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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 ENDED JUNE 30, 1925
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Unitep States Nationat Museum,
Unvrer Direction oF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION,
Washington, D. C., December 14, 1925.
Sir: I have the honor to submit herewith a report upon the present
condition of the United States National Museum and upon the work
accomplished in its various departments during the fiscal year ended
June 30, 1925.
Very respectfully,
ALEXANDER WETMORE,
Assistant Secretary.
Dr. CuHartes D. Watcort,
Secretary, Smithsonian Institution.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Introduction ________ aa? uN eee Bee a Lira A ee ey ee 1
Operations of the year:
ApPROpPriatiOnsss! {42020 oe ee ERUNUEL SPR alpsies pee selene 3
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Service to the public________ PAD ola AN a eh AP Ls eA pe De 2 eM ls 8
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Publications ele Pi el OAS Ege nT De ae oe A ee Re cufete Show s ON at 15
Library. ge se SUE, ee Es Sa RSIS TES SS aa 16
Photographic laboratory________________ rales irae CELI APE f: 17
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Meetings and receptions________ cu ee BASU ll ADRESS EG eth PU aR 22
Changes in/organi zations ond, staliis2 2s ee eee 26
Detailed reports on the collections:
Department of Anthropology, by Walter Hough, head curator______ 29
Department of Biology, by Leonhard Stejneger, head curator______. AL
Department of Geology, by George P. Merrill, head curator________ 73
Department of Arts and Industries and Division of History, by
W. deC. Ravenel, director of arts and industries________________ 91
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STAFF OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL
MUSEUM
[June 30, 1925]
CuHarLtes D. Watcort, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, keeper ex
Officio.
ALEXANDER WETMORE, Assistant Secretary, Smithsonian Institution.
WILLIAM DEC. RAvVENEL, Administrative Assistant to the Secretary.
SCIENTIFIC STAFF
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY:
Walter Hough, head curator.
Division of Ethnology: Walter Hough, curator; H. W. Krieger, curator;
H. B. Collins, jr., assistant curator; J. W. Fewkes, collaborator; Arthur
P. Rice, collaborator.
Section of Musical Instruments: Hugo Worch, custodian.
Division of American Archeology: Neil M. Judd, curator; R. G. Paine, aid.
Division of Old World Archeology: I. M. Casanowicz, assistant curator.
Division of Physical Anthropology: AleS Hrdlicka, curator; P. C. Van
Natta, aid.
Collaborator in Anthropology: George Grant MacCurdy.
Associates in Historic Archeology: Paul Haupt, Cyrus Adler.
DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY:
Leonhard Stejneger, head curator; James E. Benedict, assistant
curator.
Division of Mammals:_Gerrit S. Miller, jr., curator.
Division of Birds: Robert Ridgway, curator; Charles W. Richmond, asso-
ciate curator; J. H. Riley, aid; Bradshaw H. Swales, honorary assistant
eurator; Hdward J. Brown, collaborator; Alexander Wetmore, custodian
of alcoholic and skeleton collections.
Division of Reptiles and Batrachians: Leonhard Stejneger, curator; Doris
M. Cochran, aid.
Division of Fishes: Barton A. Bean, assistant curator.
Division of Insecis:_L. O. Howard, honorary curator; J. M. Aldrich, asso-
ciate curator; William Schaus, honorary assistant curator; B. Preston
Clark, collaborator: J. T. Barnes, collaborator.
Section of Hymenoptera: S. A. Rohwer, custodian; W. M. Mann, as-
sistant custodian.
Section of Myriapoda: O. F. Cook, custodian.
Section of Diptera: J. M. ee in charge; Charles T. Greene, as-
sistant custodian.
Section of Coleoptera: EH. A. Saas! custodian.
Section of Lepidoptera: Harrison G. Dyar, custodian.
Section of Orthoptera: A. N. Caudell, custodian. ‘
Section of Hemiptera: W. L. McAtee, acting custodian.
Section of Forest Tree Beetles: A. D. Hopkins, custodian.
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DEPARTMENT OF BroLogy—Continued. |
Division of Marine Invertebrates: Waldo L. Schmitt, curator; C. R. Shoe-
maker, assistant curator; James O. Maloney, aid; H. K. Harring, cus-
todian of the rotatoria; Mrs. Harriet Richardson Searle, collaborator ;
Max M. Hillis, collaborator.
Division of Mollusks: William H. Dall, honorary curator; Paul Bartsch,
curator; William B. Marshall, assistant curator; Mary Breen, collab-
orator.
Section of Helminthological Collections: C. W. Stiles, custodian; B. H.
Ransom, assistant custodian.
Division of Echinoderms; Austin H. Clark, curator.
Division of Plants (National Herbarium): Frederick VY. Coville, honorary
curator; W. R. Maxon, associate curator; J. N. Rose, associate curator ;
P. C. Standley, associate curator; Hmery C. Leonard, aid; Ellsworth P.
Killip, aid. :
Section of Grasses: Albert S. Hitchcock, custodian.
Section of Cryptogamic Collections; O. F. Cook, assistant curator.
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 Merriam, W. L. Abboit, Mary J. Rathbun,
David Starr Jordan.
Associate Curator in Zoology: Hugh M. Smith.
Associate in Botany: John Donnell Smith.
Associate in Marine Sediments: T. Wayland Vaughan.
Collaborator in Zoology: Robert Sterling Clark.
DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY:
George P. Merrill, head curator.
Division of Physical and Chemical Geology (systematic and applied) :
George P. Merrill, curator; H. V. Shannon, assistant curator.
Division of Mineralogy and Petrology: F. W. Clarké, honorary curator ;
W. F. Foshag, assistant curator; Frank L. Hess, custodian of rare
metals and rare earths.
Division of Stratigraphic Paleontology; R. 8. Bassler, curator; Charles H.
Resser, associate curator; Jessie G: Beach, aid. -
Section of Invertebrate Paleontology: T. W. Stanton, custodian of
Mesozoie collection; William H. Dall, associate curator of Cenozoic
collection. >
Section of Paleobotany: David White, associate curator; KF; H. Knowl-
ton, custodian of Mesozoic plants; Hdwin R. Pohl, aid.
Division of Vertebrate Paleontology ; Charles W. Gilmore, curator; James
W. Gidley, assistant curator of mammalian fossils.
Associates in Paleontology: Frank Springer, H. O. Ulrich.
Collaborator in Paleontology, Richard M. Field.
Associate in Petrology: Whitman Cross..
DEPARTMENT OF ARTS AND INDUSTRIES, AND Division or HISTORY:
William deC. Ravenel, director.
Division of Mineral and Mechanical Technology: Carl W. ean curator ;
Paul HE. Garber, assistant curator; F. A. Taylor, aid; Chester G. Gilbert,
honorary curator of mineral technology
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DEPARTMENT OF ARTS AND INDUSTRIES, AND DIVISION oF History—Continued.
Division of Textiles ; Frederick L. Lewton, curator; Mrs. H. W. Rosson, aid.
Section of Wood Technology: William M. N. Watkins, assistant
curator.
Section of Organic Chemistry: Aida M. Doyle, aid.
Division of Medicine: Charles Whitebread, assistant curator.
Division of Graphic Arts: R. P. Tolman, assistant curator; Ralph C.
Smith, aid.
Section of Photography: A. J. Olmsted, custodian.
Loeb Collection of Chemical Types: O. BH. Roberts, jr., curator.
DIvISION OF HIsToRY:
T. T. Belote, curator; Charles Carey, assistant curator; Mrs. (|. IL.
Manning, philatelist. Hortense Hoad, aid.
ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF
Chief of correspondence and documents, H. 8. Bryant.
Superintendent of buildings and labor, J. S. Goldsmith.
Editor, Marcus Benjamin.
Hngineer, C. R. Denmark.
Disbursing agent, N. W. Dorsey.
Photographer, A. J. Olmsted.
Property clerk, W. A. Knowles.
Assistant Librarian,
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REPORT OF THE PROGRESS AND CONDITION OF
THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM FOR
THE YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1925
By ALEXANDER WETMORE
Assistant Secretary, Smithsonian Institution
INTRODUCTION
The Congress of the United States in the act of August 10, 1846,
founding the Smithsonian Institution, recognized that an oppor-
tunity was afforded, in carrying out the design of Smithson for the
increase and diffusion of knowledge, to provide for the custody of
the Museum of the Nation. To this new establishment was, there-
fore, intrusted the care and development of the national collections.
At first the cost of maintaining this activity was paid from the
Smithsonian income; then for a time the Government bore a share,
but since 1877 Congress has provided for the expenses of the
Museum.
The museum idea was fundamental in the organic act establish-
ing the Smithsonian Institution, which was based upon a 12-years’
discussion in Congress and the advice of the most distinguished
scientific men, educators, and intellectual leaders of the Nation
during the years 1834 to 1846. It is interesting to note how broad
and comprehensive were the views which actuated the Congress 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, although containing many rich col-
lections, were still to a large extent without a developed plan.
The Congress which passed the act of foundation enumerated as
within the scope of the Museum “all objects of art and of foreign
and curious research and all objects of natural history, plants,
and geological and mineralogical specimens belonging to the
United States,” thus indicating the Museum at the very outset as
the Museum of the United States and as one of the widest range in
its activities. It was appreciated that additions would be necessary
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to the collections then in existence, and provision was made for their
increase by the exchange of duplicate specimens, by donations, and
by other means.
The maintenance of the Museum was long ago assumed by Con-
gress, the Smithsonian Institution taking upon itself only so much
of the necessary responsibility for its administration as is required
to coordinate it with its other activities. The Museum as a part of
the Smithsonian is an integral part of a broad organization for
increase and diffusion of knowledge, for scientific research, for
cooperation with departments of the Government, with universities
and scientific societies in America, and with all scientific institutions
and men abroad who seek interchange of views with men of science
in. the United States.
Since 1846 the only material changes in the scope of the National
Museum have been (1) the addition of a department of American
history, intended to illustrate, by an appropriate assemblage of ob-
jects, important events, the domestic life of the country from the
colonial period to the present time, and the lives of distinguished
personages, and (2) provision, in 1920, for the separate administra-
tion of the National Gallery of Art as a coordinate unit under the
Smithsonian Institution. From 1906 to 1920 the gallery was admin-
istered as the department of fine arts of the Museum.
The development of the Museum has been greatest in those sub-
jects which the conditions of the past three-quarters of a century
have made most fruitful—the natural history, geology, ethnology,
and archeology of the United States, which have been supplemented
by many collections from other countries. Opportunities for ac-
quisition in these various directions have been mainly brought about
through the activities of the scientific and economic surveys of the
Government, many of which have been the direct outgrowths of
earlier explorations stimulated or directed by the Smithsonian Insti-
tution. The Centennial Exhibition of 1876 afforded opvortuuty
for establishing a department of industrial arts, of which the fullest
advantage was taken. The historical series has been greatly aug-
mented since 1918 by large collections illustrative of the World
War, and large additions to exhibits in aircraft and kindred subjects
have come in this same period.
Public interest in the growth and development of the National
Museum is reflected in a steady increase of recorded attendance, and
in correspondents and requests for information.
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OPERATIONS OF THE YEAR
APPROPRIATIONS
The maintenance of the National Museum for the fiscal year ended
June 30, 1925, was provided for in the following regular items of
appropriation carried in the executive and independent offices act
approved June 7, 1924: |
Preservation of collections____________________________ $434, 482
Remit re: amd stixtUGreses 228 oak ee ee 21, 800
Heating and lighting_______ ba Sue ith ea Ga, 77, 560
FSUMICHIMS Peep APS Ge Wis. FE ee POR i oe RO ee 11, 000
IBY OVON EAS) We ee lt 8 ONE SE DC Be OED es AR SD en I OS 8G OE 2, 000
POStMoG A. ¥. SERA) on Ea Ss AMOR Ya WSO To eee ee § Arte ML 2 450
Printinss and pinging Lae ess ers See ee 37, 500
584, 792
Increase in the total sum appropriated was due mainly to the in-
auguration of salary schedules provided in the reclassification act of
1923, which became effective July 1, 1924, and carried an addition
of $44,534 to the salary rolls. Subsequent reallocations of employees
by the Personnel Classification Board led to increase in salary allot-
ments of approximately $9,000 beyond the estimated amount, which
came from current funds since it was not included in the original
salary allocation. The amounts available for operating expenses
were thus actually less than during the preceding year. A decrease
in production value of the amount allotted for printing and binding
may also be noted since the reclassification act alluded to, carried
definite increases in salaries in the Government Printing Office which
caused commensurate increase in cost of services rendered by that
establishment.
Funds available for administration were barely sufficient for ac-
tual necessities in the way of supplies when expended with the most
careful economy, and made wholly inadequate provision for needs
that arise constantly in connection with the care and preservation of
the steadily growing collections. Lack of funds was further felt
through inability to purchase specimens to round out available ma-
terials, and to provide curators with needed temporary assistance in
routine work. The results obtained in curatorial work and exhibi-
tion have been accomplished only through unremitting endeavor on
the part of the staff.
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COLLECTIONS
Satisfactory growth of the collections of the Museum is recorded
in the accessions or separate lots of material received during the
year, and in the number of specimens that these represent. There
were 2,020 accessions during the year, an increase of 294 over the
previous year, comprising 363,490 specimens, or 385 more than dur-
ing the year 1924, a total well over the average for the past several
years. The specimens received were divided among the various de-
partments or divisions as follows: Anthropology, 4,444; geology,
79,674; biology, 262,365 (of which 116,636 were plants); arts and
industries, and history, 17,007, of which 145 were assigned to me-
chanical technology, 33 to mineral technology, 271 to textiles, 7,493
to organic chemistry, 425 to wood technology, 17 to foods, 635 to
medicine, 802 to graphic arts, 616 to the Loeb collection of chemical
types, and 6,570 to history. Additional material to the extent of
1,232 lots, was received from various sources, mainly from private
individuals, for examination, identification and report. The ma-
terial identified as always has been of a highly miscellaneous char-
acter. Of the specimens submitted for this purpose the Museum
has been permitted to retain certain things of value to it, while others
have been returned to the senders.
As in previous years, duplicate specimens available, to the numbez
of 23,244, were distributed as gifts to educational institutions, or
were utilized in exchanges for specimens needed toward completion
of our own collections. The gifts distributed totaling 2,099 speci-
mens included 5 of the sets of mollusks prepared for distribution
to schools, each of which contained approximately 149 carefully
labeled shells; the remainder were sent in response to special re-
quests and to meet particular needs. Many deSirable specimens
were secured through the distribution of the 21,145 specimens sent
out as exchanges. A third class of distributed material comprised
specimens forwarded by request to specialists and students for study
in which connection 33,966 specimens were sent out as loans during
the year. |
The additions to the collections during the year contained many
things of special importance, the details of which are given in the
departmental reports forming part of this volume.
The anthropological collections were materially increased during
the year both from private and governmental sources. As a result
of the Marsh-Darien expedition, there was received through R. O.
Marsh, of Brockport, N. Y., an exceptional collection of ethnological
material which is supplemented by a collection from the same
general region presented by William Markham. The addition of
124 California Indian baskets, bequeathed by the late Miss Ella F.
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Hubby, with similar material previously presented by her, makes our
collection of California Indian baskets the most outstanding one in
existence, both in the variety of types represented and in the beauty
of individual specimens. Valuable and interesting collections of
Philippine and western American Indian material were contributed
by Gen. R. D. Potts and by the Misses Catherine M. and Isabelle H.
Hardie. The National Geographic Society presented valuable
, ethnological material collected in China by F. R. Wulsin.
For archeological material the Museum was dependent principally
on transfers from the Bureau of American Ethnology, which in-
cluded important collections from mounds near Town Creek, Ala.,
on the site of the Wilson Dam, Muscle Shoals. Through the interest
of Hon. James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor, a Welsh version of the
Bible, a reproduction of the original translation published in 1588,
was presented by David W. Evans. A large and important collection
of skeletal material was donated by the Ohio State Archeological
and Historical Society, while unusual interest attaches to the gift
by Dr. Eugene Dubois of casts of the remains of Pithecanthropus
erectus, and the receipt as exchanges from the British Museum of
Natural History, the Zemske Museum, Brno, Moravia, and the
American Museum of Natural History of casts of important speci-
mens relating to early man. The National Geographic Society
and the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences presented interesting
anatomical material relating to the American Indian, and material
of a similar nature relating to postpaleolithic man was received
as a loan from the Archeological Society of Washington. Hugo
Worch added four harpischords of the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries to his already splendid collection.
Of outstanding interest in biology is the receipt of the collections
of Coleoptera and mollusks bequeathed to the Museum by the late
Col. Thomas L. Casey of which the insects are estimated at more
than 50,000 specimens, representing about 16,000 species, in which
5,000 are types of species described by Colonel Casey himself. Of
equal interest are the unusually rich and large zoological and botan-
ical collections from China contributed by the National Geographic
Society and collected by Joseph F. Rock and F. R. Wulsin; the
material collected and presented by Rev. David C. Graham; and the
specimens collected by Arthur deC. Sowerby and presented by
Robert S. Clark. Dr. Casey Wood’s continued and generous interest
resulted in the acquisition of important bird material from Fiji
Islands, while Dr. Hugh M. Smith and Dr. 8S. F. Light contributed
interesting and valuable specimens from Siam and China, respec-
tively. Large and important additions to the collections were
received through transfers from the Bureaus of Biological Survey
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and Entomology of the Department of Agriculture, and from the
Bureau of Fisheries of the Department of Commerce. Important
additions were also received as the results of collections made by
members of our own staff. The Frances Lea Chamberlain Fund
enabled the curator of mollusks to purchase some important
material.
A notable acquisition to the geological collections was a large ball
of flawless rock crystal of rare value and interest 1234 inches in
diameter, weighing 107 pounds, which was loaned by the importers,
Fukushima Co. (Inc.), through the interest of Worcester R. Warner,
of Tarrytown, N. Y. Through the continued interest and activities
of Victor C. Heikes and Frank L. Hess, of the United States Geo-
logical Survey, many unusual specimens of ores and minerals, a
number of which make excellent exhibition pieces, were added to the
collections by mining companies and private individuals. Several
rare minerals new to the collections were acquired during the year
among which may be mentioned a crystal of the new mineral
afwillite, discovered by the donor, Alpheus F. Williams, general
manager of the De Beers Consolidated Mines, Kimberley, South
Africa, and a part of the type of a new species—Chalcoalumite—
from Arizona secured through the exchange account with Harvard
University. The Frances Lea Chamberlain Fund permitted the pur-
chase of several desirable additions to the collection of gem min-
erals, and the Roebling Fund, provided by Col. W. A. Roebling,
enabled the museum to acquire several speatinens of ores needed to
fill out the series.
Other valuable and interesting specimens were received from
private individuals or firms.
The results of Secretary Walcott’s field work for the seasons 1921
to 1924, inclusive, which were deposited in the muSeum, and speci-
mens secured by members of the staff added important material to
the collections in invertebrate paleontology. A large series of slabs
containing tracks of extinct animals collected by C. W. Gilmore,
under the auspices of the National Park Service on the Hermit Trail
in Grand Canyon National Park, are an unusually interesting addi-
tion to the fossil vertebrate collections, which also received impor-
tant additions in bones of Pleistocene mammals from Florida,
donated by C. P. Singleton, or collected by Dr. J. W. Gidley.
Exchanges with other institutions also resulted in materially in-
creasing the series of fossil animals.
The seule: in automotive transportation received a number of
additions, important ones being a full size, electrically operated
automobile engine with portions of the outer casing cut away to
reveal the operation of the moving parts, contributed by the Buda
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Co., Harvey, Ill., and a full size hand operated planetary trans-
mission presented by Henry Ford, Dearborn, Mich. An original
Knox automobile, made in 1900, was donated by Mrs. Lansing Van
Auken, Watervliet, N. Y. Important additions were made to the
series of calculating and writing machines by the Burroughs Add-
ing Machine Co. and the Corona Typewriter Co., and interesting
specimens were contributed by the signal section of the American
Railway Association through H. S. Balliet, secretary of the section.
The original A—/// airplane was presented by James V. Martin,
who designed it in 1917 for combat service. Important additions to
the series illustrating the development of the incandescent lamp were
made by the Edison Lamp Works of the General Electric Co.
American manufacturers who had been instrumental in building
up our textile exhibits, continued their interest both in providing
new materials and in renewing specimens in the older exhibits. The
exhibits illustrating various branches of the rubber industry received
important additions including the greater part of the American
exhibit at the Sixth International Rubber Exposition held in Brus-
sels in 1924, which was contributed by the Rubber Association of
America (Inc.), New York City. An important collection of bird
plumage and feather articles representing many thousands of dollars,
secured by confiscation from plume hunters, importers, and manu-
facturers for violations of the Federal laws for the protection of
birds, was acquired by transfer from the Biological Survey.
The section of medicine received a number of interesting additions
to its public health exhibits, as well as a number of specimens of
individual interest, including the medals and decorations conferred
on the late Maj. Gen. William C. Gorgas, which were loaned by his
widow.
Interesting additions to the graphic arts collections comprised sub-
stitutes for boxwood for wood engraving, examples of micro-engrav-
ing, bookbinding, prints, examples of fine papers, mezzotints, print-
ing for the blind, and other material. Important contributions were
received from various sources for incorporation in the traveling
exhibits of this division which have proved extremely popular.
The section of photography was enriched by three early forms of
Prosch shutters evolved in the course of experiments to automati-
cally control exposures and obviate the use of a lens cap; a view
camera of 1890; a reel of historical motion pictures; some remark-
able examples of telephoto photographs showing the Sierra Nevada
Mountains at a distance of 135 miles, and a number of beautiful
examples of pictorial photographs presented by well known experts
and experimenters in this line.
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The appointment of a curator to devote his whole time to the proj-
ect resulted in a splendid advance in the Loeb Collection of chemical
types, 616 new specimens having been received during the year from
a large number of cooperators who have been interested in adding to
this collection.
Important additions to the historical collections comprise an un-
usually interesting series of firearms loaned by Maj. Jerome Clark,
United States Army; a dress owned by Martha Washington loaned
by Mrs. Wilfred P. Mustard, Baltimore, Md.; many objects owned
by the late Lieut. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, contributed by his son, Maj.
Sherman Miles, United States Army, and his daughter, Mrs. Samuel
Reber, New York City, together with military paraphernalia used
by Gen. John J. Pershing and loaned by him. The naval collections
received numerous contributions both from private sources and by
transfer from the Navy Department, the later comprising a series
of models illustrating development in naval vessels from 1776 to
1920. The Treasury Department transferred a number of coins to
the numismatic collections which were also enriched by private
collectors, a notable example being the loan of some 400 Irish and
English coins. A library of about 800 publications relating to
numismatics was transferred to the Museum by the Treasury De-
partment. Through transfers from the Post Office Department
5,605 specimens were added to the philatelic collections.
As previously stated, all of the foregoing matters here sum-
marized will be found treated in more detail further along in this
volume.
SERVICE TO THE PUBLIC
Manifestly it is difficult to express concisely the extent of the
Museum’s service to the public since its functions in this connec-
tion are highly complex and its services diverse. Broadly speaking
the Museum is charged with four principal obligations, (1) the
care and preservation of the national collections, (including biology,
geology, anthropology, history, art, and the industries), (2) the
public exhibition of interesting and educational material, (8) re-
search work in naming and classifying material brought to the
Museum, and (4) the promotion of knowledge through publication
of accounts of the collections based on such research work.
The care of collections is a highly important function since it
involves the preservation from destruction of the myriad objects,
natural and manufactured, that are housed in the Museum. This
and the necessary work in naming and arranging material require
constant supervision and a vast amount of labor on the part of
highly trained specialists on the staff of curators.
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The relation of the National Museum to the general public is
divided between two major services. Hach year a vast number of
persons come to Washington to view the seat of our National
Government. For these the National Museum offers properly pre-
pared and labeled exhibits of the most varied nature that serve to
entertain, or to educate and improve the mind, according to the mood
of the visitor. The total number of visitors recorded for the fiscal
year 1925 was more than twice the total population of Washington.
The public exhibits are so varied that it is not practicable to
enumerate them in entirety. In the halls of anthropology are shown
specimens dealing with primitive man and his evolution, in biology
are exhibited types of all known forms of life, and in geology and
paleontology there may be seen exhibits of minerals, stones, and
strange, grotesque fossils, the latter often of forms beyond the
imagination of the ordinary individual. Exhibits in arts and
industries include display in the manufacture of mineral products,
of mechanical devices in locomotion, aviation, lighting, and com-
munication, of textiles, chemistry, foods and medicines, and of
graphic arts, as writing, printing, and photography. Exhibits in
history include great displays of military and naval objects, with an
especially complete exhibit from the World War, of coins, stamps
and the many things concerned with the history and development of
the United States as a Nation.
In addition to the public exhibits there are stored in the labora-
tories series of specimens in all branches that are used in serious
researches by specialists, American and foreign, in all lines of human
knowledge, many of whom come to the Museum for the express
purpose of working with these collections. New facts, many of them
of great importance, are the constant outcome of studies made by
the staff, or by visiting scientists to whom the collections are made
freely available. Hundreds of specimens are forwarded as loans
to investigators working at a distance to assist them in their re-
searches.
Studies of the collections, comprising additions to human
knowledge, are issued to the public in the publications of the
Museum, a service to all of the highest value. It may be safely
said that nearly all biological textbooks, encyclopedias, and other
similar reference works published in recent years have been based
in part upon information emanating from the National Museum.
Visitors to the halls of the Museum frequently include groups or
classes of students brought here by their instructors to view special
exhibits as a basis for or to supplement their regular class work.
Personal examination of objects under study is of great and recog-
nized value in impressing on the memory definite images that are
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far more clear and lasting than routine lessons. These student
_ groups, naturally, are principally from the local schools but come
also from distant localities. To such visiting groups as well as to
the individual inquirer, the members of the staff are always willing
to explain any particular feature or exhibit concerning which ques-
tion arises or information is sought. Several members of the
staff who are professors or instructors in educational institutions
of the city make a regular practice of bringing classes to the
Museum either after the regular hours or on Sunday for the purpose
of utilizing Museum exhibits in connection with their lectures.
Many hundreds of duplicate specimens have been presented to edu-
cational institutions, and numerous loans of material have been made
to meet special needs of various educational organizations or in-
stitutions throughout the country. Specific mention of most of the
matters above mentioned will be found in the departmental reports.
Mention must be made also of hundreds of letters that come to the
Museum requesting information on almost every conceivable subject,
and of the reports furnished on the innumerable specimens forwarded
from all over the United States and its possessions, as well as from
foreign sources, for identification or explanation. Replies to these
requests, which may cover anything in the field of human knowledge,
are made as fully as practicable and require much time and energy
on the part of the staff.
Another public contact arranged under the auspices of the Smith-
sonian Institution under the direction of Austin H. Clark, curator of
Echinoderms in the Museum, that reaches a very large group of
people, is the series of radio talks which was continued as in previous
years. Twenty-eight talks in all were broadcast from Station WRC
of the Radio Corporation of America, of which four were broadcast
simultaneously by Stations WJY and WJZ in New~York City. All
of the stations named reported very favorable reception by their
audiences. The program for the year was as follows:
1. Life in the Sea: Austin H. Clark, National Museum, October 2, 1924.
2. Wonders of the Deep Sea: Capt. Frederick B. Bassett, Hydrographer of
the Navy, October 16, 1924.
38. Curious Plants: Dr. Frederick VY. Coville, Honorary Curator-— National
Herbarium, October 22, 1924.
4, What the Ocean Means to Us: Lieut. Commander George HE. Brandt, Aid to
the Hydrographer of the Navy, November 8, 1924.
5. Indian Cliff Dwellings: Dr. J. Walter NENTS: Chief, Bureau of American
Ethnology, November 13, 1924.
6. Living Lamps: Austin H. Clark, National Museum, November 20, 1924.
7. The Ocean Bottom: Dr. George W. Littlehales, Hydrographic Engineer,
Navy Department, December 11, 1924.
8. What Standards Mean to Us: Dr. Fay C. Brown, Assistant Director,
Bureau of Standards, December 25, 1924.
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9. How Trees Grow: Dr. D. T. MacDougall, Desert Botanical Laboratory,
Carnegie Institution, Tucson, Ariz., in connection with the meeting of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science, December 30, 1924.
10. Why the Harth is a Magnet: Prof. W. F. G. Swann, Yale University, in
connection with the meeting of the American Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science, December 31, 1924.
11. Tree Rings and Climate: Dr. A. HE. Douglass, University of Arizona, in
connection with the meeting of the American Association for the Advance-
ment of Science, January 3, 1925.
12. The Sun and the Weather: Dr. Charles G. Abbot, Assistant Secretary,
Smithsonian Institution, January 8, 1925.
13. The Weather: Prof. W. J. Humphreys, Weather Bureau, January 22, 1925.
14. Mysteries of Bird Migration: Frederick C. Lincoln, Biological Survey;
read by Austin H. Clark, January 29, 1925.
15. The Ocean’s Food Resources: Lewis Radcliffe, Deputy Commissioner of
Fisheries, February 5, 1925.
16. What Other Peoples Hat: Austin H. Clark, National Museum, February 12,
1925.
17. What the Harth is Made of: Dr. Henry S. Washington, Geophysical Labora-
tory, Carnegie Institution, February 19, 1925.
18. The Habits of Ants: Dr. William M. Mann, Bureau of Entomology,
February 26, 1925.
19. Fish as Food: Lewis Radcliffe, Deputy Commissioner of Fisheries, March
12, 1925.
20. How Some Wasps Live: 8. A. Rohwer, Bureau of Entomology, March 19,
1925.
21. The Work of the Coast and Geodetic Survey in Saving Life and Property
at Sea: Col. E. Lester Jones, Director, Coast and Geodetic Survey, March
26, 1925.
22. Mosquitoes and Other Blood-sucking Flies: Raymond C. Shannon, Bureau
_ of Entomology, April 2, 1925.
23. Lizards and Their Kin: Miss Doris M. Cochran, National Museum, April 9,
1925.
24. Fighting Plant Diseases by Breeding New Plants: Dr. W. A. Taylor,
Chief, Bureau of Plant Industry, April 16, 1925.
25. Our Fisheries: Henry O’Malley, Commissioner of Fisheries, April 23, 1925.
26. The Geodetic Work of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey:
Col. H. Lester Jones, Director, Coast and Geodetic Survey, April 30, 1925.
27. Chiggers, Ticks and Fleas: Dr. H. HE. Ewing, Bureau of Entomology,
May 7, 1925.
28. Butterflies: Austin H.: Clark, National Museum, May 14, 1925.
Additional radio talks were given by Dr. G. P. Merrill, on the
subject of “ Meteorites,” by C. W. Gilmore on “ Fossil Tracks and
Trails,” and by Dr. Paul Bartsch on “A Plea for Our Native Holly.”
An important series of lectures by Dr. AleS Hrdlicka, Curator of
Physical Anthropology, on “ Man’s Origin,” and “ Man’s Physical
and Physiological Characteristics” was given Monday and Friday
from October 24 to December 19. The Friday course was technical
and was intended primarily for medical, dental and graduate stu-
dents, while the Monday lectures were of a more popular nature.
Doctor Hrdlicka also addressed the British Association for the
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Advancement of Science on “ The antiquity of man in America in
the light of recent studies”; the American Statistical Association,
in Chicago, on “Effects of Immigration on the American Type,”
aud the American Congress on Internal Medicine, on “ Oppor-
tunities for medical and pathological studies in the collections of the
U. S. National Museum.” Dr. Resser, Dr. Bassler, and Dr. Bartsch
lectured to University classes, and the latter, in numerous lectures
before clubs and organizations forcefully advocated bird and wild
flower conservation. He also repeated, on request, his lectures on
“Wonders of the Deep” and “Birds and man— a comparative
study in animal behaviour,” and delivered a lecture on “ Mollusks
of importance in medicine” before a class at the Naval Medical
School. Austin H. Clark, Curator of Echinoderms, on the after-
noon of December 30, 1924, at the general session of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, gave an illustrated
address on “The Navy’s oceanographic program.” He also de-
livered an illustrated lecture on “ Man’s relation with the animal
world” at the McDonough School.
Through the Secretary of the Navy, the Smithsonian Institution
was invited to participate in a conference of representatives of
the executive departments and scientific establishments of the Gov-
ernment of the United States on July 1, 1924, for the purpose of
formulating plans for a naval expedition to undertake investigations
in oceanography. Austin H. Clark, Dr. Paul Bartsch, and Dr.
Waldo L. Schmitt of the Museum staff were designated as rep-
resentatives of the Institution on this occasion. ' A series of addresses
and discussions by the representatives of the several departments
was characterized by a spirit of cooperation and a keen apprecia-
tion of the value of the work proposed. In this latter connection,
Mr. Clark in reporting on the meeting states “ Doctor Schmitt, by
a long and carefully prepared address, earnestly and forcefully
delivered, and illustrated by specimens which he brought with him,
more than any one else impresed the conference with the economic
importance of oceanographic work.” At the close of the meeting
an executive interim committee, on which Mr. Clark was chosen
as representative of the Smithsonian Institution and its branches,
was selected to prepare a report for the consideration of the con-
ference.
During the year the division of graphic arts and the section of
photography arranged 14 special exhibitions, four of which com-
prised pictorial photographs, and 10 exhibitions of etchings, or
other reproductive processes. In connection with an exhibit of
etchings by John Taylor Arms, the artist personally demonstrated
in the exhibition hall the making of an etching before a large and
interested audience.
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While practical results from special exhibitions are seldom im-
mediately apparent, it is gratifying to note that as the result of
an exhibit in bromoil transfer in our photographic section of prints,
the Bureau of Public Roads of the Department of Agriculture is
now using this process for making road pictures for display pur-
poses. A special exhibition designed to stimulate a better under-
* standing and a keener appreciation of the réle which forests play
in every field of American life was displayed in the wood court
during American forestry week, April 27 to May 3. Exhibitions
of primitive methods of weaving were given from time to time
in the division of textiles. A special temporary exhibit of numis-
matic material was arranged by the curator of history during coin
week, February 15 to 22, through the cooperation of the American
Numismatic Association, represented by its president, Moritz
Wormser, of New York City. Three members of the association,
residing in Washington, George H. Russel, B. M. Comerford, and
Leander McCormick Goodhart of the British Embassy, loaned col-
lections of coins for this temporary exhibit.
More detailed accounts of these exhibitions will be found in the
departmental reports forming part of this volume.
VISITORS
For the first time in the history of the National Museum, the
annual number of visitors to the four buildings containing the
Museum exhibits exceeded one million. The number of visitors to
the Natural History Building, the only building open every day
in the year, aggregated 461,799 for week days, and 95,217 for Sun-
days, a daily average of 1,475 for the former and 1,831 for the latter,
At the Arts and Industries Building, the attendance was 304,858,
at the Smithsonian Building 107,342, and at the Aircraft Building
52,787, with daily averages of 973, 310, and 168.
The Congress has granted a small increase in the Museum main-
tenance fund for next year to permit the Arts and Industries Build-
ing to be opened Sunday afternoons, commencing July 1, 1925, an
action that will be greatly appreciated by the public. .
Out of respect to high Government officials who died during the
year the flags on the Museum buildings were flown at half-mast, as
follows: 'To Hon. Henry C. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, on
October 26-29, 1924; to Ned Hollister, Superintendent of the Na-
tional Zoological Park, on November 5; to Hon. Henry Cabot
Lodge, Regent of the Smithsonian Institution, from November. 10
to 12; and to Hon. Thomas R. Marshall, ex-Vice President of the
United States, from June 2 to 4.
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The following tables show respectively, the attendance of visitors
during each month of the last 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 ended June 30, 1925
Museum buildings
Year and month eee Total
Hougnis |oieany (|i, See
1924
Sale AS GE eee 15, 158 38, 847 57, 025 6, 721 117, 751
SAS SUS Gs a eos 17, 190 47, 278 76, 713 7, 482 148, 663
September__________ 11, 265 32, 981 51, 916 5, 904 102, 066
October! | 3a ee 8, 447 24, 614 43, 673 3, 695 80, 429
November__________ 4, 863 15, 094 35, 409 2, 818 58, 184
December-_-__-____- 4,410 12, 598 29, 258 2, 490 48, 756
1925
Janay esc eae 3, 400 9, 982 24, 935 1, 565 39, 882
He oraiayaee es ee 3, 666 11, 929 29, 163 2, 094 46, 852
Miarelas) qu cig Uae ee 7, 088 21, 233 43, 288 3, 525 75, 134
Arlee 2 oe Ba riot ae 13, 902 41, 312 63, 438 6, 047 124, 699
IN yes eo cS 8, 091 26, 878 53, 453 5, 046 93, 468
ef a= em as se a 9,362 | 22,112 48, 745 5, 400 86, 119
Ait ale ages ween 107, 342 304, 858 557, 016 52, 787 | 1, 022, 003
Number of visitors to the Museum and Sintthsonian Buildings since 1881
Museum buildings
Year Taaee ie : ie 4 - Total
| industries | history Aircraft
US Sie yey ae eye ees 100, 000 N50 COO. jnsseseekee Bye, eyed 250, 000
USS 2s eek ek so yak eh yopen ee 152, 744 UGTA AO aes ea 2 eae 320, 199
DSSS eet gn LS Bae ae 104, 823 PAU PIP ete te aerate) UN SOE 307, O11
1884 (half year)____; 45, 565 OF Oi Ser ae ees As ae 1438, 226
1884-85 (fiscal year)_| 105, 993 ZOS O26: ic Sees derek eae opera 311, 019
USS aa 6 Osea eee 88, 960 MGA Di 0p jl esr Ba Fk | as a 263, 185
SSG Ole ene 98, 552 ZG OD | Re ae oie sa | 315, 114
ei~reees sok ek 102, 863 Z4O SOG d¢i|e Bie Np gy ays | is Ce eee 352, 528
Iefers ow) SE ee be 149, 618 STA LS BAS eae ae ea §24, 461
SS O—9 0 ae ee eee 120, 894 DZTAR DLA ™ NRO es the Nhe | eae ena a 395, 218
SOO Oil Spee Dan eal 111, 669 286 H42 Big ese Fo Ye ae ae aye 398, 095
S91 OZ eee i 114, 317 PAS CePA SY | ae ann mea NS Wig _ 384, 642
tS O20 Suen ene ien nen 174, 188 SOE GS Oi] ean sate ro a WAN oe ees 494,118
USGS OA aie way tiek fe Ge 103, 910 POOR MASTS LU etna ea pore IC ae 299, 658
LS O4— 9 Oahu eh ees 105, 658 PAU Wier eze es EN ana aeermt NUON Te Tate 307, 402
MNS 0) pen eet eam nca 103, 650 LVS IE Oy | Tis eae Na a pe 284, 155
PS9C HO (se Tae eds 115, 709 229 GOOG! reetk irchig cael) Lede 345, 315
AS OF 0 Seis ewer a Wines 99, 273 HL pe 4572 nt eee apenas ODEN OA i 276, 527
SOS =o 9 een eee epee 116, 912 1g D7 RN Sa a 8 309, 383
1899—-1900__________ 133, 147 225 AAO EC ES OPI pase Bb 358, 587
19 00— Oe ae 151, 563 ZUG: BOG g |e eis 2 speed eel 368, 119
OO 02 eae eee ees 144, 107 173, SSSh | Me sels As | We ea ee 317, 995
NOOZ UB = 25 oe ee 181, 174 SLO 230 Tele ee ee ed 496, 481
GOSS OAs ee ek a 143, 988 DAPANIE TH Royle tea septs en Reply ee Ley
364, 766
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Number of visitors to the Museum and Smithsonian Buildings since 1881—Con.
Museum buildings
Year Saenoe : Total
ees hee Aireraft
TOO4A055 3 HAG SSOne Deh ORT a oa he el go 385, 301
HOOS=OGN. Sk Maker! MASS GOI O10, Sere. eee Nae, Pe 360, 547
TSOGL0 7: bh ns ut 153 Hoole Ee 2IO! Olle Flim Bolen Kilo Fee 363, 698
MONE OS. eyte Spa UOC | PML Se Se i Nt 536, 841
1908-09___________-_ 198, 054 DADE ISIE tas nie oho be Uae EE SS ache as 443, 241
AOD =1Oda as Deon oo 17ONAGS 0101228. 804 Di. 1150) 403s)e eee al iy 458, 370
MOMO cp Sea LGEOSS LOOT LOL wil5t ioe i sr! eT 525, 207
JCS a sl L722 tc ae 148, 134 172, 182 ea texoy 3) eaeeh Mena ca 2 Li 597, 203
NOD Sees ties, Se 142, 420 173, 858 SIONSOGH Ss. 22h 636, 084
iLO TSS aa M02 6450) 146 bad) S00useMk abc ae 578, 559
OS ye SS 40, 324 133, 202 ey Mt 77112 enl feign 495, 238
POM ANG rissa ay. Betint So 48, 517 146, 956 SOlt223) el Wel capes 576, 701
(Oley ee S683 ilGd 700. | 407 Oa: | ee 655, 060
OMe Ree ST 67, 224 161, 298 AH LOO? | Sear sas 629, 622
LOS 19. gas eer icy eos 1504 sl) 9660532| 32 Shove ile es 500, 895
ONG? Ome ee a 86, 013 250, 982 AZO OSA eee wees 759, 979
TOO OeT tee We lhal | 90, 235 | 286,397 | 467, 299 31, 235 875, 166
NG 2N 2D dmelyeas Weer s ere 83, 384 262, 151 441, 604 46, 380 833, 519
NOD DO mees ge Nk 95, 168 259, 542 508, 518 42, 904 906, 132
POPS ARIES TT 104,601 | 290,012 | 540,776 | 43,534 | 978, 923
O24 25% abd Opps Ae 107, 342 304, 858 557, 016 52, 787 | 1, 082, 003
Grand total___|5, 462, 739 9, 971, 204 |5, 714, 710 | 216, 840 /21, 365, 493
1 Building open for only three months of the year.
PUBLICATIONS
The publications issued during the year include five volumes, the
annual report for 1924, volumes 63 and 64 of the proceedings, Bulle-
tin 129, “ The spider crabs of America,” by Mary J. Rathbun, and
Bulletin 130, “ Life histories of North American wild fowl, order
Anseres,” by Arthur Cleveland Bent. Seventy separate papers
published include 1 paper in the bulletin series, 8 in the contribu-
tions from the National Herbarium and 66 in the proceedings. The
constant demand for Bulletin 39, Part N, entitled “ Directions for
Preparing Specimens of Mammals,” by Gerrit S. Miller, jr., necessi-
tated the reprinting of this pamphlet. This marks the fifth edition
of this paper, which has been revised as required. A second edition
of the “Illustrated Handbook of the Department of Geology of the
United States National Museum” was printed and placed on sale, as
was also an illustrated catalogue of “ The Herbert Ward African
Collection.” New editions of the guide plans to the Arts and In-
dustries Building, and to the Natural History Building were also
published.
In line with the program for economy in Government expendi-
tures as voiced by the President, the mailing lists for Museum
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publications were carefully checked by means of circulars and a
reduction of approximately 29 per cent in the total number of
addresses was effected. Still further economies were secured by
issuing the annual report in paper covers instead of bound in cloth
as heretofore and by discontinuing the bound volumes of the pro-
ceedings which, beginning with volume 66, will be published only
in the form of separate pamphlets. The savings effected through
the foregoing changes will approximate $2,000.
The editorial office, besides supervising the printing of the publica-
tions, has charge also of all miscellaneous printing and binding for
the Museum, in which connection approximately 510,000 forms,
labels, and other items were printed and 256 books were bound.
The complete distribution of the Museum volumes and separates to
libraries and individuals on the regular mailing lists aggregated
90,303 copies while in addition 14,293 copies of publications issued
during this and previous years were supplied in response to special
requests.
Researches based wholly or in part on the collections in the
National Museum resulted in many publications by members of the
Museum staff and others issued by other bureaus of the Govern-
ment and by outside institutions, all of which are cited in the bibli-
ography at the end of this report.
LIBRARY.
Because of the limited funds assigned for the purpose the Na-
tional Museum is able to purchase very few books so that the
accessions catalogued during the year in the library, which num-
bered 1,457 volumes and 1,894 pamphlets, were obtained mainly by
exchange. Careful check on publications of institutions with which
exchange relations have been established is maintained that the files
of such papers may be complete. The library is greatly indebted
to many private individuals, particularly members of the Museum
staff, for numerous donations of publications. ins
In addition to the publications received and catalogued, a very
large number of works were received too late to be put through the
cataloguing routine, among which may be particularly mentioned
the entomological library of the late Col. Thomas Lincoln Casey,
numbering approximately 4,500 books and pamphlets, mostly relat-
ing to Coleoptera, which was bequeathed to the Museum by Colonel
Casey, and 800 books and pamphlets relating to the science of numis-
matics which were transferred by the Treasury Department. Men-
tion may be made here also of the Lacoe collection of books and
pamphlets, approximately 2,000 of each, and of the Edgar EK. Teller
collection of about 500 volumes and 500 pamphlets which still await
cataloguing.
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The uncatalogued works above mentioned are not included in the
total of 168,099 publications in the Museum library at the close of
the current fiscal year.
PHOTOGRAPHIC LABORATORY
During the year the photographic laboratory made 1766 negatives,
9,641 prints, 279 lantern slides, 156 enlargements, and 59 cirkut
prints. Other work completed included the developing of 352
‘field negatives, 26 rolls of ordinary film, 5 rolls of cirkut film, and
the mounting of 8 prints. These were required for purposes of
illustration in publications, or for record in the National Museum
and the National Gallery of Art.
The new facilities provided for the laboratory last year have
proved highly satisfactory, and have increased the efficiency of
methods employed in carrying out the regular routine work to a
considerable extent. The making of lantern slides has been espe-
cially facilitated and slides can now be made much more expe-
ditiously than formerly.
BUILDINGS AND EQUIPMENT
In the report for last year mention was made of preliminary
plans for a suitable building to be erected to house the National
Gallery of Art (including the National Portrait Gallery) and the
historical collections of the United States National Museum when
funds are available, on a site that has been designated on the Mall
immediately east of the Natural History Building. Need for such
a structure becomes more and more pressing since available facilities
for these collections are seriously crowded and have led to curtail-
ment in acceptance of valuable materials through inability to handle
them properly. Facilities in the National Gallery are poor and at
best the art collections are occupying space badly needed for other
materials.
The new structure proposed was brought to attention in Congress,
but definite action regarding it was not taken. It is earnestly
hoped that it may be favorably considered during the coming year.
Construction will necessarily be slow so that at best with prompt
action it will be some time before amelioration of the present con-
dition may be expected.
Building repairs and alterations ——In the Natural History Build-
ing the most important work undertaken was the remodeling of
the hinged flat-iron bar fixtures used to regulate the ventilating sash
in windows in the exhibition halls on the first and second floors.
These ventilators have never been satisfactory, since they werk with
difficulty, and as they are in constant use by the watchmen in properly
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adjusting ventilation in the halls a number of them have been
broken. Fully 360 of the total of 480 of these arms were remodeled
during the year at a cost of $580 and the balance will be completed
during the coming year. Minor repairs consisted largely in painting
walls, ceilings, and floors in exhibition halls; installing molding for
hanging pictures in various rooms; installing ventilators in windows;
painting of all tin gutters on roofs; repairing cracks in plaster walls,
and repairing runways.
In the Arts and Industries Building all windows in the laboratory
in the north pavilion were remodeled to improve ventilation facili-
ties, and the exterior wood work of all of the windows in the build-
ing was repaired and repainted. The lower roofs over the rotunda
and the sloping roofs on the northeast and southeast, together with
the galvanized-iron room on the roof for use of the photographers,
were painted. The concrete water tables at the base of the building
on all sides were pointed up and repaired.
The wooden floor in room 155, which had been undermined by
white ants, was removed, and a new concrete base covered with
Georgia pine flooring installed. New wooden floors were put in the
editor’s offices. Minor repairs were made also in various parts of
the building, as the painting of skylights, walls, and floors, pointing
up and painting walls in various offices, changing of fire plugs and
hose, and installing deflectors over ventilators to protect the walls.
For several years the plaster ceiling of the main hall, on the third
floor of the Smithsonian Building, occupied by the Division of
Plants, a room 200 feet long, 50 feet wide and 31 feet high, had
shown signs of disintegration. During the year 1923-24, so much
plaster had actually fallen and so many more sections were ready to
fall that it was deemed necessary to remove all plaster and to re-
place it with sheet metal. Preliminary estimates indicated that it
was impossible with the funds available to do all of this work by
contract. Bids for furnishing the beaded-metal sheets and attach-
ing them to the ceiling rafters were obtained, and a contract for
this work was let for $2,112. The Museum force was utilized to
build the scaffolding, remove the plaster, and paint the metal sheets,
as this was the most economical method by which the werk could be
handled. To avoid moving the thousand or more herbarium cases
from the hall, a small movable scaffold about 16 feet square was
built which was moved about on the tops of the storage cases. By
this arrangement all of the cases were left accessible to workers in
the herbarium at all times during progress of the work, thus avoid-
ing serious interruption to the work of the Division of Plants. A
stationary scaffold built over the entire hall would have cost
more than the contract for the metal work so that the saving effected
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was considerable. The work was begun on September 18 and com-
pleted on December 29, 1924, at a total cost of $4,121.12. Other
minor repairs to the interior and exterior of the building were also
made.
In the Aircraft Building two new oak panels were installed in
the main doorway, and broken glass in windows and skylights was
replaced from time to time. Slight repairs to floors and windows
were made also in the south shed and in the Freer Building.
‘ee E eat, light, and power plant.—The power plant, which was closed
down as usual during the summer, was put in operation on Septem-
ber 15 and continued until May.29, 1925. While the plant was not
in full operation all of the employees were given the greater portion
of their leave, and those not on leave were occupied in making nec-
essary repairs to the boilers and other machinery, to put them in
condition for the year. The amount of electricity used for lighting
the building, operating machinery, and for certain exhibits was ap-
proximately the same as for the preceding year, which is within 25
per cent of the capacity of the plant.
The cost for the year has been materially less than the last fiscal
year. The maximum price for bituminous coal stored was $6.30
and the minimum $5.45, with an average cost of $5.75 a ton. For
the first time in many years it has been possible to secure nut and
slack bituminous coal from the New River fields, which is the type
of coal best suited to the Museum plant. This coal also runs higher
in heat value and is better adapted for coal-handling machinery,
due to the absence of large lumps which tend to clog the moving
parts of the apparatus.
As the boiler plant had been in service 15 years without any major
repairs, it was considered advisable to have the boilers examined
and inspected by the Steamboat Inspection Service of the United
States Government. The result of the examination was very satis-
factory with the exception of one tube in one of the boilers. This
has been replaced. On the recommendation of the inspector, ar-
rangements have been made to run an additional feed water-pipe
line to the individual boilers to provide for a contingency when it
might be impossible to get water through the present line. On the
recommendation of the engineer, the Steamboat Inspection Service
will be requested to examine and test the boilers annually.
The two Copes automatic feed regulators purchased during the
previous fiscal year were installed before the beginning of the season.
These proved so satisfactory that two additional regulators were
purchased and installed on the other boilers. Indicating steam-flow
meters have also been purchased and will be installed during the
summer which will permit the firemen to determine whether or not
each boiler is carrying the proper proportion of the total load.
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The generating plant has given no special trouble, though it was
necessary to install a new set of crosshead shoes on one of the larger
engines and to have two of the main bearing boxes rebabbitted.
Three pieces of new 9-inch pipe for the main that runs along the
center of the engine room were also installed. This completed the re-
placement of all of the old screw pipe in this line which, during the
past three years, had given trouble from leakage.
An automatic air compressor, driven by a 714-horsepower motor,
to furnish 35 cubic feet of free air a minute, has also been purchased
to work in conjunction with the Clayton air compressor which has
been in continuous service since 1913. This compressor was primarily
bought for use in connection with the opening and closing of doors
on the elevators, but is intended for additional use in operating
machinery in the various laboratories and shops.
Thirty-two hundred and ninety-two tons of bituminous coal were
used in the power plant, and 15.5 tons of anthracite were burned dur-
ing the summer in the Natural History Building for domestic pur-
poses.
The total current generated during the year was 476,709 kilowatt
hours at a total cost of 2.862 cents a kilowatt hour, a figure that in-
cludes labor, material, interest and depreciation on the plant. Cost
of current a kilowatt hour omitting interest and depreciation was
1.986 cents.
The testing of the fire-fighting apparatus was continued and
equipment inspected in the usual manner. Fire extinguishers were
all charged, cleaned, and recharged. Fire plugs for hose connections
were flushed in order that they may not become clogged with rust
or scale or any foreign substance. There are now ready for use
174. carbon dioxide Underwriters’ fire extinguishers and four carbon
tetrachloride fire extinguishers. The electric fire alarm system was
tested at intervals by ringing in each station exactly as would be
the case if it were for fire. The alarm system in the buildings has
worked better than during the previous year, but it is hoped that at
some future date it will be possible to install a closed circuit sys-
tem in all the buildings similar to that now in use in the Freer Gal-
lery of Art.
A new compressor for the ice plant has been purchased and will
be installed, as the old one was worn out and too small. A number of
other changes and repairs have been made in the plant during the year,
the condenser having been increased in size by one-third, and a new can
filler and 20 cans purchased to replace others that were unfit for use.
With the installation of the new compressor it will be possible to
produce 21% tons of ice a day, whereas the old one had a capacity of
only 2 tons. The plant has been in operation 3,645 hours, produc-
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ing a total of 346.3 tons of ice. If the cost of the new machine is
not included, the cost of producing ice is less than the previous year.
If, however, the cost is included, the cost a ton will be somewhat more,
though not as great as the wholesale price paid for ice by the Govern-
ment.
The total cost of operation, excluding the purchase of new parts,
was $799.77 or a little over $2 a ton,
Fire hydrants in Smithsonian Park.—In August, 1922, a few days
after the outer walls of the Natural History Building had been
thoroughly washed with the use of the fire engine, through the
courtesy of the District Fire Department, the Institution was noti-
fied by the chief engineer that the only fire hydrant south of that
building was useless, as it was of an old type and was connected with
a small noncirculating pipe. The Board of District Commissioners
and chief engineer of the fire department recommended that an
appropriation be secured for installing four modern hydrants for
the protection of the Natural History Building and the other build-
ings of the Institution located in the park. Congress included in
the appropriation for 1925, $8,500 for this purpose, and the work
was completed under the direction of the District Commissioners.
The old Hayden hydrant to the east of the Arts and Industries
Building, and the one near the Henry statue were condemned and
removed, and the Smith hydrant, located at an inaccessible point
south of the Smithsonian Building removed and installed west of
the Arts and Industries Building, where it was connected by means
of a 6-inch main feed pipe, with the 20-inch main on B Street. This
with the other changes indicated, provide ample fire protection for
all of the Smithsonian buildings in the park. The total cost of the
work was $7,924.81.
Furmture and fixtures—During the year 18 exhibition cases and
bases were acquired by purchase and construction in the shops, with
127 pieces of storage, laboratory, office and other furniture, of which
11 were acquired by purchase, and 116 were made by the shop force.
Nine exhibition cases and bases, and 33 other items including obso-
lete or worn-out storage cases, laboratory and office furniture, were
condemned. On June 30 there were on hand 3,711 exhibition cases,
11,986 pieces of storage, laboratory, office, and other furniture, 50,230
standard wooden-unit drawers, 4,712 metal drawers, 982 unit boxes,
203 wooden double unit boxes, 13,244 insect drawers, 713 wing frames,
5,885 special drawers with paper bottoms, and 12,116 special drawers
with compoboard bottoms for mammal and bird storage cases.
_ In addition to the exhibition, storage, and other furniture manu-
factured in the shops, 32 curtains were made for windows with
southern exposure to replace others that, after 14 years of service,
were completely worn out.
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MEETINGS AND RECEPTIONS
Although the National Museum does not at present sponsor defi-
nite lecture or entertainment programs of its own, since available
funds do not permit the necessary expenditures for maintenance of
such educational features, it offers its auditorium and lecture rooms
to other governmental, patriotic, and scientific agencies and assists
as far as possible in providing facilities for meetings. The assembly
rooms are thus in more or less constant use. Meetings and conven-
tions have been numerous during the past year.
As one of the general features of the Washington meeting of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science members
and guests were received in the Art Gallery in the Natural History
Building, by the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and Mrs.
Walcott, on the evening of December 29. The entire first floor of
the building was open and a large number of persons assembled. In
addition on the evening of January 2 the rooms occupied by the
entomological collections were opened in an informal reception ten-
dered to members of the Entomological Society of America and the
American Society of Economic Entomologists by Government en-
tomologists. Austin H. Clark addressed members of the association
on December 30 on “The Navy’s Oceanographic Program;” Dr.
C. D. Walcott on December 31, lectured on “Geologic Explorations
in the Canadian Rockies.” Dr. E. E. Slosson, of Science Service,
later in the same evening showed several reels of motion picture film
taken in the Canadian Rockies, and on January 1 Dr. A. E. Doug-
lass, of the University of Arizona, gave an account of the “ Eclipse
of September, 1923,” and Dr. Willis T. Lee spoke on “ Explorations
in the Carlsbad Caverns of New Mexico,” an account of work per-
formed under the auspices of the National Geographic Society.
The regular meetings of the Section of Anthropology were held in
the small lecture room on January 1, 2, and 3.
The exhibition halls of the Natural History Building were thrown
open on July 19, 1924 for a reception held by the Washington Chap-
ter of the American Institute of Banking for members of the general
organization gathered in conference in Washington. On December
16 Count Byron de Prorok gave an illustrated lecture on “ Carthage
Excavations, 1924,” and “The Dead Cities of the Sahara” before
members of the Anthropological Society of Washington, the Wash-
ington Academy of Sciences, the Art and Archeology League, and
the Archaeological Institute of America. The lecture was fol-
lowed by a reception held in the Art Gallery.
On the evening of June 10 there was a reception arranged for
delegates and guests of the National Association of Credit Men in
convention in Washington.
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Branches of the Department of Agriculture used the lecture rooms
and the auditorium on numerous occasions. On October 3, Sir John
Russell, of Rothamsted Experiment Station at Harpenden, England,
spoke on “Treating Soils.” On October 27 and 29 Dr. Vernon
Blackman, of the Imperial College of Science and Technology,
in London, lectured on “The Relation of Electrical Currents to
the Growth of Plants” and on October 31 this same speaker
talked on “Some Aspects of the Physiology of Parasitism.” On
January 26 Sir Daniel Hall, scientific advisor to the Minister of
Agriculture of England, spoke on “ Agricultural Research and the
Community.”
A series of lectures under the auspices of the Forest Service began
on October 1 with an account by Col. W. B. Greeley, chief forester,
“On Preservation and Destruction of Timber” and continued with
six other talks, by Mr. Barnes on November 3, by Mr. Carter on
December 3 on “ Alaska,” by Colonel Greeley on January 7 on
“ Wild Life in the National Forests,” by Mr. Rockford, on February
4, on “Forest Ranges,” by Mr. Norcross, on April 8, on “ Road
Building,” and on June 3 by Mr. Forbes on “ Forests of the South.”
On November 19 and 20 meetings of the National Conference on
Utilization of Forest Products, called by Secretary Wallace of the
Department of Agriculture, under auspices of the Forest Service,
were opened by an address by the President of the United States.
Exhibits illustrating work of the Forest Service were placed on
view in the lobby of the auditorium and at the south end of the
foyer.
The Bureau of Agricultural Economics occupied the auditorium
on April 20 for an address by Dr. L. M. Estabrook on “‘Argentina.”
The Federal Horticultural Board held hearings and conferences
in room 42-48, on blister rust quarantine on September 26, and hear-
ings for other purposes on June 29 and 380.
A lecture on “Hudson’s Bay ” was delivered by F. Johansen on
January 24, under the auspices of the Bureau of Biological Survey.
On the afternoon of May 22, the department’s post, Veterans of
Foreign Wars of the United States, held memorial services in the
auditorium, in honor of the late Henry C. Wallace, and of the men
of the Department of Agriculture who lost their lives in the World
War.
The American Society of Mammalogists, organized at a meeting
in the National Museum seven years ago, held its annual sessions
here on April 8, 9, and 10. On the evening of April 8, Dr. W. H.
Osgood, president of the organization and curator of zoology in the
Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago spoke in the
auditorium “On Darwin’s Trail in South America.”
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The American Surgical Association, and the American Associa-
tion for Thoracic Surgery met in the assembly rooms on May 4, 5,
and 6, holding separate sessions that convened in different rooms
simultaneously.
Dr. AleS Hrdlitka of the Museum staff, beginning October 24,
gave weekly lectures every Friday on “ Man’s Origin” and every
Monday on “ Man’s Physical and Physiological Characteristics.”
The first series included seven talks and the second five, all of which
proved highly popular and were well attended.
Under the auspices of the School of Foreign Service, a series of
12 lectures was given in the auditorium by Dr. Edmund A. Walsh,
S. J., of Georgetown University on “Russia in Revolution.”
These extended over a period from February 13 to May 15, and
attracted much attention.
M. Chr. Thams, minister of the Prince of Monaco to France, on
November 29, gave a lecture on the results of a journey undertaken
by him into Kastern Africa for the purpose of advancing the cause
of conservation of wild life. His talk.was illustrated by a fine
series of moving pictures impressive for their accuracy in revealing
the habits of big game under natural conditions.
On the evening of May 2, the historical picture made for the
Commission for Relief in Belgium, was shown in the auditorium
before Secretary Hoover, who had been chairman of that organiza-
tion from 1914 to 1919, during the years of its operation.
A national spelling bee, organized by the Courier-Journal and the
Louisville Times, of Louisville, Ky., to determine the winners of
prizes offered for excellence in spelling to pupils of schools through
the country, was held in the auditorium on June 17. Six girls and
three boys were entered in the: final contest which was won by
Master Frank Neuhauser, age 11 years, of Louisville.
The annual meeting of the Audubon Society of the District of
Columbia, held in the auditorium on January 31, was addressed
by Dr. Arthur A. Allen of Cornell University on the “Birds of
Florida and Texas.” Beginning February 2, Dr. A. Wetmore, at
that time superintendent of the National Zoological Park, gave a
series of four lectures before the same organization on the subject
of “Feathers, their Form, Color and Function.”
A meeting for a eel Radio Conference, called by Seorobars
Hoover, met in the auditorium and the small assembly room on
October 7. An address was delivered at this conference by David
Sarnoff, vice president and general manager of the Radio Corpora-
tion of America on a “ Plan of Super-power Broadcasting Proposed
by the Radio Corporation of America.”
Mrs. Charles D. Walcott addressed the Wild Flower Preservation
Society on February 12 on the subject of “ Wild Flowers.” At
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a meeting on February 26 Dr. E. T. Wherry spoke on “ Wild Flowers
of Lafayette National Park,” and a third talk was delivered on
March 26 by Dr. W. J. Showalter. A further meeting on April 30
was addressed by Dr. Clara Burrus, former secretary to John
Burroughs.
On April 9 the auditorium was occupied by the Air Service
Officers Reserve Corps. The meeting was opened by General
Mitchell, who introduced Lieutenants Wade and Arnold for an
account of their trip around the world by airplane. The talk was
illustrated by motion pictures.
Motion pictures of the Canadian Rockies were shown by Necretary
Walcott on March 24, for the benefit of Museum employees. A
motion picture exhibition entitled “ Film Land” was arranged for
November 11 by W. H. Egberts, also for Museum employees.
Meetings of the Anthropological Society of Washington, the
Entomological Society of Washington, the American Horticultural
Society, the District of Columbia Dental Society, and the Society
for Philosophical Inquiry met regularly during the winter season
for their stated meetings. The rooms were used also by tne Wash-
ington Society of Engineers, the Washington Chapter of the Ameri-
can Association of Engineers, the Practical Psychology Club and the
Boy Scouts of the Third Division.
The Filipino Club of Washington met in the auditorium on July
3 for addresses by Sefiores Cesar Caballo and José T. Nueno. On
December 20 ceremonies were held in the auditorium by El Club
Cervantes in commemoration of the Centenary of the Battle of
Ayacucho. On March 28 a meeting under the direction of Sr.
Cayetano de Quesada of the Cuban Embassy celebrated the rati-
fication of the treaty of the Isle of Pines, and did honor to the
United Spanish War Veterans.
A musical recital was presented on April 23 before the Cornell
Alumni Association of Washington by Vladimir Karapetoff, profes-
sor of electrical engineering, at Cornell University, with Ervine G.
Stenson as accompanist. Professor Karapetoff demonstrated before
the gathering his invention of an additional string for the cello.
Five meetings were held by the directors and assistant directors
of school playgrounds during August and September for talks on
various subjects. Other organizations meeting in the Museum were
the Helminthological Society of Washington, the Washington
Chapter of the American Institute of Chemists, the Camp Fire Girls,
the Camp Fire Guardians, the American Horticultural Society, the
Garden Homes Associations, and the Smithsonian Relief Association.
In all, the meeting halls were used on 146 occasions during the
year.
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CHANGES IN ORGANIZATION AND STAFF
In accordance with a plan to develop and coordinate the scien-
tific work of the various branches of the Smithsonian Institution,
provision was made in the annual appropriation for an additional
assistant secretary, and on April 1, 1925, Dr. Alexander Wetmore
was appointed to this post with general supervision over the Museum
interests of the Institution—the United States National Museum,
the National Gallery of Art, and the National Zoological Park.
Doctor Wetmore had, since December 31, 1924, held an honorary
appointment on the Museum staff as custodian of alcoholic and
skeleton collections in the Division of Birds. The appointment
of the assistant secretary permits W. de C. Ravenel, administrative
assistant to the secretary, and director of the Department of Arts
and, Industries, to devote more time and energy to the furtherance
of the industrial side of the Museum, which is rapidly expanding.
All positions in the Museum were reclassified on July 1, 1924, by
the Personnel Classification Board in accordance with the classifica-
tion act of 1923. This resulted in the raising of salary standards,
particularly with reference to the scientific staff. Salaries in the
Museum have always been low and.it has been with difficulty that
the Museum retained its trained workers. The changed conditions
under reclassification are already evident. At the end of the year
every position in the Museum was filled, an almost unknown thing
heretofore.
The Department of Anthropology was strengthened by the filling
of several vacancies. In the Division of Ethnology, Henry B. Col-
lins, jr., was probationally appointed aid on August 1, 1924, and
Herbert W. Krieger, assistant curator on August 7. At the expira-
tion of their probational appointments, Mr. Collins was advanced
to assistant curator on February 1, 1925, and Mr. Krieger to curator
on February 7. Miss Frances Densmore this year again served as
a special assistant in the Department of Anthropology for a period
of two months, during April and May, and continued the work begun
the previous year on the classification of musical instruments. Dr.
George Grant MacCurdy was given an honorary appointment as
collaborator in the department for one year from February 14, 1925.
Neil M. Judd, curator in the Division of American Archeology,
who was on furlough at the beginning of the fiscal year, resumed
his duties on September 16, 1924. He was again granted leave with-
out pay on May 16, 1925, to continue for the fifth summer his archeo-)
logical exploration at Pueblo Bonito, N. Mex., under the auspices of
the National Geographic Society. With this year’s expedition the
original five-year project will have been brought to conclusion.
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In the Division of Physical Anthropology, P. C. Van Natta, aid,
was furloughed from September 18, 1924, to June 1, 1925, to permit
continuation of his college studies. His position was filled tempo-
rarily by T. Dale Stewart.
In the Division of Insects of the Department of Biology, the Sec-
tion of Muscoid Diptera was, for convenience of administration,
merged on April 22, 1925, in the Section of Diptera with Dr. J. M.
Aldrich in charge. For over 10 years the Muscoid Diptera had been
under the honorary custodianship of Dr. C. H. T. Townsend, an
active worker in the group, who is now living abroad. J. T. Barnes
was appointed an honorary collaborator in the Division of Insects for
six months commencing May 16, 1925, to assist Dr. William Schaus
in the packing and shipping of the Dognin collection of Heterocera
to the Museum.
In the Department of Geology, Prof. Richard M. Field was given
an honorary appointment as collaborator in paleontology for six
months from March 25, 1925, in connection with explorations in
Europe in which he is assisting the Museum.
In the Department of Arts and industries Paul M. Garber’s title
was changed from aid in the Division of Mineral and Mechanical
Technology, to assistant curator on October 1, 1924, and on February
1, 1925, Frank A. Taylor was promoted from preparator to aid.
Samuel S. Wyer’s connection with the Museum as associate in
mineral technology was terminated on June 30, 1925, the investiga-
tions for which he was originally appointed having been completed.
In the Section of Organic Chemistry, Harry W. Rabinowitz served
as aid from September 8 to March 31, and was succeeded on April 1
by Miss Aida M. Doyle, by transfer from the Department of Com-
merce.
In the Division of History Miss Hortense Hoad was appointed aid
probationally on February 1, and Capt. Charles Carey was pro-
moted on May 16 from aid to assistant curator.
The Museum lost two employees during the year through the
operation of the retirement act, and one by death. Robert Gohr,
fireman, was retired on November 19, 1924, after a service with the
Museum of over 10 years.
Newton P. Scudder, assistant librarian of the Smithsonian In-
stitution, in charge of the National Museum Library, retired from
active service March 9, on account of age and disability, and died
May 19. Mr. Scudder was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., December 29,
1853, and was educated chiefly in the public schools oi Huntington,
L. I., and at Wesleyan University, from which he graduated in
1879. At the close of his college work he joined the Bureau of
Fisheries and under its auspices made a trip to the halibut banks.
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On his return he wrote “ The Halibut Fishery, Davis Strait ” which
was published in the report of the Fish Commissioner for 1880. In
1887 another paper entitled “'The Salt Halibut Fishery,” appeared
in the “Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States.”
Meanwhile Mr. Scudder had become connected with the Smith-
sonian Institution, where he remained for more than 40 years, and
where for 38 years he was in charge of the Museum library. It is
doubtful if the Museum will ever again have as its reference chief
one so fully acquainted with its collections as Mr. Scudder, or one
more willing to give of his knowledge and time to those who came
with questions. ;
Another retired employee, Mr. Washington Irving Adams, dis-
bursing agent of the Institution and its branches for many years,
died suddenly on April 19, 1925, at his home in Watertown Mass.
The only death of an employee on the active roll of the Museum
was that of Israel Freeman, a laborer in the Museum for over 15
years, which occurred on July 16, 1924.
DETAILED REPORTS ON THE COLLECTIONS
REPORT ON THE DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY
By WALTER HoucH, Head Curator
On a monetary basis the collections of anthropology in the United
States National Museum are estimated to be worth several million
dollars, but in practical value their worth is more in that they con-
tribute definitely to knowledge by increasing the scientific outlook
of the world, by performing an educational duty, by preserving evi-
dences of the progress of man in the arts, and through practical
applications in the material welfare of society. Additional mate-
rial in these collections is accumulating slowly through various gov-
ernmental and other agencies. Opportunity of increase in anthro-
pological material is greater now than it will ever be again, as grow-
ing interest in this subject narrows and exhausts the sources. It is
a matter for congratulation that the science is becoming stronger
and of more proved usefulness.
Anthropology is particularly adapted to museum science on
account of the general interest of its exhibits to the public. In some
European countries this aspect of anthropology has been appreciated
to an extent that has led to the founding of great individual museums
showing the material of the science. As anthropology includes in its
field the primitive data bearing upon the historical development of
most of the other sciences, it is a contributor to and conserver of
information important to other branches.
COMPARISON OF INCREMENT OF SPECIMENS WITH 1923-24
Growth in the collection of ethnology has been mainly in well-
collected material derived from Central and South America, the
majority of the remainder coming from North America. The divi-
sion of American archeology has been affected by a decrease in
accessions that has continued for several years, due in great part to
the widespread formation of individual collections by outside work-
ers in this field.
The division of Old World archeology reports an increase of speci-
mens beyond that for several years past, and it is interesting to
note that the new material is of high grade in value and usefulness.
Receipts in material in physical anthropology indicate a year
above normal, and include much desirable American material.
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ACCESSIONS DESERVING SPECIAL NOTICE
Ethnological material collected by the Marsh-Darien expedition
in southeastern Panama was presented to the Museum through R. O.
Marsh, of Brockport, N. Y. The Smithsonian Institution was repre-
sented on this expedition by John L. Baer, who, before his tragic
death, studied the ethnology and anthropology of the Chocé Indians
of the Pacific slope and of the Cuna tribes of the Darien interior.
The collection is representative of the two tribes mentioned, as well
as of the Caribbean coast Tule or Towali of southeastern Panama.
It includes several hundred articles employed in the daily life of
these Indians in their industrial and ceremonial arts and affords a
valuable guide to their technique and decorative design. Included
are decorated calabashes, domestic utensils of calabash, wood, and
stone; hunting and fishing weapons; boats and paddles; pottery
objects, such as vases, canteens, stove censers, and globose bowls;
toys and figurines of carved wood and pottery; carved and decorated
spirit images; a spirit house of the Chocé Indians built of balsa
wood, mortised and joined, and profusely decorated with designs in
red, yellow, and black vegetable dyes; amulets and fetishes consist-
ing of prehistoric stone celts; basketry; bark cloth; musical instru-
ments; featherwork; basketry and woven cotton headdresses—in
poner a Topreccunicie selection of the material culture of aborig-
inal couthenctenn Panama.
A beautiful selection of South American decorative art in feather-
work and in the metallic green elytra of a species of beetle was re-
ceived as a loan from J. G. Culbertson. This collection also includes
a shrunken human head prepared by the Jivaro Indians of Ecuador.
A collection from southeastern Panama, presented by William Mark-
ham, included gold disk earrings, brass nose rings, Pan’s pipes,
weapons, bark cloth, and examples of appliqué embfoidery in picto-
graphic designs from the San Blas coast. The gift of a beautiful
ancient Mexican serape by Mrs. H. M. Packard is a valuable addition
to the Museum collection of Central American textile art design.
The bequest of 124 California Indian baskets by Miss Ella F.
Hubby, through Rollin G. Hubby, completes a series begun several
years ago by Miss Hubby and serves to make the Hubby collection
in the National Museum the most outstanding collection of California
Indian baskets in existence, both in variety of types represented and
in beauty of individual specimens. The collection is accompanied
by a carefully prepared catalogue and a scientific description of each |
basket.
The private ethnological collections of United States Army officers
who participated in Indian wars and in campaigns in the Philip-
pines are often quite extensive. Two such collections were received
during the year by the Museum, One of these, presented by Gen.
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R. D. Potts, consists of 82 specimens of Philippine and western Amer-
ican Indian material, chiefly Apache and Pueblo basketry and pot-
tery. A similar collection of Philippine Island and western Indian
material was presented by the Misses Catherine M. and Isabelle
H. Hardie and consists of Moro batik cloth and fringed sashes, and
Apache, Zuni, Hopi, Navaho, and Pima basketry and pottery, includ-
ing some ancient and valuable Apache basket trays and basketry
water containers. :
One of the valuable accessions of the year was an ethnological
collection of 45 pieces from China, collected by F. R. Wulsin and
presented by the National Geographic Society. The collection is
representative of the decorative art and bodily ornamentation of
the Miaotse and Thai people of French Indo-China, and consists of
women’s silver earrings, collars, neck chains, headdresses and turbans
of cotton cloth, girdles, skirts, and leggings. From the Province of
Kansu, in northern China, the home of the To-Run tribe, were se-
cured women’s festival hats, gowns, girdles, brass hair and hat orna-
ments, necklaces, earrings, and shoes. Tibetan brass and silver belt
ornaments, charm boxes, pipes, prayer wheels, women’s costume and
hair ornaments make up the remainder of the collection. Water color
paintings, 22 in number, portraying rare and unrecorded early
Alaskan scenes and events, were presented by Mrs. T. J. Richardson.
The region of northern Siberia inhabited by the Chukchi was repre-
sented by 17 small ivory carvings fashioned after the Eskimo style
of decorative art, loaned by Gen. James M. Ashton.
Of the 387 accessions received in the division of American archeo-
logy during the fiscal year just closed, there are six deserving of
special notice. It is to be noted that all of these are transfers
from the Bureau of American Ethnology, as the Museum with its
own funds has participated in no expenditures that have enriched the
collection in this division. In the order of their importance the
accessions transferred by the bureau are: A series of 230 implements
and ornaments of copper, bone, shell, and stone, collected by Gerard
Fowke from mounds near Town Creek, Ala; a series of 59 specimens
including earthenware and shell vessels, shell and stone implements
collected by Dr. J. Walter Fewkes on Weeden’s Island, near St.
Petersburg, Fla.; a collection of stone implements, shell vessels, and
shell and copper ornaments exhumed by Gerard Fowke from mounds
near Town Creek, Ala, on the site of Wilson Dam, Muscle Shoals;
a series of earthenware vessels, bone and shell ornaments, and similar
specimens, collected by J. C. Clarke, from Pueblo ruins 15 miles
southeast of Flagstaff, Ariz.; a stone bird pipe found near Hyde’s
Ferry, Tenn.; and a collection of 303 specimens, mostly stone imple-
ments, from unknown localities in Alabama.
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Of gifts received in the division of Old World Archeology may be
mentioned especially a Welsh version of the Bible, a reproduction —
of the original translation published in 1588, which historically was
as important to the Weish language as the authorized version was
to the English language. This Bible was received from David W.
Evans, through the Hon. James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor. An
engraved and inscribed passover plate of tin, donated by Miss L.
Lieberman, and a collection of polished stone implements from West
Africa, presented by Capt. Robert P. Wild, are also to be mentioned
as accessions of especial value. Among the loans may be singled
out a very valuable and interesting collection of Egyptian and
Graeco-Roman antiquities and ancient glassware, lent by Edward
Sampson; a large collection of prehistoric antiquities from France,
lent by the Archaeological Society of Washington; and a small col-
lection from excavations at Carthage, in North Africa, also a loan
from the Archaeological Society.
In the Division of Physical Anthropology the accessions deserv-
ing special mention include a large collection of skeletal material
donated by the Ohio State Archeological and Historical Society.
Casts of the remains of Pithecanthropus erectus, consisting of the
femur, skull cap, three teeth, and a fragment of the jaw, were the
gift of Dr. Eugene Dubois, professor in the University of Amster-
dam, and a cast of the Broken Hill skull from Rhodesia, South Af-
rica, was received as an exchange from the geological department of
the British Museum of Natural History. Six casts of the Predmost
remains (two of skulls and four of intracranial cavities) were re-
ceived from Dr. Karel Absolon, curator of the Zemske Museum,
Brno, Moravia, Czechoslovakia, as an exchange. Three casts of
Dryopithecus (jaw fragments) were received as an exchange from
the American Museum of Natural History, New York City. Two
important accessions, transferred from the Bureau of American
Kthnology, comprise skeletal material from Florida, one from
Weeden’s Island, and the other from near St. Petersburg: Skeletal
material from Pueblo Bonito and Pueblo del Arroyo was presented
to the museum by the National Geographic Society. A good col-
lection of human skulls from Palm Beach, Fla., was a gift from E.
S. Jackson, and a collection of Iroquois skeletal material from Ak-
ron, Erie County, N. Y., was donated by the Buffalo Society of
Natural Sciences. Post-paleolithic skeletal material from Solutre,
France, was received as a loan from the Archaeological Society of
Washington.
Chief among new specimens in the section of musical instruments
are four splendid period harpsichords, beautifully decorated in the
style of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, added by Mr. Worch
to the Worch collection, together with cases to contain them, The
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Worch collection now comprises sufficient material to adequately
illustrate the history of the piano.
Outstanding in the additions to the section of ceramics was a gift
by Mrs. Frances Roome Powers of a well-identified lot of English
porcelain and glass, and the loan by Commander George E. Brandt,
United States Navy, of a fine Chinese porcelain vase, with fungus
decoration, of the Yung Cheng dynasty.
In the section of art textiles the excellent lace collection of the
’ late Mrs. H.. K. Porter was continued as a loan by her daughter,
Miss Hegeman. By the bequest of the late Miss Emily Tuckerman,
all her specimens, previously on loan, were made a gift. From the
Misses Long were received as a loan one piece of Duchesse Guipure
lace, three pieces of embroidery, and five pieces of tatting.
EXPLORATIONS AND EXPEDITIONS
Explorations that have had special importance in adding to the
collections of the department were those of the National Geographic
Society at Pueblo Bonito, N. Mex., under the charge of Neil M.
Judd, from which has come much valuable material. The expedi-
tion to central China under the leadership of F. R. Wulsin has also
added many specimens of value. The Marsh-Darien expedition to
Panama, on which John L. Baer lost his life, furnished important
collections of outstanding interest. Expeditions of the Bureau of
American Ethnology to Muscle Shoals, Ala., directed by Gerard
Fowke, and to St. Petersburg, Fla., personally conducted by Dr. J.
- Walter Fewkes assisted by M. W. Stirling, have been of great im-
portance. Dr. AleS Hrdlicka, curator of physical anthropology, is
engaged on a several months trip to the Far East and Australia,
financed in part by the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. The ob-
ject of Doctor Hrdlicka’s trip is to observe first hand a number of
races of men and to collect data on the sites of discoveries of ancient
man.
WORK OF PRESERVING AND INSTALLING THE COLLECTIONS—PRESENT
CONDITION OF COLLECTIONS
The customary routine work in cleaning, repairing, and preserv-
ing specimens was much accelerated in the division of ethnology.
A recently devised method of permanently removing rust from
iron was applied to two suits of medieval armor. Dust-proof
storage cases were provided for certain things. A number of old
and valuable oil paintings of Indians were repaired and restored.
Labeling progressed to such an extent that all individual specimens
on exhibit are now labeled. The Erskine collection of Dyak art was
placed on exhibition and a case of Papuan art and a fine case illus-
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trating Moorish art were installed. Interesting and rare costumes
and ornaments of the Miaotse and Thai of south China from the
Wulsin expedition under the National Geographic Society were ex-
hibited and Chinese imperial costumes were installed on lay figures.
A representation of the Chocé collection from Panama, received
through the Marsh-Darien expedition, was put on exhibit, and the
last unit of the Ella F. Hubby collection of California Indian
baskets was added to those already displayed. On the exhibit floor
the Zuni potter and Navaho silversmith groups were reinstalled,
and figures in the Quarry group, the Eskimo group, and the Mohave
Indian case were repaired and readjusted. Especially valuable in
connection with the exhibits is a place catalogue of specimens,
admitting of the locating of any object in a minimum of time,
prepared a few months ago by the staff of ethnology.
In American archeology rearrangement of the study series was
continued. With consolidation of State collections, with much de-
tailed work devoted to the division records pertaining to those
collections, and with many erroneously numbered and mislabeled
specimens identified, it may be said truthfully that the collections
of American archeology are now in better condition than they have
been at any previous time in the history of the Museum. Two new
and attractive groups illustrating the Cliff-dwellers and the Creek
Indian flint chipper, were produced by Mr. Egberts and set up in
the exhibit hall. In the laboratory, activity was shown in the
restoration and repair of ancient pottery, _ in making casts of
stone implements.
In the division of Old World archeology there was much activity
in labeling and installation. Four cases illustrating Jewish cere-
monials were placed in the section of historic religions, and a case
was added to the exhibits of ecclesiastical art. Préhistoric exhibits
from France, Switzerland, and Africa were inereased by the addi-
tion of other specimens.
In the division of physical anthropology the work of cleaning
the skeletal material in the Huntington collection was finished, and
other important collections were taken up for cleaning and repair.
Material on exhibition was increased by the addition of acient skulls,
brain casts of prehistoric skulls, and skulls showing various types of
head form. |
In connection with Miss Frances Densmore’s work in preparing a
handbook of the collection of musical instruments in the Museum,
all of these specimens were rearranged and the cases painted. This
important collection presents now a more attractive appearance than
ever before. ie
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In ceramics, a unit under the direction of the head curator, a num-
ber of cases were rearranged, among which an exhibit of old Ameri-
can glass bottles attracts especial interest.
In art textiles much material was overhauled by Mr. Allen to the
betterment of its physical appearance. The head curator was assisted
in the conduct of this exhibit by Miss Edith Long, who has added to
the carefully selected and arranged collection of the Misses Long,
illustrating “The Arts of the Thread.” Since the initial installation
of this collectron in 1910, one purpose has been kept in view, namely,
to show and preserve the work of American gentlewomen through
three centuries, from spinning and weaving to the finest of stitchery
and embroidery. By the will of the late Miss Everett Long (to
whom the Museum is indebted for much assistance and cooperation)
all collections standing in the name of “ The Misses Long” will be-
come gifts, remaining as loans only through the life of her sister.
The latter is carefully preparing descriptive lists, both of the cases
in the room of art textiles and of those in the division of history, that
there may be no difficulty in the future concerning identification of
specimens. A pamphlet for presentation to the Museum, containing
excerpts from the writings of the late Miss Long regarding the his-
tory of needlework, is also being prepared.
The anthropological laboratory prepared three unit groups con-
taining figures modeled by Mr. Egberts. Other important repair
and restoration work, notably a featherwork coat-of-arms of the
United States presented to President Coolidge, was carried on in
the laboratory.
RESEARCHES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE MUSEUM
Herbert W. Krieger, curator of ethnology, made researches in
the culture history of the tribes of Indians of southeastern Panama,
and prepared a handbook embodying the results, based on the Marsh-
Darien collection and other material. He also prepared a manu-
script on Filipino cutting weapons, and began the study of the arts
of Malaysia based on the W. L. Abbott collections. The religious
ceremonies of the Pueblo Indians were made the subject of a special
study by Elsie Clews Parsons, who spent several days at the Museum
investigating material from the Pueblo area. Dr. A. E. Douglass,
of the Carnegie Institution, continued his investigations of annular
tree rings in relation to climatic changes, and studied the beams
from the Pecos Mission Church now in the Museum collections.
Dr. F. S. Hall, of the Washington State University Museum, in-
spected and studied the decorated stone and wood carvings of the
Makah Indians in the Museum collection to facilitate the identifi-
cation of similar material in his institution.
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A large number of students of American history and ethnology
have inspected and studied ethnological material that has had some
special interest to them in connection with some project that they
were prosecuting at the time. The information in each case desired
was definite and limited to some particular detail of American
history or ethnology. In most instances it was possible with the
aid of the place catalogue mentioned above to put before the student
material helpful in solving or in throwing additional light on his
problem. Old paintings such as those in the Catlin collection, and
old and rare photographs were much in demand for study and for
reproduction. Loans of photographs from the division files were
made from time to time for use of publishers, writers, and educators.
Mr. Kulkarni, of Poona, India, who spent several weeks in the
United States studying the agricultural methods of the North
American Indian, while in Washington consulted the files of the
division.
A study of the armor of western Malaysia was prosecuted by
George C. Stone, of New York, and several photographs of speci-
mens of armor, helmets, and weapons in the W. L. Abbott collection
were taken at his request. Similarly, at the request of Dr. F. Boas,
of Columbia University New York City, some 300 Eskimo decorated
needlecases of ivory and bone were photographed. Doctor Boas
is making an intensive study of primitive art and expect to use these
photographs for publication.
In the division of American archeology, Mr. Judd has completed
a report on archeolgical observations north of the Rio Colorado
in Utah and Arizona. Monroe Amsden, of Farmington, New Mex.,
assistant to Mr. Judd in the explorations of the National Geographic
Society at Pueblo Bonito, was engaged for three months following
October 1 in the study of ceramic material from Pueblo Bonito
already received in the division. In addition, Dr. A. VY. Kidder,
Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.; Earl H. Morris, Carnegie Insti-
tution of Washington, Washington, D. C.; and Supt. J. L. Nusbaum,
of the Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, spent brief periods in
examination of the collections in this division. '
In the division of Old World Archeology Doctor Casanowicz con-
tinued his study of Oriental seals. Prof. Jean Capart, conservator
and secretary of the Royal Museum of Brussels, Belgium, examined
the Egyptian collections.
A study of “Old Americans,” begun by the curator of physical
anthropology in 1912, received its final revision during the year and
is now in press. The second part of the “Catalogue of Human
Crania,” relating to the division collections, is finished. Additional
measurements to act as an appendix to this catalogue have also been
secured. The curator also carried on an investigation on the weight
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of the brain and internal organs of American monkeys, the result of
which has been published in the American Journal of Physical
Anthropology. In addition, Henry B. Collins, jr., assistant curator in
the division of ethnology, conducted an investigation on the pterion
in primates. His conclusions will be published in the American
Journal of Physical Anthropology. Dr. William L. Straus, of Balti-
more, Md., spent the period from July 10 to August 9, 1924, in the
division studying the bones of the foot. On September 24, 1924,
the curator received in consultation three prominent members of the
faculties of the Prague and Brno Universities, Czechoslovakia,
Professors Kestner, Bydovsky, and Novak. Dr. Francis J. Netusil,
au eminent physician and statistician of Czechoslovakia, paid several
visits to the division during October and November. On October 18,
R. O. Marsh brought his party of “ White Indians” for examination
and measurement. On November 18 Lieut. Wendell Prescott Roop,
ot the Construction Corps, United States Navy, spent a day in the
division in connection with his studies on anthropogeography. Dr.
Milo Hellman, of New York was occupied for four days in the exam-
ination of teeth of Mongols and Japanese, and Dr. Paul Johnson, of
Washington, D. C., spent several days on the study of ethmoid bones.
Dr. A. N. S. Burkitt, associate professor of anatomy, University of
Sydney, Australia, made a general examination of the collections and
the library. Dr. R. W. Leigh, of the Army Medical Museum, began
investigations of the dental pathology of the Indian tribes on
January 7, 1925. The results of this are embodied in an article pub-
lished in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Through-
out the school year from November, 1924, to June, 1925, two medical
students of George Washington University, T. Barnette Wilson and
G. H. Phillips, prosecuted work in osteology under the curator’s
direction, and Dr. C. J. Connolly of the Catholic University, Wash-
ington, D. C., during the same period, studied the location of the
nasion. Instruction in anthropometry was given to several persons,
among whom may be mentioned Professor Connolly and Dr. John M.
Cooper of Catholic University, Doctor Schapiro, of Washington,
D. C., Dr. William R. Morse of the China Medical Board, Rockefeller
Foundation, and Marcelo Tangeo of the University of the
Philippines. -
RESEARCHES ELSEWHERE AIDED BY MUSEUM MATERIAL
At the request of Dr. Clark Wissler, of the Department of An-
thropology, American Museum of Natural History, New York
City, the division of ethnology forwarded two separate loans of
wooden fish hooks to assist in his comparative study of the dis-
tribution of wooden fish hooks in the Pacific. E. F. Bissantz, of
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Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., received from the division a
loan of a large number of photographs illustrating the art design
of the Northwest Coast Indians. Mr. Bissantz is making a detailed
review of the decorative art of these Indians. A loan of Pueblo
prayer plumes was made to Elise Clews Parsons, of New York,
who is prosecuting a study of the religious ceremonies of the Pueblo
Indians.
From the division of physical anthropology samples of human
hair from Negritos of the Philippine Islands and Cunas of Panama
were sent to Dr. Leon Hausman of the Department of Zoology,
Rutgers College. Later a further series of samples taken from the
hair of the “ White Indians” wassent to Dr. Hausman. Capt. R. W.
Leigh, of the Army Medical Museum, received the loan of a series
of skulls and jawbones in connection with his studies on dental
pathology among the Indian tribes.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXCHANGE OF SPECIMENS
Several loans of textiles illustrating the costumes and artcraft
of various peoples have been made by the division of ethnology
during the year, usually for short intervals. The material thus
loaned has been exhibited at conventions, schools, libraries, and in
pageants, and has served to better acquaint the general public with
the decorative design and art crafts of sundry peoples. One of
these loans, consisting of Siamese material, made to the Children’s
Section of the Charleston Museum, Charleston, S. C., included 19
pieces, among which may be mentioned a silk sarong and other
fabrics to typify Siamese weaving, lacquered wood, and domestic
art objects. A loan of Chinese costumes was made to the Depart-
ment of Chinese of the School of Business, Columbia University,
New York City, and included 20 pieces. Two loan$ of 27 and 24
pieces, respectively, were made to the Randall Junior High School,
Washington, D. C. The larger loan consisted of Japanese objects
of art and material of use in the daily life of the Japanese, while
the other covered miscellaneous Indian ethnologica. A gift of
64 pieces of American Indian Pottery was made to the Museum of
Natural History of the Public Schools of Battle Creek, Mich.
Another gift of 22 unaccessioned duplicate photographs of Ameri-
can Indians was made to Mr. Kulkarni, Agriculture College, Poona,
India. Through exchange, Hon. R. F. Pettigrew, of Sioux Falls,
S. Dak., received a collection of 52 pieces of western plains Indian
ethnologica.
The division of American archeology presented 13 specimens of
ancient pottery to the Museum of Natural History of the Battle
Creek, Mich., public schools, and 27 specimens of stone implements
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to Mrs. EK. E. Doolittle, Brattleboro, Vt. Five casts of stone
carvings were lent to the Navesink Library Association, Navesink,
N. J. A model of Xochicalco and a drawing of another Mexican
ruin were lent to the Architectural and Allied Arts Exposition,
_ New York City. Among the exchanges made were 29 arrowheads
to John C. Fitch, East Liverpool, Ohio; 19 arrowheads to Harry
Harris, Richmond, Va., and 2 grooved stone axes to E. W. Keyser,
Washington, D. C. |
A Babylonian inscribed brick and a cuneiform tablet were lent
by the division of Old World archeology to Edward C. Potter to
illustrate a lecture delivered at Walter Reed Hospital, Washington,
D.C. An inscribed Egyptian papyrus was lent to the exhibit of the
book fair, under the direction of the League of Pen Women, at
Woodward & Lothrop’s, Washington, D. C. Three photographs
of the Gliddon mummy case were presented to Prof. Jean Capart,
of the Royal Museum at Brussels, Belgium, to be used for the illus-
tration of a paper. A collection of photographs of Egyptian and
Palestinian specimens’ was presented to the First Presbyterian
Church, Newport News, Va. A collection of 21 prehistoric stone
implements from France was given in exchange to Williams College,
Williamstown, Mass.
The division of physical anthropology supplied to Columbia
University Hospital, New York City, as a gift, a number of foot
bones for a skeleton. Three human skulls and ten casts of skulls
were sent to the Zemske Museum, Brno, Moravia, Czechoslovakia, in
exchange.
In this and many other unrecorded ways the department of anthro-
pology aided in efforts of various educational and scientific or-
ganizations to initiate projects for the common good. Frequently
advice as to the merits of plans and methods is asked, and in some
cases requests are honored for selected educational collection of dupli-
cate material so far as the resources of the department admit. In
this way the influence of the Museum is extended.
NUMBER OF SPECIMENS IN THE DEPARTMENT
During the past fiscal year the department received 116 acces-
sions with a total of 4,444 specimens, of which 11 accessions, com-
prising 1,228 specimens were loans. The total number of speci-
mens received were distributed among the various divisions of the
department as follows: Ethnology, 1,241; American archeology, 904;
Old World archeology, 1,265; physical anthropology, 924; musical
instruments, 6; ceramics, 41; and art textiles, 63.
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On June 30, 1925, the specimens in the department totaled 653,497
assigned as follows:
EHO LO ey Se Be ers ET Se Ta eh ee eal eee eee eee 157, 276
Americanarcheology = —2 22s (Aee ee eee 2 Le bese 425, 970
Old? World jiarcheologys: Seka toa ie eee en eee 31, 174
Physical, anthropology 22 ae en eae 29, 763
Mirsical: amstrumme nts 2 aii he Ee eS ae ie eg 2, 063
Were mies Li ue ee EU a a NMEA SURO DO ly alae ea AH eG 5, 848
PNY Pil 2p. <1 U Kf sentir tr SEPM) RN uaa ade yy a st oo Met 1, 403
BO Gad Geo Se bi erat 2 rele lh ee a ea 653, 497
REPORT ON THE DHPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY
By LEONHARD STEJNEGER, Head Curator
In previous reports attention has been called to the necessity for
additional assistance in the divisions of this department that the
work may be continued effectively. To indicate the necessity for
increase in personnel it is desired to recapitulate briefly the functions
of the staff and the handicaps under which it works to uphold
the reputation and the traditions of the institution.
By the fundamental law establishing the National Museum, it is
made the final depository for all the collections gathered by the
United States Government, and the duties of its scientific staff are
to care for, classify, and report upon these collections. All collec-
tions relating to recent plants and animals (except man) are in the
custody of the Department of Biology and are destributed among
a, number of divisions, in charge of scientific experts.
The magnitude of the biological collections may be gathered from
the last paragraph in this report which shows in detail the extent
of the material in this department. It will be seen that it now
embraces approximately 7,345,285 specimens, of which 1,223,400 are
plants and 6,121,885 are animals. It is difficult to convey an idea
of the immensity of the mere task of handling and caring for this
material, aside from its classification and the publication of reports.
Preservation, cataloguing, and labeling require unceasing attention,
expert knowledge, and unremitting work. To be available for study,
these thousands upon thousands of specimens must be so arranged
that they can be found when wanted by investigators. In many
groups, for instance in mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians,
each individual specimen has to be catalogued and labeled, both
catalogues and labels giving such data as register number, scientific
- mame, exact locality where collected, date when collected, by whom
collected, and other information which often is of equal importance
with the specimens themselves. The very handling of the material
involves an immense amount of work, for while in some classes of
animals the specimens are small and may often be moved in lots,
in others the opposite holds, as for instance in the division of
mammals, where the specimens range in size from mice to elephants
and whales. Nor is size always a proper criterion of the labor
involved, for innumerable specimens contained in the collections
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of the Museum are of microscopic size necessitating a technique in
manipulation which requires much time and skill.
The proper identification, naming and classifying of these speci-
mens can be done only by highly trained specialists whose lives are
devoted to study of restricted branches of zoological or botanical
science. The field is so vast, the number of forms often so stupend-
ous (as for instance in entomology where the species are estimated to
run into millions) that in many branches the scientific investigator is
compelled to devote all his time to one special group if he is to
accomplish fundamental work upon which other workers may rely
in the practical solution of their multifarious problems in sanitation,
agriculture, and other economic activities.
While it is true that the specialist who has devoted years to his
subject can often identify and name specimens of common species at
sight, it is more often the case that he must turn to the microscope
and the literature, before he can be sure. Very often elaborate dis-
sections have to be made. Many animals are so much alike exter-
nally, that the most searching examination of their internal anatomy
or even the structure of their tissues, must be resorted to for a de-
termination of their specific characters. Nor is search of the truly
overwhelming literature for clews to identify an easy task in spite
of the immense library facilities in Washington. Often the libraries
of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, the Department of Agri-
culture, or the Surgeon General’s library, fail to produce the neces-
sary book or scientific journal. Moreover, information may be
available only in some little known foreign language. As a conse-
quence specialists must be linguists of no mean ability. In addition
an extensive and detailed knowledge of the geography of the coun-
tries whence come the specimens is indispensable: The field of the
National Museum is the whole world, biological problems are world
wide, and their solution can only be successfully attempted if
approached in the light of world knowledge. .
It is regrettable to have to confess that because of insufficient per-
- sonnel it is impossible to do full justice to all claims upon the sery-
ice of this department. ‘There are entire groups of animals and
plants as the spiders, myriopods, worms, sponges and most of the
cryptogamous plants in which the Museum has no specialists, while
in others the material is so great that a single worker can not cover
the whole field. Further assistants are needed to relieve trained
men of routine burdens and that younger men may be developed to
carry on the work of the Museum in later years. Aid in these di-
rections is urgently required.
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COMPARISON OF INCREMENT OF SPECIMENS OF 1924-25 WITH THAT OF
1923-24
The importance of the Museum as a permanent depository of sci-
entific material is reflected in the constant increase in scientific value
of the annual additions to the collections. In all divisions the ac-
cessions of the present year equal and in most instances exceed those
of the previous year. As an example, in the division of plants, the
number of accessions was 504, or 34 more than in any of the last 14
years; the number of specimens received was 116,636, or nearly
18,000 more than in any year since 1913, and more than twice the
average number of specimens received during the last 14 years. At
the same time there was entered in the record books 39,686 speci-
mens, about 6,000 in excess of the preceding year. Many needed
rarities have come to fill gaps in many collections, while the acces-
sion of type specimens has been truly notable.
ACCESSIONS DESERVING SPECIAL NOTICE
As one of the accessions of major importance may be cited the
collection of Coleoptera and mollusks which came to the Museum by
the bequest of the late Col. Thomas L. Casey. It has been estimated
that this contains more than 50,000 specimens of beetles, representing
about 16,000 species, of which 5,000 are types of species described
by Colonel Casey himself. The bequest included a very complete
library mainly on Coleoptera, and Mrs. Casey has generously added
a fine new binocular microscope for use in work with the specimens.
The collection which is of highest interest to coleopterists because of
the types that it contains will receive special care and attention, in
order to make its treasures available in the best possible manner to
specialists.
Immense collections presented by the National Geographic Society
come as the result of two of the Society’s expeditions in China, that
of Dr. J. F. Rock and that of F. R. Wulsin. These will be treated
in greater detail under the divisions to which they refer. In the
present connection, it is enough to point out that they embrace over
4.500 specimens of vertebrates and 68,000 plants. This wonderful
addition to our Chinese material is supplemented by numerous other
collections, foremost among which are those made by Rev. D. C.
Graham in western Szechwan, which contain large numbers of
vertebrates and insects. Col. R. S. Clark continued to contribute
Chinese material collected by A. deC. Sowerby, and several other
collectors in the same region have added important specimens. As
a result the collections of Chinese animals and plants in the National
Museum have reached such magnitude and importance as to be-
come active factors in the study of the natural history and resources
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of regions from which have been derived important elements of the
flora and fauna of our own country.
Mammals.—The mammals collected by the National Geographic
Society’s Central China expedition under F. R. Wulsin totaled 367
specimens, and those from the expedition into Yunnan, Szechwan,
southeastern Tibet under the direction of Dr. J. F. Rock, 60 speci-
mens, among them several genera and species new to the Museum.
Though Dr. W..L. Abbott came 85 mammals from Hunan, China,
the last specimens collected by C. M. Hoy before his death. Chinese
accessions further include 49 mammals secured by Rev. D. C. Gra-
ham, among them a large monkey not hitherto represented in the
Museum, and 14 specimens collected by A. deC. Sowerby in south-
eastern China, received through Col R. S. Clark. The Curator,
Gerrit S. Miller, in a trip to the island of Haiti secured a rich harvest
of bones of recently extinct mammals, among them representatives of
new genera and species belonging to the peculiarly interesting cave
fauna of the Greater Antilles. A baleen whale that stranded at
Walnut Point, Va., of a species not often taken on the coast of the
United States, was secured for the Museum by A. J. Poole and C. E.
Mirguet of the Museum staff. Secretary Walcott, during his ex-
plorations in Canada, collected a mule deer and three Rocky Moun-
tain sheep. A collection of 28 small mammals fom Montenegro, a
region not hitherto represented in the collection, was obtained from
V. Martino, Belgrad, Jugoslavia.
Birds.—The numerous, often serious, gaps in our collections, due
in great extent to the fact that the Museum has no general appropria-
tion for the purchase of specimens, have of late years been lessened
by the generosity of B. H. Swales, honorary assistant curator in the
division of birds, who has placed funds at the disposal of the Museum
for the purchase of needed material. In this way Mr-Swales, during
the present year, added to the bird collection 134 skins, covering 5
genera and 26 species previously not possessed by the Museum.
Among these were Monias benschi, from Madagascar, a genus of
uncertain affinity allied to Mesoenas, and Coturnix novaezealandiae,
the extinct New Zealand quail. Most of the novelties were from
Madagascar. The associate curator, Dr. Charles W. Richmond, like-
wise purchased and presented to the Museum 54 bird skins, chiefly
from South America, including 20 genera and 23 species new to the
national collection, among them specimens of the vulturine parrot
(Gypopsittacus vulturinus), the curl-crested toucan (Beauharnaisius _
beauharnaisii), and the Par&é manakin (Pipra opalizans).
The Chinese collections received, totaling 4,215 specimens, exceed
greatly any previous accessions from that important part of the
world. The collection by Dr. Joseph F. Rock, presented through the
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National Geographic Society of 1,611 splendidly prepared bird skins,
mostly from the northern and western parts of Yunnan Province,
added 50 or more species and subspecies and 4 genera to the museum,
including several new to science. The novelties covered the groups
of pheasants, pigeons, woodpeckers, flycatchers, thrushes, warblers,
wrens, babblers, finches, and particularly members of the group
known as “timaliine” birds. Jthaginis rocki a pheasant, and Stria
aluco nivipetens, an owl, were described from this collection, and a
_ yery rare genus of wren, Spelacornis, was represented by one speci-
men, the first the Museum has received. Other generic desiderata
represented were Propyrrhula, Horeites, and Moupinia.
Another collection received from the National Geographic Society,
made by F. R. Wulsin in the provinces of Kansu, Chekiang, Fukien
and Kweichau, China, and in the district of Laos, Siam, consisted
of 1,199 skins, 120 alcoholics and skeletons and 297 eggs. Several
species proved new to the Museum among which may be mentioned
especially the genus Pseudopodoces, a very small, ground-inhabiting
member of the crow family. Special mention is made of the skele-
tons and alcoholics, because collectors of birds too often neglect this
very important material of which the National Museum is in great
need. Rev. David C. Graham’s collections this year consisted of
963 skins from the Province of Szechwan, with a number of species
new to the Museum, including four species of pheasants, and a
grouse of the genus. Tetraophasis. Of special interest were four
skins of the rare merganser Mergus squamatus. Collections of
birds from Fukien, Anhwei, Kiangsu, and other provinces, sup-
plementing those made by Rock, Wulsin, and Graham, were sent,
through Col. R. S. Clark, by A. deC. Sowerby. These included the
rare Paradoxornis heudei, a thick-billed bird related to the shrikes
and titmice, and the genus Oreocorys, a member of the wagtail
family, both new to the Museum.
Dr. Casey A. Wood presented 53 bird skins and one skeleton from
the Fiji Islands. A species of cuckoo (Cacomantis infuscatus) and
a thick-head (Pachycephala awrantiiventris) were new to the col-
lection; several shrike-like birds of the genus Pinarolestes were of
special interest. A majority of the specimens furnished the Museum
with modern material where previously it possessed only old and
faded birds from the United States Exploring Expedition, of about
1840. The Biological Survey, of the United States Department of
Agriculture, transferred to the Museum a number of skeletons, eggs
and nests, besides 20 bird skins collected by Charles L. Fagan at
sea, chiefly along the Pacific coast of South America. Among these
were several species new to the Museum including Oceanodroma
hornbyi and O. markhami, and a skin of the Chilian pelican (Pele-
canus thagus) which, although described as early as 1782, was previ-
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ously unrepresented. In exchange for information there were ob-
tained from the American Museum of Natural History in New York
two lots of bird skins, one from Polynesia and one from Ecuador, in
which two genera, Vesophylax and Thyliphaps, and about 27 species
were new to the Museum.
Reptiles and batrachians.—As in the other divisions of vertebrates,
the Chinese collections occupy the most prominent position, and in-
clude rich lots of material. The contribution of the National Geo-
graphic Society’s expedition, under F. R. Wulsin, covered localities
as widely separated as Lake Kokonor in northeastern Tibet, and
southern Yunnan. The importance of this material is greatly
enhanced by the fact that much of it was collected in the deserts
of Mongolia along the first route of the Russian explorer, Colonel
Przevalski, so that these specimens are to a great extent topotypes of
species described by Guenther and Bedriaga. Rev. D. C. Graham’s
specimens likewise add many species new to the Museum, among
them the curious toad Aelurophryne mammata. A. deC. Sowerby’s
collections from eastern China, secured through Col. R. S. Clark,
make possible a more critical study of certain species, because of the
ample series supplied. Closely connected in interest are 108 speci-
mens collected and presented by Dr. Hugh M. Smith in Siam, related
as many of them are to Chinese species; several species among these
are new to the collection. Dr. M. M. Metcalf presented to the
Museum 191 frogs and tadpoles from Ceylon, among which likewise
were several species not previously in the institution. The collec-
tion brought back by G. S. Miller from his trip to Haiti are of par-
ticular interest, as Miss D. Cochran, aid in the division of reptiles,
has in preparation a comprehensive work on the herpetology of the
island. ; 6
Fishes——More than 1,000 specimens were receivéd from China,
through the expeditions of the National Geographic Society, under
F. R. Wulsin, through collections made by D. C. Graham and A.
deC. Sowerby (through Col. R. 8S. Clark) as detailed elsewhere, and
a small collection from the Chinese island of Hainan donated by
Professor Ping, of Nanking. A very important collection of 441
specimens of fishes from the Amazon basin, South America, was
presented by the H. K. Mulford Co., of Philadelphia, through Dr.
C. H. Eigenmann. An extensive series from Salvador, Central
America, consisting of 2,150 specimens, collected by S. F. Hilde-
brand and F. J. Foster, was transferred to the Museum by the,
Bureau of Fisheries of the United States Department of Commerce.
From this same bureau came also five type specimens of Salmonid
fishes from Lake Michigan and Green Lake, Wis.
Insects.—Reference has already been made to the more than
50,000 coleoptera representing 16,000 species bequeathed to the Mu-
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seum by the late Col. Thomas L. Casey. For 40 years Colonel Casey
devoted his available time to building up and working with this
magnificent collection. The results of his studies, including the
description of about 5,000 new species, the types of which are in
the collection, fill a series of volumes published privately by the
author. The basic importance of this collection to entomologists
will be appreciated as well as the necessity for the utmost care re-
quired in labeling and recording before these specimens can be made
available for critical study by other specialists. It has been decided
to keep the collection exclusively in the curator’s charge until the
requisite work of proper installation has been completed.
Another collection, second only to the preceding in importance
received as a transfer from the Bureau of Entomology of the United
States Department of Agriculture, is the Fernald collection of micro-
lepidoptera, formed by Prof. C. H. Fernald, of Amherst, Mass., and
purchased from his estate because of the importance of the 600 or
more types of economic species which it contains. A large and im-
portant collection of insects was received from Rev. D. C. Graham,
Suifu, China, collected mainly in the mountainous regions of western
China from which the Museum had little material except from
previous sendings by the same collector. Several important gifts of
moths and other insects were received during the year from Prof.
C. F. Baker, dean of the College of Agriculture, Los Banos, P. I.
A collection of 2,800 specimens from Argentina was received as a
gift from G. L. Harrington of Buenos Aires. A gift of local insects,
mostly lepidoptera, comprising about 1,600 specimens, were received
from Miss Kate B. Preston, of Alexandria, Va.
Marine invertebrates.—Prof. 8. F. Light, department of zoology,
University of California, donated more than 700 specimens of crus-
tacea collected at Amoy, China, and adjacent regions. Dr. Hugh M.
Smith sent a number of marine invertebrates, mostly crustaceans,
from Siam. A collection of marine invertebrates, comprising 800
specimens, was made at the Tortugas in July and August, 1924,
by the curator, Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt, under the auspices of the
Carnegie Institution of Washington, D.C. Among other noteworthy
accessions may be mentioned two sections of a submarine telegraph
cable with barnacles attached, collected by the United States cable
ship Dellwood and transferred by the Signal Corps, United States
War Department, through Col. C. A. Seoane, and a series of com-
mercial sponges from the Bahamas and Florida, transferred by
the Bureau of Fisheries, United States Department of Commerce. In
addition various smaller collections were received from indivdual
collectors that added species new to the Museum. By exchange with
the Museum d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, through Theodore Monod,
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the division obtained 30 specimens of isopods (Paragnathia formica)
from France. A number of microscopic slides of isopods, Pale-
arctic and Australian, were also acquired from Dr. K. W. Verhoef.
The type of Pylopagurus schmitti was received from the describer,
Miss Belle A Stevens, University of Washington, Seattle.
Mollusks—In addition to his work with beetles the late Col.
Thomas L. Casey was greatly interested in certain groups of mol-
lusks, and extensive collections of these were included in his be-
quest. Thus about 1,000 specimens of recent mollusks, embracing
many genotypes of the family Turritidae, came to this division.
Truman H. Aldrich, of Birmingham, Ala., donated 146 specimens
of land and freshwater shells from India, including types of three
species of Alcaeus. Dr. Hugh M. Smith this year again forwarded
a large sending comprising 350 specimens of mollusks from Siam.
Approximately 700 species thus far have been contributed by him
from that region. Mr. D. Thaanum, of Honolulu, T. H., sent 153
specimens representing 46 species of marine shells from Hawaii,
Japan and the Western Pacific, mostly of species not included in
his previous large donations. Dr. Julia Gardner, of the United
States Geological Survey, presented the museum with about 1,000
specimens, including 35 species, from Porto Rico. Dr. H. Pittier
at Caracas, Venezuela, has supplemented his previous sendings from
that country by 253 specimens, representing 23 species, so that our
collections from that region are now fairly comprehensive. Dr.
Paul Bartsch, the curator, collected about 2,700 specimens of Cerions
in Cuba and the Florida Keys, and in collaboration with Wiliam
B. Marshall, the assistant curator, about 2,500 specimens of marine
mollusks at Cape May, N. J. Manly D. Barber, Daytona Beach,
Fla., donated 88 specimens, including types of three species and a
paratype of a fourth. Mrs. I. 8. Oldroyd, of Stanford University,
presented about 40 specimens including the types of two new species.
For further type material the Museum is indebted to Mrs. Agnes
Chase, E. P. Chase, T. D. A. Cockerell, L. A. Faustino, H. C. Hig-
gins, A. M. Strong, and Bryant Walker.
The income from the Frances Lea Chamberlain Fund has enabled
the curator to secure for the Museum some very importart-material
which it would have been difficult to obtain, otherwise than by pur-
chase, including a number of topotypes of Cerions described by
C. J. Maynard, as well as four species (genotypes) not before in the
Museum.
Section of helminthological collections—The largest collection
received was from Frits Johansen, Department of Marine and Fish-
eries, Ottawa, Canada, and included 700 specimens of helminths
from Arctic Canada. Dr. G. A. MacCallum, Baltimore, Md., do-
nated the type and paratype of Capillaria carcharini, and J. P. van
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Haitsma, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Mich., a paratype of Str7-
gea impatibilis, a new holostomid trematode from the belted king-
fisher.
Echinoderms.—The only accession calling for special notice was
the gift from the Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, Calif.,
throtgh Prof. Walter K. Fisher, of four types of new species of
holothurians described by Harrington Wells.
Plants—Among more important accessions may be mentioned
' 68,244 specimens, received as a gift from the National Geographic
Society. Of this material 194 specimens are from New Mexico,
collected by members of the Carlsbad Cavern expedition, 8,050 speci-
mens were collected on the central China expedition of the society,
under the direction of ¥. R. Wulsin, and about 60,000 specimens
were secured in Yunnan and adjacent territory by J. F. Rock while
engaged in exploration under the auspices of the society. There
are, besides, three cases of botanical material collected in China
under the auspices of Mr. Wulsin which have not.as yet been ar-
ranged, and 23,369 specimens, transferred by the Bureau of Plant ©
Jadustry, United States Department of Agriculture, include about
2,800 mounted grasses and 20,000 specimens taken in Yunnan and
adjacent territory by J. F. Rock, during exploration in the interests
of the Department of Agriculture.
Other important additions include the following: 1,309 specimens,
chiefly ferns and grasses, from Asia, received from the Royal
Botanic Gardens, Kew, England, in exchange; 960 specimens of
Brazilian plants, received as an exchange from the Museu Nacional,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 611 specimens, collected in Venezuela, by
H. Pittier and by A. Allart, received from H. Pittier, Caracas,
Venezuela, by gifts and purchase; 1,160 specimens from Panama
and the northeastern United States, received as a gift from Ells-
worth P. Killip; 486 specimens of tropical American plants, received
from the Universitetets Botaniske Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark,
in exchange; 804 specimens of plants from California, received
from Stanford University, California, in exchange; 441 specimens
of Costa Rican orchids, presented by Dr. Anastasio Alfaro, San
José, Costa Rica; 507 specimens from Cuba and Scandinavia, re-
ceived from the Riksmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden, in exchange;
888 specimens, chiefly from lower California, received from the
California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, Calif., in exchange;
500 specimens from New Mexico, collected for the Museum by Paul
C. Standley, associate curator, in cooperation with the National
Geographic Society; 1,932 specimens from the United States, re-
ceived from the Missouri Botanical Gardens, St. Louis, Mo., in
exchange. In addition a number of collections were obtained as
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gifts from the University of Texas, George L.. Fisher, Houston, Tex.,
Brother G. Arséne, Covington, La., the University of South Dakota,
and Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, or in exchange from the Gray
Herbarium and the New York Botanical Garden.
EXPLORATIONS AND EXPEDITIONS
As already stated, the most important collections accessioned dur-
ing the year, with the exception of those coming to the divisions of
insects, were the results of expeditions and explorations in China
carried on under various auspices. These were prosecuted during
the first half of the year, as from dangers and difficulties resulting
from civil war, banditry, and an increasing feeling against foreign-
ers in China, such activities have since received a decided setback,
and the outlook for their continuance at present is not promising.
The most important of these expeditions in China were those
conducted by the National Geographic Society, to which the Museum
is greatly indebted for the magnificent collections received. ‘The
cne under the leadership of Dr. Joseph F. Rock during 1923-24
was carried on mostly in the Province of Yunnan, reached through
Burma. Doctor Rock pursued a course through the western part
of Yunnan, gave considerable attention to the Snow Mountains
near Likiang, and penetrated as far as Mili in western Szechwan,
which is something over 200 miles west and south of Suifu, Mr.
Graham’s headquarters. Thus to some extent Rock’s material con-
nects with that received from Graham. As a result of Doctor
Rock’s labor, the Museum came into the possession of about 80,000 —
plants, over 1,600 birds, 60 mammals, and other material from a
region of great importance. The material received from the two
Wulsin expeditions, also under auspices of the National Geographic
Society, came from two widely separated regions of the Chinese
Empire. The first one was undertaken in 1923, but the bulk of
the collections did not arrive until the present year. Starting from
Peking Mr. Wulsin reached Paotow, Inner Mongolia, in March, and
from there followed or paralleled the route through the Alashan
Desert and western Kansu to Lake Kokonor, in northeastern Tibet,
taken by Russian explorer Colonel Przevalski just 50 years before.
Wulsin reached Kokonor about the middle of August. Return-
ing, he made a trip south to the Min Shan Range, which forms the
boundary between the Provinces of Kansu and Szechwan, and
reached Hangchow fu, by way of Titao, September 20, making im~
portant collections on the way. The material secured on this trip is
of importance since the specimens are practically topotypes of the
numerous new species which were described from Przevalski’s
famous journey. His collections also tie up with those which Col.
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R. S. Clark and A. deC. Sowerby made in 1908 and 1909 in Kansu,
Shansi, and Shensi, and with the Szechwan material gathered by
Mr. Graham in Szechwan on the south side of the Min Shan Range.
Mr. Wulsin’s expedition in 1924 extended from Hanoi in Tonking,
French Indo-China, to Yunnan fu, Yunnan, with return by way of
the Laos country and Annam. During the latter part of August
and September a side trip from Yunnan to Hwang Tsao Pa in
the Chinese Province of Kweichow was quite profitable zoologi-
‘cally. The collections are important to the Museum as they come
from a region previously quite unrepresented.
This year’s exploration led Rev. D. C. Graham to Sungpan and
the Yellow Dragon Gorge in northern Szechwan, an arduous trip,
of which a more detailed account has been published in the Smith-
sonian exploration pamphlet for 1924. (Smithsonian Misc. Coll,
vol. 77, No. 2, 1925, pp. 34-86.) The zoological results were highly
satisfactory as already related.
Arthur deC. Sowerby, under the auspices of Col. Robert Sterling
Clark, visited several Provinces in eastern China, including Fukien,
Anhwei, and Kiangsu, and collected extensively, supplementing very
satisfactorily collections of previous years.
Dr. Hugh M. Smith, fisheries adviser to His Majesty’s Siamese
Government, Bangkok, Siam, continued his explorations in Siam,
and secured extensive collections.
Gerrit S. Miller, curator of mammals, visited Haiti during March
and April for the purpose of exploring caves, at the north edge of
the central plain, that had been examined superficially by members
of the United States Geological Survey in March, 1921 (Smithso-
nian Misc. Coll., vol. 73, No. 3, 1922, pp.1-2.) Careful work was done
in six caves, and a collection of the extinct vertebrates whose remains
are buried under the cave floors was obtained. Miscellaneous col-
lections of recent mammals, birds, reptiles, insects, and plants were
made near the caverns, and in the neighborhood of Port-au-Prince.
In cooperation with the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D. C.,
Dr. Paul Bartsch, curator of mollusks, visited Cuba in order to
secure breeding material in continuation of hybridization experi-
ments with cerions which have been carried on for a series of years
past. This expedition as well as a visit to the cerion colonies
planted on the Florida Keys resulted in the addition of about 2,700
specimens to our collection. Another short trip was made to the
Cape May region in company with the assistant curator, W. B.
Marshall. Through the cooperation of the United States Coast
Guard Service it was possible to do some dredging in the inner
leads of Cape May and also in the shallow water off the coast. This
expedition resulted in adding quite a number of specimens from a
region little explored.
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The survey of the fisheries of the Republic of Salvador, Central
America, by Samuel F. Hildebrand and Fred J. Foster, of the
United States Bureau of Fisheries, was undertaken at the request
and at the expense of the Salvadorean Government. Their explora-
tions extended over the early part of 1924. As a result the bureau
has transferred to the Museum a large collection of Salvadorean
fishes and some crustaceans.
The geological expedition of Dr. C. D. Walcott into the Canadian
Rockies, like those of previous years, has added valuable speci-
mens which will be utilized in the contemplated remodeling of a
group representing a family of Rocky Mountain sheep in the
American mammal hall.
The collections of the Museum have profited hkewise from several
expeditions where the collecting of zoological objects was more or
less incidental, such as the expedition undertaken by Capt. R. A.
Bartlett for the National Geographic Society in Bering Sea and
Arctic America during the summer of 1924; and the Bowdoin
expedition of 1924 to Greenland under the omen of D. B.
Macmillan.
Explorations which have contributed valuable material to the
National Herbarium during the fiscal year 1924-25 are as follows:
In August, 1924, Paul C. Standley, associate curator, was detailed
as a member of the Carlsbad Cavern expedition of the National
Geographic Society, and in the course of several weeks’ field work
in the region of the cavern collected about 500 specimens, many
of which represent species not previously known from New Mexico.
A popular account of the vegetation of the Carlsbad Cavern region
has been prepared for publication, largely on the basis of this
field work. Mrs. Agnes Chase, assistant botanist in the Bureau
of Plant Industry, was detailed by the Department of Agriculture
from October, 1924, to June, 1925, to field work in the eastern
highland region of Brazil for the purpose. of collecting grasses,
in cooperation with the Field Museum of Natural History, the
Missouri Botanical Garden, the Gray Herbarium of Harvard Uni-
versity, and the New York Botanical Garden. Upwards of 10,000
specimens were collected, representing nearly 2,500 collection num-
bers. About one-half of the grasses known previously from Brazil
were collected, besides material in other special groups.
WORK OF PRESERVING AND INSTALLING THE COLLECTIONS—PRESENT
CONDITION OF THE COLLECTIONS :
Completion of the new Rocky Mountain goat group forms the
main achievement of the taxidermists during the present year. This
group, which replaces one mounted many years ago, represents a
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family of four, all collected in the Canadian Rockies. The mount-
ing was done by W. L. Brown and his assistants, guided by notes
and photographs taken in the field by Doctor and Mrs. Walcott,
whose direction and criticism as the work progressed was of the
greatest assistance in making the group artistic and true to nature.
The geologists of the Museum: staff were also helpful with sug-
gestions and criticism in the fashioning of the rockwork accessories
of the group.
Two other notable additions to the exhibition series of mammals,
likewise substitution of modern, well-mounted specimens for old,
or poorly executed mounts, were a vicuha from South America, and
a wart hog from Africa. The installation in the case containing the
African hogs was rearranged with great improvement in the exhibit.
Other work, not quite completed at the end of the fiscal year, in-
cludes a group of dik-dik, a diminutive African antelope, no larger
than a small dog. Several additions were made to the series of
smaller mammals and birds, the latter especially in the separate
exhibit of the fauna of the District of Columbia.
The work of caring for and recording the study series in the
various divisions has been attended to in the usual mannev..
In the division of mammals two unit, six half-unit, and six quar-
ter-unit cases were added for the arrangement of the skin collection.
The marsupial collection is now properly arranged for ready con-
sultation. A number of the larger skins were given more space,
and about 50 cases containing rodent and other small skins were
rearranged. Additional storage cases will be needed, as the collec-
tion is still in an overcrowded condition. The arrangement of the
small and medium-sized skulls in the office rooms is complete at this
time. Work has been continued on the large skulls stored in the
attic and whale room, this greatly improving their arrangement. Six
quarter-unit cases have been added for the continued rearrangement
of skeletons in the attic. New material has been added in the
alcoholic collection, which is in good condition. The taxidermists
have prepared during the year 89 specimens as study skins and have
tanned 120 skins, bringing this work up. to date, except for work
required to be done by outside tanners on contract. All of the
tanning this year has been done by the taxidermists. The rotary
drum installed for this purpose has been turning out very good re-
sults, in so far as small skins are concerned. Contract work on small
and medium-sized skulls and skeletons has resulted in the cleaning
of 988 skulls and 52 skeletons. This work is in a satisfactory con-
dition, with only a very few uncleaned skulls at present on hand.
In the division of birds four half-unit cases were received during
the year, to accommodate in part increase in the collections. Three
half-unit cases containing ducks and two quarter-unit cases of
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small Corvidae were rearranged, with some shifting of specimens
among other cases. A considerable number of specimens laid aside
in previous years for determination were identified and distributed
systematically through the collection. In this way some additional
space was provided for the unusual amount of material received
from China during the year, a considerable part of which will have
to be held apart from the main collection until determined. The
Rock collection from China, including 1,611 skins, was provided
with standard Museum labels, and various other lots of specimens
were similarly labeled. Unsatisfactory label-holders on cases hous-
ing specimens of the study series were removed and more suitable
ones suppled. Eggs and nests received during the year were cata-
logued, but not distributed in the systematic series. About 1,100
egos were labeled and placed in the collection. The alcoholic
material received during the year was provided with suitable con-
tainers and labeled. In the skeleton. collection, 573 specimens were
placed in suitable boxes, labeled, and distributed, and the data
recorded on the card catalogue. Considerable material was cleaned
by the preparators during the year, but thus far has not been labeled
or prepared for distribution. The condition of the collections of
all kinds is excellent, there being no deterioration so far as known.
In the division of reptiles and batrachians about 1,200 specimens
have been installed in permanent places in the storage room. Prac-
tically no replacement of the old cork-stoppered bottles by glass-
stoppered jars has been possible during the year, owing to difficulty
experienced in obtaining an adequate number of standard jars to
hold incoming specimens. The present condition of the collection
on the whole is very good.
All the material received in the division of fishes during the year
has been identified, catalogued, entered on cards inthe index files,
and installed in the regular collections. The shelves and containers
in the storage room were cleaned and jars refilled where evapora-
tion had occurred, many labels have been restored where they had
become obliterated, and large storage jars have been resealed to
reduce evaporation to a minimum. The condition ue the material
is considered very good.
In the Division of Insects, since the adoption several years ago
of the tray system for most of the orders of insects, the process of
transferring the collection to trays has been under way, and is al-
most complete for some of the large orders, especially for the Dip-_
tera. In Coleoptera and Hymenoptera there is still much to be done.
During the year Dr. H. E. Ewing arranged the collection of
scorpions, and placed most of it in standard containers. He con-
tinued rearranging the tick collection until now about 60 per cent
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of it has been transferred from miscellaneous containers into stand-
ard vials. To facilitate identification work in the Orthopteroid
insects, A. N. Caudell arranged a systematic series of the North
American forms in the families Forficulidae, Blattidae, Mantidae,
Grylliidae, and the subfamilies Tettiginae, Oedipodinae, and Truxa-
linae of the Acrididae. Dr. T. E. Snyder continued his study of
white ants, and rearranged a part of the collection with addition of
interesting accessions in this order. W. S. Fisher rearranged all
' of the West Indian beetles of the subfamily Lamiinae, and in addi-
tion placed other material cf this group in trays. Dr. M. W. Black-
man completed arrangement of the bark beetles of the superfamily
Scolytoidea in standard trays and drawers. The bark beetles are
now arranged in a systematic manner so that all of the material of
the group is readily accessible to specialists who wish to consult it.
Dr. W. Schaus continued rearrangement of the exotic Macrolepid-
optera so far as is practicable with the drawers and cases available.
During the year he devoted much energy and effort to the securing
of subscriptions for the purchase of the Dognin collection, and
succeeded in obtaining sufficient money to assure the acquisition of
this collection. In May he arranged for the purchase, and in June
sailed for France to pack and ship the material. He was accom-
panied by J. A. Barnes as assistant. C. Heinrich and A. Busck have
continued their studies and rearrangement of the collection of
Microlepidoptera. The collection of larval Microlepidoptera: of
the families Noctuidae, Pyralidae, Saturniidae, Sphingidae, and
Geometridae, have been catalogued and labeled. The Olethreutidae
from the Fernald collection have been added to the regular collection
and the group completely rearranged. Mr. Heinrich submitted a
manuscript describing new forms and revising those previously
described.
In the section of Hemiptera the Mexican and Central American
Membracidae have been fully identified and the collection re-
arranged, the North American Telamonini, Cryptostemmatidae, and
Ploiariinae have been revised and rearranged, and also the Neotropi-
cal Coreidae in so far as they are identified, all by W. L. McAtee
and J. R. Malloch. H.G. Barber identified many of the bugs of the
family Lygaeidae. Dr. H. G. Dyar and R. C. Shannon have re-
studied and rearranged -the North American flies belonging to the
family Simuliidae and have completed a revision of this group.
C. T. Greene has continued transfer to the tray system of certain
groups of flies in which he is especially interested. He continued
his arrangement of the collection of immature stages of Diptera
and reports that of the 61 families of Diptera, the Museum now
contains representatives of 54, in this stage of growth. The na-
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tional collection of the immature stages of Diptera is by far the best
in the United States, and probably equals if not surpasses any in
the world. In the section of Hymenoptera work on arrangement
of the collections progressed as rapidly as possible with identifica-
tion work. Dr. William M. Mann practically completed a skeleton
arrangement of the ants, and this collection is now in better shape
than ever before. Rearrangement in the Chalcidoidea has consisted
largely of expansion and incorporation of determined specimens
from the regional collection. However, the families Mymaridae and
Trichogrammidae, and the genera Chalcis and Eurytoma, have been
rearranged completely. During the fiscal year C. F. W. Muesebeck
completed the arrangement of the Braconid genus Microbracon. In
the bees the genus Bombus was rearranged and partially restudied
by Dr. T. H. Frison. Various groups of Sphecoidea have been
transferred to trays, and the subfamilies Crabroninae and Larrinae
have been completely rearranged during the year. With exception
of the rearrangement of the subfamily Brachystinae and a partial
rearrangement of the species of the genus Pepsis, done in collabora-
tion with J. R. Malloch, very little change has been made in the
collection of the superfamily Mutilloidea.
In the division of marine invertebrates, by dint of effort on the
part of all members of the staff, progress in caring for the collections
has been on a par with that of the preceding year. The fact that
the laborer assigned to the division has to be shared with another
division makes it imperative that the aid perform laborer’s work in
the storage stack. With increasing accessions, the physical care of
the collections becomes more and more heavy. Added help to care
for the vast and important material under this division is needed.
In the division of mollusks, work with the collection has gone on
steadily, but little progress has been made in catching up with past
arrears, as the additional burdens thrown upon the division have
not been alleviated by additional help, which is badly needed. The
task of preparing permanent labels for the material added to the
reserve study series has fallen upon William B. Marshall, the assist-
ant curator, work which properly belongs to a clerk, but which now
takes a highly trained specialist away from his proper sphere of
identifying, classifying, and revising. Since Dr. T. Wayland
Vaughan left for the Marine Biological Laboratory at La Jolla,
Calif., the care of the collection of corals has fallen entirely to the
staff of the division of mollusks, and consequently the curatorial
work on it has practically come to a standstill. The entire coral
collection was moved. during the year, to a room and the corridor
in the west wing.
The collections in the division of echinoderms have received the
usual inspection, and some progress has been made in transferring
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specimens from the alcoholic to the dry series. All of the material
received in current accessions has been determined and added to
the study collections. The curator has no assistant of any kind,
and much of his time is necessarily consumed in typewriting, cata-
loguing, and similar occupations. Lack of available space for lay-
ing our specimens for comparison and of shelf room for the neces-
sary books is also a great handicap. ‘The present condition of the
collections is better than it was last year. |
Curatorial work in connection with the upkeep and increase of
the National Herbarium has continued satisfactorily during the
past year, considering the serious restrictions imposed by lack of
space and the fact ‘that from September to December, inclusive,
the replacement of the plaster ceiling by metal, with attendant dust
and disorder, made curatorial work extremely difficult. As oppor-
tunity offered, Dr. W. A. Maxon rearranged a considerable part
of the fern collection, in connection with his studies of tropical
American species and the distribution of new material into the
herbarium. Mr. Standley has identified and distributed a large num-
ber of Mexican and Central American phanerogams; Mr. Killop
has distributed upwards of 8,000 mounted specimens of South
American phanerogams, and Mr. Leonard a smaller number of West
Indian specimens.
Mr. Standley is engaged in the determination of the remaining
specimens of his recent collections in Panama and Central America,
all of which have been mounted. Of material from South America
about 3,000 mounted and identified specimens of Compositae and
Rubiaceae are ready for distribution into the herbarium, and about
4,000 in many other families await identification before being incor-
porated. Of miscellaneous mounted specimens that have been iden-
tified, there are some 8,000 chiefly from the United States and the
Old World, but the congestion in the herbarium is now so great
that incorporation of this material has not been attempted. The
condition of the cryptogamic herbarium remains substantially as
reported last year. Mr. Leonard has given some attention to the
mosses, of which a very large number have been incorporated in
recent years. The collections of hepaticae, algae, and fungi are
seriously in need of attention, if only that recent material may be
added; but the special curatorial assistance required for their upkeep
has not been available, though urged repeatedly in recent reports.
Much of the unmounted material on hand a year ago has since been
prepared. Also, the accumulation of glued specimens has been
strapped by contract, in addition to 20,755 specimens that have been
glued during the year. Besides the 30,176 glued specimens thus
strapped approximately 12,368 have been mounted wholly by adhe-
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sive plaster, 9,268 of this number by contract. The total number
of specimens mounted during the year was 42,544. There remains
unmounted not less than 25,000 specimens, including about 12,000
from the Philippines, 6,000 from China (Rock and Wulsin collec-
tions), and 6,000 Old World specimens in the Buchtien collection.
In mounting operations preference has naturally been given to
material from tropical America, in view of current studies on the
flora of this region. ‘The present plan of mounting part of the
specimens wholly by adhesive plaster and others by glue and plaster
has worked well in practice and is more expeditious than the former
method of mounting wholly by plaster, notwithstanding the time
required to divide many of the accessions for this purpose. The
segregation of type specimens has been continued, chiefly by Mr.
Killip, a total of 12,278 now having been distinctly labeled, cata-
logued, and placed apart in individual covers. These constitute the
so-called type herbarium. The total number of duplicates distributed
in exchange during the year to institutions and to individuals was
13,935. Of duplicate material on hand there are (exclusive of the
Rock plants) about 20,000 unmounted specimens, mostly not yet
ready for distribution. These are kept in special cases, apart from
the study series. The Rock duplicates comprising between 50,000
and 60,000 specimens, packed in insect-proof boxes, are held in
storage pending identification. ;
The present condition of the National Herbarium is regarded as
good, with due allowance for the very great crowding of cases and
of specimens within the cases, and the scant amount of time that
can be given to strictly curatorial work. Current work of identifi-
cation and the diverse routine duties incident to handling the great
amount of material accessioned (116,636 specimens in the present
year), as well as that sent in for examination and report, leave
little time for critical work of redetermination and rearrangement
of specimens, that would otherwise be feasible. Additional cura-
torial assistance is greatly needed, but even with the present small
staff much more curatorial work of a general nature could be ac-
complished if the unfortunate congestion described were remedied.
The crowding retards in many ways work that is recognized as
necessary. An extreme expansion of herbarium facilities is not
urged, but merely an increase which will be sufficient to permit
normal growth.
The work of the taxidermists, as explained in last year’s report,
is not confined to the mounting of specimens for the exhibition
series, but on the contrary to a great extent consists in preparing
material fresh from the field for incorporation in the study series”
in the divisions of mammals, birds, and reptiles. Thus out of the
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collections of bird skins received from China no less than 554 were
remade, degreased, and cleaned. Similarly, a large number of
mammal skins were cleaned, tanned, repaired, or dismounted. C. E.
Mirguet in addition to cleaning large mammal skulls and skeletons,
made plaster casts, and remade skins of reptiles. J. W. Scollick
cleaned 381 bird skeletons and parts of skeletons in addition to some
mammal skulls and skeletons. C. 8. East, who was detailed part
of the time to work under Mr. Scollick, similarly cleaned about 40
skeletons. The work has thus progressed very satisfactorily con-
sidering the reduced force.
RESEARCH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE MUSEUM
The research of the members of the scientific staff consists chiefly
in reports upon the collections. After proper care of the collections,
research is a primary function and duty. Without it the Museum
would fail in its intent, and in proportion as all the collections are
worked and reported upon, the Museum fulfills its purpose as a
scientific institution. Unfortunately, the staff is numerically inade-
quate to cover the entire field of the two organic kingdoms, and
whole phyla are lying fallow because appropriations are lacking to
employ more workers. Recourse to a “volunteer staff” of univer-
sity professors and curators of other museums is an expediency
which works well in some special cases, but these coworkers, whose
help is fully appreciated and gratefully acknowledged, can not take
the place of resident curators. Such gratuitous services are usually
not continuous nor can progress reports be expected or required.
As intimated, research work in the divisions must be secondary to
the curatorial work, and as curatorial duties are constantly increas-
ing while the personnel remains stationary, the time left for research
is proportionally decreasing. _What has been accomplished during
the year may be briefly summarized as follows:
The curator of mammals, Gerrit S. Miller, ir., completed and
published several important papers, notably a fully illustrated ac-
count of the Pollack whale from Florida, presented to the Museum
by the Miami Aquarium Association. This specimen is the first
complete skeleton of this North Atlantic whale to come to any
museum. He continued his studies of whales, and of the remains
of recently extinct mammals found in various cave deposits in the
Antilles.
The curator of birds, Dr. Robert Ridgway, completed accounts of
the generic and supergeneric groups and the synonymy for part 9 of
Museum Bulletin No. 50, “ The Birds of North and Middle America,”
and continued work on the synonymy diagnoses and keys to the
higher groups for part 10. Dr. Charles W. Richmond, associate
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curator of birds, during what little time could be spared from cura-
torial work, continued his investigations into the early history of the
collections in his charge and their disposition, including search for
types. The only missing type found during the year was that of
Colluricincla maculosa of Peale, a Polynesian species located during
investigations of the assistant secretary, Dr. A. Wetmore, by whose
intensive study of this species the particular character was disciosed
that made discovery of the type possible. Slight progress was made
on a proposed report by the associate curator and the honorary as-
sistant curator, B. H. Swales, on types of birds in the Museum. J. H.
Riley, aid, worked on a report on the birds of the Collins-Garner ex-
pedition to the French Congo, and also on the very important
Chinese collections recently received. Doctor Wetmore, who, while
superintendent of the National Zoological Park, was designated cus-
todian of the skeleton and alcoholic collections, continued his studies
of bird taxonomy and morphology.
The curator of reptiles, Leonhard Stejneger, in addition to con-
tinued study on North and Central American turtles, brought near
completion a check-list and key to the amphibians and reptiles of
‘continental China, chefly from material in the National Museum.
Miss Doris M. Cochran, aid, identified a large proportion of the mate-
rial accessioned during the year and continued work on the herpe-
tology of the island of Santo Domingo.
In the divison of fishes, B. A. Bean, assistant curator in charge,
made progress in identification of various collections of Chinese
fishes received from time to time, and worked on a report on fishes
received from Uruguay. By special arrangement the services of
Henry W.. Fowler have been secured for work on the enormous col-
lection of Philippine fishes made during the cruise of the Albatross
of 1907 to 1910. nm
Dr. J. M. Aldrich, curator of insects, continued a study of the
types of muscoid diptera in the Vienna Museum, two additional
lots having come for study during the year. He completed a
revision of the Tachinid genus Cylindromyia, which is awaiting
publication in the proceedings of the Museum. Two papers were
prepared on the Vienna types and several shorter ones~on other
matters. C. T. Greene prepared several articles with excellent illus-
trations on the subject of larval diptera. Dr. H. E. Ewing con-
tinued his taxonomic work on mites and undertook special studies
of the families Gamasidae, Tarsonemidae, and Trombidiidae. He
also spent considerable time on taxonomic work on lice and com-
pleted his studies on lice of the genus Pediculus. In the course of
his studies Doctor Ewing visited New York and Boston to study
the collections in the Museum of Comparative Zoélogy and the
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American Museum of Natural History. A. N. Caudell continued
taxonomic work on cockroaches and made satisfactory progress in
the identification of the general collection of Orthoptera made in
Java by Palmer and Bryant. W. S. Fisher continued taxonomic
studies of beetles, especially those of the family Cerambycidae. He
revised the species of the subfamily Lamiinae, published a paper
describing those in the collection of the American Museum of Natu-
ral History, and completed a paper containing descriptions of new
forms in our collection. He also continued studies of Philippine
material and during the year revised the Philippine species of the
tribe Exocéntrini and submitted for publication the results of his
studies. During the year Mr. Fisher also rendered assistance to
the editor of the New York State list of insects by revising the
manuscript dealing with the families Cerambycidae and Buprestidae.
Dr. A. G. Boving continued his studies of coleopterous larvae, com-
pleted a synoptic table of the families in cooperation with Doctor
Craighead, and devoted considerable time to study of various forms.
W. L. McAtee, who continued to spend part of his time in work
on the collection, completed a revision of leaf hoppers of the genus
Typhlocyba and, in collaboration with J. R. Mallock, finished a
revision of the Cryptostemmatidae which has already been published.
Dr. William Schaus, in collaboration with Dr. W. J. Holland, de-
voted considerable time toward the preparation of a report on African
Macrolepidoptera. This paper, to be published by the Carnegie
Museum, contains descriptions of many new species in the collections
of the Carnegie Museum and the National Museum. C. T. Greene
completed and published a paper on the larve and pupx of the
family Sarcophagidae, and prepared descriptions of the immature
stages of Pantophthalmus tabaninus, and an interesting bot-fly which
is parasitic on monkeys. He also devoted considerable time to a
tentative classification of Muscoid flies based on a detailed study of
their puparia, and prepared a manuscript describing the larvae and
pup of the flies of the family Leptidae in the national collection.
August Busck continued studies on certain groups of Microlepidop-
tera, in connection with which he examined collections of the Ameri-
can Museum of Natural History, and Dr. Wiliam Barnes, of Deca-
tur, Ill., and consulted types in the Canadian National Collection.
Carl Heinrich completed a revision of the family Olethreutidae,
during which he reexamined types in the American Museum of
Natural History and the collection of the Museum of Comparative
Zoology. He prepared also technical descriptions of larvae and
pupee of several species of Lepidotera from Museum material for
use in Government publications. R.A. Cushman continued studies
of the parasitic tribe Ichneumonini and nearly completed a revision
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of this group. He also devoted some time to the identification of
the Oriental Ichneumonidae received through Dr. C. F. Baker. Dr.
W. M. Mann received considerable unworked material of Australian
ants through Dr. J. Clark, and during the year identified many
of these, and restudied much Australian material. The material
from Doctor Clark will form the basis of a synoptic paper on
Australian ants.
Dr. Mary J. Rathbun, associate in zoology, in addition to complet-
ing a monograph of the fossil decapods of the Pacific slope of North
America, saw through the press the second of her monographic tred-
tises on American crabs, a volume devoted to the so-called spider
crabs, printed as United States National Museum Bulletin No. 129.
She furthermore determined numerous miscellaneous accessions. Dr.
Waldo L. Schmitt published four papers and made investigations on
large collections of East Asiatic macrura and stomatopoda, in par-
ticular on a valuable collection of Siamese macrura, to be published .
in connection with Dr. Hugh M. Smith’s investigations of Siamese
fisheries. Through the Carnegie Institution, of Washington, D. C.,
he was enabled to spend during the year 10 weeks at the Tortugas
laboratory in furtherance of a series. of studies on the crustacean
fauna of the region. Clarence R. Shoemaker, assistant curator, in
spite of heavy curatorial and routine work completed reports on am-
phipods collected by Frits Johansen in Hudson Bay in 1920 and on
amphipods secured during the Albatross cruise in the Gulf of Cali-
fornia in 1911. Considerable progress was made on reports on am-
phipods collected by the Biological Board of Canada during fisheries
research in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in 1917, as well as on those
collected by the curator at Tortugas in the summer of 1924. The
time of the aide, J. O. Maloney, was mostly taken up in cataloguing,
and work in the storage room, but he was able to.devote some time
to much-needed studies in certain groups of isopods in connection
with the many demands by the Federal Horticultural Board and
others for determinations of these forms. Dr. Harriet Richardson
Searle, collaborator, continued studies as time permitted. Dr. Max
M. Ellis, collaborator, made progress with his report on the collec-
tions of discodrilid worms secured during several transeentinental
collecting trips he has undertaken. ‘The second part of the report
on the rotifers of Wisconsin, prepared by H. K. Harring, custodian
of Rotatoria, with Frank J. Myers, of the American Museum of
Natural History, was issued early in the year. The manuscript and
illustrations for a third part have been completed and early publi-
cation is expected. The authors last summer at the request of Dr.
U. Dahlgren, director of the Desert Island biological laboratory,
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made a joint survey of the rotifer fauna of Mount Desert Island,
and plan to continue these studies during the ensuing summer.
Dr. W. H. Dall, honorary curator of mollusks, studied material
obtained by the Canadian Arctic expedition from the Arctic coast
of Alaska and Canada, and prepared a report to be published by
the Canadian Government. New species of mollusks from Florida
and Japan were studied and described. At the request of Yale
University, material dredged off the northeast coast of America
and on the Grand Banks was studied; the results will be published
in the American Journal of Science. A revision of the last American
species of Pecten, Plicatula, and Petricolaria was printed. A revi-
sion of the collection of east American Pelecypoda was completed.
The curator, Dr. Paul Bartsch, devoted some time to the prepara-
tion of a monograph of the Philippine mollusks of the family
Naninidae. The first volume on the larger members of this group is
completed, except for a few illustrations which are being prepared.
Work on cerions was continued and the curator is again under
great obligations to Thomas 8. Creighton, of Blue Ridge Summit,
Pa., and Washington, D. C., for his volunteer services in measuring
and cataloging the forms added to the collection during the past
year. Strides were also made in the dissection of the hybrid Cerion
material. Sundry minor reports were prepared as indicated in the
bibliography. The assistant curator, William B. Marshall, described
and published on a number of new forms while descriptions of
others are in process of publication. Work on the pearly mussels
of the northern Mississippi Valley was continued and Mr. Marshall
hopes to finish this during the coming year.
The curator of echinoderms, Austin H. Clark, has nearly finished
the text of part 3 of his monograph of recent crinoids. Of part 4,
which includes the discussion of stalked crinoids, the account of the
anatomy of the various types so far as the “soft parts” are con-
cerned, is complete, and the synonymies have mostly been worked
out. This part includes about 100 species as against about 600
in part 3.
In the division of plants Dr. Frederick V. Coville, curator, con-
tinued studies in the breeding and propagation of blueberries (Vac-
cintum) and began similar studies of the gooseberries (Grossularia).
Dr. J. N. Rose, associate curator, continued studies of the family
Caesalpinaceae, in collaboration with Dr. N. L. Britton, director of
the New York Botanical Garden, with a view to publishing a mono-
graph of the North American species of this family. Doctor Rose
also gave attention to the Crassulaceae and Cactaceae, in continuation
of earlier monographic studies. Dr. William R. Maxon, associate
curator, continued work on the ferns of tropical America, with
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particular attention to the fern flora of Porto Rico. He published
several short papers and a longer popular article upon the study
and cultivation of ferns. Paul C. Standley, associate curator, com-
pleted manuscript of the fifth and concluding part of the trees and
shrubs of Mexico, and has nearly completed a semipopular account
of the flowering plants of the Panama Canal Zone. He published
descriptions of a considerable number of new flowering plants from
Central America, in addition to a popular article on the Republic
of Salvador and, in collaboration with Dr. Salvador Calderén, of
San Salvador, an annotated list of the plants of the Republic of
Salvador. Emery C. Leonard, aid, continued studies of West Indian
plants, and has undertaken also a revision of the tropical American
species of the family Acanthaceae. Ellsworth P. Killip, aid, con-
tinued studies of the genus Passiflora and the family Urticaceae,
particularly as represented in South America, and published a paper
on a South American collection of the latter.
A large number of scientists and students, mostly from outside
Washington, have pursued more or less extensive studies in various
divisions to the mutual benefit of the investigators and the Museum.
As a rule, however, the greatest benefit acrues to the Museum when
unworked material is sent out to outside specialists. Thus the skull
of an unidentified porpoise was submitted to Dr. Glover M. Allen,
of the Museum of Comparative Zodlogy, and was identified by him
as a species hitherto not recorded from the United States. A pub-
lished note concerning this is noted in the bibliography. In the
division of birds Dr. James P. Chapin, American Museum of Na-
tural History, New York, in the course of studies here, revised the
names of certain African birds in the collection. Dr. H. C. Ober-
holser, of the Biological Survey identified various birds upon which
he had occasion to work during the year. The division of insects
has been greatly benefited by outside studies of itS material. Thus
H. W. Allen, of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Missis-
sippi, has completed an extensive paper on the subfamily Jfilio-
gramminae, which is now awaiting publication in the Museum pro-
ceedings. William T. Davis of Staten Island, has during the year
identified several shipments of Cicadas, and Dr. Philip Garman, of
the Connecticut Experiment Station and Nathan Banks of the
Museum of Comparative Zodlogy, rendered assistance to. Doctor
Ewing in the identification of mites and red spiders. Prof. T. D. A.
Cockerell of the University of Colorado, continued his cooperation.
S. E. Crumb, of the Bureau of Entomology, spent some time in re-
arranging noctuid larvae material in connection with his studies.
Dr. E. D. Ball, of the United States Department of Agriculture,
during frequent visits to the collections, assisted in the identification
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of material of the tribe Telamonini. C. Howard Curran, of the
Canadian Department of Agriculture, worked material in the
Tachinid genera Gonia and Archytas, and M. C. Van Duzee’s revis-
ions of the genera Argyva and Syntormon were largely based upon
Museum material. James Waterston, of the British Museum, con-
tinued cooperation in identifying species of Chalcid flies. Clarence
E. Mickel, St. Paul, Minn., has undertaken study of the collec-
tion of Oriental wasps of the family Mutillidae. Dr. M. W. Black-
man, Syracuse, N. Y., identified all the bark beetles of the sub-
family Micracinae, and many species of the genus Pityophthorus;
Dr. J. M. Swaine identified material of the genus /ps. Dr. T. J.
Psota identified many forms in the genus Z’heodosia, Dr. W. P.
Funkhouser studied Membracidae from Mexico and Central America,
and Drs. Carl J. Drake, Paul B. Lawson, H. B. Hungerford, and
others identified many species in various groups.
The divison of marine invertebrates, which includes in its collec-
tions more phyla than all the other divisions combined, is dependent
on outside voluntary assistance more than any other, as the members
of the Museum staff have specialized to a great exent in crustacea.
For coelenterates, worms, and sponges especially it is necessary to
appeal for outside help. The names of the specialists who have
favored us during the present year are as follows: Dr. Henry Bige-
low (Medusae, Ctenophora); Dr. H. Boschma (Rhizocephalids) ;
Dr. L. R. Cary. (Alcyonarians) ; Dr. R. V. Chamberlain (Annelids
and Gephyrea) ; Dr. Henri Coutiére (Crangonidae) ; Dr. Joseph A.
Cushman (Foraminifera); Prof. G. S. Dodds (Fresh-water Ento-
mostraca); Dr. A. G. Huntsman (Ascidians); Frits Johansen
(Fresh-water Entomostraca); T. Kaburaki (Turbellaria); Dr. C.
Dwight Marsh (Fresh-water Copepods); Dr. Maynard M. Metcalf
(Salpa, Pyrosoma, Protozoa); Dr. J. Percy Moore (Leeches) ; Dr.
Charles C. Nutting (Hydroids); Dr. Raymond C. Osburn (Bryo-
zoa) ; Dr. Henry A. Pilsbry (Barnacles) ; Capt. F. A. Potts (Rhizo-
cephalids) ; Prof. Frank Smith (EKarthworms, fresh-water sponges) ;
Miss Caroline E. Stringer (Turbellaria); Dr. W. M. Tattersall
(Mysidacea) ; Dr. Aaron L. Treadwell (Annelids) ; Dr. C. B. Wilson
(Parasitic and free-swimming marine copepods).
The curator of mollusks acknowledges the assistance of several of
his students at the George Washington University. Mrs. Paul Bow-
man assisted in the anatomic study of Cerions and Zonitoides, Miss
Harriet Bundick worked on Philippine Epitoniums, Miss Lucy Rear-
don on Philippine Acmaeas and Patellas, and Mrs. Mary Gibson on
Philippine Neritinas. Several correspondents also have helped with
identifications, as follows: Dr. Bryant Walker, Detroit, Mich.,
speciments from the Alabama drainage; Dr. Frank C. Baker, Uni-
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versity of Illinois, fresh-water material; and Dr. V. Sterki, New
Philadelphia, Ohio, a Pistdiwm from an old lake at Deep Springs,
Calif.
In the division of echinoderms Miss Elizabeth Deichman, of Co-
penhagen, Denmark, continued studies of the collection of holo-
thurians until the middle of May, and identified very nearly all of
the undetermined material.
Prof. M. M. Metcalf, who as a member of the National Research
Council spent the past winter in Washington, was given facilities
for his work on the Opaline parasites of batrachians.
The National Herbarium has been used freely by members of the
scientific staff of the Department of Agriculture. In particular,
Dr. J. F. Blake devoted much time to the identification of recent
material from South America, especially plants of the family Com-
positae, and Dr. C. V. Piper continued studies of certain tropical
groups of the family Fabaceae.
RESEARCHES ELSEWHERE AIDED BY MUSEUM MATERIAL
Nothing better illustrates the scientific importance and value of
the Museum collections than the number of investigators who in
the pursuit of their studies come to the National Museum to examine
its specimens and consult its staff and its libraries, or who borrow
material to supplement their own, without which they could not
hope to complete their investigations. The scientific staffs in the
various departments in Washington are privileged visitors and it
is unnecessary to enumerate the almost daily visits of investigators
from the Bureaus of Biological Survey, Entomology, Plant Indus-
try, Fisheries, Animal Industry, Geological Survey, and the Public
Health Service. ie
Dr. William L. Strauss, jr., of Johns Hopkins University, made
a study of the skeletons of the higher apes in their bearing on the
problem of human evolution. Dr. Paul B. Johnson had access to
collection of skulls for studies in comparative anatomy of mammals,
and Samuel Shapiro, of George Washington University, examined
the collection of primate skulls in a study of the molar cusps. Prof.
Peter P. Sushkin, director of the Zoological Museum of the Rus-
sian Academy of Sciences, spent more than a month in the division
of birds, examining the collections of raptorial birds, and passeri-
form skeletons. Dr. William R. Morse, of the University of Chen-
tung, Szechwan, China, examined the collection of Chinese birds
and received instruction in preparing study specimens of birds.
Dr. Leon L. Gardner, United State Army, examined bird tongues
during November and December, 1924, in connection with a paper
he was preparing on the subject. Dr. Joseph Grinnell, director of
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the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, inves-
tigated certain western species of birds during a brief visit in
November, 1924. A. C. Bent, Taunton, Mass., studied American
birds and eggs on two or more visits. Other visiting ornithologists
were: H. W. Brandt, Cleveland, Ohio; Bayard H. Christy, Se-
wickley, Pa.; Norman McClintock, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Dr. Henry
K. Coale, Highland Park, Ill.; Owen J. Gromme, Milwaukee Pub-
lic Museum, Milwaukee, Wis.; James R. Gillin, Ambler, Pa.;
Dr. Francis Harper, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.; A. S.
Kibbe, Berkeley, Calif.; Dr. W. Koelz, Ann Arbor, Mich.; Dr. I.
N. Noakes, Los Angeles, Calif.; Miss Marian J. Pellew, Aiken,
S. C.; H. H. Rogers, Jacksonville, Fla.; Dr. L. C. Sanford, New
Haven, Conn.; Charles Sheldon, Washington, D. C.; Perley Spauld-
ing, Bureau of Plant Industry; L. H. Pennington, Syracuse, N. Y.;
Mrs. B. B. Sturgis (wife of Gen. S. D. Sturgis, United States
Army); J. A. Webber, Montclair, N. J.; Dr. James P. Chapin,
American Museum of Natural History, New York City.
An unusual number of herpetologists visited the, division of rep-
tiles and batrachians for the purpose of study; thus, John P. Jones,
University of Michigan, spent some time examining the entire series
of the genus Sceloporus. A. Loveridge, of the Museum of Compara-
tive Zodlogy, examined East African material; K. P. Schmidt, of
the Field Museum of Natural History, some Chinese species,
especially types recently described; Dr. F. N. Blanchard, Michigan
Agricultural College, studied North American snakes in connection
with his preparation of a “key ” to their identification; P. Viosca,
jr., New Orleans, examined North American species, and Mrs. H. T.
Gaige, Zoological Museum of the University of Michigan, bat-
rachians from Central America. Dr. Thomas Barbour and Dr.
E. R. Dunn, during repeated visits, have examined respectively the
series of Anolis and Hleutherodactylus.
Laboratory facilities and the privilege of examining type and
other material in the division of fishes were extended to a number
of ichthyologists, including Dr. A. W. Henn, of the Carnegie
Museum, Frits Johansen, Ottawa, Canada, Prof. R. V. Truitt, Uni-
versity of Maryland, Prof. C. H. Eigenmann, Indiana State Uni-
versity, Dr. H. W. Fowler, Academy of Natural Sciences, and S. F.
Hildebrand, C. J. Fish, and Walter Koelz, of the Bureau of
Fisheries.
In connection with the meetings of the two national entomological
societies held in Washington during the Christmas holidays, many
visiting entomologists examined the collections in the division of
insects. Among these visitors may be mentioned EK. T. Cresson,
jr., C. Howard Curran, of the Canadian Department of Agriculture,
M. C. Van Duzee, H. C. Huckett, R. H. Painter, and F. M. Hull of
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the Ohio State University. Miss Grace Sandhouse spent 10 days
studying bees of the genus Osmia. The division of marine inverte-
brates, as in past years, has rendered assistance to members of the
scientific staff of the Biological Survey in the identification of
invertebrates; to the Zoological Division of the Bureau of Animal
Industry in the classifying of invertebrate hosts of animal parasites;
and to the Federal Horticultural Board in identifying invertebrates
found associated with various plant importations. Dr. C. B. Wil-
son, specialist on parasitic and free-swimming copepods worked on
collections of the latter in connection with a report he is preparing.
In the division of mollusks the following out of town visitors
spent a short time in the study of specimens: William J. Clench,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.; Dr. Carl C. Engberg,
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebr.; Herbert N. Lower, Long
Beach, Calif.; Curtis A. Perry, Bridgton, Me.; Walter F. Webb,
Rochester, N. Y.; Robert C. Miller, University of California,
Berkeley, Calif.; J. L. Madden, Shinnston, W. Va. Dr. C. W.
Cooke, Dr. W. P. Woodring, Dr. Julia A. Gardner, and W. C.
Mansfield, of the United States Geological Survey, worked on
Tertiary fossils and have constantly consulted the recent collections
for comparison. In the section of corals Dr. J. Edward Hoff-
meister, professor of zoology in the University of Rochester, N. Y.,
spent several months in the study of certain groups. Dr. H.
Boschma, assistant in the zoological laboratory of the University
of Leyden, Holland, a Nederland-American Foundation student,
examined certain type material. Dr. T. Wayland Vaughan spent
several days studying corals in the Museum during the week of the
meeting of the National Academy of Seiences. In the section of
helminths Miss Eloise B. Cram prepared “ Nematods of the sub-
orders Strongylata, Ascaridata and Spirurata (exclusive of Fila-
roidea) parasitic in Birds” and submitted the maniscript to George
Washington University as a thesis in part fulfilment for the degree
of doctor of philosophy. Reference has already been made to Miss
Deichmann’s studies on holothurians, in the division of echinoderms.
A large number of professional botanists,, most of them interested
in herbarium management and studies of the local flora, visited the
herbarium during the year. Those who prosecuted investigations
in the herbarium, are as follows: Dr. O. Stapf, late keeper of the
herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England (several genera
of grasses); Maj. T. F. Chipp, assistant director, Royal Botanic
Gardens, Kew (grasses); Dr. Hugo Gliick, University of Heidel-
berg, Heidelberg, Germany (morphology of water plants and
swamp plants); Dr. I. H. Burkill, formerly director of the Botanic
Garden, Singapore (Dioscorea); Dr. I. B. Pole-Evans, Chief,
Division of Botany, Department of Agriculture, Pretoria, Union
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of South Africa (grasses); Prof. Yasutaro Yendo, Uyeda Silk
Technical College, Uyeda, Japan (the genus Morus, in connection
with silk worm, culture); Prof. William S. Cooper, University of
Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. (coastal flora of California); E. E.
Watson, Michigan Agricultural College, East Lansing, Mich.
(monographic study of the genus Helianthus) ; Prof. L. H. Bailey,
Ithaca, N. Y., (flora of Venezuela) ; Prof. Arthur F. Camp, Gaines-
ville, Florida (cotton); Prof. R. E. Coker, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. (gasteromycetes); Dr. M. O. Malte,
chief botanist, National Herbarium of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
(grasses and ferns); Dr. H. A. Gleason, assistant director, New
York Botanical Garden, Bronx Park, New York City (flora of
northern South America); C. C. Deam, Bluffton, Ind. (flora of
Indiana) ; Ivan M. Johnston, Gray Herbarium, Cambridge, Mass.
(flora of northern South America); Prof. H. M. Hall, University
of California, Berkeley, Calif. (compositae of the western United
States); Dr. P. A. Rydberg, New York Botanical Garden (legumi-
nosae of North America); Prof. J. J. 'Thornber, University of Ari-
zona, Tucson, Ariz. (grasses of Arizona); Prof. Bruce Fink, Miami
University, Oxford, Ohio (lichens of North America); Dr. Philip
A. Munz, Pomona College, Claremont, Calif. (flora of southern
California) ; Prof. B. C. Tharp, University of Texas, Austin, Tex.
(flora of Texas); Prof. F. J. Crider, director, Boyce Thompson
Southwestern Arboretum, Superior, Ariz. (Cactaceae and other
plants of the southwestern United States); Dr. Arthur Hollick,
New York Botanical Garden, and Dr. E. W. Berry, Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, Md. (in connection with their studies of
fossil plants).
One of the most fruitful forms of cooperation with outside insti-
tutions and investigators is the loan of museum material. The
wealth of the national collections is such that few comprehensive
studies can be carried out without material assistance from its treas-
ures. As pointed out before, the National Museum is often greatly
benefited by such loans, but the stimulus and aid derived by Ameri-
can zoologists and botanists can hardly be overestimated. The ap-
pended bibliography, showing the number of articles and memoirs
on the collections bears ample testimony to the truth of this asser-
tion. The following list indicates briefly the extent of loans during
the year. Mammal skins and skulls were loaned to the American
Museum of Natural History, New York, for the benefit of H. E.
Anthony and Childs Frick; Field Museum of Natural History,
Chicago, for W. H. Osgood; Museum of Comparative Zodlogy, for
G. M. Allen; leg and foot of gorilla to Wm. L. Strauss, jr., and
a chimpanzee in alcohol to Dr. A. H. Schultz, both of the Carnegie
Laboratory of Embryology, Johns Hopkins Medical School. Birds
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were sent to the American Museum of Natural History, New York,
for the use of Dr. F. M. Chapman, Dr. James P. Chapin, W. deW.
Miller, and L. Griscom in their studies of South American, African,
and Nicaraguan birds, respectively; to the Field Museum of Natu-—
ral History, for Dr. C. E. Hellmayr, Museum of Comparative Zo-
dlogy for F. H. Kenard, Dr. J. C. Phillips, Dr. A. O. Gross, and
James L. Peters; Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Berkeley, 26
skins of Lagopus rupestris for the benefit of H. S. Swarth, and other
birds to Allan Brooks, Okanogan, British Columbia, and D. R.
Dickey, Pasadena, Calif. Eight skeletons of turkeys were sent to the
Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art. Reptiles and am-
phibians were loaned to the Zoological Museum of the University
of Michigan to be studied by Dr. A. Ruthven, Mrs. H. T. Gaige,
and J. P. Jones; to Dr. Thomas Barbour, Museum of Comparative
Zodlogy; A. I. Ortenburger, University of Oklahoma; Dr. E. R.
Dunn, Smiths College; Dr. K. P. Schmidt, Field Museum of Natu-
ral History, Chicago; L. E. Wyman, Los Angeles, Calif., and L. M.
Klauber, San Diego, Calif. Ten salmonoid fishes were lent to the
Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pa., and 15 liparid fishes to A. E.
Parr, Norwegian Fisheries Administration, Bergen, Norway, in
connection with studies of arctic liparids.
Of insects 12,421 specimens were sent out for study and identifica-
tion by outside entomologists. The recipients embrace the leading
institutions and specialists in this country and Hawaii besides cor-
respondents in France, Germany, Italy, and Canada. Numerous
lots of marine invertebrates were lent to investigators at home and
abroad. Thus there were sent to Prof. John H. Ashworth, Uni-
versity of Edinburgh, Scotland, 8 lots of Arenicola for examination
in connection with his studies on this group of annelid worms; arctic
medusae to Dr. H. B. Bigelow, and arctic sipunculids to Dr. R. V.
Chamberlain, both of the Museum of Comparative Zodlogy; addi-
tional arctic marine invertebrate material to Dr. A. G. Huntsman,
University of Toronto, and to Prof. Chancey Juday, University of
Wisconsin; to Dr. H. Boschma, University of Leiden, Holland, 100
lots, 193 specimens, of Rhizocephalids from various localities for
study in connection with a monograph on the group; to Dr. H.
Lohmander, Lund, Sweden, 30 specimens of isopod crustaceans for
study in connection with his monograph of the north and. middle
European Trichoniscidae; to Dr. T. Odhner, Swedish National
Museum, Stockholm, crabs for study in connection with a mono-
graph of the family Xanthidae; to Prof. G. O. Sars, University at.
Oslo, Norway, 50 specimens from Utah to assist in his studies on
the development of Artemia; 257 lots of larval crustacea from the
New England coast to Dr. C. J. Fish, United States Bureau of
Fisheries, Woods Hole, Mass., for study. The division of mollusks
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sent numerous lots of Physas to Dr. Frank C. Baker, University of
Illinois, for examination in connection with a report on the genus.
A few land shells were also loaned to Dr. H. A. Pilsbry, Academy
of Natural Sciences, to be figured. Several ophiurans and crinoids
were loaned to Dr. T. Gisten, University of Upsala, Sweden,
for examination in connection with studies of Scandinavian
echinoderms.
The number of plant specimens lent to institutions or to indi-
viduals outside of Washington during the past year was 16,566 com-
prised in 100 lots, more than twice the number sent out during any
previous year. ‘The more important sendings were as follows:
Arnold Arboretum and the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University,
6,638 and 722 specimens respectively; University of California,
1,390, mostly from the Philippine Islands; New York Botanical
Garden, Bronx Park, 1,018; Botanical Garden and Museum, Berlin,
Germany, 895; A. K. Schindler, Jueterbog, Berlin, Germany, 616
specimens of Meibomia and related genera; Oakes Ames, Boston,
Mass., 507 orchids; Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, England, 427
specimens; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pa., 356;
Natural History Museum, Vienna, Austria, 275; Botanical Museum
of the University, Copenhagen, Denmark, 244 specimens.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXCHANGE OF SPECIMENS
Duplicates distributed to high schools, colleges, and other similar
institutions, aggregated 1,376, of which 745 consisted of mollusks in
5 prepared sets and one set of fishes of 77 specimens.
Exchanges to the number of 15,904 were sent out, of which 1,969
were zoological specimens. Of the 13,935 plants thus distributed,
exchanges of 1,000 specimens and over were sent to the Arnold
Arboretum, the Botanical Museum, University, Copenhagen, the
Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, and the Royal Botanic Gardens,
Kew, England.
TOTAL NUMBER OF SPECIMENS IN DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY, INCLUDING
DUPLICATE SPECIMENS
As explained in previous reports, the number of specimens can not
be given with absolute exactness, because it would be a physical
impossibility to accomplish a count at the present time. The figures
cited are from counts previously taken to which there are added
the annual increments, and deducted the annual distribution or loss
of specimens due to initial defective preparation or other causes.
It is believed that the census is well within the limits of the actual
number of specimens on exhibition or contained in the study series
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of the various divisions. The number of specimens in the helmin-
thological collection has not been ascertained and the number of
plants given below does not include unmounted material, or the lower
cryptograms.
Division :
Miami ais: ie 2 Sete ie i EE LARA ERC Re Es A 81, 616
Bird’ Skins?! 22 < Sse ies ee 228, 118
BICOHOLIES ha Ay Wes Bee poe a ee ee 7, 305
skeletomsjuqcies. 5 se lcs OS es 8, 757
CGGs. 22. 22k ate 2 eS ee ee! 81, 167
325, 347
Reptiles and amphibians_____________________________ 79, 366
INSHES bey OR __ SURE ES ea ERE PE hae AE ROIS CSREES 688, 636
PNSECES Sock ted Dente tee pee Tat Ved Py ened eh aie iy 2, 494, 330
Marine: invertebrates, 2s 222 4. oe ee 734, 527
MN UE US S50 asi 2 a el a 1, 566, 508
IHCHINOGERINS, 26 oa a ee eae ee ge ee een 151, 555
Plants 20S oe See ee eee 1, 228, 400
eh D0) 621) [SO cae ee eee ee ee ee ee 7, 345, 285
REPORT ON THE DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY
By GeEorGE P. MERRILL, Head Curator
The department records show a decided decrease in both amount
and value of material received during the past year, as compared with
the year previous. It. must not be overlooked, however, that
1923-24 was exceptional in that the acquisitions included a large
dinosaur skeleton and two extensive collections of invertebrate fos-
sils. Reference to reports previous to 1923-24 shows that the pres-
ent year is probably about up to the average.
The most satisfactory additions to the collections were those made
by our own force, notwithstanding the small amount of field work |
that it has been possible to carry on under Museum auspices. The
advantage of having the collecting done by those in close touch with
the department can not be overestimated, and it is not too much to
say that the present chronic condition of poverty in funds is de-
plorable.
Progress in caring for materials received has been fairly satisfac-
tory, and research work, to some extent, has been continued.
Accessions—The accessions for 1923-24 numbered 227 with an
estimated total of 159,921 specimens; those of the present year are
tabulated below.
Divisions Accessions | Specimens
Geology, systematic and applied____________________-- 38 961
Mineralogy and petrology____.____.___---------------- 59 696
Stratigraphic paleontology:
Invertebrate paleontology ___-..__.._.------------- 48 77, 581
Paleobotany. 342 ee ie ie cee ee ees at 8 272
Vertebrate paleontology.______-----_---------------- 45 164
SG) He a ya eM oa A a 198 79, 674
These figures represent permanent acquisitions and are exclusive
of duplicates.
Among the more notable of these accessions is a series of unusual
forms of stalactites and stalagmites from the Carlsbad Caverns,
in New Mexico. These were collected by Dr. Willis T. Lee under
the auspices of the National Geographic Society, by whom the en-
tire collection, supplemented by a number of enlarged photographic
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views, was presented to the National Museum. They are un-
doubtedly the best and most attractive additions to the collections
of physical geology received during the year.
The most important materials in point of number and desirability
in the field of applied geology were secured by Assistant Curator
Foshag while on detail with a United States Geological Survey
party. In addition to a large amount of mineralogical material
noted elsewhere, his collections included ores needed to fill out the
series.
Among other accessions the following may be noted: From the
White Caps Mining Co., Tonopah, Nev., through John J. Kirchen,
president, a large specimen of very well crystallized stibnite supe-
rior in quality to anything heretofore received from an American
locality. From the Mar-John Mining Co., Sheepranch, Calif.,
through Frank L. Hess, a large mass of cobalt ore. Mr. Hess was
also influential in obtaining from A. J. Richards, Albany, Wyo.,
as an exchange, two large masses of the rare silicate allanite which,
while not striking in the rough form, were made very attractive by
polishing. J. E. McKeever, Castleton, Utah, contributed a large
exhibition specimen of vanadium ore consisting of carnotite and
hewettite in sandstone, from Polar Mesa, Utah. C. M. Snyder for-
warded a specimen of bismuth-silver-gold ore from the Missouri
mine, Halls Valley mining district, Colo., and A. EK. Heighway
added to the series of arsenic ores a specimen of arsenopyrite from
Vermont. The most notable accession from a foreign locality is a
gold ore from the Passagem mine, Minas Geraes, Brazil, received
from Capt. Hugh Barclay of the American Embassy at Rio de
Janeiro. With the one exception noted as an exchange, these are all
recorded as gifts.
Several objects of onyx marble (travertine), including a stand
for drop light, jewel box, paper weight, marbles, and balls for auto-
mobile gear shift levers have been presented by the Yavapai Onyx
Mining Corporation, Dubuque, Iowa, and the California Agate Co.,
Huntington Park, Calif. These illustrate new uses for a well known
stone. :
As usual, several sets of specimens illustrative of reports by mem-
bers of the United States Geological Survey were officially trans-
ferred by that institution for permanent preservation. These in-
cluded collections illustrating a monographic report on the Lead-
ville district, Colo., not yet published; a collection of rocks and ores
from the Manhattan district, Nev., illustrative of Bulletin 723, by
H. G. Ferguson; a collection of rock and ore specimens illustrating
a report on the Saddle Mountain and Banner mining districts of
Arizona; miscellaneous collections including diamond-bearing peri-
dotite, minerals from the De Queen, Caddo Gap, and Hot Springs
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quadrangles, and the Batesville manganese district of Arkansas:
and analyzed potash salt samples from the Means well, Loving
County, Tex.
A large block of Quincy granite with a vein of pegmatite was
acquired by purchase.
Chiefly through exchanges a number of additions have been made
to the meteorite collection. From Harvard University were ob-
tained examples of the Cynthiana, Ky., stone; Coahuila, Mex., and
New Baltimore, Pa., irons. From Prof. H. H. Nininger, McPher-
son, Kans., were acquired portions of two individuals of the Bren-
ham stony iron, and slices of the Ivanpah, Chilkoot Inlet, and Tuc-
son (Carleton) irons. The British Museum (Natural History)
furnished seven irons, La Primitiva, Chinautla, Barranca Blanca,
Tamarugal, Nedagolla, Kenton County, and Smithville. Two ex-
amples of the Olivenza, Spain, stone were obtained from C. Wendler,
Geneva; and Ward’s Natural Science Establishment furnished a
small piece of the Russell Gulch iron. A 490-gram specimen of the
interesting stone which fell near Johnstown, Weld County, Colo., in
July, 1924, was secured by purchase. The above are all of moderate
size and, while important from a scientific standpoint, add little to
the exhibition series. An interesting example of synthetic nickel-
iron alloy containing 11.9 per cent nickel, was received as an ex-
change from Dr. Carl Benedicks, Stockholm, Sweden.
Col. Washington A. Roebling, of Trenton, N. J., is credited with
six gifts comprising 51 specimens of minerals, acquired chiefly
through the fund deposited by him for the purchase of new material.
A group of axinite crystals from California, which are thought
to be the largest crystals of this mineral yet found, is probably
the most noteworthy of these, but an interesting garnet of the
spessartite variety, also from California; a large crystal of colum-
bite from the Etta mine; Keystone, S. Dak.; a number of excep-
tional specimens of Franklin Furnace minerals; and rare species
from Norway, Sweden, and other foreign localities, have added
materially to both exhibition and study series.
The department is indebted to Alpheus F. Williams, general
manager of the De Beers Consolidated Mines, Kimberley, for a
crystal of the new mineral afwillite, a hydrous calcium silicate,
discovered by the donor in the Dutoitspan mine and described by
John Parry and F. E. Wright in the Mineralogical Magazine yor
March, 1925. Up to: the present time less than a pound of this
mineral has been found, and the Museum is fortunate in having a
representative in its collection.
Some fine minerals for the exhibition series were furnished through
Frank L. Hess, honorary custodian, the most notable being a group
of large wulfenite crystals from the mines of the Ahumada Mining
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Co., Mexico. These are so unusual in character that an expedition
to the mine to procure additional material is tentatively planned.
Mr. Hess was also instrumental in securing a large mass of pink
muscovite with amblygonite, which is recorded as a gift from H. E.
Spradlin, Harding, N. Mex.
Victor C. Heikes, of the United States Geological Survey, located
at Salt Lake City, has shown his continued interest by forwarding,
or having forwarded, crystals of miargyrite, bournonite, and other
minerals, and Jack Hyland, Pazna, Bolivia, has added rare Bolivian
minerals, including teallite and plumbostannite. Two interesting
geodes of chalcedony, filled with water, were presented by Madame
J. Varela, of the Uruguayan legation, and the Maine Feldspar Co.,
Auburn, Me., donated a large scepter quartz crystal.
Through the interest of Worcester R. Warner, of Tarrytown,
N. Y., and by the courtesy of the Fukushima Co. (Inc.) of New
York City, the division has had the privilege of exhibiting an object
of unusual interest. This is a crystal ball, perfect in its purity, and
said to be the largest known to exist in the world. It weighs 107
pounds and is 1234 inches in diameter. The block from which it
was carved is believed to have been mined in Burma and is said to
have weighed 1,000 pounds, more or less. It was carved in China
and polished in Japan, the entire process requiring some 18 months
for completion. It is a wonderful specimen of oriental craftsman-
ship and has attracted much attention among visitors.
Assistant Curator Foshag, under conditicns noted elsewhere, made
extensive collections of minerals in Nevada. While on annual leave
in California, he made further collections which he presented to the
Museum. The former included fine crystallized powellite, rich
masses of bindheimite, and natrojarosite; the latter, riversideite .
and associated minerals from Riverside. Details for short trips in
Maryland and Virginia resulted in material of petrologic interest.
chiefly minerals and large rock specimens illustrating pegmatites.
Feldspar and mica from the quarries of the Maine Feldspar Co.,
Topsham, and gneiss from Sheepscot Bay, Me., were collected by
the head curator in quantity for the preparation of school sets.
Continuation of our exchange account with Harvard University
yielded a fine mass of native lead, a group of apatite crystals from
Maine, rare Swedish minerals, an unusual specimen of pyrite and
chalcopyrite, and a part of the type of a new mineral—chalcoalumite.
From C. Wendler, Geneva, Switzerland, were acquired two rare min-
erals new to the collections; a number of desired species were re-
ceived from the British Museum (Natural History) and others from
the Canadian Geological Survey, while the Royal Ontario Museum
of Mineralogy, Toronto, furnished unusually fine Canadian min-
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erals and ores, all on an exchange basis. Particular mention should
be made of two fine polished slabs of silver ore showing native silver,
and one of rammelsbergite and silver of exceptional size and purity,
included in the last-named lot.
Transfers from the United States Geological Survey included
type specimens described and illustrated in publications of that
organization and a large amount of miscellaneous material collected
ees, by Dr. W. T. Schaller.
Four minerals new to the collection were acquired by purchase.
Miss Moodey reports the following additions to the collection of
gems under her charge. These are chiefly credited to the Chamber-
lain Fund, and comprise an unusually perfect star sapphire, weigh-
ing 33.77 carats; a chrysoberyl, weighing 46.32 carats; three large
cut stones of Australian opal of varieties of coloring previously un-
represented ; a carved pendant of lapis-lazuli; two peridots of large
size and beautiful color; a string of turquoise beads made by the
Navajo Indians; and a string of agate beads. Individual gifts to
the collection are a pale yellow sapphire presented by W. H. Wright,
Washington, D. C., and pins of coral, mosaic, and inlay, donated
by Mrs. Charles D. Walcott. A. E. Heighway, Alexandria, Va.,
loaned a number of rough and cut sapphires.
Additions to the petrological collections consisted chiefly of rocks
which were relegated to the duplicates.
Approximately 40,000 specimens of invertebrate fossils, repre-
senting the results a Secretary Walcott’s field work for the seasons
1921 to 1924, inclusive, constitute the most valuable accession to the
division of stratigraphic paleontology. These illustrate particu-
larly the stratigraphy of the Cambrian and Ozarkian formations of
the northern Rocky Mountain region, and are admirably supple-
mented by collections made under a grant from the National Acad-
emy of Sciences by Associate Curator Resser in the more southern
regions. Of especial importance in the latter is the most complete
example of a Cambrian crinoid thus far discovered. _
Next in importance is a collection of Upper Cambrian fossils from
Wisconsin obtained by Dr. E. O. Ulrich for the purpose of solving
certain questions in the Cambrian stratigraphy of the northern
States. .
Curator R. S. Bassler during his vacation was engaged in a study
of the Upper Paleozoic rocks of Kentucky and Tennessee. About
1,000 specimens of crinoids and other Mississippian fossils from
northern Tennessee were collected during the course of this work.
Collections made by Erwin R. Pohl, aid in paleobotany, in eastern
New York enriched the Jaan Me series of Ordovician fossils.
Among the gifts deserving of special mention is a collection of
more than 5,000 specimens of Cretaceous and Tertiary invertebrates
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from the west coast of Africa, donated by Chester W. Washburne,
New York City. A further addition to the Cretaceous collections
consisted of approximately 700 specimens from the Island of Rugen,
gift of Ehrhard Voigt, Dessau, Germany, while the Tertiary col-
lections were enriched by 500 specimens of Pliocene fossils from
Suffolk, England, donated by Prof. P. G. H. Boswell, of Liverpool.
Other gifts of foreign material include 150 specimens from Nova
Zembla selected from the material secured by the Norwegian expedi-
tion of 1921 and described by Secretary Walcott and Doctor Resser;
a collection of fossil insects from the Tertiary of Argentina, received
from George L. Harrington, Buenos Aires; and a small collection
of invertebrates from the Tertiary rocks of Sakhalin Island, pre-
sented by Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell.
By bequest of Col. Thomas L. Casey, Washington, the series of
Tertiary invertebrates was increased by several thousand specimens
from the classic localities at Vicksburg, Jackson, and Claiborne,
Miss., including types described by the donor.
Casts representing 425 type specimens of rare early Paleozoic
fossils from North Greenland and Nova Zembla were made in the
paleontological laboratory by Dr. C. E. Resser, through the courtesy
of Dr. Lauge Koch and Dr. Olaf Holtedahl.
The geological and geographical range of the study series was
considerably extended through exchanges which included inverte-
brates from the Carboniferous, Chalk, and London Clay of England,
and the Tertiary of Florida, France, and Nigeria. ‘These were
received from the British Museum (Natural History); Arthur G.
Davis, London; the Royal School of Mines, South Kensington; and
the Florida State Geological Survey.
Purchases comprised 500 specimens of miscellaneous fossils from
the Ordovician and Silurian, and 25 echinoderms from the Creta-
ceous of Germany. a
The notable accessions of paleobotanical material are composed
entirely of type specimens. The Miocene plants from the Latah
formation near Spokane, Wash., described by Dr. F. H: Knowlton,
were in part presented by the Spokane Public Museum and in part
transferred by the United States Geological Survey, and Prof.
K. W. Berry of Johns Hopkins University donated his types of
plants from the Pleistocene of Trinidad and the Cretaceous of lenny
County, Tenn.
The most notable accession to the vertebrate collections is the
large series of slabs containing tracks of extinct animals collected
by C. W. Gilmore, under the auspices of the National Park Service,
from the Coconino sandstone of the Hermit Trail, Grand Canyon
National Park, Ariz. These tracks are of unusual interest, not only
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on account of the fine preservation of the markings, but also for
the number of new forms represented. As a whole, the collection
constitutes the largest and most comprehensive series of Permian
footprints known in North America. It has been admirably supple-
mented by a smaller collection made by Dr. John C. Merriam from
the same locality and presented. by the Carnegie Institution of
Washington. Mention should also be made of two very large
dinosaurian tracks from the Mesa Verde formation at Clear Creek,
Utah, transferred by the United States Geological Survey. Their
large size (30 by 31 inches) and the fact of their being the first
dinosaurian imprints to be received from the Rocky Mountain region
makes them of decided value.
An important collection of Pleistocene mammals from near Mel-
bourne, Fla., donated by C. P. Singleton, contains the greater part
of a skull, lower jaws, and partial skeleton of the Florida mastodon,
and several good jaws and teeth of smaller mammals. This material
was secured by Dr. J. W. Gidley while making investigations in
Florida under the auspices of the Bureau of Ethnology. A second,
though small collection of Pleistocene mammals from Erupcion mine,
Chihuahua, Mex., was donated by Mrs. Bruce D. Smith, of El Paso,
Tex. |
Three large, beautifully preserved fossil turtles from the Upper
Cretaceous of New Mexico were acquired from Ward’s Natural
Science Establishment by exchange. ‘These represent the genera
Baena, Basilemys, and Adocus. At least one new species is present
and the Basilemys is the first adequate representative of that genus
secured for the national collections.
Other exchanges added a number of casts to the collection. From
the South African Museum, at Cape Town, were received casts of
the types of the batrachian, Batrachosuchus brownt Broom, and of
the reptiles Dicymodon kolbet Broom and Struthiocephelus whaitsi
Haughton; from the American Museum of Natural History, casts
of skulls of Andrewsarchos and Proamphycyon, and of three dino-
saur eggs. The last, on account of the publicity given the originals,
are especially interesting exhibits.
The collection of fossil cetaceans has been materially enriched by
the acquisition of several important specimens, the most noteworthy
of these being two skulls of sperm whales, one nearly complete, the
other smaller and disarticulated, presented by Charles Morrice,
Bakersfield, Calif., to whom the Museum is further indebted for
small lots of less important fossils sent in from time to time during
the past year. The most perfect skull has been selected by Reming-
ton Kellogg as the type of a new species. Mention should also be
made of the deposit by Earl Sloan, Charleston, S. C., of the type
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specimen of Xenorophus sloani Kellogg, a beautifully preserved
skull. In addition, various cetacean and sirenian bones from the
Sooke formation, British Columbia, were presented by Ira E. Corn-
wall, Gordon Downes, and Rev. Robert Connell. These are impor-
tant in being the only cetacean remains thus far found in the Oligo-
cene of North America. .
Dr. David Starr Jordan, Stanford University, Calif., presented
remains of fish and other vertebrates from the Miocene deposits at
Lompoc, and a specimen, apparently representing a new fossil
species of ground squirrel, from Alaska, was contributed by Mike
Myntti.
By purchase, were obtained a skull and lower jaws of a fossil
horse; a collection of fossil fishes from Chaleur Bay, Quebec, Can-
ada; and a skull of an extinct rodent from a cave in Porto Rico.
Eaplorations——aAs noted previously in this report, important
material was secured by members of the staff, although no major
expeditions were undertaken under Museum auspices.
During the latter part of the last fiscal year and the early months
of the present, Assistant Curator Foshag was engaged, in coopera-
. tion with one of the United States Geological Survey field parties
in mapping the Hawthorne quadrangle in western Nevada. During
his special study of the mineralogy-and ore deposits of the area, op-
portunity was afforded for making collections; for visiting various
mines; and for making the acquaintance of mine owners and collec-
tors in the region, from all of which the Museum has benefited, and,
it is hoped, will benefit further in the future. Following this work,
and while in California on leave, Doctor Foshag collected a series
of minerals from near Riverside, Calif., which he presented to the
Museum.
Several short trips were made by Mr. Shannon to various mines
and quarries in Maryland in cooperation with the Maryland Geo-
logical Survey in continuance of the work of preparing a report
on the mineralogy of that State. Through a similar arrangement
with the Geological and Natural History Survey of Connecticut
three weeks were spent in a collecting trip in that State and some 350
specimens obtained.
Details were granted to Doctor andres and Mr. Skannon at
various times for collecting in Maryland ane Virginia, where mate-
rials of mineralogical and petrological interest were obtained as
well as a quantity of rocks with their weathered products for use
in the preparation of school sets illustrating rock weathering and
the formation of soils.
The head curator while in Maine on his vacation last summer made
brief trips, whence materials noted in the accessions were obtained.
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In May Doctor Foshag was detailed to attend an exhibition of
minerals by Ward’s Natural Science Establishment held in New
York City with a view to securing desirable specimens and also
to study Colonel Roebling’s collection at Trenton and make a trip
to the Franklin Furnace region in search of rare minerals. Such
as were obtained were purchased by the Roebling Fund.
Aided by grants from the O. C. Marsh and Joseph Henry endow-
ment funds of the National Academy of Sciences, Secretary Wal-
cott continued field work in the Canadian Rockies of western
Alberta for the purpose of completing his reconnaissance of the pre-
Devonian formations north of Bow Valley. Notwithstanding a
most unfavorable field season, fossils were obtained from typical local-
ities and a number of stratigraphic sections measured. The main
objective of Doctor Walcott’s work was to determine the correct
geological horizon of the Lyell limestone. Many attempts to do
this during the past six years resulted in failure, and it began to
appear that these thick, coarse magnesian limestone beds were barren
of fossils. In measuring geologic sections in the Tilted Mountain
_ area interbedded bluish-gray layers with fragments of Upper Cam-
brian trilobites were at last found. The lowest horizon was rich
in forms closely related to those of the Franconia formation, while
the upper furnished types similar to those in the St. Lawrence mem-
ber of the Trempealeau formation.
During August and September of 1924, Dr. Charles E. Resser
continued his field explorations of the Cambrian and associated
formations in the Rocky Mountains, financed partly by a grant
from the National Academy of Sciences. Beginning at Colorado
Springs, where the Lower Paleozoic beds along the Rocky Moun-
tain front were studied and excellent collections of Ozarkian fossils
obtained, work was continued in Logan Canyon, Utah, and ex-
tended to the Cooke City ranger station at the extreme northeastern
corner of Yellowstone National Park. Cambrian fossils were
secured at various points, the most interesting specimen of all being
the entire Cambrian crinoid already mentioned, which was found in
the Cooke City region. After a brief trip to the south end of
Gallatin Range, work was continued in the Teton Mountains. The
latter part of the season was spent in various parts of the Wasatch
Range to determine the stratigraphic position of the beds from which
some of the earliest collections of fossils were made by exploring
parties sent out previous to the settlement of the country.
Curator Bassler spent his vacation in the Cumberland River dis-
trict of Northern Tennessee, where, under the joint auspices of the
Geological Survey of Tennessee and the National Museum, he
studied the geology of the Lillydale and contiguous quadrangles, and
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at the same time made collections of Mississippian fossils. Abundant
faunas of crinoids were discovered, many of the species being new.
Dr. E. O. Ulrich spent a part of the field season in further studies
of the Upper Cambrian and Ozarkian systems of Missouri and
Wisconsin. The object of his work was to secure data toward the
solution of certain stratigraphic problems. Late in the year, ac-
companied by Doctor Resser and in cooperation with the geological
department of Princeton University, he started on a three months’
field trip through various countries of Europe. The efforts of the
party are to be directed mainly to a study of the Cambrian and
Ordovician systems.
Erwin R. Pohl was detailed for a short time to make collections
from the celebrated Rysedorph conglomerate of eastern New York.
A good series of fossils resulted from this work.
In cooperation with the National Park Service, C. W. Gilmore
visited the Grand Canyon National Park, Ariz., for the purpose
of accompanying the Doheny scientific expedition as a scientific
observer, to investigate and make collections of fossil tracks ex-
posed in the Coconino sandstone on the Hermit Trail, and at the
same time to prepare an exhibit of the tracks zn situ by the side of
the trail. Two weeks were spent in Havasupai Canyon with the Do-
heny expedition which, under the leadership of Samual Hubbard,
was engaged in the investigation of certain evidence relating to
the early appearance in this region of prehistoric man. Upon the
disbandment of the Doheny party, Mr. Gilmore returned to Grand
Canyon where he spent two weeks at the footprint locality. A
series of slabs, some 2,000 pounds in weight, were collected and
shipped to the Museum. Under instructions from the director of
the National Park, slabs were shipped to other museums and two
placed in the museum at the Administrative Building at Grand
Canyon. Several hundred feet of track-covered sufface were cleared
off, leaving a permanent exhibit near the trail. Preliminary study
of the tracks has developed the fact that, in the absence of other
fossil criteria, these imprints will probably furnish important cor-
relative evidence. ;
In December, 1924, Dr. J. W. Gidley was detailed to visit the
region around Melbourne, Fla. His work was undertaken in co-
operation with the Bureau of Ethnology, and since the details he-
long more properly in that branch, they will not be given here
except to state that he was enabled to meet local collectors and
secured an interesting collection of fossil mammals. Later he was
similarly detailed to visit Adel, Iowa, for the purpose of studying
the geology of a formation in which had been found certain human
artifacts. Late in the fiscal year he was again detailed to work in
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cooperation with the Amherst expedition led by Prof. F. B. Loomis,
to make further investigations of the Pleistocene deposits of Florida.
Norman Boss, continuing the practice of previous years, made
several short trips to the Miocene deposits along Chesapeake Bay.
Preservation, installation, and present condition of the collec-
tions.—Kew changes are to be noted in the exhibition halls. Chief
among installations is an attractive addition to the exhibit of cave
materials made possible by the acquisition of the collection from
‘the Carlsbad Caverns, N. Mex., mentioned elsewhere. A series of
'_ enlarged photographs of views in the caverns supplements the speci-
mens, the whole forming an exhibit which has attracted much atten-
tion. Publicity was given the collection by a series of lectures
delivered by Dr. Willis T. Lee, who was in charge of the National
Geographic Society’s exploration of the caverns in the summer of
1924. The Museum is under obligations to both Doctor Lee and
the National Geographic Society for material and photographs.
In this same hall of physical geology, a large polished block of
Quincy granite with a vein of pegmatite forms an instructive
object. :
The exhibits in this division have for some time been in need of a
general rearrangement and cleaning. Work to this end was begun
early in the spring. Cases and specimens were thoroughly cleaned,
the entire exhibit rearranged, much in the way of duplicates elimi-
nated, and new material incorporated. This work was carried out
largely by Miss Moodey assisted by James Benn and the necessary
laborers, approximately six weeks being thus occupied.
Three new cases containing some of the choice specimens of the
Teller collection have been installed in the section devoted to in-
vertebrate fossils. ‘This exhibit contains particularly good series of
cephalopods, trilobites, and corals from the Silurian and Devonian
_rocks of the northern States in which the collection excelled. A few
choice specimens were introduced into the paleobotanical exhibits,
and rearrangement and cleaning of the collections also consumed a
considerable amount of time.
A small pedestal case in which are exhibited casts of the dinosaur
eggs from Mongolia secured by the American Museum’s expedition,
and an articulated cast of the large Rancho la Brea carnivorous bird,
Tetraornis, are the only additions to the fossil vertebrate exhibits.
Enlarged photographs showing important fossil localities, are in
preparation for hanging on the east wall.
The large crystal ball noted among the accessions has been placed
in the center of the mineral hall surrounded by a circular railing
to avert danger from jarring or handling by the curious. This in-
stallation is only temporary awaiting the construction of a more
fitting case. The exhibit of recently accessioned material has been
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completely rearranged in order to make room for the more note-
worthy of the year’s acquisitions, and the systematic series of min-
erals largely cleaned and rearranged. A few minor changes were
made in the gem collection.
In stratigraphic paleontology more time than usual has been spent
on the study series. The classification and arrangement of the Edgar
KE. Teller collection was given first consideration, but it was found
necessary to discontinue work on this, while still far from complete,
in order to take up a rearrangement of other collections made pos-’
sible by a more logical placement of certain Tertiary and Recent
material heretofore stored in the division, and by the installation of a
number of 6-foot cases in the corridors. This great shift gave op-
portunity for a general condensation and reduction, much worthless
and duplicate material being eliminated. Part of the space gained
has been used to house the Cambrian collections transferred by Sec-
retary Walcott, and part the Mesozoic collections.
Work on the paleobotanical collections is going forward as rap-
idly as possible. All duplicate specimens of “ Coal Measures” plants
have been segregated and several hundred trays of pre-Cambrian
algae arranged and removed from the attic, thereby lightening the
weight on the upper floor of the building very considerably. In
order to systematize the arrangement of the fossil plants, the sepa-
ration of the duplicates from the study series of the Mesozoic and
Cenozoic collections was begun, a task, however, which will occupy
some months. Many of the collections stored in the attic have been
cleaned and considerably reduced under the direct supervision of
Dr. F. H. Knowlton. As time permitted, the work of preparing
the large collection of Devonian and Mississippian black shales,
which are yielding many interesting plant and animal remains, was
continued. Routine, particularly the preparation of large exchanges,
has occupied an unusual amount of the time of atl members of the
staff in the division of stratigraphic paleontology. Doctor Stanton
and Doctor Dall have cared for the Mesozoic and Cong collec-
tions as usual.
Practically all the energies of the preparatory force in vertebrate
paleontology have been devoted to the preparation of the Diplodocus
skeleton from the Dinosaur National Monument. Alinough the
work advances slowly, due to the refractory nature of the matrix,
good progress can be reported. The tail, comprising 32 vertebrae,
with a combined length of about 30 feet, has been completely freed
from the sandstone, as have all of the ribs, limb, foot, and pelvic
bones. Of the total of 35 boxes shipped 21 have been opened and
the contents of 19 completely worked up.
Remington Kellogg has continued to assist in the systematic
arrangement of the fossil cetacean collection. It seems pertinent
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to state that the division now has the largest and best preserved
collection of fossil cetaceans ever assembled in an American institu-
tion, and its steady growth from year to year promises not only to
maintain that distinction but to place it in a still higher position.
Doctor Gidley has completely overhauled the collection of mam-
malian material from the Cumberland Cave and rearranged it
according to biological groups. A few remaining important speci-
mens of this lot were cleaned for study. About 50 specimens of
Pleistocene fossils from Melbourne, Fla., have been identified and
catalogued.
The study collections in applied geology and mineralogy have
required but little attention during the year. AJl new materials
have been catalogued, numbered, and filed away. A general check-
ing and rearrangement of the Shepard collection of minerals is now
under way. This, it may be recalled, is held together for the present
as a separate collection.
Miss Margaret Moodey has been occupied as usual in looking after
the records, assisting with exhibition work and in the care of the
study collections, revising manuscript, and proofreading. _
flannel table scarf sth received by gift from Mrs. Jake Cruse and
Mrs. Ernest Hammond, respectively.
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Of accessions other than textiles, the most noteworthy were the
gifts of industrial exhibits illustrating various branches of the rub-
ber industry which were received from the Rubber Association of
America (Inc.), New York City. This association added 960 speci-
mens and photographs to its gifts of last year, and thus placed the
representation of the rubber industry in the forefront of the indus-
trial exhibits in the National Museum. Included in these gifts is
the greater part of the exhibits illustrating American rubber indus-
_ tries which were shown at the Sixth International Rubber Exposi-
tion, held in Brussels, Belgium, in April, 1924, and comprising the
following: Large statistical charts arranged to resemble open books
resting on easels, painted screens or panels depicting the utilization
of rubber, a life-size figure of a Malay native in the position of
tapping a rubber tree, specimens of all kinds of rubber articles,
automobile tires and mechanical rubber goods, and an automatic
projecting lantern and set of slides illustrating rubber manufacture.
The Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the Department
of Commerce transferred specimens of crude rubber and rubber
substitutes, vegetable oils, and oilseeds brought back from South
America by representatives of the department who had been detailed
in 1923 to make a survey of the crude rubber situation.
With the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture, the Bureau of
Biological Survey, as custodian of material seized in violation of
Federal laws for the protection of birds, transferred to the Museum
a large part of a remarkable collection of bird plumage and feather
articles acquired by confiscation from plume hunters, importers, and
manufacturers. This material consists of whole birds, parts of birds,
feathers, and plumes of the bird of paradise and the American and
the snowy egret. Other birds represented are goura, roseate spoonbill,
wood ibis, ring-necked pheasant, whistling swan, gull, mallard duck,
Canada goose, pied-billed grebe, American eared grebe, Holboell’s
grebe, western grebe, common loon, red-throated loon, penguin, great
blue heron, and European and Japanese herons. Together with the
bird skins and plumage in the natural condition, the collection in-
cludes dyed feathers and finished and partly finished millinery trim-
mings made from bird plumage coming under the ban of the law.
A most attractive exhibit illustrating the manufacture and utiliza-
tion of sealing wax was obtained from the Dennison Manufacturing
Co., of Framingham, Mass., to replace an old exhibit presented many
years ago. The new material includes crude lac, fillers, pigments,
and other ingredients of sealing wax put up in attractive containers,
commercial sealing waxes of all grades, and a handicraft display
of articles made from or decorated with sealing wax.
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Specimens showing additional industrial uses of “pyralin,” a
pyroxylin plastic, were contributed by E. I. du Pont de Nemours &
Co. (Inc.), of Wilmington, Del., for inclusion in exhibits contributed
by this firm in previous years.
In wood technology there was added to the collections a large
Douglas fir timber, for flanking the west side of the entrance to
the Wood Court directly opposite a similar timber of Southern
yellow pine. Douglas fir produces more lumber annually than any
other single species of tree in the United States, and this magnificent —
specimen, representing the forests of the Pacific Northwest, deserves
its prominent place. It was cut in Snohomish County, Wash., and was
delivered to the Museum free of all expense by the West Coast Lum-
bermen’s Association, Seattle, Wash. The Grand Rapids Wood
Finishing Co., Grand Rapids, Mich., presented the Museum with
a series of veneered panels of the most prominent woods used in
the furniture industry to show the most popular finishes used to-day.
Gift of a complete series of specimens, showing stages in the manu-
facture of lead pencils and demonstrating a most important use of
red cedar, was made by the Wallace Pencil Co., St. Louis, Mo. »
The greater part of the accessions credited to the division of
medicine was for additions to the Hall of Health and dealt with
the subject of public health.
An interesting and instructive exhibit was donated by the Ameri-
can Social Hygiene Association (Inc.), New York City, the work
of J. H. M. Dudley, a well-known model maker of Elizabeth, N. J.,
The exhibit consists of three panels, upon the first of which is ar-
ranged a series of specimens illustrating the way life begins; the
center panel deals with eugenics; and the third panel pictures social
hygiene measures.
A model to illustrate in allegory the never-ceasing struggle of
health against disease was specially constructed for the division.
A section of a village is shown with a wall obstructing the entrance
of diseases represented as beasts, from a dark and gloomy forest.
This model emphasizes the fact that disease prevention is every-
body’s work, and that each individual owes it to himself and the
community to render active assistance in this struggle to increase
the life span and make the world a better place in which to live by
complying strictly with all health laws and regulations.
Dr. John Uri Lloyd, Cincinnati, Ohio, who has cooperated with
the Museum for several years in the development of exhibits illus-
trating the history and principles of the eclectic branch of American
medical practice, donated a collection of 170 specimens of historically
important, old type laboratory apparatus, many pieces of which
were made and used by Dr. John King, a pioneer eclectic practi-
tioner and pharmacologist, one of the authors of the American Dis-
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pensatory and sometimes called “'The father of American materia
medica.” Doctor Lloyd also contributed a case of 115 rare chemicals,
which he himself prepared and which was awarded first prize at the -
sixth Cincinnati Industrial Exposition in 1875; a pharmaceutical
counter balance with cup and block weights, in common use in drug
stores of this country about 1860; one of the first suppository molds
made by Prof. W. B. Chapman, fourth president of the American
Pharmaceutical Association; an ophthalmoscope which had been
owned and used by Dr. John King; a bottle of emetine believed to be
' the type specimen of this drug.
Due to the efforts of Doctor Lloyd the following material, which
was presented to the donors by Dr. John King, was received as con-
tributions from the persons named: An ophthalmoscope and a model
of a human eye from Dr. William N. Mundy, Forest, Ohio; 30 am-
poules of medicinal solutions and one case of “13 pure elements,”
from Dr. H. W. Felter, Cincinnati, Ohio; an ophthalmoscope from
Dr. T. T. Sidener, Lima, Ohio; a spectroscope from Dr. John J.
Sutter, Lima, Ohio; a barometer from Mrs. Hallie Stephens Caine,
North Bend, Ohio; and Dr. John King’s diary from Dr. Louise East-
man, Cincinnati, Ohio. An interesting old surgical instrument,
called a scarificator, was presented by Dr. D. H. Welling, of Worth-
ington, Ohio. This instrument was in vogue when bloodletting was
a popular operation for many human ailments. The instrument con-
sists of 10 blades set upon rotary axes, and was used for making shal-
low incisions in the skin, from which might be withdrawn, by means
of an “exhausted cup,” any desired quantity of blood.
The medals and decorations conferred on the late Maj. Gen. Wil-
liam C. Gorgas, Surgeon General of the United States Army during
the World War, were loaned by Mrs. William C. Gorgas, Washing-
ton, D. C.; and Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, N. Y., pre-
sented through Mrs. Gorgas a copy of the book “ William Crawford
Gorgas—His Life and Work,” by Marie D. Gorgas and Burton J.
Hendrick, for exhibition with the Gorgas medals.
The Bureau of Chemistry, Department of Agriculture, made for
the Museum and transferred to this division an exhibit consisting of
21 specimens to show steps in the bacteriological examination of
water supplies to prove the absence or presence of pathogenic micro-
organisms.
One hundred and sixty-one colored posters bearing important
health lessons to be observed from infancy to adult life were pre-
sented by the National Child Welfare Association, New York, N. Y.
Digitalis leaves vary in activity as much as 600 per cent, and a test.
is required by the United States Pharmacopoeia, to insure uniform
therapeutic activity of the tincture made from this drug. The H. K.
Mulford Co., Philadelphia, Pa., donated seven charts outlining the
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“one-hour frog” method of standardizing this much-used medicine.
A set of 14 colored posters showing the right and wrong way to
» diagnose and treat cancer was received as a gift from the American
Society for the Control of Cancer, New York City. The Association
for Improving the Conditions of the Poor, New York, N. Y., con-
tributed 12 colored charts dealing with important phases of child
hygiene. Dr. E. R. Booth, Cincinnati, Ohio, presented through Dr.
Norman C. Glover, Washington, D. C., a copy of his recent book,
“ History of Osteopathy and Twentieth Century Medical Practice,”
for addition to the history of osteopathy collection.
Two specimens of medicinal arsenicals, arsphenamine and neo-
arsphenamine, were donated by the Powers-Weightman-Rosengarten
Co., Philadelphia, Pa. Johnson & Johnson (Inc.), New Brunswick,
N. J., presented a cotton roll toothbrush, 20 cotton rolls for use in
the same, and specimens of dental floss; S. E. Howard’s Son & Co.,
New York City, contributed 12 toothbrushes of various sizes and
styles; and the Pro-phy-lac-tic Brush Co., Florence, Mass., donated
six toothbrushes. This material was used in arranging the oral
hygiene exhibit.
Graphic arts——In the Division of Graphic Arts the exhibit illus-
trative of the history of writing was increased by three Babylonian
tablets inscribed with cuneiform characters. The one of most inter-
est is the work of a school boy learning to write. It is of sun-dried
clay, nearly flat on one side and rounded on the other, the writing
being on the flat side only. Tablets of this sort were not intended
to be permanently preserved and were never burned, and were there-
fore in a fragmentary condition when discovered. ‘These tablets are
not dated, but from other objects found in the same ruins the
Museum specimen is placed at about 2000 B. C. It was found at
Warka, which is in the neighborhood of the Biblical city of Erech,
where Abraham was living at about that time. The ether two smaller
tablets are of burned clay, very skillfully inscribed and are simple
business accounts of about 2300 B. C.
The wood-engraving exhibit was augmented by new material,
the result of changed economic conditions. Previous to the World
War boxwood was imported in sufficient quantities to supply the
demand of wood engravers, but since then a large part or the sup-
ply has been cut off. In order to make the much-reduced_ impor-
tation meet requirements, manufacturers have resorted to veneer-
ing. Boxwood of good quality is veneered on a hard maple base
or on a poor grade of boxwood, the quality of the veneer determin-
ing the price. Samples of this new product were furnished by
John G. Bjorkman, the wood engraver, and the Sandberg Manu-
facturing Co., both of Chicago. Mr. Bjorkman, in response
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to the suggestion that celluloid might be used as a substitute for
the expensive boxwood, also contributed a fine engraving on cellu-
loid, which was mounted by the Museum printer, and satisfactory
prints were made without difficulty.
The Christian Science Publishing Co., George Washington Life
Insurance Co., and James E. Patton each contributed an artist proof
wood engraving by Timothy Cole, all recent work. R. C. Smith,
aid in the division of graphic arts, added proofs of the blocks used
in his recently published book entitled “'The Wood Engraved Work
of Timothy Cole.” Wood engravings were also received from John
G. Bjorkman and James Bann, the work of the donors.
Alfred McEwen, of New York City, contributed two micro-
engravings. One of these, a letter of 46 words from the donor to
the curator of Graphic Arts, is the smallest letter ever received by
the Museum. The second, especially prepared by Mr. McEwen for
the exhibition series, consists of the Lord’s Prayer, about 1/13500 of
an inch square, engraved on glass and seen through the eye of a
needle, mounted under a high-power microscope. The engraving
is cut in glass with a diamond point by means of a micropantograph.
Fifty or sixty years ago microengravings were quite common, but
at present they are very rare.
The exhibit of letter-press printing was enhanced by gifts from
William Edwin Rudge, of New York City, Woodward & Lothrop,
of Washington, D. C., Dietz Printing Co., of Richmond, Va., and the
Laboratory Press of the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pitts-
burgh, Pa. The American examples present a fine appearance, but
work of historical nature and of foreign printers is desired to round
out this series.
George A. Simonds & Co. deserve mention for a contribution
illustrating the making of a book, which shows the folding and
assembling of the printed sheets and steps in binding. Miss Marian
Lane gave an original design for a bookbinding, which was placed
with the bookbinding specimens. ‘The bookbinding series was fur-
ther enlarged by four examples of fore-edge painting lent by B.
M. Comerford, of Washington, D. C. Fore-edge painting consists
of painting pictures and decorations on the fore edge of a book
while the leaves are pulled back to expose a very minute part of the
upper surface of each leaf. This exposed part receives the water-
color paint. The pictures disappear when the book comes back te
its normal shape.
Mrs. Harriet W. Nutting, of Washington, D. C., the great-
granddaughter of the famous American painter, Thomas Sully.
donated a valuable collection of 60 old prints, chiefly American,
dating around 1830 to 1840. Among these are fine early impres-
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sions from the more important plates of the eminent American
mezzotint engraver, John Sartain (1808-1897), including a print
after Sir Thomas Lawrence’s self-portrait, considered Sartain’s
most important work in mezzotint; several lithographs by Albert
Newsam (1809-1864), one of America’s finest portrait lithographers;
and other fine American lithographs published in Philadelphia in
1832 and 1833, or a little later. Both mezzotints and lithographs,
except as noted, were after paintings of Sully, and probably all
belonged to him.
The contemporary American mezzotint engraver, Frederick Rey-
nolds, of New York City, contributed four examples of his work,
two in black and white and two in color. These are especially in-
teresting, not only for their skill in printing and engraving and
their artistic effect, but because a black and white and a print in
full color are shown from the same plate of “La Princesse de
Conde,” after Nattier. This plate was made especially for color
printing, and by comparing these two impressions one sees how the
engraver left certain parts darker than necessary for the black-and-
white effect so that the color print would have the desired values.
George C. Wales contribued the “ destroyed ” plate of his very fine
soft-ground etching “ Stand by to Let Go,” a print of which he gave
the Museum two years ago.
Sidney A. Kimber, of Cambridge, Mass., added to his previous
donation of water- foie papers, 19 Syccnet of Italian manu-
facture, most of which show colored water-marks. They are re-
markable examples of paper making and display great skill in the
beautiful effects obtained.
Mention was made in last year’s report of a new reproduction
process called “aquatone,” a sort of combination of the collotype
with the use of a 400-line screen, printed on an offset press at a
rate of 3,500 an hour. This is now in commercial operation for
black and white prints. The only color prints produced were made
with a 183-line screen. Besides prints from the Aquatone Cor-
poration and the United States Printing & Lithograph .Co., both
of New York City, the Museum has received this year a technical
series from William Edwin Rudge which shows the steps in making
printing plates. The time consumed in preparing the plate for
printing is very short and the finished results remarkable true.
The technical side of the exhibit of printing for the blind was
enlarged and now gives an idea of the difficulties encountered in
Bae such reading matter. The Museum previously had speci-
mens of finished raised printing, chiefly books printed by different °
systems, maps, and portraits. The material added this year illus-
trates how the results are obtained and used. The many systems of
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printing for the blind may be divided into two classes, the alpha-
betical and the arbitrary. The additions have been almost exclu-
sively of the arbitrary system known as the American Braille. The
Museum is indebted to several organizations for assistance in this
line, and especially to Frank C. Bryan, Perkins Institution for the
Blind, Watertown, Mass., who not only contributed specimens but
also interested other people in the exhibit here. The reading room
for the blind, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C., furnished
information and specimens regarding a duplicating process which
’ they have been largely instrumental in developing. The Matilda
Ziegler Magazine for the Blind contributed, besides other specimens,
plates showing their method of printing on both sides of the paper
at the same time. Other organizations also deserve credit for addi-
tions that improve the exhibit.
In connection with the new traveling exhibits, examples in their
respective mediums have been contributed by the United States
Printing & Lithograph Co., William Edwin Rudge, and the Aqua-
tone Corporation, of New York City, Norman T. A. Munder, and the
Baltimore Maryland Engraving Co., of Baltimore, and the Collo-
type Co., Elizabeth, N. J. Edward Epstean, chairman of the pub-
licity committee of the American Photo-Engravers Association, was
instrumental in having the association prepare special specimens for
the photomechanical exhibits.
The Section of Photography has shown good progress during the
year. Three early Prosch camera shutters were donated by Floyd
Vail, H. A. Latimer, and Frank V. Chambers, respectively, and show
the effort to control exposures automatically and do away with the
lens cap. A very remarkable view camera, manufactured by E. &
H. T. Anthony, was also donated by Mr. Vail. This camera shows
the revolving back, no doubt an advanced idea in camera con-
struction when it was made about 1890. The entire back with the
bellows revolves in a ring in the front board. A reel of motion
pictures, historical in character, was contributed by the Armstrong
Cork Co., the subject being Frederick Walton, the inventor of lino-
leum. This film, with other of like character, is being preserved as
a matter of record.
To his display on the wireless transmission of pictures, C. Francis
Jenkins added a-series of 18 prints sent by the method invented by
him. These show early and more recent results, the latter closely
resembling soft-focus lens work. The collection of EKadweard Muy-
bridge material was rounded out by a fine portrait of Mr. Muy-
bridge, made from an original negative owned and loaned for the
purpose by Miss Frances Benjamin Johnston.
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A fine enlargement, showing the apparatus used by the early
photographer, Fox Talbot, was received from H. H. Blakelock,
secretary of the Royal Photographic Society, London, England.
The apparatus depicted is in the society’s club rooms and is of
special interest to the Museum since many of the original photo-
graphs by Talbot in the section of photography were probably
made by this or similar equipment. P. H. Emerson, author of
“ Naturalistic Photography,” donated a booklet with illustrations
made from his photographs.
Dr. W. H. Wright, of Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton, Calif.,
gave a very remarkable photograph, a view of the Sierra Mountains,
an achievement in long distant photography, the distance being 135
miles. Even at that long range details are recognizable. Plates
sensitive to the infra red rays were used with a red filter. In the
aerial section, three fine views of the city of Washington, D. C., were
donated by the Fairchild Aerial Surveys, (Inc.), of New York City.
These are remarkable for their fine quality and clearness and should
be of great interest to the tourist as they give an excellent idea of
the Capital city.
The collection of pictorial photographs is becoming one of the
most important public collections in the country, due to the efforts
of Dr. A. J. Olmsted, custodian, and of Floyd Vail, of New York
City. The latter generously sent four very rare pictorial prints
from his portifolio. Three are original prints by Count von
Gloeden which are entered as a loan, and the other, a reproduction
of a print by W. A. Cadby, is a gift. These were much needed for
the collection and, being early prints, are hard to obtain.
Other notable pictorial photographs included two additional
prints from Dr. J. B. Pardoe, Bound Brook, N. J., well worthy of
his style; three prints from Herbert Bairstow, of Halifax, England,
“The Oyster Gatherers” being especially attractive; seven very
forceful portraits from Aage Remfeldt, of Oslo, Norway, and three
from Madam d’Ora, of Vienna, Austria, which have much charm
and individuality. José Ortiz Echagiie, Madrid, Spain, furnished
six of his studies of Spanish peasant life, very characteristic of his
work and welcome additions. Dr. Emil Mayer, Vienna, Austria,
who delights in architectural studies, sent six prints as beautiful
and artistic as the subjects he pictures. From Switzerland, Max
Rudolph contributed 10 prints full of feeling and atmosphere depict-
ing Alpine heights, with sheep and flowers in the meadows.
Clark Blickensderfer, of Denver, Colo., is represented in the year’s
advance by one print, “A Ptarmigan in Winter,” wonderful in tonal
value and subject matter. Three prints made and donated by Mrs.
Minna Keene, of Oakville, Canada, are unusual. The South African
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types she portrays make lasting impression because of the sympathy
with which they have been studied. From Robert Ure, of Glasgow,
Scotland, the Museum received two prints charming in composition,
and from A. W. Hill of Edinburgh, Scotland, three which rank
high in all pictorial qualities.
Loeb collection of chemical types.—This collection, while main-
tained through the beneficence of the late Dr. Morris Loeb, is ad-
ministered as a separate entity in the Department of Arts and In-
dustries. The work is conducted under an advisory committee on
the Loeb collection, consisting mainly of Government officials inter-
ested in the subject of chemistry. The committee for the year was
composed as follows: Dr. James F. Norris, chairman of the Divi-
sion of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, National Research
Council, ex officio; Dr. C. A. Browne, Chief of the Bureau of
Chemistry, United States Department of Agriculture, ex officio;
Dr. S. C. Lind, chief chemist of the Bureau of Mines, United States
Department of the Interior, ea officio; Dr. W. F. Hillebrand, de-
ceased, Chief of the Division of Chemistry, Bureau of Standards,
United States Department of Commerce, ew officio; James K. Senior,
representative of the committee in the Middle West; Dr. C. L. Als-
berg, representative of the committee on the Pacific coast; and I. L.
Lewton, representative from the United States National Museum.
The collection is in direct charge of Maj. O. E. Roberts, jr., curator.
The purposes and scope of the collection were defined by the ad-
visory committee during the year, as follows:
“Tt shall be the general purpose of this collection to collect and
preserve samples of substances, as defined below, the preservation of
which shall, in the opinion of the board, be in the interest of those
conducting chemical research.
“It shall, further, be the general purpose of this collection to
provide, loan, or give to those requesting them to assist in the con-
duct of chemical research such small samples as may be spared of
chemicals comprising this collection gratis or at a nominal charge
to be fixed by this board.
“ Specifically, the collection shall include the following classes of
materials:
“(1) All new chemicals prepared as a result of chemical research,
the preparation of which shall have been described in scientific lit-
erature. In all instances, where possible, such chemicals shall be
obtained from the original source. Samples of these substances may
be accepted, however, from other than the original source, pro-
vided they may be procured in a higher state of purity. [Note:
‘New’ in this paragraph signifies elements or compounds of defi-
nite composition prepared for the first time. |
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“(2) Radioactive chemicals, isotopes, and the like, of which an
analysis is available or of which a study has been made.
“(3) Unstable chemicals, such as pharmaceuticals of definite
chemical composition, where a study of the rate, extent, and nature
of their decomposition is deemed desirable.
“(4) Specimens of historic interest of chemicals which are likely
to be of future value for purposes of comparison. [Note: This
paragraph refers to samples which were prepared before the date of
the establishment of this collection. ]
“(5) Chemicals of an exceptionally high degree of purity not
generally available, which are likely to be used for atomic weight
determinations, standards of comparison, etc.
“(6) Unusual allotropic forms of the elements not generally
available, a study of which at some time in the future is deemed
likely.
“(7) Alloys which have been well defined and adequately de-
scribed in the literature.
““(8) Chemicals which have been prepared by new methods.”
Toward the first objective it may be said that the collection has
made a good start. The addition of 616 specimens during the fiscal
year has brought the total number of specimens in the series up to
650. A very high percentage of the specimens received during the
year are compounds which have been prepared for the first time, and
are therefore of considerable interest.
History.—The collections in the division of history are, for con-
venience, divided into the following classes: Antiquarian, costume,
military, naval, numismatic, philatelic, and pictorial. This classi-
fication is, as a rule, based on the intrinsic character of the objects
without reference to the special historical interest which they may
derive from their association with some notable rae of Ameri-
can or foreign history.
In the antiquarian series a notable addition was annals this year
to the arms collection by the loan of a number of antique fowling
pieces, rifles, powderflasks, powderhorns and swords received from
Maj. Jerome Clark, United States Army. The fowling pieces in-
clude one owned by James II, King of Great Britain, 1685-88,
made by John Cosens and bearing the royal arms and the ixscription
“James Rex”; a fowling piece with a gold flashpan and vent
made by Joseph Manton and owned by the Duke of York, son
of George III, King of Great Britain, 1760-1820; a fowling piece
with barrels decorated with gold inlay work, made by Dumares,
and owned by a French marquis during the reign of Louis XVI,
1774-1792; and two fowling pieces of ornate decorations, one of
a Spanish gentleman and the other of an Englishman. The loan
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included a number of rifles of types used during the early periods
of American history; powderflasks made of silver, brass, horn and
leather, richly decorated; and two swords, one presented to Mid-
shipman James M. Baldwin, United States Navy, in recognition
of services during the War of 1812-15, and the other presented to
Col. H. R. Eddy, United States Army, in recognition of services
during the Civil War. The latter is of special interest because of
exceptionally fine decorations on the irovy grip.
The costumes collection was increased by the addition of a brown
satin dress owned by Martha Washington, and lent to the Museum
by Mrs. Wilfred P. Mustard, Baltimore, Md. This is displayed
at the head of the exhibition series of White House costumes, in
place of the Martha Washington dress recently withdrawn by its
owner, Miss Sally P. McKenzie.
A lady’s silk dress, parasol, and white kid shoes, and a gentleman’s
black embroidered vest of the period of the Civil War were pre-
sented by Miss Ella G. Gilson, Nyack, N. Y. A single specimen
of interest belonging to the same period and donated by Miss Mar-
garet Hillhouse, New York City, is a lady’s “army cloak” of Con-
federate gray cloth made in the first Freedman’s School established
in Richmond, Va., in 1865. The court costume worn by Hon. Henry
Cabot Lodge on the occasion of a reception at Buckingham Palace,
London, in 1908, was presented by Mr. Lodge’s estate, through
his son, Mr. John E. Lodge. A costume of more recent historical
interest is a dress worn by Mrs. George Maynard Minor when Pres-
ident General of the National Society of the Daughters of the Amer-
ican Revolution, 1920-23, and donated by her.
The military collections were increased by objects of exceptional
interest. Many objects owned by Lieut. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, United
States Army, were contributed by his son and daughter, Maj. Sher-
man Miles, United States Army, and Mrs. Samuel Reber. These
included the sword presented to him in 1887 in recognition of his
services in the capture of Geronimo and the hostile Apaches; a waist-
coat worn when he was severely wounded at the battle of Chancellors-
ville; full dress uniform accessories worn when lieutenant-general,
in command of the Army; a flag of the Second Army Corps of the
period of the Civil War, and an Army headquarters flag; the Con-
gressional Medal of Honor awarded him for gallantry in the battle
of Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863; and a number of United States
Army service medals and badges of patriotic societies. One of the
most interesting objects in this entire collection is a silver and bronze
heart-shaped plaque or shield bearing a portrait of General Miles
and commemorating his success over the Indians in war and his
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humanity and justice in instructing the captive savages in the arts
of civilization.
Mrs. Frank Wheaton donated, among other things, three swords
which were owned by Maj. Gen. Frank Wheaton, United States
Army. These were: A sword presented to him by the officers of
the Anderson Zouaves, Sixty-second Regiment, New York State
Volunteers; a sword presented by noncommissioned officers and pri-
vates of the Second Regiment, Rhode Island Volunteers, when he
was colonel of that regiment, December 13, 1862; and a very hand-
some sword presented to him by the State of Rhode Island in 1865,
the scabbard of which is inscribed “ Presented to Brevet Major
General Frank Wheaton, U. S. V., for gallant and meritorious
services during the war and especially in the battles of Opequan,
Fishers Hill, and Middletown, by the State of Rhode Island through
James Y. Smith, Governor, in comformity with a Resolution of
the General Assembly passed at the January Session, 1865.”
From Mrs. Lillian W. Couillard was received a cavalry saber
of ornate design owned during the Civil War, first by Lieut.
William Wheelan, First New York Mounted Rifles, and later by
his brother, Brig. Gen. James Wheelan, United States Army, and
a number of pieces of military insignia also belonging to the latter.
To the collection of Confederate uniforms was added a coat worn
during the Civil War by Brig. Gen. Marcus J. Wright, Confederate
States Army, presented by Mrs. Marcus J. Wright.
A collection of World War relics was lent to the Museum by Gen.
John J. Pershing, United States Army, including a United States
. flag presented to the general in 1919 by citizens of New York
City, a flag indicating his rank as General of the Armies, several
French flags flown at his headquarters, four large military maps,
and his personal office desk and accessories used at his headquarters
at Chaumont, France, during the war. es
The naval collections were increased ‘by a number of relics of
cflicers of the United States Navy. A sword-and two uniform coats
owned during the early part of the nineteenth century by Capt.
Samuel Woodhouse, who was appointed a midshipman in 1800 and
served on the U. S. S. Constellation during the famous engagement
in that year between that ship and the French frigate Vengeance,
were donated by Dr. S. W. Woodhouse, jr. To the large series of
scientific awards relating to the career of Commander Matthew F.
' Maury, United States Navy, was added a diamond scarfpin pre-
sented to him in 1857 by the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian
of Austria, and given to the Museum by Mrs. Lucy Maury Van
Doren. Besides these personal relics donated by private individuals,
the United States Navy Department lent a series of 17 models
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illustrating the development of the United States Navy from 1776
to 1920. These include models of the vessels Bon Homme Richard,
Constitution, Enterprise, Ohio, Merrimac, Hartford, Monitor,
Benton, Chicago, Oregon, Brooklyn, Winslow, North Carolina, and
Lexington.
A number of valuable additions were made to the numismatic
collection. From the Treasury Department were received two
specimens each of the United States twenty-dollar gold piece, silver
dollar, quarter dollar, dime, nickel, and cent issued in 1923 and in 1924,
“and a collection of about 100 modern foreign coins including some
of the most recent foreign issues. The largest contribution to the
coin collection from an individual was the loan from B. M. Comer-
ford of Washington, D. C., of a collection of early Irish silver and
bronze coins and a series of English maundy money, in all some
470 specimens. Four gold medals, two gold badges and two specially
designed silver medals awarded to Maj. Lewis Merriam, United
States Army, in recognition of skill in marksmanship were lent by
Mrs. Lewis Merriam, of Washington, D. C.
The War Department lent a silver Médaille d’Honneur des
Epidémies which was awarded Capt. Clayton R. Pollan, United
States Sanitary Corps, by. the French Government in 1919. The
Treasury Department increased the collection of commemorative
medals by bronze copies of the medals issued by that department
in commemoration of the inauguration of President Warren G.
Harding in 1921, of the death of President Harding in 1923, and of
the inauguration of President Calvin Coolidge in 1923; also copies of
medals commemorating the appointment of F. E. Scobey as director
of the Mint in 1922, and the appointment of R. J. Grant to that
position in 1923. From the Jusserand dinner committee was received
a bronze copy of the gold medal presented to the Ambassador of
the French Republic Jules Jusserand, and Madame Jusserand, by
the people of Washington, D. C., on January 10, 1925. The United
Daughters of the Confederacy, through Mrs. W. H. Estabrook, con-
tributed a bronze cross of honor of the type awarded by that society
in recognition of services rendered during the World War.
The value of the coin and medal collection was further enhanced
by the transfer from the Treasury Department to the Museum of
about 800 publications concerning the science of numismatics, and
varying in scientific importance from standard treatises on various
phases of the subject to mere sales catalogues. A large number of
bound volumes of numismatic periodicals were included.
The portrait collection was enlarged by a portrait of Elizabeth
Cady Stanton by Anna E. Klumpke, presented by the National
American Woman Suffrage Association; portraits of Gen. John J.
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Pershing and Marshal Ferdinand Foch by Victor Perard, of New
York City, donated by the artist; and an oil painting by John
Innes showing President Harding delivering an address at Stanley
Park, Vancouver, B. C., July 26, 1923, presented to the Museum
by the National Press Club, Washington, D. C.
The philatelic collections were increased by 5,608 specimens, all,
with a single exception, received through the Post Office Depart-
ment. Of these, 5,505 specimens were issued by foreign govern-
ments and forwarded to the Post Office Department by the Universal
Postal Union, Berne, Switzerland. Both the foreign and the do-
mestic issues of stamps during the fiscal year have been remarkable
for the number of commemorative issues. In 1925 the Universal
Postal Union celebrated the fiftieth year of its existence, and this
event was the occasion for special issues of stamps by the govern-
ments of Germany, Salvador, Sweden, and Switzerland. Various
other events were commemorated by special issues of stamps by
the governments of Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Czechoslovakia,
Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hun-
gary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Portugal, Russia, Sal-
vador, San Marino, Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
The United States issued stamps commemorating the sesquicen-
tennial of the battle of Lexington and the Norse American cen-
tennial anniversary. Examples of all these issues have been added
to the Museum collection. An accession of special importance was
the gift from the Indiana State Museum, through the Post Office
Department, of 78 handstamped letters sent through the United
States mail during the period from 1836 to 1850, prior to the
general use of adhesive stamps. All of these are of the folded-
sheet type and show postal markings of a distinctive and interest-
ing character, among which names of towns and numerals in various
colored inks predominate. Another unique addition to the collec-
tion was a postal card forwarded by the first air mail from Germany
to the United States, October 12-15, 1924; on the ZF 3, later the
Los Angeles, contributed by Dr. Charles D. Walcott, Secretary of
the Smithsonian Institution.
PRESERVATION, INSTALLATION AND PRESENT CONDITION OF ULLECTIONS
An examination of the exhibition halls and the storage and office
facilities in the Arts and Industries Building convinces one of the
crowded conditions under which the art, industrial and historical
collections are being maintained. The point has been reached in
considering the acquisition of specimens when it is necessary to de-
termine first of all the space required, regardless of value, and often
the Museum must be content with photographic reproductions of
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the object rather than the object itself. In fact in the Divisions of
Mineral and Mechanical Technology the work of installing new
collections this year required but very little time of the staff. This
permitted the aid and the preparator to devote most of their time
to repairing exhibition material, improving the arrangement of ex-
hibits and constructing new exhibition material. Working models,
of which the divisons have quite a number, require considerable at-
tention but, in spite of such attention, breakdowns occasionally
occur, and when they do all other work must be stopped to make
the necessary repairs. Various parts of the large working model
illustrating the salt industry, in the Division of Mineral Technology,
began to show signs of impending failure, after continuous opera-
tion for approximately five years. To avoid a complete breakdown
the model was entirely renovated. Similarly, a model of an early
locomotive in the Division of Mechanical Technology was altered
to make it hand-operative. A working model of a compound cylin-
der for a locomotive was repaired and put in working order, it
having been completely worn out through constant use by visitors.
Several new models were made in the division’s shop for addition
to the educational series on mechanical powers in the Division of
Mechanical Technology, and under the direction of the assistant
curator, a beginning was made toward a better exhibition of the
materials relating to the railway industry.
The collections under the care of the curator of textiles, which,
besides textiles, include medicine, wood technology, organic chemis-
try and foods, require constant vigilance from the nature of many
of the specimens. All perishable material like wools and foodstuffs
are regularly fumigated and the preserving fluid on fresh ana-
tomical specimens is periodically renewed. ‘The textile fabric stor-
age space was rearranged. The cataloguing of new specimens has
been kept up to date, and the installation of new material has been
made as soon after its receipt as possible. The examination and
indexing of new textile terms and other special information con-
tained in the large number of trade papers and periodicals received
by the sectional libraries of textiles, woods, medicine, and foods,
have continued to ocupy the time of the preparators when not
engaged in other duties.
Thirty-six installations of new exhibit material or rearrangements
of exhibits which were already on view were made in the textile
halls during the year, and an entirely new arrangement was made
in the east south range, which permitted all of the food exhibits
to be grouped together on one side of the main aisle.
Nineteen installations or rearrangements of exhibiis included in the
sections of organic chemistry and foods were made, the most note-
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worthy being a series showing the ingredients used in compounding
and coloring dental rubbers and the applications of dental and base
plate rubber when vulcanized; an exhibit of coal-tar dystuffs, and
a large number of jars of foodstuffs canned according to the cold-
pack method.
The installations made in the Wood Court during the present
fiscal year included: Photographs and charts descriptive of the
hardwood distillation industry; specimens showing the process and
products of resinous wood distillation; a series of specimens illus-
trating the manufacture of lead pencils, and another showing steps
in the making of a stock for the United States military rifle, model
1903; an exhibit showing the use of English willow in the production
of an artificial limb; timbers of southern yellow pine and Douglas fir
flanking either side of the entrance; and a complete reinstallation
of the board specimens of mahogany and other commercial woods,
which have been shown on the south wall.
In the Division of Medicine, 54 new or rearranged installations
were made. The more important of these were: The Gorgas
medals; specimens illustrating the history of electric medical prac-
ice; mementos of Dr. John King; the method of making medicinal
preparations of digitalis uniform in therapeutic activity; the right
and wrong way to deal with cancer; old pharmaceutical balances
and weights; enlarged transparent representations of pathogenic
parasites; a model depicting the value of public health activities;
enlarged glass models of water microorganisms; health progress ex-
hibit; health posters; and oral and social hygiene exhibits. Several
exhibits—some installed during the year just closed and others
arranged in previous years—were constructed in such a way that it
was necessary to illuminate them, and they were appropriately
lighted this year. ;
In the Division of Graphic Arts the permanent*exhibit of mezzo-
tint was entirely rearranged with two important technical series
added which give a clear idea of both the early and the later
methods, the first by the use of roulettes and the later by the use
of the rocker. ‘The series include plates in various stages, progress
prints clearly illustrating the processes, and the various tools used.
Other series help in the understanding of varying methods, such
as the mixed method, in which the design is etched into the plate
before rocking. The historical mezzotint series, which consists of
only about 20 prints, contains examples of the work of some of the
men who have contributed to the development of the art, but needs
a few of the rare historical prints to make it more comprehensive,
such as prints by von Siegen, Prince Rupert (both now represented
by reproductions), and some of the other prominent workers in this
field.
REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1925 113
The exhibit, printing for the blind, which had been in storage for
several years, was again placed on exhibition during the year, to-
gether with many additional specimens.
The present overcrowded condition of the exhibition and storage
space devoted to the collections of the Division of History has ren-
dered installation of specimens received during the year and the
preservation of specimens already in the possession of the Museum,
a serious problem. ‘The collection of art china bequeathed to the
National Gallery of Art by the Rev. Alfred Duane Pell, was tempo-
rarily installed on the gallery of the West Hall of the Arts and In-
dustries building. The Dickins collection of historical chinaware,
formerly shown on the first floor of this hall, was moved to space
adjoining the Pell collection. The result has been the concentration
on this gallery of a ceramic collection of exceptional importance
from the point of view of history and art. While the permanent
installation of the Dickins collection on the West Gallery has been
the only major change in installation in the space assigned the Divi-
son of History, a large amount of time has been deoted to numerous
minor changes in the installation scheme both in the Arts and In-
dustries and the Natural History Buildings.
These changes have been undertaken either for the purpose of
securing space for collections recently received or to render the gen-
eral scheme of installation more in harmony with the general classi-
fication of the collections. A constant effort is now being made to
unite in single units of space collections relating to each of the
various classes of material. This is difficult of accomplishment
owing to the limitation both in cases and floor space, but it has at
least been approximately attained during the past few years. A
second difficulty has been the insistance of contributors to the
Museum collections that miscellaneous collections of materials relat-
ing to a single individual or family should be kept together regard-
less of the heterogeneous character of many such collections. This
tendency is being corrected by the refusal to accept collections so
conditioned and by uniting with the regular classes materials which
are of biographical as well as intrinsic interest.
Present conditions.—The collections in the Department of Arts
and Industries and the Division of History are, as a whole, in as
good condition as the hmited space permits. The permanent exhibits
are slowly being rounded out, gaps being filled, and new information
and additional specimens added as opportunity permits. In the
Division of Graphic Arts it is desired to have the technical series
as complete as possible and the historic series show chronologically
examples of the best that have been produced in each period.
114 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1925
As the Museum is almost wholly dependent upon the generosity of
friends for contributions, its growth must naturally be slow, particu-
larly in a field like graphic arts, where prints by the master workers
in the various mediums are of great intrinsic value.
In the Division of History the present condition of the collec-
tions is satisfactory only in a limited sense. This priceless aggre-
gation of historical material is receiving all the care and attention
possible in view of the crowded condition of exhibition and storage
space. The wide separation of the various historical units detracts
from the appearance of the historical collections as a whole but can
not be remedied until another building is provided. Installation
in parts of three buildings necessitates a considerable loss of time
in connection with the care of the collections.
The Museum collections in art, industry and history have ri
some years outgrown their quarters. It is hoped, however, that
this condition will not much longer continue. The Board of Regents
of the Smithsonian Institution went on record at its annual meeting
on December 11, 1924, as being in sympathy with the movement
undertaken by the engineering societies of the country looking to-
wards the establishment of a National Museum of Engineering and
Industry as a br anch of the Smithsonian Institution, controlled by
the Regents, and with such funds as may be raised ate its operation
and maintenance deposited as an endowment to be administered by
the Institution for commemorating and perpetuating the records
and achievements of the engineering profession. This scheme in-
cludes the erection of an adequate modern building for housing the
engineering collections.
Special exhibitions—The Division of Gate Arts and the Sec-
tion of Photography arranged 14 special exhibitions during the year,
all of which were of a high standard and well worthy of the
Museum. It is planned to continue to hold similar exhibitions in
the future as they are in themselves very instructive and interesting,
and attract many visitors. The subjects covered by these special
attractions were as follows: z
In Smithsonian Building—September 15 to October 11, 1924. Sixty ex-
amples of American typographical printing. Gift of the American Printer.
October 1 to 28. American wood-block prints. Courtesy of tue American
Federation of Arts. :
October 29 to November 28. Highty-one etchings. by George Elbert Burr, of
Phoenix, Ariz. Lent by Mr. Burr.
November 29, 1924, to January 2, 1925. Etchings by members of the Chi-
cago Society of Htchers. Lent by the society.
January 3 to 30. Htchings and drawings by Roi Partridge, of Galicocuet
Lent by Mr. Partridge.
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January 31 to February 27. Mezzotints by Frederick Reynolds, of New
York. Lent by Mr. Reynolds.
February 28 to March 27. Etchings, aquatints, and mezzotints by John
Taylor Arms, of Connecticut. Lent by Mr. Arms.
March 28 to April 24. Seventy-eight etchings and engravings by Ernest Has-
kell, of New York. Lent by Mr. Haskell.
April 24 to May 22. Rotary exhibition of the Brooklyn Society of Htchers,
consisting of 100 etchings, aquatints, dry points, and mezzotints by members
of the society. Courtesy of the American Federation of Arts.
April 6 to May 2. “ Fifty Books of 1924.” Examples of the best bookmaking
produced in America the latter part of 1923 and the early part of 1924. Se-
lected and shown under the auspices of the American Institute of Graphic
Arts.
In Arts and Industries Building.—September and October. Ninety pictorial
photographs by the Scottish Photographic Federation. Lent by the Federation.
.November and December. Seventy-five pictorial photographs by Mrs. Minna
Keene, Fellow Royal Photographic Society, of Canada. Lent by Mrs. Keene.
January and February. One hundred pictorial photographs by Leonard
Misonne, of Gilly, Belgium. Lent by Mr. Misonne.
March and April. One hundred pictorial photographs by Fred Judge, Fellow
Royal Photographic Society, of Hastings, Hngland. Lent by Mr. Judge.
In connection with the John Taylor Arms exhibit of etching,
Mr. Arms personally demonstrated the making of an etching on the
afternoon of March 21, in the exhibition hall. This was a complete
success In every way. In one hour and fifteen minutes Mr. Arms
clearly showed each step in the making of an etched plate, from the
‘bare copper to the finished print. Every one of the 110 persons
present was deeply interested, and the success of the demonstration
will probably lead to others on similar subjects.
Practical results of special exhibitions are seldom immediately
evident. It is all the more gratifying to report that, as the result of
the showing of the Fred Judge prints in bromoil transfer, the Bureau
of Public Roads, Department of Agriculture, is now using this process
for making excellent road pictures for display purposes.
The Section of Wood Technology had a special exhibition in the
Wood Court, Arts and Industries Building, during American fores-
try week, April 27 to May 3, 1925. This was designed to stimulate
a better understanding and a keener appreciation of the role which
forests play in every field of American life. The exhibit occupied
five cases and four large panels, and literature on forest protection
and similar topics was conveniently placed near the exhibit for free
distribution to interested visitors.
In the Division of Textiles, Miss Katherine Crawford, a member
of the Handicraft Guild, of Washington D. C., from time to time
carried on her work of Norwegian tapestry weaving, in the exhibi-
tion halls, attracting a great deal of attention from the visitors.
Likewise, demonstrations by the curator of textiles of the ancient
116 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1925
art of tablet or card weaving were enthusiastically received by the
visiting public.
The Division of History arranged a special temporary numismatic
exhibition during coin week, February 15 to 22, through the coopera-
tion of the American Numismatic Association represented by its
president, Moritz Wormser, of New York City. Three members of
the association residing in Washington contributed to this exhibit.
George H. Russel lent a collection of 250 ancient silver coins.
About one-third of these were coins issued by various Greek cities
during the period of the finest development of the art of coinage in
Greece, many of which were exceptionally well preserved and of
special interest to all students of Greek numismatics. The remain-
ing two-thirds consisted of Roman consular coins issued by various
Roman officials during the latter portion of the republican era, also of
exceptional historic and art interest.
A second contributor to the temporary exhibition was B. M. Comer-
ford, who lent an exceptionally fine series of British maundy
money beginning with the reign of Charles IJ, in 1660, and including
specimens down to the reign of George V, the last series shown being
the issue of 1915. Special interest attaches to the coins of this char-
acter and the collection lent by Mr. Comerford during coin week
undoubtedly interested many visitors to the Museum. Mr. Comer-
ford also lent a series of early Irish silver coins and a series of neces-
sity coins struck in Ireland in 1689 under the authority of James II.
Nearly every variety of this type of coinage was represented in Mr.
Comerford’s exhibit.
The third contributor was Leander McCormick Goodhart of the
British Embassy, who lent a very interesting series of 64 British
naval medals representing the period of British naval history be-
tween 1653 and 1827. The series began with medals of the type
issued in commemoration of victories over the Dutch during the
seventeenth century, and the medals of the eighteenth century in-
cluded specimens commemorating the achievements of such famous
leaders as Admiral Edward Vernon, Capt. James Cook, and Admiral
Horatio Nelson.
RESEARCHES
No researches of major consequences have been underway in the
Divisions of Mineral and Mechanical Technology. Since the death
of George W. Spier, who was custodian of watches, the division
has had no horology specialist. Toward improving this condition,
the curator, C. W. Mitman, has devoted much attention to horology
and has made a study of several private horological collections and
libraries in Lancaster, Pa., and New ‘York City. He has, further-
more, spent considerable time in the preparation of manuscript for
REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1925 117
a descriptive catalogue of the Museum collections in metrology and
communication.
The assistant curator, Paul E. Garber, made a first-hand study of
an original Conestoga wagon in Lancaster, Pa., with a view to
renovating the model which has been in the Museum for some time.
Credit is due to John J. Bowman and to Mr. and Mrs. Amos S.
Gingrich, all of Lancaster, and to Ferdinand T. Haschka, of New
York City, for cooperation in the investigations by Mr. Mitman and
Mr. Garber. As opportunity offered, Mr. Garber has carried for-
ward studies begun last year looking to the construction of a model
of Sir Hiram Maxim’s steam airplane of 1896, and is also engaged
in securing data for a descriptive catalogue of the aeronautical
collection in the Museum.
Success with industrial plant models has brought numerous re-
quests for information as to the manner in which models and parts
of models may be constructed, also appeals for suggestions for
visualizing phenomena of many sorts.
The curator of textile, F. L. Lewton, and one assistant devoted
as much time as could be spared to the preparation of comprehensive
technical definitions of textile fabrics based upon authentic speci-
mens in the Museum collections. This has meant careful examina-
tion of available current textile literature, as the technical mill and
trade terms used in older works of reference are often not in accord
with those in current use in the United States. A little progress
has been made toward the completion of a fabrics glossary based on
actual specimens, as the Museum collection of named textiles has
been steadily increased.
The United States Patent Office has made frequent reference to
the collections and to the technical books in the sectional library for
data in passing on the claims of patentees. In one case a chief
examiner cited certain exhibits in the National Museum as his reason
tor denying the claims of an inventor. An examination of the
exhibits cited convinced the attorney for the inventor that his client
could not establish his claim. That the Museum is a valuable ad-
junct to the Patent Office isigradually being recognized.
Curator Lewton and Assistant Curators Watkins and Whitebread
furnished special information on industrial raw material and the
identification of specimens, from time to time during the year, to
the bureaus of the Department of Agriculture and to the United
States Tariff Commission. Identification of specimens of fibers and
fabrics, gums, resins, seeds, and woods for individuals, both in
and out of the Government service, has continued to be a regular
part of the work. The curator furnished identification of cottons
and cottonseeds introduced by the Office of Foreign Seed and Plant
118 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1925
Introduction and Distribution, Department of Agriculture, and to
him have been referred letters requesting information on silk and
artificial silk received by the various Federal departments.
The curator of history, T. T. Belote, continued work on a paper
on the collection of American and European swords in the Museum,
which will probably be completed during the coming fiscal year.
Much work was also done along various other lines which will ulti-
mately serve as the basis of publications on various phases of his-
torical museum work, particularly those relating to the science of
numismatics.
The various divisions of the Department of Art and Industries
and the Division of History are called upon almost daily for as-
sistance, or advice, by individuals engaged in private research along
the lines of these varied collections. Every effort is made by the
members of the staff to meet such requests, and the valuable collec-
tions under their charge are, as far as practicable, placed at the
disposal of those engaged in research work.
DISTRIBUTION OF SPECIMENS
In furtherance of the organic principle of the Smithsonian Insti-
tution for the “ diffusion of knowledge among men,” 146 industrial art
specimens were distributed by donation, 249 specimens were sent out
in exchange, and 2,060 specimens were lent for study or exhibition
elsewhere. These gifts consisted of 48 textile specimens and 103
study samples of various woods specially prepared for distribution
for educational purposes. The loans were chiefly the two traveling
exhibits of approximately 100 specimens each, illustrating the prin-
cipal processes of the graphic arts, which were lent for display in
18 cities as follows:
Exhibit No. 1 was exhibited at the Milwaukee Graphic Arts Ex-
position, Milwaukee, Wis.; the Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio;
Dallas Typothetae, Texas State Fair, Dallas, Tex.; Louisiana State
Museum, New Orleans, La.; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Tex.;
Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, Tenn.; Wyoming Historical
and Geological Society, Wilkes-Barre, Pas : mi the Pratt Institute,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Exhibit No. 2 was sent to the Arnot Art Gallery, Elmira, N. Y.;
the Direct Mail Advertising Convention, Pittsburgh, Pa.; the on
cinnati Museum Association, Cincinnati, Ohio; Hackley Gales of
Fine Arts, Muskegon, Mich.; Advertising Club, Kalamazoo, Mich.;
Graphic Arts Association, Binghampton, N. Y.; Toledo Museum, of
Art, Toledo, Ohio; Akron Art Institute, Akron, Ohio; Grand
Rapids Art Association, Grand Rapids, Mich.; and the Public
Schools, Westfield, N. J.
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TOTAL NUMBER OF SPECIMENS
The total number of specimens in the Department of Arts and In-
dustries and the Division of History on June 30, 1925, was 414,386.
assigned as follows:
Minerals technology sie ae eee Bee See es 4, 037
Mechanically technolo yao 222 ee 7, 220
sca HT ES OS a a cA eA ER Ss Se 11, 399
NVOodmtechn OOS yee eer ee ee Leh oe eee 4, 693
Orezani cr, CHEMI ty aaa Te A ee 15, 918
BLOG) Cee ia wa aan EP al ae al ae 1, O07
ANT hair Pe aaa rire ARE ee ak lle ede A. 12, 975
Graphic arts, including: photography____________________ 24, 509
Loeb collection of chemical types_-_______-_____________ 650
PRSTSTIS EO Ts ype core ete oe SAR ee aE) ce ial 331, 908
CH ea A SN aN ND a a ah a IO 414, 386
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LIST OF ACCESSIONS TO THE COLLECTIONS DURING
THE FISCAL YEAR 1924-25
(EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE INDICATED, THE SPECIMENS WERE PRESENTED OR WERE
TRANSFERRED BY BUREAUS OF THE GOVERNMENT IN ACCORDANCE WITH LAW)
ABBOTT, Dantet A., Washington, D. | AGRICULTURE, DEPT. OF—Conid.
C.: 1 complete and one sectional
“Movie” spark plug; 1 porcelain in-
sulator and 1 metal firing unit.
(84690).
ABBOTT, Dr. Witt1am L., Philadel-
phia, Pa.: 85 mammals and 30 birds
from China (83324).
(See also under Mrs. Sally Bur-
bank Swart.)
ABELL, W. B., West Palm Beach,
Hla.: Specimen of praying mantis
from Florida (83512).
ADAMS, Dr. C. F., Atherton, Mo.: 5
flies (84218).
ADAMS, JostrH, Philadelphia, Pa.
(Through HE. G. Vanatta): 3 shells
from Schuylkill River, introduced
from Asia (87505).
ADAMS, Prof. Roger, Urbana, IIl.:
97 specimens of organic chemicals
(84804).
ADKINS, W. S., Tampico, Mexico
(through Dr. Julia Gardner): A
collection representing 40 species
of Tertiary fossils from Guayabal,
Vera Cruz, Mexico. (87464).
AELLEN, Prof. Paut, Schaffhausen,
Switzerland: 2 plants (87275). Ex-
change.
AETSON, Dr. R. A. (See under Bo-
tanic Gardens, Science and Agricul-
ture Department, Georgetown, De-
merara, British Guiana.)
AGRICULTURE, DEPARTMENT
OF: Helmet, 6 pieces of armor, a
sword and am antique cowbell
(84836).
Bureau of Agricultural Eco-
nomics: Set No. 196 of the prac-
tical forms of the official wool
standards of the United States
for grades of wool (84837).
Bureau of Animal Industry: Con-
go eel collected at Suffolk,, Va.,
by Lewis R. Johnson (84148) ;
(through Dr. HE. A. Chapin) 7
specimens of flies from Indo-
China (84810).
Bureau of Biological Survey: 3
specimens of crustaceans from
Juneau, Alaska, and Netarts
Bay, Oreg. (83305); 38 speci-
mens of crustacea, 6 specimens
of bryozoans, 1 earthworm, 1
mollusk, 6 turtles and some
toad tadpoles from Hog Island,
Va., and 1 beetle and 1 earwig
collected at Point Lookout, Md.,
by Maurice K. Brady (83323) ;
(through Maurice K. Brady) 6
specimens of shrimps, and a
small crayfish from Camp Hum-
phreys, Va.; 7 amphipods from
Dogue Creek, Va. (83403) ; nest
and 12 eggs of Mearns quail
from Arizona (88517) ; 18 lich-
ens, 8 skeletons of birds, 198
birds’ eggs with 6 nests (44
sets), mostly from Alaska
(83645, 84695, 86960) ; 247 plants,
eollected in Alaska by L. J.
Palmer (84159, 84821, 86236) ;
20 bird skins, including 4 species
new to the Museum collections,
4 skeletons, 1 skull and 1 Ster-
num (84057); 20 plants from
Nevada (84127) ; fossil elephant
bones from Hight Mile Creek,
Oregon, collected by Stanley G.
Jewett (84184) ; 726 specimens,
representing 100 species, of
mounted and identified insects,
belonging to the orders Hemip-
tera, Hymenoptera and Diptera,
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AGRICULTURE, DEPT. OF—Contd.
Bureau of Biological Survey—
LIST OF ACCESSIONS
AGRICULTURE, DEPT. OF—Contd.
Federal Horticultural Board:
Continued.
including 1 paratype of a cicada
(84561) ; 19 crabs collected by
James Silver of the survey
at Chapman Field, Plant In-
troduction Garden, near Coco-
nut Grove, Fla., during the sum-
mer of 1924 (84954); 61 in-
sects, including the types of 6
new species (86263); 6,013
specimens of bird plumage and
prepared millinery trimmings,
confiscated by Federal officers
under the Lacey Act, migratory-
bird treaty act and other: Fed-
eral laws protecting birds
(87418) ; 8 amphipods from
birds’ stomachs (87554; 1,232
mammals (87864).
(See also under W. A. Spate.)
Bureau of Chemistry: 21 speci-
mens illustrating bacteriological
examination of water supplies
(86115).
Bureau of Entomology: The Fer-
nald type collection of Micro-
lepidoptera, consisting of 638
specimens, 221 species, of which
3867 are represented by types
(84054) ; 141 plants collected in
Mexico by EH. G. Smyth (86242) ;
miscellaneous insects collected
by Mr. Smyth or H. F. Wickham
in Mexico (86481); (through
Gypsy Moth Laboratory, Melrose
Highlands, Mass.) 123 specimens,
representing types of 12 species,
of Braconid parasites; also 38
specimens of chalcid flies, be-
ing the types of 8. species
(86588, 86742) ; 10 specimens,
2 species, of mollusks from Mo-
bile, Ala. (87259) ; 12850 mis-
tellaneous insects retained out
of the material identified by the
various bureaus specialists dur-
ing the year ending June 30.
1925 (87963).
(See also under J. Malbis and
Paniel D. Streeter.) -
Miscellaneous material compris-
ing 47 slugs, 89 shells, 33 iso-
pods, 55 amphipods, 1 crab, 1
toad, and 89 tree frogs, collected
by inspectors of the board at
various ports on indigenous
plant specimens and on speci-
mens imported from many for-
eign countries and forwarded
to the Museum for identifica-
tion (88401, 83402, 83556, 83590,
83595, 88977, 84007, 84015, 84071,
84078, 84162, 84823, 84449, 84726,
84780, 84797, 84824, 84850, 84874,
84887, 84941, 84989, 85105, 85249,
85379, 85651, 85912, 86061, 86295,
86326, 86501, 86581, 86634, 87114,
87166, 87168, 87205, 87277, 87290,
87293, 87300, 87426, 87448, 87449,
87481, 87519, 87544, 87875, 87861).
forest Service: Plant from Cali-
fornia (85404); map showing
the forest regions of the United
States, and listing the principal
trees of such regions (84956).
Bureau of Plant Industry: 110
‘plants collected by H. O. Wooton
in the western United States:
and Texas (83322, 87688) ;
about 20,000 plants collected in
eastern Asia by Joseph F. Rock
(833827) ; 5 plants from Mexico,
eollected by T. S. Brandegee
(83328) ;° (through A. R. Le-
ding) 10 plants from Arizona
(83691) ; 7i plants and 4 pho-
tographs of plants (84932, 84968,
85030, 85125, 85400); (through
C. B. Doyle) 2 photographs of
plants (84012) ; willow (84036) ;
(through Dr. C. V. Piper) 12
plants (84150, 84815, 86454), 35
plants from Cuba and the west-
ern United States (85420), 2
plants collected in Panama by
H. Johansen (858388), 5 plants
from the southern United States
(86956), sedge from New Zea-
land (87252); (through Prof.
A. S. Hitchcock) plant from
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AGRICULTURE, DHPT. OF—Conid.
Bureau of Plant Industry—Conta.
Australia, grasses collected in
Eeuador, Peru, and Bolivia, in
19238-1924, and 1,271 miscella-
neous grasses (84812, 86801,
87173) ; (through P. L. Ricker)
plant from Virginia (84818) ;
50 plants collected in Abyssinia
by Harry V. Harlan (84930) ;
72 plants from Bolivia (85010) ;
65 plants collected in Utah by
W. W. Hggleston (85280); 8
plants collected in Mexico by
G. N. Collins and T. H. Kearney
(85301) ; (through R. D. Rands)
30 specimens of mollusks from
Louisiana (86102); 29 plants
from the United States, chiefly
Colorado, collected by I. Tide-
strom (86298) ; 50 plants from
California and Lower Califor-
nia, collected by H. G. McKeever
(86443) ; 2 plants from Florida
(86587) ; 25 ferns collected in
China by P. H. Dorsett (85595) ;
(through Dr. C. R. Ball) 3
plants from South Dakota
(85811) ; 4 plants from Brazil
(86815); (through Dr. S. F.
Blake) 9 specimens of plants
and 4 photographs (86816) ;
(through Roy G. Pierce) 6 pho-
tographs of white pine on the
Smithsonian grounds (86717) ;
plant from Mexico (87498);
plant from Geneva, New York
(87906).
Bureau of Plant Industry, Sugar-
Plant Investigation: 36 speci-
mens of mollusks from Louisi-
ana and the Hawaiian Islands
(87943) .
Bureau of Public Roads (through
A. T. Goldbeck): 1-foot section
of piling from, Perth Amboy,
N. J., covered with barnacles
(84988).
AGUILAR, Gerrarpo, Payo Obispo,
Quintana Roo, Mexico: 10 cocoons,
2 larvae in alcohol and a pupa
(85421).
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ALDRICH, T. H., Birmingham, Ala.:
146 specimens of land and fresh-
water shells from farther India, in-
cluding types of 8 species (85422).
ALDRIGH, Mrs. FRANK P., Leland,
Miss.: A tumblebug (85699).
ALFARO, Sr. Don ANASTASIO, San
Jose, Costa Rica: 276 specimens of
plants, mostly orchids, from Costa
Rica (838311, 83550, 84852, 85888,
86450, 87274, 87506).
ALLHEH, Prof. W. C., Chicago, Il.:
Collection of miscellaneous insects
and 46 crustaceans collected at
Barro Colorado Island, Panama
(83956, 83981).
ALLEN, Mrs. Laura M. (See under
Mrs. Jake Cruse, and Mrs. Ernest
Hammond.)
ALLISON, Miss F. C., West Falls
Church, Va.: Political campaign
banner carried by supporters of Ab-
raham Lineoln and Hannibal Ham-
lin during the presidential campaign
of 1860 (86265).
ALLISON, Jack J. H., Washington,
D. C.: A bird (flicker) from Wash-
ington, D. C. (83954).
ALLISON, W. F., West Falls Church,
Va.: Conoidal limestone pipe ob-
tained by the father of the donor
in the central Mississippi Valley.
Made by the tribes formerly oc-
cupying that region and probably
not over 75 years old, (87134).
ALUMINUM CO. OF AMBERICA,
New Kensington, Pa.: Collection of
chemicals for the Loeb collection
of chemical types (87839).
AMARAL, Dr. AFRANIO Do.
under Instituto Butantan.
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF
ARTS, Washington, D. C.: 59 wood
block prints for temporary exhibi-
tion (84694); (through Miss Leila
Mechlin, secretary) the Rotary ex-
hibition of the Brooklyn Society of
Eitchers, comprising 100 prints, etch-
ings, aquatints, dry points, and mez-
zotints, and a small technical ex-
hibit consisting of 13 specimens
(87148). Loan.
(See
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LIST OF ACCESSIONS
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF | AMERICAN RAILWAY ASSOCIA-
GRAPHIC ARTS, New York City:
“Wifty Books of 1924’ with 18 dup-
licates, 68 in all, and 64 lantern
slides (86981). Loan.
AMERICAN MILITARY ENGIN-
HERS, SOCIHTY OF, Washington,
D. C. (through L. R. Lohr, execu-
tive secretary): Medal, bar, but-
ton and ribbon of the Society of
American military Wngineers (83358).
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL
HISTORY, New York City: Casts
of 3 dinosaur eggs and of the skull
of a giant mesonychid from the
Upper Eocene of Mongolia, (835383) ;
85 birds from Polynesia, including
10 species and subspecies, new to
the Museum collections (84779) ;
east of the skull of a fossil mam-
mal (85656) ; 3 casts of fossil apes
(86101) ; 67 bird skins, 61 species,
mostly from Ecuador (86314) ; skin
of a weaver bird, new to the Mu-
seum collections. HWxchange.
AMERICAN PHOTO-ENGRAVERS
ASSOCIATION (through Edward
Epstean, Walker Engraving Co.,
New York City) ; 5 sets of progres-
sive proofs of a 4-color half-tone;
5 sets of progressive proofs of a
Ben Day print in colors (87144).
AMERICAN PHYSIOTHHRAPY AS-
SOCIATION, Walter Reed Gen-
eral Hospital, Washington, D. C.
(through Miss Hleanor E. Jones) :
Indoor and outdoor uniform of the
types worn during the World War
by reconstruction aids, Medical De-
partment, U. S. Army (838898. )
AMERICAN PRINTER, THE, New
York City: 60 mounted specimens
of woodcuts, linoleum blocks, litho-
graphs, half-tones, line cuts and
typographical prints (84222).
AMERICAN RAILWAY ASSOCIA-
TION, Signal Section, New York
City (through H. S. Balliet, secre-
tary) : Semaphore lamp used in the
earliest type of signaling system in
the United States and a pipe
carrier used in the earliest type of
interlocking signaling system in the
United States (838518); 16 speci-
TION—Continued.
mens of early types of railway sig-
naling apparatus originally used on
the Southern Pacific Railway, Illi-
nois Central Railway, New York,
New Haven & Hartford Railway,
and Pennsylvania Railway, and
presented to the American Railway
Association for addition to the ex-
hibit of signaling (83893).
AMERICAN SHEET AND TIN
PLATE CO., Pittsburgh, Pa.
(through J. C. Whetzel) : Gray tin,
an unusual allotropic modification
of this element (84556).
AMERICAN SOCIHTY FOR THE
CONTROL OF CANCER, THH,
New York City: 14 colored posters
on the right and wrong way to
treat and diagnose cancer (86095).
AMHES, Oakes, Boston, Mass.: Plant
collected in Costa Rica by C. H.
Lankester (85933). Exchange.
ANDERSON, B. F., Echo Farm,
Utah: Beetle from Utah (84197).
ANDERSON, F., Golden Grove, St.
Croix, Virgin Islands of the United
_ States : Miscellaneous insects (84899).
ANSOVIN, Frernanpo, Havana, Cuba:
8 butterflies from Cuba (85336).
AQUATONE CORPORATION, New
York City: 25 aquatone prints
(86762).
ARCHAHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF
WASHINGTON, Washington, D. C.
(through Dr. Mitchell Carroll, di-
rector): Collection of skeletal ma-
terial and archeological specimens
secured in France by the American
School of Prehistoric Research in
Hurope (84988); (through Count
Byron Khun de Prorok) 6 antiqui-
ties from Carthage (86076). Loan.
ARGO, Varcm, Ithaca, N. Y.: A
small collection of flies (86998).
ARISTE JOSEPH, Brother, Bogota,
Colombia, South America. (See
under Maurice A. Rollot.)
ARMS, Joun Taytor, Fairfield,
Conn.: 75 prints, etchings, aqua-
tints, and 1 mezzotint for special ex-
hibition from February 28 to March
27, 1925 (86487). Loan.
REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1925
ARMSTRONG CORK CO., Linoleum
Division, Lancaster,
picture film. Subject: “ Frederick
Walton, the inventor of linoleum”
(86198).
ARNOLD, BENJAMIN WaALWoRTH, Al-
bany, N. Y.: 4 starfishes from Ko-
rea (84787).
ARSENE, Rev. Brother G., Covington,
La.: 744 specimens of mosses and
hepatics from Louisiana (84165).
ARTEMIO RENE, Rev. Brother,
Managua, Nicaragua, Central Amer-
ica: 838 plants from Nicaragua
(84130).
ARTHUR, Dr. J. C., Lafayette, Ind.:
54 specimens of rusts from Glacier
National Park, Mont. (84118, 85840).
ASCHEMBEIRR, B. F., Plant City, Fla.:
Skin and skull of a fox squirrel
(86285).
ASCHEMETER, C. R., U. S. National
Museum: 15 birds from Maryland ;
bat; 3 skins and 8 skulls of squir-
rels; 3 musk turtles from Florida;
wood specimens of Brazilian cedar;
young purple grackle from Wash-
ington, D. C. (84172, 84215, 84803,
85031, 87487, 87845).
ASHBY, Epwin, Blackwood, South
Australia: 80 specimens, including
1 topotype and 4 paratypes of chi-
tons from Tasmania and Australia
(87195). Hxchange.
ASHTON, Gen. James M., Tacoma,
* Wash.: Collection of ivory carvings
from the natives of Siberia (86056).
Loan.
ASSOCIATED CORN PRODUCTS
MANUFACTURERS, Chicago, Ill.:
7 specimens of products derived
from corn; 4 grades of sugars; 2
glutens, and a refined oil (87258).
ASSOCIATION FOR IMPROVING
THE CONDITION OF THH POOR,
New York City: 12 health charts
(85895) .
ATLANTIC GULF AND PACIFIC
CO., New York City: Internal shell
of a cephalopod from the Cretace-
ous rocks of Delaware (87225).
Pa.: Motion |
125
AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM, THH, Syd-
ney, New South Wales, Australia:
200 specimens of the lower crusta-
ceans (85718). Exchange.
AUTHIER, Gerorce F.
National Press Club.)
AUTOMATIC ELECTRIC CO., Chi-
eago, Ill.: 4 automatic telephone
switches representing 4 stages in
the development of the automatic
telephone, installed in 1896, 1903,
1913, and 1925, respectively (85593).
AVRIT, F. C., Washington, D. C.:
Knife blade found at Mary’s Peak,
Oreg., $0 miles south of Portland
(87310).
BAILEY, Prof. L. H., Ithaca, N. Y.:
9 plants (83368, 83380) ; 200 plants
from Venezuela (83411, 84055, ex-
change) ; (through Dr.S. F. Blake)
3 plants from Venezuela (83521) ;
12 fragmentary plants (84132, ex-
change) ;3 plants (84777, exchange) 2
BAILEY, S. WALpDo, Williamstown,
Mass.: Fern from Massachusetts
(84845).
BAILEY, VERNon, Washington, D. C.:
9 mollusks, 3 species, from Bighorn
Cave, in Slaughter Canyon, Guada-
loupe Mountains, New Mexico
(88454).
BAIRSTOW, Herpert, I. R. P. S.,
Halifax, England: 3 bromoil trans-
fers, namely, “The Oyster Gath-
erers,”’ “Sand Dunes,” and ‘The
Staithe Whitby” (83519).
BAKHER, Prof. C. F., Los Banos, P. I.:
14 specimens, 7 species, of land
shells; also 2046 moths, all from
the Philippine Islands (83883,
84759, 86577).
BAKHR, Dr. F. H., Richmond, Vic-
toria, Australia: Beetle from Aus-
tralia; a small collection of insects
from Victoria, Australia; a small
collection of miscellaneous insects
(86044, exchange) ; a small collec-
tion of insects, comprising termites,
a dragon fly, a bee, and a wasp
(84696, 84981, 86974).
(See under
126
BALL, Dr. C. R., Washington, D. C.:
28 plants from the western United
States and Canada (86761, 87690).
(See also under Agriculture, De-
partment of, Bureau of Plant In-
dustry.)
BALLIET, H. S. (See under Ameri-
can Railway Association.)
BALLIET, Letson, Tonopah, Nev.:
A small collection of fossils from
Nevada (84931).
BALLOU, Miss. Lots M.
Pomona College.)
BALTIMORE MARYLAND ENGRAY-
ING CO., THH, Baltimore, Md.: 4
copies of “The A-B-C of Photo-
Engraving” (838387); 96 prints
illustrating the making of line cuts
and half-tones (86611).
BANKS, R. R., Smithsonia, Ala.:
Glass snake from Alabama (84220).
BANN, JAmes, Cincinnati, Ohio: 2
wood engravings (87249).
BARBER ASPHALT CO., THE,
Philadelphia, Pa.: 4 colored trans-
parencies; asphalt water tank; au-
tomobile door panels and japanned
products ; storage battery container ;
6 models of asphalt roofing con-
struction; and 5 full-size displays
of asphalt roofing materials and
shingles (86060) ; panel of natural
asphalt ‘ Hex-lock” shingles; panel
of natural asphalt stucco base; and
model of a house illustrating the
application of stucco and shingles
on original frame and old shingles
(86248) ; model showing application
of asphalt to concrete tank; section
of asphalt-covered wire armature
coil; framed page of New York
Times rotogravure section, printed
with Gilsonite ink, and section of
east-iron pipe partly covered with
asphaltic dip (87854).
BARBER, H. S8., Washington, D. C.:
8 copepods and 5 earthworms col-
lected on Plummer Island, Md.
(Potomae River), by the donor
(83445, 84798).
BARBER, J. K., Boston, Mass.: Au-
tomobile circular (Duryea, 1895)
(86792).
(See under
LIST OF ACCESSIONS
BARBER, Manty D., Knoxville,
Tenn.: 8 specimens, 2 species, of
Unionidae from West Palm Beach,
Fla., and 88 specimens of fossil
shells, including types of 4 new
species and 34 paratypes from ¢a-
nals at West Palm Beach (85827,
86067).
BARCLAY, Capt. Huenu, U. S. Army,
American Embassy, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil: Examples of gold ore from
the Passagem mine, Minas Geraes,
Brazil (85606).
BARNES, F. R., Wahpeton, N. Dak.:
7 specimens, 1 species, of mollusks
from Minnesota (87823).
BARNEY, R. L., South Glastonbury,
Conn.: 2 species of fresh-water mus-
sels from the Connecticut River at
South Glastonbury (83458).
BARR, JosepH A., Gates, N. Y.: 4
glass models of a siphon, patented
by the donor, Patent No. 1183606,
granted October 3, 1915 (87294).
BARRETT, W. R.
W. R. Orndorff.)
BARTLETT, Prof. H. H. (See under
Michigan, University of, Department
of Botany.)
BARTLETT, Capt. R. A., Washing-
ton, D. C.: 48 plants from Unalaska
(84686) ; a comprehensive collection
of marine invertebrates from Bering
Sea and arctic Alaska, made by the
donor, during the summer of 1924,
consisting of more than 300 speci-
mens of crustaceans, 7 anemones,
8 alcyonarians, 6 bryozoans, 10 ma-
rine annelids, 6 lots of echinoderms,
and 4 lots of mollusks (847384).
BARTRAM, Epwin B., Bushkill, Pa.:
147 packets of mosses from Arizona
(84069, exchange); 18 plants
(85890, 85932).
BARTSCH, Henry G., Washington,
D. C.: Skeletons. of 2 young hum-
ming birds in a nest from California
(83524).
BASSETT, Grorce W., Philadelphia,
(See under Prof.
Pa. (through Dr. Edgar T. Wher-
ry): Orchid from New Jersey
(87890).
REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1925
BATHER, Dr. F. A. (See under
British Government, British Museum
(Natural History).
BAUM, Jutian A., Poplar Branch, N.
C.: Small collection of amphipods,
and a piece of piling from which
they were taken (86979).
BAUMGARDNHER, Dr. Epwarp, Law-
rence, Kans.: Specimen of oak
(84915).
BEAMER, R. H. (See under Kansas,
University of.) :
BEAN, Dr. R., Charlottesville, Va.:
Fragmentary human skeleton col-
lected by Dr. C. P. Obenschain and
given to the donor (85583).
BEATTIN, R. Kent, Washington,
D. C.: 10 plants from the eastern
United States (86983).
BECKER, Dr. Grorcze F. (through
Mrs. Florence Campbell Forrester,
Washington, D. C.) : Egyptian neck-
lace of colored glass pieces (87289).
BELLARD, Dr. E. P. bE, Valera, Vene-
zuela: Insects from Venezuela
(84014, 85560).
BENEDICKS, Dr. Cart, Stockholm,
Sweden: An example of synthetic
iron-nickel alloy containing 11.9 per
cent nickel, presenting the main con-
stituents of meteoric iron (87228).
Hixchange.
BENEDICT, James E., jr., Linden,
Md.: Sharp-shinned hawk from
Maryland (85403).
BENEDICT, N.D., Hastings, Fla.: Skin
of a barn owl from Florida (86083).
BENEDICT, Dr. R. C. (See under
Brooklyn Botanic Garden.)
BENJAMIN, Mrs. CaroLyn GILBERT.
(See under Colonial Dames of
America, National Society of.)
BENJAMIN, Dr. Marcus. (See under
Mrs. W. C. Gorgas.)
BEQUAERT, Dr. Jos., Boston, Mass.: -
7 specimens of flies (85232).
BERGHR, ALwin. (See under New
York State Agricultural Wxperi-
ment Station.)
BERNER, GLenn, Jamestown, N.
Dak.: 11 plants (85038, 85100); 5
plants from North Dakota and Mon-
tana (84712). Exchange.
75380—26——10
127
BERRY, Prof. E. W., Baltimore, Md.:
Collection of Pleistocene flora from
Trinidad described by the donor
(84251) ; (through Dr. Julia Gard-
ner) fossil crab from Forest Clay,
Island of Trinidad (Miocene)
(86795) ; 140 type specimens of fos-
sil plants from the Cretaceous
(Ripley) of Henry County, Tenn.
(87178).
BERTOLHT, A. B., Thayer,
Beetle from Indiana (85087).
BEZZI, Prof. Mario, Turin, Italy: 10
specimens of flies, including para-
types of 3 species; fly, type species
of a genus (87217, 85896). HEx-
change.
BIGHLOW, N. K. (See under Royal
Ontario Museum of Zoology.)
BIRGH, Miss JupitH, Falls Church,
Va.: 4-legged chick (84146).
BISCHOFF, Dr. H. (See under
Zoologisches Museum cer Univer-
sitat. )
BISHOP MUSHUM, BERNICE P.,
Honolulu, Hawaii: Colored east of
a Hawaiian stone sling-club (83400),
exchange; (through Dr. A. Wet-
more) bird skin from the Marquesas
Islands (84018), exchange; palm
from the Marquesas Islands (87508),
exchange.
BIXBY, W. K., St. Louis, Mo.: Re-
production of the author’s manu-
script of “Home, Sweet Home”
(85613).
BJORKMAN, JouNn G., Chicago, Iil.:
2 wood engravings made by the
donor (84979); a small block for
wood-engraving (85842); zine
etching, and an original scratch-
board drawing by the donor in
imitation of a wood engraving
(85409) ; 9 examples of commer-
cial wood éngraving (85114); en-
graving on celluloid and 2 proofs
(86482).
BLACKMAN, Dr. M. W., Syracuse,
N. Y.: 35 bark beetles, being para-
types of 8 species (84026).
BLAKH, Irvine H., Champaign, Ill:
Mosquito (86502); mollusk from
Maine (85627).
Ind. :
128
BLAKE, Dr. S. F. (See under Agri-
culture, Department of, Bureau of
Plant Industry, and Prof. L. H.
Bailey. )
BLANCK & CO. (INC.), New York
City: 39 specimens of cotton, wool,
and silk embroideries made on the
Schifili embroidery machine (86090,
86617).
BLATCH, Mrs. Harrier STANTON.
(See under National American
Woman Suffrage Association. )
BLICKENSDERFER, CriarK, Denver,
Colo.: Bromide enlargement entitled
“A Ptarmigan in Winter” (86924).
BLUTHGHEN, P., Naumburg a. Saale,
Germany: 21 determined Huropean
bees, representing 16 species; 16
identified ‘bees, representing 11
species (84175, 864388). Exchange.
BLY, Mrs. CHarites, Kingman, Ariz.:
4 plants (83571, 87456, 87708).
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF
AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY,
Honolulu, Hawaii (through D. T.
Fullaway): 16 specimens of flies
eollected in Panama (84684).
BODEKER, Dr. Fr., Cologne, Ger-
many: % plants (838623, 83694,
85039.) Exchange.
BOGERT, Dr. Marston T., New York
City: 34 specimens of chemicals for
the Loeb eollection of chemical
types (87697).
BOOTH, Dr. HE. R., Cincinnati, Ohio
(through Dr. Norman C. Glover,
Washington, D.C.) : Copy of Booth’s
“History of Osteopathy and Twen-
tieth Century Medical Practice”
(85897).
BOSCHMA, Dr. H., Leyden, Holland:
2 starfishes (87556).
BOSWELL, Prof. P. G. H., Liverpool,
England: Small collection of Plio-
cene fossils, bryozoa, from Suffolk,
Hngland (86320).
BOTANIC GARDENS, Brisbane Aus-
tralia (through C. T. White): 56
plants from Queensland (84688).
Exchange.
LIST OF ACCESSIONS
BOTANIC GARDENS, Buitenzorg,
Java: 12 Hast Indian ferns (83373).
Exchange.
BOTANIC GARDENS, St. George's,
Grenada, B. W. I. (through Dr.
William O’Brien Donovan, superin-
tendent): 8 plants (84717). Hx-
change.
BOTANIC GARDENS, SCIENCE
AND AGRICULTURAL DEPART-
MENT, Georgetown, Demerara,
British Guiana (through Dr. R. A.
Aetson): 2 plants (87835). EHEx-
change.
BOTANISCHER GARTEN UND MU-
SEUM, Berlin-Dahlem, Germany:
21 fragmentary specimens of plants
(83706). Hxchange.
BOTANY WORSTED MILLS, Pas-
saic, N. J.: 10 specimens of worsted
dress fabrics (84869).
BOTCHFORD, Mrs. H. J., Woodland,
via Phoenicia, N. Y.: 10 specimens
of weevils (84244).
BOTTIMHER, L. J., Houston, Tex.:
Plant from Texas (84051).
BOVING, Dr. A. G. (See under Smith-
sonian Institution, Division of In-
sects, and Dr. A. Cros.)
BOWDISH, B. S., Demarest, N. J.:
Skin of a red-tailed hawk from
Porto Rico (84128).
BOWDOIN, Mrs. Kate G. (See under
Miss M. Winchester).
BOX, Harotp H., Entomological Lab-
oratory, Plantation Blairmont, Ber-
bice, British Guiana: 53 insects
from British Guiana (84794).
BRADE, ALEXANDER CourRT, Iguape
(Morro das Pedras), Hstado Sao
Paulo, Brazil: 25 specimens of ferns
from Brazil and Costa Rica
(85602). ,
BRADY, Maurice K., Washington,
D. C.: Crayfish collected by Dr. Omar
T. Cruickshank, Pittsburgh, Pa.
(84247) ; 8 fishes from Hog Island,»
Va. (87935).
(See also under Agriculture, De-
partment of, Bureau of Biologi-
cal Survey).
REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1925
BRANDEGEE, T. S., Berkeley, Calif. :
10 plants from Mexico (83369,
84189).
(See also under California, Uni-
versity of, Department of Bot-
any).
BRANDT, Commander Grorce E.,
U. S. Navy, Washington, D. C.: Chi-
nese vase of the Yung Cheng Dy-
nasty, 1723-1736, the stand, and the
wooden box with a carved inscrip-
tion which contains them (87848).
Loan.
BRAY, Dr. S. Eison, Savannah, Ga.:
7 earwigs from Georgia (86600).
BREWSTER, Dr. C. M., Pullman,
Wash.: 16 specimens of chemicals
for the Loeb collection of chemical
types (87713).
BRIDWELL, J. C., Washington, D. C.
Sawfly (type specimen) (85859).
BRIMLEY, C. S. (See under North
Carolina, Department of Agricul-
ture, Division of Entomology.)
BRINKMAN, A. H., Craigmyle, Al-
berta, Canada: 52 plants from Can-
ada (85826).
BRITISH GOVERNMENT:
British Museum (Natural His-
tory), London, Hngland
(through Ward’s Natural
Science HWstablishment, Roches-
ter, N. Y.) : Meteoric irons from
Kenton County, Ky., and Smith-
ville, Tenn. (88389); 5 mete-
orice irons, La Primitiva, Chin-
autla, Barranca Blanca, Ta-
marugal, and Nedagolla
(835538); 2 drawings of the
type specimen of a fern
(88697) ; (through Dr. F. A.
Bather) plaster cast of the skull
from Broken Hill, Rhodesia
(84093), a series of British
Carboniferous fossils, compris-
ing 156 specimens representing
105 species (85855); 7 speci-
mens of minerals (85748) ; frag-
mentary specimen of fern from
British Guiana (87214). HEx-
change.
129
BRITISH GOVERNMENT—Contd.
Imperial Bureau of Entomology,
London, England (through Mr.
James Waterston): 3 unidenti-
fied specimens of chalcid flies
(84256).
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Sur-
rey, England: 1,320 plants
(84258, 86493), exchange; speci-
men of fern (87172), exchange.
Royal School of Mimes, Imperial
College of Science and Tech-
nology, London, Hngland: 260
specimens representing 65 spe-
cies of invertebrate fossils from
‘the Upper Miocene of Touraine,
Upper and Lower Burdigalian
of Gironde, and Middle Hocene
of southern Nigeria (85136).
BRITTON, Dr. N. L. (See under W.
EH. Broadway.)
BROADWAY, W. E., Port-of-Spain,
Trinidad, British West Indies: 7
plants (83426, 84145, 87700) ; plant
and 9 ferns from Trinidad (85659,
87504) ; (through Dr. N. L. Britton)
3 ferns from Trinidad (85866).
BROOKES, Ausert H., Okauia, Mata-
mata, Waikato, New Zealand: 41
specimens of named Coleoptera from
New Zealand (86614). Exchange.
BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN,
Brooklyn, N. Y. (through Dr. R. C.
Benedict) : 44 specimens of ferns
(85841). Exchange.
BROOKLYN MUSEUM, THH, Brook-
lyn, N. Y. (through Charles Schaef-
fer) : Beetle (86112). Exchange.
BROTHERUS, Dr. V. F., Helsingfors,
FWinland: 254 mosses (84947). Ex-
change.
BROWN, Enear, Lanham, Md.: Cross
section of a partial trunk of an
ancient cypress taken from the
Mayflower Hotel excavation, Con-
necticut Avenue and De _ Sales
Street, Washington, D. C., in 1922
(87953).
PROWN, Epwarp J., Hustis, Fla.:
Posterior molar of a bear, sharks
teeth, and numerous fragmentary
parts of the carapace and plastrou
130
BROWN, Enpwarp J.—Continued.
of an extinct turtle (83393) ; frag-
mentary remains of mammalian and
reptilian fossils, from Rock Springs,
Orange County, Fla. (87124).
BROWN, Epwarp J., SAMUEL K.
Brown, and B. M. Kinser, Hustis,
Fla.: Portions of two large turtles
and fragmentary parts of several
others, and a few scutes of a glypto-
dont (87041).
BROWN, Ottiver, Laurel, Md.: Red-
shouldered hawk from Maryland
(87182).
BROWN, S. K. (See under Edward
J. Brown.)
BROWN, W. L., U. S. National Mu-
seum: Skeleton of a gray fox
(85447).
BROWNH, Prof. A. W., Ithaca, N. Y.:
7 specimens of chemicals for the
Loeb collection of chemical types
(86054).
BROWNH, Epwin, Washington, D.C.:
Skeleton of a barn owl (84854).
BRUNER, W. E., Norman, Okla.:
400 plants from Oklahoma (86900).
Hxchange.
BUDA CO., THH, Harvey, Ill. (through
Lawrence M. Viles, president) : Full
size, four-cylinder gasoline engine,
sectioned in parts and electrically
operated (84957).
BUFFALO SOCIETY OF NATURAL
SCIENCES, Buffalo, N. Y.: Human
skeletal material from an old In-
dian cemetery near Akron, Erie
County, N. Y. (84174).
BUJASH, A., Hsmeraldas, Heuador:
Skin of roseate spoonbill from Ecua-
dor (84187).
BULLOCK, D. S., Angol, Chile: Small
collection of insects, chiefly moths
and flies from Chile (85814, 87240).
BURDETT, W. R., Occoquan, Va.:
Duck from Virginia (85352).
BURKE, Dr. Witi1aAm HE., Trona,
Calif.: 8 specimens of chemicals for
the Loeb eollection of chemicnl
types (87712).
BURNETT, Sim.
son Holmes.)
(See under V. Alli-
LIST OF ACCESSIONS
BURR, Grorce HLpert, Phoenix, Ariz.:
- 81 prints, aquatints, soft ground,
dry, points and line etchings, all the
work of the donor for temporary
exhibition (84183). loan.
BURROUGHS ADDING MACHINE
CO., Detroit, Mich.: 5 machines,
with mahogany case for their ex-
hibition, namely, a calculator; add-
ing and listing machine; section of
adding machine; billing machine,
and an automatic bookkeeping ma-
chine (85283). Loan.
BUSCK, Aucust. (See under Smith-
sonian Institution, Division of In-
sects. )
BUSHNELL, D. I., Washington, D.C.:
Italian dagger of carved steel, cop-
per, brass, silver, and horn of the
period of the sixteenth century
(85906) ; 5 stome seraper blades
showing areal distribution across
the United States, and 1 Makah cord
basket from Washington (86118).
BUTLER, Commander C. S. (M. C.),
U.S. Navy, Port au Prince, Haiti:
36. specimens, 1 species, of fresh-
water shells from Rivere Peder-
nales des Anse-a-Pitres, just above
the mouth at Anse-4-Pitres, Haiti
(84890).
CAINE, Mrs. Hatuie StepHens, North
Bend, Ohio (through Dr. John Uri
Lloyd): Barometer used by Dr.
John King in recording meteorologi-
eal data before the establishment
of the State om Federal weather
bureaus (87851). -
CALBECK, Dr. Jonn Henry, Joplin,
Mo.: Specimen of chemical, basic
sulphate of lead (87698).
CALDHRON, Dr. 8. (See under Sal-
vador, Government of, Direccion
General de Agricultura.)
CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF
SCIENCES, San Francisco; Calif.:
846 plants from Lower California
(83381), exchange; 75 shrimps col-
lected, at Pohoika, Lower Puna
Island of Hawaii, by Walter M.°
Giffard (84201) ; (through BH. P. Van
Duzee) 8 flies (84825, exchange) ;
37 plants (85247), exchange.
REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1925
CALIFORNIA AGATE CO. Hunt-
ington Park, Calif. (through Inte-
rior Department, U. S. Geological
Survey): 25 marbles and 1 gear
shift lever ball made of onyx and a
piece of rough onyx with one cor-
ner polished (86740).
CALIFORNIA, UNIVERSITY OF,
Berkeley, Calif. (through Prof.
Bruce L. Clark) : A erustacean from
the Monterey shales, Middle Mio-
cene, of California (86514).
Depariment of Botany (through
T. S. Brandegee) 6 plants
(85351), exchange; 26 photo-
graphs of type specimens of
plants from the western United
States (85791), exchange;
(through Dr. Hlmer D. Merrill)
10 specimens of ferns from
eastern Asia (86984), exchange.
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology:
2 skins (cotypes) of a new
sparrow from British Colum-
bia (87162) ; 2 skins with skulls
and 1 skin of the native rat of
the Hawaiian Islands (87454).
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
and J. R. Pemberton, Holly-
wood, Calif. (through Dr. A.
Wetmore): 3 skins of birds
from Patagonia new to the
Museum collections (83675).
CAMPOS, R., Prof. Francisco, Guay-
aquil, Ecuador: 2 tropical wingless
glow-worms and 63 mosquitoes from
Eeuador (84169, 85863).
CANADIAN GOVERNMENT:
Canada Geological Survey, De-
pariment of Mines, Ottawa,
Canada: Specimen of the min-
eral colerainite from Quebec
(85579) ; also 48 specimens of
minerals from Canada (86747).
Exchange.
Department of Agriculture, En-
tomological Branch, Ottawa,
Canada (through C. Howard
Curran): 39 specimens of flies
(84693) ; paratype of a chalcid-
fly (84928), exchange; (through
C. Howard Curran) 2 speci-
mens of flies (873812), exchange.
131
CANADIAN GOVERNMENT—Contd.
Department of Marine and Fish-
eries, Ottawa, Canada (through
Hrits Johansen) : 8 specimens of
amphipods from Gready Island
Harbour, Labrador, collected
by the Canadian Arctie expedi-
tion (83710).
CANSON & MONTGOLFIER, New
York City: Portfolio of French
handmade papers manufactured by
the donors (85061).
CARLETON, M. A., Piura, Peru: 200
plants from Honduras (84683).
CARMIN, JosrrH, Louisville, Ky.:
326 plants from Palestine (84001).
CARNHGIE INSTITUTE OF TECH-
NOLOGY, The Laboratory Press,
Pittsburgh, Pa.: Broadside, designed
and put in type by Porter Garnett
and printed at the Laboratory Press
(85324) ; 14 examples of letterpress
printing, the work of the students
of the Laboratory Press (87664).
CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF
WASHINGTON, Washington, D. C.
(through Dr. D. T. MacDougal,
Tueson, Ariz.): 3 photographs of
plants (83649); 4 slabs of fossil
footprints from the Hermit Trail,
Grand Canyon National Park, Ariz.
(86436) ; (through Dr. Forrest
Shreve, Tucson, Ariz.) plant from
Patagonia (86618).
CARNEGIE MUSHUM, Pittsburgh,
Pa: 48 moths of the family Poco-
cerinae, including paratypes of 23
new species (84755).
CARR, D. D., University, Va.: 8 speci-
mens, 2 species, of mollusks
(84254).
CARROLL, Dr. MitcHELL. (See un-
der Archaeological Society of Wash-
ington.)
CARRUTHERS, M. E., Glendale,
Calif. (through Dr. W. H. Dall):
25 shells from 2 miles southeast
of Laguna Beach, Orange County,
Calif. (85861).
CARTER, WALTER, Toppenish, Wash. :
9 specimens of determined wasps
(86794). Hxchange.
132
CARTY, Auton B. (See under Elec-
tro-Tint Engraving Co.)
CASEY, Miss SopHiz Prarcn, Wash-
ington, D. C.: Support, “ crab” con-
sisting of an iron cramp inclosed
in lead, from the New York Obelisk
and excavated at Alexandria, Egypt,
by Lieut. Commander Henry H.
Gorringe, U. S. Navy, in 1879, and
given by him to Commander NSilas
Casey, U. S. Navy; also a Chinese
embroidered crépe shawl (83488).
Loan.
CASEY, Col. THomas UL. (through
Mrs. Thomas L. Casey, executor,
Washington, D. C.): A large collec-
tion of insects (Coleoptera) com-
prising approximately 16,000 species,
several thousand of which are rep-
resented by types; and of Tertiary
and recent mollusks (86209). Be-
quest.
CASTELLANOS, Prof. ALBERTO, Bue-
nos Aires, Argentina: 4 plants
(86121).
CAWSTON, Dr. F. G., Durban, Natal,
South Africa: 15 specimens, 4 spe-
cies, of fresh-water mollusks from
South Africa (83687) ; 3 specimens,
1 species, of marine shells (85441).
CHACH, E. P., San Pedro, Calif.: 3
specimens, 3 species of shells, one
representing a new species (84680) ;
4 bryozoans and 17 specimens of
erustaceans collected by the donor
(85103) ; a small collection of ma-
Yine invertebrates, comprising 61
specimens of crustaceans, 1 bryo-
zoan, 2 annelids, 3 echinoderms, and
1 lancelet (85402).
CHAMBERLAIN FUND, FRANCHS
LEA, Smithsonian Institution: A
string of agate beads (83993); a
star sapphire weighing 33.77 carats,
and a chrysoberyl weighing 46.32
carats (84676) ; 2 peridotes weigh-
ing 10.86 and §.9 carats (84731) ; a
string of turquoise beads made and
strung by Navaho Indians (85601) ;
a pendant of lapis-lazuli, carved
(86481) ; 3 cut stones and 2 pieces
of opal in the rough from Queens-
land, Australia (85658) ; 57 speci-
mens of cerions (87886) ; 11 speci-
mens, 4 species, of mollusks, repre-
LIST OF ACCESSIONS
CHAMBERLAIN FUND, FRANCES
LEHA—Continued.
senting genotypes not heretofore in
the Museum collections (878938).
CHAMBERLAIN, Dr. R. V., Cam-
bridge, Mass.: 2 specimens of iso-
pods taken from a well in Maynard
County, Ill., on September 22, 1924
(84934).
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMBERICA,
Washington, D. C.: 10 half-tones of
etchings of bridges and railroad
terminals by Joseph Pennell
(86966).
CHAMBERS, B. L., U. S. National
Museum: Skull of a woodchuck, and
a land shell from Harpers Ferry,
West Va. (85446, 85862).
CHAMBERS, Frank V., Philadelphia,
Pa.: Prosch duplex camera shutter
(86296).
CHAPIN, Dr. H. A., Washington, D.
C.: 17 mollusks from Forest Park
Lily Pond, Springfield, Mass.
(84950) ; 11 specimens of exotic
beetles (86476).
(See also under Agriculture, De-
partment of, Bureau of Animal In-
dustry.)
CHAPMAN, Prof. R. N. (See under
Minnesota, University of.)
CHAPPELL, R. H., Kensington, Md.:
75 speeimens, 20 species, of Unioni-
dae from the streams of Macon
County, Ala., collected in 1923
(84889).
CHASH, Mrs. Agnes, Washington,
D. .©.: 87 plants from Brazil
(84173) ; type and 7 paratypes of a
land shell from Paulo Affosno Falls,
Rio Sao Francisco, State of Alagoas,
Brazil (86108).
CHASE & CO., L. C., Boston, Mass.:
§ specimens of mohair velvets manu-
factured at the Sanford Mills, San-
ford, Me. (86130).
CHASH, Mrs. OctTavia W.
Mrs. Frank Wheaton.)
CHASH, Mrs. W. S8S., Washington, D.
C.: 4 pieces of Bell telephone equip-
ment consisting of 2 magneto call
bells, 1 Blake transmitter, and 1
wooden case receiver, used about
1880 (85308).
(See under
REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1925
CHENEY BROS., New York City: 37
specimens of silk dress, upholstery,
and drapery fabrics, 6 specimens of
‘tie silks and 7 cravats (87484).
CHICAGO SOCIETY OF ETCHERS,
Chicago, Ill. (through Mrs. Bertha
E. Jaques, secretary) ; 68 etchings
by members of the Chicago Society
of Etchers (85329). Loan.
CHRISTHH, Mrs. Cora L. ARMISTEAD,
Washington, D. C.: Collection of
antique watch bridges consisting of
5 English and 2 French make
(84691).
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PUBLISH-
ING SOCIETY, Back Bay, Boston,
Mass.: Portrait of Mary Baker
Eddy, engraved on wood by Timothy
Cole (86780).
CHRISTIANSEN, Dr. WaAtrTEeR G.,
Boston, Mass.: 15 samples of chemi-
cals representing new arsenical and
antimonyl organic compounds for
the Loeb collection of chemical
types. (834538).
CHRYSLER, Prof. M. A., New Bruns-
wick, N. J.: 3 ferns from Cuba
(85829) .
CHURCHILL, J. R., Dorchester,
Mass. : 52 plants (83960).
CLARK, Austin H., U. S. National
Museum: Parrot from Bolivia, and
3 cocoons from Rock Creek Park
(83962, 87871).
CLARK, Prof. Bruce L. (See under
California, University of.)
CLARK EQUIPMENT CoO., Buchanan,
Mich.: Framed photograph giving
a phantom view of the Clark inter-
nal gear, rear axle for automobile
trucks (86800).
CLARK, Maj. JErome, U. S. Army,
Washington, D. C.: Fowling pieces,
rifles, powderflasks, powderhorns,
swords, and framed documents
(86444). Loan,
CLARK, Roserr SterLtine, New York
City: Mammals, birds, fishes, rep-
tiles, batrachians, and marine in-
vertebrates from China, collected by
Arthur deC. Sowerby (84701).
133
CLARKH, Dr. F. W., U. S. Geological
Survey, Washington, D. C.: Sheet
of mica with inclusions of magne-
tite (86284).
CLAUDE JOSEPH, Brother, Correo
Nunoa, Chile: 233 plants from
Chile (83554) ; 395 plants (87272).
CLELAND, H. F. (See under Wil-
liams College, Department of Geol-
ogy, Williamstown, Mass.)
CLEMENT, Dr. E., physician in
charge of French colonial troops,
Cayenne, French Guiana, S. A.
«(through Elwin R. Sanborn) : Wasp
from French Guiana, and 2 cells
made by it.
CLEMENTS, J. Morean, Papeete,
Tahiti, Society Islands: Small col-
lections of miscellaneous insects,
shells, and 3 lizards (85079, 85397,
85626, 86936).
CLENCH, Wittiam J., Ann Arbor,
Mich.: 6 specimens, 3 species, of
shells from Alabama and South
Carolina, including 4 paratypes
(84997) ; 421 specimens, 21 species,
of land, fresh-water, and marine
shells from Michigan, and Hastern
and Southern States (86791). Ex-
change.
CLIFFORD, F. J., Brewster, Wash.:
Stomach of a puma (86041).
CLINTON, H. G., Manhattan, Nev.:
27 specimens of minerals from the
White Caps Mine, Manhattan, Nev.
(84064) ; 7 lots of Tertiary inverte-
brates from Nevada (84790); a
sample of gold from Consolidated
Mine Manhattan, Nev., and ex-
amples of the mineral haidingerite
from the White Caps Mine (86625).
CLOQUET LUMBER CO., Cloquet,
Minn. (through the Northern Pine
Manufacturer’s Association, Minne-
apolis, Minn.) : Specimen board of
eastern white pine (87941).
CLUTH, Wittarp N., Joliet, Ill.:
Plant (84011).
COBB, Prof. Cotiirr, Chapel Hill, N.
C.: Fossil bone collected by the
donor at Enfield, Halifax County,
N. C. (86051).
134
COBLENTZ, Dr. W. W., Washington,
D. C.: 8 grasshoppers, a photograph
of them, and 2 glowworms from
Arizona (86291); a sandstone con-
eretion from the Colorado Desert
north of Flagstaff, Ariz. (86451).
COCKAYNE, EH. O., Boston, Mass.:
8 fossils from the Solenhofen litho-
graphic stone quarries (85920).
Hxchange.
COCKERELL, Prof. T. D. A., Boulder,
Colo.: 12 invertebrate fossils from
the Tertiary rocks of Sakhalin
Island (83360); 15 specimens ‘of
aculeate Hymenoptera representing
7 species new to the Museum col-
lections (83414, exchange) ; 25 mis-
cellaneous unidentified insects and
4 specimens of identified bees, rep-
resenting 3 species new to the Mu-
seum collections (83991) ; 15 plants
from Siberia (85229); 37 named
bees, being types of 33 species, 1
type of a species of weevil, and 32
miscellaneous unidentified insects
(85263) ; 12 holotypes of 12 species
of bees (85448); 11 specimens of
bees, representing 11 species, 8 of
which are holotypes and 1 a cotype
(86047); 25 specimens of deter-
mined bees, representing 25 species,
including types of 21; also 26 un-
determined insects (863802); 22
slides of mouth parts of bees repre-
senting 21 species, 4 of which are
made from type material (86763) ;
type of land shell from Japan, and
4 specimens, 4 species, of sea shells
from Siberia (86802); 12 uniden-
tified miscellaneous insects; type of
a moth; holotypes of 31 species of
bees, and 1 identified grasshopper
(86957) ; 32 specimens of insects,
including the holotypes of 25 species
of bees (87007) ; plant (87672).
COLLADO, Sr. Don Ewnriqur, San
José, Costa Rica (through Sr. Don
Oton Jimenez) : Specimen of a tree
from Costa Rica (85604).
COLLEY, A. G., Sacramento, Calif. :
2 stone mullers from El Dorado
County, Calif. (86973).
LIST OF ACCESSIONS
COLLINS, Prof. J. FRANKLIN, Provi-
- dence, R. I.: 3 grasses and 125
plants from Rhode Island (85267,
85360).
COLLINS-GARNER CONGO EXPE-
DITION, Fernan Vaz, French
Congo: A twist of native smoking
tobacco obtained by C. R. Asche-
meier at Anguanamo, N’govi,
French Congo, in 1919 (84927). Col-
lected for the Museum.
COLLOTYPEH CO., THE, Elizabeth,
N. J.: 18 collotype prints in black
and white and in colors (86589).
COLONIAL DAMES OF AMBERICA,
NATIONAL SOCIETY OF, Wash-
ington, D. C. (through Mrs. Carolyn
Gilbert Benjamin): Pearl tiara,
necklace, and 2 brooches, a gold
mourning ring, a tortoise-shell snuff-
box, a silver tea caddy, and a china
saucer (8 specimens) (86968).
Loan.
COLORADO, UNIVERSITY OF, Boul-
der, Colo. (through Prof. Junius
Henderson) : 41 specimens of mol-
-lusks from Colorado, Wyoming,
Utah, and Montana (86235). Hx-
change.
COLORPLATH ENGRAVING CO.,
THH, New York City: Half-tone re-
production of the painting “The
Storm” by P. A. Cot (87000).
COMBS, L. B., Lexington, Ky.: 2
fishes ‘‘rainbow darter” (87123).
COMERFORD, B. M., Washington, D.
C.: 4 books, each with a fore edge
painting (86304)+ a series of Irish
coins issued 1034-1797; a series of
English maundy coins, issued 1660-—
1915, and a series of Irish gun money
1689-1690 (356 specimens) (86623) ;
English maundy coins . issued
1660-1906 (120 specimens) (87959).
Loan. pe
COMMERCE, DEPARTMENT OF:
Bureau of Fisheries: The type
specimens of 2 new species of
echinoderms, 1 starfish, and 1
brittle-star (83301); 4 speci-
mens of devil fish caught in the :
spring of 1924 in the Mediter-
ranean Sea, off the coast of
REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1925 135
COMMERCE, DEPARTMENT OF— | COMMERCH, DEPARTMENT OF—
Continued. Continued.
Bureau of Fisheries—Continued. Bureau of Fisheries—Continued.
Italy (84062) ; 16 specimens of
isopods collected by Messrs. Hil-
debrand and Foster, in a salt
water estuary at Triumfo, Hl
Salvador (84801) ; specimen of
Atlantic salmon from Upukoro
River, Lake TeAnau, New Zea-
land, where it had been intro-
duced, collected by Edgar F.
Stead of Canterbury, New Zea-
land (85075) ; 10 specimens, 3
species, of fresh-water mollusks
(85286) ; type specimen of new
whitefish from Lake Nipigon,
Ontario, collected by Walter
Koelz (85427); a small col-
lection of invertebrates, com-
prising several mollusks, a
sipunculid worm from the stom-
ach of a walrus, an ophiuran,
12 amphipods, several barnacles
and bryozoa attached to a dead
pecten shell, and a fish, all col-
lected in Greenland by D. B.
Macmillan, expedition of the
Bowdoin, 1924 (85624) ; anomu-
ran crab taken by halibut fish:
ermen in Lynn Canal, Alaska,
and given to the bureau by the
Rey. A. P. Kashevaroff (85848) ;
9 specimens of prepared com-
mercial Bahama and Florida
Sponges from the Bureau of
Foreign and Domestic Com-
merce (86077); 520 specimens
of fishes from North Carolina
and Connecticut, received by the
bureau from Dr. R. HE. Coker,
department of zoology, Univer-
sity of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill, N. C. (86249) ; a collection
of fishes (2,150 specimens) from
El Salvador, Central America,
made by Samuel F. Hildebrand
and Fred J. Foster, during
January and February, 1924
(87003) ; 5 type specimens of
whitefishes (87184); 11 speci-
mens of sponges from Florida
in their natural state (87239) ;
a collection of sponges compris-
ing 2 “grass,” 2 “yellow,” 2
“wire,” and 3 “wool,” all
taken off Cedar Key, Florida;
(87532); 61 specimens of
shrimps from Alaskan waters
(87858) .
(See also under F. C. Curtis.)
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce: 34 samples of crude
rubber, gutta-percha and chicle,
eollected by members of the
Amazon Party Crude Rubber
Survey ; 5 samples of crude rub-
ber and chicle, 2 tapping knives
and 1 sample of gutta-percha
mending tissue, from various
sources; also 15 specimens of
oil seeds and 28 specimens of
vegetable oils from the Com-
mercial Museum, Para, Brazil
(84679).
Coast and Geodetic Survey: 4
models illustrating various
phases of the work of the
United States Coast and Geo-
detic Survey (84618) ; 197 bot-
tles of bottom samples taken by
the Coast and Geodetic Survey
steamer Jsis, operating off the
coast of Florida in March and
April, 1917 (85645).
Lighthouse Service (through sup-
erintendent of lighthouses,
seventh district, Key West,
Fla.) : 7 marine annelids from
Key West, Fla. (83526).
CONGER, L. J. (See under Corona
Typewriter Co.)
CONGRHSS, LIBRARY OF, Washing-
ton, D. C.: 8 specimens showing dup-
licating process of printing for the
blind (87952). Transfer.
CONNELL, Rey. Ropert, Victoria, B.
C. (through Ira HE. Cornwall):
Greater portion of a cetacean scap-
ula from the Sooke formation, Oli-
gocene, of British Columbia (84944).
136
CONZATTI, Prof. C., Oaxaca, Mexico:
54 Mexican plants (858385).
COOKH, Dr. C. Montaeus, jr., Hono-
lulu, Hawaii, 13 specimens, 1 species,
of shells from Oahu, Manoa, Ha-
wali (84685).
COOMBES, J. E., Montclair, N. J.: 6
specimens of foreign and military
equipment (84210); United States
Army recruiting poster of the pe-
riod of the Civil War (84728).
COOPER ENGINEERING AND MAN-
UFACTURING CO., Chicago, Ill.:
2 photographs of the Hall-Braille
writer (86106).
COOPHR, Dr. Hermon C., Glen Ellyn
Iil.: Specimen of chemical for the
Loeb collection of chemical types
(87704).
COOPER, I. W., Fort Worth, Tex.:
2 beetles from Texas (83330).
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK, UNI-
VERSITETETS BOTANISKE MU-
SEUM, Copenhagen, Denmark: 19
plants from Panama (85086) ; 467
plants (mainly Compositae, Acan-
thaceae, and pterodophyta) from
tropical America (87488). Hx-
change.
CORNWALL, Ira H., Quarantine Sta-
tion, William Head, Victoria, B. C.:
12 fossil cetacean and sirenian bones
from the Sooke formation, Oligo-
cene, of British Columbia (84831).
(See also under Rey. Robert Con-
nell and Gordon Downes).
CORONA TYPEWRITER CO., Gro-
ton, N. Y. (through L. J. Conger,
president) : 3 machines visualizing
the development of the ‘“ Corona”
typewriter, the chief features of
which are lightness, compactness,
and portability (85488).
CORRINGTON, Dr. J. D., Columbia,
S. C.: Specimen of jellyfish from
Calibogue Sound, near Savannah,
Ga. (83452).
COUILLARD, Mrs. Litian WALKER,
New York City (through Rev. John
Van Schaick, jr., Boston, Mass.) :
Cavalry saber owned during the
Civil War, first by Lieut. William
Wheelan, First New York Mounted
Rifies, and later by his brother, Brig.
LIST OF ACCESSIONS
COUILLARD, Mrs. Lintan Wartker—
Continued.
Gen. James Wheelan, United States
Army; also various pieces of mili-
tary insignia owned by Brigadier
General Wheelan (55 specimens in
all) (86185).
COURT, Hpwarp, Washington, D. C.:
25. specimens, 3 species, of land
shells from Florida (87957).
CROS, Dr. A., Mascara, Algeria
(through Dr. A. G. Bdoving): 6
slides with beetle larvae from Al-
geria (83712). Exchange.
CROSBY, Prof. C. R., Ithaca, N. Y.:
Isoped from San Clements Island,
Calif. (86251).
CRUSE, Mrs. JAkr, Greenland, Ark.
(through Mrs. Laura M. Allen, Ro-
ehester, N. Y.): A hand-woven pil-
low cover, woven in coverlet pat-
tern in 1922 by Miss Eliza lee,
sister of the donor (85252).
CRUSHED SHELL CO., THE, Musca-
tine, Iowa: 1 specimen of mollusk
from Japan (86949).
~CUDMORH, Tom, Washington, D. C.:
Bat from the District of Columbia
(84805).
CULBERTSON, J. G., Wichita Falls,
Tex.: Collection of feather-work,
woven objects and a shrunken hu-
man head. (86326). Loan.
CURRAN, C. Howarp. (See under
Canadian Government, Department
of Agriculture, Entomological
Branch.) — ;
CURTIS, F. C.,*>Punta Gorda, Fla.
(through Commerce, Department of,
Bureau. of Fisheries): Piece of
planking from bottom of a vessel,
containing marine borers.
CUSHMAN, Dr. JoszepH A., Sharon,
Mass.: The paratypes of 6 species
of Pliocene and Pleistoeccxe foramini-
fera from California (87283).
DABBENH, Dr. Roserro, Buenos
Aires, Argentina: Skin of a bird
(84300). Exchange.
DAHLGREN, Utric, Salisbury Cove,
Me.: 3 specimens of amphipods and
4 isopods (87317).
DALL, Dr. W. H. (See under M. E.
Carruthers, and D. Thaanum.)
REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1925
DAMIANI, Puitir, Philadelphia, Pa.:
English halfpenny of the year 1899
(87285).
DAMPF, A., Mexico, D. F., Mexico:
10 flies from Mexico (86605, 86808).
DANFORTH, Sruart T., Mayaguez,
Porto Rico.: 6 fishes from Catagena
Lagoon, Porto Rico, and 5 speci-
mens, 4 species of crabs and a small
collection of insects (Hemiptera)
from Porto Rico (83574, 87553).
DA ROCHA, Prof. Dras, Ceara, Bra-
zil: 11 specimens, 4 species of fresh-
water shells and 1 specimen of
mollusk, all from ‘Brazil (84698,
87228).
DAVIDSON, Dr. A., Los Angeles, Cali-
fornia: 4 plants (84560, 84761,
87844).
DAVIDSON, W. M., Vienna, Va.: 2
flies, type and paratype (86998).
DAYIS, ArtHuR G., London, England:
Fossils from the Chalk and London
Clay formations of Hngland (84753).
Hxchange.
DAVIS, Prof. D. W., Williamsburg,
Va. (through Dr. Edgar T Wher-
ry) : Orchid from Virginia (87889).
DAVIS, Hon. James J. (See under
David W. Evans.)
DAVIS, S. B. (See under T. W. La
Rue.)
DAVIS, Wo. T., Staten Island, N. Y.:
18 specimens of cicadas (859385,
86736). Exchange.
DAVIS-GUILFORD, Mrs. J. 8.
under Miss M. Winchester.)
DHAM, Cuartes C., Bluffton, Ind.:
200 plants from Mexico, Arkansas,
and Florida (84898).
DECKER, Mrs. E. BENNETT, United
States National Museum: Pottery
jar (85321).
DEHMER, R. B., Takoma Park, Wash-
ington, D. C.: 2 plants from Texas,
and a sample of wax (86773).
DEGENHER, Orro, New York City: 10
specimens of ferns and 3 plants from
Hawaii (86269, 87459, 87689).
DEICHMAN, Miss EizaperH, Kor-
inth, Fyen, Denmark: 118 specimens
of crustaceans from Panama, col-
lected by the donor during May
and June, 1924 (87555).
(See
137
DENLEY, C. F., Washington, D. C.:
4 pheasants (86319).
DENNISON MANUFACTURING CO.,
Framingham, Mass.: Specimens of
various grades of sealing wax;
specimens of the ingredients and ¢ol-
oring matters used in their manu-
facture, and various articles deco-
rated with sealing wax (84752).
Hxchange.
DENSMORH, Miss Frances, U. S. Na-
tional Museum: 2 harpoons from
the Makah Indians, Neah Bay,
Washington (one for seal, and the
other for whales) (87181).
DICKEY, Prof. S. S., Cambridge,
Springs, Pa.: 5 plants (86068).
DICTAPHONE CORPORATION,
Bridgeport, Conn.: Voice recording
and reproducing machines made by
the Dictaphone Corporation and
used chiefly for commercial corre-
spondence, including one dictaphone
machine, complete; one transcribing
machine, complete; 6 wax records
and stand, and a photograph of rec-
ord shaving machine (86556).
DIHTZ PRINTING CO., THE, Rich-
mond, Va.: 24 specimens of typo-
graphical and hand-lettered printing
(85434).
DIGESTIVE FERMENTS CO., De-
troit, Mich.: 1 lot each of two
chemical specimens for the Loeb eol-
lection of chemical types (84157).
DILL & COLLINS, Philadelphia, Pa.:
Pictorial life of Benjamin Franklin,
published in commemoration of the
two hundredth anniversary of the
arrival of Franklin in Philadelphia
(84807).
DILWORTH, James O., Jonesboro,
Tenn.: Military canteen of the
period of the Civil War (85325).
DINGHS, WittiAm F., Hyattsville,
Md.: Star-nosed mole (87848).
DIXON, H. N., Northampton, Hng-
land: 7 specimens of mosses
(85241). Exchange.
DODD, Atan P., Uvalde, Tex.: 13
plants from Texas, New Mexico and
California, and 5 photographs of
South American plants (88946,
84341, 87230).
138
DONOVAN, Dr. Witt1amM O’BRIEN.
(See under Botanic Gardens, St.
George’s Grenada, B. W. I.)
DOTSON, HE. M., Haver, Mont.: 4
specimens of a new phosphate min-
eral from Francois Lake, British Co-
lumbia (86498).
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO., Garden
City, N. Y. (through Mrs. W. C.
Gorgas, Washington, D. C.): Copy
of the book entitled “‘ William Craw- —
ford Gorgas—His Life and Work”
by Marie D. Gorgas and Burton J.
Hendrick, for exhibition with the
Gorgas medals (86940).
DOWELL, Dr. Puri, Port Richmond,
N. Y.: 6 colored plates of plants
(83440).
DOWNES, Gorpon, F. G. 8., Oak Bay,
British Columbia (through Tra E.
Cornwall) : A considerable portion of
a cetacean scapula from the Sooke
formation, Oligocene, of British Co-
lumbia (84943).
DOWNS, Dr. C. R.
John M. Weiss.)
DOYLE, C. B. (See under Agricul-
ture, Department of, Bureau of
Piant Industry.)
DRAKH, Dr. Cart J., Ames, Iowa: 9
specimens representing paratypes
of 4 species of bugs, and 22 bugs
representing 5 species (85006,
85341).
DRUSHEL, J. ANDREW, Westfield, N.
J.: 200 Ordovician and Silurian in-
vertebrates from the Mississippi
Valley (83398).
DUBASH, Dr. PESHOTON SORABJEE
GooLBAl, Keamari, Karachi, India:
A small collection of pebbles con-
taining nummulites (84796).
DUBOIS, Prof. EHEucrnrt, Haarlem,
Holland: Casts of the remains of
Pithecanthropus erectus (83927).
DUNN, Maj. L. H., New York City:
A collection of insects from Colum-
bia, South America (84168, 86098).
DUNNING, Dr. H. A. B. (See under
Dr. Edwin Charles White.)
DUPONT pE NHMOURS & CO.
(INC.), E. I., Pyralin’ Department,
Arlington, N J.: 27 articles illus-
trating the use of Pyralin (86631).
(See under Dr.
LIST OF ACCESSIONS
DURAN, Victor, Los Angeles, Calif. :
2 flies (83564).
DURSTON, Mrs. GEorciIa R., Wheel-
ing, W. Va.: Doll’s carriage of the
nineteenth century (83651).
DUTTON, D. L., Brandon, Vt.: 20
plants from Vermont (85392).
DYER, Francis J., Coblenz, Germany :
24 snails, 1 salamander, 2 crusta-
ceans, 1 worm, 7 spiders, and 19
miscellaneous insects (85316).
EAKLH, Prof. A S., Berkeley, Calif. :
Specimen of the mineral voltaite
from New Mexico (85789). HEx-
change.
EAST, CuHartzes §8., U. S. National
Museum: 2 snakes and a monitor-
lizard (85418).
HASTMAN, Dr. Louise, Cincinnati,
Ohio (through Dr. John Uri Lloyd).:
Diary of Dr. John King (83999).
ECHAGUE, Jos& O., Madrid, Spain:
6 pictorial photographs (85370).
EDI, Capt. JouHn R., U. S. Navy (re-
tired), Washington, D. C.: Gilded
wooden crown from the figurehead
of the Spanish cruiser Reina Mer-
cedes sunk in the entrance to the
harbor of Santiago, Cuba, July 4,
1898 (87187).
EDISON LAMP WORKS OF GEN-
ERAL ELECTRIC CO., Harrison,
N. J.:.3 incandescent electric lamps
of 1925, consisting of a 30,000 watt
lamp, the largest ever made; a 10,-
000-watt lamp, and “Grain of
Wheat” lamp,«the smallest ever
made (86939).
EDSON, Wittiam L. G. (See under
Rochester Park Department.)
EIGENMANN, Dr. C. H. (See under
Mulford Biological Exploration of
the Amazon Basin.)
HLECTRO-TINT HNGRAYVING CO.,,
Philadelphia, Pa. through Mr. Al-
ton B. Carty, Washington, D. C.):
1 half-tone in four eolors, 33 by
22% inches, said to be the largest
half-tone ever made without splic-
ing and produced with the largest
screen ever made (83441).
EMERSON, P. H., Sussex, England:
A book entitled ‘Continued Notes
on the Hmersons, alias Embersons,
REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1925
EMERSON, P. H.—Continued.
of Ipswich, Massachusetts Bay Col-
ony, 1638, and of Bishops Stortford,
Co. Herts, England, 1578” (84363).
ENGBERG, Dr. Cart C., Lincoln,
Nebr.: Approximately 1212 speci-
mens of land, freshwater, and ma-
rine shells, from Washington, Ne-
braska, and Kansas (85276, 87507) ;
138 mollusks from Olga, Wash.
(85817).
ENGELHARDT, Georce P., Brooklyn,
N. Y.: A collection made by the
donor, comprising 4 specimens of
amphipods, 10 specimens of isopods,
and 2 earthworms (83648).
EPLING, Cart, Los Angeles, Calif.:
10 photographs of herbarium speci-
mens (Menthaceae) (86994).
EPSTHAN, HpDWaARp. (See
American Photo-Hngravers Associa-
tion.)
ESSIG, Prof. H. O., Berkeley, Calif. :
Amphipod taken from the water
system of the city of San Francisco,
Calif. (84074).
ESTABROOK. Mrs. W. H. (See
under United Daughters of the Con-
federacy.)
HVANS, Davip W., Pittston, Pa.
(through Hon. James J. Davis):
Welsh translation of the Bible
(86151).
EVANS, Vicror J., Washington, D. C.:
Specimen of bird—White-backed
trumpeter (87303).
EYERDAM, Watrter J., Seattle,
Wash.: 150 specimens of mollusks
from Shuyak Strait, Afognak
Island, Alaska; Kodiak Island,
Alaska, and Puget Sound (85652).
FAGAN, CuHartes L., Rahway, N. J.
(through Dr. A. Wetmore): Speci-
men of diving petrel from Peru; 13
bird skins and an alcoholic specimen
of Hornby’s petrel from Peru; 4 bird
skins from the coast of Peru and
Panama; skin of a petrel from the
coast of South America (83992,
84010, 84853, 85391).
under |
139
WAIRCHILD AHRIAL SURVEYS
(INC.), THE, New York City: 3
bromide enlargements of aerial
views of the city of Washington
(86590).
FARWELL, O. A., Detroit,
Plant (84034). Hxchange.
(See also under Parke, Davis &
Co.) ~
FAUSTINO, Dr. L. A., Manila, P. I.:
Mollusk from the Philippine Islands
(85828).
FAWCETT, G. L. (See under Tucu-
man, Argentina, Agricultural Hxper-
iment Station.)
FAZ, Senor Atrrepo, Santiago, Chile:
A small collection of insects from
Chile (83982, 85810); 60 beetles
from South America (84447, 86045).
Hxchange.
YTHDERAL ADVERTISING AGENCY,
(INC.), New York City: 2 pamph-
lets, namely “ Paper is Part of the
Picture” and “ Responsible Helpful-
ness” (83662).
FHDERATHD MALAY STATES AND
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, Office
of Secretary of Agriculture, Kuala
Lumpur, F. M. S. (through B. A. R.
Gater): 32 specimens of tachinid
flies, parasitic on a moth injurious
to coconuts in Malay (85275).
FHELIPPONHE, Dr. FLorENTINO, Monte-
video, Uruguay: 7 shells, a bird skin,
2 crustaceans, and a collection of
natural history specimens compris-
ing reptiles, a batrachian, insects,
mollusks, and other marine inverte-
brates, all from Uruguay (83558,
84830, 85227) ; 19 specimens, 12 spe-
cies, of land shells from the Canary
Islands, and an insect (83640); 2
sipunculid worms, 4 anemones, and
a compound ascidian collected at
Cape Santa Maria, Department of
Rocha, Uruguay (84029) ; collection
of natural history specimens
(85923) ; miscellaneous zoological
specimens comprising 18 insects, 1
scorpion, 2 echinoderms, 42 recent
and fossil shells, and 12 reptiles
(86636).
Mich. :
140
FELT, Dr. H. P., Albany, N. Y.: 3 in-
sects (87191).
FELTHR, Dr. H. W., Cincinnati, Ohio
(through Dr. John Uri Lloyd): 3
cases containing 30 ampules of
medicinal solutions, and 1 case of 13
“pure elements,” presented to the
donor by Dr. John King (83996).
FERGUSOW, Wittiam C., Hempstead,
N. Y.: 53 plants (84872).
YERRIS, James H., Joliet, Ill.: 51
plants (84035, 86575, 86624, 86790,
86925, 86926, 87266), exchange; 53
plants (84818, 85386, 86258, 86461,
86985, 86999, 87229, 87261) ; lizard
from Texas (86619).
FEWERS, Dr. J. Wattrer. (See un-
der Mr. and Mrs. Charles H.
Griner. ) .
FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL
HISTORY, Chicago, Ill.: Skin and
skull of a mammal, 2 specimens of
ferns from South America, 285
plants from South America (84170,
84894, 86793, 87321, 87515). HEx-
change,
FINK, Prof. Bruce L., Oxford, Ohio:
436 specimens of lichens (86129).
FINNDHER, Pau R., Corona, N. Mex.:
Tooth of a fossil elephant (87885).
FISHHR, Dr. A. K. (See under EHd-
ward C. Green.)
FISHER, Grorce L., Houston, Tex.:
402 plants (84863, 84909) ; 5 speci-
mens of ferns from Mexico (86123).
FISHHR, W. S8., Washington, D. C.:
681 miscellaneous Hymenoptera
(87130).
(See also under Prof. James 8.
Hine).
FITCH, Miss ELEaNor SHERMAN, New
York City: A pair of white kid
shoes worn by Hleanor Ewing on
the occasion of her marriage to Gen.
William Tecumseh Sherman
(87904).
FITCH, Joun C., Hast Liverpool,
Ohio: 29 chipped arrow and spear
points, blades, and rejects found in
Ohio (84973). Exchange.
FLANDERS, StTantry E., Saticoy,
Calif.: 8 specimens of flies (84143,
84870).
LIST OF ACCESSIONS
HLEISHER (Inc.), 8S. B. & B. W.,
Philadelphia, Pa.: Specimens of
knitting yarns and articles knitted
therefrom (84008).
FLORIDA STATE GEOLOGICAL
SURVEY, Tallahassee, Fla.: 720
specimens, 151 species, of Tertiary
invertebrates from Florida (87049).
FLUCK, Rev. W. H., Great Kills,
Staten Island, N. Y.: 2 specimens,
1 species, of mollusk from Antigua,
West Indies (87159).
FOERSTH, Dr. Avueust F., Dayton,
Ohio: A collection of fossil inver-
- tebrates, including types, from the
‘classic Silurian locality at Jephta
Knob, Ky. (83408). ;
FORD, Mrs. CrLynpDA WERNER, I'ree-
hold, N. J.: Old English silver watch
used from 1884 to 1896 by the don-
or’s father, Dr. Philip P. Werner
(85831).
FORD, Henry, Dearborn, Mich.: Ford
automobile planetary transmission,
a full size unit, nickel plated, and ~
so arranged that it may be operated
by hand (85719).
FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE
AND COLLEGH, Dehra Dun,
United Provinces, India: 90 plants
from India (84156). Exchange,
FORRHESTHR, Mrs. FLORENCE CAmp-
BELL. (See under Dr. George F.
Becker.)
FOSHAG, W. F., U. S. National Mu-
seum: Minerats from Riverside,
Calif. (85037). —
FOSTER, Mrs. Appi P., Balboa, Canal
Zone: Plant from the Canal Zone
(83551).
FOSTER, J. G., Greenwood, Miss.:
Fly and wasp from Mississippi
(84883) ; a small: collection -of in-
sects representing a parasite of wild
bees (85027). ;
FOUTS, Rosert N., Washington,
D. C.: 18 specimens, representing
paratypes of 9 species, of parasites
of the subfamily Platygasterinae
(86627).
FOWKE, Gerarp, St. Louis, Mo.: Shed
snake skin (87273).
REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1925
FOX, Emizy RutH, New York City
(through Mrs. Flora J. Long, San
Francisco, Calif.) : Silver coin is-
sued by the Graeco-Italian town of
Velia during the fifth century, B. C.
(85108).
FRANK, C. L., Washington, D. C.:
Oil painting by Ed. Beyer, 1852, of
the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge
at Portageville, N. Y. (87461);
specimen of hydrometer, or so-called
saccharometer, used to determine
the strength of sugar solution in the
process of clarifying and crystalliz-
ing crude sugar, made by Drain &
Page, of London (87981).
FRANKLIN, ArtHour E., London, Eng-
land: 5 photographs of objects of
Jewish religious ceremonial (83705).
FRANKS, Dr. F., Dortmund, Ger-
many: 100 specimens of Upper Cre-
taceous fossils from Germany
(84820).
YWREEMAN, O. P., Washington, D. C.:
5 plants from the southern United
States (85113).
FRIERSON, L. S., jr., Gayle, La.:
Water snake from Louisiana
(86126).
FRISON, Dr. THEODORE H., Urbana,
Tll.: 4 specimens of South American
bees, representing 4 species, 3 of
which are paratypes (84808). Hx-
change.
FROST, C. A., Framingham, Mass.:
297 specimens of identified North
American Coleoptera, comprising
118 species and including paratypes
of 2 species (87135).
FRYE, Prof. T. C., Seattle, Wash.:
Fern from Washington (85296).
FUKUSHIMA CoO. (INC.), New York
City: A crystal ball weighing 107
pounds and 12% inches in diameter
(86180). Loan.
FULCHER, Roy, Arlington, Va.: Hng-
lish sparrow showing traces of al-
binism (85931).
FULLAWAY, D. T.
Board of Commissioners of
culture and Forestry.)
(See under
Agri- |
141
GARDNER, Dr. Jura, Washington,
D. C.: Approximately 1,000 speci-
mens, 35 species of land shells from
Porto Rico (86593).
(See also under Prof.
Berry and W. S. Adkins.)
GARDNER, Dr. Leon L., U. 8S. Army,
Carlisle, Pa.: Collection of tongues
of birds, several hundred in num-
ber (86246).
GARRETT, A. O., Provo, Utah: 110
plants (83385, 83572, 85102).
GATCHEL & MANNING (INC.),
Philadelphia, Pa. (through P. L.
Hildebrand) : 2 half-tone prints, dif-
ferent subjects, in four colors, en-
titled ‘The Pied Piper of Hamlin ”
(84713). HWxchange.
GATHER, B. A. R. (See under Fed-
erated Malay States and Straits
Settlements. )
GATHS, Rev. SEBASTIAN, R. N., Gre-
nada, B. W. I.: Whip scorpion, a
dragon fly, partly real and partly
painted, and a painting of a grass-
hopper, the two latter collected in
Spain (84851).
GEE, Dr. N. Gist, Peking, China: 51
fresh-water sponges from China
(84878). Exchange.
GENERAL FEDERATION OF WOM-
EN’S CLUBS, Washington, D. C.:
Ceylonese ear plugs, western Indian
horse trappings, a baboon skull and
the skull of an antelope (84816).
GHEORGHE WASHINGTON LIFE IN-
SURANCE CO., Charleston, W. Va.:
Portrait of George Washington en-
grayed on wood by Timothy Cole
after Wilford 8. Conrow (85285).
GILSON, Miss Bria L., Grand View,
Nyack, N. Y.: Lady’s silk dress,
parasol, and pair of white kid shoes;
and gentleman’s silk vest of the
period of the Civil War (84760).
CLASIER, Dr. W. F., Carlsbad, N.
Mex.: Human skull collected by the
donor about 40 years ago (87531).
GLOVER, ALFRED K., Grossmont,
Calif.: Insect from California
(86257).
GLOVER, Dr. Norman C.
Dr. H. R. Booth.)
EH. W.
(See under
142
GODING, Dr. F. W., Livermore Falls,
Me.: Plant from Maine (85320).
GOLDBEHCK, A. T. (See under Ag-
riculture, Department of, Bureau of
Publie Roads.)
GOLDMAN, M. T., Washington, D.
C.: 2 compound ascidians collected
at Nantucket (85109).
GOODMAN (INC.), Bertram J., New
York City: Working model of a fac-
tory containing fur dressing and
dyeing machinery (87219). Loan.
GOODMAN, G. H., Takoma Park, D.
C.: 2 specimens of shells from West
Haven, Conn. (84675).
GOODSON, W. A., Dome Creek, Brit-
ish Columbia, Canada: 2 photo-
graphs of a large tree cut down by
beavers (83347).
GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER CO.,
THH, Akron, Ohio (through Mr.
Herburt W. Maxson) : 9 photographs
showing types of lighter-than-air
eraft, manufactured by the Good-
year Rubber Co. for the U. 8. Air
Service (84151).
GORGAS, Mrs. W. C., Washington, D.
C. (through Dr. Marcus Benjamin) :
21 medals and decorations of the
late Maj. Gen. William Crawford
Gorgas, U. S. Army (85930). Loan.
(See also under Doubleday, Page
& Co.).
GORTNER, Prof. R. A., St. Paul,
Minn.: 1 lot of 13 specimens con-
sisting of a class of substances pro-
duced by the condensation of in-
dole derivatives with aldehydes, for
the Loeb collection of chemical
types (85818).
GORTNHR, Prof. R. A., and Dr. WALTER
Frep HOFFMAN, St. Paul, Minn.:
14 samples of chemicals represent-
ing vegetable proteins (83451).
GOUGH, Miss Lua C., Stephenville,
Tex.: 39 plants (83313).
GRAHAM, Rey. Davin C., Suifu,
Szechuen, China: A small collection
of miscellaneous insects, mollusks,
fishes, amphibians and crustaceans
from China (838353); 6 frogs, 1
LIST OF ACCESSIONS
GRAHAM, Rev. Davin C.—Continued.
turtle, 1 lizard, 36. fishes, 7 mollusks,
1 crab, 100 shrimps, 4 amphipods,
15 worms, and a collection of in-
sects from China (83537); collec-
tion of birds, 6 mammals, 18 frogs,
1 lizard, 66 fishes, 5 crustaceans,
mollusks, 1 worm, and a collection
of insects from the province of
Szechuen, China (83654); a mold
for making charms of tsamba or
barley dough and a large collection
of natural history specimens com-
prising mammals, birds, reptiles,
fishes, earthworms, mollusks, in-
sects, and plants, all collected by the
donor on a trip from Suifu to Song-
pan, China, during July-August,
1924 (85081) ; collection of natural
history specimens from western
China, comprising birds, mammals,
reptiles, fishes, plants, insects and
mollusks (85625); collection of in-
sects, shells and a mammal skin;
also 1 gordian worm, 2 crustaceans
and 4 frogs (86317); collection of
insects, a fish and a turtle (86635) ;
32 bird skins, 2 mammals, mollusks,
marine invertebrates, fishes, and in-
sects from west China (87208) ; in-
sects, fishes, mollusks, marine in-
vertebrates, reptiles and batrach-
ians (87497).
GRAND RAPIDS WOOD FINISH-
ING CO., Grand Rapids, Mich.: 33
veneered panels of furniture woods
showing populax finishes (87926).
GRANT, Ropert J.
ury Department. )
GRANT, Samunt H., Washington, D.
C.: Great blue heron (85372).
GREEN, Epwarp C., Urbana, II.
(through Dr. A. K. Fisher) : 8 speci-
mens, 1 species, of mollusks, 3
snakes, 1 snake skin and a small
collection off insects from Brazil
(87306).
GREENE, FRANK C., Tulsa, Okla.:
Kern from Oklahoma (838972); 30
specimens, 9 species, of fresh-water
shells from Arkansas and Texas
(85803).
(See under Treas-
REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1925
GREENE, J. W., Washington, D. C.:
4 specimens, 2 species, of Unionidae
from Cacapon River, Morgan Coun-
ty, W. Va. (86065).
GREENWALD, Dr. Istpor, New York
City: 1 lot of 2 specimens for the
Loeb collection of chemical types,
comprising red tautomer of crea-
tinine picrate and creatinine rubi-
dium picrate (85637).
GREER, CuHaries I., Washington,
D. C.: Broken stone ax found on
Ridge Road near New Cut Road
Georgetown, D. C. (84255).
GREGORY, J. W., Rock Island, Ill.:
Rocking-chair made during the lat-
ter part of the eighteenth century
(83531).
GRIMBES, Mrs. Marcaret McA., Wash-
ington, D. C.: A beaded bag of the
latter part of the ninteenth century
(86733).
GRINER, Mr. and Mrs. CHartzs H.,
Caxambas, Fla. (through Dr. J.
Walter Fewkes): Stone and shell
specimens from Florida (85340).
GROFF, G. C., Canton, China
(through Mr. Joseph F. Rock, Wash-
ington, D. C.): Plant from China
(84144).
GROSVENOR, Gipert. (See under
Jusserand Dinner Committee. )
GUATEMALA, GOVERNMENT OF:
Direccion General de Agricultura
(through Sr. Don Jorge G. Salas,
director) : 39 plants from Guatemala
(83364).
GUEST, Dr. Hersrrt H., Glastonbury,
Conn.: Specimen of chemical for
the Loeb collection of chemical
types (87710).
GUNNELL, Lronarp C., Smithsonian
Institution: A silver service made
during the early part of the nine-
teenth century and consisting of a
hot water pot, 2 tea pots, a waste
bowl, a sugar bowl and a cream
pitcher (85633). Loan.
HALL, F. S. (See under Washing-
ton State Museum, University of
Washington, Seattle, Wash.)
143
HALL, H. C., Tyngsboro, Mass.: 13
beetles, representing the same num-
ber of species, most of them para-
types (76477). Exchange.
HALLOCK, H. C. (See under Jap-
anese Beetle Laboratory.)
HAMILTON, Dr. Ciirr 8. (See under
Dr. C. W. Muehlberger. )
HAMMOND, CHARLES, Hl Paso,
Tex.: 6 plants from Texas (83634,
85865); 18 plants 84216, 84919,
85007, 853854) ; 3 plants from Mexico
(85815, 87439). Hxchange.
HAMMOND, Mrs. ERNEST, Rochester,
N. Y. (through Mrs. Laura M.
Allen) : A table scarf of red flannel
printed with a scroll and flower
pattern in black, used as a melodeon
eover in the family of the donor's
grandmother (85239).
HAMMOND, James K., Hl Paso, Tex.:
Plant (83592).
HARDIE, The Misses CarHERinE M.
and ISABELLE H., Washington, D. C.:
40 ethnological specimens from the
Philippines and North American In-
dians (85435).
HARK, Mrs. Louise B., New York
City: Bones of birds and mammals
from kitchen middens in the Virgin
Islands (85411).
HARPHR, Dr. R. M., Tallahassee,
Fla.: 11 plants (84990).
HARRINGTON, G. L., Buenos Aires,
Argentina: 16 slabs containing in-
sects from the Tertiary rocks of
Argentina (84858); 2,600 beetles
and 200 specimens of Microlepidop-
tera, mostly from Argentina
(85431).
HARRIS, Harry, Richmond, Va.:
String of trade beads found in
graves in New York (86746). Hx-
change.
HARRISON, W. H., Washington, D.
C.: Skull and leg bones of a black
bear from Dismal Swamp, Va.
(86484).
HARTSHORN, Prof. Hipen B., Han-
over, N. H.: 2 specimens of chemi-
cals for the Loeb collection of chemi-
cal types (87705).
144
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cam-
bridge, Mass. :
Department of Mineralogy and
Petrography (through Prof.
Charles Palache) : Specimens of
native lead from Langban, Swe-
den, 1 of apatite and quartz and
1 of quartz from Greenwood
Mine, Noyes Mountain, Me.;
a piece weighing 525 grams of
the Cynthiana, Harrison Coun-
ty, Ky., meteoric stone; a large
mass of the Coahuila, Mexico,
meteoric iron; a 1500-gram
piece of the New Baltimore, Pa.,
meteoric iron; portion of a mass
of pyrite from Sulitjelma, Nor-
way; specimen of the type ma-
terial of chalcoalumite described
by E. S. Larsen (85126, 85268,
86489, 86647, 87445, 87684, ex-
change) ; 5 specimens of miner-
als from lLangban, Sweden
(86475).
Gray Herbarium: 368 plants from
New Hngland and eastern Can-.
ada (85567, 87462, 87891).
change.
Hx-
Museum of Comparative Zoology:
Skin and skull of a rodent from
western Szechuen; 5 _ batra-
chians and reptiles from China ;
2 lizards (84488, 85839, 86064).
Exchange.
HASKELL, Ernest, New York. City:
78 etchings and engravings for spe-
cial exhibition (86811). Loan.
HASKIN, Lestiz L., Brownsville,
Oreg.: 4 plants from Oregon (83399,
83976).
HATTON, Dr. Hpegar M., Columbus,
Ohio: Human ulna bone, recovered
from a pile of débris in the officers’
mess room on the U. S. 8. Maine,
at Havana, Cuba, in the winter of
1911-12, just after the resinking of
the Maine (87822).
HAVENS, O. C., Joplin, Mo.: Harthen-
ware bowl found at a small ruin six
miles north of Gallup, N. Mex.
(84844).
LIST OF ACCESSIONS
HAVMOLLER, R., Singora, Siam: 2
crocodile skulls from Siam (84901).
HAWAIIAN SUGAR PLANTERS’
ASSOCIATION EXPERIMENT
STATION, Honolulu, Hawaii
(through Frederick Muir): 4 flies
from Heuador; 22 specimens of leaf
hoppers, representing 13 species, of
which 7 are represented by types
and 3 by paratypes; 47 flies from
South America, collected by F. X.
Williams ; 26 specimens of flies, sev-
eral new to the Museum collection
(84969, 85922, 86042, 86495).
HAYES, Dr. Murray O., Provo, Utah:
150 specimens of Middle Cambrian
fossils from the Wasatch Mountains
north of Provo, Utah (87849).
HHIGHWAY, A. H., Alexandria, Va.:
Sapphires, including rough, cut, and
star (87175), loan; specimen of
arsenopyrite from Vermont (85238).
HEIKES, Victor C., Salt Lake City,
Utah: 5 specimens of minerals from
Utah, and examples of the mineral
miargyrite from the Flint District,
Owyhee County, Idaho (83552,
86571).
(See also under Dr. W. W. Jones.)
HENDERSON, Harotp J., Clemson
College, S. C.: 2 flies (84826). Ex-
change. y
HENDERSON, Prof. Junius. (See
under Colorado University of.)
HENDERSON, Dr. W. W., Logan,
Utah: 48 specimens of Oedipodine
grasshoppers ~from Utah, including
male and female types of 2 species
described by the donor (87314).
HERRERA, Dr. A. L. (See under
Mexico, Government of, Direccion
General de Estudios Biologicos).
HERRERA, Sr. Prof. Fortunato L.,
Cuzco, Peru: 11 plants (83570,
85407); 98 plants from Peru
(84188, 84343, 85640, 86990, 87469).
HESS, FranK L., Washington, D. C.:
Specimen of wulfenite from Ahu-
mada, Mexico, and 1 of petzite from
Timmins, Ontario (85925). 2
(See also under J. H. McKeever,
Mar-John Mining Co., A. G. Rich-
ards, C. M. Snyder, H. E. Spradlin).
REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1925
HIBBERT, Prof. Harotp, New Haven,
Conn.: 1 lot of 3 specimens for the
Loeb collection of chemical types.
(85688).
HICKEN, Dr. C., Buenos Aires, Ar-
gentina: 2 plants from Argentina
(86055). Hxchange.
HIGGINS, Mortrmer L. J., Hartford,
Conn.: 150 beetles from Paraguay,
Rhodesia, and China (83617): 17
beetles, representing 14 species, in-
cluding 2 Buprestidae and 15 Ceram-
byecidae, from southern Rhodesia
(83647) ; 14 unidentified insects
from Richmond, Victoria, Australia ;
also 4 beetles from Gazi, Kenya,
Africa (84000); insect from SBo-
gota, Colombia, collected by Brother
Apollinaire Marie; 56 insects, in-
cluding 23 grasshoppers, 14 walking
sticks and 19 beetles, the latter rep-
resenting 2 species, all from South
America; skin of a hummingbird
from South America; 34 miscel-
laneous unidentified insects from
Heuador; 13 beetles from Parama-
ribo, Dutch Guiana; 29 butterflies
and moths from South America
(84072, 84903, 85250, 85600, 86262,
86572) ; 2 beetles from Australia
(84242) ; syrphid fly from Mexico
(84673) ; 3 butterflies and 1 moth
. (84758) ; 14 selected beetles from
Cartago, Costa Rica, collected by
Arthur HE. Gillatt, including several
varieties and 1 species new to the
Museum collections; also 5 miscel-
laneous insects from Costa Rica
(86109, 86120) ; 165 beetles and 2
specimens of Orthoptera (86510) ;
20 specimens of miscellaneous ex-
otie insects (86594) ; 7 specimens, 6
species, of land shells, including the
type of a new subspecies from the
Philippine Islands (87270).
HILDEBRAND, S. F. (See under F.
R. Shaw.)
HILDEBRAND, P. L. (See under
Gatchel & Manning (Inc.).)
HILL, A. W., Edinburgh, Scotland:
38 pictorial photcgraphs (87255).-
HILL, Mrs. C. (See under Mrs. Bur-
ton Thompson.)
145
HILL, Howarp R., Los Angeles, Calif. :
7 brachiopods from California
(84552) ; 20 specimens of marine
shells, from off California and from
the Gulf of California (85905) ; 40
shrimps from the Los Angeles River
(87142).
HILL, Dr. J. Bennett, Philadelphia,
Pa.: A new chemical compound of
tungsten (84840).
HILLHOUSH, Miss Marearet, New
York City: Lady’s “army cloak”
made of captured Confederate gray
cloth in the first Freedman’s School
established in Richmond, Va., in
1865 (87112).
HINEH, Prof. JAmeEs S., Columbus,
Ohio (through W. S. Fisher): 50
specimens of Alaskan Coleoptera
(86601).
HITCHCOCK, Prof. A. 8S. (See under
Agriculture, Department of, Bu-
reau of Plant Industry.)
HOBBS, KENNETH, Hampton Beach,
N. H.: A eollection of marine in-
vertebrates from Hampton Beach,
N. H., consisting of 25 specimens of
amphipods, 10 isopods and 1 crab,
collected by the donor (83601).
HOS, Mrs. R. G. (See under Brig.
Gen. Richard LL. Hoxie and Mrs.
Hoxie. )
HOFFMAN, Dr. WALTER FRED. (See
under Prof. Ross Aiken Gortner.)
HOLDEN, Miss Marearet L., Evans-
ton, Ill. Wood block print, hand
colored (84806).
HOLLINS COLLEGE, Department of
Zoology, Hollins, Va. (through Miss
Ida Sitler): 2 specimens of fleas
and 2 snails from Hollins, Va.
(84742).
HOLMHBS, Dr. S. J., Berkeley, Calif. :
2 shrimps from a stream near Pasa-
dena, Calif. (85246).
HOLMHS, V. ALLison, and Sim BUR-
NETT, Oakland City, Ind. : Specimen
of coal showing carbonized trunk of
a fern (84224).
HOLMES, Dr. W. H., National Gal-
lery of Art, Washington, D. C.:
Photographs of. various South
American Indian tribes (87691).
146
HOLMQUIST, Prof. A. M., Chicago,
Tll.: 10 specimens of crustaceans
(87295).
HOLT, Rozsert T., New York City:
Hermit crab from Fort Lauderdale,
Fla., collected by the donor (86626).
HOLTEDAHL, Dr. Otar, (See under
Norwegian Expedition to Novaya
Zemlya, 1921.)
HOPE GARDENS, Kingston, Ja-
maica: Plant from Hope Gardens
(84559) .
HOPKINS, J. D., Price, Utah: 4
plants (83382, 84339).
HOPKINS MARINE STATION OF
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Pa-
cifie Grove, Calif.: Type specimens
of 4 new species of holothurians
(88808).
HOPPING, Roy DE GRaw, Keokuk,
Iowa: Collection of invertebrate fos-
sils from the Keokuk limestone at
St. Moriah, Hancock County, Il.
(83562).
HOTCHKISS, Nem M., Smithsonian
Institution: 14 plants from the east-
ern United States (86805).
HOUGH, Pumr R. Hast Falls
Church, Va.: Wood specimens of
Alaska Cedar (87509).
HOUGH, Dr. Wattrr, U. S. National
Museum: Chiseled bronze chande-
lier, probably French, of the period
about 1780 (83974); tripod stone
mortar collected near Holbrook,
Ariz. (84315) ; 2 small earthenware
vessels from a prehistoric ruin at
Jettyto Springs, Ariz., collected and
presented to the donor by Mr. Rob-
erts (84757).
HOUSH, Dr. Homrr D. (See under
New York State Museum.)
HOUSEHOLDER, Vic H., Phoenix,
Ariz.: 2 fishes (87850).
HOWARD, J. D., Klamath Falls,
Oreg.: Glass ink well found on the
site of the conference between the
Modoc Indians and the United
States peace commissioners in April,
1873, which terminated in the mur-
der of Maj. Gen. H. 8. Canby, U. S.
Army, and the two.other commis-
sioners (86599).
LIST OF ACCESSIONS
HOWARD'S SON & CO., S. E., New
York City: 12 toothbrushes (85098).
HOWELL, A. H., U. S. National Mu-
seum: 4 small mammals, 2 from
Montenegro and 2 from Minnesota
(85430) ; 15 small mammals from
California (86483) ; skeleton (with-
out skull) and 2 alcoholic wood rats
from California (87435).
HOXIH, Brig. Gen. RicHarp L., U. S.
Army (retired), and Mrs. Hoxie
(through Mrs. R. G. Hoes): Girl
doll of the latter part of the nine-
teenth century (84754).
HUBBY, Miss Hiua F. (through Rol-
lin G. Hubby, Los Angeles, Calif. :
119 baskets and 6 miscellaneous
specimens (85929). Bequest.
HUCKETT, H. C., Riverhead, Long
Island, N. Y.: 44 flies, including
paratypes of 5 new species (85299).
Hxchange.
HUDDELSTON, MarsHatt, Kenil-
worth, D. C.: Barred owl (87268).
HULL, J. P. D., Shreveport, La.: 4
nodules containing crustaceans and
fossil claws belonging to a burrow-
ing shrimp from Buzzards Bluff,
' Miller County, Ark. (83397, 83486).
HUMMEL, Rev. Kart D., Glendale,
Calif.: Small collection of insects
in alecohol;'also a small lot of shells
all taken in or near Managua, Nica-
ragua, Central America (84924).
HUNGERFORD, Prof. H. B., Law-
rence, Kans.: 10 specimens of water
bugs, including paratypes of 4 spe-
cies new to the Museum collections
(85889).
HUNNEWELL, F. W., Cambridge,
Mass. : 2 plants from North Carolina
(84186).
HUNT, Hector D. R., Kampala,
Uganda, East Africa: Small col-
lection of miscellaneous insects from
Fast Africa (84017).
HURD, Dr. CHARLES DEWITT, HEvans-
ton, Ill.: 14 specimens of chemi-
cals for the Loeb collection of
chemical types (85348). +
HURDLE, Mrs. CHarRLes W., Wash-
ington, D. C.: White cotton counter-
pane woven about 1775 by Miss
REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1925
HURDLE, Mrs. CHartes W.—Contd.
Naney Manlow from cotton grown
and picked by her at Petersburg,
Va.; also three small dressed dolls
made from rolled linen rags by
Miss Manlow for her god-daughter,
Ann C. Archer, and contained in a
fancy pincushion box (85240).
HYLAND, Jack, Pazna, Bolivia: 10
specimens of minerals from Bolivia
(84984) ; examples of cassiterite
and teallite from Monserrat Mine,
Antequerra, Bolivia (86976). Ex-
change.
ILLINGWORTH, Dr. J. F., Bishop
Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii: 8 speci-
mens of flies (86294). Hxchange.
ILLINOIS NATURAL HISTORY
SURVEY, Urbana, Ill.: 47 speci-
mens of flies including paratypes of
7 species, in the family Simulidae
(86782).
ILLINOIS SCHOOL FOR THE
BLIND, Jacksonville, Ill.: Music
printing plate and prints from the
same, and 3 bound copies of songs
in Braille type (86117).
ILLINOIS, UNIVERSITY OF, Ur-
bana, Ill. (through Prof. F. L.
Stevens) : 181 plants from Panama
and South America (87002).
INDIANA CENTRAL COLLHGH,
Indianapolis, Ind. (through W. P.
Morgan) : 15 insects (853876).
INDIANA STATH MUSEUM, Indian-
apolis, Ind. (through Post Office
Department) : Handstamped letters
sent through the United States mail
prior to the general use of adhesive
stamps, 1836-1850 (78 specimens)
(86768) .
INSTITUTO BUTANTAN, Sao Paulo,
Brazil (through Dr. Afranio do
Amaral): 102 Brazilian snakes
(87860).
INTERNATIONAL HEALTH BOARD
OF THE ROCKEFELLER FOUN-
DATION, New York City (through
Dr. Frederick F. Russell) : 35 fishes
from Porto Rico (84718); fish
known as Mulatinho (87909).
147
INTERNATIONAL SHOE CO.,
Chemical Laboratory, Morgantown,
N. C. (through Sam Taylor) : Glow-
worm from North Carolina (84725).
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT:
National Park Service: 25 slabs
of Coconino sandstone contain-
ing tracks of prehistoric ani-
mals, collected by C. W. Gil-
more on the Hermit Trail,
Grand Canyon, National Park
(85556).
U. S. Geological Survey: 2 di-
nosaurian footprints from the
Mesaverde formation at the
Clear Creek coal mine, Clear
Creek, Utah (83348); set of
Creede Special rocks of the San
Juan area and a set of speci-
mens representing the igneous
rocks of the Creede formations
(83588) ; a small lot of verte-
brate fossils from the Wasatch
formation about 3 miles south-
east of Sussex, Wyoming, col-
lected by C. H. Dobbin, W. W.
Rubey, and T. W. Stanton
(84137) ; miscellaneous collec-
tions including diamond-bearing
peridotite and associations from
Arkansas; minerals from the
Queen Caddo Gap, and Hot
Springs, quadrangles, and min-
erals from the Batesville man-
ganese district, Arkansas
(84702) ; portion of a femur col-
lected by Wilmot H. Bradley
in the Bridger formation, Sand
Wash Basin, Moffat County,
Colo. (84916) ; a duplicate set of
rocks from the San Juan, Colo.
region (84961); collection of
rock and ore specimens illus-
trating a report on the Saddle
Mountain and Banner mining
districts, Ariz. (84971) ; collec-
tion of rocks and ores from the
Manhattan Mining District, Nye
County, Nev., descriptive of
Bulletin 7238, U. S. Geological
Survey, by Henry G. Ferguson
(85033) ; remains of a phena-
148
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT—Contd.
U. 8. Geological Survey—Contd.
codont collected in Sweetwater
County, Wyo., by Hdwin T.
McKnight (85289) ; 2 specimens
of Eocene fossil fish collected by
E. M. Spieker and J. B. Reeside,
jr., near Manti, Utah (85381) ;
Miocene plants from the Latah
formation near Spokane, Wash.,
collected by Kirk Bryan and J.
T. Pardee and described by F.
H. Knowlton in Professional
Paper 140—A (85412) ; 6 boxes
of miscellaneous rock and min-
eral specimens collected chiefly
by W. T. Schaller (85437); 8
lots of vertebrate fossils col-
lected by W. W. Rubey and
party in Wyoming and Mon-
tana, adjacent to the Black
Hillis (85847); collection of
Cretaceous fish remains from
the Smoky Hill chalk of Dllis
County, Kans. (85915) ; 10 speci-
mens of minerals, chiefly types,
illustrated in Bulletins 750 and
761, U. S. Geological Survey
(86081) ; the type specimen of
colemanite in limestone, de-
seribed by H. S. Gale in Profes-
sional Paper 85—A, U. 8S. Geo-
logical Survey (86509); fossil
bones of fishes from Greenhorn
limestone, Republic County,
Kans. (86615); collections il-
lustrating a monographie report
on the Leadville, Colo., district,
by J. D. Irving and G. F. Lough-
lin (87133); analyzed potash
salt samples from the Means
well, Loving County, Tex.
(87720).
(See also under California |
Agate Co., Dana Parkinson,
Spokane Public Museum,
Standard Oil Co., New York
City, and J. M. Stone.)
IOWA STATH COLLEGH, Ames,
Iowa (through Harvey L. Sweet-
man) : 14 insects (83582) ; (through
HK. G. Kelsheimer) ; 2 slides of chal-
cid flies (87278).
LIST OF ACCESSIONS
IVES, Prof. J. D., Jefferson City,
Tenn.: Small collection of insects
from a cave near Jefferson City,
Tenn. (85244); small collection in-
eluding myriopods, a salamander,
and 1 crayfish; also some teeth, 4
earthworms, 17 crayfishes, 10 bats
and some insects from Indian Cave,
Tenn. and near there (85788, 87836) ;
3 bats, a salamander, 14 isopods,
and a few insects (86316, 87202).
JACKSON, RatpeH W., Cambridge, Md. :
About 200 marine mollusks, inelud-
ing the type of a new species; 6
skins with skulls of small rodents,
and skins and skulls of 2 squirrels,
and 1 insect (83702, 83967, 87121).
JACOT, ArTHUR P. (See under Shan-
tung Christian University.)
JAHN, Dr. ALrrepo, Caracas, Vene-
zuela (through H. Pittier): Plant
Venezuela (84855) ; 10 plants from
Venezuela (87437).
JAHN, Prof. Dr. JAROSLAV J.: 21 min-
erals from Czechoslovakia (86494).
Exchange.
JAMES WALKER MEMORIAL HOS-
PITAL, Wilmington, N. C. (through
' Josephine Lyle, laboratorian) ; Tape-
worm and part of liver of a white
rat (871387).
JAPANESE BEETLE LABORATORY,
Riverton, N. J. (through Robert J.
Sim) : 32 beetles including 8 species
(85807), exchange; (through H. C.
Hallock) 12 specimens. of flies
(86104, 86961); (through J. L.
King) 2 specimens of flies (86321).
JAQUES, Mrs. BeretHa EH. (See un-
der Chicago Society of Htchers.)
JARDIN BOTANIQUEH DHE L’ETAT,
Brussels, Belgium: 98 plants from
Africa (84217). Exchange.
JAYNES, H. A., Shanghai, China: A
small collection of flies frum China
(85805).
JENKINS, C. Francis, Washington,
D. C.: Display card with 18 pho-
tographic prints mounted upon it,
all of which were sent and received
by radio, Jenkins System (83549).
JIMENEZ, Sr. Don OtTon. (See under
Sr. Don Enrique Collado.)
REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1925
JOHANNSEN, Prof. O. A., Ithaca,
N. Y.: 2 specimens of flies (85804).
JOHANSEN, Frits, Ottawa, Canada:
5 specimens of copepods collected by
Professor O’Donoghue on Vancouver
Island; 2 fishes, and 3 amphipods
(83711) ; approximately 24 speci-
mens of worms from Cape Bath-
urst, Arctic Canada (86113); ap-
proximately 700 specimens of hel-
minths (87141); 86 specimens, 16
species, of amphipods collected by
the donor in Hudson Bay during
the summer of 1920 (87460).
(See also under Canadian Gov-
ernment, Department of Marine and
Fisheries, Ottawa, Canada.)
JOHANSEN, Horcer, Summit, Canal
Zone: 12 plants from the Canal
Zone (83579, 87151, 87520) (through
Dr. C. VY. Piper) 13 plants from
Ecuador, 3 plants from the Canal
Zone (86928, 86969, 87006); 6
plants (836387, 87884).
JOHNSON, BrErtRAND L., Washington,
D. C.: Mounted skin of a pine
snake (85448).
JOHNSON, CHaRuLes, keeper of the
light, Tortugas, Fla.: 7 birds from
Dry Tortugas, Fla. (83516).
JOHNSON, C. W., Boston, Mass.: 10
specimens of named flies, and a mos-
quito (cotype) (84330, 85008).
JOHNSON, Dr. Duncan S., Baltimore,
Md.: 2 amphipods from Mount Des-
ert Island, Me. (85399).
JOHNSON, Ewtmerr, Chesterton, Ind:
Skin and skeleton of a fox squirrel,
and a skeleton and 6 skulls of small
mammals (86243).
JOHNSON, Maj. H. B., Washington,
D. C.: 3 mammals from Panama
(85449).
JOHNSON & JOHNSON (INC.), New
Brunswick, N. J.: Specimens of
dental floss, cotton rolls, and a cot-
ton roll toothbrush (85312).
JOHNS-MANVILLE (INC.), New
York City: Specimens of asbestos
yarns, fabrics, and cordage (85092) ;
2 specimens of asbestos (85238).
149
JONHS, Miss ELEANOR BH. (See under
American Physiotherapy Associa-
tion. )
JONES, Dr. G. W., Laurel, Md.: Skin
and skull of a squirrel (85444).
JONES, Dr. W. W., Jordan Valley,
Oreg. (through Victor C. Heikes) :
2 specimens of quartz with inclu-
sions of miargyrite from the Flint
district, Owyhee County, Idaho
(87251).
JORDAN, Dr. Davin Starr, Stanford
University, Calif. (through Dr.
Remington Kellogg): 5 specimens
of fossil fishes, paratypes, from the
Puente series, Upper Miocene, Lom-
poe, Calif. (83953) ; 7 slabs contain-
ing vertebrate remains from the
Miocene deposits at Lompoc, Calif.
(84884).
JOSHPH, Exiis, New York City: 2
specimens of hyrax from Abyssinia
(87868).
JUDAY, Dr. CHANcEY, Madison, Wis. :
A collection of amphipods, isopods
and mysids from Green Lake, Wis.,
zand Soo Chow, China (86817) ; 29
lots of Arctic crustaceans, 1 lot of
salpa, and 359 specimens of marine
invertebrates, together with 9 lots
of bottom samples, also insects and
mollusks collected by Dr. N. Gist
Gee in China (86978).
JUDD, H. T., Cando, N. Dak.: 3 skele-
tons of prairie chickens from North
Dakota (83525, 86796).
JUDD, New M. (See under National
Geographic Society.)
JUDGH, Frep., F. R. P. S., Hastings,
England: 100 pictorial photographs,
oil transfers, for special exhibition
during the months of March and
April (86280). Loan.
JULIO, Brother, La Paz, Bolivia: 34
plants from Bolivia; also specimen
of native copper from the Corocoro
Mines (83379).
JUNGMANN, Dr. Witiiam, Joliet,
Tll.: 4 plants and 2 photographs
(85902).
150
JUSSERAND, Madame J., care, the
French Embassy, Washington, D. C.:
Japanese doll in court
(85924). :
JUSSHRAND DINNER COMMITTER
(through Gilbert Grosvenor, Na-
tional Geographic Society, Washing-
ton, D. C.): Bronze copy of the
gold medal presented to the French
Ambassador and Madame Jules Jus-
serand, by the people of Washing-
ton, January 10, 1925 (86787).
JUTZ, E.J., Washington, D. C. (through
Smithsonian Institution, National
Zoological Park): Skin and skele-
ton of a margay from Honduras
(86463).
KANSAS, UNIVERSITY OF, Law-
rence, Kans. (through R. H. Bea-
mer): Specimen of fly (86028) ; 12
specimens of flies (86783). Ex-
change.
KARCHUTA, Mito, Cleveland, Ohio:
Specimen of bauxite from HErvenik,
Yugoslavia (86622). Exchange.
KEENE, Mrs. Minna, F. R. P. §S,,
Oakville, Ontario, Canada: 75 pho-
tographs for special exhibition
(84986, loan); 2 portraits entitled
respectively, “The Shepherd” and
“Blizabeth ”; also a group entitled
“Malay Laundry” (86959).
KELLERS, Lieut. H. C., Naval Air
Station, Hampton Roads, Va.: 600
crabs taken by the donor from
oysters at Lynn Haven Bay, Va.
(85949).
KELLOGG, ReEmMiInetToN, Washington,
D. C.: Casts of the articulated fore
limb and foot and hind flippers of
a fossil seal, from originals found
in the Lompoe deposits, California
(84951).
(See also under Dr. David Starr
Jordan). ;
KELSHEIMER, E. G.
Iowa State College.)
KELTON, Mrs. Ropert, Washington,
D. C.: Drawings and reproductions
of costumes in color, received
through W. H. Holmes (87521).
dress
(See under
LIST OF ACCESSIONS
KENYON, Lieut. Howarp N., Port-au-
Prince, Haiti (through National
Geographic Society) : Land hermit
crab collected at Haiti (85384).
KEYSER, HE. W., Washington, D. C.:
Earthenware bowl from a ruin 30
miles west of Adamana, Ariz., ecol-
lected by Maj. J. M. Culp in 1910
(853802). Exchange.
KIDWELL, GerorcEe P., Washington,
D. C.: One bird, a _sanderling
(84788).
KILLIP, EttswortH P., U. S. Na-
tional Museum: 1,160 plants from
Panama, Jamaica, and the United
States (83412, 84905).
KIMBER, Sipney A., Cambridge,
Mass.: 19 light and shade water-
marks (86075).
KING, J. L. (See under Japanese
Beetle Laboratory.)
KINSHR, B. M., Hustis, Fla.: Frag-
mentary remains of fossil turtle
from Rock Springs, Orange County,
Fla. (87232).
(See also under E. J. Brown.)
KLASE, J. S., Avon Park, Fla.: 8 in-
‘sects and 1 mollusk from Florida
(86975).
KNIGHT, Prof. H. H. (See under
Minnesota, University of.)
KNULL, J. N., Hummelstown, Pa.: 17
beetles, representatives of 12 species
(85281).
KOCH, Dr. Laven.
eralogical Museum,
Denmark.) _
KUSCHEL, RicHarp, Chicago, Ill.: 2
plants from’ Texas -(86803).
KUWANA, Prof. 8. IL, Yokohama,
Japan: 4 specimens of flies from
Japan (86276).
LAIDLAW, Dr. F. F., Hyetield, Uft-
culme, Devon, England. (through E.
B. Williamson, Bluffton, Ind.) : 17
specimens of dragon flies from Bur-
ma (86574).
LAMPH, Dr. O. J., Paramaribo, Dutch
Guiana: 14 specimens of mollusks
‘from Dutch Guiana (86758).
(See under Min-
Copenhagen,
REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1925
LANDON, Joun, Laurel, Md.: Skin,
skull, and leg bones of a wood-
ehuck (87534).
LANE, Miss Marran, Washington, D.
C.: A working design as used in
bookbinding (87522).
LANG, W. B., Midland, Tex.: About
300 specimens, 11 species, of fresh-
water shells from Duck Creek
(85000).
LANGWORTHY, Dr. CuHarites F.
(See under Mrs. Burton Thomp-
son. )
LANKESTHR, C. H., Cartago, Costa
Rica: 67 plants from Costa Rica
(84998, 87264).
LA RUE, T. W., East Las Vegas, N.
Mex. (through Mr. 8. B. Davis,
Washington, D. C.): A right lower
molar of a fossil elephant (84719).
LATCHFORD, Hon. F. R., Toronto,
Ontario, Canada: 77 specimens, 15
species, of land and fresh-water
shells from Canada and Florida
(85378).
LATHAM, Roy, Orient, N. Y.: 4 speci-
mens of ferns from New York, and
7 specimens, 5 species, of shells
from Long Island (85851, 86777).
LATIMER, H. A., Boston, Mass.:
Camera shutter (eclipse) made by
C. Prosch (86119).
LAUDOLF, Matu. J., Peebles, Wis.:
8 slabs of stone containing fossil
remains from Fond du Lae County,
Wis. (88377). —
LAUVMANN, Dr. A., Munchen, Bay-
ern, (90) Germany: 8 bird skele-
tons from Hurope (87302). Hx-
‘change.
LA VOY, Mert, New York City: Pho-
tographs of natives of British Solo-
mon Islands and miscellaneous sub-
jects (85214).
LAWRENCE & CO.
cific Mills.)
LECOMTE, Dr. H. (See under Mu-
-seum National d’Histoire Naturelle,
Paris, France.)
(5380—26——11
(See under Pa-
151
LHEDING, A. R., Sacaton, Ariz.: 2
plants from Arizona (87682).
(See also under Agriculture, De-
partment of, Bureau of Plant In-
dustry. )
LEH, Henry H., Rapid City, 8S. Dak.:
5 slabs containing fossil plants from
the Lakota formation, near Black-
hawk, S. Dak., and 20 plants (85364,
86318).
LEH, JoserH, Passagrilie, Fla.: Clus-
ter of specimens which appear to be
eges of some gastropod (87542).
LEH, W. T. (See under National
Geographic Society.)
LHMLY, Maj. R. P., U. 8S. Army,
Washington, D. C.: Specimen of
red siskin (a bird) from South
America (85371).
LENINGRAD, RUSSIA, AGRICUL-
TURAL SCIENTIFIC COMMIT-
TEH, Experimental Station of Bu-
reau of Applied Entomology
(through Dr. N. Troitsky) : 23 speci-
mens of flies (85330, exchange).
LEON, Rev. Brother, VEDADO, Havana,
Cuba: 33 specimens of ferns from
Cuba (85676). :
LEONARD, Emery C., U. S. National
Museum: 8 plants from Ohio
(86074).
LEWTON, F. L., U. 8S. National Mu-
seum: Wood specimens of David’s
Summer Lilac (87304).
LIEBERMAN, Miss L., Washington,
D. C.: Passover plate, 2 parchment
marriage contracts and 1 passport
dated Bremen 1837 (83695).
LIGHT, Prof. S. F., Berkeley, Calif. :
700 specimens of crustaceans, 5
horseshoe crabs, and 3 lots of
echinoderms collected by the donor,
at Amoy, China, and adjacent re-
gions (83534).
LILLY, Witrtram, New York City:
United States and foreign coins and
tokens, and a pocket cutter for
making quill pens (387 specimens)
(84948).
152
LINES,
(through Mrs. Willard S. Lines,
Lanham, Md.): A Colt’s revolver,
eal. .82, of the Civil War period
(84842).
LINES, Mrs. WILLARD 8.
Delos EH. Lines.)
LINK, Francis L., Jolo, Sulu, P. I.:
91 specimens of Philippine shells
(84226).
LLOYD, Dr. Joun Uri, Cincinnati,
Ohio: Plant from Florida (838329) ;
3 plants from Mexico (83384) ; 115
specimens of “fine and rare chemi-
cals”? made by the donor and con-
tained in an exhibition cabinet
(83413) ; collection of laboratory
apparatus used by Dr. John King;
a bottle of emetine, believed to be
the type specimen of this drug; an
autographed photograph of Doctor
King, and a suppository mold made
by Dr. B. W. Chapman (83422); a
pharmaceutical counter balance of
the period of 1860; a set of avoir-
dupois block weights and a set of
troy cup weights for the same
(84176) ; plant (85405) ; ophthalmo-
scope used by Dr. John King
(85844).
(See also under Mrs. Hallie Ste-
phens Caine; Dr. Louise Eastman,
Dr. H. W. Felter, Dr. W. N. Mundy,
Dr. T. T. Sidener, Dr. John J. Sut-
ter, and Dr. D. H. Welling.)
LODGH, ESTATE OF HENRY CABOT
(through John FH. Lodge): Court
costume worn by Hon. Henry Cabot
Lodge on the occasion of a recep-
tion at Buckingham Palace, London,
in 1908 (11 specimens) (87902).
LOFTUS, Mrs. Karr, Washington,
D. C.: Canary bird (87185).
LOHR, L. R. (See under American
Military Engineers, Society of.)
LONG, Miss Eprta C., Washington,
D. C.: Glass fairy lamp made in
England about 1870 (83449).
(See also under the Misses Long.)
LONG, the Missrs, Washington, D. C.
(through Miss Edith C. Long) : Sil-
ver spoon holder, cake basket, but-
(See under
LIST OF ACCESSIONS
Detos E., Jefferson, N. Y. LONG, the Misszes—Continued.
ter dish and knife of the latter part
of the nineteenth century; 3 pieces
of heavy American embroidery,
about 1840, and 5 pieces of fine
American tatting; 3 small oriental
china dishes and 6 china tea cup
covers (9 specimens) ; a very fine
example of duchesse guipure lace
(83619, 86290, 86788, 87260). Loan.
LONG; Mrs. Frora J. (See under
Emily Ruth Fox.)
LONGWELL, Prof. CHESTER R., New
Haven, Conn.: 85 specimens of Cam-
brian fossils collected in the Virgin
and Spring mountains of southern
Nevada (87683).
LOWE, Hersert N., Long Beach.
Calif.: 21 specimens, 15 species, of
marine shells from Fiji and Samoa
(83701) ; 72 specimens, 36 species,
of marine shells from Fiji Islands,
ete. (84225); coconut crab, col-
lected by the donor on Nine Islands,
Oceanica (85297); 25 isopods, 50
amphipods, 5 shrimps, and a crab
collected by the donor at Long
Beach, Calif. (85585).
LOWH, JoHn N., Marquette, Mich.:
Crayfish taken from the stomach of
a Merganser duck shot on the Boord-
man River, Grand Traverse City,
Mich. (85628).
LOWELL, Mrs. Harriet D., Washing-
ton, D. C.: A Burnside carbine and
a Remington rifle of the Civil War
period (86105). _
LOWY, Prof. Arexanprer, Pittsburgh,
Pa.: Lot of 49 specimens of chemi-
cals for the Loeb collection of chem-
ical types (85621). _
LUEDERWALDT, H., Sao Paulo, Bra-
zil: 4 wasps and 3 nests; also 11
specimens of coleopterous larvae, all
from Brazil (88593) ; 12 specimens
of flies from Brazil (85880). Ex-
change. |
LUMMIS, Sranpitry B., Fort Myers,
Fla.: 15 plants from Florida
(833876). s
LYLE, JOSEPHINE. (See under James
Walker Memorial Hospital.)
REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1925
LYON, Dr. Marcus W., jr., South
Bend, Ind.: 2 skeletons of mink from
Tremont, Ind.; skin and skull of
a rabbit; 31 skins and skulls of
small mammals from Porter County,
Ind. (88671, 84249, 86238).
LYONNET, Senor Don HPrnest, Mix-
coac, D. F., Mexico: 20 plants from
Mexico (85236, 86449).
MacCALLUM, Dr. G. A., Baltimore,
Md.: 2 slides showing the type and
paratype of a parasitic worm
(85124).
MacDOUGAL, Dr. D. T., Tucson, Ariz.
(See under Carnegie Institution of
Washington. )
MACBRIDBH, J. Francis, Chicago, Ill.:
Plant from Salvador (86456).
MACKENZIE, James. (See under
Scottish Photographic Federation,
Trynlaw, Strathaven, Lanarkshire,
Scotland.)
MAIDL, Dr. F. (See under Naturhis-
torisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.)
MAINE FELDSPAR CO., Auburn,
Me.: A capped quartz crystal and a
specimen of pegmatite from Auburn,
Me. (84200).
MALBIS, Jason, Daphne, Ala.
(through Agriculture, Department
of, Bureau of Entomology) : Box of
silkworm cocoons (87663).
MALTH, Dr. M. O. (See under Vic-
toria Memorial Museum.)
MANH#HH, Rev. A. H., Southern Pines,
N. C.: 2 beetles (paratypes)
(83951) ; 25 miscellaneous insects
from North Carolina (84223) ; 305
beetles, including the donor’s type
of one (84933). Hxchange.
MANN, Dr. Wittiam M., U. S. Na-
tional Museum: 24 bats and a small
eollection of mollusks (83520); 12
bird skins from Costa Rica (83708) ;
mock-turtle from Cosolapa, Oaxaca,
Mexico, collected by Paul Ruthling
(85926).
(See also under Ferdinand Never-
mann.)
MANSFIELD, W. C., Washington, D.
C.: 2 specimens of fresh-water mus-
sels from Lake Erie, Chautauqua
153
MANSFIELD, W. C.—Continued.
County, N. Y., and 2 specimens of
mollusks from North Carolina
(83669, 87945).
MANZ CORPORATION, Chicago, Ill.:
Book entitled “Manz Wngraving
Company, Chicago” (86084).
MAPHES, C. A., Louisa, Va.: Florida
gallinule from Virginia (87425).
MARCHAL, Dr. Pauvt, Paris, France:
A slide containing 6 paratypes of
chalcid-flies (85014). Exchange.
MARINE FISH HATCHERY & BIO-
LOGICAL STATION, Portobello,
Dunedin, New Zealand (through
George W. Thomson, chairman) :
Miscellaneous marine invertebrates
and mollusks, being tow net mate-
rial collected at Portobello (86352).
MAR-JOHN MINING CO., Sheep-
ranch, Calif. (through Frank L.
Hess): Specimen of cobalt-bearing
ore from the mines of the Mar-John
Mining Co. (84005).
MARKHAM, Witttam, Cristobal, Ca-
nal Zone: Ethnological specimens
from Panama, mainly from the San
Blas Indians (83668).
MARSH-DARIEN EXPEDITION,
THH (through R. O. Marsh), Wash-
ington, D. C.: Collection of ethnologi-
cal material, 8 shrimps, 1 crab, mon-
key skins, skeletons, etc., a small
collection of mollusks and insects,
an iguana skin, and a trunk skele-
ton of a bird, secured by the expe-
dition in 1923-24 (84900) ; 47 bird
skins collected by John L. Baer in
Panama (87499).
MARSH, Crayton C., Washington, D.
C.: 380 specimens of blind insects
and 1 blind amphipod, taken from
a well at Fair View, Loudoun
County, Va. (83668).
MARSH, R. O., Washington, D. C.
(through Mr. Paul Vogenitz) : Lower
jaw and part of skull found about
20 years ago on the bed of the St.
Lawrence River, below Prescott, On-
tario (85901).
(See also under Marsh-Darien Hx-
pedition. )
154
MARSHALL, Byron C., Imboden,
Ark.: 5 insects; grasshopper and 2
erickets; 4 yellow jackets; 5 fishes;
10 isopods and 2 insects and a small
collection of moths and _ beetles
(85003, 85291, 85653, 85667, 86799,
87222); 9 insects from Arkansas
(85090) ; 52 specimens, 2 species, of
fresh-water amphipods, and a small
collection of miscellaneous insects
from Imboden (87483).
MARSHALL, Henest B., Laurel, Md.:
4 birds from Maryland; specimen
of mourning dove from Maryland;
red-shouldered hawk from North
Carolina; shrew and the skull of a
mink; plant from Maryland; 8 speci-
mens of scoters and 1 gull from
North Carolina (85788, 86049,
86245, 86479, 87466, 87841).
MARSHALL, Henry R., Wilson, N.
C.: a merganser and 2 skulls of
muskrats (85900) ; 5 bird skins and
1 egg (87716).
MARSHALL, Witttam B. (See under
Smithsonian Institution, U. S. Na-
tional Museum, collected by mem-
bers of the staff.)
MARTIN, James V., Garden City,
Long Island, N. Y.: Original light
scout airplane known as the K-III
or Blue Bird (838905).
MARTIN, Miss Janet, Worcester,
Mass.: Smal! collection of Europeon
ethnological specimens (83631).
MARTINEZ, Sr. Don MAxtmino. (See
under Mexico, Government of, Di-
reccion General de Estudios Biolog-
icos.)
MARVEL, Prof. C. S8., Urbana, Tl: 15
new chemical compounds (84838).
MATILDA ZIHGLER MAGAZINE
FOR THH BLIND, New York City:
Map printing plate and print from
it; 1 set of sheet iron printing
plates, and a grooved writing card
(86114).
MAXSON, HeErpurt W. (See under
the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.)
(84151).
MAYER, Dr. Emin, Vienna, Austria:
6 pictorial photographs (bromoil
transfers) (85646).
LIST OF ACCESSIONS
McATHEH, W. L., Washington, D. C.:
Plant from Virginia (84817).
McCOLL, W. R., Owen Sound, Ontario,
Canada: Plant from Canada (83660).
McCONNICO, A. J. (See under Paul
Rener.)
McDADH, Miss Mary L., Hagerstown,
Md.: 2 moths with pupae and larvae,
new to the Museum collection; also
8 butterflies, 1 other moth, and 1
beetle from China (84756).
McHLVAIN, Dr. S. M., Madison, Wis.:
3 new piperidine derivatives related
in structure to cocaine for the Loeb
. collection of chemical types (84668).
McEWEN, ALFrrep, New York City: 2
microengravings (85432) ; microen-
graving of the Lord’s Prayer with a
microscope and especially designed
stand (87533); photograph of a
drawing of the micropanthograph
with improvements by the donor
(87900).
McFARLAND, FrRanK T., Lexington,
Ky.: Plant of a type collection from
Kentucky (83342).
McGRHGOR, R. C. (See under Phil-
ippine Islands, Government of, Bu-
reau of Science.)
McGUIRH, James C., New York City:
Silver card case owned during the
early part of the 19th century by
Jane Milburn of Washington, D. C.
(85575).
McINTOSH,.’CHarites F., and Law-
RENCE TUCKER, Norfolk, Va.: Clay
pipe from White Hill, Princess Anne
County, Va. (84886).
McKEE, Prof. Ratew H., Long Island
City, N. Y.: Glyceryl margarate
(Intarvin), the first synthetic food
prepared which is not, so far as is
known, found in nature (84819).
McKEEVER, J. E., Castleton, Utah
(through F. L. Hess) : Specimen of
hewettite and carnotite from Polar
Mesa, Utah (86080).
McLAURIN-JONES CO., Brookfield,
Mass.: 11 samples of flat gummed
paper, 9 of them being printed on
(85664).
REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1925
155
McNEIL, Grorce M., Nelsonville, N. | MILES, Maj. Suerman, U. S. Army,
Y.: Skin and skull of a gray squir-
rel (87467).
MECHLIN, Miss Lemna. (See under
American Federation of Arts.)
MELANDHER, Prof. A. L., Pullman,
Wash.: 5 flies (type maizterial)
(85231). Exchange.
MERRIAM, Dr. C. H.. Washington,
D. C.: 7 fresh-water shells from
California (84765).
MERRIAM, Mrs. Lewis, Washington,
D. C.: 4 gold medals, 2 gold badges,
and 2 silver medals awarded to
Maj. Lewis Merriam, U. S. Army,
in recognition of his skill in marks-
manship, also 2 bronze badges
awarded to him for service during
the Civil War and the Indian wars
(84211). Loan.
MERRILL, Etmer OD., Berkeley,
Calif.: 5 ferns from China, collected
by A. N. Steward (84778) ; 32 Hast
Indian plants (85440).
(See also under California, Uni-
versity of, Department of Botany.)
METCALF, Dr. Maymwarp M., Wash-
ington, D. C.: Collection of frogs
from Ceylon, and 2 very rare frogs
from South Africa (85322) ; a small
collection of 8 half-grown frogs and
54 tadpoles from Madras, Southern
India; also 1 insect and a leech
(87216).
MEXICO, GOVERNMENT OF, DI-
RECCION GENHRAL DE EHSTU-
DIOS BIOLOGICOS (through
Senor Don Maximino Martinez) :
Plant from Mexico (86447), ex-
change; (through Dr. A. L. He-
rrera, Director) lizard from Guerro,
Mexico (84677) ; insects from Mex-
ico (84936); 3 packets of seeds
from Mexico (87198), exchange; 3
specimens of phyllopod from Mexico
(87244).
MEYER, Dr. W. E., Cachuela Espe-
ranza, Beni, Bolivia: 16 plants
(83698, 86992).
MICHIGAN, UNIVERSITY OF, De-
partment of Botany, Ann Arbor,
Mich. (through Prof. H. H. Bart-
lett): Fern from Georgia (85662).
Exchange.
War Department, Washington, D.
C.: Presentation sword, medals, and
badges owned by Lieut. Gen. Nelson
A. Miles, U. S. Army; 27 specimens
(87861). Loan.
MILES, Maj. SHerman, U. 8S. Army,
Washington, D. C.,and Mrs. SAMUEL
Reser, New York City: Military
uniforms and accessories, and 2 flags
owned by Lieut. Gen. Nelson A.
Miles, U. S. Army, and a large pho-
tograph of him showing him in
dress uniform (26 specimens)
(87946).
MILLER, Gereatr §., jr., U. S. National
Museum: Portion of a humerus of a
fossil dugong from near Charleston,
S. C. (84709); 8 plants from Haiti
(87307).
MILLER, Rozzrt C., Berkeley, Calif. :
8 species of shipworms (83947); 3
specimens representing paratypes of
3 new species of Teredo (85891).
MILLS, Capt. Jonn W., Miami, Fla.:
63 specimens of crustaceans and 1
fish dredged by the donor off Cape
Florida (86050).
MILLS, Dr. Wittt1am C. (See under
Ohio State Archaeological and His-
torical Society, Columbus, Ohio.)
MINERALOGICAL MUSEUM, Copen-
hagen, Denmark (through Dr. Lauge
Koch) : 25 specimens of Paleozoic
invertebrates from North Greenland
(84581). Exchange.
MINNESOTA, UNIVERSITY OF, St.
Paul, Minn. (through Prof: H. H.
Knight) 3 specimens of seed corn
maggot (83989); (through Prof. R.
N. Chapman) 4 specimens of flies
(85577); (through Prof. C. O.
Rosendahl) 28 plants (85661). Ex-
change.
MINOR, Mrs. Gzeorce M., Washington,
D. C.: Dress worn by Mrs. Minor,
the donor, when president general of
the National Society of the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution,
1920-1923 (83620).
MIRGUET, C. E., U. S. National
Museum: 2 skeletons of skunks
from Rochester, N. Y. (86478) ;
skeleton of a long-eared owl from
156
MIRGUET, C. E.—Continued.
New York (87164) ; skin of an ant-
eater from Brazil (87535).
(See also under Smithsonian In-
stitution, National Museum, col-
lected by members of the staff.)
MIRGUET, J. C., Rochester, N. Y.:
Skeleton of a skunk (87538).
MISONNE, Leronarp, Gilly, Belgium:
100 pictorial photographs for tem-
porary exhibition (87862). Loan.
MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN,
St. Louis, Mo.: 4 plants (88547,
86122), exchange; 1,928 plants: from
the United States (843817). UEx-
change.
MOELLER, A. F., San Pedro, Coa-
huila, Mexico: 34 plants (88304,
84340, 87237, 87468, 87681).
MOFFAT, Atsrert L., New York City:
11 photographs of natives of north-
west China (86595).
MOHL, Joun M., U. 8. National Mu-
seum: Bronze coins of Costa Rica
issued 1921-22, and a robin (86764,
86930).
MOILLET, T. A., Vavenby, British
Columbia: 125 miscellaneous in-
sects from British Columbia (87218).
MOLL, Dr.-Ing. F'Rtepricu, Sudende-
Berlin, Germany: Piece of wood in-
fested by shipworms, and 2 speci-
mens of shipworms (87512). Hx-
change.
MONOD, M. THeEoporr. (See under
Museum National d’Histoire Nat-
urelle, Paris, France.)
MONROBH, Percy R., Lynchburg, Va.:
Plant (83489). Exchange.
MOOK, Dr. W. H., St. Louis, Mo.:
Fragment of a shell fired into Paris,
by a German long range gun, August
7, 1918 (83944).
MOORE, D. McFartan, Harrison,
N. J.: Negative glow gaseous incan-
descent electric lamp, made by the
donor between 1894 and 1895
(83688) .
MORGAN, Brent M., Washington,
D. C.: Specimen of hybrid duck from
Virginia (85272).
MORGAN, Mrs. Laura P.. (See under
Women’s World Court Committee. )
LIST OF ACCESSIONS
MORGAN, W. P. (See under Indiana
Central College).
MORRICH, CuHartes, Bakersfield,
Calif.: 2 fossil whaie skulls and a
number of miscellaneous bones
(87901).
MORTENSEN, E., Uvalde, Tex.: 27
plants from Texas (86282, 86603).
MORTENSEN, Dr. Th. (See under
Zoological Museum, Copenhagen,
Denmark. )
MUEHLBERGER, Dr. C. W. and Dr.
CuirF S. HAMILTON, Madison,
Wis.: Specimen of an arsenical
drug for the Loeb eollection of
chemical types (84966).
MUENSCHER, Dr. W. C.
Dr. F. B. Wann.)
MUIR, FREDERICK. (See under Ha-
waiian Sugar Planters’ Association
Experiment Station.)
MULFORD BIOLOGICAL EXPLO-
RATION OF THE AMAZON
BASIN, Philadelphia, Pa. (through
Dr. C. H. Higenmann): 441 speci-
mens of fishes collected by the ex-
pedition in the Amazon basin, South
America (83957).
MULFORD, H. K., CO., Philadelphia,
Pa.: 7 charts illustrating the stand-
ardization of tincture of digitalis
(84908).
MUNDHER, Norman T. A., Baltimore,
Md.: 6 reproductions of etchings
(85446).
MUNDT, Watter, Mahlsdorf a. d.
Osth, Germany: 8 plants (85026).
Exchange. -
MUNDY, Dr. Witt1aM N., Forest, Ohio
(through Dr. John Uri Lloyd): An
ophthalmoscope and a model of a
human eye, presented to the donor
by Dr. John King (83997).
MUSEU NACIONAL DO RIO DE
JANEIRO, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil:
960 plants from Brazil (87128).
MUSEUM NATIONAL D’HISTOIRE
NATURELLE, Paris, France
(through Dr. H. Lecomte): 7 pho-
tographs of type specimens of ferns
from Nicaragua, and 7 fragmentary
specimens of the ferns represented
(83372), exchange; (through M.
(See under
REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1925
MUSEUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE
NATURELLE—Continued.
Theodore Monod) 30 specimens of
isopods collected at Riviére de
Pengé, Bretagne (85005), exchange:
2 photographs of plants and a plant
(85328, 86085), exchange.
MUSTARD, Mrs. WILFRED P., Balti-
more, Md.: A brown satin dress
owned by Martha Washington
(85663). Loan.
MYERS, G. S., Bloomington, [ll.: 2
fishes from eastern North Carolina
(87936).
MYNTTI, Mixr, Ophir, Alaska: A
specimen apparently representing a
new species of ground squirrel from
Alaska (853867).
NATIONAL AMBPRICAN WOMAN’S
SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION, New
York City (through Mrs. Harriet
Stanton Blatch) : Portrait of Hliza-
beth Cady Stanton by Anna JH.
Klumpke (85083).
NATIONAL CHILD WELFARE AS-
SOCIATION (Inc.), New York City:
161 child welfare health posters
(86094).
NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON #X-
HIBITS SHOWING ADVANCES IN
SANITARY SCIENCE, Washington,
D. C.: Exhibit of the American
Social Hygiene Association (Inc.),
New York City, showing “ The way
life begins” and illustrating social
hygiene measures (86207). De-
posit.
NATIONAL GHOGRAPHIC SO-
CIETY, Washington, D. C.: Collec-
tion of approximately 60,000 sheets
of plants, about 1,600 birds, and 60
mammals from Yunnan and Sze-
chuen, China, and southeastern
Tibet, collected by the society’s ex-
pedition under the direction of J. F.
Rock (83334).
Carlsbad Cavern Hzpedition, un-
der the direction of Dr. Willis
T. Lee: 7 specimens of algae
collected at Carlsbad Cavern,
N. Mex. (83336); 1 plant
(84342) ; 187 plants from the
vicinity of Carlsbad Cavern
157
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SO-
CIHTY—Continued.
Carlsbad Cavern Hapedition—Con.
(83341) ; 2 specimens of plants
(84689) ; 57 plants collected in
. the vicinity of Carlsbad Cavern,
by Dana W. Lee, while a mem-
ber of the expedition (85001) ;
specimens of geological mate-
Yial (85020).
Central China Expedition, under
the direction of F. R. Wulsin:
Plants; collection of reptiles
and batrachians, 277 skins, and
73 alcoholic specimens of birds,
collection of mammal _speci-
mens, 6 crabs, 9 fishes, and 33
miscellaneous ethnological speci-
mens, principally from MIndo-
China; miscellaneous natural
history specimens, comprising
reptiles and batrachians, mam-
mals, birds, fishes, and insects;
18 boxes of plants; zoological
material comprising 12 mam-
mals, 1738 bird skins, a number
of birds in alcohol, and a col-
’ lection of birds’ eggs; 106
birds, a collection of mammals,
reptiles, and batrachians, 7
fishes, and 1 mollusk from
China (83339, 85877, 85870,
86086, 86469, 87004).
Pueblo Bonito Hapedition of 1924.
under the direction of Neil M.
Judd: 6 archeological specimens
collected in Chaco Canyon, N.
Mex.; skeletal material thus
far recovered in Pueblo Bonito
and Pueblo del Arroyo; archeo-
logical specimens obtained in
or near Chaco Canyon (84885,
85084, 85832) ; human skeletal
and archeological material from
Carlsbad Cavern (87718).
(See also under Lieut. Howard N.
Kenyon.)
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IRELAND,
Dublin, Ireland: 3882 plants from
Ireland (86030). Exchange.
NATIONAL PRESS CLUB, Washing-
ton, D. C. (through George EF. Au-
thier, president): Oil painting by
158
NATIONAL PRESS CLUB—Contd.
John Innes showing President Hard-
ing delivering an address at Staniey
Park, Vancouver, British Columbia,
July 26, 1923 (83642).
NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM,
Vienna, Austria (through Dr. F.
Maidl) : 18 specimens, representing
11 species, of bembecid wasps
(through Dr. H. Zerny) ; 4 flies, one
of them a type, a specimen of fly;
100 specimens of cryptogams (Kryp-
togamae Wxsicatae 28); (83443,
84027, 84079, 85904), exchange; frag-
mentary type specimen of a Chinese
plant (87235). Hxchange.
NATURHISTORISKA RIKS-
MUSEUM, Stockholm, Sweden
(through Dr. Nils Odhner): 14
specimens of fossils from fresh-
water beds of China (87204). Hx-
change.
NAVY DEPARTMENT:
Series of ship models showing the
development of the United
States Navy, 1776-1920 (17
specimens) (83713); German
submarine periscope captured
during the World War (85233).
Bureau of Aeronautics: 3 avia-
tion photographs to complete
the Museum’s collection of
prominent aircraft (83963); &
aviation photographs (85564).
Bureau of Navigation: 8 silver
cups and 1 silver plaque award-
ed to the winners in athletic
events held under the auspices
of the United States Navy
(83961).
NEHRGAARD, Miss Etna M. pr, New
York City: Piece of tapestry and
7 photographs of tapestries (83430) ;
a Tawido Little Indian loom
(87489).
NESLINH, Miss DorotHy, Washing-
ton, D. C.: Young yellow-billed
euckoo (83692).
NHSSEHL, HERMAN.
zenphysiologisches
Universitat, Berlin.)
(See under Pflan-
Institut der
LIST OF ACCESSIONS
NEVHRMANN, FERDINAND, San Jose,
Costa Rica: Collection of ants and
beetles (85582); (through Dr. Wil-
liam M. Mann) 2 salamanders and
4 snakes from Costa Rica (87129) ;
miscellaneous. insects from Costa
Rica (87908).
NEW JERSEY ZINC CO., New York
City: 6 exhibition jars containing
cadmium metal; ‘‘ Golden yellow”
cadmium oxide; ‘Lemon yellow”
cadmium oxide; zine sulphide;
“Kadox” zine oxide; ‘“ Albalith”
lithophone (83415).
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN,
Bronx Park, New York City: 44
plants from Cuba (83306, 83589,
85786, 87183, 85660) ; 52 plants and
1 drawing (838310, 83386, 83514,
83591, 83644, 84125, 84238, 85654,
87465) ; 88 plants from the West
Indies (883878, 83542, 84240); 128
plants from Porto Rico (88418,
84829, 87286, 87311) ; 4 plants from
Trinidad (886538, 84166, 84839) ;
photograph of a plant (84257) plant
from Panama (87551). WHxchange.
NEW YORK STATE AGRICUL-
TURAL EXPERIMENT STATION,
Geneva, N. Y. (through Alwin
Berger) : Plant (88664). Exchange.
NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM, AI-
bany, N. Y. (through Dr. Homer D.
House): 78 plants from New York
(85251). Hxchange.
NIEUWLAND, Prof. J. A., Notre
Dame, Ind.: 26-specimens of chemi-
cals for the Loeb collection of chem-
ical types (87703).
(See also under Notre Dame Uni-
versity.)
NININGER, Prof. H. H., McPherson,
Kans.: Portion of an individual of
the Brenham, Kans., meteoric stony
iron (85823); portion of an indi-
vidual of the meteorite of Brenham,
Kans. (86741) ; 2 slices of meteoric
iron, Ivanpah, Calif., and Chilkoot
Inlet, Alaska (87458) ; slice of the
Carleton, Ariz., meteoric iron
(87693). Exchange.
REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1925
NORTH CAROLINA DHPARTMENT
OF AGRICULTURE, Division of
Entomology, Raleigh, North Caro-
lina: (through C. S. Brimley): 4
flies including types of 3 new species
(87895).
NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTUR-
AL HXPERIMENT STATION, Ra-
leigh, N. C.: 6 bees, being types of
5 species recently described by Mr.
T. HE. Mitchell (87855).
NORTH CAROLINA, UNIVERSITY
OF, Chapel Hill, N. C.: 5 specimens
of butterflies from Peru (85710).
NORTHERN PINE MANUFACTUR-
ER’S ASSOCIATION, THH. (See
under Cloquet Lumber Co.)
NORWEGIAN EXPEDITION TO NO-
VAYA ZHMLYA, 1921 (through Dr.
Olaf Holtedahl Geological Museum,
Oslo, Norway): 150 specimens of
Cambrian fossils from Novaya
Zemlya (87694).
NOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY, De-
partment of Botany, Notre Dame,
Ind. (through Dr. J. A. Nieuwland) :
171 plants. (87852). HWxchange.
NOVOGRABLENOF, P. T., Petropav-
lovsk, Kamchatka via Vladivostok,
Russia: 25 plants from Kamchatka
(83678) .
NOYES, FAMILY OF BENJAMIN B.
(through Miss Louise A. Noyes,
Baltimore, Md.): Silver medal
awarded by Hmperor Alexander II
of Russia to Benjamin Noyes in
1857 in recogntion of his services
in connection with the construction
of screw engines for the. Russian
Gunboat fleet, and a diploma award-
ing the medal (87065).
NOYES, Miss Loutsr. (See under
Noyes, Family of Benjamin B.
Noyes. )
NUTTING, Mrs. Hargizt W., Wash-
ington, D. C.: 21 engravings, 6 mez-
zotints, 27 lithographs, and 6 collo-
types, comprising 60 prints in all;
also a damaged painting in oil on
paper, probably an early Thomas
_ Sully (88952).
ODHNER, Dr. Nits. (See under Na-
turhistoriska Riksmuseum. )
75380—26——_12
159
O'HARA, CHarLes BE. (See under the
Seymour Co., New York City.)
OHIO STATH ARCHAHOLOGICAL
AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Co-
lumbus, Ohio (through Dr. Wm. C.
Mills, director) : Skeletal material
from various localities in Ohio
(85936).
OLDROYD, Mrs. I. S., Stanford Uni-
versity, Calif.: 3 specimens, 2 spe-
cies, of mollusks from California
(86786) ; approximately 40 speci-
mens, 9 species, of land, fresh-water
and marine shells from various lo-
ealities, including the types of 2
new species (87271).
O'NHILL, Rey. HucxH, Gainesville,
Wla.: 116 plants from Florida
(85792, 86951, 87537); 120 plants
(86788) ; 155 plants from Tennessee
and Florida (86739).
DORA, Madam, Vienna,
portraits (86239).
ORCUTT, C. R., Hl Paso, Tex.: 26
plants from Texas (83302, 838346,
83685, 84147, 84892, 84558) ; 3 plants
and a small collection of Cretaceous
invertebrates; also 67 specimens, 7
species, of land and fresh-water
shells from Texas (83484); 133
plants (83487, 83567, 85928, 86789,
87287) ; 8 plants and a smali lot of
invertebrate fossils (83633) ; skele-
ton of an opossum (83987); 212
plants from Mexico; 1 crab, 1 lot
of shells, and 1 lot of insects, all
from Mexico (87473, 84745, 84861,
84920, 85085, 86281, 86596, 86987,
87453).
ORNDOREF, Prof. W. R., Ithaca, N.
Y.: 12 specimens of new chemical
compounds for the Loeb collection
of chemical types (84936).
ORNDORFYF, Prof. W. R., and W. R.
BARRETT, Ithaca, N. Y¥.: Sample
of isophenolphthalein which is the
first compound to be prepared of a
new class of phthaleins (84241).
O’ROKE, Prof. E. C., Brookings, S.
Dak.: 8 amphibians from South Da-
kota (84922).
(See also under South Dakota
State College.)
Austria: 3
160
ORTEGA, J. G., Mazatlan, Sinaloa,
Mexico (through Department of
State) : 14 plants (Cacti) (83325) ;
2 plants (83988, 84058) ; 310 Mexi-
ean plants and 21 photographs of
eacti (84978) ; 192 plants from Mex-
ico (838945, 87181).
OTIS, Ira C., Seattle, Wash.: 20 ferns
from Washington (85927).
OVER, Prof. W. H. (See under
South Dakota, University of.)
OZMER, R. R., Everglades, Fla.:
Moth from Florida (86234).
PACKARD, Mrs. HENRIETTA MARIE,
Washington, D. C. (through Miss
Marie Allen Packard) : Serape from
Saltillo, Mexico, about 100 years old
(84707).
PACKARD, Miss Marte ALLEN. (See
under Mrs. Henrietta Marie Pack-
ard.)
PACIFIC BIOLOGICAL LABORATO-
RIES, Pacific Grove, Calif. (through
Dr. HE. F. Ricketts): 5 cerinoids
(87717).
PACIFIC MILLS, Lawrence, Mass.
(through Lawrence & Co., Boston,
Mass.) : 49 38-yard cuts of cotton
goods, and sample cards showing 22
fabrics in various patterns and color
combinations (87702).
PADILLA, Senor Dr. Sisto ALBERTO,
Ahuachapan, El Salvador, Central
America: 7 plants from Salvador
(83539, 86072).
PALACHH, Prof. CHARLES. (See un-
der Harvard University, Depart-
ment of Mineralogy and Petrogra-
phy).
PALMER, R. H., Palo Alto, Calif.:
Fossil crab (holotype) (87281).
PARAMARIBO, DUTCH GUIANA,
AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT
STATION (through Mr. A. Reyne) :
A small collection of insects from
Dutch Guiana (84157) ; also
through Mr. Reyne, insects and 9
parasitic worms from fishes
(84194); 15 plants (87288, ex-
change).
PARCEH, 8S. C., Washington, D. C.:
300 moths from Colombia, and 60
miscellaneous insects (86586).
LIST OF ACCESSIONS
PARDOE, Dr. J. B., Bound Brook,
_N. J.: 2 pictorial bromide prints
(83340).
PARISH, S. B., Berkeley, Calif.:
Plant from the Colorado Desert
(85873) ; plant from California
(86299).
PARKE, DAVIS & CO., Detroit, Mich.
(through Mr. O. A. Farwell) : Plant
(83638) ; (through Dr. F. O. Tay-
lor) 13 samples of organic chemicals
for the Loeb collection of chemical
types, all of which have been pre-
pared for the first time (87180).
PARKER, A. C., Altmar, N. Y.: A fe-
male specimen of green cockroach
(87246).
PARKINSON, Dana, Salt Lake City,
Utah (through Interior Department,
U. S. Geological Survey): 4 speci-
mens of stalactites from Timpanogos
Cave (84980).
PARKS, Prof. W. A. (See under
Royal Ontario Museum of Paleon-
tology.)
PARMELEHR, Mrs. JAamMeEs, Washing-
ton, D. C.: A framed ‘photographic
portrait of the grandfather of the
donor, Lieut. (later Commander)
Matthew Fontaine Maury, U. S.
Navy (86982).
PARTRIDGE, Rot, Mills College,
Calif.: 67 etchings and 6 drawings
for special exhibition (85665) .
Loan.
PATTISON, Mrs. Susan L., Canutillo,
Tex.: Specimen of cactus (83449).
PATTON, James H., Brookline, Mass. :
Wood-engraving by Timothy Cole,
portrait of Mrs. James H. Patton
(87956) ©
PAYNE, Eucene H., Columbia, Mo.:
22 bats (84179).
PAYSON, Prof. E. B. (See under
Wyoming, University of, Depart-
ment of Botany.) ~—
PEARCY, Ernest H., Jonesboro, Ark. :
Harthworm showing an abnormal
bifurcation of the head (83363).
PELLOUX, Prof. A., Genoa, Italy: 5
specimens of minerals from Italy
(84985) ; specimen of the mineral
traversoite and one of cerussite
REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1925
PELLOUX, Prof. A.—Continued.
from Sardinia (85671) ; specimen of
the mineral simenellite from Tus-
eany (87892). WUWxchange.
PEMBERTON, J. R. (See under
California, University of, Museum
cf Vertebrate Zoology, and Dr. A.
Wetmore. )
PENNINGTON, Miss Mary ENGcLg#,
New York City: Shell flower vase
with stand of Italian marble
(84073, deposit).
PERARD, Vicror, New York City:
Portraits, by the donor, of Marshal
Ferdinand Foch and Gen. John J.
Pershing (85461).
PHREZ, Giteert §S., Lucena, Tayabas,
P. I.: 2 spiders, representing types
of the species (85088).
PERKINS INSTITUTION FOR
THE BLIND, Watertown, Mass.: 8
specimens illustrating printing for
the blind (86267) ; 2 photographs
and 8 other prints of machines used
in printing for the blind (87715) ;
9 specimens illustrating methods of
printing for the blind (87947).
PERRY, Curtis A., Sanibel, Fla.:
Sponge and 13 mollusks from Flor-
ida, (85298, 87118, 87518).
PERSHING, Gen. JouHn J., U. S. Army
(retired), Washington D. C.: Mili-
tary flags, maps and posters, and
office desk with accessories, an oak
table, oak stationery case and 2
square glass ink wells on an oak
base, used during the World War by
General Pershing at A. EH. F. Gen-
eral headquarters, Chaumont, France
(88 specimens) (87940). Loan.
PFLANZENPHYSIOLOGISCHES IN-
STITUT DER UNIVERSITAT
BERLIN, Berlin-Dahlem, Germany
(through Herman Nessel) : Portion
of type specimen of a plant (86445) ;
4 photographs of plants (87939).
Exchange.
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, GOVERN-
MENT OF:
Bureau of Science, Manila:
(through R. C. McGregor): A
small collection of miscellaneous
insects and a snake (84025) ;
161
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, GOVERN-
MENT OF—Continued.
Bureau of Science—Continued.
also through Mr. McGregor, 5
collections of miscellaneous in-
sects from the Philippine
Islands (84221, 84828, 85820,
86967, 87452).
PIERCE, Roy G. (See under Agri-
culture, Department of, Bureau of
Plant Industry.)
PING, Prof. C., Nanking, China: 12
specimens of fishes collected at
Hainan, China, and 10 spiders col-
lected at Nanking, China (85426) ;
18 specimens, 8 species of mollusks,
and 4 crustaceans from Hainan
(85568) ; 8 fishes from Yen-Ting,
Weng Chow, and Chefoo, China
(85629).
(See also under Science Society
of China.)
PIPER, Dr. C. V., Washington, D. C.:
Cultivated fern from British Co-
lumbia (85266); plant from Texas
(853800); 2 plants from Peru
(85408) ; 8 ‘plants (87842, 87857) ;
7 plants from British Guiana
(87455).
(See also under Agriculture, De-
partment of, Bureau of Plant In-
dustry, Holger Johansen, and Kirke
Whited.)
DITTIBR, H., Caracas, Venezuela: 3
small collections of miscellaneous
insects from Venezuela (84325,
85245, 85867) ; about 150 specimens
of land and fresh-water shells, con-
sisting of 9 species; also 6 sreci-
mens of larva cases of caddis fly
(84792) ; 115 plants and 103 mol-
lusks from Venezuela (84860, 87441,
85894) ; snake from Caracas, and a
small collection of insects (87550).
(See also under Dr. Alfredo Jahn,
and Sr. José Saer.)
POMEROY, C. S., Riverside, Calif.:
Plant from southern California
(86751).
POMONA COLLEGE, £Claremont,
Calif. (through Miss Lois M. Bal-
lou) : Insect from California
(87193) ; type material of a plant
from Mexico (87536). Exchange.
162
POOLH, A. J., U. S. National Mu-
seum: 2 meadow mice; 16 reptiles
and 42 batrachians, collected near
Vineland, N. J.; skin and skull of a
meadow mouse from the District of
Columbia (84802, 86462, 87149).
PORTLAND CEMENT '‘ASSOCIA-
TION, Washington, D. C.: Framed
facsimile of the original patent
granted by King George IV of Hng-
land, October 21, 1824, to Joseph
Aspdin on Portland cement (86970).
POST OFFICH DEPARTMENT: 15
sets of specimen stamps, etc., in
triplicate (5491 specimens), re-
ceived from the International Bu-
reau of the Universal Postal Union,
Berne, Switzerland (83354, 838578,
84445, 84674, 84910, 85264, 85356,
85396, 85872, 86275, 86809, 87199,
87320, 87540, 87859) ; 1 set of post-
age due stamps of Chile issued 1924
(11 specimens) (84666); 3 speci-
mens of the 25 centimos postage
stamp issued by the Government of
Venezuela, 1924, in commemoration
of the battle of Ayacucho, 1824
(85375) ; United States postage
stamps, in triplicate, issued 1925
(24 specimens) (879380).
(See also under Indiana State
Museum. )
POTTHR, H. L., El Paso, Tex.:
plants (83528, 83598, 87236, ey
Hxchange.
POTTS, F. A., Fortuna, Porto Rico;
Skin of Hudsonian curlew (83950).
POTTS, Gen. R. D., U. 8S. Army, Wash-
ington, D. C.: Collection of miscel-
Janeous Philippine and North Amer-
ican Indian ethnological specimens
(853817).
POWELL, A. W. B., Auckland, New
Zealand: 7 specimens, 3 species, of
mollusks from New Zealand, not
heretofore represented in the Mu-
seum collections (85641).
POWERS, Mrs. FRANCES MROoOME,
Washington, D. C.: Collection of
chinaware, lamps, work baskets,
and other objects (87695).
LIST OF ACCESSIONS
POWHRS-WHIGH TM AN-ROSEN-
GARTEN CO., Philadelphia, Pa.: 2
specimens of arsenicals used in
medicine (85311).
PRESTON, Miss Kate B., Alexandria,
Va.: 1,600 insects, chiefly Lepi-
Goptera (85009).
PRETORIA, AGRICULTURE DE-
PARTMENT OF, Division of Bot-
any, Union of South Africa: 100
plants from Africa (86630). Ex-
change,
PRO-PHY-LAC-TIC BRUSH CO,,
Florence, Mass.: 6 tooth brushes
(85097).
PROROK, Count Byron KuHuN DE
(See under ree Society
of Washington.)
PSOTA, Dr. Franx J., Chicago, Il.:
24 determined exotic beetles (84039).
PURPUS, Dr. C. A., Huatusco, Vera
Cruz, Mexico: 6 plants from Vera
Cruz (85795); 2 plants (84672).
237 specimens of lichens collected
‘in Mexico by Dr. J. A. Purpus
(86602).
PURPUS, Dr. J. A., Darmstadt, Ger-
many; 427 plants collected in Mex-
ico by the donor (86512, 86602).
RAIZOSS, Dr. Groren W., Phila-
delphia, Pa.: 1 lot of 12 specimens
of arsenical compounds (83984).
RAND, Col. Irving Watiace, U. S.
Army (retired), Portsmouth, N. H.:
50 beetles from Bolivia (85796).
RANDS, R. D. (See under Agricul-
ture, Department of, Bureau of
Plant Industry.)
RAYMOND, Dr. Percy BH. (See un-
der Smithsonian Institution, Na.
tional Museum, collected by mem-
bers of the staff.)
RHBHR, Mrs. SAMUEL, New York
City: Silver and bronze shield pre-
sented to Lieut. Gen. Nelson A.
Miles, U. 8S. Army, by the officers of
the Fifth U. S. Infantry (87949).
Loan.
(See also. under Maj.
Miles, U. S. Army.)
Sherman
REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1925
RECORD, Prof. Samvure.L J., New Ha-
ven, Conn. (See under Yale Uni-
versity, School of Forestry.)
REBEVH, Dr. C. 8., New York City: 1
lot of chemicals consisting of 55
specimens for the Loeb collection of
chemical types (87711).
REID, Hart D., U. S. National Mu-
seum: Trigger-fish, probably from
Florida (87934).
REMFELDT, Aacz, Oslo, Norway: 7
portraits (84983).
RENER, Pau, Concordia Mine, Pis
Pis District, Nicaragua (through A.
J. MeConnico, American Consul,
Bluefields, Nicaragua, and Depart-
ment of State): Tree root from
Nicaragua completely enveloping a
stone (86455).
REYNE, A. (See under Paramaribo,
Dutch Guiana, Agricultural Experi-
ment Station.)
REYNOLDS, FrReperick, New York
City: 75 mezzotints and aquatints,
all the work of the donor for tem-
porary exhibition (85875, loan); 4
mezzotints (86480).
RICH, Mrs. RicHarp A., Washington,
D. C. (through David H. Roberts) :
Footwarmer of the period of the
Civil War (87197).
RICH, Wituis H., Washington, D. C.:
Snake from near Chain Bridge on
the Virginia side (85419).
RICHARDS, A. G., Albany, Wyo.
(through F. L. Hess): 2 specimens
of allanite (84774).
RICHARDSON, Mrs. T. J., Minne-
apolis, Minn.: Collection of water
color paintings of early Alaskan
scenes (83513).
RICHMOND, Dr. CuHarues W., U. S.
National Museum: 35 bird skins rep-
resenting 20 genera and 28 species,
new to the Museum collections
(853878).
RICKHR, P. L., Washington, D. C.:
Plant from Maryland (88548).
(See also under Agriculture, De-
partment of, Bureau of Plant In-
dustry.)
163
RICKETTS, Dr. BH. F. (See under
Pacific Biological Laboratories. )
RIDER, Dr. W. H., Danbury, Conn.:
Grooved stone ax excavated in Dan-
bury, in 1876 (85607).
RIHNHARD, H. J., Amherst, Ohio: 30
specimens of flies, paratypes of 4
species (84952); 388 specimens of
flies (87813). Hxchange.
RIGGIN, Dr. I. C., Richmond, Va.:
Blind amphipod taken from a water
supply at or near Richmond
(86499).
RIKSMUSHETS BOTANISKA AY-
DELNING, Stockholm, Sweden
(through Dr. I. Urban) : 222 ferns
collected in Cuba by E. Ekman
(84152) ; 285 plants from Spitz-
bergen and Scandanavia (86766).
Exchange.
RILEY, J. H., U. S. National Museum:
5 bird skins from North America,
and 2 bird skins from Virginia
(85605, 86929).
ROADS, Miss Katie M., Hillsboro,
Ohio: 19 plants from Ohio (83371,
83425, 87549) ; 5 plants (84333).
ROBBINS, Mrs. BrertHa M., Wash-
ington, D. C.: Mounted specimen of
bird, roseate spoonbill, from Florida
(84218).
ROBERTS, Davip E. (See under Mrs.
Richard A. Rice.)
ROBERTS, O. E., Jr., U. S. National
Museum: A hooked rug of present
day native handiwork, brought to
the United States by a member of
Dr. Grenfel’s Mission in Labrador
(87805). Loan.
RGBINSON, Dr. I. H., Bridgetown,
Barbadoes, British West Indies: 2
photographs of plants and 10
plants (84715, 85271).
ROCHESTHR PARK DEPARTMENT,
Rochester, N. Y. (through William
L. G. Edson) : 9 plants and 4 photo-
graphs of plants (83337, 83529,
84075, 84171, 84557, 84711, 85934,
87280), exchange; plant (83446).
ROCK, JosrpH F. (See under G. C.
Groff and National Geographic So-
ciety. )
164
RODDY, Dr. H. Justin, Millersville,
Pa.: 7 specimens of Lower Cam-
brian trilobites from near Lancas-
ter, Pa. (87177).
ROEBLING, Col. WaAsuineton A.,
Trenton, N. J.: A crystal of colum-
bite from the Etta Mine, Keystone,
S. Dak. (84733) ; crystal of axinite
from Riverside, Calif.,and 1 of gar-
net from Ramona, Calif. (85270) ;
16 specimens of mineral from Frank-
lin Furnace, N. J. (86472, 86618) ;
specimen of the mineral olivenite
from Cornwall, England, and 1 of
parasite from Greenland (87662) ;
30 specimens of minerals (87666).
ROGERS, Epwarp H., Devon, Conn.:
Fragmentary Indian skeletal ma-
terial from Milford, Conn. (85615).
ROGERS, Archdeacon F. A., Grahams-
town, South Africa: 194 plants from
South Africa (86801, 86941).
ROHWER, Miss Hester M., Port-au-
Spain, Trinidad, British West In-
dies: 150 unidentified miscellaneous
insects from Trinidad (879388).
ROHWER, S. A. (See under Smith-
sonian Institution, Division of In-
sects. )
ROIG, Dr. Mario S., Havana, Cuba: 7
specimens, 5 species, of crustaceans
from Cuba (84939); 50 casts of
fossil shells from various localities
in Cuba (85112).
ROJAS, Prof. Rusren Torres, Cartago,
Costa Rica: 2 frogs from Costa
Rica (83450); 9 specimens, 2
species, of isopods from Cartago
(84056) ; 216 plants from Costa
Rica (87262).
ROLLOT, Maurice A., Bogota, Colom-
bia (formerly Bro. Ariste Joseph) :
Human skeletal remains from Co-
lombia (83374) ; 10 plants from Co-
lombia (83416) ; pottery head found
in a tomb in a Chiocha ruin at
Guasea, Colombia, 1916 (84178);
58 plants, chiefly from Colombia,
also ethnological specimens (85802).
ROSENBERG, H., Copenhagen, Den-
mark: 7 species of larvae and other
stages of beetles (83515) ; 21 speci-
mens of beetle (86100). Exchange.
LIST OF ACCESSIONS
| ROSENDAHL, Prof. C.O. (See under
Minnesota, University of, Depart-
ment of Botany.) :
ROSS, BERNARD R., Fort William, On-
tario, Canada: Collection of ethno-
logical specimens from Indians of
the Canadian Northwest consisting
of woman’s quill-decorated costume,
soft-tanned buckskin robes, ete.
(87699).
ROST, EH. C., Alhambra, Calif: 6
plants (83312, 83635, 86965) .
ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, Edin-
burgh, Scotland: 150 specimens of
Chinese plants (85813). Exchange.
ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM OF
MINERALOGY, ‘Toronto, Canada:
12 specimens of Canadian minerals
(87862). Hxchange.
ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM OF
PALEONTOLOGY, Toronto, Canada
(through Prof. W. A. Parks) : 52
specimens, 16 species, of Ordovician
fossils comprising bryozoans and
brachiopods (86743).
ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM OF
ZOOLOGY, Toronto, Canada
(through N. K. Bigelow) : 21 speci-
mens of Santo Domingo beetles; 21
beetles belonging to the family Cy-
rambycidae and 14 belonging to the
family Buprestidae, all from Santo
Domingo (86111, 86971). Exchange.
ROYAL PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCINTY,
THE, London, England: Bromide
enlargement showing the Fox Tal-
bot collection ®f apparatus at the
Royal Society (84446).
RUBBER ASSOCIATION OF AMER-
ICA (INC.), THE, New York City:
72 specimens illustrating the use of
rubber in dentistry and the manu-
facture of base plate and veneer
dental rubber (83559); 44 one-half
pairs of rubber boots and shoes
(83625) ; 116 specimens of miscel-
laneous rubber articles and 1 board
on which are mounted 36 specimens
showing the manufacture of rubber
heels (83672) ; 66 photographs il-
lustrating the production and utili-
zation of rubber (84929) ; 3 photo-
graphs illustrating the alkali proc-
REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1925
RUBBER ASSOCIATION OF AMER-
ICA (INC.), THE—Continued.
ess of rubber reclamation (85040) ;
83 photographs illustrating crude
rubber preparation, rubber com-
pounding, and the manufacture of
footwear, insulated wire, hard rub-
ber articles, rubber clothing, and
golf balls (85327); 4 photographs
illustrating the manufacture of rub-
ber gloves and hot-water bottles
(85871); the exhibit materials
shown by the association at the
Sixth International Rubber Hxposi-
tion, held in Brussels , Belgium,
April 1-16, 1924, and consisting of
manufactured rubber articles, speci-
mens illustrating manufacturing
processes, statistical charts, painted
sereens, stands, curtains, and other
installation fixtures, a baloptican
and 71 lantern slides (86931).
RUDGE, WiLt1am Epwin, New York
City: 6 specimens illustrating the
Aquatone process (87840) ; 2 exam-
ples of letter-press printing on
parchment (86264).
RUDOLF, Max, Daoos Wolfgang,
Switzerland: 10 ‘pictorial photo-
graphs of Alpine scenery (85916).
RUNYON, Rogert, Brownsville, Tex.:
59 plants (84068, 84121, 84987,
87231, 87888) ; 25 plants from Texas
(85836, 86964); 145 plants from
Texas and Mexico (87276) ; 6 pho-
tographs of plants (85864, 87309,
87463) ; 10 plants and 2 photographs
of plants (87706).
RUSBY, Dr. H. H., New York City:
21 plants from South America
(84239, 85350, 87250).
RUSSELL, Dr. Freprrick F. (See
under International Health Board
of the Rockefeller Foundation. )
RUTH, Prof. Atzert, Polytechnic,
Tex.: 32 plants (84862).
SAER, Sr. Jos#, Barquisimeto, Vene-
zuela (through 4H. Pittier): 61
plants from Venezuela (84859,
87440).
ST. ELMO, W. M., Santo Domingo
City, Dominican Republic: Plant
from the Dominican Republic
(83501).
SCHAUS, WILLIAM.
165
SAKLATWALLA, Dr. B. D., Bridge-
ville, Pa.: 15 specimens of chemi-
cals for the Loeb collection of
chemical types (87709).
SALAS, Sr. Don Jorge E. (See under
Guatemala, Government of, Direc-
cion General de Agricultura.)
SALMAN, K. A., San Salvador, El
Salvador, Central America: Miscel-
laneous insects from Central Amer-
ica (85831).
SALVADOR, GOVERNMENT OF,
DIRECCION GENERAL DE AGRI-
CULTURA (through Dr. Salvador
Calderon) : 115 plants from NSalva-
dor (8338038, 84904, 87265, 87661,
87933) ; 35 bird skins from Salvador
(83618, 838994).
SAMPSON, Epwarp, Washington,
D. C.: Egyptian, Graeco-Roman,
and Japanese antiquities and an-
tique glassware (86612). Loan.
SANBORN, Exzwin R. (See under
Dr. EH. Clement. )
SANDBERG MANUFACTURING
CO., Chicago, Ill.: 2 wood blocks
for engraving made of a veneer of
boxwood on a base of maple
(853804) ; 4 specimens of boxwood
as used for wood engravers’ blocks
(85599).
SANDHRS, A. E., Washington, D. C.:
Short-eared owl from the vicinity
of Washington, D. C. (85298).
SANDERSON, J. G., Courtland, Ala.:
An Indian skeleton found in an
Indian village site near Courtland
(84133).
SARGENT, Homer E., Pasadena,
Calif.: Skin and skull of a bear;
also horn core of a fossil bison
(85036).
SCHAHFEFER, CHARLES.
Brooklyn Museum, The.)
(See under
Smithsonian Institution, Division of
Insects. )
SCHLESCH, Hans, Copenhagen, Den-
mark: 9 fresh-water shells from
Greenland (87829).
SCHMID, Epwarp S., Washington, D.
C.: 26 birds (83693, 83964, 85269,
85790, 86818, 86942, 87174) ; pigeon
(bleeding heart) from the Philip-
(See under
166
SCHMID, Epwarp S.—Continued.
pine Islands (84716); monkey
(86485) ; skin and skeleton of a do-
mestic dog (87146).
SCHULTZ, Dr. A. H., Baltimore, Md.:
9 bats from Nicaragua (84811).
SCHWARZ, Dr. H. A. (See wnder
Smithsonian Institution, Division of
Insects. )
SCIDMOREH, Miss E. R., Nice,
France: Lantern slides of Chinese
scenes (85816).
SCIENCE MUSHUM, THE, London,
Hngland: 8 photographs of import-
ant clocks and clock movements, as
follows: Egyptian shadow clock;
Model of Galileo’s pendulum; Wells
cathedral clock (2 views); Dover
Castle clock; John Harrison’s clock
(2 views), and Vulliamy clock for
King George III (86894).
SCIHNCH SOCIHTY OF CHINA,
THE, Nanking, China (through
Prof. C. Ping) : 2 specimens of ma-
rine shells from Nanchi, China
(84231) ; 15 specimens of shells, 8
species, from Hainan (85106); 10
specimens, 4 species, of mollusks, 4
frogs, and 5 crustaceans (85423).
SCOTTISH PHOTOGRAPHIC FED-
ERATION, THH, Trynlaw, Strat-
haven, Lanarkshire, Scotland
(through James Mackenzie, secre-
tary) : 90 pictorial photographs, for
exhibition during September and
October (84248). Loan.
SELDEN CO., THE, Pittsburgh, Pa.
(through J. M. Selden, jr.) : Phtha-
lic acid anhydride for the Loeb col-
lection of chemical types (84555).
SENOUR, Mrs. Caro. (See under
Mrs. Caro Achison Smith.)
SEOANH®, Col. C. A. (See under War
Department, Signal Corps.)
SESSIONS, James M., Woodville,
Miss.: Fossil tooth of a mastodon
(85051).
SEYMOUR CoO., THH, New York City
(through Mr. Charles HE. O'Hara):
3 half tones on gold paper (86628).
SHANNON, Hart YV. (See under
Smithsonian Institution, National
Museum, collected by members of the
staff. )
LIST OF ACCESSIONS
SHANTUNG CHRISTIAN UNIVER-
- SITY, Department of Biology, Tsi-
nan, Shantung, China (through Ar-
thur P. Jacot): 2 insects from
China (85571).
SHAW, H. W., Chevy Chase, Md.: 11
plants from Brazil (85675).
SHAW, F. R., U. 8S. Public Health
Service, State Board of Health, New
Orleans, La. (through §8. F. Hilde-
brand): 2 turtles from Louisiana
(85417).
SHHRWIN, Prot. Cart P., Fordham,
N. Y.: Collection of new organic
chemicals for the Loeb collection of
chemical types (85782).
SHOQUIST, Gust., Tacoma, Wash.:
Beach or river boulder reworked by
man (84784).
SHREVH, Dr. Forrest. (See under
Carnegie Institution of Washing-
ton.)
SHROPSHIRE, J. B., Ancon, Canal
Zone (through James eels 3
plants (87253).
SHUFELDT, Dr. R. W., U. S. Army
(retired), Washington, D. C.: 19
photographs of Chinese pagodas and
scenes, and 21 photographs of Aus-
tralian natives (Hverhard Range),
photographed by Capt. S. A. White,
Adelaide, Australia (88646).
SHUMAN, Mrs. M. B. C., Washing-
ton, D. C.: Mole from Cleveland
Park, D. C.. (84562).
SHURTLEFF, ArtHur A., Boston,
Mass.: Dentist’s “tooth key” used
on the Confederate States ship
“Alabama” during the Civil War
(86753). =
SIDENER, Dr. T..T., Lima, Ohio
(through Dr. John Uri Lloyd): A
Loring ophthalmoscope presented to
the donor by Dr. John King (83998).
SIEWERT, H., Winter Park; Fla.: 2
plants from Florida (87200) ; and 2
specimens and 8 photographs of
plants (87503). Exchange.
SILVANDHER, Mile. Eva, Washington,
D. C.: 2 Swedish dolls showing folk
costume (85674).
SIM, Rosert J. (See under Japanese
Beetle Laboratory, Riverton, N. J.)
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SIMONDS & CO., GHORGE A., Wash-
ington, D. C.: 10 specimens illus-
trating the binding of a book
(87284).
SINGLETON, C. P., Melbourne, Fla.
(through Smithsonian Institution,
Bureau of American Ethnology) :
Collection of vertebrate remains in-
cluding a skull and partial skeleton
of a mastodon, and teeth and jaws
of smaller mammals (86103).
SITLER, Miss Ipa. (See under Hol-
lins College, Virginia.)
SLATHR, Mrs. H. D., Hl Paso, Tex.:
11 plants from Texas (85104, 85406,
85596, 86266).
SLOAN, Ear, Charleston, S. C.: Ce-
tacean skull (84710, deposit).
SMALLWOOD, T. G., Sacramento,
Calif.: 20,000 mollusks from Mecca,
Calif. (86934).
SMITH, B. Z., Mountain Home, Idaho:
Fresh-water shell from Idaho
(86756) .
SMITH, Mrs. Caro AcHison (through
Mrs. Caro Senour, Los Angeles,
Calif.): Sword, buckle, pair of
epaulets, and pair of shoulder knots
owned during the Civil War by
Col. Charles B. Achison, U. S. Vol-
unteers (84345).
SMITH, Mrs. D. Bruce, El Paso, Tex. :
Small collection of fossil bones from
the Erupcion Mine, Los Lamentos
Mountains, Chihuahua, Mexico
(86048). '
SMITH, Dr. Erwin F., Washington,
D. C.: 15 plants from Italy (87457).
SMITH, Dr. HucH M., Bangkok, Siam:
Collection of natural history mate-
rial, comprising 2 actinians, 20
shrimps, 1 shovel-nosed shrimp, 3
hermit crabs, 31 crabs, 6 stomato-
pods, 300 mollusks, 8 frogs, 20
lizards, 1 turtle, 78 snakes, and 15
fishes, all from Siam (83616).
SMITH, Capt. JoHN DONNELL, Balti-
more, Md.: 5 plants from the West
Indies (84789).
SMITH, MicHarLt, Grand Rapids,
Mich.: Pair of silver knitting needle
holders made in Garnwerd, Holland,
167
SMITH, MircHarit—Continued.
150 years ago, and a meerschaum
pipe used by General Vinaigre, of
the Philippine Islands Insurrecto
Army, collected by the donor while
a member of Co. H., Fourth U. S.
Infantry, at San Francisco de
Malabon, Cavite Province, southern
Luzon (83409).
SMITH, RatrH C., U.S. National Mu-
seum: 11 wood engravings and 4
reproductions of wood engravings
by Timothy Cole (87147).
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION:
Silver token commemorating the
celebration of the seventh cen-
tenary of the University of Na-
ples, 1924 (83362) ; an etching
“The Warders, Chartress” by
Katherine Merrill, which was
presented to the associate mem-
bers of the Brooklyn Society of
Htchers (86289). Deposit.
Bureau of American Hihnology:
Small collection of ethnological
material purchased by the bu-
reau from Miss Hmily S. Cook
(83522) ; collection of archeo-
logical specimens and human
remains from Weedens Island,
St. Petersburg, Fla., secured by
Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, chief of
the bureau, during the winter
of 1923-24 (83949) ; archeolog-
ical materials also secured for
the bureau by Doctor Kewkes
from a mound near St. Peters-
burg, Fla. (85019); archeolog-
ical material secured by D. L.
Reichard for the bureau at Ber-
ryville, Va. (84260); small
stone celt and a lot of pottery
bowl ornaments from Porto
Rico, presented to the bureau by
Mrs. Alice de Santiago, Barce-
loneta, Porto Rico (84444);
archeological material secured
for the bureau by Gerard Fowke
from mounds near Town Creek,
Ala.; archeological material col-
lected by Mr. Fowke for the bu-
reau from mounds near Town
168 LIST OF ACCESSIONS
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION—Con. | SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION—Con.
Bureau of American Hthnologu— National Museum, collected by
Continued.
Creek, Ala., on the site of the
Wilson Dam, Muscle Shoals
(85018, 85319) ; skeletal mate-
rial secured by Mr. Fowke at
the Alexander. Mound near
Courtland, Ala., also 2 pipes,
one of steatite and the other of
marble collected from the Alex-
ander Mound in lawrence
County, Ala. (85780, 85856) ; 5
complete skulls and fragmen-
tary remains of about 12 skulls,
collected by Mr. Fowke from
Hog Island Mound, near Town
Creek, Ala.; also 5 skulls col-
lected by EH. O. Roberts, Har-
rah, Wash. (85344) ; stone bird
pipe found at Lebanon, Tenn.,
and purchased by the bureau
(85843) ; collection of skeletal
material which was unearthed
1% miles north of Boynton,
Fla., and sent to the bureau by
EH. S. Jackson, of Palm Beach,
Fla. (85781) ; archeolégical ob-
jects secured by J. G. Sander-
son, of Courtland, Ala., and pur-
chased by the bureau (85824) ;
archeological material secured
for the bureau at Youngs Can-
yon, about 15 miles southeast of
Flagstaff, Ariz., by J. C. Clarke,
of Flagstaff (87279).
(See also under C. P. Sin-
gleton. )
National Museum, collected by
members of the staff: Bartsch,
Paul: A collection of 2,700 Ce-
rions from Cuba and the Florida
Keys (87951). Bartsch, Paul,
and William B. Marshall: 3
pipefishes and about 2,500 ma-
rine mollusks, collected at Cape
May, N. J. (87937, 87958). Bass-
ler, R. S.: About 1,000 speci-
mens of ecrinoids and other Mis-
sissippian fossils from northern
Tennessee (88359). Hast, C. S.:
30 skeletons of birds from North-
ampton County, Va. (87887).
Foshag, W. F.: Collection of mis-
members of the staff—Contd.
cellaneous mineralogical mate-
rial, also 2 large pegmatites from
Maryland and a series of feld-
spars from Amelia, Va. (84953,
87714). Foshag, W. F., and
James Benn: Diabase and
weathered products from Chat-
ham, Va., for the preparation
of school sets illustrating rock
weathering and soil formation
(87686). Foshag, W. F., Harl
Y. Shannon, and James Benn:
Limestone and sandstone and
their weathered products from
Maryland (87924). Marshall,
George: 22 birds from North
Carolina (853806). Merrill,
George P.: 3 barrels of gneiss
from Sheepscot Bay, Me., for
the duplicate rock series (84331).
(Through the Maine Feldspar
Co.) ; Feldspar and mica from
the quarries of the Maine Feld-
spar Co., Topsham, Me. (84722).
Miller, Gerrit S., jr.: Mammals,
birds, reptiles, insects, fishes,
plants, and a collection of bones,
all from Haiti (87448). Pohl,
Erwin R.: 500 Ordovician fos-
sils from the vicinity of Albany,
N. Y. (83357). Poole, A. J., and
C. E. Mirguet: Skeleton of a
Baleen whale from Walnut
Point, Va.,(84857). Resser, C.
H.: 500 specimens of Cambrian
' fossils from Utah, Montana, and
Wyoming; also a series of casts
of invertebrate fossils, made at
the Museum of Comparative
Zoology, through the courtesy
of Dr. Perey E. Raymond (84744,
85099). Schmitt, Waldo L.:
Collection of marine inverte-
brates, comprising 800 speci-
mens, made at Tortugas, Fla.,
by the donor, during July and
August, 1924 (84129). Shan-
non, Harl V., James Benn, and
Harry Warner: Gabbro and its
weathered products from Mount
Hope, Md., for the preparation
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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION—Con. | SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION—Con.
National Museum, collected by National Museum, obtained by
members of the staff—Contd.
of school sets illustrating rock
weathering and soil formation
(87687). Standley, Paul C.:
500 plants from the region of
the Guadaloupe Mountains,
Texas, and New Mexico, col-
lected in cooperation with the
Carlsbad Cavern expedition
of the National Geographic So-
ciety, Dr. Willis T. Lee, director
(84205). Ulrich, E. O.: Collec-
tion of Upper Cambrian (Fran-
conia) fossils from Wisconsin
(84795). Warner, Harry:
Granite and weathered products
from Rock Creek Park, District
of Columbia, for the prepara-
tion of school sets illustrating
rockweathering and soil forma-
tion (87685). Walcott, C. D.:
Skin with skull of a deer and
3 skins with skulls of mountain
sheep, all from Alberta, Canada ;
also 2 skins of the western
grebe (84814). Watkins, W. M.
N.: Trunk sections of wisteria
from property at 1101 Massa-
chusetts Avenue, Washington,
D. C. (85284).
National Museum, obtained by
purchase: 2 bronze copies of the
medal issued by the American
Numismatic Society commemo-
rating the Paul Revere Sesqui-
centennial, 1925 (87955) ; 3 in-
scribed Babylonian tablets,
cuneiform or arrowhead writ-
ing, dating from 2350 to 2000
B. C. (85874) ; 100 specimens of
mosses from Arizona (86606) ;
1,050 specimens of microlepidop-
tera (84637); 1738 plants from
Brazil and Costa Rica (83321,
83344); 6 ethnological speci-
mens collected in 1923 among
the Makah Indians of Neah
Bay, Wash. (86958) ; 500 Cuban
plants (83309) ; model showing
the value of public health ac-
tivities (87526); skull and
purchase—Continued.
lower jaw of a fossil horse
(83388) ; 25 North American
mosses, Fascicle 21 (84206) ; 25
specimens of mosses, Fascicle
22 (878384) ; 2 stone archeologi-
cal specimens (85937) ; skull of
an extinet rodent from a cave in
Porto Rico (85021) ; 490 grams
of meteoric stone from Weld
County, Colo. (84259) ; 28 small
mammals from Montenegro
(85415) ; 25 lichens, Fascicle 1,
Nos. 1-25 (86287); 25 lichens,
Fascicle 2, Nos. 26-50 (87527) ;
155 plants (83345); 57 plants
from Ecuador (84704); 176
plants from Venezuela (85603) ;
320 plants from Venezuela, col-
lected by