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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM
REPORT ON THE
PROGRESS AND CONDITION OF THE
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM
FOR THE YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1934
UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
WASHINGTON : 1935
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Unritep States Nationa Museum,
Unover DireEcrion OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION,
Washington, D. C., October 15, 1934.
Sir: I have the honor to submit herewith a report upon the pres-
ent condition of the United States National Museum and upon the
work accomplhshed in its various departments during the fiscal year
ended June 30, 1934.
Very respectfully,
ALEXANDER WETMORE,
Assistant Secretary.
Dr. CHartzs G. ABzor,
Secretary, Smithsonian Institution.
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REPORT ON THE PROGRESS AND CONDITION OF
THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM FOR
THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1934
By ALEXANDER WETMORE
Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, in Charge of the National
Museum
OPERATIONS FOR THE YEAR
APPROPRIATIONS
Funds for the maintenance of the United States National Museum
for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1934, were provided by appro-
priations carried in the Executive and Independent Offices Act
approved June 16, 1933. In addition, under the economy provi-
sions of the Independent Offices Act for 1935, an indefinite appro-
priation, effective February 1) 1934, amounting to 5 percent of the
basic salaries, was made to cover the return of a portion of the
salary reduction in force at the beginning of the year. The Museum
allotments are summarized as follows:
Pereservation.of collections. to. 2s. SS $509, 000
Maintenance and operation... 2-2 128, 500
Emin sand binding 2-8 3 ee 3, 629
Total, regular appropriations___________________ 641, 129
5 percent increase of salaries, Feb. 1 to June 30:
reservation, of collections-_= ~~ ==. 12, 028
Maintenance and operation=—_-_________4_________ 1, 714
Mota avallanle- fOr years. so 2 Se eee 654, 871
The direct appropriations for the Museum for 1934 were $60,327
below those for 1933, but this decrease was lessened by $138,742
from the 5 percent salary return, which brought the total to
$654,871. The drastic cut carried with it the elimination of the
provision effective last year for impoundment of salaries from
vacant positions and made it possible to utilize the funds saved
from lapses and necessary delays in filling vacancies. Without this
change, which allowed essential temporary services and the pur-
chase of miscellaneous materials, the organization would have been
unable to operate. |
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The allotment for printing and binding was $18,725 below the
greatly reduced amount of the previous year, and the printing of
manuscripts, already greatly in arrears, was entirely stopped except
for the annual report. Another serious result of this reduction was
the loss of funds for the binding of serial publications and other
books for the Museum lbrary.
One position was added to the personnel of the Museum, an assist-
ant lbrarian transferred from the abolished Regional Bureau of
the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature. This position
was established to carry on certain bibliographical work greatly
needed in the library. No relief was obtained from serious condi-
tions resulting from a greatly undermanned force, and the custodial,
clerical, and scientific personnel is still far inadequate for our needs.
The return of a portion of the salary cut of last year has been of
great assistance to all members of the staff, since living costs have
been steadily mounting.
Additional personnel is a recurrent annual need, since clerical and
subprofessional aid through the entire staff is at low ebb, resulting
in an arrearage of work in arranging and cataloging specimens that
increases steadily each year. Further guards are required in order
to protect properly our collections and buildings and to allow fall
leave for Sunday and holiday service, and there is need for an
increased force of charwomen and laborers.
The status of the erection of new wings for the Natural History
Building remains unchanged, with the project authorized by act of
Congress and the preliminary architects’ plans completed. It is
hoped that under the Public Works Administration or through some
other source means may be found to put this building plan into
effect, as the Museum’s quarters become steadily more crowded, and
need for more space is imperative.
COLLECTIONS
Additions of valuable material to the collections continued
throughout the year, the receipts being largely in the form of gifts
as expeditions were curtailed; no specimens were purchased except
in the case of commitments already made. The extensive collections
of the Museum prove to be a definite magnet, drawing offers con-
stantly from owners of private collections of various kinds. New
material came in 1,842 separate accessions, with a total of 333,874
specimens divided among the five departments as follows: Anthro-
pology, 9,599; biology, 282,441; geology, 30,747; arts and industries,
5,832; history, 5,255. Statement regarding some of the more impor-
tant additions will be found in the reports of the departments that
follow, and all are noted in the accession list. The total increase for
the preceding year was 348,012 specimens of all kinds.
OPERATIONS FOR THE YEAR 3
For examination and report 1,376 lots of material were received,
including much of a botanical and geological nature, and many indi-
vidual specimens. Part was returned by request to the senders, when
it was not consumed during analysis, and part retained for the
collections under arrangement with the donors.
Gifts of specimens to schools and other educational organizations
numbered 7,197 specimens, including collections of mollusks and
fishes, sets to illustrate rock weathering and soils, and illustrative
groups of rocks, ores, and minerals. Exchanges of duplicate ma-
terials with other institutions and individuals totaled 16,356 speci-
mens, and 50 specimens were transferred to other departments.
Loans to workers outside of Washington numbered 30,065 individual
specimens.
Following is a summary of specimens now covered in the Museum
catalogs:
PATIENT ODOLOS Y= 2s ee iies Ny AR Sere key ee 678, 192
LONG Cay eer wees way Wine NAN ae Can eek LA ie Sh ee 11, 104, 838
(SO a7 NA i OE ra a IR A A a 2, 158, 455
ANTES ANGE AO a Eb FS igh Cc ene el 121, 199
MGC OTs yqrere et rs are I ee 494, 027
PRO GaN eee Restrnt: ACH aya te eS ae 14, 556, 711
EXPLORATIONS AND FIELD WORK
Work in the field during the year was much curtailed through
the reduction in regular appropriations and through the assignment
for other purposes of funds usually available from the private in-
come of the Smithsonian Institution. Further, because of reduced
moneys, the services of the staff were required more or less continu-
ously in the Museum to carry on the usual routine work in connection
with the collections. The field work done was financed mainly
through grants from the invested funds of the Smithsonian and other
sources, with certain projects of an archeological nature carried on in
connection with C. W. A. and P. W. A. projects. Donations from
interested friends also helped to make the work more effective and
thorough. Additional funds for field investigations are one of the
always important needs of our organization.
During the last few weeks of the fiscal year, H. W. Krieger, cura-
tor of ethnology, undertook field work in the valley of the Columbia
River in Oregon and Washington, the immediate purpose being to
salvage archeological information and material in the area to be
flooded by the dam under construction at Bonneville, Oreg. This
work was carried on at the request of the United States Bureau of
Indian Affairs, through an allotment of P. W. A. funds. The field
is one familiar to Mr. Krieger, who has worked in the area previously
under the auspices of the Bureau of American Ethnology.
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From August 19 to November 1, 1933, Frank M. Setzler, assistant
curator of archeology, directed the excavation and restoration of
several Indian mounds, a neighboring village site, and surrounding
earthworks near Marksville, Avoyelles Parish, La., in a cooperative
project with the city of Marksville, which had purchased a large
portion of the area known to archeologists as the Marksville Works
for development as a park and recreational center. The local com-
mittee in charge and the city council, cognizant of the value of
scientific data to be obtained through careful examination, united in
inviting the Smithsonian Institution to supervise the excavation and
the restorations. The necessary labor was supplied through the local
Emergency Relief Administration. The results more than justified
expectations. Various mounds were explored and then restored, and
village sites were excavated. The scientific importance of the obser-
vations made lies in the fact that material remains, local burial
customs, and other factors have made it possible to identify the
culture of this site definitely as a southeastern variant of the spec-
tacular Hopewell archeological culture previously known in southern
Ohio, with related phases appearing in Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois,
Michigan, and Indiana. Although a few Hopewell vessels from
south of the Ohio River had been described prior to the excavations
at Marksville, archeologists have never considered the possibility of
finding so far south an aboriginal site whose material remains are so
closely related to this prehistoric Indian culture. The results ob-
tained at the Marksville Works by Fowke and Setzler have not only
enlarged the boundary of the highly developed Hopewell complex
but have proved this to be one of the basic cultures in the Southeast.
In mid April, at the request of Hon. T. A. Jenkins, Representative
from Ohio, the Institution sent Mr. Setzler to Proctorville, Ohio,
to investigate the occurrence of aboriginal remains in trenches being
dug for water and sewer lines. After observation and study of the
skeletons, potsherds, shells, and bone and stone artifacts recovered,
Mr. Setzler concluded that the southeastern part of the town was
built on the site of a village once inhabited by Indians considered in
Ohio as belonging to the protohistoric Fort Ancient Culture. These
_ otherwise nameless Indians are generally regarded as ancestors of
the Ohio Sioux. Specimens and skeletal remains from Proctorville
have been donated to the national collections by the resident engineer,
B. E. McCown, of Ironton, Ohio.
On May 14, 1934, Dr. Ales’ Hrdléka, curator of physical anthro-
pology, left for Kodiak Island, Alaska, to resume excavations at
Larsens Bay, where work was carried on 2 years ago. The expedition
was made possible by funds provided through the Smithsonian Insti-
tution, with assistance from Mrs. Charles D. Walcott.
OPERATIONS FOR THE YEAR 5
At the end of May, Dr. C. Lewis Gazin, assistant curator of verte-
' brate paleontology, aided by George Sternberg, began work in the
Pliocene and Pleistocene formations of southern Idaho, particularly
in the Plesippus quarry near Hagerman, formerly explored by Gidley
and Boss. The work was financed by a grant from the Smithsonian
Institution. As this expedition was still in progress at the end of the
year, a detailed report will be presented later.
Dr. Remington Kellogg and Dr. Gazin, assisted by Raymond Gil-
more, spent over a week in August at Governors Run, Md., searching
Miocene deposits for remains of fossil cetaceans.
Dr. G. A. Cooper, assistant curator of stratigraphic paleontology,
visited Tennessee and Arkansas, where in specially selected Paleozoic
localities he collected much material of interest to the Museum. A
short trip by Dr. C. E. Resser, curator of the division, resulted in
collecting, among other fossils, a rare starfish from the Ordovician
rocks of Pennsylvania. This work was done at the expense of those
concerned.
James Benn, aid in geology, with the assistance of other members
of the department, collected an excellent slab from the Calvert Cliffs
of Chesapeake Bay, Md., for the exhibition series. This specimen
shows three life zones of the Miocene in different levels. He likewise
obtained in the vicinity of Washington a group of Lower Cretaceous
lignite logs.
Dr. W. F. Foshag, curator of mineralogy, traveling under the
Roebling fund, spent a few days examining the pegmatite pocket at
Topsham, Maine. E. P. Henderson, assistant curator of physical and
chemical geology, under the Canfield fund, in company with Frank
L. Hess, of the United States Bureau of Mines, in June studied the
pegmatites of the spruce pine district of North Carolina, where they
obtained good exhibition and study material.
Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt, curator of marine invertebrates, was again
invited by Capt. G. Allan Hancock to accompany an expedition to
the Galapagos Islands on the yacht Velero III. The party left
Los Angeles on December 30, 1933, and enroute to the Galapagos
stopped at Socorro and Clarion Islands, Mexico. They devoted 21
days to the Galapagos Islands and 16 to the coast of South America
between Guayaquil, Ecuador, and Panama, making stops at several
places in Ecuador and Colombia. On the return along the Cen-
tral American coast they made collections at Jicaron Island, the
Secas Islands and Bahia Honda, Panama, and on the southern Mexi-
can coast at Tangola-Tangola, the White Friars Rocks, Petatlan Bay,
Tenacatita, and Isabel Island, and also visited Santa Maria Bay
and Cerros Island off the coast of Baja California. The cruise
terminated at San Pedro, Calif., on March 14, 1934. The new local-
ities visited and the superior dredging equipment provided by Capt.
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Hancock resulted in an extremely valuable collection, adding partic-
ularly to knowledge of the carcinological fauna of the region visited.
Two porpoises, bats, some fishes, and a series of Galapagos birds
were also obtained, as well as several live tortoises for the National
Zoological Park.
Dr. David C. Graham, now connected with the West China Museum
at Chengtu, capital of the Province of Szechwan, resumed explora-
tions in the mountains of western China, and during the summer of
1933 undertook an expedition along the river Min to the region north
of Chengtu. He left that city on July 16 and arrived at Wen-chuan-
shien on July 21, where he collected for several days. He next ex-
plored the mountains immediately north of the confluence of the
rivers To and Min as far as the village of Omu-sang-tsai, crossing
a rough mountain pass at an altitude of 10,665 feet. On July 28
he reached the river To at Dong-men-wait (5,600 feet), whence he
made excursions into the region to the north until August 23. Dur-
ing this time he ascended the valley leading up to the village of
O-er and the high mountains to the northwest, camping at 15,300 feet
and at various places between 12,500 and 14,100 feet, gathering im-
portant collections, chiefly of large mammals and insects. Another
excursion was along the river To past Li-fan to Tsa-gu-low, at
7,500 feet. Dr. Graham returned to Chengtu on September 1 after
one of the most successful of his many expeditions, with large and
important collections.
Dr. Hugh M. Smith, located in Bangkok, Siam, continued to for-
ward specimens from various parts of that country, gathering large
and valuable collections, which have added materially to our repre-
sentation of the Siamese fauna.
Capt. Robert A. Bartlett during the Norcross-Bartlett expedition
made extensive gatherings of marine invertebrates from Baffin Land
northward to Fury and Hecla Straits. The party departed from
New York early in June and returned October 10, 1933.
Dr. S. F. Hildebrand’s investigations of the fisheries of Missis-
sippi and of Puerto Rico under the auspices of the United States
Bureau of Fisheries in cooperation with the State of Mississippi
and the insular government of Puerto Rico, respectively, brought
to the Museum many important specimens of invertebrates.
Dr. Alan Mozley, awarded the Walter Rathbone Bacon traveling
scholarship under the Smithsonian Institution for the study of the
land and fresh-water molluscan fauna of Siberia, in the summer of
1933 arrived in Omsk before the melting of the snow and was well
received by his friends at the experiment station and the Agricul-
tural Institute. Carrying a letter from the president of the Acad-
emy of Sciences at Leningrad to the president of the Omsk Soviet,
he was able to obtain a wagon and two horses and with a young
OPERATIONS FOR THE YEAR 6
medical student set out for the region to the south of Omsk for a
journey of about 3 months through the forest steppe. After the
return to Omsk he proceeded via Tomsk to the Baikal region and
again established headquarters at the limnological station of Pro-
fessor Vereshagin. After an attempt to visit the northern part of
Mongolia he returned to Leningrad via Irkutsk. As during the
previous year he spent the winter in Edinburgh working on his
collections.
In the division of fishes, Dr. G. S. Myers, assistant curator, and
K. D. Reid, aid, continued at their own expense field work in
Virginia collecting fishes with the view to preparing a report on
the fishes of the State. The trips made this season included one
to the tributaries of the Yadkin-Peedee system in southern Vir-
ginia, resulting in the addition of several species to the State fauna.
Mr. Reid also collected in the Youghiogheny River in western
Maryland.
Dr. Paul Bartsch, curator of mollusks, as in previous years, made
a short visit to the Tortugas to inspect the Cerzon colonies planted
there. He took some moving pictures under sea, as well as of the
tern colonies that are leaving Bird Key to settle on Garden, Bush,
and Long Keys.
Aside from a few days given by E. C. Leonard to collecting lower
cryptogams in the mountains of Virginia, North Carolina, Ten-
nessee, and West Virginia, the only botanical field work during
the year was that of J. R. Swallen, assistant botanist in the section
of grasses, under the United States Department of Agriculture,
who visited Brazil to search for grasses. This work, begun in No-
vember and still in progress at the end of the year, was yielding
excellent results, both in extending the range of many species and
in the discovery of new ones. The period of exploration will cover
about 9 months.
During the summer of 1933, Prof. C. E. Burt, of Southwestern
College, Winfield, Kans., was engaged in field work with the spe-
cial purpose of collecting a series of turtles in the southern part of
the Appalachian system, from which region the Museum needed
more material to settle certain taxonomic and zoogeographical prob-
lems. The results were eminently successful, many turtles, other
reptiles, and amphibians being obtained. This work was financed
by the Smithsonian Institution.
ASSISTANCE BY CIVIL WORKS ADMINISTRATION
Mention is made at several places in the reports of the head
curators of C. W. A. employees who were assigned to various divi-
sions of the Museum. Employment under the C. W. A. in the
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Smithsonian Institution was obtained to assist in clearing up an
arrearage of work concerned with cataloging and numbering collec-
tions, copying permanent records, preparing specimens, and other
similar tasks that the regular staff could not undertake because of
their regular duties. It included also painting, carpenter, electrical,
and allied work where the regular force of mechanics was not avail-
able because of employment in other ways. In no instance was this
assistance utilized to make up for furloughed or dismissed employees
or to carry on current duties properly the task of the permanent
staff. The work was in all cases constructive and of permanent
value and did not include such routine maintenance as cleaning and
char work.
The assistance received came entirely through assignment of per-
sonnel through the District of Columbia C. W. A. office; no transfer
of funds was made to the Smithsonian Institution for this purpose.
All pay rolls were handled through the District office, and all sup-
plies necessary for the work were purchased by our regular funds
provided for that purpose. |
Under this arrangement 208 persons were employed from De-
cember 15, 1933, to February 20, 1934. The group included 29
mechanics and 179 designated under the general term of white-col-
lar workers. The persons employed were assigned to definite duties
and placed under direct supervision of those in charge of the offices
concerned. Records were kept of all work, and pay rolls were made
out in the office of the associate director.
The work accomplished is summarized as follows: In our libraries
3,969 shelves of books were checked, and when necessary individual
books were labeled and repaired. In various collections, 99,805
specimens were listed, numbered, or arranged; 4,786 specimens of
various kinds were repaired; 542 storage cases were checked and the
contents cataloged; and 146 drawings were made for scientific use
and study. Catalog cards and labels were prepared or filed to the
number of 192,370. Certain other types of accomplishment can be
expressed best in total number of hours of labor devoted to them.
These included 10,403 man-hours occupied in sorting, labeling, and
checking specimens, 1,506 man-hours devoted to translating scien-
tific manuscripts and publications into English, 5,865 man-hours
occupied in typing of records, notes, and manuscripts, and 6,000 man-
hours in miscellaneous office and laboratory work on our collections.
Mechanical work covered 3,267 man-hours in repairs to buildings and
equipment, 2,760 man-hours in painting buildings and equipment,
and 1,728 man-hours in repairs and replacements in the heating and
lighting plant.
As our staff has been for a long time undermanned, the C. W. A.
work came at an opportune time, and not only provided employment
OPERATIONS FOR THE YEAR 9g
but aided materially in placing our records and collections in proper
condition for preservation and study. The assistance, though occu-
pying many of the regular staff in supervision, was entirely worth
while and much appreciated.
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EDUCATIONAL WORK
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The National Museum during the year continued its customary
activities in educational lines. Our exhibition halls display great
series of objects so arranged as to demonstrate facts of many kinds,
on subjects ranging from the tools and dress of primitive man to
complicated modern machinery, examples of the life of strange lands,
of the elements that compose the earth, fossil animals and plants
of former ages, and many other things. Descriptive labels accom-
pany all these, and there is constant change to keep them properly
arranged and up to date. The whole serves as a compendium of
reference to the student or as an attractive display to the one of
more casual interest, from which all may profit according to their
desires.
In addition, the Museum is constantly active in the dissemina-
tion of knowledge in response to many hundreds of inquiries that
come by mail or from visitors. Classes from the city schools are
guided through the halls, and groups of students from a distance
are given similar service. Although the Museum does not main-
tain regular series of lectures, members of the staff are called on
regularly to address meetings. Students throughout the country
interested in definite problems come to work with our collections
and libraries, and frequently workers from abroad are engaged in
investigations here that sometimes continue for months. From this
it may be seen how widely varied is the range of our educational
activities and how extensive the field that they cover. ~
VISITORS
Visitors to the various Museum buildings totaled 1,463,375 during
the year, an increase of 36,017 over the previous year. The average
attendance for week days was 3,849 and for Sundays 5,122. All
the buildings were closed on Christmas and New Year’s Days. The
number of visitors to the Smithsonian Building on week days was
188,519 and on Sundays 438,664; to the Arts and Industries Build-
ing 500,519 on week days and 121,571 on Sundays; to the Natural
History Building 406,854 on week days and 101,094 on Sundays.
Table 1 shows the number of visitors during each month for the
past year.
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TABLE 1.—Visztors to the Museum buildings during the year ended June 30, 1934
Museum buildings
Year and month omuieeee Total
iacacteles Uae Aircraft
1933
4 A hy ee ae la etl es 26, 069 | 63,258 | 50, 813 151, 679
AU GUS G 3 ie Laie is met eee ie 28, 534 | 68, 801 54, 506 164, 743
Septembers.=")2_<2.51)2_ 20% 23,628 | 56,106 | 44, 406 133, 946
October. - 4 te a 18 549 | 46,514 | 41,978 112, 760
November 22250. ae 11, 393 27,416 | 30, 995 73, 916
Decembers:27. leek. es 10, 621 26,104 | 24, 473 65, 858
1934
JAMUATY 22.0 OOS 10, 547 25, 979 27, 957 69, 133
Rebruary hate oie eee 8, 080 19, 105 19, 548 50, 603
March (200 sec. eine 13,001 | 36,444 | 30, 656 86, 853
A Drileerous “cee bbd ao eo 38, 122 | 121, 964 84, 260 258, 990
Mayotrs. Jules 19,950 | 65,403 | 48, 854 144, 875
JUNO ta ah es cee E 23,689 | 64,996 | 49, 562 150, 019
Totalece Ure 232, 183 | 622, 090 | 507, 948 | 101, 154 |1, 463, 375
LIBRARY
The library of the National Museum, numbering 86,738 volumes
and 111,713 pamphlets, consists of 2 general collections, chiefly on
natural history and technology, and 35 special collections, which are
the immediate working too!s of the curators and their assistants.
During the year the collection was increased by 2,158 volumes, 11,699
parts of volumes, 965 pamphlets, and 20 charts—in all, 14,842 pub-
lications. Some of these came by purchase, but most, as usual, by
exchanges. The regular new exchanges entered into were 91. By
special exchange the library obtained from the Public Library of the
District of Columbia 4 important sets, comprising 77 volumes; and
by transfer from the Library of Congress 505 publications. Many
valuable items were received from members and associates of the
scientific staff.
The work done by the library staff was unusually large in volume,
including as it did the supervision of C. W. A. employees. The staff
made 11,731 entries in the periodical file, cataloged 3,111 publica-
tions, and added 25,925 cards to the catalogs and shelf lists. They
lent to the scientific staff and their assistants 9,972 publications, of
which 7,339 were from the Museum collections. Of the loans, 2,553
were borrowed from the Library of Congress and 570 from other
libraries. They made 110 loans to other libraries, chiefly in Wash-
ington, but including the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadel-
phia, Alabama Natural History Society, Carnegie Museum (Pitts-
burgh), College of Physicians of Philadelphia, E. I. Du Pont de
Nemours Co., Hopkins Marine Station, John Crerar Library, Los
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Angeles Museum, Rice Institute, St. John’s College, Tennessee
Ornithological Society, and Johns Hopkins, Minnesota, Ohio State,
Princeton, and Western Reserve Universities. The staff assigned
5,310 publications to the sectional libraries. They returned 2,600 to
the Library of Congress, and 592 to other libraries. Through cur-
tailment of Museum funds it was possible to send only 128 volumes
to the bindery.
The work of rearranging and listing the contents of the manu-
script case was finished, as was that of revising the file of charges at
the main loan desk. The cards of the concilium bibliographicum
author set, totaling 6,160, were filed to date, and thousands of old
cards of the systematic set were sorted and distributed to the sec-
tional libraries, with the result that the accumulation of unfiled
cards in the library was greatly reduced. The current Wistar Insti-
tute cards, numbering 463, were also filed.
In the Arts and Industries Building the reorganization of the
technological library was continued. A detailed study of the mate-
rial on the shelves led to the preparation of a list of titles of serials
no longer needed by the Museum or Smithsonian, and the offer of
them to other Government libraries where they would be useful.
By the close of the year 138,940 volumes of these had been trans-
ferred to the Library of Congress and other Government libraries
and to the Superintendent of Documents. In this connection, it is
pleasant to report that on the second floor of the library steel shelv-
ing was substituted for the old wooden cases in the north wing, the
lighting was much improved, and an adequate heating system
installed.
Probably the outstanding event of the year was the appointment,
for part of the fall and winter, of 34 C. W. A. library workers, 10
of whom were assigned to the Museum. Among the activities notably
advanced by the workers were the following: Sorting by subject and
distributing to the curators concerned, for their office files, 33,700
reprints and pamphlets from the west stacks of the Smithsonian
Building—a task later finished by a regular member of the Library
staff, who thus increased the number of such publications to nearly
50,000; checking sets of publications of learned societies and insti-
tutions and preparing 418 want cards for missing parts; cataloging
9,024 pamphlets in the sectional libraries of mammals, mollusks,
and invertebrate paleontology and typing 18,048 cards for them;
copying shelf lists, correcting old catalog cards, typing subject head-
ings—work that in the case of one person alone involved handling
14,444 cards; labeling 4,000 volumes on the shelves; putting hun-
dreds of pamphlets into binders and cases, and lettering them appro-
priately; and rearranging and putting in order the natural-history
collection.
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PUBLICATIONS
Except for the Annual Report of the Museum for 1933, which was
issued as part 2 of the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Smith-
sonian Institution, the output of the editorial office was confined to
publications sent to the printer before July 1, 1933, and paid for
from 1933 funds. No funds were made available for publishing
Museum bulletins and proceedings during the fiscal year 1934. A
total of 13 publications appeared during the year; these are listed
at the end of this report. |
As other work of the editorial office permitted during the year, the
editor and his assistant proceeded in the making of the comprehen-
sive index to the publications of the National Museum. The work of
arranging, alphabetizing, and filing the index cards was aided, for a
period of about 8 months, by the full-time services of one C. W. A.
worker and the part-time help of another. At the end of the year
the indexing of Bulletins 1-21 and Proceedings volumes 1-8, inclu-
sive, had been completed. ‘These comprised a total of approximately
87,000 cards (after duplicate entries were combined).
The distribution of volumes and separates to lbraries and indi-
viduals on the regular mailing lsts aggregated 22,281 copies; while
in addition 12,846 copies of publications issued during this and
previous years were supplied in response to special requests.
During the year 710,438 forms, labels, and other items were
printed, and 273 volumes were bound.
PHOTOGRAPHIC LABORATORY
The photographic laboratory made during the year 2,963 nega-
tives, 17,802 prints, 628 lantern slides, 148 enlargements, 4 photo-
micrographs, and 1 transparency; developed 40 rolls of film, 40 film
packs, and 141 cut films; and dry-mounted 61 prints. This work,
representing a shght decrease from that of last year, was required
by the Smithsonian proper and the National Museum and by the
National Gallery of Art and the Bureau of American Ethnology,
whose photographic needs are supplied by the laboratory through
a cooperative arrangement. There is a growing demand for facilities
for photostatic work and for infrared and ultraviolet photography,
but it has not been possible yet to provide these.
BUILDINGS AND EQUIPMENT
Repairs and. alterations—Repainting the southwest, east-south,
and northeast (boat hall) ranges and the outside metal and wood-
work of the 8 towers and 8 pavilions of the Arts and Industries
Building, and the north vestibule and stairway of the Smithsonian
OPERATIONS FOR THE YEAR 13
Building; installing new locks on doors throughout the Smithsonian
Building; and alterations necessitated by the installation of a new
refrigerating plant in the basement of the Smithsonian Building
constitute the chief repairs to Museum buildings during the year,
other than many of a routine nature.
Heat, light, and power.—The heat, light, and power plant, located
in the Natural History Building, was in operation for about 8 months
of the year. Owing to the unusually severe winter, the consumption
of coal was more than for many years. For heat, light, and power
production 3,505.3 tons of bituminous coal were purchased at $4.94
aton. Nearly 54 tons more than this was actually consumed.
The electric current purchased for the Arts and Industries Build-
ing throughout the year and for all the buildings during the summer
amounted to 448,320 kilowatt-hours, while the current generated in
the Museum plant amounted to 639,585 kilowatt-hours, making
1,087,903 kilowatt-hours used altogether. ‘The current purchased
cost $8,030.34, or 1.79 cents a kilowatt-hour, and that generated cost
$9,824.74, or 1.54 cents a kilowatt-hour.
Notable progress was made in the huge task of installing brass
pipe in the water-heating system in the Natural History Building,
more than 5,000 feet being finished during the year.
Ice production.—The refrigerating machine, for furnishing ice
to the Museum buildings, was operated 4,081 hours during the year,
producing 428.7 tons of ice at a cost of $664.52, or at the rate of
$1.55 a ton (45 cents a ton less than for last year).
Fire protection.—In the Arts and Industries Building considerable
electric wiring in wooden conduits was replaced by metal cable to
eliminate a fire hazard of long standing. Another measure in this
direction was to close with plaster block three arch openings in the
Arts and Industries Building. There still is much to be done toward
fire protection, the east end of the Smithsonian Building being espe-
cially bad because of the antiquated electric wiring. This work
will continue as available funds permit. The usual periodic inspec-
tions of fire alarms, extinguishers, and plugs, and of the sprinkler
system in the Aircraft Building, were made.
Furmture and fixtures—The furniture added during the year
included 39 exhibition cases; 592 pieces of storage, office, and lab-
oratory furniture; and 2,623 drawers, boxes, and frames of various
kinds. Equipment condemned consisted of 13 exhibition cases and
bases, 26 pieces of storage, office, and laboratory furniture, and 7
wooden drawers. An inventory of furniture on hand on June 30,
1934, showed 3,769 exhibition cases and bases, 17,567 pieces of storage,
office, laboratory, and other furniture, and 105,678 drawers, boxes,
and frames.
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MEETINGS AND SPECIAL EXHIBITS
The use of the auditorium and lecture room in the Natural His-
tory Building is offered by the Museum to scientific and educational
associations for regular and special meetings, and whenever possi-
ble assistance is given in carrying out their programs. During the
year 109 such meetings were held in these rooms by a wide variety
of organizations and societies, including several other Government
agencies.
Memorial meetings—Three memorial meetings held during the
year commemorated the notable services of members of the staff
lost through death:
October 9, for WILLIAM DE CHASTIGNIER RAVENEL, retired head of the depart-
ment of arts and industries, who died on October 8, 1933, at the age of 74.
May 23, for EDWARD WILLIAM NELSON, honorary associate in zoology and for-
mer chief of the Biological Survey, who died on May 19, 1934, at the age
of 79.
May 29, for JOHN MERTON ALDRICH, curator of the division of insects and world
famous dipterist, who died on May 27, 1934, at the age of 68.
Special exhibits—The foyer of the Natural History Building
was occupied almost continuously during the year for a series of 15
special exhibits sponsored by various educational agencies, as follows:
July 6 to August 4, 1933: Exhibit of photographs of California trees, sponsored
by the Save the Redwoods League.
October 2-30, 19383: Exhibit of photographs of taxidermic work in Europe and
America, sponsored by the American Association of Museums.
October 12-14, 1933: Exhibition of specimen roses entered in contest of
Potomae Rose Society.
October 30 to November 12, 1933: Exhibition of Negro art, including oil paint-
ings, drawings, water colors, wood sculptures, and photographs.
November 15 to December 10, 1933: Exhibit of photographs representing beauty
in trees, brought together in competition from the various States by the
American Forestry Association.
December 4-11, 1938: Exhibit of children’s notebooks by public schools of the
District of Columbia.
December 19, 1933, to February 27, 1934: Exhibit of African ethnological
material, including the C. C. Roberts collection.
January 2 to February 2, 1984: Exhibit of Second Empire daguerreotypes from
the collection of Mme. Therese Bonney, of New York and Paris. On
January 4 was held an informal opening of this exhibit, with Ambassador
André de Laboulaye of France as the guest of honor.
February 28 to April 2, 1984: The HE. A. Osborne collection of Guatemalan
ethnology, sponsored by the Center of Inter-American Studies of George
Washington University. On March 15 a reception was held in connection
with this exhibit, at which addresses were made by the Guatemalan min-
ister, Dr. Don Adrian Recinos, and others.
April 5-26, 19384: Exhibition of Historic American Buildings Survey. ‘This was
opened formally on April 6 by a reception given under the auspices of the
Department of the Interior and the American Institute of Architects.
April 28 to March 5, 1984: Third annual exhibit of the Association of Federal
Architects, the following Federal agencies being represented in the work:
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Department of War; Bureau of Yards and Docks, Department of the
Navy; Veterans’ Administration; Supervising Architect’s Office, Treasury
Department.
May 6-13, 1934: Exhibition of Public Works of Art projects, from the region
including Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia.
May 14-23, 1934: Exhibit of model airplanes, made by boys of the District of
Columbia and nearby Maryland and Virginia, sponsored by the Model Air-
craft League of the Community Center Department.
May 14-30, 1934: Exhibit of water-color paintings of battleships, cruisers, and
other naval scenes by Lt. Arthur Beaumont, United States Naval Reserve.
June 18 to July 5, 1984: Exhibit of the art work produced by pupils of the
public schools of the District of Columbia.
CHANGES IN ORGANIZATION AND STAFF
Changes in the organization of the Museum were not extensive
and came chiefly as the result of a general consolidation of Govern-
ment activities in the disbursing of funds and the heating of
buildings.
The establishment in the Treasury Department of a central dis-
bursing agency for all Government establishments, and the conse-
quent abolishment of the disbursing office of the Smithsonian Insti-
tution at the close of business on January 31, 1934, necessitated a
reorganization of the accounting and disbursing work of the Mu-
seum. Nicholas W. Dorsey, who since April 1, 1924, had been dis-
bursing agent of the Museum, as of other Government bureaus under
the Smithsonian, was on February 1 given the title of accountant
and auditor, and Thomas F. Clark, who had been deputy disbursing
agent since 1924, was made assistant accountant and auditor. All
disbursing work was transferred to the new division of disbursement
of the Treasury Department on February 1, 1934, salary payments
from that date being made by check instead of by cash.
The completion this year of the first units of the central heating
plant, which has long been contemplated, resulted in the abandon-
ment of the Museum’s high-pressure heating boilers at the close of the
1933-34 heating season. The Museum will purchase heat. here-
after from the central heating plant, instead of producing it itself.
~The changed method of heating necessitated the abolishment on
June 30, 1934, of six permanent as well as of several seasonal posi-
tions in the power plant. With possibly one exception, the occu-
pants of these positions will be cared for elsewhere in the Govern-
ment service. The establishment in the Museum of one additional
scientific position early in the year makes a net loss of five on the
permanent force.
The Museum scientific staff changed but little during the year.
Advantage was taken of the opportunity afforded by the discontinu-
ance of the Regional Bureau of the International Catalogue of Scien-
tific Literature to strengthen the Museum’s staff by the appointment
on July 1, 1933, of Leonard C. Gunnell, as an assistant librarian in
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the Museum with the object of making readily available to the scien-
tific staff two extensive groups of technical source material. The
first project is the preparation of a bibliography of technical articles
by scientists of the Institution in outside publications and the second
concerns the cataloging and classifying of a large collection of
unpublished manuscripts based in part on the national collections
but prepared mostly by outside scientists.
In the department of biology, William B. Marshall, assistant
curator of the division of mollusks, was retired at his own request
on April 80, 1934, Harald A. Rehder, senior scientific aid, succeed-
ing him as assistant curator on June 1. Mr. Marshall’s association
with the Museum was continued by an honorary appointment on
May 1 as associate in zoology. Likewise, Dr. Theodore S. Palmer,
who had long been connected with the scientific work of the Gov-
ernment, was given honorary appointment in the Museum as asso-
ciate in zoology on August 1, 1938, when he was retired from active
work with the United States Bureau of Biological Survey.
The operation of the Civil Service Retirement Act took 16 em-
ployees from active service with the Museum, 8 for age, 7 for disa-
bility, and 1 by optional retirement, as follows:
William B. Marshall, assistant curator, after 32 years’ service;
Mrs. Nida M. Browne, preparator, with 15 years’ service; John F.
Brazerol, Isador 8. Dyer, and Joseph G. Adzema, senior mechanics,
with 27, 22, and 9 years, respectively; Samuel McDowell, black-
smith, 17 years; August F. Broacker, Alexander M. Cole, James W.
Cornell, and Charles A. Sparks, guards, with 23, 15, 15, and 4 years,
respectively (Mr. Sparks had 35 years’ service, the last 4 in the
Museum); Mrs. Ella Coleman, Mrs. Roxie A. Burrell, Mrs. Fannie
J. Smith, and Mrs. Margaret Hall, charwomen, with 24, 23, 21, and
5 years’ service, respectively; Scott Ambler and John F. Pinkney,
laborers, with 24 and 16 years, respectively.
The Museum lost through death 2 honorary and 6 active workers,
as follows: Edward Johnson Brown, honorary collaborator in the
division of birds, on February 14, long connected, with the scientific
work of the Museum; Edward William Nelson, honorary associate in
zoology, on May 19, for many years associated with the Government’s
scientific work; John Merton Aldrich, associate curator of the divi-
sion of insects, on May 27 (21 years in Government service, last 15 in
Museum) ; Ruth Sherwood, stenographer and typist in the depart-
ment of arts and industries, on September 13 (15 years in Govern-
ment service, 13 in Museum); George L. Weber, guard, on Febru-
ary 22 (16 years’ service); Mrs. Mary M. Lorance, charwoman, on
January 28 (5 years); Mrs. Cassie Whiting, charwoman, on Febru-
ary 15 (10 years); and James P. Bourke, Sr., elevator conductor,
on October 21 (15 years).
DETAILED REPORTS ON THE COLLECTIONS
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY
(WALTER HouaH, Head Curator)
The work of the department of anthropology has proceeded favor-
ably during the year when the general curtailment of the Museum’s
activities is considered. Work in the field included cooperation in
exploring an ancient Indian village site at Marksville, La., under
funds provided by Emergency Relief Administration of Louisiana.
At the close of the year field researches were in progress on Kodiak
Island, Alaska, and in the area to be flooded by the Bonneville Dam
in the Columbia River Valley. —
The department gained many valuable specimens from the archeo-
logical work carried on under the Bureau of American Ethnology
through funds provided by the Civil Works Administration for em-
ployment of labor in California, Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia,
and Florida.
ACCESSIONS FOR THE YEAR
The division of ethnology recorded 53 accessions and 918 speci-
mens, including a pictographic painting on muslin, the work of a
Sioux Indian; 3 weavings from the Zuni; 2 twined baskets from the
Tlingit; 2 large earthenware jars from the Rio Grande and Acoma;
an assortment of ethnological material from the Rosebud Agency,
S. Dak., collected by Col. E. A. Koerper; and specimens of silver
work of the Navaho. A novel form of art expression executed by
bitings on birch bark by the Chippewa of northern Minnesota was
presented by Miss Frances Densmore.
From outside the United States came collections originating in
Africa, Asia, Oceania, and Europe, among which may be mentioned
the following: The C. C. Roberts collection from the Gold Coast,
the Ivory Coast, the Cameroons, and Nigeria, including splendid
examples of wood carving from the Ivory Coast, the Sobo of Nigeria,
the Ashanti of the French West African Gold Coast, and the
British Cameroons; carved wooden drums from the Haussa and
Owarri of Nigeria, and upright and two-headed wooden drums from
Calabar and the Kibbi group of the Nigerian Ashanti; splendid
metal work as well as musical instruments from the Haussa of Ni-
geria; earthenware ink pots, stone bracelets, and dye pots from the
Fulani; a dancing gourd from the Egba; iron gongs from the Ibibio;
basketry armpit rattles from the Owarri of Nigeria; a Kroo dancing
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belt from Liberia, Egun straw hats; Yoruba cloth; and goldsmith’s
weights from the Ashanti. One of the most interesting objects in
this collection is an open-work mesh weave Juju suit of the Egba.
The Roberts collection supplements previous material procured by
him from the West African coast, from the Kingdom of Dahomey
to Angola.
Important collections transferred from the Bureau of American
Ethnology include Sumu and Miskito ethnologica from the Hon-
duran and Nicaraguan coasts gathered by Dr. William D. Strong
while a member of the Haskell-Smithsonian expedition. This is a
valuable addition to the limited material previously received from
that area. There was also added through the same bureau a collec-
tion of stone implements used in the daily life of Australian and
Papuan tribes, originally assembled by Joel H. DuBose, who also
presented to the Museum another small collection of stone imple-
ments from Australia.
A unique woven blanket of early Mexican provenience was received
as a gift from Miss Clara Abercrombie. Woven into the design are
pictographic symbols representing signatures of towns similar to
those depicted on ancient Mexican codices. The lettered margin of
the blanket dedicates the weaving to a Mexican apparently of the
higher class.
Under the category of Americana came a miscellaneous lot of early
weavings and weaving implements, pottery, metal work, embroidery,
and jewelry. Two interesting terra cotta busts of Negro slaves once
living near Savannah, Ga., were presented by Miss Flora F. Don-
nelly, who modeled them. Miscellaneous material from excavations
made some years ago at Jamestown, Va., came as a gift from Martin
L. Ehrmann. The 123 specimens included tell in a small way the
story of the early Jamestown settlers and supply material for the
study of various steps in the development of American glass, pottery,
and metal work.
Kuropean objects include a peasant’s pipe and tobacco pouch
from Finland, a Dutch stoneware jug, a German meerschaum pipe
and a miniature jointed wooden doll, the smallest on record, and a
thimble case from Switzerland. A miscellaneous lot of objects of
fine art, including jewelry, watches, silver, paintings on enamel,
miniatures in ivory, and Meissen ware, from various European coun-
tries, principally Italy, France, England, and Germany, was pre-
sented by Miss Mary Maxwell. Intrinsically this collection is one
of the most valuable received in recent years. It also includes excel-
lent specimens of Hindu, Burmese, Chinese, and Japanese art,
enamel, filigree silver, repoussé gold, and other media.
A Japanese embroidered screen presented by Mrs. Alexius Mc-
Glannan was collected by her father, the late Homer Lycurgus Law,
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United States Navy. The bequests by Mrs. Charles A. Coolidge and
Mrs. Virginia L. Schoonmaker include bronzes, porcelains, ivories,
and other objects of high art from Chinese and Japanese sources.
Intrinsically and artistically these collections rank with the best
received in recent years from China and Japan. A tall metal spirit
stand shod with repoussé copper and brass and studded with turquois
insets, made by an inspired metal craftsman in Tibet, was received as
a gift from Dr. Leo A. Lally.
A remarkable gift from the originator of the culture pearl indus-
try of Japan, K. Mikimoto, is a miniature replica of Mount Vernon
executed entirely in worked pieces of mother-of-pearl and studded
and embellished with thousands of graduated pearls. This model
has been estimated to have a value of $500,000, by far the most
precious specimen received during the year. It was exhibited at the
Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago during the 1933 season.
The label for the exhibit reads as follows:
This replica of Mount Vernon was presented to the Smithsonian Institution
by the Japanese Ambassador Katsuji Debuchi, on behalf of K. Mikimoto, the
originator of the cultured pearl industry in Japan. Prepared for exhibit
in the National Museum under the supervision of J. Seo. This model of
Mount Vernon rests on a base of lacquered wood and consists of 12,000 pieces
of mother-of-pearl, 5,184 pearls in the mansion itself, 6,500 on the lawn, and 185
in the flag.
The division of archeology received 38 accessions totaling 8,337
specimens, contrasting with 64 accessions covering 2,737 specimens
for last year.
The following are deemed worthy of special notice: 3,950 artifacts
of ivory, bone, stone, and wood collected for the Museum by James
A. Ford and Moreau B. Chambers during 1931 and 1932 in Alaska;
1,081 flint objects from Paleolithic deposits in 3 caves in the Wady
al-Mughara (Valley of the Caves), 12 miles south of Haifa, Pales-
tine, collected jointly by the 1932-83 expedition of the American
School of Prehistoric Research and the British School of Archeology
in Jerusalem and deposited by the Archaeological Society of Wash-
ington; 1,771 specimens of stone and pottery collected for the Bureau
of American Ethnology by Frank M. Setzler from 3 mounds and 2
village sites within the Marksville Works, near Marksville, Avoyelles
Parish, La., and received as a transfer from the Bureau; 647 arti-
facts of pottery, shell, bone, and stone from Basket Maker IIT and
Pueblo, I, II, and III house sites 314 miles south of Allantown, east-
ern Arizona, collected by Dr. F. H. H. Roberts, Jr., for the Bureau
of American Ethnology in 1931-32 and transferred by the Bureau;
part of an aboriginal Indian dugout canoe exhumed on Cumberland
Island, Ga., and received as a gift from the Lucy Coleman Carnegie
estate; a prehistoric Pueblo necklace of shale beads averaging 32 to
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the inch, from Coconino County, Ariz., presented by Hoffman Birney;
5 earthenware vessels from Chimu ruins near Trujillo, Peru, pre-
sented by Mrs. H. A. Jaynes; 75 specimens from Alitak and Olga
Bay, Alaska, collected and presented by Mr. and Mrs. Henry B.
Looff, of Oak Harbor, Wash.
The division of physical anthropology received 20 accessions
with 206 specimens, compared with the previous year’s 18 accessions
of 658 specimens. The following are the more important: 65 lots
of bones from the secondary Indian burials at Port Tobacco, Md.,
collected by Judge William J. Graham with the aid of Assistant
Curator Stewart; 49 skulls from St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, col-
lected and presented by the Alaska Agricultural College and School
of Mines; 37 skulls and skeletons from the Sacramento Valley, Calif.,
presented by Robert F. Heizer and the Sacramento Junior College;
16 skulls from the same region purchased and donated by Dr. Ales
Hrdlitka; and cast of Locus E Stnanthropus skull and intracranial
cavity.
Near the close of the year large collections of skeletal material
were received from C. W. A. projects in Florida and California,
but this has not yet been prepared for accessioning.
In the section of art textiles a number of cases exhibiting glass,
Jewelry, ceramic, and other articles of luxury of older periods were
added. Mrs. Dorothy Elias presented nine collars, doilies, and hand-
kerchiefs, and Miss Josephine Burket a “ baby Irish lace ” collar.
The section of ceramics received 128 specimens comprising 5 acces-
sions, 4 of them gifts. Notable are 55 pieces of antique porcelain
given by Mrs. Francis T. Redwood and 69 pieces of ceramics by the
Misses Holliedt. A fine piece of wedgwood basalt of about 1765
was lent by Miss Louisa Green.
The collections of the Misses Long, displayed principally in art
textiles and history, were, on the death of Edith Long, made a
bequest.
INSTALLATION AND PRESERVATION OF COLLECTIONS
In the division of ethnology a number of minor exhibits were
rearranged in anticipation of a general review of the public display
next year. ‘Two special exhibits were arranged in the foyer, the
first being a comprehensive display of the arts and crafts of the
peoples of West Africa, made possible by the unusually complete ©
collections assembled and presented to the Museum by Theodore
Roosevelt, Ellen I. Burk, C. C. Roberts, Heli Chatelain, 8. P. Verner,
W. P. Tisdel, George W. Ellis, Jr., and others. The second exhibit
included weavings and miscellaneous ethnological objects from
Guatemala, composed of material assembled by Mrs. E. A. Osborne,
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY Desh
of San Salvador, and brought to the Museum through the coopera-
tion of the center of inter-American studies of the George Washing-
ton University. Most of the country population of Guatemala is
still Indian, and weaving on hand looms and embroidered designs
are extremely stylized and of great antiquity.
Progress has been made in the care and preservation of study
collections in storage, through their arrangement in dust-proof quar-
ter- and half-unit cases.
Most of the paintings of George Catlin and of the W. E. Safford
collection were photographed, a project still under way at the close
of the year, and it is planned to have all the paintings in the division
photographed for record.
A comprehensive index and catalog of paintings in the division
was made during the year by Miss Vendla M. Hendrickson. Other
indexes and catalogs made include the beginning of a tribal and
geographical index of the division’s collections by three C. W. A.
assistants. A catalog of Museum publications on anthropology in
the section library also was prepared by Miss Hendrickson.
In the division of archeology the division staff, assisted for 3
months by 8 C. W. A. workers, made considerable progress in its
program of reexamining and reclassifying the collections from the
Western Hemisphere. All the archeological material from Florida,
North Carolina, and South Carolina was reexamined and the corre-
sponding records revised or completed. ‘Thereafter new exhibits
were prepared for these three States and the remaining material
separated into geographic units for greater convenience in future
studies, |
The work of the C. W. A. employees may be summarized as fol-
lows: 1,950 man-hours devoted to checking and numbering speci-
mens; 3,100 catalog cards typed, several hundred revised, and about
50 sheets of tabulated matter prepared; 2 articles, comprising 314
typewritten pages, in French with notations in Spanish and Portu-
guese, translated.
A plaster replica of the famous clay bison, carved by Upper Pale-
olithic sculptors on the floor of the Cave of Tuc d’Audoubert, Ariege,
France, received as a gift from the Old World archeology fund, was
installed in a specially prepared case. Presented by the Carnegie
Institution of Washington, a model of pyramid E-VII sub at Uax-
actun, northern Guatemala, the original of which is remarkable for
its great antiquity, its beautiful proportions, and its surprising state
of preservation, was placed on exhibition in the hall of Latin Ameri-
can antiquities. To help illustrate the cultural relationship between
our historic tribes and those of the pre-Conquest, or “ prehistoric ”,
period there was completed during the year and placed on exhibit a
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miniature model of an Acolapissa village of northern Mississippi.
Representing the last important settlement of the Acolapissa, this
model includes the temple and chief’s house as drawn and described
by A. Debatz, April 15, 1732, and, in addition, several characteristic
dwellings with their storerooms. Men and women are shown en-
gaged in various pursuits, and children are represented at play.
A portion of an aboriginal dugout canoe, exhumed on Cumber-
land Island, Ga, by Assistant Curator F. M. Setzler and received
as a gift from the Lucy Coleman Carnegie estate, after prolonged
treatment and partial restoration was placed on exhibition in the
American hall.
The series of mummy cases and lids, a gift of the Egyptian Gov-
ernment in 1893, following minor repairs and treatments to insure
permanent preservation, was reinstalled in the hall of Old World
archeology. Here, alsc, new exhibits were prepared from the fol-
lowing material: (1) A collection of pottery vessels and bone and
stone artifacts exhumed at the site of the ancient city of Troy by Dr.
Henry Schliemann between 1870 and 1882 and received as a gift
from Mrs. Schliemann; (2) a representative series of Phoenician
glassware; (3) a collection of earthenware vessels from various ruins
in Cyprus presented by Miss Olive Risley Seward; (4) pottery and
bronze ornaments from ruins in Armenia.
Much labor was devoted to material accessioned many years ago
but set aside without adequate attention at the time of receipt.
Several exceptional carved wooden specimens recovered early in
1934 from the muck underlying a mound in Florida required special
consideration, as they were received saturated with water, the largest
was worm-eaten and otherwise damaged; and all were heavily coated
with paraffin in the field to prevent warping in transit. A series of
experiments designed to insure preservation of these noteworthy
artifacts was performed in the department’s laboratory.
The division of physical anthropology added to its exhibits five
face masks of Comanche Indians procured in the field by M. S.
Goldstein and prepared in the Museum laboratories by W. H.
Egberts. With the aid of two C. W. A. workers the assistant curator
transferred all the Huntington collection data to standard catalog
cards and numbered all the femora that could be identified.
The anthropological laboratory, under W. H. Egberts, chief pre-
parator, modeled and prepared a costume figure of Mrs. Herbert
Hoover and readjusted the costume figure of Mrs. Calvin Coolidge.
Ancient Indian wood carvings from bogs in Florida were put
through a process to prevent losing their form by drying. Numerous
casts, models, and repair jobs were completed for anthropology and
other branches.
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY 2s
In the section of musical instruments an expert violin maker,
Nicola Reale, was employed under C. W. A. and E. W. A. funds
in the repair and restoration of stringed instruments, an assistance
that has long been needed.
INVESTIGATION AND RESEARCH
In the division of ethnology the curator, H. W. Krieger, con-
tinued investigations of Arawak, Ciboney, and Carib artifacts col-
lected by him and others in Cuba, Haiti, and elsewhere in the Greater
Antilles. A subject of special study was the distribution of methods
of stone working, particularly of stone chipping in the hidden de-
posits of Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic; also the distribu-
tion of painted designs on earthenware from Puerto Rico. Another
study had to do with the diffusion of Amazonian culture traits
within the Antillean area.
Current interest prompted a study of the Museum’s resources in
primitive money, and as a result a paper was written on the subject
of early American money, and a representative collection of prim-
itive money from various peoples was sent to the Century of Prog-
ress Exposition. The division continued its study of technical meth-
ods pertaining to the care and preservation of museum specimens,
and notes on the subject were brought up to date and published.
The Museum’s resources in several fields—notably Navaho and
Pueblo belt weavings, Indian headdresses, Japanese swords, rabbit-
skin and buffalo robes, and Indian pictographic designs—received
special investigation. The head curator continued his studies of
the rationale of the domestication of animals and the development
of the fundamentals of education among uncivilized man. The
assistant curator, H. B. Collins, Jr., continued his examinations of
archeological collections obtained by him and others, notably J. A.
Ford and M. B. Chambers, in western and northern Alaska. Ejight-
een lots of material were received for identification; material
brought in person for immediate identification remains unrecorded.
In the division of archeology the unusual increase in routine activ-
ities throughout the year prevented the curator from resuming his
report on the Pueblo Bonito explorations of the National Geo-
graphic Society. Likewise Assistant Curator Setzler was forced
to defer researches previously undertaken. Soon after his return
from field work in Louisiana, Mr. Setzler was assigned to assist the
Institution’s liaison officer with the Civil Works Administration in
directing the archeological projects in the Southeast and in Cali-
fornia. He prepared, however, two short articles, which he read
before gatherings of archeologists, and studied, classified, and cat-
aloged 1,771 specimens obtained at Marksville, La. During the
24 REPORT OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1934
year 88 lots of archeological material were received for identifica-
tion and report and subsequently returned to the owners.
At the beginning of the year, Dr. Hrdlicka, curator of physical
anthropology, was engaged in completing for publication his work
on the “Anthropology of the Pueblos.” During the rest of the year
most of his time was devoted to an exhaustive study of the human
femur, the results in part already being published. In addition he
prepared for publication his measurements and observations on the
Kuskokwim Eskimos. The assistant curator, Dr. T. D. Stewart,
finished his testing of the machine for measuring skull capacity and
prepared for publication a general report on these measurements.
During the winter he supervised two C. W. A. workers engaged in
cataloging the Huntington femora, and thereafter worked up his
observations on primate hair arrangement. Four lots of material
were received through official channels for identification and report.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXCHANGE OF SPECIMENS
In the division of ethnology only one gift collection was sent out
during the year. This consisted of 16 Eskimo and Pueblo ethno-
logical specimens sent to the St. Ignatius School at Hicksville, Long
Island, N. Y. ;
During the year 8 lots of archeological material (102 specimens)
were sent out in exchange for other specimens or in return for the
privilege of making casts desired in the national collections, as fol-
lows: 98 projectile points to Dr. Stuart C. Way, San Francisco, Calif.,
in exchange for shell and porcelain beads from Indian graves in
California; 3 separate lots of uncataloged casts of Oriental seals to
Prof. Louis Speleers, Musées Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, Brussels,
Belgium, in exchange for publications; one cast of a sandstone fig-
urine to Burnham S. Colburn, Biltmore Forest, N. C., in return for
the privilege of reproducing the original; cast of an Eskimo lamp
each to Miss Mary L. Heller, Newcastle, Ind., Adolph Muller, Kaltag,
Alaska, and the Alaska Historical Library and Museum, Juneau,
Alaska, in return for the privilege of reproducing the original, bor-
rowed from the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines.
Fifteen lots (1,511 specimens) were sent as gifts to educational
institutions, as follows: 46 projectile points, pottery fragments, and
a stone celt to the Children’s Museum, Duluth, Minn.; 100 speci-
mens, consisting of stone projectile points, knives, drills, and rejects
to the University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France; 70 examples of
knives, drills, projectile points, etc., to the Kelley Laboratory of
Archeology, Paris, France; 173 cleavers, scrapers, and hammerstones
to Elmira College, Elmira, N. Y.; 19 specimens, including a celt, 2
axes, and 16 projectile points, to the Historical Museum of Duke Uni-
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY 25
versity, Durham, N. C.; 122 miscellaneous specimens to the Super-
intendent of Schools, Balboa Heights, Canal Zone; 120 stone arti-
facts to the Fort Necessity Memorial Association, Fort Necessity,
Pa.; 149 specimens to the Destrehan High School Museum, Destre-
han, La.; 129 artifacts to the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences,
Norfolk, Va.; 96 miscellaneous specimens to the Museum of St.
Peter’s College, Muenster, Canada; two sendings totaling 209 speci-
mens to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C.; 104
miscellaneous specimens to the Hershey Indian Museum, Hershey,
Pa.; 81 casts and 93 specimens of stone artifacts to Waynesburg
College, Waynesburg, Pa.
NUMBER OF SPECIMENS UNDER DEPARTMENT
During the year the department received 112 accessions covering
9,599 specimens. Of these, only one accession (one specimen) was a
loan. The material was distributed as follows: Ethnology, 53 ac-
cessions (918 specimens); archeology, 38 accessions (8,337 speci-
mens); physical anthropology, 20 accessions (206 specimens) ; ce-
ramics, 5 accessions (128 specimens); and art textiles, 2 accessions
(10 specimens).
On June 30, 1934, the total number of specimens in the department
of anthropology, including material previously accessioned and sub-
sequently transferred to other divisions, was as follows:
J EDC! OSE YO OLA: ,) (ihrovch ase leas.
Smith) 45 fishes from Scuth Africa
(127191).
ALDERMAN, A. L., Berkeley, Calif.: 24
amphipods, including types of 7 new
species, from California (128001).
ALEXANDER, Dr. C. I., Shreveport, La.:
15 species of Cretaceous ostracods
from Texas (128099).
ALFARO, Prof. A., San Jose, Costa
Rica: 14 plants from Costa Rica
(126300, 127221, 127886, 127851,
128227, 129177, 129596).
ALLAN, Dr. R. S. (See under Canter-
bury College, Christchurch, New
Zealand. )
ALLEN, HE. R., Silversprings, Fla.: 2
mollusks (127597).
ALLEN, Mrs. Laura M., Rochester,
N. Y.: 9 specimens of hand-woven
textiles, 2 of raw silk, and 1 of
thrown silk (1256382, 129580).
AMERICAN AIRPLANE & ENGINE CorRpo-
RATION, Chicago, Ill.: An airplane
wing-end frame made of steel tubing
(124830).
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF MUSEUMS,
Washington, D. C.: (Through Louis
Jonas) The international exhibit of
taxidermy, illustrated by 473 photo-
graphs (126159).
AMERICAN BEMBERG CORPORATION, New
York, N. Y.: @ specimens showing
stages in manufacture of Bemberg
cuprammonium fibers and 5 charts
(127754).
AMERICAN GEM & PEARL Co., New
York, N. Y.: Specimen of brown
beryl from North Carolina and 1
Arizona garnet (125571, 127650).
(See also under S. V. Morefield.)
AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION, Chi-
eago, Ill.: (Through R. P. Borden)
2 eolored transparencies illustrat-
ing hospitalization (125148).
AMERICAN MeEpIcAL ASSOCIATION, Chi-
cago, Ill.: Framed copy of ‘ The
Oath of Hippocrates ” (128086).
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISs-
Tory, New York, N. Y.:1 = fly
(129165) ; 4 paratypes (3 species) of
flies (128399) ; 10 paratypes of flies
(126851) ; 1 metatarsus and 1 tibio-
tarsus of an Eocene bird from Mon-
golia (127954) ; 3 mollusks collected
off Louisiana by M. D. Burkenroad
(124928).
AMERICAN NUMISMATIG ASSOCIATION,
New York, N. Y.: 60 coins of Asia,
Africa, Europe, and Central and
ACCESSIONS
South America struck during 1921-
1932 and 18 coins of Belgium, China,
Czechoslovakia, France, Germany,
Honduras, Japan, New AZealand,
Persia, and Poland struck during
1931-1933 (125454, 129055). Loan.
AMERICAN PotasH & CHEMICAL CoRPO-
RATION, Trona, Calif.: Portion of a
core from well O, Searles Lake,
Calif. (127627).
AMERICAN Zinc, LEAD & SMELTING Co.,
Mascot, Tenn.: Specimen of brecci-
ated zinc ore from Mascot (125540).
AMHERST CoLLEGE, Amherst, Mass.:
Skull, lower jaws, neck, and feet of
fossil reptile (126798). Exchange.
AMortTEGUI, B. G., Bogota, Colombia:
Collection of piants, 1,364 insects,
1 lizard, and 1 frog (123086, 125000,
125741, 126116, 127476).
ANDERSON, ©. C. (See under J. W.
Clement Co.)
ANDREWS, H. L., Fresno, Calif.: 139
marine mammal teeth and _ tooth
fragments from the Miocene of
Fresno, Calif. (129967).
APOLLINAIRE MArIkz, Rev. Brother, Bo-
gota, Colombia: 86 plants from
Colombia (124949, 126222).
APPLE, EH. M. (See under Vincent G.
Apple Laboratories. )
APPLE LABORATORIES, VINCENT G., Day-
ton, Ohio: (Through HE. M. Apple)
Automotive electrical equipment,
1895-19138, and examples of di-insu-
lated motors, the work of the late
Vincent G. Apple, and a complete
lamp-socket motor (127611).
ARCHEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHING-
TON, D. C.: Archeological material
from three caves in the Wady al-
Mughara in Palestine (126298). De-
posit.
ARCHER, ALLEN, Ann Arbor, Mich.: 17
mollusks (127448).
ARKANSAS, UNIVERSITY
ville, Ark.: (Through Prof. D. M.
Moore) Specimen of clover from
Oklahoma (129482).
ARKIN, Morris, Washington, D. C.:
Model of the Curtiss Goshawk air-
plane, a modern pursuit type used
by the United States Navy, and a
model, 7 size, of the Curtiss army
pursuit airplane P-6-H, 1931
(126258, 129845). Loan.
ARMSTRONG, J. C., Washington, D. C.:
An early 12-inch ivory plane scale
(127352).
ARSENE, Rey. Brother G., Santa Fe,
N. Mex.: 598 plants from New
Mexico (129062).
Arup, Inc., South Bend, Ind.: Model,
ts size, of the Arup S. 35, a radical
design of heavier-than-air craft of
oF, Fayette-
69
the flying-wing type, which has flown
successfully (128090).
AsBuRY Park Press, Asbury Park,
N. J.: 16 specimens of scrip issued
by donor in 1933 (127206).
ASCHEMEIER, C. R., Washington, D. C.:
1 robin and 1 bat (124974, 128425).
AsHLEy, T. F., Berkeley, Calif.: 2
plants from California (127600).
ASSOCIATED CAMERA CLUBS OF AMER-
Ica, Chicago, Ill.: 100 pictorial pho-
tographs made by Japanese resi-
dents of Manchuria and assembled
by the South Manchuria Railway
for exhibition during May 1934
(129485). Loan.
ATLANTA, GA., Ciry or: 2 specimens
of scrip issued 1932-838 (126668).
AUSTRALIAN Musrum, Sydney, New
South Wales: (Through J. G. Wells)
1 crab from Corner Inlet, Victoria
(127872).
Avinorr, Dr. A., Pittsburgh, Pa.: 40
specimens of Lepidoptera (126304).
Babs, O. W., Lakeland, Fla.: Skull of
a male Indian about 45 years old of
the Caloosa, or southern, type
(121671).
Bascock, Prof. EH. B., Berkeley, Calif. :
27 plants (1253803).
BABEK, Brother STEPHEN, Subiaco,
Ark.: 1 crested flycatcher (129826).
Bacon, WILLIAM, Shelburne, Vt.:
(Through F. W. Young) Photograph
of revolving harrow, or circular drag
(125423).
Battry, H. H., Miami, Fla.: 1 ocelot
skull (128423).
BarLey, Dr. J. W., Richmond, Va.: 2
fresh-water jellyfishes from Rich-
mond (126101).
Battery, Dr. R. J., Washington, D. C.:
9 sandbugs from Peru (1263834).
BAILEY, VERNON, Washington, D. C.:
8 habitat photographs of Sonora
plants (126012).
Bain, Mrs. R. HE. M., St. Louis, Mo.:
6 incomplete scale models of steam
engine, beat, locomotive, and rail-
read cars (129976).
Baker, Dr. C. F., Los Banos, Philippine
islands: 706 wasps (Mutillidae)
(126474). Bequest.
Batt, J. D., Washington, D. C.: An
old contractor’s pick with hooks and
ring to hold it on the handle
(125287).
Batu, L. C., Byron Center, Mich.: Bone
harpoon found in Grand River be-
tween Ada and Lowell, Mich.
(126882).
Batt, R. A., Washington, D. C.: An
old-style eyeless pick (125289).
Batt, W. H., Washington, D. C.: 3
birds (127041, 127108, 127608); 9
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amphipods from Kenilworth. D. C.,
and Plum Point, Md. (128849) ; 100
ascidians, 100 marine annelids, and
2 amphipods from Point Lookout,
Md. (127655) ; 1 crayfish, 1 amphi-
pod, and 50 isopods (129844).
Banonort, Mrs. M. C. (See under
Sandy Spring Meeting of Friends.)
Banta, Epna. (See under Ernest
Adams. ) :
BARBER, H. G., Washington, D. C.: 1
insect (128178). (See also under
S. C. Bruner.)
BARBER, H. S., Washington, D. C.: 100
cladocerans, 10 copepods, 5 amphi-
pods, 25 phyllopods, and 2 isopods
from a pool at Great Falls, Va.
(129189).
BARKENBUS, CHARLES, Lexington, Ky.:
4 chemicals for the Loeb collection
of chemical types (126542).
Barnes, G. §., Washington, D. C.:
500 mollusks (28 species) from west
coast of Florida (126863).
Barnes, R, M., Lacon, Iil.: 10 Lepi-
doptera (123947, 127617).
BARNHART, P. S. (See under Scripps
Institution of Oceanography.)
Barret, Dr. H. P., Charlotte, N. C.: 1
specimen of torbernite from Spruce
Pine, N. C., and a collection of zir-
con, epidote, and garnet from North
Carolina (129329, 129787).
BARRY, JAMES, Washington, D. C.:
Models of 2 current types of naval
airplanes—P-M-1 and T-—G—1—used
for patrol duty and torpedo carry-
ing, respectively (126240). Loan.
Barry, J. N., Portland, Oreg.: Old
tobacco pipe (127709). Exchange.
(See also under Ann Jubitz.)
BARTLETT, Capt. R. A., New York,
N. Y.: Collection of marine inver-
tebrates from Baffin Land and from
Fury and Hecla Strait taken by
Norcross-Bartlett expedition, 1933,
comprising 7 bottles of bryozoans,
6 bottles of hydroids, 25 ascidians,
8 anemones, 4 bottles of sponges, 1
Sagitta, 100 annelids, 30 bottles of
bottom samples, 75 stomachs (birds,
mammals, fishes), 200 barnacles, 22
isopods, 600 amphipods, 100 shrimps,
1 crab, 1 hermit, 3 pycnogonids, 3
cumaceans, 50 bottles of townet
samples, 15 alcoholic birds, 3 mam-
mals, 470 mollusks, 92 plants, 31
fishes, and echinoderms (124761).
BARTLETT TREE RESEARCH LABORATOR-
res, Stamford, Conn.: 5 flies, com-
prising type, allotype, and 3 para-
types of gall midges reared from fig
(129555).
BartrRaM, HK. B., Bushkill, Pa.: 90
mosses from Costa Rica (128061).
Exchange.
BARTSCH, Dr. PauL, Washington, D.C.:
1 water-snake and 38 lots of young
amphibians from Maryland and 101
fishes from Virginia (126016,
127054). (See also under Smith-
sonian Institution, National Mu-
seum. )
Bassett, H. C. (See under EH. P. St.
John.)
BATES, Marston, Cambridge, Mass.:
5 insects (127323). Exchange.
BAYER-ROBERTSON LEATHER CORPORA-
TION, New York, N. Y.: 17 specimens
of reptile leathers, whole skins, 4
pairs of women’s shoes, and 2 hand-
bags made of reptile leathers
(128220).
Bay Ley, HE. A., Boston, Mass.: 6 ex-
perimental and commercial models
of calculating machines developed
and manufactured by George B.
Grant (118852).
BeacH, W. N., New York, N. Y.: 1,994
eggs of South African birds (127034).
Bearty, H. A., Christiansted, St. Croix,
Virgin Islands: Collection of Crus-
tacea from Virgin Islands (125802,
127457, 129468).
BeEcKHAM, W. P., Salisbury, N. C.:
% mosquitoes from North Carolina
(125701).
Breve, Dr. Paut. (See under Jardin
Zoologique de Sfax.)
BEISsTLE, M. L., Shippensburg, Pa.: 1
tubular limonite concretion from
near St. Leonard, Md. (129968).
BrELLows, H. A., Washington, D. C.
(See under Columbia Broadcasting
System. )
BELLUE, Mrs. M. K. (See under Cali-
fornia State Department of Agri-
culture. )
BENeEpDIcT, J. E., Washington, D. C.:
1 fern from Hawaiian Islands
(129040). Hxchange.
BrEneEpDIcT, J. H., Jr., Woodside, Md.:
1 water-snake from Maryland
(127210).
BENESH, BERNARD, North Chicago, Iil.:
51 beetles (10 species) (128912).
Exchange.
BrenJAMIN, F. H., Washington, D. C.:
1 slimy salamander from Fairfax,
Va. (129806). (See also under C. H.
Ingham, C. M. Dammers, and Otto
Buchholz. )
BENJAMIN, Mrs. MArcus, Washington,
D. C.: 2 cases showing various
styles of tobacco pipes (129711).
Benn, J. H. (See under Smithsonian
Institution, National Museum.)
ACCESSIONS
Benson, LyMAN, Bakersfield, Calif.:
400 plants from California (126641,
128374). Hxchange.
BEQuAERT, Dr. JoSEPH, Boston, Mass. :
38 Hymenoptera (125987).
Berepoutt, Dr. EH. (See under Botan-
isches Institut.)
BrerKowITz, Dr. M. EH., Key West,
Fla. (See under U.S. Treasury De-
partment, Public Health Service.)
BERNARD, FERNANDO, Habana, Cuba: 1
snake and 2 bats from Cuba
(129446).
Berry, Dr. E. W., Baltimore, Md.: 387
plants from Argentina (128985) ; 1
plant (129916).
Bresson, EH. J.. Washington, D .C.: 1
young nighthawk (125463).
Betts, Prof. HE. M., Charlottesville,
Va.: 8 plants from Virginia (129624).
Bines-CoLEMAN LuMBER Co., INO,
Omak, Wash.: $1 note issued by
donor March 10, 1983 (128073).
BILSON, V. M., Richmond, Va.: Model
7s size, of a Sopwith “ Camel” Eng-
lish World War pursuit airplane
(127656) .
BIoLoGicaAL LABORATORY OF THE SCIENCE
Sociery oF CHina, Nanking, China:
(Through 8S. S. Chien) 735 plants
(129471). Exchange.
BIRNEY, HOFFMAN, Philadelphia, Pa.:
Prehistoric Pueblo necklace (recou-
structed) of shale beads (129568).
BISELL, Mrs. ELEANOR WoLFriry, Mrs.
CAROLINH WOLFLEY SHANNON, and
Mrs. ELIZABETH WOLFLEY HARMAN,
Washington, D. C.: (Through T. J.
Shannon) “The Dramatic Works of
Shakespeare” from the text of
Johnson and Steevens, 1847, complete
in one volume; and 3 specimens of
historical interest relating to the
career of Surgeon Lewis Wolfley,
United States Navy, and of: Lt. Col.
William I. Wolfley, United States
Army (124997, 127591).
BisHop MUSEUM, BERNIcCH P., Hono-
lulu, Hawaii: 267 plants from Ha-
waiian Islands (125171); (through
EH. H. Bryan, Jr.) 26 fresh-water
decapods from the Marquesas Islands
and Tahiti (127879). Exchange.
BIXLER, CHARLES, Cumberland, Md.:
10 Devonian brachiopods from Mary-
land (129562).
BLACKMER, R. P., Nashville, Tenn.:
Fragments of a large salt-evaporat-
ing vessel used as grave slabs, found
in a gchild’s grave in Davidson
County, Tenn. (123966).
BLAKE, Mrs. Doris H. (See under F. S.
Carr.)
BLakKk, Dr. S. F., Washington, D. C.:
Humerus of white-winged scoter
71
(127580) ; 64 plants, including 14
from Hawaiian Islands (127860,
129170, exchanges). (See also un-
der U. S. Department of Agriculture,
Bureau of Plant Industry.)
BLANKENSHIP, M. W. (See under W.
L. Gibson.)
Buianton, F. S., Babylon, L. I., N. Y.:
24 flies (128826).
BuiatcH, Mrs. Harriet Stanton, New
York, N. Y.: Silver tray and loving
cup presented to Elizabeth Cady
Stanton in 1895 at celebration of her
eightieth birthday at Metropolitan
Opera House (127776).
Bioomer, Aricr, Charleston, R. I.:
1 milkweed butterfly (125729).
BLystTone, H. L., Ardara, Pa.: Grain
of rice on which the Lord’s Prayer
was written by the donor (127797).
BocusH, E. R., Pullman, Wash.: 2 in-
sects from Washington (127219).
Bonney, M. THERESE, New York, N.
Y.: 146 daguerreotypes, 16 ambro-
types, 1 oilcloth print, 2 albums
(127461). Loan.
BorDEN, R. P. (See under American
Hospital Association. )
Borop1n, D. N., Washington, D. C.:
Specimen of lacquered spoon from
Novgorod, U. S. 8S. R. (127826).
Boston Society or NATURAL History,
Boston, Mass.: (Through C. V. Mac-
Coy) 14 fishes (124805). Exchange.
BoTanic GARDENS, Singapore, Straits
Settlements: (Through M. R. Hen-
derson) 118 ferns from Borneo and
Malaya (129350). Exchange.
BoTaANiscH MUSEUM EN HERBARIUM,
Utrecht, Netherlands: ‘70 plants.
from Surinam (125183). Exchange.
BOTANISCHES Institut, Munchen-
Nymphenburg, Germany: (Through
Dr. EH. Bergdolt) 1 fragmentary
fern (129804). Exchange.
BoTANISCHES Museum, Berlin-Dah-
lem, Germany: 1 plant (127328); f
photograph of type specimen of
plant and 1 photograph of plant
(127984, 127867); 2 fragmentary
Chinese plants (128941); 2 plants
(126011). Exchange.
Botretrr, J. M. (See under Miss Hllen
Abert Byrne.)
Bovine, Dr. A. G.
Rosenberg. )
BowMaNn, Mary Q., Washington, D. C.:
1 great blue heron (127042).
Box, H. H., Antigua, British West In-
dies: 62 plants (124490, 127760).
Boyp, JAMES, Sugar Loaf, Colo. (See
under HK. B. Eckel.)
Boypen, Dr. A. A., New Brunswick,
N. J.: 4 barnaciles and 8 sipunculid
worms from Tortugas (123103).
(See under E. C.
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Brapy, M. K., Washington, D. C.: 1
gecko and 1 lot of tadpoles
(127622) ; 2 blacksnakes and 2 corn-
snakes from Lower Matacumbe Key,
Fla., collected by R. F. Deckert
(125723). (See also under Hans
Geyer. )
Branpt, B. B., Washington, N. C.: 6
tree frogs from Washington, N. C.
(123693). Exchange.
BrANSON, Dr. C. C., Providence, R. I.:
1 plastocene cast of a Devonian star-
fish with six rays (129586) ; collec-
tion of Devonian conodonts from
Highteen Mile Creek, N. Y. (129012).
BRENNAN, J. M., Lawrence, Kans.:
(Through Dr. Alan Stone) 26 flies
(125932).
BRENNER, Mrs. Jura, San Francisco,
Calif.: Portion of a handwoven
“summer and winter” weave cover-
let in a variation of leopard-skin
pattern (129301).
BRIDWELL, J. C., Washington, D. C.:
61,693 mounted and a large number
of unmounted miscellaneous insects,
and a collection of mollusks from
the Hawaiian Islands (123208); a
Dutch stoneware jug and a lot of
pottery and stoneware fragments
found in Rock Creek Park at M
Street, D. C., and 1 red salamander
from Dyke, Va. (127241, 129796).
Bricut, JOHN, Pittsburgh, Pa.: 131
plants from California (125832) ; 18
plants mostly from England
(129020).
BRISTOL AEROPLANE Co., Lrp., Bristol,
Wngland: Model, wv size, of the
Bristol Mark IV Fighter, World
War airpiane (126606).
BRITISH GOVERNMENT:
British Museum (Natural History),
London, England: 1 fly (124756) ;
57 species of recent Bryozoa from
Galapagos region and Suez Canal
(128049) ; 3 flies from Greenland
and 1 paratype of fiy from
Ceylon, India (128382) ; 1 crinoid
(129807).
Imperial Institute of Entomology,
London, England: 4 flies (124801).
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Eng-
land: 116 plants from Chile and
Mexico (127899). Exchange.
Britron, Dr. N. L., New York, N. Y.:
10 plants from Colombia (126358).
BronavucH, C. B., Afton, Okla.: 3 in-
vertebrate fossils, a small collection
of fossil crinoids, and about 200
fossil brachiopods (126129, 126453,
129316). (See also under Mrs. Net-
tie Odessa Collins.)
BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN, Brooklyn,
N. Y.: 1 fern from Galapagos Is-
lands (126847). Hxchange.
REPORT OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1934
BROOKLYN MvuSEuUM, Brooklyn, N. Y.:
150 pictorial prints, 3 portfolios, and
2 calendars (1283817). Loan.
Brocks SHOE MANUFACTURING CoO.,
Philadeiphia, Pa.: 1 pair of men’s
foctball shoes made with genuine
Australian yellow-back kangaroo-
leather uppers (128022).
Brooks, Dr. 8. T., Pittsburgh, Pa.: 2
shrimps (127087). (See also under
Carnegie Museum.)
Brouwer, Prof. H. A. (See under Geo-
logisch Instituut der Universiteit
Van Amsterdam.)
Brown, Dr. C: J. D., Ann Arbor,
Mich.: 1 jar of Polyzoa from Michi-
gan (125819).
Brown, C. H., Hdgewood, Md.: 1 model
pocket kodak (1896) and 1 optical
‘Wheel of Life” (125700).
Brown, J. S., Edwards, N. Y.: 200
Ozarkian fossils from northern Ar-
gentina (126231).
Brown, Dr. R. W., Washington, D. C.:
20 mollusks from Lehighton, Pa.
(127765).
Brown & BIcELOw, St. Paul, Minn.:
(Through Orion Winford) 12 half-
tone reproductions in color of paint-
ings and lithograph copies of paint-
ings by J. L. G. Ferris (125465,
125797).
BROWNBACK, H. L., Norristown, Pa.:
A 3-throw crank-rod assembly from
a Brownback C—400 6-cylinder ra-
dial airplane engine, 1929 (123372).
Brucu, Dr. C., Buenos Aires, Argen-
tina: 50 flies from Argentina
(126168).
BrucH, FRED, Waterloo, N. Y.: 100
invertebrate fossils from the Tully
formation of central New York
(125601).
BrRuNER, 8S. C., Santiago de las Vegas,
Cuba: (Through H. G. Barber) 22
inseets (127792).
Bryan, HE. H., Jr.
Museum. )
BucHer, W. F., Washington, D. C.: 1
wood sample each of northern white
pine, western white pine, sugar pine,
western yellow pine, Belmore palm,
and giant cactus (129922).
BucHer, W. H., Cincinnati, Ohio: 1
sponge from Florida (129708).
BucHHOLZ, OTTO, Westfield, N. J.:
(Through F. H. Benjamin) 27 Lep-
idoptera (1259383).
BuFFALO MusiEUM OF SCIENCE, Buffalo,
N. Y.: (Through Mrs. Imogene C.
Robertson) 42 fresh-water shells (4
lots) from near Buffalo and 11
shrimps from old Erie Canal at
Tonawanda, N. Y. (125984, 129575).
(See under Bishop
ACCESSIONS 73
Buac, J. O., Mayfield, Ky.: (Through
Dr. E. W. Nelson) 4 quail (127643).
Buti, D. B., Goodnews Bay, Alaska:
11 birds and 2 eggs from Alaska
(125492, 127017).
Butt, O. B., Basutoland, Scuth Africa:
7 photographs of Zulu huts and hut
interiors (129827).
Butiock, Prof. D. S., Hl Vergel, Angol,
Chile: 176 miscellaneous insects from
Chile (124802).
Burk, Evciten I., Shabunda, Belgian
Congo: 18 ethnological specimens
and 2 water-snake skins from the
Belgian Congo (1241386).
BurRKET, JOSEPHINE, Baltimore, Md.:
Collar of “baby Irish lace” made
by Mrs. Etta Marie Burket in 1899
of no. 100 thread (125778).
BuRNHAM, JOHN B., Gastonburg, Ala.:
(Through Dr. HE. W. Nelson) 9
quail (127982).
Burt, Dr. C. E., Winfield, Kans.: Col-
lection of reptiles, amphibians,
fishes, insects, crustaceans, mollusks,
and 1 leech from Southwestern
United States (123752, collected for
Museum); collection of reptiles,
amphibians, and fishes from Middie
and Southwestern United States
made by Luther Hoyle (125696) ; a
South American collection of lizards
made by Brother N. Maria (125698) ;
1 opposum and 2 bats from Winfieid,
Kans. (126822, 127319); golden
eagle collected by Cornelius Rogers
(127634) ; 24 reptiles and amphib-
ians and 1 fish from the Midwestern
States (128961) ; a collection of iso-
pods, centipedes, millipedes, snails,
fishes, arachnids, insects, reptiles,
crustaceans, and amphibians from
Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas
(125697, 128235, 128850, 129141,
129842). (See also under Albert
Heinze. )
BurTON-DixIn CorpPorATION, Chicago,
Ill.: Large painted chart showing
stages in process of cleaning feath-
ers, with 25 inset specimens illus-
trating these stages (127468).
Burton-LEwIis, Mrs. HArry, Hmigs-
ville, Pa.: 1 otter skin from Pan-
ama (125476).
Buscx, August, Washington, D. C.: 2
skulls from Panama (128426).
BuSWELL, W. M., Fort Myers, Fla.: 3
ferns from Florida (129452, 129959).
BuzzEtt, J. J., Apalachicola, Fla.:
Paper currency of Florida issued
during Civil War (4 specimens)
(125129).
Byrne, Eviten A., Washington, D. C.:
(Through J. M. Boteler) 2 martin-
gales, 1 lariat, 1 bridle, bit, and
_bridle reins, and 2 quirts of braided
leather (124992).
ByroaveE, Col. G. L., San Juan, Puerto
Rico: Insignia of the 65th Infan-
try, United States Army (128296).
CABLE, LougpLLA H. (See under U. S.
Department of Commerce, Bureau of
Fisheries. )
CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES,
San Francisco, Calif.: 348 plants
C2732) AZste) (throughs. 2:
Howell) i7 plants from Western
United States (126149). Hxchange.
CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICUL-
TURE, Sacramento, Calif.: 2 flies
from California (124813, 125187) ;
(through Mrs. M. K. Bellue) 8
plants from California (125180) ;
(through H. H. Keifer) 80 moths,
all paratypes of new — species
(127074) ; 2 flies with their puparia,
reared from willow wounds, from
California (127438).
CALIFORNIA, UNIVERSITY oF, Berkeley,
Calif.: Fragmentary plant from
Formosa (128366); 174 plants
mainly from Western United States
(128924). Exchange. -
CALIFORNIA, UNIVERSITY OF, SOUTHERN
BRANCH, Los Angeles, Calif.: 199
plants from California (125294).
Hxchange.
CAMDEN, N. J., CouNTy or: 38 speci-
mens of serip of Camden County is-
sued in 19383 (126905).
CAMERA CLUB, New York, N. Y.: 101
pictorial prints from the Vienna
Camera Club tor exhibition during
July 1933. (124829). Loan.
CAMPBELL, Dr. A. D., Philadelphia, Pa.:
(Through Dr. R. D. Moore) 1 copy
each of “ Practice of Osteopathy ”’,
by McConnell and Teall, and “ The
Science of Osteopathy”, by Little-
john (129921).
CAMPBELL, Berry, Baltimore, Md.:
475 reptiles and amphibians and 1
tarantula from Western United
States (124640).
CAMPBELL, Guy, New Albany, Ind.:
750 Devonian fossils from the Falls
of the Ohio and 32 brachiopods from
southern Indiana (127573); 48
brachiopods and other fossils from
the Devonian and Mississippian
black shales of New Albany, Ind.
(129823). Wxchange.
Campos R., Prof. F., Guayaquil, HEcua-
dor: 21 flies from Ecuador (126161).
CANADIAN GOVERNMENT, Ottawa, Can-
ada:
Department of Agriculiure: 1 para-
type of moth (126739).
Geological Survey: (Through Dr.
BE. M. Kindle) 38. brachiopods
from Mackenzie River (126667,
74
exchange) ; 1 metatype of a grap-
tolite from Gaspe, Canada
(129289).
Department of Mines: (Through Dr.
H. S. Spence) 2 specimens of
tengerite from West Portland
Township, Papineau County, Que-
bee, and 2 specimens of supposed
lanthanite on allanite from Car-
diff Township, Haliburton Coun-
ty, Ontario (128412).
CANAL ZONE EXPERIMENT GARDENS,
Summit, Canal Zone: 15 plants
(129473).
CANFIELD Funp, Smithsonian Institu-
tion: 1 group of quartz crystals
from Colorado (124445); 1 speci-
men of azurite from Mexico
(124515); 1 vanadium mineral
(124936) ; 7 specimens of minerals
(124987) ; 1 lot of minerals from
Franklin, N. J. (125691); 1 speci-
men of gold in quartz from near
Washington, D. C. (126024) ; 1 spec-
imen of chrysoberyl from Maine
(126401) ; 1 tourmaline from Brazil,
1 calcite and quartz from Switzer-
land, and 1 quartz specimen from
France (126432); 1 azurite and 2
cerussite specimens from Germany
(126440) ; 1 malachite erystal from
Usakos, Southwest Africa, and 1
dioptase specimen (126893); 1
tetrahedrite and 2 pyrite specimens
from Bingham Canyon (127011); 1
boulangerite specimen (127014);
1 quartz crystal from Arkansas
(127313) ; series of diamond crys-
tals from Bas Congo, Katanga Dis-
trict (127602) ; 3 mineral specimens
(apis lazuli, zinnkies, uwarowite)
from Germany (127782); 1 nitro-
calcite specimen from Sierra County
N. Mex. (127965); 1 quartz speci-
men from Greenwood, Maine
(128048) ; 1 tourmaline and quartz
specimen (128228); 1 specimen of
moldavite (128377) ; 1 diamond from
the Congo (128402); 1 ferruccite
specimen from Italy (128570); 2
specimens of galena from Kansas
(128582) ; 2 specimens of rogueite
and medfordite (128640) ; collection
of minerals (calaverite, bleiglanz,
etc.) from Australia, Germany, and
Africa (128799); 3 mineral speci-
mens from Texas (128813); 1 stib-
nite and 1 cronstedtite specimen
from Kisbanya (128814); 2 speci-
mens of gold from _ Colorado
(128827); 1 benitoite specimen
(129039); 1 tourmaline specimen
from Mesa Grande, Calif. (129049) ;
4 sychnodymit specimens from Ger-
many (129694) ; 1 specimen of wille-
REPORT OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1934
mite from Franklin, N. J. (129824) ;
1 dioptase specimen from the French
Congo (129853).
CANTERBURY COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF
New ZEALAND, Christchurch, New
Zealand: (Through Dr. R. §. Allan)
183 Tertiary brachiopods from New
Zealand (125637). Exchange.
CARDENAS, Prof. M., Potosi, Bolivia:
75 ferns from Bolivia (127624).
CARIBBEAN BIOLOGICAL LABORATORIES,
Biloxi, Miss.: (Through Stewart
Springer) 4 shrimps and 19 am-
phipods from Mississippi and 2 tape-
worms (124575).
CARNEGIE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY,
Pittsburgh, Pa.: 15 specimens of fine
printing, the work of the students of
the Laboratory Press (125194).
CARNEGIE, Lucy COLEMAN, ESTATE OF,
Fernandina, Fla.: (Through T. M.
Carnegie) Section of dugout canoe
exhumed on Cumberland Island, Ga.,
in 1932 (116113).
CARNEGIE MusrumM, Pittsburgh, Pa.:
(Through Dr. S. T. Brooks) 76 am-
phipods and 38 mysids (123177);
Wright brothers’ airplane, Type
FH. X. (reconstructed with available
original parts), in which Calbraith
P. Rodgers completed the first trans-
continental flight across North
America, 1911 (127683).
CARNEGIE, T. M. (See under Lucy
Coleman Carnegie.)
CARNEY, Dr. C. T., Shelbyville, Tenn. :
1 mounted albino crow (125485).
Carr, A. F., Jr., Gainesville, Fla.: 6
turtles from Florida (126838).
Carr, F. S., Medicine Hat, Alberta:
(Through Mrs. Doris H. Blake) 4
beetles (2 type specimens) Oetee)
CaRRUTH, F. E., Raleigh, N. C.:
chemical specimens for the Loeb aL
lection of chemical types (126545).
CarTeR, H. T., Round Hill, Va.: An
arrowhead and a probable pendant
found in southwestern Yuma County,
Ariz. (127976).
Casz, R. C., Troy, Pa.: (Through Dr.
H. W. Nelson) 3 quail (126862).
CAsE, R. BE. (See under International
Nickel Co.)
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA,
Washington, D. C.: (Through Rev.
Father Hugh O’Neill) 32 plants
from Manchuria (1288386) ; 73 plants
from Brazil (129569). Exchange.
CAUDELL, A. N., Washington, D. €.:
1 slug from Long Island (126366).
CELLULOID CoRPORATION, New York,
N. Y.: 172 specimens illustrating
manufacture and application of cel-
lulose acetate plastics (125798).
ACCESSIONS
CHADWICK, L. E., Colorado Springs,
Colo.: 125 beetles from near Roseau,
Dominica, British West Indies
(129819).
CHAMBERLAIN, E. B., Charleston, 8S. C.:
1 annelid from the Isle of Palms
(119212).
CHAMBERLAIN FuNpD, FRANCES LEA,
Smithsonian Institution: 1 cut stone
of garnet, 1 tourmaline from Switz-
erland, 1 spinel and 1 pink sapphire
from Ceylon, 1 tourmaline from
Madagascar, 1 ruby spinel from
Burma, 23 shells from Japan and
Cuba (124474, 125011, 125167, 125168,
125611, 127010).
CHAMBERLAIN, SAMUEL, Senlis, France:
(Through Goodspeed’s Book Shop,
Boston, Mass.) 42 etchings and dry-
points for exhibition February 26 to
March 25, 1934 (128383). Loan.
CHAMBERS, Bert C., Inc., New York,
N. Y.: 24 specimens of water-color
printing, Some with offset lithog-
raphy, halftone, and key-plate proc-
esses combined (127331). (See also
under Rudolph Ruzicka.)
CHAMBERS, F. V. (See under Susan
H. Kitchen.)
CHAMBERS, M. B., and J. A. Forp,
Clinton, Miss.: Archeological mate-
rial collected for the Museum in
Alaska in 1931 (113610).
CHANDLER, Dr. A. C., Houston, Tex.:
8 marine shells from Galveston Bay
(125716). (See also under Hans
Nagel.)
CHAPELLE, H. I., Wollaston, Mass.:
Hull plans of 4 fishing schooners,
1904-1919 (129989).
CHARLESTON MusrEuM, Charleston, S.
C.: 4 box turtles from North Caro-
lina and South Carolina (125998) ;
4 shrimps, 1 isopod, and 5 crabs
(129848).
CHASE NATIONAL BANK, New York,
N. Y.: (Through Farran Zerbe) 2
Salmon P. Chase bronze tokens is-
sued by the bank (129579).
CHASE, W. E., Mansfield, Mass.:
(Through Dr. E. W. Nelson) 2
quail (127079).
CHEKIANG Province BuREAU OF ENTO-
MoLOoGy, Hangchow, China: 12 flies
from China (125191).
CHEN, Prof. T. Y., Amoy, China: 28
medusae, 2 sagittae, 7 sipunculids,
11 compound ascidians, 6 ascidians,
1 ascidian with barnacles, 10 egg
cases, 29 marine annelids, 5 hy-
droids, 1 lot of cephalopods
(121854). (See also under Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania.)
CHERMOCK, F. H., Indiana, Pa.: 20
Lepidoptera (126005). Exchange.
75
CHERRY & Co., INc., New Bedford,
Mass.: 3 specimens of scrip issued
by donor in 1983 (126899).
Curao, C. Y. (See under College of
Agriculture and Forestry, Nanking.)
CHICAGO CAMERA CLUB, Chicago, Ill.:
84 marine photographs by F. J. Mor-
timer for exhibition during Septem-
ber 1933: (125325). Loan.
CHIEN, S. S. (See under Biological
Laboratory of Science Society of
China.)
Cuine, Prof. R. C. (See under Fan
Memorial Institute of Biology.)
CHIPMAN, W. A., Columbia, Mo.: 2
vials of amphipods and 1 vial of
Cladocera (129298).
CHOUTEAU, PIERRE, JR., Middleboro,
Mass.: (Through Dr. EH. W. Nelson)
2 quail (127644).
Curist, J. H., Sandpoint, Idaho: 6
plants from Idaho (128987). (See
also under University of Idaho Ag-
ricultural Experiment Station.)
CHRISTIE, CHRISTIANA, Corsicana,
Tex.: 2 pottery heads (decorative
handles of jars) from the Peru-Bra-
zil border (125576).
CINCINNATI UNION TERMINAL Co., Cin-
cinnati, Ohio: 8 etchings of the con-
struction of the Cincinnati termi-
nal, by Louis C. Rosenberg (125816).
CITIZENS’ COMMERCIAL BUREAU, Home-
stead, Pa.: 4 specimens of scrip is-
sued by the bureau in 1933 (126815).
CiT1zENS’ SERVICE HXxcHANGE, Rich-
mond, Va.: 4 specimens of scrip is-
sued by donor in 1933 (126759).
CiTIzENS’ STATE BANK, New Castle,
Ind.: 4 specimens of scrip issued by
bank in 1933 (126758).
Crape & Son, INc., HpwIn, Hast Wey-
mouth, Mass.: 2 pairs of men’s shoes
made from kangaroo leather
(128419).
CLARK, ANNE B., Washington, D. C.:
2 turkey-vulture eggs (129291).
Ciark, A. B. J., Washington, D. C.: 8
daguerreotypes and 7 ambrotypes
(128387). Loan.
CLaRK, A. H., Washington, D. C.:1
crayfish from Rapidan River, Va.
(125277); 1 Florida barred owl
(126344); 1 nest and 5 eggs of
phoebe (129466) ; 2 butterflies for
exhibit on naturai flight (129484).
CLARK EQUIPMENT Co., Buchanan,
Mich.: Large framed photograph of
a phantom view of present type of
Clark bevel-gear axle for trucks
(125052).
CrarK, Prof. F. E., and C. E. Gar-
LAND, Morgantown, W. Va.: 13
chemical specimens for Loeb collec-
tion of chemical types (126546).
76
CLARK, Dr. H. L. (See under Harvard
University, Museum of Comparative
Zoology.)
CLARK, MartHa L., Washington, D. C.:
About 25 amphipods from canal at
Cabin John, Md. (128818).
CLARK, Mrs. W. F., Washington, D. C.:
Pair of spectacles of about 1800
(128255).
CLARKE, J. F. G., Pullman, Wash.: 100
moths (126122, 127039).
CLARKSDALE AND COAHOMA CHAMBER
oF CoMMERCE, Clarksdale, Miss.: 10
specimens of scrip issued by donor
in 19383 (126895).
CLAUSSEN, C. D., Fort Crook, Nebr.:
Insignia of 17th Infantry, United
States Army (127375).
CLAUSSEN, Mrs. ELia Burt, New York,
N. Y.: Diamond used by George A.
Burt, superintendent of the Panama
Canal Railroad, in a diamond drill
in 1883 when testing the soil along
the route of the proposed canal
(1283871).
CLtay County (INbD.) HIstorIcAL So-
CIETY. (See under Mrs. Sarah
Vickers. )
CLEMENT Co., J. W., Buffalo, N. Y.:
(Through C. C. Anderson) 5 maps,
1 sample of wax used for coating
the plate, and 1 unfinished wax
plate—ali specimens of the wax-
plate process (125728).
CLIFFORD, Lt. Comdr. L. H., Annapolis,
Md.: 3 weapons with sheaths from
the Moro of Lake Lanaos, northern
Mindanao, Philippines (129227).
CLintToNn, H. G., Manhattan, Nev.: 1
specimen of partially altered stib-
nite, 1 stibnite with calcite, and 1
realgar from Manhattan, Nev.
(126522) ; 1 specimen of perlite from
near Hunts Canyon, southeast of
Manhattan, Nev. (128101).
CLUJ, UNIVERSITY oF, Cluj, Rumania:
100 plants from Rumania (125695).
Exchange.
COCHRANE CoRPORATION, Philadelphia,
Pa.: Miniature vacuum vapor power
plant that operates on the difference
between wet-bulb and dry-bulb
thermometer temperatures (124403).
COOKERELL, Prof, T. D. A., Boulder,
Colo. : 91 identified bees (125610).
Copr, G. H. (See under Public Works
of Art Project.)
Cor, Capt. C. H., Washington, D. C.:
2 male human skulls excavated
from a mound on Banana River,
Wla. (126009).
Cor, HE. F. (See under Mrs. Ella Ham-
ilton Weeks.)
CoEN, FRANK, New Castle, Pa.:
(Through Dr. HE. W. Nelson) 4
quail (129169).
REPORT OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1934
CoKER, Dr. R. E., Chapel Hill, N. C.:
31 slides of fresh-water copepods,
including type and 3 paratypes of
new species described by donor
(125184).
CorsuRrN, B. S., Biltmore, N. C.: Small
lot of potsherds from the surface of
a mound identified by Dr. John R.
Swanton as Guasili, a Cherokee set-
tlement visited by De Soto in 1540
(126462) ; 3 specimens of corundum
from west of Clarkesville, Ga.
(127449) ; 1 specimen of opal (hya-
lite) from Spruce Pine, N. C., and
i tet of 18 specimens of corundum
(ruby) from Georgia (128029); 2
specimens of corundum and smara-
gite and 1 specimen of corundum and
zoisite from Buck Creek, Clay
County, N. C., and 4 rutile specimens
from North Carolina (129199).
Coin, Dr. F. R., Whittier, Calif.: 2
flies (121879). Exchange.
CoLGATE UNIVERSITY, Hamilton, N. Y.:
(Through Prof. H. O. Whitnall)
30 Devonian (Hamilton) crinoids
(129825). Exchange.
COLLEGE oF AGRICULTURE AND FoRES-
TRY, Nanking, China: (Through
C. ¥. Chiao) 500 plants from China
(129960). Wxchange.
Cottins, Dr. R. L., Baltimore, Md.: 1
small lot of skin vesicles from Bo-
gota, Colombia (126740).
CoLtiIns, Mrs. Netrizr Opressa, Afton,
Oxkla.: (Through C. B. Bronaugh)
4 fossil horse teeth, 1 camel tooth,
and a portion of an extinct elephant
tooth (125461).
CoLtom, Mrs. Rose E., Payson, Ariz.:
278 plants and 1 living plant from
Arizona (119689, 129611).
CoLOMBIA MINISTRY oF INDUSTRIES,
Bogota, Colombia: 100 butterflies
from Colombia (124971). Exchange.
CoLorADO MuszumM oF NAtTuRAL HiIs-
TORY, Denver, Colo.: 6 specimens of
rhodochrosite and riebeckite from
Colorado (125126).
CoLoRADO, STATE OF: Board of Immi-
gration, Denver, Colo.: 4 silver
tokens issued by State in commemo-
ration of the Century of Progress
Hxposition, 19383 (1247231).
CoLoRADO, UNIVERSITY oF, MUSEUM,
Boulder, Colo.: (Through Prof.
H. G. Rodeck) 1 fresh-water mollusk
from Venezuela (124639).
COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM, INC.,
New York, N. Y.: (Through H. A.
Bellows) Radio broadcast micro-
phone (British) used by Amelia
Harhart at the end of her solo trans-
Atlantic flight (121176).
ComeEAu, Dr. H. A., Monterey Park,
Calif.: 1 lithograph, ‘“ Black Can-
yon”, by Conrad Buff (129151).
ACCESSIONS
CoMMERCH, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT
OF:
Bureau of Fisheries: (Through Lou-
ella E. Cable) 5 cumaceans, 10
foraminifera, 50 amphipods, 25
copepods, 25 ostracods, 50 marine
annelids, 4 mysids (123271) ;
(through M. J. Lindner) 100
shrimps from Louisiana (125820) ;
a collection of leeches, crustaceans,
mollusks, reptiles, and amphibians
frem Mississippi (126128) ; 1 type
of new species of fish (127592) ; 36
lots of crustaceans, 12 lots of
aquatic insects, 1 lot of mosqui-
toes, 4 lots of mollusks, 3 lots of
reptiles, and 2 lots of amphibians
from Puerto Rico collected by Dr.
S. FEF. Hildebrand (129043); 4
fishes that died in the aquarium
(129848) .
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce: Samples of miscella-
neous woods from various foreign
countries (125148).
CoMMUNITY SERVICE BUREAU,
Tacoma, Wash.: Scrip
bureau in 19838 (2
(127362).
Comstock, Dr. Joun, Los Angeles,
Calif.; and C. Henne, South Pasa-
dena, Calif.: 7 Lepidoptera (126356).
Conover, H. B., Chicago, Ill.: 7 birds
(129267).
Cook, Dr. EB. F. (See under Unitea
States Pharmacopoeial Convention,
Ine.)
CooLtmiper, Mrs. C. A., Washington,
D. C.: (Through Mrs. P. W. Hood)
32 objects of Chinese art (119621).
Bequest.
Cooper, Dr. G. A., Washington, D. C.:
30 crinoids, nearly all types, from
Tully formation of eastern New
York, collected by donor in 1927-28
(127090) ; 5 land shells (3 species)
from Tennessee (126892) ; 60 Cam-
brian brachiopods from Wisconsin
INc.,
issued by
specimens )
(126230). (See also under H. D.
Miser, J. S. Williams, and Smith-
sonian Institution, National Mu-
seum. )
Corley, Huau, Nairobi, Kenya Col-
ony: 70 fishes from Lake Magadi
(127458).
Corsy, Mrs. W. S., Chevy Chase, Md.:
1 double-woven Jacquard coverlet in
blue, red, and white, woven in 1858,
and 1 hand-woven, double-weave
Jacquard coverlet, ‘“ Boston Town”
(127021, 127993). Loan.
CoRNELL UNIVERSITY, Ithaca, N. Y.:
(Through Dr. Robert Matheson) 4
mosquitoes, including holotype and 2
paratypes (all males) and 1 slide of
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Psorophoro funiculus Dyar (128812,
exchange) ; 1 fly (127626) ; (through
Dr. Alan Stone) 4 slides of mosquito
larvae (129070, exchange).
CoTroN TEXTILE INSTITUTE, New York,
N. Y.: 83 cotton fabrics produced by
American manufacturers for fall
and winter of 1933, and 41 cotton
textiles made for spring and sum-
mer of 1934 (127020, 1293802).
CoviILLp, Freprrick, Atkinson, N. C.:
6 plants from North Carolina
(127092).
CovILLE, Dr. F. V. (See under U. 8S.
Department of Agricuiture, Bureau
of Plant Industry; F. J. Hermann;
and E. D. Morton.)
CRAMER, W. S., Harrisburg, Pa.: 1
Allegheny salamander from Harris-
burg (1291388).
CRANE, W. R., Washington, D. C.: 4
old mine-lighting devices, including
2 early Cernish mine lamps, a “ cof-
fee-pot ”’ spout lamp, and a hardrock
candlestick (125257).
CrEASER, Dr. E. P., Ann Arbor, Mich.:
39 crayfishes, 15 shrimps, 25 mysids,
1 amphipod, and 6 isopods (127786,
129305).
CRYSTAL CORPORATION, New York, N.
Y.: Model, ze size, of Curtiss
“Thrush” airplane Outdoor Girl in
which at Miami, Fla., December 20-—
30, 19383, the Misses Harrell and
Richey established a women’s en-
durance record for refueled airplane
flight of 237 hours 42 minutes
(129454).
CUMBERLAND, CouNTY oF, Fayetteville,
N. C.: 4 specimens of scrip issued
by the county in 1933 (126751).
CUNEO Press, INc., Chicago, Ill.: Fac-
simile page of Fust and Schoeffer’s
Psalter (1456) and of Gutenberg’s
42-line Bible (1453-55), both printed
on the Gutenberg Press at the Cen-
tury of Progress Expcsition, 1933;
2 photographs of the press, one at
Mainz and one as it is in Chicago;
3 pieces of Gutenberg type, one as it
came from the mold, one tail broken
off, and one finished (125725).
CUNNINGHAM, Hyprrt U., Washington,
D. C.: Pair of wool cards of about
1800 and 38 Sioux arrows (128610) ;
a Smith & Wesson revolver, period
of Civil War (129480).
CURTIS, PARKINSON, Bournemouth,
England: 20 Lepidoptera (128940).
CUTLER, HELEN E., New York, N. Y.:
1 specimen of lava from Albemarle
Island, Galapagos (129584).
Cyr, H. M., Palmerton, N. J.: 2 chemi-
eal specimens for Loeb collection
of chemical types (126541).
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DAILY PRINCETONIAN, Princeton, N. J.:
4 specimens of scrip issued by donor
in 1983 (126904).
Daty Fund, Smithsonian Institution:
4 skins of African birds new to col-
lection (124975).
DAMMERS, Commander C. M., River-
side, Calif.: 233 insects (3 rare
wasps, 180 Macrolepidoptera, 150
Microlepidoptera (127038) ; (through
¥.H. Benjamin) 176 insects (127764).
DaAmpF, Dr. A., San Jacinto, D. F.,
Mexico: 34 flies from Mexico
(126157).
DANFORTH, Dr. S. T., Mayaguez, Puer-
to Rico: 7 beetles (4 species) from
Puerto Rico (127057).
DANIEL, Brother, Medellin, Colombia:
27 miscellaneous insects and 1 land
shell from Colombia (125817); 75
plants from Colombia (128622).
DANSKE ARKTISKE STATION, Den,
Disko, Greenland: (Through Dr.
M. P. Porsild) 155 plants from
Greenland (125285).
Darsy, Dr. H. H., Swarthmore, Pa.:
6 shrimps from Tortugas (124812) ;
3 shrimps and many larvae (125195).
DARNALL, B. F., Washington, D. C.:
German 10,000-mark note issued
January 10, 1932 (126632).
DA RocHa, Prof. Dias, Ceara, Brazil:
208 insects from Brazil (126443,
126654, 126860).
DASSONVILLE, W. E., San Francisco,
Calif.: 83 pictorial prints of Cali-
fornia landscapes for exhibition De-
cember 1, 1933, to January 15, 1934
(127482). Loan.
DAVERON, Dr. S. A., Baltimore, Md.:
Skin and part of skull of a maned
wolf from Matto Grasso, Brazil
(128590).
Davis, H. T., Raleigh, N. C.: Speci-
men of lepidolite from Warren
County, N. C. (126343).
Davis, J. J. (See under Indiana Ag-
ricultural Experiment Station.)
Davis, Dr. J. S., Baltimore, Md.:
Beaded pouch and pair of child’s
beaded moceasins (129619).
Davis, O. N., Liberal, Kans.: Demon-
strating model of an element of the
static pressure turbine invented by
donor (129483).
Davis, W. T., Staten Island, N. Y.:
9 insects, representing 7 species, all
but 2 being paratypes (129465).
Davis & GEcK, INc., Brooklyn, N. Y.:
Model and 71 specimens illustrating
history, manufacture, use, and be-
havior of surgical sutures (125284).
Dawson, T. H., Washington, D. C.:
Blickensderfer no. 6 portable type-
writer and carrying case of about
1900 (125450).
REPORT OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1934
DEAM, C. C., Bluffton, Ind.: 5 plants
from Indiana (127048). Exchange.
DzEANE, Dr. F. G. W., Barbados, Brit-
ish West Indies: 1 clay ironstone
septarian nodule from Barbados
(129834).
DrEGENER, OtTo, New York, N. Y.: 261
plants from Hawaiian Islands
(126450, 127654, 128082, 128174,
128612, 129303).
DEIGMAN, H. G., Washington, D. C.:
1 squirrel (125936).
DEMAREE, DELzIE, Stanford University,
Calif.: 270 plants from California
(125970, 127096).
DeEMING, M. F., Tappan, N. Y.: 12
specimens of sand concretions from
mouth of Croton River, N. Y.
(125624) ; a collection of fossil algal
growths from Saratoga Springs,
N. Y. (127059); about 700 concre-
tions from Croton Point, N. Y.
(125251). (See also under W. W.
Wiles.)
DENLEY, C. F., Silver Spring, Md.: 1
pheasant (125572).
DENMEAD, TALBOTT, Baltimore, Md.:
(Through Dr. EH. W. Nelson) 4
quail (127687).
DENSMORE, FRANCES, Red Wing, Minn. :
25 birch-bark transparencies made
by Chippewa Indians (125130).
DEPAUW UNIVERSITY, Greencastle,
Ind.: 350 plants from Hawaiian Is-
lands (129479). Exchange.
DrruE, Mrs. ANNE J. B. (See under
Mrs. Mary R. Roberts.)
DESSELLE, LEoN, Marksville, La.:
Earthenware bowl and 2 discoidal
stones exhumed by donor in his
front yard (125988).
DeEvorE, P. W., Spartanburg, S. C.:
(Through Dr. HE. W. Nelson) 3
quail (128240).
DicKERSON, Dr. R. E., Philadelphia,
Pa.: 115 invertebrate fossils (mostly
brachiopods) from Yarbi Chambi,
Bolivia (125795).
Ditt, Homer R. (See under State
University of Iowa.)
DoseiIn, FRANK, Shushan, N. Y.: 54
plants from Northeastern United
States (126156).
Dopcr & OxLcoTr Co., New York, N. Y.:
10 specimens of essential oils used
in medicine (127605).
DoNNELLY, Frora F., Atlanta, Ga.: 2
busts of Negroes of the ex-slave type
(127315). ;
DoNNELLY, R. R., & Sons Co., Chicago,
Iil.: “In the Dressing Room of an
Actress ”, after Ito Shinsui, a repro-
duction made by combining the wa-
tercolor and deeptone processes
(125727); 1 book, “ Wau-Bun the
‘Barly Day’ in the Northwest”, by
ACCESSIONS
Mrs. John H. Kinzie, an example of
fine printing (127112).
DovuGeLas, H. B., Newton, N. J.: Sur-
veyor’s compass made by Benjamin
Rittenhouse and used by Andrew
Ellicott (128427).
Dowls, D. H., Sterling, Colo.: 6 speci-
mens of scrip issued in Sterling in
1933 (127051).
DRAKE, J. C., Washington, D. C.: 2
ruddy ducks (127454).
Drange, Rey. F. B., Edenton, N. C.:
Wing tip of Wright brothers’
glider, probably 1902 (125580).
Loan.
DrusHEL, Dr. J. A., Westfield, N. J.:
83 plants (127199, 128246).
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