-
cribes A. gilvonotatus, new
species, Eucactopliaf/us iccis»iy and
E. Mocellatus, new species.
Avocado seed weevils.
Proc. Ent. Soc. Washing-
ton, vol. 21, no. .S, Mar.
18, 1919, pp. 53-60, pi. 2.
Restricts HeAUpus lauri Bohe-
man and Conotracheliis scrpen-
tiniis Boheman and describes II.
pittieri, and C. perseac, new spe-
cies, adding notes on several other
insects of the avocado.
—J (See also under E. A. Schwarz.)
P..\RBOtm, Thomas and Charles T.
Ramsden. The herpetology of Cuba.
Memoirs Mus. Comp. Zool.,
vol. 47, no. 2, May,
1919, pp. 71-213, pis.
1-15.
Based in part upon material in
the TJ. S. National Museum, with
numerous cuts previously pub-
lished by the National Museum.
Barret, Harvey P. (See under Har-
rison G. Dyar.)
Bartsch, Paul. Footnote on garden
slugs.
Farmers' Bull., U. 8. Dept.
Agric, No. 959, June,
1918 (received July 3,
1918), p. 3.
Discusses concisely the 32 spe-
cies of fiarden slugs reported for
the United States, with especial
reference to Agriolimaw agrestis
Linnaeus, its economic significance
and means of extermination.
Biological explorations in
Bartsch, Paul. New land shells from
the Philippines.
Natitilus, vol. 32, no. 1,
July, 1918, pp. 15. 16.
Describes three new subspecies
of Philippine land shells, donated
to the TJ. S. National Museum by
Mr. Walter F. Webb.
A key to the sub.species of
Cuba and Haiti.
I^mithfionian Misc. Colls.,
vol. 68, no. 12, July 24,
1918. pp. 40, illustrated.
An account of field work in Cuba
and Haiti by Mr. John B. Hender-
son and Dr. Paul Bartsch, who
especially investigated the land
mollusks of these regions.
Material collected deposited in
the U. 8. National Museum.
A visit to the Cerion colonies
in Florida.
Smith soman Misc. Colls.
vol. 68, no. 12, July 24,
1918, pp. 48, 49.
Preliminary report on this
year's progress in the author's
Cerion breeding experiments.
Leptopoma nitidum Sowerby of the
Philippine Island.s.
Journ. Washington Acad.
Sci., vol. 8, no. 15, Sept.
19, 1918, pp. 532-535.
A synoptic key of the subspecies
of Leptopoma nitidum and de-
scriptions of 15 new subspecies.
The status of Loboa brunoi
Von Ihering.
Nwutilus, vol. .^2, no. 2,
Oct., 1918, pp. 53, 54,
fig. 7 of pi. 4.
Remarks on this species based on
material submitted for examina-
tion to U. S. National Museum.
A new marine mollusk of the
genus Cerithiopsis from Florida.
Proc. Biol. Soc. Washing-
ton, vol. 31, Nov. 29,
1918, pp. 135, 136.
Describe Cerithiopsis (Cerithi-
opsis) vanhyningi from Tampa
Bay, Florida.
The type and two additional
specimens are in the collections
of the U. S. National Museum ;
seven paratypes are in the collec-
tions of the Florida State Museum.
Four new mollusks from the
Philippine Islands.
Proc. Biol. Soc. Washing-
ington, vol. 31, Nov. 29,
1918, pp. 153, 154.
Describes four new subspecies
of Philippine land shells donated
to the U. S. National Museum by
Mr. Walter F. Webb.
Classification of the Philip-
pine operculate land shells of the
family Helicinidae, with a synopsis
of the species and subspecies of the
genus Geophorus.
Journ. Washington Acad.
Sci., vol. 8, no. 20, Dec.
4, 1918, pp. 643-657.
A synopsis of the superspeclfic
groups of the family Helicinidae
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS.
183
Bartsch, Paul — Continued.
with keys and brief comments on
the species and subspecies of the
genus Oeophorus of the Philip-
pines. Two subgenera, 18 species
and 10 subspecies are described as
new.
Two new land shells of the
Epiphragmophora traskii group.
Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., vol.
54, no. 2248, Dec. 23,
1918, pp. 52.'}, 524, pi.
83.
A discussion of two additional
species of this group collected by
Mr. Herbert N. Lowe in the
mountains of southern California,
and donated to the collections of
the U. S. National Museum.
New marine shells from I'an-
ama.
shell.
Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol.
54, no. 2250, Dec. 23,
1918, pp. 571-575, pi.
88.
Reports and figures five new
species of mollusks collected by
Mr. James Zetek in Panama and
donated to the U. S. National Mu-
seum collections.
A new West Indian fossil land
Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol.
54, DO. 2254, Dec. 26,
1918, pp. 605, 606, pi.
93.
Describes and figures Pleuro-
donte debooyi, new species, from
the kitchen midden deposits on
Salt River, northern St. Croix,
West Indies.
New marine mollusks from the
Philippine Islands.
Proc. Biol. Sac. Washing-
ton, vol. 31, Dec. 30,
1918, pp. 181-187.
Describes eight new species and
two new subspecies of Philippine
marine mollusks. Based on Mu-
seum material.
Three new Philippine land
shells.
Proc. Biol. 8oc. Washing-
ton, vol. 31, Dec. 30,
1918, pp. 199-201.
Describes 3 new subspecies of
Philippine land shells donated to
the V. S. National Museum by Mr.
C. M. Weber.
Baetsch, Patol. a new Epiphragmo-
phora from the coast range of Cali-
fornia.
Nautilus, vol 32, no. 4,
Apr., 1919, pp. 126, 127.
Describes EpiphragmopJiora tu-
diculata colusaensis, donated to
the National Museum by Mr.
George Willett.
Critical remarks on Philippine
land shells with descriptions of now
forms.
Proc. Biol. Soc. Washing-
ton, vol. 32, Apr. 11,
1919, pp. 15-19.
This paper embraces a diag-
nosis of five new subspecies of
Philippine land shells and a dis-
cussion of involved nomenclatorial
problems concerning some of the
names bestowed upon species long
ago.
Abstract of address : Sym-
posium on what constitutes a sub-
species.
J own. Washington Acad.
Sci., vol. 9, no. 8, Apr.
19, 1919, pp. 236, 237.
The author's opinion of the
status of a subspecies with ref-
erence to mollusks.
■ Abstract of remarks on a
purple finch.
Journ. Washington Acad.
Sci., vol. 9, no. 8, Apr.
19, 1919, p. 234.
New land shells from the
Philippine Islands.
Proc. V. 8. Nat. Mus., vol.
55, no. 2272, Apr. 28,
1919, pp. 301-307, pis.
18-20.
Presents a critical diagnosis of
eight Philippine land shells, seven
of which are new to science,
secured in Maquebenga, Luzon,
through a native collector and do-
nated to the U. S. National
Museum by Mr. Walter F. Webb.
Bassler, Ray S. (See under Ferdi-
nand Canu.)
Bell, Mary M. (See under Maynard
M. Metcalf.)
Belote, Theodore T. The war col-
lections of the United States Na-
tional Museum.
Daughters Amer. Rev.
Mag., vol. 53, no. 2,
Feb., 1919, pp. 63-78, 12
pis.
184
REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919.
Belote, Theodoee T. — Continued.
This article outlines thie ac-
tivities of the Museum in con-
nection with the War Collections.
The illustrations are all from the
original objects belonging to the
Museum collection.
Benjamin, Marcus. Richard Rath-
bun.
Science (n. s.) vol. 48, no.
1236, Sept. 6, 1918, pp.
231-235, portrait.
A brief biography of the lata
Assistant Secretary in charge of
the National Museum.
Court costumes worn by
American Diplomats.
Daughters Amer. Rev.
Mag., vol. 52, no. 11,
Nov., 1918, pp. 638-645.
A brief description of the
various types of official costumes
worn by American representatives
in foreign countries.
Berry, Edward W. Fossil plants from
the Late Tertiary of Oklahoma.
Proe. U. S. Nai. Mus., vol.
54, no. 2256, Nov. 19,
1918, pp. 627-636, pis.
94, 95.
Six determinable species, of
which four are new, and three ad-
ditional forms that are generically
but not specifically recognizable,
are here described. All of the
forms appear to have been alluvial
species of river bottoms and most
of them have their genera still
represented in the valleys of the
principal streams that enter
Oklahoma from the Coastal Plain
of the Gulf States. The author
regards their age as upper
Miocene.
The fossil higher plants from
the Canal Zone.
Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no.
103, Jan. 11, 1919, pp.
15-44, pis. 12-18.
The fossil flora at present
known from the Canal Zone is ex-
tremely limited and entirely too
small for either purposes of exact
correlation or for deductions con-
cerning the true botanical fades
or the environmental conditions.
The author, however, is not in-
clined to consider any of the
plants described in the present
paper, with the exception of one
Eocene species, as younger thaa
Burdigalian nor older than San-
Berry, Edward W. — Continued.
noisian. Seventeen species, 14 of
which are new, are determined,
and two or three additional forms
are tentatively recognized. The
types are in the collections of the
U. S. National Museum and Johns
Hopkins University.
Miocene fossil plants from
northern Peru.
Proc. V. S. Nat. Mus., vol.
55, no. 2270, Apr. 28,
1919, pp. 279-294, pis.
14-17.
Based upon a small collection
of fossil plants obtained by C.
F. Winslow in 1875, near Tumbez,
Peru. The described species num-
ber 14, of which 0 are only pro-
visional identifications and 5 are
new. The author is disposed to
consider the age to be Burdigalian.
The principal interest in the paper
is the decisive evidence furnished
of the very different climatic con-
ditions formerly existing in this
desert region, and the rather far-
reaching correlations which it is
possible to make.
BiGELOw, Henry B. Contributions to
the biology of the Philippine Archi-
pelago and adjacent regions : Hydro-
medusae, Siphonophores, and Cteno-
phores of the Albatross Philippine
Expedition.
Bull. V. 8. Nat. Mus., no.
100, pt. 5, May 22, 1919,
pp. 279-362. pis. 39-43.
Presents an exhaustive sys-
tematic report on the Hydrome-
dusae, Siphonophores, and Cteno-
phores of the Philippines and ad-
jacent regions treating of 52
species, one varietal form of which
is new to science, and including a
discussion of the zoogeographie
distribution of this faunal area.
The types and additional ma-
terial of this collection are in the
U. S. National Museum ; a first set
of duplicate specimens is in the
Museum of Comparative Zoology.
Blakk, S. F. Revision of Ichthyo-
methia, a genus of plants used for
poisoning fish.
Journ. Washington Acdd.
8ci., vol. 9, no. 9, May
4, 1919, pp. 241-252.
The types of the new species de-
scribed are in the National Her-
barium.
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS.
185
Blanchaed, Fbanx N. Two new
snakes of the genus Lampropeltis.
Oco. Papers Mus. Zool.,
Univ. Michigan, no. 70,
May 5, 1919, pp. 1-11,
pi. 1.
Described from material in the
U. S. National Museum.
Boone, Pearl L. Descriptions of ten
new Isopods.
Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., vol.
54, no. 2253, Oct. 16,
1918, pp. 591-604, pis.
89-92.
Presents a critical diagnosis of
one new family, one new genus,
and 10 new species of Isopods, ac-
cumulations from various collec-
tions transraittpd to the National
Museum.
Eight of the types are in the
National Museum, one, Cirolana
Jiermitensls, is in the collections
of the Cambridge Museum, Eng-
land, and one, Braga occidentalis,,
is in the Yale Museum.
BoviNQ, Adam G. [In Runner, G. A.
Tiie tobacco beetle: An important
pest in tobacco products.]
U. 8. Dept. Agric, Bur.
Ent. Bull. 737, Mar. 17,
1919.
Furnished the technical descrip-
tions of the various larvae dis-
cussed from material in the Na-
tional Museum.
Britton, N. L. (See under Frederick
V. Coville.)
• and J. N. Rosk. The Cacta-
ceae: Descriptions and illustrations
of plants of the cactus family. I.
Carnegie Institution o f
Washington, Pub. no.
248, vol. 1, June 21,
1919, pp. i-viii, 1-236,
pis. 1-36, text figs. 1-
302.
Brown, Edward J. Melospiza melodia
phaea in southern California.
Auk, vol. 35, no. 3, July,
1918, p. 350.
Records a specimen obtained In
Los Angeles county.
Bryant, Harold Child. (See under
Joseph Grinnell.)
Bxjsck, August. Two niicrolepidop-
tera injurious to strawberry.
Proc. Ent. 8oc. Washing-
ton, vol. 21, no. 3, Mar.
18, 1919, pp. 52, 53.
BuscK, August — Continued.
Describes Tortricodes fragariana
and Ariatotelia fragariae from
British Columbia.
On some generic synonymy in
the family Gelechiidae.
Proc. Ent. 8oc. Washing-
ton, vol. 21, no. 4, May
2, 1919, pp. 94-96.
A new species of Bucculatrix
injurious to Hollyhock (Lep.)
Proc. Ent. 8oc. Washing-
ton, vol. 21, no. 5, May
5, 1919, pp. 109, 110.
Describes B. althaeae from Cali-
fornia.
A microlepidopteron injurious
to Avocado.
Proc. Ent. 8oc. Washing-
ton, vol. 21, no. 6, June
18, 1919, pp. 125, 126.
Gives notes on the habits of
8tenoma catenifer Walslngbam.
DE Candolle, Casimir. Begoniaceae
Centrali-Americanae et Ecuadoren-
ses.
Smithsonian Misc. Colls.,
vol. 69, no. 12, Apr. 9,
1919, pp. 1-10.
Includes description of 17 new
species of Begonia.
Canu, Ferdinand, and Ray S. Bass-
LER. Bryozoa of the Canal Zone and
related areas.
Bull. U. 8. Nat. Mus., no.
103, Jan. 28, 1919, pp.
117-122, pi. 53.
The few bryozoans that have
so far been found in the rocks of
the Canal Zone and Costa Rica
are here described. These con-
sist of two from the Emperator
limestone of the Canal Zone and
three from the Miocene of Costa
Rica, each locality furnishing one
new species.
Casanowicz, I. M. Descriptive cata-
logue of the collection of ecclesias-
tical art in the United States Na-
tional Museum.
Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., vol.
55, no. 2287, June 18,
1919, pp. 005-649, pis.
60-97.
Contains brief sketches of the
specific doctrines and rites of the
three churches represented in the
collection, namely, the Roman
Catholic, the Greek Catholic or
Orthodox, and the Armenian, and
186
REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919.
Casanowicz, I. M. — Coutinued.
detailed descriptions of the ar-
tistic features and the ritual
significance of the single speci-
mens.
Caxjdell, a. N. Regarding Diaphe-
romera veliei Walsh and Mauomera
blatclileyi Caiulell.
Ent. News, vol. 29, no. 7.
July, 1918, pp. 258-260.
Gives an account of the dis-
tribution and a discussion of the
characters of these species.
Zorotypus hubbardi, a new
species of the Order Zoraptera from
the United States.
Can. Ent., vol. 50, no. 11,
Nov. 13, 1918, pp. 375-
381.
The description of this species
from Florida is the first record
of this order in our fauna.
Two new species of tlie Blattid
genus Arenivaga.
Proc. Ent. Soc. Washing-
ton, vol. 20, no. 7, Dec.
4, 1918, pp. 154-157.
Describes A. genitalis from
Arizona and A. floridetisis from
Florida.
— ■ — — Palmodes praestans and its
prey.
Pros. Ent. 8oe. Washing-
ton, vol 21, no. 2, Feb.
26, 1919, p. 40.
Records the capturing of Capno-
iotes iuliginosus Thomas by this
wasp.
Chase, Agnes. Some causes of con-
fusion in plant names.
Journ. For., vol. 17, no. 2,
Feb., 1919, pp. 159-162.
Claek, Austin H. A new genus and
species of multibrachiate Ophiuran
of the family Gorgonocephalidae
from the Caribbean Sea.
Proe. V. S. Nat. Mus., vol.
54, no. 2257, Nov. 1,
1918, pp. 637-640, pi. 96.
Describes and figures Astrocyno-
dus herrerai from Yucatan, do-
nated to the U. S. National Mu-
seum by the Museo Nacional de
Historia Naturale of Mexico.
CocKEEELL, T. D. A, New species of
North American fossil beetles, cock-
roaches, and tsetse flies.
Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol.
54, no. 2237, July 5,
1918, pp. 301-311, pis.
54, 55, figs. 1-5.
CocKEKELL, T. D. A. — Continued.
Founds two new genera and
describes seven new species of
fossil cockroaches from the Penn-
sylvanian, and three new species
of beetles from the Early Ter-
tiary rocks of Colorado. Discusses
the habits of the African tsetse
fly, Olossina, and records the oc-
currence in Colorado during Ter-
tiary time of species of the same
genus, four having been recog-
nized.
Chile.
New Halictine l)oes from
Can. Eh!., vol. 50, no. 10,
Oct. 10, 191 S, p;). 343-
345.
Describes three new species and
one new subspecies.
Descriptions and records of
bees. LXXXI.
Ann. Mag. Nat. Ilist., ser.
9, vol. 2, no. 11, Nov.,
1918, pp. 418-425.
Describes 10 new species and
gives notes on other species.
Descriptions and records of
bees. LXXXII.
An7i. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser.
9, vol. 2, no. 12, Dec,
1918, pp. 476-482.
Of the species described in this
paper, the types of seven are in
the U. S. National Museum.
Description and records of
bees. LXXXIII.
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser.
9, vol. 3, no. 13, Jan.,
1919, pp. 118-125.
The types of nine of the new
species described in this paper
are in the U. S. National Museum.
A new genus of bees from
Peru (Hym.).
Ent. News, vol. 30, no. 1,
Jan., 1919, pp. 17, 18.
Describes Ohleroyus hirsutipen-
nis new species.
Some Halictine bees in the
United States National Museum
(Hym.)
Proe. Ent. Soc. Washing-
ton, vol. 20, no. 8, Jan.
24, 1919, pp. 177-182.
Describes eight new species and
gives notes on others.
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS.
187
CocKERELL, T. D. A. Neocorynura, a
genus of Halictine bees ( Hym. ) .
Ent. News, Tol 30, no. 2,
Feb., 1919, pp. 41, 42.
Describes one new subspecies
and tabulates forms known to an-
other.
New and little-known Ameri-
can bees.
Cati. Ent., vol 51, no. 2,
Feb. 28, 1919, pp. 26-28.
Of the species In this paper the
types of three are in the U. S. Na-
tional Museum.
Some American Cretaceous
fish scales with notes on the classi-
fication and distribution of Creta-
ceous fishes.
Prof. Paper U. 8. Geol.
Surv., 120-1, Apr. 24,
1919, pp. 1G5-202, pis.
31-37.
Distinctive skeletal remains of
fishes are very scarce throughout
the greater part of the American
Cretaceous, but scales arc plenti-
ful and widespread. Recent studies
of the scales of living fishes show
that they present excellent diag-
nostic characters, hence a study
of these fossil scales seems justi-
fied, especially since It is desirable
to note every fact which will
throw light upon the Cretaceous
history. Mr. Cockerell's descrip-
tion and systematic discussion of
species is preceded by a section
showing their stratigraphic distri-
bution. The paper Is well illus-
trated and the preface is by Dr.
T. W. Stanton.
Bees in the collections of the
United States National Museum. 3.
Proc. U. »•?. Nat. Mua., vol,
55, no. 22G4, May 7,
1919, pp. 167-221.
Describes 1 new subgenus, 40
new species, 20 new subspecies, 5
new varieties ; gives keys to spe-
cies of Meltpona and of Trigona
known to author, and gives notes
on many other species.
Cory, Charles B. Descriptions of new
birds from South America.
Aulc, vol. 36, no. 1, .Ian.,
1919, pp. 88, 89.
Five new forms of ant-thrushes
and oven-birds are described from
Brazil, Venezuela, and Peru.
Cory, Charles B. New forms of South
American birds and proposed new
subgenera.
Auk, vol. 36, no. 2, Apr.,
1919, pp. 273-276.
Two new subgenera and six
new forms of oven-birds are de-
scribed, chiefly from Brazil and
Peru. The type of one of them is
in the U. S. National Museum col-
lection.
CoviLLE, Frederick V., and N. L. Brit-
ton. Grossulariacese [Additions and
Corrections].
North Amer. Flera, vol. 22,
pt. 6, Dec. 30, 1918, pp.
558-560.
Crawford, .1. C. New Hymenoptera.
Proc. Ent. Sac. Washino-
ton, vol. 19, nos. 1-4,
Sept. 23, 1919, pp. 165-
172.
Describes nine new species,
gives notes on other species and
generic synonymy and a key to the
Philippine species of the bee genus
Halictus.
CusHMAN. .Joseph Augustine. The
Foraminifera of the Atlantic Ocean.
Part I, Astrorhizidae.
Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no.
104, pt. 1, July 19, 1918,
pp. 1-111, pis. 1-39.
This paper is the first part of a
work the intent of which is to de-
scribe and illustrate the Foramini-
fera of the Atlantic Ocean, espe-
cially those species which have oc-
curred in the waters adjacent to
the shores of the United States,
including the whole of the Gulf of
Mexico and the Caribbean Sea.
Part one includes only the family
Astrorhizidae, which is the most
primitive of the group, presenting
an exhaustive treatment of the sys-
tematic classification, including
the description of five new species,
two new subspecies, one new genus,
also the critical discussion of 88
previouslj' described species and
subspecies. The types and addi-
tional material are in the collec-
tions of the U. S. National Mu-
seum, being chiefly the results of
dredging and hydrographic sound-
ings of the U. S. Bureau of Fish-
eries and U. S. Coast and Geodetic
Survey investigations augmented
by miscellaneous material in the
museum collections.
188
REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919.
CusHMAN, Joseph Augustine. The
larger fossil Foraminifera of the
Panama Canal Zone.
Bull. V. 8. Nat. Mus., no.
103, Jan. 17, 1919, pp.
89-102, pis. 34-45.
Eleven species are here de-
.scribetl, nine of which are new,
one of the latter being referred to
a new genus, Heterosteoinoides.
The smaller fossil Foramini-
fera of the Panama Canal Zone.
Bull. V. 8. Nat. Mus., no.
103, Feb. 18, 1919, pp.
45-87, pis. 19-33.
The first of a series of papers
dealing with the fossil Foramini-
fera of the Canal Zone, West
Indies, and Coastal Plain Province
of the eastern and southeastern
United States. Seventy-three spe-
cies and varieties have been recog-
nized, ranging from Oligocene to
Pleistocene in ago. Fourteen new
species and one new variety are
included in the described material.
CusHMAN, R. A. Two new Chalcids
from the seeds of Amelanchier.
Proc. Ent. Soc. Washing-
ton, vol. 19, nos. 1-4,
Sept. 23, 1918, pp. 79-
. 86.
Describes Megastigmus amelan-
chieri and Syntomaspis amelan-
chieris from West Virginia.
A much described Ichneu-
monid and its systematic position.
Proc. Ent. Soc. Washing-
ton, vol. 19, nos. 1-4,
Sept. 23, 1918, pp. 162-
165.
A discussion of Diacritus mu-
Uebris (Cresson).
The correct names of some of
our common Ichneumonid parasites.
Proc. Ent. 8oc. Washing-
ton, vol. 20, no. 1, Sept.
27, 1918, pp. 9-12.
New genera and species of
Ichneumon flies (Hym.).
Proc. Ent. 8oc. Washing-
ton, vol. 21, no. 5, May
5, 1919, pp. 112-120.
Describes three new genera,
four new species, and one new
variety.
Descriptions of new North
American Ichneumon flies.
Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., vol.
55, no. 2284, June 7,
1919, pp. 517-543.
CusHMAN, R. A. — Continued.
Describes 1 new tribe, 2 new
genera, 14 new species, and gives
observations on various other spe-
cies.
( See also under S. A. Rohwer. )
and S. A. Rohweb. The genus
Ephialtes first proposed by Schrank.
Proc. Ent. 8oc. Washing-
ton, vol. 20, no. 9, Apr.
22, 1919, pp. 186-188.
Dall, William Healey. Notes on the
genus Trachydermon Carpenter.
Nautilus, vol. 32, no. 1,
July, 1918, pp. 1-3.
Pleistocene fo.ssils of Magda-
lena Bay, Lower California, collected
by Charles Russell Orcutt.
Nautilus, vol. 32, no. 1,
July, 1918, pp. 33-36.
Based on material in the U. S.
National Museum. A list of spe-
cies is given. Macrocalllsta orcutti,
Panope tatniata, and Mure id
(Phyllonotus) stearnsii are de-
scribed as new.
Changes in and additions to
raolluscan nomenclature.
Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., vol.
31, Nov. 29, 1918, pp.
137, 138.
Tromina, Boetica, Elachisina,
and Phenacoptygma, new genera ;
Algamorda, Progdbbia, Boreo-
melon, and Atrimitra, new sub-
genera ; Algaroda, Littorivaga,
Kurtziella, Crawfordia (for Can-
cellaria crawfordiana) , new sec-
tions, are established and Iselica
proposed as a substitute for the
preoccupied Isapls of Adams, 1853.
On some Tertiary fossils from
the Pribilof Islands.
Journ. Washington Acad.
8ci., vol. 9, no. 1, Jan. 4,
1919, pp. 1-3.
Based on material in the U. S.
National Museum. The species
are listed and the deposit on St.
George Island correlated with the
late Pliocene fauna of the second
elevated beach at Nome, Alaska.
Stylobates, a warning.
Nautilus, vol. 32, no. 3,
Jan. 1919, pp. 79, 80,
pi. 6.
Based on specimens secreted by
deep water Actiniae now in the
U. S. National Museum and at
first supposed to be molluscan.
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS.
189
Dall, William Healey. Note on
Thyasira bisecta Conrad.
Nautilus, vol. 32, no. 3,
Jan., 1919, p. 103.
Descriptions of the anatomy,
based on Museum material.
British Antarctic (Terra
Nova) Expedition, 1910, Zoology, II,
No. 8, Bracliiopoda ; and Australa-
sian Antarctic Expedition, Scientific
Reports — Zoology.
Science, (n. s.), vol. 49, no.
1263, Mar. 14, 1919, pp.
265, 266.
Review of reports donated to
the Museum Library.
Descriptions of new species of
Chitons from the Tacific coast of
America.
rroc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol.
55, no. 2283, June 7,
1919. pp. 499-516.
Based on U. S. National Museum
collections. The new subgenus
Seminopalia, based on the new
species Mopalia grisea from Tierra
del Fuego, and 36 new species are
described.
Dixon, H. N. The mosses collected by
the Smithsonian African Expedi-
tion, 1909-10.
Smithsonian. Misc. Colls.,
vol. 69, no. 2, Oct. 8,
1918, pp. 1-28, pis. 1, 2.
Uganda mosses collected by
II. Diimmer and others.
Smithsonian Misc. Colle.,
vol. 69, no. 8, Oct. 21,
1918, pp. 1-10, pi. ].
Dyak, Harbison G. New American
mosquitoes.
Inaecutor Inscitiae Men-
struus, vol. 6, nos. 7-9,
Oct. 30, 1918, pp. 120-
129.
Describes 1 new subgenus and
12 new species.
New moths from Mexico and
Cuba.
Insecutor Inscitiae Men-
struus, vol. 6, nos. 7-9,
Oct. 30, 1918, pp. 130-
140.
Describes 1 new genus and 26
new species.
Notes on American Anopheles.
Insecutor Inscitiae Men-
struus, vol. 6, nos. 7-9,
Oct. 30, 1918, pp. 141-
151.
Gives a key to the subgenera of
Anopheles and key to the species
of some of the subgenera.
Dyae, Harbison G. A note on Lestico-
campa, and a new species.
Insecutor Inscitiae Men-
struus, vol 7, nos. 1-3,
Mar. 18, 1919, pp. 9-11.
Describes L. trichopus from
Brazil.
Westward extension of the
Canadian mosquito fauna.
Insecutor Inscitiae Men-
struus, vol 7, nos. 1-3,
Mar. 18, 1919, pp. 11-39.
Three new species are described ;
notes on the various other species
of the region and keys to certain
groups are given.
Some tropical American Phy-
citiuae.
Insecutor Inscitiae Men-
struus, vol 7, nos. 1-3,
Mar. 18, 1919, pp. 40-63.
Describes 9 new genera, 62 new
species, and gives notes on other
species.
Some new tropical American
moths.
Insecutor Inscitiae Men-
struus, vol. 7, nos. 4-6,
Apr. 1, 1919, pp. 74-85.
Describes 2 new genera and 28
new species.
A note on Argentine mosqui-
toes.
Insecutor Inscitiae Men-
struus, vol. 7, nos. 4-6,
Apr. 1, 1919, pp. 85-89.
Describes one new species.
and Hakv'EY P. Baeret. De-
scriptions of hitherto unknown
larvae of Culex.
Insecutor Inscitiae Men-
struus, vol. 6, nos. 7-9,
Oct. 30, 1918, pp. 119,
120.
and Fredebick Knab. Bromeli-
colus Anopheles— a correction.
Insecutor Inscitiae Men-
struus, vol. 6, nos. 7-9,
Oct. 30, 1918, pp. 140.
141.
. New species of tropical
American mosquitoes.
Insecutor Inscitiae Men-
struus, vol 7, nos. 1-3,
Mar, 18, 1919, pp. 1-9.
Seven new species are described.
190
REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919.
Ellis, Max M. The Brancluobdellid
worms in the collections of the
United States National Museum,
with descriptions of new genera and
new species.
Proc. U. /S'. Nat. Mus. vol.
55, no. 2267, May 2,
1919, pp. 241-265, pis.
10-13, text figs. 1-18.
A detailed annotated account
of the Branchiobdellid -worms,
describing two new genera, eight
new species, one new subspecies,
and discussing many previously
described forms, with an exhaus-
tive anatomic diagnosis of each.
The types and additional ma-
terial are in the U. S. National
Museum ; duplicate material oc-
curs in Dr. Ellis' private collec-
tion, he having generously do-
nated his types to the museum.
Fattst, Ernest Caeroll. Studies on
American Stephanophialinae.
Trans. Amer. Micr. Soc,
vol. 37, no. 3, July,
1918, pp. 183-198, pis.
14, 15.
A detailed annotated discussion
of the Stephanophialinae, includ-
ing the description of two new
species. Based on Museum ma-
terial.
Fewkes, J. Walter. A unique form
of prehistoric pottery,
Journ. Washington Acad.
8ci., vol. 8, no. 18, Nov.
4, 1918, pp. 598-601,
figs. 1-2.
Describes and figures a double
vase of black and white ware, the
two portions being connected by
an eflBgy figure made of clay, re-
sembling a bird. The object was
found not far from the towers of
the Hovenweep Canyon, Colorado.
Prehistoric towers and castles
of the southwest.
Art and Arch., vol. 7, no.
9, Dec, 1918, pp. 353-
366, figs. 1-13.
Devoted to the various pre-
historic caetle-like buildings in the
McElmo Canyon and its tributaries
in southwest Colorado and ad-
jacent areas of Utah. It points
out that these buildings may be
simple towers, of round, D-shaped,
or rectangular form; may be ac-
companied by other buildings an-
nexed to them, or in the highest
Fewkes, J. Walter. — Continued.
form of pueblo architecture may
even be added to large pue1)los
in the open or in cliff dwellings.
Main attention is given to these
buildings in Square Tower, Holly
and Bridge Canyons, where the
most striking forms appear and
which it is intended later to in-
clude in a National Monument for
Government protection.
Fisher, Walter K. Starfishes of the
Philippine seas and adjacent waters.
Bull., U. 8. Nat. Mus. no.
100, vol. 3, June 27,
1919, pp. 1-712, pis. 1-
156.
A detailed account of the star-
fishes collected by the U. S.
Bureau of Fisheries steamer
Albatross, Philippine Expedition,
1907-1910, augmented by two
new forms in the Museum of Com-
parative Zoology and additional
miscellaneous specimens in the U.
S. National Museum. One hundred
and ninety-two species and sub-
species are described or listed of
which 134 species and subspecies
are believed to be new. An ex-
haustive discussion of the zoogeo-
graphic and bathymetric distribu-
tion and the relationships of the
respective groups of species pre-
cedes the systematic discussion.
All types are in the collections
of the U. S. National Museum, ex-
cept two in the collections of the
Museum of Comparative Zoology.
Fisher, W. S. A new species of
AgTilus from Florida (Coleoptera;
Buprestidae).
Proc. Ent. Sac. Washing-
ton, vol. 20, no. 4, Sept.
■27, 1918, pp. 67, 68.
Describes A. dozieri.
Chrysobothris tranquebarica
Gmel. versus impressa Fabr. (Cole-
optera; Buprestidae).
Proc. Ent. 8oc. Washing-
ton, vol. 20. no. 8, Jan.
24, 1919. pp. 173-177.
Gives notes and a bibliography
and full synonymy of the species.
Note on Macrobasis murina
LeConte (Coleo.).
Proc. Ent. Soc. Washing-
ton, vol. 21, no. 1, Feb.
24, 1919, pp. 1, 2.
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS.
191
Fisher, W. S. A new genus and species
of Ceramb5'cidae from Colorado
(Coleo.).
Proc. Ent. Soc. Washing-
ton, vol. 21, no. 2, Feb.
26, 1919, pp. 38-40.
Describes Elatotrypes hoferi.
Five new species of Ptinid
beetles.
Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., vol.
55, no. 2271, Apr. 20,
1919, pp. 295-299.
Descriptions of a new genus
and species of Buprestidae from
Arizona (Coleo.).
Proc. Ent. Floe. Washing-
ton, vol. 21, no. 4, May
2, 1919, pp. 91-93.
Gives a key to the North Ameri-
can genera of the tribe Acmaeo-
derini and describes Paratyndaris
coursetiae, new genus and new
species.
Foster, W. D. ( See under Brayton H.
Ransom.)
Gahan, a. B. Description of a new
Ilymenopterous parasite (Braconi-
dae).
Proc. Ent. Soc. Washing-
ton, vol. 20, no. 1, Sept.
27, 1918, pp. 18, 19.
Describes Microhracon cephi
from North Dakota.
Tliree new Chalcidoid egg-
parasites.
Proc. Ent. Soc. Washing-
ton, vol. 20, no. 2, Sept.
27, 1918, pp. 23-26.
Propachyneuron Girault (Hy-
menoptera ; Clialcidoidea).
Proc. Ent. Soc. Washing-
ton, vol 20, no. 3, Sept.
27, 1918, p. 66.
Four new African parasitic
Hymenoptera belonging to the sub-
family Microgasterinae.
Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol.
54, no. 2252, Nov. 25,
1918, pp. 587-590.
A synopsis of the species be-
longing to the Chalcidoid genus
Rileya Ashmead (Hym.).
Proc. Ent. Soc. Washing-
ton, vol. 20, no. 7, Dec.
4, 1918, pp. 136-150.
In this paper four new species
are described.
Gahan, A. B. A new genus of Chalcid-
wasp belonging to the family Eulo-
phidae.
Proc. Ent. Soc. Washing-
ton, vol. 21, no. 1, Feb.
24, 1919, pp. 2-4.
Describes Apterolovhus pulchri-
comis from New York.
New reared parasitic Ily-
nienoptera with some notes on syn-
onymy.
Proc. V. S. Nat. Mus., vol.
55, no. 2261, Apr. 26,
1919, pp. 113-128, 2
text figs.
Describes 2 new genera and 12
new species.
Notes on some genera and
species of Chalcid-flies belonging to
the Aphelininae with description of
a new species.
Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol.
55, no. 2279, May 28,
1919, pp. 403-407, 5
text figs.
A new species of the Serphi-
doid genus Dendrocerus (Hymenop-
tera).
Proc. Ent. Soc. Washing-
ton, vol. 21, no. G, Jun(;
18, 1919, pp. 121-123.
Describes D. conwentsiae, new
species from Massachusetts and
variety from Washington.
Gibson, Edmund H. Five new species
of Jassoidea from Honduras (Hemip-
tera ; Homoptera ) .
Proc. Biol. Soc. Washing-
ton, vol. 32, Apr. 11,
1919, pp. 25-28.
— Hemiptera collected by the
Yale Dominican Expedition of 1913.
Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol.
55, no. 2269, Apr. 26.
1919, pp. 17-5-177.
Describes Clovia tnodesta.
Notes on the North American
species of Corizus.
Can. Ent., vol. 51, no. 4,
Apr. 28, 1919, pp. 89-92.
Gives a key to the species and
notes on the various included
species.
The genera Corythaica Stal
and Dolichocysta Champion. (Tingi-
dae ; Heteroptera ) .
Proc. Biol. Soc. Washing-
ton, vol. 32, May 20,
1919, pp. 97-104.
192
REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919.
Gibson, Edmund H. — Contiuuecl.
Gives a key to the species of
Dolichocysta, describes D. magna,
D. densata, and Corythaica cos-
tata and gives notes on otlier of
the included species.
and Abbt Holdeidge. Notes
on the North and Central American
species of Acanthocephala Lap.
Can. Ent., vol. 59, no. 7,
July 10, 1918, pp. 237-
241.
Gives a key to and notes on the
included species.
GiDLEY, James Williams. Significance
of divergence of the first digit in the
primitive mammalian foot.
Journ. Washington Acad.
Sci., vol. 9, no. 10, May
19, 1919, pp. 273-280.
Reviews briefly the various
views regarding the arboreal
ancestry of marsupials, especially
those of Matthew to the effect that
all mammals passed through an
arboreal stage of development.
Mr. Gidley disagrees with Mat-
thew's view, and attempts to show
first that opposability of the first
digit, wherever found, is not prim-
itive but a specialization for a
peculiar adaptation, and second,
that simple divergence of the first
digit does not in itself signify
opposability, but is essentially a
primitive character inherited from
the generalized, terrestrial reptil-
ian foot. He concludes that the
generalized type of foot with the
first digit divergent, but not op-
posable, is the primitive stage from
which developed directly the
various terrestrial types of feet
found among living mammals as
well as the arboreal and aquatic
types, but that the terrestrial
types did not pass through the
arboreal stage.
(See also under Gerrit S. Mil-
ler, jr.)
Gilbert, Chester G., and Joseph E.
PoGUE. Petroleum : A resource in-
terpretation.
Bull. U. 8. Nat. Mus., no.
102, pt. 6, Aug. 7, 1918,
pp. 1-76, pis. 1-3, figs.
1-12.
Petroleum is of particular sig-
nificance because, of all our im-
portant resources, it is most
limited and involves the highest
percentage of waste. Scarcely
Gilbert, Chester G., and Joseph E.
PoGUE — Continued.
one-tenth of the value of the re-
source is recovered under present
circumstances, while the unmined
supply available under current
practice is only about 50 barrels
to each person. This paper makes
an economic study of the resource
and the Industry engaged in its
development, and traces the causes
of waste to certain maladjustments
in the economic situation, pointing
out how these may be remedied by
a constructive economic policy ap-
plied to the matter. The de-
sirability of developing shale oil
to replace petroleum as it becomes
incapable of meeting the demand
is gone into and the advisability
of using benzol and alcohol as
substitutes for gasoline is con-
sidered. The natural gas indus-
try is also treated.
Povper : Its significance and
needs.
Bull. U. 8, Nat. Mils., no.
102, pt. 5, Sept. 21, 1918,
pp. 1-53.
In this country tremendous em-
phasis is placed on the use of
power ; the result is a growing
burden on transportation which
must be solved. The present trans-
portation difliculty is in a measure
an expression of this problem.
The purpose of this paper is to
develop the general nature of the
situation and suggest the character
of remedial action called for.
The energy resources of the
United States: A field for recon-
struction.
Bull. U. S. Nat. Mu8., no.
102, vol. 1, May 15, 1919,
pp. 1-165, pis. 1-3, figs.
1-15.
This paper brings together the
substance of parts 4, 5, and 6 of
Bulletin 102, together with an in-
troduction and a conclusion that
coordinate the details of the dis-
cussion and draw forth the main
issues. It is concluded that the
whole matter involves the three-
fold problem of fuel supply, power
supply, and transportation, and
that the entire field may be cleared
by (1) providing a common-carrier
system of electric transmission
lines which will (a) lead to a bal-
anced development of coal-power
and water-power, and (6) serve as
a coordinating influence in stim-
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS.
193
Gilbert, Chester G., and Joseph E.
PoGUE — Continued.
ulating by-product recovery from
coal in central power stations, and
especially in municipal, public
utility fuel plants ; and (2) apply-
ing a constructive economic policy
and appropriate lejiislation to the
conditions surrounding petroleum
production so as to bring the
method of production into con-
formance with the geological oc-
currence of the resource. It is
believed that these measures would
effect economies offsetting, in large
part, the cost of the war.
GiLMOEE, Charles AV. A newly
mounted skeleton of the armored di-
nosaur Stegosaurus stenops, in the
United States National Museum.
Proc. V. 8. Nat. Mus., vol.
54, no. 2241, Doc. 26,
1918, pp. 383-390, pis.
57-63.
Describes in some detail the
skeleton of Stegosaurus stenops
recently mounted in the National
Museum, and gives a brief sum-
mary of the Stegosaurus exhibit.
A new restoration of Tricera-
tops, with notes on tlie osteology of
the genus.
Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol.
55, no. 2260, Apr. 9,
1919, pp. 97-112, pis
3-9, figs. 1-6.
A brief description of a new
model restoration of Triccratops
rlatus based on the mounted
skeleton in the National Museum,
followed by new information re-
lating especially to the typo speci-
mens of Triccratops ohtusus and
T. caUcornis. In conclusion the
homologies of the cranial elements
of the Ccratopsian skull are dis-
cussed. It is shown that elements
which in the normal reptilian
skull are placed laterally have in
the Ceratopsian cranium shifted
to a median dorsal position, sup-
ported from beneath by strong
vertical buttresses.
GoiJ)MAN, Edward A. The lUce Hat?
of North America.
North Atner. Fauna, no.
43, Sept. 23, 1918, pp.
3-100, pis. 1-6, figs.
1-11.
A revision of the members of
the genus Oryzomys occurring
north of South America. Fifty-
one forms are recognized.
143943°— 20 13
Green, Bessie R. (See under Franli
Smith.)
Greene, C. T. A contribution to the
biology of North American Diptera.
Proc. Ent. 8oc. WasMng-
ton, vol. 19, nos. 1-4,
Sept. 23, 1918, pp. 146-
161, pis. 17-20.
The biologies of six species are
given.
Three new species of Diptera.
Proc. Ent. Soc. Washing-
ton, vol. 20, no. 4, Sept.
27, 1918, pp. 69-71.
Describes Madiza conicola from
Oregon, Chrysotoxuni coloradensis
from Colorado and Myxosargus ni-
gncomis from the District of Co-
lumbia.
A note on the habit of
Pegomyia affinis, Stein and other An-
thomyid genera.
Proc. Ent. Soc. Washing-
ton, vol. 20, no. 7, Dec.
4, 1918, p. 160.
A new genus in Scatophagidae
(Diptera).
Proc. Ent. Soc. Washing-
ton, vol 21, no. 6, June
18, 1919, pp. 126-129, 2
text figures.
Describes Ambopogon hyperbo-
reus new species from Alaska.
Grin NELL, Joseph, Harold Child
Bryant and Tracy Irwin Storer.
The game birds of California, con-
tribution from the University of
California Museum of Vertebrate
Zoology, by Joseph Grinnell, Harold
Child Bryant and Tracy Irwin
Storer, University of California
Press, 1918.
Semicentennial publications
of the University of Cali-
fornia [seall 1868-1918,
8vo, pp. i-x, 1-642, pis.
1-16, figs. 1-94, tables
1-19.
A very full and elaborate ac-
count of the 108 species of game
birds of California, with chapters
on the decrease of game and its
causes ; natural enemies of game
birds ; propagation of game birds ;
legislation relating to the sub-
ject ; method of taking meas-
urements of birds ; glossary of spe-
cial terms ; key to the game birds,
etc.
194
REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919.
Hall, Maurice C. The adult taenioid
cestodes of dogs and cats, and of re-
lated carnivores in Nortli America.
Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol.
55, no. 2258. Apr. 11,
1919, pp. 1-94, figs.
1-80.
The present paper includes de-
scriptions of all the adult tape
■worms of the superfamily Taenioi-
dea known to occur in dogs, cats,
and related carnivores in North
America, together with species of
the same superfamily not yet re-
corded as present in North Amer-
ict, but found in other parts of the
world, and liable to occur in car-
nivores in this country. Supple-
menting #he descriptions are keys
for the determination of speci-
mens, a list of hosts and a bibli-
ography.
Based on material in the U. S.
National Museum, augmented by
material in the U. S. Bureau of
Animal Industry of the Depart-
ment of Agriculture.
and Meyer Wigdor. Notes on
the Acanthocephalid and Arthropod
parasites of tlie dog in North Amer-
ica.
Journ. Amer. Veterin. Med.
Assn., vol. 53, n. s. 6,
no. 4, July, 1918, pp.
493-500, figs. 1-3.
This paper is primarily intended
to cover additional information
regarding the rare thorny-headed
worm of the dog, but a summary
of our knowledge of Arthropod
parasites is included in this paper
in order to complete a series cover-
ing the parasites of dogs in North
America.
Two new flukes from
the dog.
Journ. Amer. Veterin. Mrd.
Assn., vol. 53, n. s. G,
no. 5, Aug., 1918, pp.
616-626, figs. 1-7.
A discussion of Alaria amrri-
cana and Alaria michiganevsis
from the intestines of the dog.
Based in part on Museum material.
A Pliysaloptera from
the dog, with a note on the nematode
parasites of the dog in North Amer-
ica.
Journ. Amer, Veterin. Med.
Assn., vol. 53, n. s. 6,
no. 6, Sept., 1918, pp.
733-744, figs. 1-6.
Hall, Maurice C, and Meyer Wig-
dor — Continued.
Describes Physaloptera ram,
new species, and discusses the
nematode parasites of the dog in
North America.
Two new flukes from
the dog.
Wth Ann. Rcpt, Mich. Acad.
Sci., Nov. 22, 1918, p.
139.
Authors' abstract.
Heinrich, Carl. A new Coleophora
injurious to apple in California.
Proc. Ent. Soc. Washing-
ton, vol. 19, nos. 1-4,
Sept. 23, 1918, pp. 135,
136.
Describes O. volclcei.
A note on the Tortricid geni-
talia.
Proc. Ent. Soc. Washing-
ton, vol. 19, nos. 1-4,
Sept. 23, 1918, pp. 137,
138.
On the I^epidopterous genus
Opostega and its larval affinities.
Proc. Ent. 8oc. Washing-
ton, vol. 20, no. 2, Sept.
27, 1918, pp. 27-38, pis.
1-4.
A new genus of Lepidoptera
allied to Leucoptera Hiibner.
Proc. Ent. Soc. Washing-
ton, vol. 29, no. 1, Sept.
27, 1918, pp. 21, 22.
Describes Paraleucoptera based
on Cemiostoma albella. Chambers.
A new Olethreutid from New
York (Olethreutes approximana
Hiibn.)
Insecutnr Inscitiac Men-
struus, vol. 7, nos. 4-6,
Apr. 1, 1919, pp. 65, 66.
Describes O. approximana.
[In Holloway, T. E., and Lof-
tin, U. C. : The Sugar-cane motli
borer.]
U. 8. Dept. Agric, Bur.
Ent. Bull. 746, Apr. 18,
1919.
Furnished the technical descrip-
tions of the immature forms of
that species.
Hitchcock, A. S. The ornamental
trees of Hawaii [Review].
Science (n. s.), vol. 48,
no. 1235, Aug. 30, 1918,
pp. 224, 225.
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS.
195
Hitchcock, A. S. A peculiar species
of Lasiacis.
Journ. Washington Acad.
Set., vol. 9, no. 2, Jan.
19, 1919, pp. 35-38.
A botanical trip to Mexico.
8ci. Monthly, vol. 8, no.
2, Feb., 1919, pp. 129-
145 ; vol. 8, No. 3, Mar.,
1919, pp. 216-238. Illus-
trated.
Report of tlie committee on
generic types of the Botanical So-
ciety of America.
Science (n. s.), vol. 49, no.
1266, Apr. 4, 1919, pp.
333-336.
Hodge, F. W. Excavations at the Zuni
pueblo of Hawiliuh in 1917.
Art and Arch., vol. 7, no.
9, Dec, 1918, pp. 367-
379, figs. 1-10.
Brief description of the joint ex-
pedition of the Museum of the
American Indian, Heye Founda-
tion, and the Bureau of American
Ethnology at Hawikuh, New
Mexico, with historical references
and a description of certain arche-
ologic objects recovered.
HoLDRiDGE, Abby. (See under Ed-
mund H. Gibson.
HoLLiSTEE, N. International Zoology
and the International Code.
Science (n. s.), vol. 48, no.
1227, July 5, 1918, pp.
12, 13.
Three generic names are used
for the Chimpanzee by zoologists
who do not follow the inter-
national code.
East African Mammals in the
United States National Museum.
Part I. Insectivora, Cliiroptera, and
Carnivora.
Bull. U. 8. Nat. Mus., no.
99, Aug. 16, 1918, pp.
1-194, pis. 1-55, figs.
1-3.
A critical review of the East
African material in the U. S. Na-
tional Museum.
The generic names Anoa and
Bubalus.
Proc. Biol. 8oc. Washing-
ton,, vol. 32, Apr. 11,
1919, p. 45.
A new name for the wild sheep
of Northeastern China.
Proc. Biol. 8oc. Washing-
ton, vol. 32, Apr. 11,
1919, p. 46.
HoLLisTER, N. East African mammals
in the United States National Mu-
seum. Part II. Rodentia, Lagomor-
pha, and Tubulidontata.
Bull. U. 8. Nat. Mus., no.
99, May 16, 1919, pp.
1-184, pis. 1-44, fig. 1.
A critical review of the East
African material in the U. S. Na-
tional Museum.
Holmes, William H. Organization of
the Committee on Anthropology of
the National Research Council and
its activities for the year 1917.
Amer. Journ. Phys. An-
throp., vol. 1, no. 1,
Jan.-Mar., 1918, pp.
77-90.
The article gives a brief history
of the scope and aims of the Com-
mittee on Anthropology of the
National Research Council. It
gives also in full the recommenda-
tions made to the Council by the
Committee, In connection with the
war.
Hough, Walteb. Exploration of a pit
house village at Luna, New Mexico.
Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., vol.
55, no. 2280, June 14,
1919, pp. 409-431, pis.
28-38, figs. 1-44.
Sets forth the results of ex-
plorations in the site of a re-
markable village in which the
houses were circular pits sunk in
the ground. The affiliation of the
people of the pit houses is doubt-
fully pueblo and may represent a
very ancient culture.
Howe, Marshall A. On some fossil
and recent Lithothamnieae of the
Panama Canal Zone.
Bull. U. 8. Nat. Mus., no.
103, Feb. 19, 1919, pp.
1-13, pis. 1-11.
Describes as new one species
occurring both recent and in the
Pleistocene in the Canal Zone,
and two new and one previously
described species from the Oligo-
cene.
Howell, Arthur H. The rough-legged
hawk (Archibuteo lagopus sancti-
johannis) at Washington, D. C.
Auk, vol. 35, no. 3, July,
1918, p. 351.
Eight records are given for
this locality.
196
REPORT OF NATIONAL, MUSEUM, 1919.
Howell, Arthur H. Description of a
new seaside sparrow from Florida.
Auk, vol. 36, no. 1, Jan.,
1919, pp. 86, 87.
An unexpected new species,
from Cape Sable Is described as
Thryospiza mirabilis,
Descriptions of nine new
North American Pikas.
Proc. Biol. Soc. Washing-
ton, vol. 32, May 20,
1919, pp. 105-110.
HozAWA, Sanji. Report on the cal-
ojireous sponges collected during
1906 by the United States Fisheries
.steamer Albatross in the Northwest-
ern Pacific.
Proc. V. S. Nat. Mus., vol.
54, No. 2247, Oct, 16,
1918, pp. 525-556, pis.
84, 85, figs. 1-10.
An exhaustive report on the
calcareous sponges of Japanese
and adjacent regions, treating of
thirteen species, eleven of -which
are new to science.
HbdliCka, Ale§. Recent discoveries
attributed to early man in America.
Bull. 66. Bur. Am. Eth.,
1918, pp. 1-67, pis. 1-
14, figs. 1-8.
This bulletin covers an ad-
ditional chapter of the subject of
man's antiquity on the American
continent, dealt with in Bulletins
33 and 52 of the Bureau of Amer-
ican Ethnology. The author gives
the history and a discussion of
the finds at Cuzco, Peru, at La
Brea ranch near Los Angeles,
Calif., and at Vero, Fla. It is
shown that none of these finds
can be accepted as demonstrating
beyond many serious doubts the
existence on this continent of
man of any but very moderate
antiquity or of any other race
than the Indian.
Physical anthropology^ : its
scope and aims ; its liistory and pres-
ent status in America. A. — Physical
anthropology, its scope and aims.
Amer. Journ. PTiys. An-
throp., vol. 1, no. 1,
Jan.-Mar., 1918, pp.
3-23.
The paper deals with the defi-
nitions, history, general scope, ac-
complished results, and future
aims of Physical Anthropology.
Hrdli6ka, Ale§. Physical anthropol-
ogy' : its scope and aims ; its history
and present status in America. B. —
Histoi-y.
Amer. Journ. Phys. An-
throp., vol. 1, no. 2, Apr-
June, 1918, pp. 133-182.
An historical account dealing
with the development of Pliysical
Anthropology in the Western
Hemisphere, and particularly in
the United States and Canada.
Physical anthropology: its
scope and aims ; its history and pres-
ent status in America. C. — Recent
history and present status of the
science in North America.
Amer. Journ. Phys. An-
throp., vol 1, no. 3, July-
Sept., 1918, pp. 267-304.
Deals with tlie history of
Physical Anthropology in the
United States and Canada, so far
as connected with workers wlio
are still living.
Physical anthropology : its
scope and aims ; its history and pres-
ent status in America. D. Conclu-
sion.— Recent history and present
status of the science in North
America.
Amer. Journ. Phys. An-
throp., vol 1, no. 4, Oct.-
Dec, 1918, pp. 377-414.
Concludes the history of Phys-
ical Anthropology in the United
States and Canada so far as con-
nected with living workers, and
refers to same subject in Mexico,
as well as in Central and South
America.
race.
The Slavs.
Cseclioslovah Rev., vol. 2,
no. 10, Nov., 1918, pp.
180-187.
This paper deals with the
origin, subdivisions, numbers, mix-
tures, and the physical, physiologi-
cal, and mental characteristics of
the Slav peoples in general. It in-
cludes important demographic sta-
tistics.
The effects of the war on the
Art and Arch., vol. 7, no.
9, Nov.-Dec, 1918, pp.
400-407.
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS.
197
HrdliCka, Axe§. Anthropometry.
Amer. Journ. Phys. An-
throp., vol. 2, no. l.Jan.-
Mar., 1919, pp. 43-46.
The first contribution to the sub-
ject of scientific anthropometry
giving its definition and objects
and reprinting with some correc-
tion.? the Monaco and Geneva In-
ternational anthropometric agree-
ments.
The effects of the war on thp
American people.
Sd. Monthly, vol. 8, no. 6,
June, 1919, pp. 542-545.
This article, with the similar
one above cited, deals with the un-
toward effects of the war on the
American people oa the one hand,
and T\'ith the many and Important
compensations on the other.
Tlie races of Rus.sia.
Smithsonian Misc. Colls.,
vol, 69, no. 11, Mar.,
1919, pp. 1-21, 1 map.
(Reprinted In full in
ficientific American Sup-
pl-emcnt, June 7, and
succeeding numbers,
1919.)
The object of this publication Is
to furnish at the present time
when the attention of the world
is so much occupied with Russia,
a simple account as far as pos-
sible, of the origin, spread, mix-
ture, and characteristics of the
Rus.iian people.
TIt:nter, H. Chadv.ick. The Ameri-
can Indian in sculptural art.
Art and Arch., vol. 7, no.
8, Oct., 1918, pp. 323-
336, 14 illustrations.
Sculptors have in numerous in-
stances found the Indian an at-
tractive subject for the chisel and
their numerous examples here
presented afford ample proof of
the skill of those who have
wrought In this field.
The American Indian in
painting.
Art and Arch., vol 8, no.
2, Apr., 1919, pp. 89-96,
12 illustrations.
A number of the best examples
of paintings of American Indians
Illustrating the people and their
customs and at the same time pre-
senting notable historical person-
HuNTER, H. Chadwick — Continued.
ages and incidents and customs In
a manner so masterly as to give
them decided value as works of
art.
Jackson, H.xrtley H. T. Two new
shrews from Oregon.
Proc. Biol. F>oc. Washing-
ton, vol. 31, Nov. 29,
1918, pp. 127-129.
The Wisconsin Napaeozapus.
Proc. Biol. Soc. Washin'j-
ton, vol. 32, Feb. 14,
1919, pp. 9, 10.
Description of a new subspecies
of Jumping-mouse.
An unrecognized "shrew from
Warren Island, Alaska.
Proc. Biol. Soc. Washing-
ton, vol. .32, Apr. 11,
1919, pp. 23, 24.
Jackson, Robert Tract. Fossil echini
of the Panama Canal Zone and
Costa Rica.
Bull. TJ. 8. Nat. Mtis., no.
103, Feb, 19, 1919, pp.
103-116, pis. 46-52, figs.
1-3.
Essentially a reprint of a paper
published in the Proceedings of the
TJ. S. National Museum In 1917.
Jordan,
genera
beak
Cuba.
David Starr. On certain
of Atherine fishes.
Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol.
55, no. 2273, Apr. 26,
1919, pp. 309-311, figs.
1, 2.
This paper contains preliminary
notes on certain interesting forms
of Atherine fishes, with figures of
two American species.
On a rare species of Half-
Hemiramphus balao, from
Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol.
55, no. 2277, May 2,
1919, pp. 397, 398. fig. 1.
In this paper the author de-
scribes a lOJ-inch specimen of the
imperfectly known Ilemiramphus
bal^w, of Le Sueur. This fish was
collected by Dr. John Mez, in Cuba,
and is illustrated by text figure.
Knab. Frederick.
son G. Dyar.)
(See imder Harri-
198
REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919.
TvNOWLTON, F. H. Relations between
the Mesozoic floras of North and
South America.
Bull. G^ol. 8oc. Anver., vol.
29, Dec. 30, 1918, pp.
607-614.
Reviews briefly the Mesozoic
floras of North and South America
and shows that, owing to the
meagernc'ss of our knowledge con-
cerning the South American floras,
there is comparatively little de-
monstrable relationship between
the two continents. The paper
also discusses the probable routes
by which the several floras were
distributed, and concludes that the
Triassic and Jurassic floras of
South America apparently reached
there by way of an Antarctic land
mass (Gondwana Land), whereas
the Cretaceous floras presumably
came from North America by way
of a land bridge joining the conti-
nents.
Description of a supposed new
fossil species of maize from Peru.
Journ. Washinffton Acad.
8ci., vol 9, no. 5, Mar. 4,
1919, pp. 134-136, 1 fig.
Describes under the name Zea
antiqua a remarkably well-pre-
served ear of maize or Indian corn
from Peru. Its precise geologic
occurrence is not known, hence Its
exact age can not be determined,
but from the fact of its complete
fossilization it is presumed to be
some thousands of years old. It
is hardly to be distinguished from
a type of maize now living in the
region about Lake Titicaca.
Leavy, Joseph B. The United States
Government collection of postage
stamps.
The Philat. Gaz.: vol. 8,
no. 7, July, 1918, pp.
235-237; vol. 8, no. 8,
Aug., 1918, pp. 271-273 ;
vol. 8, no. 9, Sept., 1918,
pp. 302-305.
This is a complete and detailed
list of the stamps in the Museum
exhibition collection and is based
entirely upon Museum material.
New issue notes and chronicle.
The Philat. Qaz.: vol. 8,
no. 7, July, 1918, pp.
224-231; vol. 8, no. 8,
Aug., 1918, pp. 258-262 ;
vol. 8, no. 9, Sept., 1918,
pp. 292-297; vol. 8, no.
10, Oct., 1918, pp. 325-
Leavy, Joseph B. — Continued.
333 ; vol. 8, no. 11, Nov.,
1918, pp. 354-356; and
vol. 8, no. 12, Dec, 1918,
pp. 391-397.
Amer. Philat.: vol. 32, no.
2, Nov., 1918, pp. 34-
37; vol. 32, no. 3, Doc,
1918, pp. 69-73 ; vol. 32,
no. 4, Jan., 1919, pp.
100-108 ; vol. 32, no. 5,
Feb., 1919, pp. 147-153;
vol. 32, no. 6, Mar.,
1919, pp. 193-198; vol.
32, no. 7, Apr., 1919, pp.
241-253; vol. 32, no. 8,
May, 1919, pp. 289-302,
and vol. 32, no. 9, June,
1919, pp. 325-339.
This is a series of notes on new
issues of foreign stamps received
from the International Bureau of
the Universal Postal Union, Berne,
Switzerland, through the Post
Office Department, and is based
entirely upon Museum material.
What the first issue of United
States postage stamps teaches.
Amer. Philat.: vol. 32, no.
2, Nov., 1918, pp. 21-25.
History and biography of the
1851-60 issue,
Amer. Philat.: vol. 32, no.
3, Dec, 1918, pp. 53-60 ;
vol. 32, no. 4, Jan., 1919,
pp. 90-93, vol. 32, no. 5,
Feb., 1919, pp. 133-135.
History and biography of the
18G1-67 issue.
Amer, Philat.: vol. 32, no.
6, Mar., 1919, pp. 177-
181 ; vol. 32, no. 7, Apr.,
1919, pp. 221-230; vol.
32, no. 8, May, 1919, pp.
277-283; and vol. 32,
no. 9, June, 1919, pp.
317-321.
These articles deal principally
with biographies of the portrait
subjects of the stamps and the
artists executing the originals,
and the postal history of the
stamps themselves and their rea-
sons for being brought Into exist-
ence.
Catalogue of the postage
stamps and stamped envelopes of the
United States and possessions, issued
prior to January 1, 1919.
Bull. U. ff. Nat. Mits., no.
105, May 7, 1919, pp.
1-ix, 1-204, pis. 1-3.
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS.
199
Lincoln, Natalia, Sumnek. The War
Medals of the Allies.
Daughters Amer. Rev. Mag.,
vol. 52, no. 10, Oct..
1918, pp. 571-587, illus-
trated.
A description of the military
and naval medals and decorations
awarded by the Allies and the
United States for special services
during the European War, 1914-
1918.
LuBiN, IsADOE. (See under Joseph E.
Pogue.
MacDonald, Donald Francis. The
sedimentary formations of the Pana-
ma Canal Zone, with special refer-
ence to the stratigraphic relations
of the fossil if erous beds.
Bull. V. 8. Nat. Mus., no.
103, May 16, 1919, pp.
525-545, pis. 153, 154,
figs. 26, 27.
A summary statement regarding
the stratigraphic geology of the
Canal Zone. A generalized geologic
map of the Canal Zone, and a map
of the Panama Canal showing
stations at which fossils were col-
lected are included.
Marsh, C. Dwight. Report on a col-
lection of Copepoda made in Hon-
duras by F. J. Dyer.
Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., vol.
55, no. 2285, June 5,
1919. pp. 545-548, pi. 49.
An annotated account of a col-
lection of free-swimming Copepoda
secured at La Ceiba, Honduras, by
Mr. F. J. Dyer, with description of
one new species.
Marshall, William B. Lampsilis
veutricosa cohongoronta in the Po-
tomac valley.
Nautilus, vol. 82, no. 2,
Oct., 1918. p. 51.
Records finding this species in a
colony of various ages at Midriver
Island, about a mile and a half
above Great Falls, thus establish-
ing the species as a member of the
fauna of that vicinity.
Maxon, William R. Polystichuni
andersonl and related species.
Amer. Fern Joum., vol. 8,
no. 2, Apr.-June, 1918,
pp. 33-37.
Further notes on Pellaea.
Iwer. Fern Joum., vol. 8,
no. 3, July-Sept., 1918,
pp. 89-94.
Maxon, William R. Notes on Ameri-
can Ferns — XII.
Amer. Fern Joum., vol. 8,
no. 4, Oct.-Dec, 1918. pp.
114-121, pi. 6.
A new Polystichum from Cali-
fornia.
Joum. Washington Acad.
8cL, vol. 8, no. 19, Nov.
19, 1918, pp. 620-622.
The lip-ferns of the southwest-
ern United States related to Chei-
lanthes myriophylla.
Proc. Biol. 8oc. Washington,
vol. 31, Nov. 29, 1918, pp.
139-151.
A new Selaginella from Okla-
homa and Texas.
Proc. Biol. 8oc. Washington,
vol. 31, Dec. 30, 1918, pp.
171, 172.
Notes on American Ferns —
Amer. Fern. Joum., vol. 9,
no. 1, Jan.-Mar., 1919,
pp. 1-5.
A new Cheilanthes from
Proc. Biol. 8oc. Washington,
vol. 32. May 20, 1919, pp.
Ill, 112.
XIII.
Mexico.
A new Alsophila from Guate-
mala and Vera Cruz.
Proc. Biol. 8oc. Washington,
vol. 32, June 27, 1919, pp.
125, 126.
Means, Philip Ainswoeth. Distribu-
tion and use of slings in pre-Colum-
bian America, with descriptive cata-
logue of ancient Peruvian slings in
the United States National Museum.
Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., vol.
55. no. 2275. May 7. 1919.
pp. 317-349, pis. 22-27,
figs. 1-3.
Gives distribution of the sling as
an offensive weapon in ancient
America, with .special reference to
those from Peru. Numerous quo-
tations from early Spanish writers
show the wide use of the sling in
South America. A large number
of the specimens in the national
collections are described under
their respective catalogue num-
bers ; a bibliography is also given.
200
REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919.
Merriam, C. Hart. Two new manza-
nitas from the Sierra Nevada of
California.
Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington,
vol. 31, July 10, 1918, pp.
101-103, pis. 2-5.
Mkrrit.l, George P. Further notes on
the Plainview, Tex., meteorite.
Proc. V. S. Nat. Mus., vol.
54, no. 2243, Oct. 7, 1918,
pp. 503-505, pis. 79, 80.
Takes up again the subject of
the apparent brecciated structure
referred to in the first paper rela-
tive to this stone, and shows with
apparent conclusiveness that the
stone is composed of fragments of
two stones differing from each
other in a marked degree in their
relative richness in chondrites.
On the Fayette County. Tex.,
meteorite finds of 1878 and 1900 and
the probability of their representing
two distinct falls.
Proc. V. 8. Nat. Mus., vol.
54, no. 2248, Nov. 25,
1918, pp. 557-561, pis. 86,
87, 1 fig.
Gives the results of careful mi-
croscopic study of these stones and
shows v/ith seeming conclusiveness
that they are not, as was first sup-
posed, identical, but represent two
distinct falls.
Lazulite in an unusual form.
Amer. Mineralogist, vol. 3,
no. 11, Nov., 1918, p. 192.
A brief note only, calling atten-
tion to the occurrence of this min-
eral replacing the original rock
fragments in what was apparently
a volcanic breccia.
The percentage number of
meteorite falls and finds considered
with reference to their varying basic-
ity.
Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., vol. 5,
Feb., 1919, pp. 37-39.
This paper calls attention to the
very interesting change in the
character of meteorites noted iu
the observed falls. But 5 per cent
of the known meteoric irons, 16
per cent of the mesosiderites, and
25 per cent of the howardites and
ureiiites have been seen to fall,
against 95 to 100 per cent of acidic
types grouped under the chondrule-
free types.
Merrill, George P. A heretofore un-
described meteoric stone from Kan-
sas City, Missouri,
Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., vol.
55, no. 2259, Apr. 12,
1919, pp. 95, 96, pis. 1, 2.
Briefly describes a meteoric
stone in the collection of the
Daniel B. Dyer Museum of Kan-
sas City, Mo., attention to which
has been called by Mr. Edward
Butts, the Curator. This stone
was found in 1903 but its me-
teoric nature, while suspected, was
not fully recognized.
Metcalf, Maynaed M. assisted by
Mary M. Bell. The Salpidae col-
lected by the United States Fisheries
steamer Albatross in Pliilippine
waters during the years 1908 and
1909.
Bull. U. 8. Nat. Mu,9., no.
100, vol. 2, pt. 1, May
7, 1919, pp. 1-4.
This paper lists the 98 lots of
Salpidae secured by the AWatross
in Philippine waters, embracing 11
species and 1 new variety.
Tlie Salpidae: a taxonomic
study.
Bull. U. 8. Nat. Mus., no.
100, vol. 2, pt. 2, Apr.
29, 1919, pp. 1-193, pis.
1-14, text, figs. 1-150.
This monograph presents a sys-
tematic report on the Salpidae
giving an exhaustive taxonomic
diagnosis of each species with a do-
tailed discussion of both the soli-
tary and aggregate forms thereof,
concluding with a summarized
discussion of the relationships
among the Salpidae as exempli-
fied by these studies. A list of
unidentifiable species of doubtful
validity is appended with annota-
tions. A key to the Salpidae is
also given.
Michael, Ellis L. Report on the
Chaetognatha collected by the United
States Fisheries steamer Albatross
(luring the Philippine Expedition,
1907-1910.
Bull. U. 8. Nat. Mus., no.
100, vol. 1, pt. 4, May
19, 1919, pp. 235-277,
pis. 34-38.
An exhaustive diagnosis of the
Chaetognatha of the Philippines
and adjacent regions, with keys
for the entire group of Chaetog-
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS.
201
Michael, Ellis L.— Continued,
natha, a systematic discussion of
the 16 species found in the Philip
pines, one of which is new to
science, and a critical comparison
of the Philippine Chaetognatha
with those from the San Diego
region, with annotations regard-
ing their fundamental influence on
the fisheries and other fauna of
the Pacific.
MiDDLETON, William. Notes on the
larvae of some Cephidae.
Proc. Ent. Soc. Waslihig-
ton, vol. 19, nos. 1-4,
Sept. 23, 1918, pp. 174-
179, pi. 21.
Gives descriptions and a key to
certain Nearctic larvae of the
family Cephidae.
Miller, Gerrit S., Jr. The Piltdown
Jaw.
Am. Journ. Phys. Anthrop.,
vol. 1, no. 1, July 9,
1918, pp. 25-52, pis. 1-4.
The characters of this jaw
which have been asserted to be
diagnostically human are all
features which are common to men
and apes.
Mammals and reptiles col-
lected by Theodoor de Booy in the
Virgin Islands.
Proc. U. S. Nat. Miis., vol.
54, no. 2244, Oct. 15,
1918, pp. 507-511, pi. 81.
Describes an extinct iguana
from bones found in Indian de-
posits on St. Thomas, Virgin
Islands, West Indies.
and James W. Gidley. Synop-
Oherholser, Habry C. Larus nelsoni,
in Juvenal plumage, from the Ha-
waiian Islands.
Auk, vol. 35, no. 3, July,
1918, pp. 349, 350.
Nelson's gull is recorded from
Hilo, Hawaii, and its juvenal
plumage, not previously known,
Is described.
Numenius americanus ameri-
sis of the supergeneric groups of
Rodents.
Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci.,
vol. 8, no. 13, July 19,
1918, pp. 431-448.
:Morbison, Harold. A report on a
collection of Coccidae from Argen-
tina, with descriptions of apparently
new species (Horn.).
Proc. Ent. Sac. Wa.shino-
ton, vol. 21, no. 4, Sept.
27, 1919, pp. 63-91, pis.
4-7.
Describes seven new species and
gives notes on various other
species.
Noble, G. K. (See under Outram
Bangs. )
canus not a breeding bird of Michi-
gan.
Auk, vol. 35, no. 3, July,
1918, pp. 350, 351.
An egg in the National Museum
collection, previously reported to
belong to this species, proves to be
doubtful, and its Michigan origin
is shown to be uncertain.
Junco aikeni in New Mexico.
Auk, vol. 35, no. 3, July,
1918, p. 357.
The white-winged junco is re-
corded from New Mexico on the
basis of a specimen in the Na-
tional Museum.
Description of a new sub-
species of Cyanolaemus clemenciae.
Condor, vol. 20, no. 5,
Sept. 27, 1918, pp. 181,
182.
A new subspecies of humming-
bird, from Arizona, is here de-
scribed.
Notes on North American
birds. VI.
Auk, vol. 35, no. 4, Oct.,
1918, pp. 4R3-467.
Notes on the status of six spe-
cies of North American birds.
The subspecies of Larus hy-
perboreus Gunnerus.
Auk, vol. 35, no. 4, Oct.,
1918, pp. 467^74.
The glaucous and Point Barrow
gulls are here treated, with de-
scriptions, synonymy and distribu-
tion of each.
The range and status of
Aphelocoma californica hypoleuca
Ridgway.
Auk, vol. 35, no. 4, Oct.,
1918, pp. 480, 481.
Xantus's jay is maintained to be
a subspecies of the California jay.
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Obekholsek, Habby C. The nortlieru-
most record of Icterus parisorum.
Auli, vol. 35, no. 4, Oct.,
1918, pp. 481, 482.
Two specimens of Scott's oriole
are recorded from near Stillwater,
Nevada.
Russet-backert thrush (Hylo-
cichla ustulata ustulata) in New
Mexico.
Auk, vol. 35, no. 4, Oct.,
1918, p. 483.
Records this form from Luna
County, N. Mex.
Diagnosis of a new genus of
Anatidae from South America.
Journ. Washington Acad.
Sci., vol. 8, no. 17, Oct.
19, 1918, pp. 571, 572.
Anser juhaUis, a goose from
South America, is here placed in
a new genus, Neochen.
Description of a new Lanius
from Lower California.
Condor, vol. 20, no. 6, Dec.
12, 1918, pp. 209, 210.
Lanius ludovicianus nelsoni, a
new shrike, is here described from
material in the National Museum.
Description of a new lole from
the Anamba Islands.
Proc. Biol. Soc. Washing-
ton, vol. 31, Dec. 30,
1918, pp. 197, 198.
The status of the genus Orclii-
lus Cabanls.
Proc. Biol. Soc. Washing-
ton, vol. 31, Dec. 30,
1918, pp. 203, 204.
The synonymy of this genus of
tyrant birds is discussed, and the
name Orchilus (preoccupied) is re-
placed by Notorchilus; three spe-
cies are assigned to it.
Spizixidae, a new family of
pycnonotine passeriformes.
Journ. Washington Acad.
*Sct., vol. 9, no. 1, Jan. 4,
1919, pp. 14-16.
A family is created for bulbuls
of the genera Spizoxos and Co-
phixus, the last a new genus.
Description of a new sub-
species of Piranga hepatica Swain-
sou.
Auk, vol. 36, no. 1, Jan.,
1919, pp. 74-80.
A new form of the hepatic tana-
ger is described from the south-
western United States, extending
Obebholseb, Habby C. — Continued.
to central Mexico ; a list of locali-
ties and table of measurements are
added.
Notes on North American
birds. VII.
Auk, vol. 3G, no. 1, Jan.
1919, pp. 81-85.
Observations on the status of 6
species, representing 5 families.
Diagnosis of a new genus of
Bucerotidae.
Journ. Washington Acad.
8ci., vol. 9, no. 6, Mar.
19, 1919, pp. 167, 168.
Plaiycorax is proposed as the
generic title for a hornbill from
the Philippines.
Larus canus brachyrhynchus
in Wyoming.
Auk, vol. 36, no. 2, Apr.,
1919, pp. 276, 277.
An example in the U. S. Na
tional Museum from Lake Porl£, in
the Wind River Mountains, is re-
corded as the easternmost occur-
rence of the bird in the United
States.
Description of a new Conurus
from the Andaman Islands.
Proc. Biol. Soc. Washing-
ton, vol. 32, Apr, 11,
1919, pp. 29-32.
Cotiurus fasciatus abiotti, a par-
oquet, is here indicated as new.
The birds of the Tambelan
Islands, South China Sea.
Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., vol.
55, no. 2262, Apr. 26,
1919, pp. 129-143.
Twenty-two species are re-
corded from this group, of which
one, a stone-plover, is described as
new.
Notes on the wrens of the
genus Nannus Billberg.
Proc. V. S. Nat. Mus., vol.
55, no. 2265. Apr. 28.
1919, pp. 223-236.
Thirty-six species and subspecies
are listed, and the American forms,
nine in number, are synopticaliy
treated ; three subspecies from the
Aleutian Islands are new.
Notes on birds collected by
Dr. W. L. Abbott on Pulo Taya, Ber-
hala Strait, southeastern Sumatra.
Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol.
55, no. 2268, Apr. 28,
1919. pp. 267-274.
An account of the birds, 10
species, found on this Island, with
descriptions of 2 new forms.
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS.
203
Oberholseb, Haery C. A revision of
the subspecies of tlie wtiite-coUared
kingfislier, Sauropatis chloris (Bod-
daert).
Proc. U. S. Nat. Mtis., vol.
55, no. 2276, May 2,
1019, pp. 351-395.
Twenty - four subspecies are
recognized, of which 5 are de-
.scribed sls new.
The races of the Nicobar
megapode. IVIegapodins nicobariensis
Blyth.
Proc. XJ. »?. Nat. Miis., vol.
55, no. 2278, May 7,
1919, pp. 399-402.
Two forms are recognized, one
of them new.
Notes on Dr. TV. L. Abbott's
second collection of birds from Sima-
lur Island, western Sumatra.
Proc. XJ. S. Nat. Mus., vol.
55, no. 2282, June 5,
1919, pp. 473-498, 1
map.
Annotated list of 38 species, of
■which 1, a rail of the genus Hypo-
taenidia, is described as new.
Description of an interesting
new junco from Lower California.
Condor, vol. 21, no. 3, June
6, 1919, pp. 119, 120.
Jiinco oreganiis pontilis is de-
scribed from the Hanson Laguna
Mountains, in northern Lower
California.
The status of the subgenus
Sieberocitta Coues.
Proc. Biol. Soc. Washing-
ton, vol. 32, June 27,
1919, pp. 135-137.
This subgenus is recognized for
the Arizona jay and its allies, but
is shown to intergrade with
the genus Aphelocoma through a
Mexican species, A. guerrerensis.
Payson, Edwin Blake. The North
American species of Aquilegia.
Contr. U. 8. Nat. Herh., vol.
20, pt. 4, Oct. 14, 1918,
pp. 133-157, pis. 8-14.
Penabd, Thomas E. (See under Out-
ram Bangs.)
Pennell, Fkancis W. Eysenhardtia.
North. Amer. Flora,, vol.
24, pt. 1, Apr. 25, 1919,
pp. 34-40.
PiEECE, W. DwiGHT. The comparative
morphology of the order Strepslp-
tera together with records and de-
scriptions of in.sects.
Proc. U. S. Nat. Afus., vol.
54, no. 2242, Sept. 12,
1918, pp. 391-501, pis.
64-78.
In addition to giving the mor-
phology, the author cites much
biological data accumulated since
his monograph of the group, the
material being arranged as in the
monograph for riady reference,
gives a complete host list and de-
scribes 1 new family, 9 new gen-
era, 2 new subgenera, and 25 new
species and proposes 1 new name
for a preoccupied generic name.
PiLSBEY, Henry A. Cirripedia from
the Panama Canal Zone.
Bull. V. 8. Nat Mus., no.
103, Jan. 28, 1919, pp.
185-188, pi. 67.
Five species of fossil barnacles
are described, including one new
species and one new subspecies.
Piper, Charles V. Some western spe-
cies of Lathyrus.
Proc. Biol. Soc. Washing-
ton, vol. 31, Dec. 30,
1918, pp. 189-196.
Types of several of the species
and subspecies described are in the
U. S. National Herbarium.
New Pacific Coast plants.
Proc. Biol. Soc. Washing-
ton, vol. 32, Apr. 11,
1919, pp. 41-44.
Types of several of the new
species described are in the U. S.
National Herbarium.
Pogue, .Toseph E. An interpretation
of the engine fuel situation.
Joum. Soc. Automotive En-
gineers, Apr., 1919, pp.
247-255.
A detailed analysis of the motor-
fuel problem, with the following
conclusion : (a) The domestic pro-
duction of crude petroleum is Hear-
ing its maximum ; (&) The natural
gasoline content of this supply is
lessening; (c) Mexico offers no re-
lief competent to solve the issue ;
(d) Substitute fuels need not enter
into present consideration ; (c) The
supply of engine fuel can be main-
tained only through an extraordi-
nary dependence upon cracking or
through changes in engine type ;
204
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PoGXJE, Joseph E. — Continued.
(f) Cracking can not meet the Is-
sue at a favorable price; (g) The
burden, therefore, falls upon the
automotive engine, which must
consequently so adapt itself as to
gain higher thermal efficiency, and
to use less specialized (less vola-
tile) fuel,
A review of the motor-fuel sit-
uation.
Automotive Industries, Juno
12, 1919, pp. 1319-1324.
This paper reviews the limita-
tions and possibilities of the vari-
ous fuel sources, discusses the in-
terrelation of engine and fuel de-
velopments, and comments on the
essentials of a research organiza-
tion needed.
The Engine-fuel problem.
Floe, of Automotive Engi-
neers, June 23, 1919, 4
pp.
This paper gives an analysis of
the motor-fuel problem and urges
the formation of a motor-fuel re-
search organization with the three-
fold function of economic analysis,
laboratory research, and industrial
coordination.
O.
(See also imder Chester
Gilbert. )
assisted by Isador Lubin
Prices of petroleum and its products
during the war.
U. /?. Fuel Administration
and War Industries
Board, 55 pp., 24 figs., 3
tables.
This bulletin was prepared for
the Fuel Administration in coordi-
nation with a series of price his-
tories compiled by the Price Sec-
tion of the Bureau of Planning of
the War Industries Board, which
deal with the fluctuations in the
prices of fifty classes of commodi-
ties during the past six years. It
includes an t-valuation of the prici'
factors peculiar to the exploitatiou
of petroleum ; a commercial history
of the petroleum industry ; and a
detailed record and interpretation
of the run of prices for petroleum
and its products from 1913-1918.
Ramsden, Charles T.
Thoma s Ba rbour. )
(See under
Ransom, Brayton H, and W. D. Fos-
ter. Recent discoveries concerning
tlie life history of Ascaris lumbri-
coides.
Journ. Parasitol., vol. 5, no.
3, Mar., 1919, pp. 93-99.
A detailed annotated discussion
of the life history of Ascaris lum-
hricoides.
Rathbun, Mary J. Report on the
spider crabs obtained by the F. I, S.
" Endeavour " on the coasts of
Queensland, New Soutli Wales, Vic-
toria, South Australia, and Tas-
mania.
Commonwealth of Australia,
Dept. of Trade and Cus-
toms, Fisheries, Biological
Results of the Fishing Ex-
periments carried on hy
the F. I. 8. " Endeavour "
1909-191Ji, vol 5, pt. 1, Nov.
6, 1918, pp. 1-29, pis.
1-15, text flgs. 1-3.
The spider crabs number 27
species, 9 of which are new, one of
these represents a now genus
Ephippias.
The second set of specimens has
been presented to the U. S. Na-
tional Museum ; the types and ad-
ditional material are in the Aus-
tralian Museum, Sydney.
Decapod crustaceans from the
Panama region.
Bull. U. 8. Nat. Mus.,
no. 103, Jan. 8, 1919, pp.
123-184, pis. 54-66.
Embraces 61 species for the
Panama region, including Costa
Rica, all but 3 of which are found-
ed on material examined by the
writer ; it ranges from the Oligo-
cene to the Pleistocene. Thirty-
nine species are described as new,
3 are types of new genera, Calap-
pella, MursiUa, and Oatunia, the
last being the basis of a new
family, Qatuniidae.
In the list of stations and the
table of distribution the data re-
lating to Cirripedia from Dr. H. A.
Pilsbry's report, also in Bulletin
103, are included for convenience
of reference.
Three new South American
river crabs.
Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington,
vol. 32, Feb. 14, 1919, pp.
5. 6.
These crabs were obtained for
the IT. S. National Museum
through the activities of the Uni-
versity of Michigan.
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS.
205
Rathbun, Richard. Report on the
progress and condition of the United
States National Museum for the
year ending June 30, 1917.
8vo., pp. 1-184, Sept. 20,
1918.
Ravenel, W. deC. Report on the
progress and condition of the United
States National Museum for the
year ending June 30, 1918.
8vo., pp. 1-175, pis. 1-4,
Apr. 18, 1919.
RiDGWAT, Robert. The birds of
North and Middle America : a de-
scriptive catalogue of the higher
groups, genera, species, and subspe-
cies of birds known to occur in
North America, from the arctic
lands to the Isthmus of Panama, the
West Indies and other islands of
the Caribbean Sea, and the Gala-
pagos Archipelago. Part VIII. Fam-
ily Jacanidae. Family Oedicnemi-
dae. Family Haematopodidae. Fam-
ily Arenariidae. Family Aplirizidae.
Family Cliaradriidae. Family Scol-
opacidae. Family Phalaropodidae.
Family Recurvirostridae, Family
Rynchopidae. Family Sternidae.
Family Laridae. Family Ster-
corariidae. Family Alcidae.
Bull. V. S. Nat. Mus., no.
50, pt. 8, June 26, 1919,
pp. i-xvi, 1-852, pis. 1-.34.
The present volumo deals with
the order Charadriifornics, cm-
bracing (within the geographical
limits of the work) the plovers and
related shore birds, the gulls, terns,
and skimmers, and the auks. Two
subspecies of plover, one of sooty
tern, and a new genus of sand-
pipers are described as new.
Riley, J. 11. A winter record of Be-
wick's wren from northern Virginia.
Auk, TOl. 35, no. 4, Oct.,
1918, p. 483.
Notes the occurrence of this spe-
cies at Falls Church in February.
Annotated catalogue of a col-
lection of birds made by Mr. Copley
Amory, jr., in northeastern Siberia.
Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol.
54, no. 2255, Oct. 28,
1918, pp. 607-626.
Riley, J. H. — Continuetl.
Notes on a collection of 228
specimens, representing 76 species,
from the Kolyma River region, Si-
beria.
Two new genera and 8 new
birds from Celebes.
Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington,
vol. 31, Dec. 30, 1918, pp.
155-159.
Eight species, in as many fami-
lies, are described as new. Cele-
tcsia and Coracornis are new ge-
nera of caterpillar-shrikes and
thickheads, respectively.
Six new birds from Celebes
and Java.
Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington,
vol. 32, May 20, 1919, pp.
9.V96.
Five new forms from Celebes and
one from Java are here described.
Megalurus celehensis is a new spe-
cies of marsh warbler, of a genus
not previously recorded from
Celebes.
Robinson, B. L. Diagnoses and notes
relating to tropical American Eupa-
torieae.
Proc. Atncr. Acad. Arts and
Sci., vol. 54, no. 4, Oct. 8,
1918, pp. 235-263.
Types of some of the new species
described are in the U. S. National
Herbarium.
A descriptive revision of the
Colombian Eupatoriums.
Proc. Amrr. Acnd. Arts and
8ci., vol. 54, no. 4, Oct. 8,
1918, pp. 264-330.
Keyed recensions of the Eu-
patoriums of Venezuela and Ecu-
ador.
Proc. Amrr. Acad. Arts and.
8ci., vol. 54, no. 4, Oct. 8,
1918, pp. 331-367.
RoHWER, S. A. The American species
of the genus Cephus Latreillc.
Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington,
vol. 19, nos. 1-4, Sept. 23,
1918, pp. 139-141.
Gives a key to the .\merican spe-
cies with notes on their distribu-
tion.
A note on Chalcis abiesae
Girault (Hym. ; Chalcididae.)
Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington,
vol. 20, no. 1, Sept, 27,
1918, p. 18.
Expresses belief that this is a
good species.
206
KEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919.
RoHWER, S. A. New sawflies of the
subfamily Diprioninae (Hym.)
Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington,
vol. 20, no. 4, Sept. 27,
1918, pp. 79-90.
Gives generic synopsis describ-
ing tw® new genera and one new
subgenus ; also describes eight new
species.
Descriptions and note.s on
some Ichneumon flies from Java.
Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., vol.
54, no. 2249, Nov. 25,
1918, pp. 563-570.
Describes ten new species.
■ Notes on and descriptions of
some sawflies from the Australian
region.
Ann Mag. Nat. Hist., ser.
9, vol. 2, Nov., 1918, pp.
433-440,
Describes one new genus and
four new species. Under tlie ar-
rangement with the British Mu-
seum (N. II.) para types are to be
returned to the National Museum.
The North American species
of the sawfly genus Laurentia
(Hym.)
Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington,
vol. 20, no. 7, Dec. 4,
1918, pp. 157-159.
Gives a synopsis of the Nearctic
species.
Notes on and descriptions of
sawflies belonging to the Teathredi-
nid tribe Hemichroini.
Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington.
vol. 20, no. 8, Jan. 24,
1919, pp. 161-173.
Gives catalogue of the Nearctic
species, a generic and specific
synopsis and describes two new
species.
Descriptions of three para-
sites of Agrilus angelicus (Hym.)
Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington,
vol. 21, no. 1, Feb. 24,
1919. pp. 4-8, 1 fig.
Describes three new species.
Description of a new Cynipoid
from Trinidad (Hym.)
Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington,
vol. 21, no. 6, June 18,
1919, p. 156.
Describes Diglyphosoma an-
astrcphae.
(See also under R. A. Cush-
RoHWER, S. A., and R. A. Cushman.
Idiogastra, a new suborder of Hy-
menoptera with notes on the imma-
ture stages of Oryssus.
Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington,
vol. 19, nos. 1-4, Sept.
23, 1918, pp. 89-98, pis.
11, 12.
Describes a new suborder for the
Oryssoid Ilymenoptera and gives
descriptions of the larva and pnpa
of Oryssus occidcntalis Crcsson.
and Margaret M. Fagan. Ad-
ditions and corrections to " The type
species of the genera of the Cyni-
poidea or the gall wasps and para-
sitic Cynipoids."
Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol.
55, no. 2266, Apr. 20,
1919, pp. 237-240.
Additions and corrections to a
previous paper by the same authors.
Rose, J. N. Echeveria nodulosa.
Addisonia, vol. 3, no. 2,
June 29, 1918, p. 23, pi.
92.
Sinningia speciosa.
Addisonia, vol. 3, no. 2,
Jun<> 29, 1918, pp. 29, 30,
pi. 95.
Crassulaceae [Additions and
man.)
Corrections].
North A7ncr. Flora, vol. 22,
pt. 6, Dec. 30, 1918, pp.
535-548.
( See also under N. L. Britton.)
RoAvi,EE, W. W. Synopsis of the genus
Ochroma, with descriptions of new
.species.
Journ. Washington Acad.
8ci., vol 9, no. 6, Mar.
19, 1919, pp. 157-167.
Rydberg, Per Axel. Fabaceae: Pso-
raleae (part).
North Amcr. Flora, vol. 24,
pt. 1, Apr. 25, 1919, pp.
1-64.
Safford, W. E. Chenopodium nuttal-
liae, a food plant of the Aztecs.
Journ. Washington Acad.
Sci., vol. 8, no. 15, Sept.
19, 1918, pp. 521-527,
figs. 1-3.
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS.
207
SciiAi.LEB, Waldemab T. Geiiis and
precioug stones in 1916.
Min. Res. U. 8., 1916, pt. 2,
June 27, 1918, pp. 887-899.
Includes a detailed description
of an exhibit of tourmaline and
other gem minerals in the pegma-
tites of southern California, in-
stalled in the Museum under the
direction of the author, who has
made an intensive study of the
region under the joint auspices of
the U. S. National Museum and U.
S. Geological Survey, in the course
of which the materials comprising
the exhibit were collected.
ScHAUs, William. A new Agrias from
Guatemala (Lep. ; Nymphalidne).
Ent News, vol. 29, no. 10,
Dec, 1918, pp. 387, 388.
A now Amastus from Argen-
tina (Lep.; Arctiidae).
Ent. T^ews, vol. 30, no.
6174, June, 1919.
Describes A. formosana new
epecies.
Schmidt, Kabl Patterson. Contribu-
tions to the lierpetology of the Bel-
gian Congo.
Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist.,
vol. 39, art. 2, Apr., 1919,
pp. 385-624, pis. 7-32,
figs. 1-26.
In the preparation of this paper
the author had access to material
in the tJ. S. National Museum for
comparison.
ScHNKioER, Camillo. Notes on Ameri-
can willows. III. A conspectus of
American species and varieties of
sections Reticulatae, Herbaceae,
Ovalifoliae, and Glaucae.
Bot. Gaz., vol. 67, no. 1,
Jan., 1919, pp. 27-64.
Notes on American willows.
IV. Species and varieties of section
Longifolliae.
Bot. Oaz., vol. 67, no. 4,
Apr., 1919, pp. 309-346.
ScHucHKRT, Charles. A Lower Cam-
brian edrioasterid, Stromatocystites
walcotti.
Smithsonian Misc. Colls.,
vol. 70, no. 1, 1919. pp.
1-8, pi. 1, 1 flg.
Describes and figures a new
species of edrioasterid from the
Lower Cambrian of Newfoundland,
at first thought to belong to a new
ScH ucHEiJT, CiiAiiLES — Continued.
genus. Comparison with speci-
mens of the genotype of Stromato-
cystites, however, cloarly showed
its correct placement in that genus.
The description of the species is
preceded by a redefinition of the
genus.
Schwarz, E. a. and H. S. Barbh.b.
Two new Hydrophilid beetles.
Proc. Ent. Soc. Washinrf-
ton, vol. 19, nos. 1-4,
Sept. 23, 1919, pp. 129-
135, 2 figs.
Describes Epimetopus therma-
rum from warm streams of Ari-
zona, giving a table of species of
the genus, and Spercheus stangll
from the Philippine Islands, with
a list of the species of the genus.
Shannon, R. C. (See under T. E.
Suyder. )
Shufeldt, R. W. The skeleton of the
" kea parrot " of New Zealand (Nes-
tor notabilis).
Emu, vol. 18, pt. 1. .Tuly 1,
1918, pp. 25-43, pis.
4-10.
A descriptive account of the
skeleton of this species, based upon
material recently acquired by the
National Museum.
Mounted bird exhibits of the
United States National Museum at
Washington.
Avicultural Mag., ser. 3,
vol. 9, no. 11, Sept.,
1918, pp. 273, 274, 1 pi.
Notes on a cuclioo and 2 species
of pigeons, the latter illustrated
from examples in the U. S. Na-
tional Museum.
Notes on the osteology of the
young of the hoatzin (Opisthocomus
cristatus) and other points on its
morphology.
Jo'iirn. Morphology/, vol. 31,
no. 3, Dec, 1918, pp.
599-615, pis. 1-4.
An account of the skeleton of
the young hoatzin, accompanied
by a bibliography of 25 titles.
The shell builders — a brief in-
troduction to the study of conchol-
ogy.
Part 1, 8ci. Amer. Suppl.,
vol. 87, no. 2263, May
17, 1919, pp. 308-310,
6 illustrations.
208
REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919.
Shufeldt, 11. W. — Continued.
Part 2, Sci. Amer. SiippL,
vol. 87, DO. 2265, May
31, 1919, pp. 348, 349,
6 illustrations.
o.^Part 3, Sci. Amer. Suppl.,
**■ vol. 87, no. 2267, .June
14, 1919, pp. 380-381,
6 illustrations.
An interesting discussion of the
history, morphology, economic, and
esthetic value of mollusks, aug-
mented by stories of the better
known forms.
Smith, Frank, and Bessie R. Green.
Descriptions of new African eartli-
worms, including a new genus of
Moniligastridae.
Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol.
55, no. 2263, May 19,
1919, pp. 145-166, text
figs. 1-18.
Describes one new genus and
three new species of earthworms
collected on the eastern coast of
British East Africa, with an ex-
haustive discussion of the anatom-
ical relations of the new form.
Snyder, John Otterbein. Three new
wliitefislies from Bear Lake, Idalio
and Utah.
Bull. Bur. Fish., vol. 36,
no. 864, May 7, 1919, pp.
3-9, 3 figs.
It is the purpose of this paper
to direct attention to some little
known but very important food
fishes in Bear Lake, Idaho and
Utah. These fishes ai'e also of in-
terest to ichthyologists, as they
belong to previously unknown
forms.
Snydes, T. E. Some significant struc-
tural modifications in Nearctic
Termites.
Proc. Ent. Soc. Washing-
ton, vol. 21, no. 5, May
5, 1919, pp. 97-104, pi. 8.
and R. C. Shannon. Notes on
the insect fauna of Bank Swallows'
nests in Virginia.
Proc. Ent. Soc. Wa^Muff-
ton, vol. 21, no. 5, May
5, 1919, pp. 110-112.
Springer, Frank. On Mysticocrinus,
a new genus of Silurian Crinoidea.
Amer. Journ. Sci., vol. 46,
Nov., 1918, pp. 666-668.
pi. 2.
The new genus Mysticocriuns,
with M. ipilsoni as the genotype,
Springes, Frank— Continued.
is founded on material from the
Silurian near St. Paul, Indiana.
Ample illustrations accompany
the description. The type is in
the author's collection in the U. S.
National Museum.
A new species of fossil Peu-
tacrinus from the East Indies.
Nederlandsche Timor-Expe-
ditic, vol. 2, 1918, pp.
1-8, pi. 1.
Describes and figures the new
species Pentacrtnus rotiensis. The
type is in the collection of Dr.
G. A. F. Molengraaff, but speci-
mens in the author's collection are
figured for comparison.
Standley, Paul C. Omiltemia, a new
genus of Rubiaceae from Mexico.
Journ. Washington Acad.
Sci., vol. 8, no. 13, July
19, 1918, pp. 426, 427.
Six new species of trees and
shrubs from Mexico.
Proc. Biol. Soc. Washing-
ton, vol. 31, Nov. 29,
1918, pp. 131-134.
The North American species
of Genipa.
Journ. Washington Acad.
Sci., vol. 8, no. 20, Dec.
4, 1918, pp. 639-643.
Rubiales.
North Amrr. Flora, vol. 32,
pt. 1, Dec. 28, 1918, p. 1.
Rubiaceae (part).
North Amer. Flora, vol. 32,
pt. 1, Dec. 28, 1918, pp.
3-86.
A neglected Solidago name.
Rhodora, vol. 21, no. 243,
Mar., 1919, pp. 69, 70.
A new Nj'ctelea name.
Proc. Biol. Soc. Washing-
ton, vol. 32, June 27,
1919, p. 143.
Stejneger, Leonhard. The name of
the horned-toad from the Salt Lake
Basin.
Copeia, No. 65, .Tan. 22,
1919, pp. 3, 4.
Contends for its distinctness
under the name of Phrynosoma
dougla^sii ornatum.
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS.
209
Stejnegeb, Leonhard. The "Glass-
snake" of Formosa.
Proc. Biol. Soc. Washing-
ton, vol. 32, June 27,
1919, p. 142.
A comparison of Formosan
specimens received from the Insti-
tute of Science, Government of
Formosa, with a Chinese specimen
of Ophisaurus harti in the U. S.
National Museum shows them to
be identical.
Stoker, Tracy Irwin, (See under Jo-
seph Grinnell.)
Swales, B. H. Stilt sandpiper (Mi-
cropalama himantopus) in Wyom-
ing.
Auk, vol. 36, no. 1, Jan.,
1919, p. 102.
Records the occurrence of this
species in Wyoming, based on spec-
imens long In the U. S. National
Museum collection.
Swabth, H. S. Three new subspecies
of Passerella iliaca.
Proc. Biol. f?oc. Washington,
vol. 31, Dec. 30, 1918, pp.
161-163.
Three new forms of fox spar-
rows are here described, all from
California.
Taylor, Walter P. An additional rec-
ord of Ammodramus savannarum
bimaculatus in eastern Washintgon.
Auk., vol. 36, no. 2, Apr.,
1919, pp. 287, 288.
The western grasshopper spar-
row Is recorded from Adams Co.,
based on a specimen in the U. S.
National Museum.
Todd, W. E. Clyde. Descriptions of
apparently new Colombian birds.
Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington,
vol. 32, June 27, 1919,
pp. 113-117.
Nineteen species and subspecies,
chiefly from the Colombian States
of Boyaca and Santander, are
diagnosed as new.
TowNSEND, C. H. T. New Muscoid
genera, species and synonymy.
Insecutor Inscitiae Men-
struus, vol. 6, nos. 7-9,
Oct. 30, 1918, pp. 151-
156; nos. 10-12, Jan. 11,
1919, pp. 157-182.
In this paper 58 new genera and
37 tiew species are described.
143943°— 20 14
Ulrich, E. O. The formations of the
Chester series in western Kentucky
and their correlates elsewhere.
Kentucky Geol. 8ur., Frank-
fort, 1917 [1918], pp.
i-iv, 1-272, pis. A-H2,
1-11.
Based upon field investigations
made by the author at various
times during the past 30 years.
The introductory chapters, giving
a summary of the work, include
correlations by fossils and other
criteria. Part 2 deals with the
stratigraphy, and sections from
practically all localities studied
are given. Part 3 is devoted to the
paleontology of the Chester group.
The characteristic fossils of the
various formations are described
and figured, including a number
of new forms, the specimens being
for the most part in the collection
of the National Museum or that
of Mr. Frank Springer.
Van Cleave, H. J. Acanthocephala of
the subfamily Rhadinorhynchinae
from American fish.
Journ. Parasitol,, vol. 5, no.
1, Sept., 1918, pp. 17-24,
pi. 3.
A comprehensive, annotated dis-
cussion of Acanthocephala of the
subfamily Rhadinorhynchinae from
American fish.
Van Eseltine, G. P. The allies of
Selaginella rupestris in the south-
eastern United States.
Contr. U. S. Nat. Herh., vol.
20, pt. 5, Oct. 1, 1918,
pp. 159-172, pis. 15-22,
figs. 63-70.
Vatjghan, Thomas Wayland. Some
shoal-water corals from Murray
Island (Australia), Cocos-Keeling
Islands and Fanning Island.
Papers from the Dept. of
Marine Biology, of the
Carnegie Inst, of Wash-
ington, vol. 9, pub. no.
213, Aug. 30, 1918, pp.
51-233, pis. 20-93, 2 figs.
This paper is one of a series be-
gun in 1892 on the Tertiary corals
of the United States and the
Caribbean area, which have several
objects, including (1) description of
the successive coral faunas for the
aid they might render in geological
correlation ; (2) the tracing of the
relations between the successive
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Vaughan, Thomas Wayland — Contd.
faunas in the hope that informa-
tion might be obtained on their
evolution; (3) consideration of the
ecology of the faunas for light
which might be thrown on the con-
ditions, especially those of depth
and temperature, under which the
sediments in which they are em-
bedded were deposited. In order to
understand properly the fossil
faunas of the areas mentioned it
was necessary to study those now
living in the western Atlantic, the
Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean
Sea, and to further extend sys-
tematic knowledge of living coral
faunas and study critically the re-
lations of the faunas to environ-
mental factors. The present paper
presents a critical discussion of
the geographic distribution of the
species of corals from Murray, Co-
cos-Keeling, and Fanning Islands,
with a detailed annotated system-
atic discussion of the species
found, including the description of
12 new species, 1 new subspecies,
and 1 new genus. Based partly on
Museum material.
Some shoal-water bottom
samples from Murray Island, Aus-
tralia, and comparisons of them
with samples from Florida and the
Bahamas.
Papers from the Dept. of
Marine Biology, of the
Carnegie Inst, of Wash-
ington, vol. 9, pub. no.
213, Aug. 30, 1918, pp.
239-288, pis. 94-95.
The present paper is a prelimin-
ary contribution to the study of
the marine bottom deposits in three
coral reef areas, namely, Murray
Island, Australia, the Bahamas,
southern Florida.
The temperature of the Flor-
ida coral reef tract.
Papers from the Dept. of
Marine Biology, of the
Carnegie Inst, of Wash-
ington, vol. 9, pub. no.
213, Aug. 30, 1918, pp.
319-339, with text figs.
The temperature data herewith
presented were assembled prima-
rily for their bearing on the effect
temperature exerts on the bathy-
metric and geographic distribution
of coral reefa.
Vaughan, Thomas Wayland. The
biologic character and geologic cor-
relation of the sedimentary forma-
tions of Panama in their relation to
the geologic history of Central
America and the "West Indies.
Bull. V. 8. Nat. Mus., no.
103, May 19, 1919, pp.
547-612, 2 insets.
Presents biologic summaries for
each of the formations for which
paleontologic data are available,
with brief discussions of the geo-
logic age ; geologic correlation of
the formations and the distribu-
tion of their age equivalents in
Central America, the West Indies,
and the southeastern United
States ; and an outline of the
paleogeography of middle America.
Walcott, Charles D. Cambrian geol-
ogy and paleontology, IV, No. 4. Ap-
pendages of trilobites.
Smithsonian Misc. Colls.,
vol. 67, no. 4, Dec., 1918,
pp. 115-216, pis. 14-42,
figs. 1-3.
The author summarizes his in-
vestigations of the appendages of
trilobites during the past 45 years,
a research undertaken in pursuance
of a promise made to Prof. Louis
Agassiz in 1873. His summary of
1881 is reviewed and corrected, to-
gether with later papers discussing
his various discoveries in this sub-
ject. A number of species of trilo-
bites with appendages are described
and figured. Some conclusions
drawn are that the trilobite's ap-
pendages show it to have been a
marine crustacean far more highly
developed than would have seemed
possible in a period so infinitely re-
mote.
Wetmork, Alexander. Birds observed
near Minco, central Oklahoma.
Wilson Bull., vol. 30, no. 1,
Mar., 1918, pp. 2-10 ; No.
2, June, 1918, pp. 56-61.
Notes on 62 species and sub-
species.
The birds of Desecheo Island,
Porto Rico.
Au1(, vol. 35, no. 3, July,
1918, pp. 333-340.
An account of this island and its
bird life ; 11 species are recorded.
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS.
211
Wetmore, Alexander. On the anat-
omy of Nyctibius with notes on
allied birds.
Proc. U. S. Nat. Miis., vol.
54, no. 2251, Oct. 15,
1918, pp. 577-586, figs.
1-7.
Describes the auatomy of the
trunk of a species of potoo, and
discusses the relationships of sev-
eral related families.
Bones of birds collected by
Theodoor do Booy from kitchen mid-
den deposits in the islandis of St.
Thomas and St. Croix.
Proc. U. S. 2^"at. Mus., vol.
54, no. 2245, Nov. 21,
1918, pp. 513-522, pi. 82.
Notes on a series of bones, re-
ferred to 13 species, one of which
represents a new genus and species
of rail.
Notes on the structure of the
palate in the Icteridse.
Auk, vol. 36, no. 2, April,
1919, pp. 190-197, figs.
1, 2.
An examination of the palate in a
majority of the genera of this fam-
ily reveals the presence of a keel-
like or knoblike structure in cer-
tain groups. These features are
here described.
Wherry, Edgar T. Notes on mimetite,
thaumasite, and wavellite.
Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol.
54, no. 2240, Dec. 23,
1918, pp. 373-381, pi. 56.
A specimen labeled " Penfleldite,
Tintic District, Utah " is shown
by optical, chemical, and crystal-
lographic study to be mimetite.
Crystallographic measurements of
thaumasite crystals from Patorson,
N. J., are given, and the chemical
composition of this mineral is dis-
cussed. Measurable crystals of
wavellite have been found at Heller-
town, Pa. Their forms are de-
scribed and an analysis given.
WiGDOR, Meyer. A new fluke from the
dog.
Journ. Amer. Vrt. Mrd.
Assn., vol. 54 (n. s.), 7,
no. 3, Dec, 1918, pp.
254-257, figs. 1-4.
Describes Hallum caninum, new
species, based on Museum material.
AViGDOK, Meyer. (See also under
Maurice C. Hall.)
Wilson, Charles Branch. A new
species of parasitic Copepod, with
notes on species already described.
Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., vol.
55, no. 2274, May 2, 1919,
pp. 313-316, pi. 21.
Describes Gloiopotes costatus
new species and discusses three
previously described forms.
North American parasitic
Copepods, belonging to the family
Sphyriidae.
Proc. U. .'>'. Nat. Mus., vol.
55, no. 2286, June 18,
1919, pp. 549-604, pis.
50-59.
This is the fifteenth paper in
the series dealing with the para-
sitic copepods in the National Mu-
seum and comprises a new family,
the Sphyriidae, 2 new genera, 5
new species, also a discussion of 9
previously described forms.
Wood, Fred J. Historic turnpike roads
and toUgates.
Daughters Amer. Rev. Mag.,
vol. 53. no. 4, Apr., 1919,
pp. 205-219, 13 illustra-
tions.
One paper, the concluding article
of a series appearing in this maga-
zine from January to April, 1919.
based in part on transportation
models in the U. S. National Mu-
seum.
Wyeb, Samuel S. Natural Gas : Its
production, service, and conservation.
^ull. V. 8. Nat. Mus., no.
102, pt. 7, Dec. 28, 1918,
pp. 1-67, pis. 1-7, figs.
1-20, 2 maps.
Natural gas is the least appreci-
ated, consequently the most abused,
of the mineral resources In popu-
lar use. Mr. Wyer aims to analyze
the causes of waste with a view to
pointing the way to adequate reme-
dial measures.
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