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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM

REPORT ON THE PROGRESS AND CON

D ITION OF THE UN ITED STATES

NATIONAL MUSEUM FOR THE

YEAR END ING JUNE

WASHINGTON

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

1 921

UNITED STATES NATIONAL MU SEUM ,

UNDER D IRECTION OF THE SM ITHSON IAN IN STITUTION ,

Washington,D . C.,S eptember 30, 1 921 .

S IR : I have the honor to submit herewith a report upon the presentcondition of the United States National Museum and upon the workaccomplished in its various departments during the fiscal year endingJune 30

,1 921 .

Very respectfully,WILLIAM DEC . RAVE NEL

,

Adm inistrative Assistant to the S ecretary,In charge of the United S tates Natiomz l Mngeum.

D r . CHARLE S D . WALCOTT ,

S ecretary, Smiths onian Institution .

CONTENTS .

P amaS tafi of MuseumInception and history "

Opera tions of the yearAppropriationsBuildings and equipmentCol lections

F reer collections “

Loeb collection of chemica l types “

Cooperat ion of the executive departmentsPartello bequestVisitorsPublica tionsLibraryPhotographic laboratoryMeetings and congressesOrganization and stafi

Necrology_

Repo rts on the collections :Depa rtment of biology , by Leonhard S tejneger , head curator “

Department of geo logy , by George P . Merrill, head cura torDepartment of arts and industries, W . deC . R avenel , directorTextiles, med icine , woods, and foods, by F . L. L‘

ewtonMechani cal technology, by Carl W. M i tmanM inera l techno logy , by Carl W. M itmanGraphic arts, by R . P . Tolman

Division of history , by T . T . Belote, curator

List of accessionsList of publications

ILLU STRATIONS .

South front of Natural H istory Build ing of the Museum FacingSkeleton of sma llest horned dinosaur, Brachyceratops montanensis, fromMontana . Collected in 1 91 3 ; mounted during 1 920 and 1 921 . Facingpage

Skeleton of an extinct bear from a Pleistocene Cave deposit near Cumberland , Md . Collected in 1 91 5 ; mounted during 1 920 and 1 921 . Facingpage

STAF F OF THE UNITED STATE S NATIONAL

MUSEUM .

[June 30,

CHARLE S D . WALCOTT , Secretary of the Smithsonian Insti tution, keeper ea: oflic io .

WILLIAM DEC . RAVENEL, Administrative assistant to the Secretany , in charge of

the Uni ted S tates Na tional Museum.

SCIENTIFIC STAFF.

DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGYWa lter Hough , acting head curator.

D ivision of E thnol ogy : Wa lter Hough , curator ; J W F ewkes , collaborator ;Arthur P , R ice, co llabora tor.Section of Musical Instrument : Hugo Worch , custodian.

D ivision of Amer ican Archeo logy : Neil M . Judd , cura tor ; R . G . Pa ine, a l d

Phi lip A. Means, collaborator .D ivision of Old Wor ld Archeo logy : I . M . Casanowicz , assistant curator.D ivision of Physica l Anthropo logy : Al eeHrd l iéka , curator.Associates in Historic Archeology : Pau l Haupt , Cyrus Adler.

D EPARTM ENT OF BIOLOGY

Leonha rd S tejneger , head curaton James E . Benedict , assistant curator.Division of Mamma l s : Gerri t S . M iller, jr. , cura tor.D ivision of Birds : R obert R idgway , curator ; Charles W. R ichmond , asso

ciate cura tor ; J H. R i ley , a id ; E dward J. Brown , collaborato r.Section of Birds’

E ggs : Bradshaw H. Swales, custodian.

D ivision of R eptiles and Batmchians: Leonhard S tejneger , cura tor ; DorisM . Cochran, a id.

D ivision of F ishes: Barton A. Bean, assistant curator.D ivision of Insects : L. 0 . Howard , honorary cura tor ; J. M . Aldrich . asso

cia te curator ; B . Preston Clark , collaborato r .Section of Hymenoptera : S . A. Rohwer , custodian ; W. M . Mann, as

sistant custodian.

Section of Myriapoda : O . F . Cook, custodian.

Section of D iptera : J. M . Aldrich , in charge ; Charles T . Greene , as

sistent custodian.

Section of Musco id D iptera : C . H. T . Townsend , custodian.

Section of Coleoptera : E . A. S chwarz . custodian.

Section of Lepidoptera : Harrison G. Dyar , custodian ; Will iam S chaus,assistant custod ian.

Section of Orthoptera : A. N . Caudel] , custodian.

Section of Hemiptera : E dmund H. G ibson, custodian ; W. L. McAtee ,

acting custodian.

Section of Forest Tree Beetles : A. D . Hopkins, custodian.

D ivision of Marine Invertebra tes: Waldo L. S chmi tt , curator ; C . R . Shoemaker, assistant curator ; H. K . Harring, custodi an of the rota toria ; M rs .

Harriet R ichardson Searle, collabora tor ; M ax M .

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E l l is , collabora tor.Division of Mo l lusks : William H. Da l l , honorary cura tor ; Paul Bartsch ,curator ; William B. Ma rshall, assistant curator ; Mary Breen,

collaborator.Section of Helminthologica l Coll ections : 0 . W. S tiles, custodian ; B. H.

Ransom. assistant custodian.

D ivision of E chinoder ms: Austin H. Cla rk, curator.

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D EPARTM ENT OF BIOLoeY— Cont inued .

D ivision of P lants (Na tiona l Herbarium ) : Frederick V . Covi lle, honorarycura tor ; W. R . Maxon, associa te curator ; J. N . R ose, associate curator ;P . C . S tandley , assistant curator ; Emery 0 . Leonard, aid ; E llsworth P .

Kil l ip , a id .

Section of Grasses : Albert S . H itchcock , custod ian.

Section of C ryp togami c Collections : 0 . F . Cook , custodian.

Section of H igher Algae : W . T . Swingle. custodian.

Section of Lower Fungi : D . G. Fa irchild , custodian.

Sections of D iatoms : Al bert Mann , custodian.

Associates in Zoology : 0 . B art Merriam, W. L. Abbott , Mary J. Ratbbun,

David S tarr Jordan .

D EPARTM ENT OF GEOLOGY

Geo rge P . Merrill , head curator.D ivision of Physica l and Chemica l Geo l ogy ( systemati c and applied )George P . Merrill . curator : E . V . Shannon, ass istant curator.

D iMsion of M inera l ogy and Petro logy : F . W. Clarke, honorary cura torW. F . F oshag, assistant curator ; Frank L. Hess , custodian of raremetals and rare earths.

D ivision of P a leontology : R . S . Bassler , curator ; Charles E . R esser , as

sistent cura tor ; Jessie G . Beach , aid .

Section of Invertebrate Paleontology : T . W. S tanton, custodian of

Mesozo ic collection ; Wi lliam H. D al ] , associate curator of Cenozoiccollection ; T . Wayland Vaughan, custodian of Madreporarian cora l s.

Section of Vertebrate Paleontology : Charles W . G ilmore, a ssociatecura tor ; James W. G idley, assistant curator of fossi l mammals.

Section of Paleobotany : Davi d White, associate cu rator ; F . H. Knowl

ton, custodian of Mesozoi c plants.

Associates in Paleontology : Frank Springer , E . O . U l rich .

Associate'

in Petrology : Whitman Cross .

D EPARTM ENT OF ARTS AND INDU STR IE S :Willi am deC . R avenel , d irector.

D ivision of Texti l es : F rederick L Lew ton, curator ; M rs . E . W . Rosson,

aid.

Section of Wood Technology : William M . N. Watkins , assistantcurato r.

D imsion of M edicinw : Charles Whitebread , assistant curator.D ivisions of M inera l and M echa/mica l Techno logy : Carl W . M itman, curatorChester G . G ilbert , associate curator ; Paul E . Garber , aid : George W.

Spier. custod ian of watches.

D ivision of Graph ic Arts : R . P . Tolman, assistant curator.Section of Photography : A . J O lmsted , custodian.

DIVI S ION OF HI STORYT . T. Belote, curator ; Charles Carey , assistant ; J. B . Leavy , phi latel ish

ADMINI STRATIVE STAF F .

Chief of co rrespondence and documents,Superintendent of bu ildings and labor, JE ditbr, Marcus Benjamin.

E ngineer, C. R . Denmark.

D isbursing agent , W. I . Adams.

Photographer, A. J. O lmsted .

Property clerk , W. A. Knowles .

Assistant librarian, N . P . S c udder.Shipper. L. R . Perry .

REPORT ON THE PROGRE SS AND COND ITION

OF.THE UNITED STATES NATIONALMUSEUMFOR THE YEAR END ING JUNE 30, 1 921 .

By WILLIAM DEC . RAVENEL,

Administra tive Assistant to the S ecretary,In charge of the Uni ted S ta tes Na tional Museum.

INCEPTION AND HISTORY.

The Congress of the Uni ted States in the act of August 1 0,1 846

,

founding the Smithsonian Institution recognized that an opportunitywas afforded

,in carrying out the large-minded design of Smithson.

to provide for the custody of the museum of the Nation. T0 thisnew estab l isM ent was therefore intrusted the care of the nationalcollections

,a course that time has fully justified.

In the beginning the cost of maintaining the museum side of the

Institution’s work was wholly paid from the Smithsonian income ;

then for a time the Government bore a share, and during the past 40years Congress has voted the entire funds for the expenses of theMuseum

,thus furthering one of the primary means for the increase

and diffusion of knowledge among men w ithout encroaching uponthe resources of the Inst itution.

The museum idea was inherent in the establishment o f the Smithsomian Institution

,which in its turn was based upon a 1 0 years’ dis

cussion in Congress and the advice of the most distinguished scientificmen

, educato rs , and intellectual leaders of the Nation of 75 yearsago . It is interesting to note how broad and comp rehensive were theV iews which actuated our lawmakers in determining the scope of theMuseum

,a fact especially remarkable when it is recalled that at that

date no museum of considerable size existed in the United States,

and the museums of England and of the Continent of Europe werestill to a large extent w ithout a developed plan, although containingmany rich coll ections.

The Congress which passed the act of foundation enumerated as

within the scope of theMuseum all objects of art and of foreign and

curious research and all objects of natural history , plants , and geological and mineralogical specimens belonging to the United S tates ,

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thus stamping the Museum at the very outset as one of the widestrange and at the same time as the Museum of the United S tates. Itwas also appreciated that additions would be necessary to the col

l ections then in existence, and provision was made for their increaseby the exchange of duplicate specimens

,by donations , and by other

means .If the wisdom of Congress in so ful ly providing for a museum in

the Smithsonian l aw challenges attention,the interpretation put

upon this law by the Board of Regents within less than six monthsfrom the passage of the act can not but command admiration. In

the early part of September,1 846

, the Regents took steps towardformulating a plan of operations . The report of the committeeappointed for this pu rpose

,submitted in December and Jannary

following , shows a thorough consideration of the subject in both thespirit and letter of the l aw . It would seem not out of place to citehere the first p ronouncement of the board with reference to the character of the Museum :

In obedience to the requirements of the charter,1 which leaves

little discretion in regard to the extent of accommodations to beprovided

,you r committee recommend that there be included in the

building a museum of liberal size,fitted up to receive the collections

destined for the Institution.

“As important as the cabinets of natural history by the charterrequired to be included in the Museum ,

your committee regard itsethnological portion

,including al l collections that may supply items

in the physical history of ou r species, and illustrate the manners ,customs

,religions

,and progressive advance of the various nations of

the world ; as, for example,coll ections of skul ls

,skeletons, portraits ,

d resses, implements , weapons , idols , antiquities , of the various racesof man. In this connexion your committee recommendthe passage of resolutions asking the cooperation o f certa in publicfunctionaries and of the public generally in furtherance of theabove "objects .

Your committee are further of opinion that in the Museum , if

the funds of the Institution permit , might j udiciously be includedvarious series of models illustrat ing the progress of some of the mostuseful inventions ; such , for example, as the steam engine from its

earliest and rudest form to its present most improved -state ; but thisthey propose only so far as it may not encroach on ground alreadycovered by the numerous models in the Patent Othee.

Specimens of staple materials , of their gradual manufacture, and

o f the finished product o f manufactures and the arts may also , your

1 S ince the Instituti on was no t chartered in a l egal sense, but estab l ished by Congress ,

the use of the word charter in this connection was no t correct .

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committee think , be usefully introduced. This would supply oppor

tunity to examine samples of the best manufactured articles ourcountry affords, and to judge her gradual progress in arts and manu

factures.The gallery of art , your committee think , should include both

paintings and sculpture, as well as engravings and architecturaldesigns ; and it is desirable to have in connexion with it one o r mo restudios in which young artists might copy w ithout interruption,

be

ing admitted under such regulations as the board may prescribe.

Your committee also think that, as the collection of paintings and

sculpture will probably accumulate slowly, the room destined for a

gallery of artmight properly and usefully meanwhile be occupied during the sessions of Coongress as an exhibition room for the works ofartists generally ; and the extent and general usefulness of such an

exhibit might probably be increased if an arrangement could be

effected with the Academy of Design, the Arts Union, the Artists’

Fund Society, and other associations of similar character, so as to

concentrate at the metropolis for a certain portion o f each w inter

the best results of talent in the fine arts .”

The important points in the foregoing report are ( 1 ) that it was

the opinion of the Regents that a museum was requisite under the

l aw ,Congress having left no discretion in the matter ; (2 ) that

ethnology and anthropology, though not specially named,were yet

as important subjects as natural history ; (3) that the history of theprogress of useful inventions and the collection of the raw materials

and products of the manufactures and arts should also be providedfor ; (4) for the gallery of art the committee had models in existence

,

and they proposed , pending the gathering of art collections , whichwould of necessity be slow

,to provide for loan exhibitions by co

operat ing with art academies and societies .In the resolutions which were adopted upon the presentation o f the

report,a museum was mentioned as one of the principal modes of

executing the act and trust.” 2 The work was to go forward as the

funds permitted,and

,as is well known, the maintenance of the

Museum and the library was long ago assumed by Congress, theInstitution taking upon itself only so much of the necessary responsib il ity for the administration of these and subsequent additions to itsactivi ties as would weld them into a compact whole

,which together

2 R eso lved, That it is the intention of the act of Congress establishing the Insti tution,

and in accordance with the design of Mr. Smithson, as expressed in his will. that one

o f the principal modes of executing the act and the trust is the accumulation of colleeti ons of specimens and objects of natural hi story and o f elegant art

,and the gradua l

formation of a library of valuable works pertaining to al l departments of human knowledge, to the end tha t a copious storehouse of materials o f science , literature, and art

may be provided wh ich shall excite and diff use the love of learning among men, and sha l l

assist the original investigations and efforts o f those who may devote themselves to thepursuit of any branch o f knowledge.

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form a unique and notable agency for the increase and diffusion ofknowledge, for the direction o f research

,for cooperation with depart

ments of the Government and with universities and scientific societiesin America , and l ikew ise afford a definite correspondent to all scientific institutions and men abroad who seek interchange of views o rknowledge w ith men of science in the United S tates.S ince that early day the only material changes in the scope of the

Government museum have been the addition of a department ofAmer ican history , intended to illustrate by an appropriate assemblage o f objects the lives of distinguished personages , importantevents

,and the domestic life of the country from the colonial period

to the present time,and provision for the separate admini stration of

the National Gallery of Art as a c oordinate unit under the Smithsonian Institution. From 1 906 to 1 920 the Gallery was adminis

tered as the department of fine arts of theMuseum .

The development of the Museum has been greatest in those subjectswhich the conditions o f the past three-quarters of a century havemade most fruitful— the natural history

,geology

,ethnology , and

a rcheology of the United S tates,supplemented by many collections

from other countries . The opportunities for acquisition in thesedirections have been mainly brought about through the activities ofthe scientific and economic surveys of the Government, many ofwhich are the direct outgrowths of earlier explorations

,stimulated or

directed by the Smithsonian Institution. The Centennial Exhibitionof 1 876 afforded the first opportuni ty for establishing a departmentof the industrial arts

,of which the fullest advantage has been taken ,

but the department or gallery of the fine arts made little progress ,though not

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from lack of desire or appreciation, until 1 906, when circumstances l ed to its definite recognition. The historical collectionshave been greatly augmented within the past few years by large collections illustrative of the World War , in

’

cluding a'

comprehensive

series of aircrafts and their accessories.While it is the primary duty of a museum to p reserve the objects

confided to its care,as it is that of a library to preserve its books and

manuscripts, yet the importance of public collections rests not upon

the mere basis of custodi anship nor upon the number of specimensassembled and their money value

,but upon the use to which they are

put. Judged by this standard , the National Museum may claim tohave reached a high state of efficiency. From an educational pointof View it is of great value to those persons who are so fortunateas to reside 1n Washington or who are able to V isit the Nation’

s Capital. In its well designated cases, in which every detail of structure,appo intment

,and colo r i s considered

,a selection of representative

objects is placed on view to the public,al l being carefully labeled ih

dividually and in groups. The child as well as the adult has been

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provided for and the kinderga rten pupil and the high -schoo l scholarcan

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be seen here supplementing their class room games or studies.

Under authority from Congress the small colleges and higher gradeso f schools and academies throughout the land , especially in placeswhere museums do not exist , are also being a ided in their educationalwo rk by sets of duplicate specimens , selected and labeled to meet theneeds of both teachers and pupils.Nor has the elementary or even the higher education been by any

means the so le gainer from the work o f the Museum . To advanceknowledge, to gradually extend the boundaries of learning, has beenone of the great tasks to which the Museum ,

in consonance with thespirit of the Institution ,

has set itself from the first . Its staff,though

chiefly engaged in the duties incident to the care, cl assification,and

labeling of collections in o rder that they may be accessible to thepublic and to students, has yet in these operations made importantdiscoveries in every department of the Museum

’s activities

,which

have in turn been communicated to other scholars through its

numerous publications . But the collections have not been held for thestudy of the staff nor for the scientific advancement o f those belonging to the establishment . Most freely have they been put at the di sposal of investigators connected with other institutions

,without

whose help the reco rd of scientific progress based upon the materialin the Museum would have been greatly curtailed. When it is possible to so arrange

,the investigator comes to Washington ; otherwise

such collections as he needs are sent to him ,whether he resides in this

country or abroad. In this manner practical ly every prominentspecialist throughout the world interested in the subjects here wellrep resented has had some use of the collections and thereby the National Museum has come to be recognized as a conspicuous factor inthe advancement of knowledge wherever civilization has a foothold .

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repairs is now less that it was 1 0 years ago , when the NaturalHistory Building was new and naturally required comparativelylittle in the way of repairs . The amount for furniture and fixtures

is likewise less than it was for a number of years prior to thewar when prices of labor and material were from 50 to 75 per centlower.Of the appropriated this year for printing, was

the regular item , and a deficiency item for the completionduring the year of an unusual accumulation of work at the Government Printing Office. The Museum p rinting had for several yearsbeen held back for lack of sufficient available funds.A comparison of the operating expenses of the United S tates Na

tional Museum with museums o f similar size and scope in this coun

trya nd abroad is extremely interesting, and brings out very stronglythe inadequacy of the appropriations , especially with reference to thesalaries paid to all classes of its employees . The scientific staff ispaid from 40 to 50 per cent less than scientific men of the same gradein similar museums elsewhere.

BUILDINGS AND E QUIPMENT .

The Aircraft Building was opened to the public on October 7, 1 920,whereby the Museum added about square feet of floor space toits exhibition halls. Th is metal structure, erected by the War D e

partment on the Smithsonian Reservation in 1 91 7 for the use of the

United S tates S ignal Service, was transferred to the custody of the

Smithsonian after the close of the war. In it has been assembled a

collection of a ircraft and accessories in production during the warperiod.

In the upkeep of the bui ldings themoreM portant work performedin theNatural HistoryBui lding included the construction of a lockerroom for the engineer force at the east entrance

,ground floor ; the

painting of the ceiling and side walls of the corridor and the roomsin the east hal l , ground floor, and of the co rridor around the south ,east , and west sides of the auditorium ; the laying of cork flooringin the west and northwest ranges

,ground floor ; installing rubber

interlocking tile flooring in two elevators at the no rth entrance ; andthe painting of all concrete floors in corridors of the west ball ,ground floor ; also , the painting of the exterior surfaces o f al l metalwindow frames on the first and second floors and the wooden framesand sashes on the ground and third floors

, and the preparation of theeast court and planting the same with lawn grass.In the Arts and Industries Building the interior work included

the pointing up and painting of walls and ceilings in several exhibition halls and office rooms and

,in the latter

, the replacing of wornout floors with new ones o f pine. Ou the exterior, the snow brakes

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on the roo fs were repaired , the roo fs painted , and a. beginning madeo f painting the exterior woodwork of al l windows of the building.

On the Smithsonian Building the only work of importance was thepainting of the exterior woodwork of the windows in the east end.

When the Freer Building was planned , arrangements were made toprocure heat, light, and power from the central heating plant

,which

the Institution was assured would be in a position to supply the samebefore needed . In the absence of such servi ce, however, the FreerGallery was connected with the Museum power plant

,which necessi

tated the operation of the o ld boilers in the Arts and IndustriesBuilding during the coldest portion of the heating season. Duringthis year the use of bituminous coal in these boil ers was made possib l e by the removal of the old flat grates and the installation ‘

of handoperated stokers. The antiquated blow-ofi valve combination on the

boilers in the Natural History Building was also replaced .

Though the winter was a comparatively mild one, heat was furnished the buildings from October 6

,1 920, to May 20, 1 921 , with a

consumption of tons of coal . While the cheapest grade is used,

the cost of coal averaged a ton. At one time it reached a

ton,about three times the contract price of 1 91 6 . The amount of

electr ic current generated was kilowatt hours,at a cost of

cents a kilowatt hour. The ice plant,in operation for

hours , produced tons of ice, supplying al l the buildings underthe LSmithsonian Institution on the Mall. The increasing demandfor ice will necessitate a new machine within a few years.The power plant remained shut down during July and August,

1 920,and from June 4 to 30, 1 92 1 . It is more economical to purchase

needed electric cu rrent than to operate the Museum plant,since cur

rent can be bought during the summer months at 21; cents a kilowatthour by Government departments owning generating plants. Thisclosing down of the plant permits also its operation during the yearwith fewer men— as the employees then take the greater portion oftheir leave— and allows a general overhauling of the machinery

,

obviating trouble during the heating season.

Less trouble was experienced during the year than in the pastfour years in procuring the necessary labor

, and for the first time inseveral years all of the men employed met the civil-service requirements. While the quality of service rendered was not as highstandard as desired, it p roved fairly satisfactory. This can be readily understood when it is considered that the salaries of the assistantengineers and electricians are from 75 to 90 per cent less than thosepaid in private business in Washington.


There were acquired during the year 62 exhibition cases (50 steeland 1 2 wooden) , and 1 65 pieces of storage, laboratory and office furniture. Of the exhibition cases, 1 2 were made in the Museum ,

the

other 50 transferred to the Museum by the Department of the Interior

,having been used at the Panama-P acific International Ex

position at S an Francisco in 1 91 5.

Of the 1 65 pieces of storage,laboratory and office furniture, 96

pieces were manufactured in the Museum workshops and 69 werepu rchased . It is becoming more and more the policy of the Museumto manufacture its own furniture, as in ,most cases it can be donemore economically

,owing to the difl’erence in the cost of labo r .

At the close of the fiscal year , there were on hand exhibitioncases and bases and pieces of storage, laboratory and otheefurniture. In addition to these, there were wooden uni tdrawers , metal uni t drawers, wooden unit boxes, 224double unit boxes

,and insect drawers ; also 752 winged f rames,

special drawers w ith paper bottoms, and special drawers

with compo bottoms .

COLLE CTIONS .

The total number of specimens acquired by the Museum during theyear was approximately Received in separate accessions , they were cl assified and assigned as fo llows : Anthropology ,

zoology, botany,

geology,mineralogy

,and

petrology,estimated

,paleontology

,estimated

,textiles

,

wood,medicine

,foods

,and other miscell aneous o rganic products

,

943 ; mineral technology , 466 ; mechanical techno logy , 1 62 ; graphicarts

, and history ,Additional material

,to the extent of 794 lots, mainly geological ,

was received for special examination and report . While this free determination of material sent in from al l parts of the country requiresconsiderable time on the part o f specialists, it is not without advantage to the Museum in furnishing occasional desirable specimens andin recording new localities.About specimens were sent out in exchange

,for which the

Museum received much valuable material specially desired fo r thecollections.

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The distr ibution of specimens for educational work was broadenedthis year to include objects from the department of anthropology.

Of the specimens distributed as gifts in aid of education during the per iod o f this repo rt

,over were comprised in cl assified

and labeled sets of specimens p repared fo r schools and colleges ,nearly being o res and minerals. The other subjects rep resentedwere rocks

,rock weathering and soil formation, mollusks, marine in

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vertebrates,fishes

,birds and birds’ eggs, insects, pottery , basketry ,

and prehistoric implements . Another specimens left the Mu

seum temporarily as loans to students and investigators in many fiel dsof science.

The reports o f the head curators in the natural history departmentsand of the cu rators in the other b ranches of the museum ,

beginmng on

page 39,give in detail the additions to and the work upon their

collections during the ye

FREE R COLLE CTION S .

In the 1 920 repo rt it was noted that the building for the Freercollections was nea r ing completion and the collections were beingshipped to “l

ashington from Detro it . On April 31,1 92 1

,the final

work in the construction of the building was completed by the GeorgeA. Fuller Co .

,and the structure was formally transferred to the

Smithsonian Institution,being accepted on May 3, 1 92 1 , j ust fou r

years and seven months after ground was broken for its erection .

That this result was not reached earlier,as was anticipated at the be

ginning,was largely due to unforeseen delays incident to the Wo rld

War,but the work was at all times conducted with that deliberation

and attention to details necessary to stability and permanency of

structu re,and these it is believed have been obtained. Planned with

special reference to accommodating a collection whose various unitswere known and of affording unusual facilities for study and re

search,the building is an object of art in itself and is bound to become

a mecca for art lovers from all over the world .

This year witnessed also the construction, under the officer in

charge of public buildings and grounds, of the driveways and walksleading to the Freer Gallery and the seeding of the land immedi

ately surrounding it , which has now been brought up to the standardof the balance of the Smithsonian Reservation.

During the summer and autumn of 1 920 the remaining portionsof the Freer collections were brought to Washington from Detroitand stored in the building. The work of unpacking and installingthe specimens was begun in the late autumn, under the able directionof Miss Katharine N. Rhoades , who had been associated with Mr .

Freer in their care for some years. It is anticipated that some timemust elapse befo re the exhi bits are all in readiness and the halls can

be opened to visitors.

In December, 1 920, Mr . John E . Lodge, curator of the departmentof Chinese and Japanese art in the Boston Museum of Fine Art s

,

was appo inted curator of the Freer Gallery and placed in charge.

The Freer Gallery is being administered as an independent unit o fthe National Gallery of Art

,but the heating

,lighting , and guarding

of the building continues to be carried on in connection w ith the

20 RE PORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM ,1 921 .

National Museum system ,since the F reer Gallery is dependent upon

the Museum plant for heat, light, and power.

LOEB COLLECTION OF CHEM ICAL TYPE S .

Practically no p rogress was made this year in establishing theLoeb collection of chemical types owing to the difficu l ty experiencedin moving to Washington the steel storage cabinet and other property purchased from the Morris Loeb fund , and which are still inthe lib rary of the Chemists’ Club of New York C ity.

Numerous specimens for the type collection have been p romisedand will be turned over to the National Museum as soon as the

storage cabinet , especially built to protect delicate specimens fromdeterioration,

has been received and installed in its permanent place .

COOPE RATION OF THE E XE CUTIVE DE PARTMENTS .

Belonging as it does to the Nation, the National Museum receivesimportant assistance from other governmental agencies . Particularlywas this true during the fiscal year 1 92 1 . Credit is due to the NavyDepartment fo r transporting and installing in the Museum buildingmany attractive exhibits in the World War collections ; to the War

Department for similar service,including the detail to the Museum

of one officer for several months ; to the Departments of Agriculture,Commerce, and the Interior and the Bureau of American Ethnologyfor many valuable contributions of specimens and much assistancein classi fying and labeling objects in the Museum ; to the InteriorDepartment also for transferring exhibition cases no longer neededby it ; and to the Post Office Department for large series of postagestamps.This cooperation is not entirely one-sided . The Museum renders

aid to the executive depar tments whenever possible, as evidencedby the work of Dr. AlesHrdl iéka for the Department of Justice, bywhich over a million of dollars in land and money was saved for theIndians .

PARTE LLO RE QUE ST.

Under the terms of the will of Dwight J Partello,who died on

August 1 3,1 920

,the Museum is bequeathed his collection of musical

instruments, bows , and cases , gathered during many years of collecting, 37 paintings, a gold and silver box or casket presented to Mr.

Partello by the Czar of Russia,and a diploma and medal awarded

him for his exhibit of violins at the Chicago Exposition in 1 893.

The unique collection illustrating the Italian school of violins is wellknown and of great intrinsic value. It numbers 25 instrumentsof the violin family

,made by the best masters in pure construction,

including Amati,Stradavari

,Bergonzi

,Guarnerius

,and o thers. At

the end o f the fiscal yea r Mr . P artel l o’s estate had not been settled.


The p resent tendency'

of museums to aid in the appreciation o f the

art o f music , as evidenced by the lectu re- recitals and concerts, nowfo rming a regular feature in many museums of the country , makes itincumbent upon the National Museum to administer this collectionso as best to benefit the public . The Museum has already a largeand diversified collection of the musical instruments of both aborigi

nal and civilized peoples, exhibited under such conditions at present ,however

,that its true value can not be appreciated . It is expected

that a better installation can be provided when mo re space becomes

available which w ill undoubtedly lead to additional contributionsneeded to fil l existing gaps .

VIS ITOR S .

As customa ry the Museum exhibition halls were open free to thepublic from 9 a . m. to p . m. on al l week days during the year

(holidays included ) , with one exception. On May 2 1,1 92 1

, the

various Museum buildings were closed all day out of respect to thelate Chief Justice Edward Douglass White, for 1 0 years a Regentand for 8 years the Chancellor of the Smithsonian Institution .

The Natural History Building was also opened to visitors everySunday afternoon from to To accommodate strangers inWashingt on at inaugural time, this was extended on Sunday

,March

6,to al l -day service. The exhibition halls in the Smithsonian

Buildingr were likew ise Open on Sunday a fternoon

,March 27, to

afford added Opportunity for inspecting the collection of exquisitewater -colo r paintings of wild flowers by Mrs. C . D . Walcott . Sun

day opening of al l the buildings , though highly desirable, will onlybe possible when funds are available to p rovide additional watchmen and o ther attendants required.

The number of Visitors to the Natural History Building duringthe year aggregated for week days and for Sundays

,

be ing a daily average of for the former and for thelatter. At the Arts and Industries Building the total attendancewas a daily average of 91 7. The Aircraft Building

,opened

to the public for the first time on October 7, 1 920 (though subse

quently closed from October 1 4 to November 3, to permit of theinstallation of a naval airplane ) had an attendance of an

average of 1 47 persons daily . The total attendance in the Smithsohi an Building on week days was an average of 288, and on

the one Sunday 1 38.

The follow ing tables show,respectively

, the attendance of visito rsduring each month o f the past year

,and for each year since 1 881

,

when the building devoted to arts and indust ries was first occupied .

22 REPORT or NATIONAL MUSEUM ,1 921 .

Number of visitors duri/ng the year ending June 30, 1 921 .

Museum buil dmgs.

Year andmonth .

Art d N t ai3 an a 11 1

Industnes. H1 3 tory.

Ai rcraft.

October

286,397 467, 299

Number of visi tors’

to the Museum and Smithsoni an bui ldings since 1 881 .

Museum buildings. Museum buildings .

Year. Year.

1 881 .

1 882 1 67, 455

1 883 202,1 88

1 884 (hal f year) . 97, 661

1 884—85 ( 1 i s c a 1

o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o

1 Buil ding open onl y threemonths of the year.


24 RE PORT or NATIONAL MUSEUM,1 921 .

the library o f her brother,the late Dr. Joseph Paxson Iddings, com

prising upward of books and pamphlets,chiefly on geological

subjects. Doctor Iddings , as is well known, was one of America’sleading petrologists

,and his 40 years’ accumulation of author’s ex

cerpts in this branch o f science was unusually large .

PHOTOGRAPHIC LABORATORY .

In illustrating Museum objects, largely fo r reproduction in the

publications and in copying plans,diagrams

,etc.

,required in con

nection with the work of the Museum , there were made in the photographic laboratory during the yea r negatives

,black and

white prints,42 bromide enlargements , 1 62 panoramas , and 1 44 l an

tern slides,besides developing 467 fiel d negatives and mounting

prints . A number of imp rovements in the apparatus and

equipment make it much easier to handle the work in the labo rato ry.

ME E TINGS AND CONGRE SSE S .

As customary the National Academy of S ciences held its annualmeeting in the Natural History Building of the Museum on April25

,26

,and 27, 1 92 1 , using the auditorium for the scientific sessions

,

open to the public,on the afternoon and evening of the 25th

,and

on the morning and afternoon of the 26th ; while the adj oiningcommittee room

,No. 42—43

,was used for the business meetings ex

tending through the forenoon of the 27th.

The evening session was devoted to an address by His Serene Highness Albert I

,Prince of Monaco , Agassiz medalist , and was fol

lowed by a reception to the Prince in the halls assigned to the National Gallery of Art. Other speakers befo re the academy and theirsubjects included : Gilbert N. Lewis

,Ultimate rational units ” ;

William Duane,The quantum l aw and the Doppler effect ” ; P . W.

Bridgman,

“ Preliminary measurements o f the effect o f high pressures on the thermal conductivities of liquids ”

; C. E . Mendenhalland Max Mason

,The stratification of suspended particles J R .

Carson,Radiation from transmission lines J R . Carson and J J

Gilbert,

“ Transmission characteristics of the submarine cableW. F Durand

,

“Application of the principle of similitude to thehyd raulic problem of the surge chamber E . H. Hall

, ( 1 ) Theorieso f osmotic pressure, and (2 )

“ Comments on the Borel ius spacelattice theory of the metallic state G. P . Merrill , Metamorphismin meteorites ” ; W. M . Davis

, ( 1 )“The Island of Tagula , New

Guinea,its satellites and coral reefs ,

”and (2 ) The shallow seas of

Australasia A. G. Webster, ( 1 ) Oh the radiation of energy fr omcoils in wireless telegraphy,

”

(2 ) On the Vibration of gun barrels,”

and (3) Oh the problem o f steering an automobile around a

RE PORT or NATIONAL MUSEUM ,1 921 . 25

corner ” ° Edward Kash er,

“ A model of the solar gravitationalfield

” °

,George D . Birkhofi

'

,

“ Ou the problem of three or morebodies ” ; L. E Dickson

, ( 1 )“ Quaternions and their generaliza

tions,

”and (2 )

“ Investigations in algebra and number theory ”

,

H. F . Bl ichfel dt,Ou the approximate solutions in integers of a set

o f linear equations ”

; H. N. Russell,

“A provisional theory o f new

stars F . S chlesinger, The compilation of star catalogues by meansof a doublet camera ”

; Vernon Kellogg, The National Resea rchCouncil ” ; W. S . Adams, The order o f the stars ” ; C. G. Abbot,Cooking with sola r heat on Mount Wilson ”

; F . W. Cla rke,The

evolution of matter ” ; Albert E instein,“ Relativity ”

; Austin H.

Clark,The cl assification of anima ls L. 0 . Howard , Attempts to

acclimatize Aphel inus mal i in France , South Africa , New Zealand ,and Uruguay C. D . Walcott

,Note on structure of the trilobite

J C. Mer riam,

“ Origin and history of the Ursidae or bears in theWestern Hemisphere

,w ith particular reference to the bearing of

this question on problems of geographical history ”

; H. F . Osborn,

The evolution,phylogeny

, and cl assifi cation of the P roboscidae ”

S imon F l exner“ E xper1ments in epidemiology ”

; Graham LuskiEffect of administering various simple metabolites upon the heatproduction of the dog ”

; Jacques Loeb , The physical and chemicalbehavior of proteins ” ; Francis G. Benedict, Edward L. Fox , and

Marion L. Baker , The skin temperature of Pachyderms ”

; L. R .

Jones,The temperature factor l n phytopathology ”

; T. B . Osborneand L. B. Mendel ,

“ Results of feeding experiments with mixturesof foodstuffs in unusual propo rtions ”

; C. B . Davenport,

“ P 0 pul a

tion ”

; and E . L. Thorndike,“ Measuring higher grades of intel l i

gence.

” The fo llowing papers were presented by title only : J M .

Clarke,

“ Life of James Hall , of Albany , geologist and pa l eontol ogist

,1 81 1 — 1 890

” Franz Boas,The difference between variable

series ” RaymondPearl and Charmian Howell,

“A study of Specificforces of mortality.

The National Research Council used the auditorium on the evening of February 21 , 1 921 , for a lecture by Dr. C. H. Herty on fundamental chemistry, illustrated by a small exhibit di splayed in the ad

joining° foyer.To afford the many men and women throughout the country in

terested in venereal disease control wo rk an opportunity of hear inglectures by leading authorities on the subject , the Bureau of PublicHealth Service, Treasury Department , conducted an Institute on

Venereal Disease Control in the auditorium and committee rooms ,from November 22 to December 4, including motion-picture demonstrations on the evenings of Novembe r 26 and 29 and December 1 ,and a meeting of the American Association o f Women in PublicHealth on the evening of November 24 . Rooms 45 and 46 and the


auditorium lobby were devoted to the accompanying exhibits. The

institute was followed by an All -American Conference on VenerealDiseases , held in Washington from December 6 to 1 1 , 1 920, the largepublic meetings being° in the Museum auditorium

,while rooms 44

and 45 were given over to registration, exhibits , etc.

F or showing moving pictures of various subjects the Public HealthService a lso had the use of the auditorium on the afternoon ofNovember 1 2 and on the mornings of Jannary 31

,March 9

,1 0

, and

25,and of rooms 42— 43 for a noontime meeting on February 21 .

The Department of Agriculture, because of its proximity , madefrequent use of the facilities afforded by the Museum . Oh the evening o f Ma rch 21

,four Department of Agriculture motion pictures

were shown to an audience composed principall y of department em

p loyees. The auditorium was again used on the afternoon of March2,when the Southern Commercial Congress presented to the Depart

ment of Agriculture a replica of the painting by S z el daties o f the lateDavid Lubin, the founder of the International Institute of Agricul

ture,with headquarters at Rome, Italy, under which 53 nations were

federated. Mr. Lubin, from the time of the organi zation until hisdeath ,was the American delegate appo inted by the S tate Department .The leadership of Mr . Lubin in directing the activities of the S outh ~

ern Commercial Congress resulted in the F ederal farm loan act andother vital S tate and Federal legislation relating to the economicstability of the country. Through his creative genius he federatedthe world

,based on agriculture

,and it was the only tie that held

during the World War . The International Institute of Agriculturewas the only international body where the belligerent countries didnot recall their delegates. Dr. Clarence J Owens

,director general

of the Southern Commercial Congress,presided at the meeting and

made the presentation. Other speakers were the Hon. Edw in T.

Meredith , Secretary of Agriculture ; Hon. D . N. Fletcher,o f Florida ;

Hon. James Duval Phelan and Hon Jul ius Kahn, of California ; andthe Italian ambassador

,Senator Vitto r io Bolandi Ricci

,who spoke

in his native tongue,being interpreted by Madame Olivia Rossetti

Agresti , secretary to David Lubin. A message from the King of

Italy was read at the meeting.

For the benefit ‘

of the members of the department’s staff whomissed this opportunity to hear Madame Agresti , a special lectureby this interesting speaker was arranged in the auditorium on the

evening of Ap ril 1 4,when she spoke on international economic

problems.The Federal Horticultural Board held an all-day meeting in Room

42—43 on December 20, to consider the advisability of restricting

importation of fruits and vegetables in raw or unmanufactured statefrom Cuba

,the Bahamas , Jamaica

,Canal Zone

,India

,Philippines

,

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etc . , on account of the citrus black fly. Oh May 1 6 and 1 7 the

board had the auditorium for an important conference o f persons interested in the cotton industry with reference to damage threatenedby the pink boll worm.

The Forest Service had the auditorium on four forenoons— on

January 25 and February 1 6 , for general meetings of the employeesof the service

,for show ing' lantern slides ; on March 25, for a meet

ing of employees in connection w ith official wo rk ; and on June 1 0,for a meeting° of employees to dedicate a memorial tablet in memoryo f the 1 9 employees o f the Forest Service who lost their lives in theWorld War

,the presentation being° made by Mr. Herbert A. Smith ,

and the address of acceptance by Lieut. Co l . William B. Greeley ,Forester and Chief of the Forest Service. Music was fu rnished bythe band o f the Third United S tates Cavalry from Fort Myer. ThisItalian renaissance tablet of S ienna marble, foll owing closely thestyle of certain old tablets in Italian cathedrals, is believed to bethe only work of its kind in America .

The Bureau o f Plant Industry showed motion-picture films to thescientific staff of the bureau in the auditorium on the afternoon ofNovember 1 8

,and held its phytopathological seminar in room 42—43

on the afternoon of March 1 0.

S tates Relations Service used the audito rium on three occas ions,

as follows : On the morning of November 1 7 and on the afternoonof April 1 3

,for showing motion and stereopticon pictures relating to

its activities, to the employees o f the service, and on the forenoon ofMay 28

,for an illustrated lecture by Dr. B. Sjol l ema , of the Veteri

nary University of Utrecht,the Netherlands

,on some of the unique

features of the agriculture of hi s country . The Potomac GardenClub

,cooperating w ith the United States Department of Agricul

ture, held its annual meeting there on the evening of Jannary 1 7.

The members o f the staff of the Bureau of Markets were called together in the auditorium on the afternoon of September 24, and an

al l -day conference o f United S ta tes game wardens, under the au

spices of the B iological Survey,occupied room 42—43 on January 6.

Twice was the audito rium at the disposal of the Army MedicalS choo l— ou the afternoon of November 1 7

,1 920

,for a lecture by

Dr. Hideyo Noguchi,o f the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Re

search,delivered before the student ofiicers of the school and members

o f theMedical Corps of the Army on duty inWashington,and on the

afternoon of May 26, for the closing exercises of the 1 920— 21 sessiono f the schoo l.On April 2 1 Mr . D . F . Garland

,on behalf of The National Cash

Register Co .

,demonstrated welfare wo rk to a group of employees

of the Post Othee Department. Other governmental agencies making


use of the meeting facilities were the Commission o f Fine Arts,on

Jannary 20 and 21 , and the Federal Board of Vocational Educationon June 1 3.

The eleventh annual meeting of the American Farm EconomicAssociation occupied the auditorium and committee room with afternoon and evening sessions on December 30, morning and afternoonsessions on December 31

,and a morning session on January 1 . On

December 30 room 42- 43 was utilized for a conference of representatiy es of national organizations engaged in rural social work w ithday and evening sessions .The annual convention of the Northern Nut Growers’ Associationconvened in the auditorium

,with morning and evening sessions on

October 7, and morning and afternoon sessions on October 8, and an

exhibit of nuts and mats in room 42— 43.

The American Institute of Architects was granted the auditorium,

committee rooms,and the central portion of the foyer for the fifty

fourth annual convention of the institute,from May 1 1 to 1 3, and

the Second National Architectural Exhibition,from May 1 2 to 1 9

,

inclusive, for the purpose of promoting and encouraging a w iderpublic interest in architecture. In connection with this conventionthe Association of Co llegiate S chools o f Archi tecture met in room42— 43

,on May 9 and 1 0

,with an evening session in the auditorium

on the latter date. The sessions of the institute included,besides

meetings each day in the auditorium and room 42—43,one evening ses

sion in the audito rium onMay 1 1 and a morning session on May 1 4 in

room 42 —43. The exhibition was inaugurated with a formal viewon the evening o f May 1 2

,when the f oyer and north lobby were

opened to the invited guests of the institute and the public fromto 1 1 p . m. The drawings

,photographs

,etc.

,of this collection

were installed on temporary floor screens placed either side and downthe central portion of the foyer . A number of the exhibits of the warcollections were inclosed by the screens, some of the cases being

° movedbetween the piers, and screens built on either side of them. The

walls in the audi torium lobby were also used for exhibiting drawingsand photographs, and a special exhibit belong ing to the Architects

’

Small House Service Bureau , of Minnesota , was installed on portablescreens against the south wall of the north lobby , either side of theentrance to the foyer.The twelfth annual c onvention of the American Federation of

Arts convened in Washington on May 1 8, 1 9, and 20, 1 921 . The

afternoon session on the 1 8th was held in the Museum audi torium

and was devoted to the general subject of art and the people. Itwas opened with a demonstration by Mr. Ross Crane. of the BetterHomes Institute of the Art Institute of Chicago

,of Art in the

home.

”The stage was set as a living

°

room, with mantel , windows,


and doors ; and the furnitu re, lent by one of the local dealers, wasbrought in piece by piece until the room was complete. Thus wasshown how the Better Homes Institute, by the use of stage set and

actual objects of everyday use,is demonstrating to the people of

the Middle West the relation of art to life, creating a popular demand for better art in house furnishings and helping to induce a

la rger ma rket for industrial art products. Mr. Allen Eaton,of

the Sage Foundation,spoke on Pictures for the schoolroom,

”ex

hibiting,° a number o f p rints he had selected for a schoolroom print

exhibition for ci rculation by the federation. Mr . L. M . Churbuck,director o f the art department o f the Massachusetts S tate Fair, presented an excellent paper on Art in State fairs.

” Miss Ma ry Powell ,of the art department o f the St. Lo uis Public Library , presentedthe subject

,

“ Art in the public libra ry,”and Mr . John L. Braun,

president of the Philadelphia Art Alliance. made a telling plea forThe alliance o f the arts .On the evening of the same date the Regents and Secretary of the

Smithsonian Institution tendered the members of the federation and

thei r friends a reception, w ith a special V iew of the exhibition of

war portraits in the National Gallery of Art , D r . Charles'

D . VVal

cott,Mrs . Walcott

,Mr . Robert W. de Fo rest , and Mrs . John W.

Alexander receiving the visitors.This collection, brought together by the National Art Committee,compr ised 2 1 canvases by American artists

,portraits of distinguished

leaders of America and of the Allied Nations du ring the World War ,

and is to form the nucleus for a National Portrait Gallery. As suchit wi ll be shown by the American Federation of Arts in the variouscities of the country before being permanently deposited in Washington. In planning the circuit it was arranged to have the colleetion temporarily in the National Gallery of Art at the time of theconvention for the benefit of the members of the federation.

The main hall o f the National Gal lery was gi ven over to the portrait collection (which was on exhibition from May 5 to Maysmall portions of the halls of ethnology, to the northeast, beingscreened off to display paintings from the Evans co llection temporarily displaced . Opportunity was offered the delegates to see

not onl y the National Gallery exhibits but also those of the Museumin other fiel ds

, as the foyer and west ranges o f the ground floor andthe entire first floor of the building° were open for inspection from8 to 1 1 .

The Madame Curie committee of Washingt on arranged a meetingin the auditorium on the evening of May 20, in hono r of MadameMarie Curie, the codiscoverer o f radium . Madame Curie was welcomed by Secreta ry Walcott

,honora ry chairman of the committee,

and by Miss Julia Lathrop , on the part of the women of Washington,


after which Dr . R . A. Millikan,of the Uni versity o f Chicago

, de

livered an address on radium. A large number of floral bouquets ,contributions from local women’

s organizations and others,were

presented to Madame Curie. The Museum exhibits on the groundand first floors were open to inspection during the evening. In con

nection w ith Madame Curie’s visit, a special exhibit of radium ores,radioactive minerals , and radiographs was prepared by the department o f geology and placed in the main passage of the Art Gallery

,

being removed later to a permanent location in the east end of themineral hall on the second floor.

Another reception in the Natural History Building,on the even

ing of October 1 9, enabled the delegates to the convention of theAmerican Bankers’ Association

,and their friends, to inspect the

exhibition halls, as a part of the program for acquainting the bankerswith governmental activities in Washington.

The American S ociety of Mammalogists held its annual meetingin the Museum ,

with day sessions in room 42—43 on May 2 , 3, and 4 ,

and an evening session on May 2 in the auditorium. At the latterMr . Arthur H. Fisher gave a talk on animals in zoological gardens

,

illustrated with many wonderful motion pictures recently made inthe National Zoological Park and in the Phi ladelphia Zoo . FromNovember 9 to 1 1 the auditorium was used during the daytime forthe thirty-eighth stated meeting of the American OrnithologistsUnion.

Under the auspices of the Geo logical S ociety of Washington,Mr .

William T. Lee lectured in the auditorium on November 20, on theuse of aerial photographs in geography . This was illustrated bystereopticon views o f natural scenery and of objects of geographicinterest and of submarine objects as seen from an airplane

, and bya series of motion pictures taken from hydroplanes show ing sceneson the Potomac , the P acific fleet passing through the Panama Canal ,and scenes along the coast of California.

The regular annual meeting of the Audubon Society of the District of Columbia , held in the hall on the evening of Jannary 26

,

featured two illustrated addresses on bird life.

The Washington Academy of S ciences arranged a lecture by Dr.E . B. Rosa

,of the Bureau of Standards , on

“ A reorganization ofthe civil service,

”on the evening o f October 21

,and

,under the

auspices of the Oste0pathic Association o f the District of Columbia ,Dr. A. G . Hildreth spoke on the evening of November 1 5 on Howto escape insanity and nervous disorders .”

Of timely interest also was a series of evening lectures in the auditorium arranged by the S chool of Fo reign Service of GeorgetownUniversity on the “History and nature of international relations ,

”


32 REPORT or NATIONAL MUSEUM,1 921 .

ORGANIZATION AND STAFF.

At the close of the year the Museum organization comprises, besidesan administrative office, 4 scientific and technical departments and1 independent division

,as follow s : The department of anthro

po logy, with 4 divisions and 3 sections ; the department of biology ,with 9 divisions and 1 6 sections ; the department of geology , w ith3 divisions and 3 sections ; the department of a rts and industr ies

,

with 5 divisions and 4 sections ; and the division of history , which ,while independent o f these departments

,has not yet reached the

dignity of a department . History has one section,making a total of

49 recognized subdivisions of the Museum .

The scientific staff o f the Museum consisted of 1 keeper ex officio,

1 director,3 head curators

,1 2 curators, 4 honorary curators , 6 asso

ciate curators,1 3 assistant curato rs

,23 custodians

,4 assistant custo

dians,8 aids

,1 0 associates

,7 collabo rato rs

,1 philatelist

,and 1

assi stant,a total of 94 persons, of whom less than half received pay

from the Museum . This by no means represents al l the scientific

workers on the collections, for the Museum also has much regularassistance from employees of various other governmental agencies inWashingt on, particula rly the Department of Agriculture and the

Geological Survey,in classifying and arranging, and placing on

exhibition the specimens in their respective fields of investigation.

A synopsis of the work attaching to each position in the Museumwas prepared this year and forwarded to the Bureau of E fficiency in

connection with a bill before Congress on the subject o f the recl assi

fication of the employees of the Government.The changes in o rganization during the year were numerous . The

National Gallery of Art,which had for a number o f years been

administered as the fine arts department of the Museum, became an

independent bureau under the Smithsonian Institution on July 1 ,1 920

,through p rovision for its separate maintenance in the sundry

civil appropriation act fo r the year 1 92 1 . To the new bureau weretransferred such of the Museum’s collections as had been in the

custody of the cu rator o f the National Gallery of Art, consisting ofpaintings

,sculptures

,and a few miscellaneous pieces. F or the present

the gallery continues to be housed in the Natural History Building of

D r . William H. Holmes severed his connection with the Museumon July 1

,1 920

,to become director of the National Gallery o f Art,

and carries with him to his la rger field the good w ill of the entireMuseum staff. Doctor Holmes has long been associated with theInstitution and Museum . In the latter he served as curator ofaboriginal pottery from 1 882 to 1 893

,as head curator of the depart

ment of anthropology from its organization in 1 897 to 1 902 , when he

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM ,1 921 . 33

resigned to become chief of the Bureau of Amer ican Ethnology,

returning to the Museum as head curator of anthropology in 1 91 0.

The present excellent condition of the anth ropo logical exhibits is amonument to his taste and ability. When

,in 1 906

,it became neces

sary to provide a somewhat definite organization for the depa rtmentof fine arts o f the Museum

,the curato rship of the National Gallery

o f Art was tendered to Mr . Ho lmes and accepted by him,in addition

to his duties at the Bureau of American Ethnology . During al l

the intervening time Doctor Ho lmes has given freely o f his time and

strength for the National Gallery w ithout financia l return.

Dr . Walter Hough,curato r of ethnology

,was made acting head

curator of the department of anthropology upon Doctor Ho lmes’sresignation.

On July 1,1 920

, the division of graphic arts was transferredfrom the department of anthropology to that of arts and industries,where it more p roperly belongs, and Mr . Ruel P . Tolman was promoted to assistant curator and placed in charge .

At the same tM e the division of histo ry was removed from the

department of anthropology and made an independent division,re

porting directly to the administrative assistant in charge of theMuseum. Capt. J J Kittinger

,of the Quartermaster Corps of the

United S tates Army, on detail from the War Department to assistin the installation of the World War collections

,severed his associa

tion with the Museum in December , 1 920, upon retirement from the

Department . Captain Hittinger rendered valuable service to the

Museum in this connection. The aid in history,Miss Marie V . Schif

fer,resigned on August 26

,1 920

,and Mr . Charles Carey was ap

pointed an assistant in the division on November 2,1 920

,giving

special attention to the World War collections.In line of better administration

,the collect ions of mollusks were

removed from the division of marine invertebrates on February 1 ,and the division of moll usks was reestablished, with Dr. Paul

Bartsch in charge as curator, and Mr: Waldo L. S chmitt was ad

vanced to be curator of the division of mar ine invert ebrates . The

rotatoria and the helminthological collections went w ith the division of mollusks. Mr. Charles R . Shoemaker was promoted fromaid to assistant cu rato r in marine inverteb rates on March 1 6 , 1 921 ,and Miss Pearl L. Boone’s connection as aid in that division ceasedon April 7, 1 92 1 .

Mr. Carl W. Mitman,curator o f mechanical technology

,was

appointed curator also of mineral technology and placed in

charge,with the title cu rator

,divisions o f mineral and mechanical

technology .

” He will be aided by an assistant curator in each of

the divisions . Mr. Mitman’s early connection with the Museum


was with the co llections of mineral technology,of which he was

aid and later assistant curator. The aid in mechanical technology,

Miss Barbara E . Bartlett,resigned in October

,being succeeded on

April 1,1 921

,by Mr . Paul E . Ga rber .

Beginning May 1,1 921 , Mr . Neil M . Judd

,curator of American

archeo logy,was granted leave of absence for five months to con

duct explorations for the National Geographic Society,and Mr .

John L. Baer was appointed acting curator for the period.

Mrs. Lucile S impson S telle,aid in paleobotany

,resigned on July

31,1 920

,and Miss Jessie G. Beach

,having met the civil-service

requirements,was promoted from the position of typist to that o f

aid in paleontology on October 1 6,1 920. Mr. Ellsworth P . Kil l ip ,

who at the beginning of the year was serving a temporary appointment as aid in the division of plants, was given permanent status as

such on August 27 1 920.

The combination of the property office and the shipping ofiice

effected August 1 , 1 91 9, was discontinued August 1 , 1 920, the twooffices being separated

,Mr.W. A . Knowles remaining in charge of the

former as property clerk,andMr. L. E . Perry taking over the latter as

shipper.On November 1 2

,1 920

,in recognition of his activity in building up

the collection of pianos in the Museum ,Mr . Hugo Worch was given

an hono rary appo intment as custodian of musical instruments . Otherhonorary members added to the staff during the year were Dr . Wh itman Cross

,as associate in petrology , on October 1 9, 1 920 ; Dr. David

Starr Jordan,as associate in zoology , on January 1 3, 1 921 ; Mr. Max

M . Ellis,collaborator in marine invertebrates

,April 25

,1 921 ; and

Mr . W. L. McAtee,acting custodian of Hemiptera

,on December 21

,

1 921 .

Under the provisions of the retirement act of May 22 , 1 920, the

Museum was deprived of the services of five members of its fo rce inAugust

,1 920

,al l of whom had reached the age limit and th ree had

had over 30 years of service each. They were Miss S . E . Latham,

and Messrs. A. B. Thorne,W. O. Stricker

,W. H. Haney, and D . R .

Jameson.

The Museum lost by death during the year Dr. J P . Iddings,asso

ciate in petrology ; Messrs. Nelson R . Wood and William Palmer,

taxidermists ; andMr . T .W. Reese, watchman.

NE CROLOGY.

’

Dr. Joseph Paxson Iddings, associate in petrology,died on

Wednesday morning, September 8, 1 920. Although not actively en

gaged in museum work, Professor Iddings’s connection with the de

partment of geology of the Museum was of more than ordinary importance. He was one of the most widely and favorably known o f

REPORT or NATIONAL MUSEUM , 35

American °

petrologists , and took a deep inte rest in the developmento f this particular branch of the science. His large collections ofvolcanic rocks, made during his extensive trips throughout the principal vo lcanic districts o f the world , were installed among the colleetions of the Museum ,

where they remain accessible for reference and

study,and form an impo rtant addition to the already large series

of studied material in the department .During the early portion of his career , from 1 880 to 1 895, Docto r

Iddings was connected with the United States Geological Su rvey,

and was the author of several publications of impo rtance by thatorganization. Among the most important may be mentionedThe Obsidian Cliffs of the Yellowstone National Park.

Ou the Development of Crystallization in Igneous Rocks.Oh a G roup of Volcanic Rocks from the Tewan Mountains.

The Microscopic Petrography of the E ruptive Rocks of the Eureka District of Nevada .

The E ruptive Rocks o f Electric Peak and Sepulchre Mountains,and the chapters on petrography in part 2 of the monograph ofthe Yellowstone National Park .

His best known personal publications are his translation of H.

Rosenbusch’s Physiography of the Rockmaking MineralsRo ck Minerals ( 1 906 ) Igneous Rocks, 2 volumes and The

Problem of Vulcanism He was also one of the most activeand influential o f the authors of the Quantitative Cl assification ofIgneous Rocks A striking feature of his work was hisaccuracy and careful attention to detail .From 1 895 to 1 908 he was pro fessor of petrology in the Univer

sity of Chicago,since which time he l ived for the most part at Brink

l ow,Md.

,devoting himself largely to private work, and particularly

to the petrology of the P acific and S outh Sea Islands .He was a man of broad culture, dignified and gentlemanly bear

ing, and his loss w ill be everywhere most deeply felt .

By the death of Mr . N . R . Wood,on November 8

,1 920

,the Na

tional Museum lost one of its most skilled preparato rs,a man well

known over the country as the most expert of bi rd taxidermists. Mr .

Wood was born in New York State in 1 852 . When about 27 yearsof age he was employed by Wa rd’s natural history establishment atRochester

,N Y. Here

,for the first time, his wo rk was congenial and

he made rapid advances in the general work which was assignedhim . It was soon observed that he was especially interested in the

mounting of birds, at which he would work in his own time afterhours

,and he was assigned as assistant to their best bird taxidermist.

D eficient in natural mechanical ability, it was only after the most persistent effo rt that he final ly reached t he point where he could make


the bird skin take the form which he had mentally determined to bethe natural and best position. While at Ward’s establishment he madeadvances in the methods , but it was not until he had been in the

National Museum for some time that he was at his best. His workon dry skins and dismounting and remounting old birds was perfected here.

Mr . Wood came to the Museum in 1 888,and at first was employed

to assist Mr . William T. Hornaday in taking care of the live animalsin the shed adj oining the Smithsonian Building— the beginning of

the National Zoological Park co llections . After a little time he beganto mount birds for the Chicago Exposition, and his work won the

approval of Mr . Robert Ridgway, and when there was a vacancy in

bird taxidermy he was placed there and continued in this work untilhis death .

In years to come, as now,Mr . Wood will be known by his fine work

displayed in themounted bird co llection on exhibition in this Museum.

The hawks and owls,parrots

, and game birds,the greater number

remounted by him ,show the quality of his work and point to the

loss which theMuseum has sustained in his death .

William Palmer,for many years a valued member of the Museum

force, died in New York C ity on April 8, 1 921 . He was born at

Penge, England , August 1 , 1 856, and came to this country w ithhis father

,the late Joseph Palmer , in 1 868. The elder Palmer

became connected with the Museum in 1 873 as its preparator,and

was particularly skillful in al l matters pertaining to modeling,casting

,the coloring of reproductions

,and taxidermy . William

Palmer,under the tutelage of his father

,became, in time, equally

adept in these subjects . He jo ined the Museum force in 1 874 asan assistant to his father . In 1 883 he was sent to New Haven,Conn .

,to prepare the large models of the giant squid and octopus

exhibited at the Great International F isheries Exhibition in London,and later transferred here, where they , and many other examples ofhis art

, still remain. With Messrs. Lucas and Scol l ick, of theMuseum force, he went to Newfoundland , in the spring of 1 903, andtook part in the preparation of a mo ld and skeleton of a 78-footsulphur-bottom whale. A year later he accompanied Dr . G. P .

Mer rill to the S tate of S inaloa,Mexico

, for the purpose o f making amold of the great Bacubarito meteorite.

Mr . Palmer was an excellent general naturalist , and was particul arly well versed in the local fauna and flora , in which he hadspecialized for many years. He began a co llection of birds inthe spring of 1 874

,which in time became a very important one,

and contained many local rarities and records,some of which are

still unique. In the course of his o rnithological work he had the

REPORT or NATIONAL MUSEUM ,1 981 . 37

distinction of adding two species o f birds to the known avifauna ofthis continent , in addition to describing several previously unrecog

niz ed subspecies.Palmer’s skill and knowledge as a natural history co llector causedhim to be detailed on various expeditions where the best ' resultswere required , and in this capacity he vis ited Funk Island in 1 887

with Docto r Lucas in a very successful search for remains of theextinct great auk. In 1 890 he was detailed to make coll ections onthe Pribilof Islands

,and in 1 900

,1 902 , and 1 91 6 to V isit Cuba . He

accompanied Mr . Owen Bryant on a very productive collectingexpedition, though one fraught w ith numerous privations, to westernJava , in 1 909 and 1 91 0. In the aggregate, he collected manythousands of specimens of animals and plants, as well as fossilremains and miscellaneous mater ial

,not only on official expeditions

but on those p rosecuted on his own account,and most o f this material

has found its way into the National Museum series over a long periodo f years . By the terms of his will

,Mr . Palmer has also bequeathed

his private collection of birds to the Museum .

In recent years Mr . Palmer had become much interested in

vertebrate fossil remains in the deposits at the Calvert Cl iffs , nearChesapeake Beach , Md ,

and made many trips there in search ofmaterial

,both official ly, and in his own time. He was engaged

ih.

studies of cetacean remains f rom this locality at the time ofhis death .

Mr . Palmer was a Fel low of the American Ornithologist s’ Union,

a member of several scient ific socities, and the author of over 50papers and notes on ornitho logical and other biological subjects.



terial from the Flathead Indians of British Columbia,consisting of

carved horn bowls , spoons,fishhooks

,etc.

,was presented by Dr.

E . A. Spitzka,Washington

,D . C. Twenty-four ancient. ivory carv

ings designed as‘

fetishes, mostly from the Wal aka and Baluba Negroes

,Lower Congo

,Africa

,were pu rchased .

The following accessions to American archeology are deservingof special notice : A collection of 1 28 archeological specimens

,many

of which appea r to exhibit contact with non-Pueblo peoples, gathered by Mr . J A. Jeancon for the Bureau of American Ethnologyfrom an ancient ruin near Taos

,N. Mex , and transferred by the

bu reau ; a collection of 1 1 4 antiquities from cliff dwellings and otherprehistoric ruins no rthwest of the Rio Colorado,made for the Bu reauof American Ethnology by Mr . Neil M . Judd and subsequentlytransferred by the bureau ; a b ronze ax blade and a highly embell ished

,cylindrical earthenware vase from Salvador

,p resented by

S r . Emil io Mosonyi ; a series of 1 83 specimens from prehistoric ruinsin the Chaco Canyon National Monument

,N. Mex .

,co llected by Neil

M . Judd under the auspices of the National Geographic Society,

which later p resented the material to the national collections ; acarved jade tiki or fetish from New Zealand

,secured th rough ex

change w ith Mr . Louis C. G. Clarke ; and two co llections of Mexicanantiquities obtained by Maj. Harry S . Bryan. The first of theseis a gift of 1 2 specimens ; the second, a loan, includes 64 specimens .Dr . Walter Hough presented an interesting series of shell beads andpendants and stone fetishes from Keetseel Ruin

,Arizona

,and the

Zuni region,N ew Mexico . A carved wooden Floridian image, found

in reclaimed so il which Lake Okeechobee formerly covered to a depthof 6 feet

,was given to the Museum by Mr. M . A. Millar

,Venus

,Fl a.

A most noteworthy accession to the division o f Old World archeo logy is a valuable collection of Buddhist religious art , consisting,

°

o f old bronze statues and figures, lacquered shrines , and exquisitelypainted kakemonos from China ‘

and Japan,gift of Mrs. Murray

Warner ; another small collection of Buddhist bronze figures de

serves notice,inasmuch as, besides its intrinsic artistic value

,it

fil l ed some gaps in the Museum collection of the Buddhist pantheon,gift of Mrs. John Van Rensselaer Hoff . Mention is also made of asmall co llection of finely worked emb roideries with Ch ristian themes,gift from the estate of Mrs . Mary E . P inchot ; and the collection o f

Jewish ceremonial , which includes a considerable number of artistically worked silver vessels from Palestine, lent by Mr. EphraimD einard.

Of the accessions in physical anthropology which deserve specialnotice

,the foremost place belongs to the Huntington collection of

skeletal material . This collection is received formally as an“ex

change, but is really in themain a gift from the College of Physicians


and Surgeons of Columbia University , New York City , throughPro f. George S . Huntington. Small po rtions of this material wereal ready in our possession as the result of exchanges in previous years ;it consists of the identified skeletal remains of upward of individual s of known sex

, age, color , nationality, and cause of decease.

It includes in ample number for al l desired info rmation representatiy es of the different parts of the white race which are entering intothe composition of the American people, and as such w ill have a con

stantly increasing value for mutual compar isons. The scientific importance o f this mater ial can hardly be estimated

,and it is not too

much to say that it p ractically doubles the value of our collection.

N0 other collection of equal extent is in existence. Another collectionof impo rtance is that of 27 human brains donated to the Museum byD r . Edward Anthony Spitzka

,Washington

,D . C. The next collee

ttion of note is that of 1 0 Ar ika ra skulls and 3 skeletons donatedby the University of South Dako ta

,through Prof . F reemanWard , in

return for a repo rt on their collections. These specimens are in

good condition and fi l l what was almost a complete vo id in our collections. Mention should also be made of a quantity o f skeletalmaterial collected in Tennessee by Mr . W. E . Myer

,of Nashville

,

Tenn.,and transmitted to the Museum by the Bureau of American

Ethnology .

In addition to the above there were a series o f smal ler accessions o fcrania and skeletons from var ious parts of this cont inent .A loan collection of rare o riental rugs was received in art textiles

,

replacing those hung last year . This collection was sent by a publicspirited Washingtonian to be exhibited for the benefit of the public .The weavings number 38 and typify the chief va rieties of theseartistic textiles.

The section of musical instruments reports that the Worch collection of pianos has been enr iched by the gift of a copy of theharpsichord used by Johann Sebastian Bach

,the great composer .

The original is in the Museum at S tuttgart,Germany . Two copies

were permitted to be made and one of these is now displayed in theWorch collection in the National Museum . The instrument has fourpedals and fou r stops

,a surp r ising mechanical equipment for the

period . A dulcitone,an instrument whose sounding apparatus is a

succession of graded tuning forks, was p rocured by Mr . Worch fromGlasgow

,Scotland . Eleven other valuable pianos

,illustrative of the

history of, this instrument , were added to the collection by Mr . Worch .

A piano handsomely decorated by Cottier of New York was given byMrs. Gouverneu r Mo r r is , Washington

,D . C.

The collection of master Violins bequeathed to the Museum by thelate Dwight J. Partello and whose disposition has attracted wide


public interest is subject to litigation,and its acquisition by the Mu

seum depends upon action by the courts.

A set of 1 69 pieces of heavy porcelain with blue decoration was

received by the section of ceramics as a bequest from Miss CarolineHenry. This porcelain was given to Prof. Joseph Henry by thefirst Japanese minister to the United S tates. The ware is interesting as rep resentative o f the first somewhat crude attempts to adaptEuropean forms in Japanese ceramic art ; Mr . Grosvenor B. Clarkson

,Washington

,D . C.

,p resented two Japanese po rcelain vases in

blue and white ; Miss F reeman and Mrs. B. H. Buckingham,Wash

ington, D . C.

,p resented six large Japanese and Chinese plaques

with rich decoration in colo rs and a Japanese bronze statuette .

EXP LORAT ION S AND EXPE DIT ION S .

Dr . W. L. Abbott is a constant contr ibutor o f the results o f hisnumerous explorations east and west. At p resent his material iscoming from Haiti and Santo Domingo . The maj or expeditionsof a scientific nature have contr ibuted little material for anth ro

po logy. Special archeological explorations in Arizona and New

Mexico directed by the Museum, the Bureau of American Eth

no logy, and the National Geographic Society added much excellentmaterial . The expedition o f the National Geographic Society tothe Chaco Canyon ruined cities in New Mexico

,directed by Mr. Neil

M . Judd, of the National Museum ,is expected to produce important

results. This expedition,which set off in April , contemplates five

years researches in Chaco Canyon. The preliminary work on thisexpedition was carried on during the summer and a large collectionof artifacts sent in. D r . J Wa lter Fewkes’s epoch-making investi

gations on Mesa Verde, Co lo .

,for the Bureau o f American Eth

no l ogy and the Department of the Inte rio r were p roductive of dis

tinctive scientific and educational results .

WORK OF PRE S ERV ING AND IN S TALL ING THE COLLE CT IONS — PRE S E NT CONDIT ION OH

COLLE CT IONS .

It is difficul t to characterize the multifarious and intricate workaccomplished by any department o f the Museum. The high standards of the National Museum embrace every feature from the

minute to the gre atest . The visible Museum must be kept to thehighest point of perfection and the wo rk this necessitates is con

stant and exacting. In the background is the tremendous routineof occupational activities which the Geo logist Lesley called deadwork

,

”and which must be completed before specimens are b rought

to public view.

The care o f specimens in ethnology p resents many problems on

account o f the character and var iety o f the material . Some o f the


older collections which were not cared for under present Museumstandards were worked over and tickets and marks restored. Among°

the installations mention is made of two cases of rare California

Mission Indian baskets of the Ella F . Hubby collection and two

cases of Chinese mino r art displays. The l ay figure of a Nez PerceIndian chief was reconstructed and placed on exhibit , and the

model of an early Iroquoian stockaded village repaired and again

put in place. Hundreds of labels were put on specimens, and the

effort to attach a ca rd to every exhibit object was b rought close tocompletion. Plans were also drawn up for the preparation of a

series of handbooks describing certain important classes of exhibits

in the division of ethnology.

The American archeology collection has approximately reached the

limits of expansion as to exhibition. By selection and elimination,the

exhibit was improved. The coll ection from the Otto T. Mallery

expedition, under the auspices o f the Washington b ranch o f the

Archeological Institute of America , to the R io Chama,N. Mex ,

a locality not heretofore represented in the Museum ,was inst alled .

The S tate collections exhibit received a number o f additions . Thesecollections, which are of interest especiall y to visitors from the

various S tates, were also improved by additional labels and byconsolidation w ith a view to clearness o f presentation. The archeological collection as now p resented may be considered in a satisfactory state of completeness as to ar rangement

,and w ith the addi

tion of mo re labels w ill take its place as one of the most instructiveexhibits . Especial attention was given to the prevention of decay,which frequently o ccurs in pottery taken from burials

,and almost

complete success was achieved in halting the disintegration. Re

pairs of b roken articles and other routine wo rk in connection w ithcleaning, numbering

,and like duties occupied much time. The

reco rds of the division,which had fallen behind in former years

,

were worked upon°w ith the view o f bringing them up to date. It is

hoped w ithin a short time to complete indexes which w ill renderit possible to locate each unit without loss of time.

O ld Wo rld a rcheology , which embraces biblical and other objectsconnected w ith ancient religions and art

,repo rts an active year .

The chief work was the reinstallation of the collections illustrating°

Christ ianity,Buddhism

,and Mohammedani sm

,which were dis

arranged in removal previously from the Arts and Indust ries Building . A number of objects of silver , il lustrating Jewish ceremoni al,we re installed

,forming an attractive exhibit . Specimens were added

to the archeologic exhibits from Great Britain and India and some

examples of ancient sculpture and glass placed in cases. Printedlabels to the number of 1 40 were placed on exhibits.


The most advanced methods employed in the division of physicalanthropology for the cleaning

,repair

,cataloguing

,identification,

etc .,were applied to the old collections from the Army Medical

Museum and from other sources. The collection in general is constantly improving in al l respects through intensive work continuedfrom year to year. It is the endeavor to keep abreast of the im

provements in the methods of museum science and to maintain the

material in a state of effectiveness . Necessarily the rapid increasein specimens received by the division required better facilities forstorage which w ill p rovide easier access to the'

accumulatingmaterial .The rearrangement of the cases in art textiles greatly benefited

the appea rance of the hall . The exhibit of laces was also much improved by the arrangement of the specimens follow ing the reconstruction of the cases to eliminate as far as possible the entrance o f

dust . On the south and west walls a splendid collection of orientalrugs was hung .

Plans were made for improving the installation o f the collectionof musical instruments and dust proofing the cases. Steps weretaken to prepare a catalogue and handbook , which should renderthe exhibit of greater value to the public.The ceramic collection shows the results of several years’ work

on imp roving the character o f the exhibit . Efforts were made toeliminate material not needed in the collection

,much of which had

been collected in a haphazard manner. Noteworthy is the exhibitof two cases of rare old Bohemian ruby glass donated by Mrs. C . E .

Danforth,of San Diego

,Calif.

The varied and impo rtant work performed in the anthropologicallabo ratory contributed materially to the benefit of the public exhibition. Work was ca r ried on here which could not be performed in thedivisions. The necessities of the department occupied the time of thelabo rato ry except for occasional j obs of expert work for other sections of the Museum. Aside from current tasks

,original wo rk in

modeling l ay figures was continued and new methods fo r expe

diting the work were tr ied out . The j oining of broken pottery ves

sels,skeletons

,and other specimens by means of adhesive cements

and such materials has been subject to a long investigation,and satis

factory results have been reached. Many spec imens which require a

degree of restoration were sent to the laboratory for special attention.

RE S EARCH WORK.

The devotedness to scientific work by the personnel of the department

,a feature shared by the entire personnel of the National

Museum ,is shown by the amount of research work p rosecuted by the

staff. It is also evident that this work is not limited to the legalhours of labor .


The curator of ethnology finished and handed in papers on the

racial groups in the National Museum and on the series o f specimensillustrating the history o f inventions . He also began the p reparationof an account of the stoves and other heating devices in the Museum.

A summary of his explo ration of 1 920 was p repa red and an accountwritten on Museum specimens germane to the Pilgrim Tercentenary.

The examination fo r publication of the several collections of

a rcheological remains co llected in Utah and Arizona by the curato rof the division o f American a rcheology for the Bureau o f AmericanEthnology du ring the past five years was continued.

The curator of Old World archeology completed a study of Parseereligious ceremoni al objects . He also completed a descriptive catalogue of Buddhist art

,which was published during the year by the

Museum. The plan of the curato r is to continue this ser ies o f instruotive handbook catalogues .The materials in the division of physical anthropology are con

stantly drawn upon fo r comparisons as well as for new observations.During the year the most impo rtant piece of resea rch done on the

co llections was that relating to the finer modeling of teeth ; but muchwo rk was done also on Indian and other bones in connection w iththe preparation of the pending repo rts on the S ioux Indians and

the anthropology of Flo r ida and neighbo ring regions . In addi t ionmeasurements for future use were begun on the valuable Mongoliancollection and on the skeleta l material from Alaska

,the latter in

connection w ith the curato r’s studies on the o rigin and affin ities

o f the Indian.

Doctor Hrdl iéa performed services for the Depa rtment of Justicein differentiating° full-blood from mixed-blood Chippewa Indiansin important land cases , thereby saving over a million dollars in landand money for the Indians

,in acco rdance w ith the statement o f the

department . This is a good il lustration o f the p ractical value o f

studies o f recondite subjects.

Dr . J. Walter F ewkes,Chief of the Bureau of Amer ican E th

no logy, as collaborator in the division of ethnology , has assistedmaterially in the acquisition of specimens th rough co llections madeby himself and members of the bureau.

Dr. Arthu r P . Rice,also a collaborator

,sent in data

,photographs

,

and ethnological material from Yucatan.

The department was called upon daily to give information to

vi sito rs on many subjects o f more or less impo rtance ; but littlematerial

,and that in the form of photographs w ith descr iptions and

publications, was sent to researchers elsewhere.

It is difficul t to estimate the benefits grow ing out of personal contacts w ith visitors desiring information

,but in many cases it is

known to have produced results of importance to the Museum.

46 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM,1 921 .

DI S TR IBUTION AND EXCHANGE OB‘ S PE CIME N S .

The department began in a systematic way the distribution o f

duplicate material to educational institutions . Despite the limitedva riety of duplicates available

,series of ethnology were selected

w ith the V iew of conveying concrete facts of value in culture studies,and sent out to deserving schools . An intelligent distr ibution of

the duplicate materials in anth ropology is prospectively of greateducational benefit to many institutions in the United States

,espe

cial ly to smaller schools w ith limi ted facilities. An increasingnumber of schools teach art

, and such collections as are sent out

are adapted for instruction in designing,using Indian art as a basis

for the coming American school .Besides the gifts noted above

,several exchanges were made in

the division of ethnology which added valuable specimens to thecollection. The division suppl ied Rev . Dr. James M . Magruder

,

Annapo lis,Md .

,with two model arrows of the southern Maryland

Indians of 1 750, to be sent by the Patriotic Society of the Ark and

Dove of Baltimore to the King of England as a reminder of thetribute of a rrows sent by the colony of Maryland during° the colonialperiod.

From the division of physical anthropology a quantity of uh

identified skeletal material was prepared for the George WashingtonUniversity

,at their request, as a gift.

The department of anthropology sent out 7 gifts, compr1 s1ng 1 51specimens

,and 1 0 exchanges

,comp r ising 237 specimens. There

were received in the department, for examination and report,36

lots of specimens, diversified in character.

NUMBER OF SPECIM EN S ADDED TO THE DE PARTM E NT.

During the yea r there were received 1 49 accessions comprisingspecimens

,in addition to the maj or portion of the Hunting

ton collection of skeletal material , which has not yet been completelycatalogued. Of these

,24 accessions

,containing 691 specimens

,were

loans and deposits . The total number of specimens were assignedas follows : Ethnology , 586 specimens ; American archeology , 86 1specimens ; Old World archeology, 41 4 specimens ; physical anthro

pol ogy, 1 1 5 specimens besides the skeletal material mentioned above ;art textiles , 1 33 specimens ; musical instruments, 1 6 specimens ; andceramics, 1 99 specimens . In addition

,6 accessions, compr ising

'

84

specimens,were entered in the department before the transfer of

the recording for the section of period costumes to the division ofhistory and are not included in the figures given.


48 RE PORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM,1 921 .

can zoologist. This co llection,one of the finest of its kind , was re

ceived back during the p resent yea'

1° from Europe where it was sent

many years ago to be monographed by the then leading authority onthat group of invertebrate animals. As the vicissitudes of this collection point a moral , it may be well in this connection to briefly outline their history : After negotiations , carried on for several years, theentire col lection of sponges of the Nat l onal Museum was shipped m1 906 to Pro f. R . von Lendenfeld

,at Prague

,Bohemia

, to be wo rkedup, as it has been found impossible to find anybody in Americacapable of undertaking their study. The financing of this enterprisewas assumed by the late Dr. Alexander Agassiz

,who was greatly

interested in the work . A small po rtion of the collection comp r isingspecimens sent over previously was returned in 1 908

,and the result of

their study published in 1 91 0. In the meantime Doctor Agassiz’sfinancial position required him to withdraw his subsidy for the

working up of the Museum material,and he died shortly after. The

negotiations w ith von Lendenfeld for the continuation of the workfell through

,because the Museum

,in spite of the endeavors of Dr. R .

Rathbun,the assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in

charge of the National Museum ,was unable to spare the necessary

amount from the regular appropriation, and no other financial

assistance was obtainable. The proposition to establish a position on

the scientific staff of the Museum for the study of sponges and recallthe collection was discussed , but h ad to be abandoned for lack ofmeans . Pro f . von Lendenfel d’

s death in 1 91 3 caused the renewal o fthe negotiations with his successor

,Prof. E . Trojan , but with no better

resul t. Very reluctantly,and only after al l effo rts to find a satisfac

tory way had failed,Doctor Rathbun

,in June

,1 91 4

,ordered the

col lection to be returned for the purpose of storing it until it shouldbe possible to induce a capable American zoologist to devote himselfto the important work of making this remarkable collection accessibleto the scientific world. La ter the World War broke out and nothingwas heard from the collection for more than five years . It wasscarcely

‘

to be expected that this p riceless alcoholic collection,which

in al l these yea rs had been in the enemies’ country , should have es

caped destruction in the general collapse of the Austrian Empire.

Great relief was therefore felt when early in 1 920 a letter was receivedfrom Professor Trojan announcing that he had taken care of thecollection during the war

,and that it was still intact and in good con

dition. Gratefully recognizing his efforts to preserve the spec'

miens,a

sat isfactory arrangement was made with Professor Troj an to havethe entire sponge collection packed and returned . It was final ly re

ceived after an absence of 1 5 years . The specimens are here,it is

true,but we are not one whit nearer the realization of the aim for


which these collections were brought together at the expenditure ofmuch money

,labor

,and ingenuity,.than we were before they were first

sent abroad. They still represent a dead mass of material awaitingproper° utiliz ation in the service of scientific progress and must remain so until the Museum shall be financial ly able to support a

specialist in this important branch of science. The moral of theabove needs not to be po inted out ; the danger and futility is tooobvious.The department sustained a very serious loss during the year in

the deaths of Mr. Nelson R . Wood and Mr . William Palmer,both

taxidermist s of the first rank . Mr . Wood,who died on November 8,

1 920,was undoubtedly the foremost bird taxidermist in this country.

The bi rd exhibit is a lasting monument to his grasp of the characterof each individual and his unsurpassed ability to give it lifelikeexpression. The technical skill with which he handled o l d and seemingly impossible skins and achieved results as if it had been freshmaterial was no less remarkable

,and the saving and rej uvenescence

of many rare and valuable o ld specimens is due to his thoughtfu land loving care. The remounting of the great auk is a case in point .Mr . William Palmer

,whose death occurred on April 8

,1 921

,in his

65th year,was an excellent al l -a round museum p reparator . He was

as skillful in mounting mammals and birds as in making plastercasts of whales

,fishes

,and reptiles ; his ability to paint these and to

fashion the accesso ries of the various biological groups was o f no

mean grade ; and he was equally successful in handling the cleaningand mounting of a large whale skeleton as in p reparing an exhibit ofdainty butterflies. But Mr. Palmer was more. He had an extensiveknowledge o f the natu ral histo ry of the animals and plants of thisregion ; his special knowledge of certain groups of bi rds and thei rplumages was considerable ; he had also paid particular attention tocollection and studying the fossil remains of whales. In the Museumexhibition series the co llection illustrating the fauna of the Dist rictof Co lumbia is almost exclusively his wo rk

,and to a great extent

also the casts in the whale hall and in the fish and reptile hall .

COMPAR I S ON OF INCRE ME NT OB" S P E C IMEN S 0 13‘ 1 920— 21 W ITH THAT OF‘ 1 91 9—20.

From the numerical standpo int the collections of this departmentshow a healthy growth during the past year

,

-

no less thanspecimens having been received as against dur ing the p reviousyear. This increase is observable in a lmost al l the divisions. It iseven mo re satisfactory to be able to repo rt that al l the curators express themselves as highly pleased with the scientific importance ofthe new accessions , in instances characterizing the collections receivedas

“of greatly increased value ”

(mammals ) , or“oi far greater

value ”

(fishes ) , or greatly surpassing in value last year’s acces


sions ( insects ) . In this connection I wish to emphasize what Ialluded to in last year’s report

,namely

,that an increase in the num

ber of specimens received means additional demands on the time and

labo r of the staff and that this means less time and chance for scientificwork unless additional help can be obtained. The showing this yearis gratifying because it seems to indicate a return to normal growthinterrupted by the war

,but no rmal growth in the quantity and qual

ity of the accessions requi res also a no rmal growth in the staff andin the appropriations for the maintainance o f the ever-growingcollections .

ACCE S S ION S DE S E RV ING S PE CIAL NOTI CE , AND WHY.

The outstanding features o f this yea r’s accession,like those of

last year’s,are the Australian collections made by Dr. Charles M .

Hoy,which we owe to the continued generosity of Dr. W. L. Abbott.

and those resulting from the Smithsonian African expedition. To

Doctor Abbott we are furthermore indebted for a valuable collectiono f mammals

,birds

,and reptiles, collected by C. Boden Kloss m

S iam,Anam

,and Cochin China

,from which countries we have had

but scant material before. Doctor Abbott,himself , collected nu

merous birds,reptiles

,land mollusks

,and

,in conjunction w ith Mr.

E . C. Leonard , about plants in Haiti . Miscellaneous collections of great importance were also received from the Bureau ofFisheries

,Department of Commerce

, and the B iological Su rvey , D e

partment of Agriculture, as will be detailed below .

The more important accessions,distributed among the various

divisions,are as follows

Mm mcz ls .— The most valuable single specimen received by the

entire department was a fine skeleton o f a whale, about 45 feet long,which was generously presented by Mr . James A. Allison, president of the Miami Aquarium Association, to the National Museumon behalf of the association. This specimen which was strandedsome years ago at Pablo Beach , F l a ,

is of particular interest , as itbelongs to a rare species, which hitherto has been represented fromNorth American waters by fragments only. The individual bonesare now being photographed and studied with a V iew to the publication of a monograph , and the skeleton will then be placed on exhi

bition in the whale hall . The Australian mammals collected by Mr .

Hoy number 571 specimens, rep resenting about 42 genera and 75

species. The material consists primarily of well-prepared skins ,skulls

,and skeletons

,as well as of many embryos and pouch young

preserved in alcohol . The 1 44 mammals from S iam , Anam ,and

Cochin China,collected by Mr . Boden Kloss , included 1 7 types. The

699 mammals from Africa , collected by Mr. H. C. Raven, of the


Smithsonian Afr ican expedition,in conjunction with the Universal

Film Manufacturing Co .,form a valuable general co llection sup

plementing, in an important manner . the large African collectionsalready in the Museum. The Bureau of Fisheries transferred to thedivision 40 skulls and one skeleton of the Alaskan fur seal from the,

Pr ibilo f Islands . These skulls, which were collected by D r . G. D .

Hanna,are of very great importance, as they are supplemented w ith

very detailed data as to age, size, etc. ,and form the basis of Doctor

Hanna’s studies of the development o f this economically important

species. Several large Canadian mammals, including mule deer andmountain goats

,were collected by Secretary Walcott of the Smith

sonian Institution for the Museum. Mr . A. F . Bearpark , of CapeTown

,South Afr ica , donated a fetus o f a whale from South Africa.

Birds.— That Dr.W. L. Abbott’s interest in the fauna of the farther

India is as keen as ever is evidenced by the fine collection of 496birds made by Mr. C . Boden Kloss

, of the Federated Malay S tatesMuseums

,Kuala , Lumpur , in S iam,

Cochin China,and Anam

,whi ch

he p resented to the Museum. The region was only slightly repre

sented in our collection, so that naturally there are a considerablenumber of forms new to the Museum ,

approximately 90 species andsubspecies and 3 genera . The collection also contains the types of6 species recently described by Mr . Kloss. Hoy’s Australian birdsnumber 487 skins and 47 alcoholics and skeletons

,and contains also

a generous proportion of species new to theMuseum,though no figures

can be given at p resent . A genus of lyre birds (Harm'

whz'

tea ) is newto the Museum

,as well as a number of local forms from Kangaroo

Island,South Australia . Of the several hundred birds personally

collected by Doctor Abbott in Haiti and Santo Domingo,several are

of pa rticular interest . The thick-knee or stone-plover (Oedicnemusdominicensz

’

s) and the local form of the grasshopper-sparrow (Ammodmmus savannamwn intricaf/us) were new to the Museum ; while a

whippoorwill is apparently new to science. Mr . Raven,of the Smith

sonian African expedition,collected 1 62 skins and 47 skeletons and

alcoholics. As the collection has not' yet been worked up, the number o f new additions are not known, but at least one genus, Megabias,has been recognized as hitherto unrepresented in the Museum . An

alcoholic specimen of Smithorm’

s will be of great assistance in asoertaining the co r rect place of this genus in the system. From the

Department of Agriculture several important additions were re

ceived, principally birds , alcoholics, and skeletons, the result of Dr . A.

Wetmore’s explorations in Argentina,Uruguay

,and Paraguay.

From the Swales fund,placed at the disposition of the division by

Mr . B.H. Swales as mentioned in last year’s report, 41 skins of foreignbirds were obtained , representing about 38 species new to theMuseum,

including seven genera not hitherto contained in the national collee


tion, among them Sypheotis, a genus of bustards , and P tz‘

l olaemus,

a genus of hornbills. Two rare Australian species new to the colleetions were generously donated by Capt. S . A. White

,of Ful ham

,

South Australia . The egg collection received a notewort hy addition by the gift o f eggs and 1 0 nests from Dr. Theodore W.

R ichards , United S tates Navy , from various parts of the world,

among them a number of eggs of foreign species not previouslypresent in the Museum. A single egg of the rare tooth-billed o r dodopigeon (D iduncu lus strigz

'

rostris) of Samoa, donated by Mr . MasonMitchell , now American consul at Queenstown

,Ireland

,is partien

l arly noteworthy because it is the first egg of this bird to come tothe Museum, and thus represents a family , genus , and species new tothe national egg collection.

Reptiles and a7nphibian8 .—The Hoy Australian collections con

tained 1 1 8 specimens,including many species new to the collection

,

and Raven’s African material

,205 specimens of almost equal im

portance. The South American herpetological fauna is poo rly represented in the national collections, and the specimens from Argentina and Paraguay collection of Dr . Alexander Wetmore weretherefore very welcome. From China

,also poorly represented

,

small but interesting,° collections were received from no less than

three sources, as follows : Twelve. from Suifu,Province o f S z e

Chuan,through Rev . David C. Graham ; 1 6 from the southwestern

part of Hunan Province,collected by Dr. Lewis R . Thompson ; and

1 1 from Che-Kiang,donated by Mr . C. H. Barlow . Mr . C. T.

Ramsden, of Guantanamo , Cuba , made the division a very acceptablegift of 24 specimens from that island , most ly representing very rarespecies. A very interesting addition was presented by the University of Michigan, namely , 4 tadpoles of the remarkable discoglosso idtoad Ascaphus tm ei from Washington:F ishe8 .

— By far the largest and most important collection of fishesreceived in many years was transferred to the Museum by the UnitedS tates Bureau of Fisheries. It consists of approximatelyspecimens, the result of the collecting by the F isheries steamerAl batross in Philippine waters during the years 1 907— 1 91 0. It isto be hoped that means may be found to work up within a reasonable time this unrivaled collection ,

which it has cost the Government such great efforts and outlay to acquire. The Fisheries Bureaualso transferred 7 types and 1 6 cotypes of malacopterygian fishes

collected by its schooner Grampus , as well as specimens fromthe Potomac River and its tributaries. The Hoy Australian colleetion contained 52 specimens, including at least one genus , Ameana

,

new to the collection. Another Australian collection of 51 specimens was obtained in exchange with the Australian Museum in

Sydney,containing° 8 species new to the National Museum. By


exchange with the Indiana University Museum 250 specimens co l

l ected by the Irwin expedition to Chile and Peru , 1 91 8— 1 9, were

acquired. The Smithsonian Afr ican expedition brought 48 Specimens from Lake Taganyika , with at least 2 noteworthy additions toour collection. Ah interesting l ot of 1 0 specimens

‘

of fishes, amongwhich several new species

,killed by a lava flow from Mauna Loa ,

Hawaii,into the ocean was p resented by Dr. David Starr Jordan.

They were collected by Tom Reinhardt and Carl S . Carl smith aboutOctober 6 , 1 91 9.

[meata — Several impo rtant co llections made by private individualshave been donated dur ing the present year . Among them the J P .

Iddings collection of butterflies and moths, presented by the heirs of

Docto r Iddings,is in a way unique, since al l the named speci

mens, most ly from the Tropics , especially of the o riental region, weremounted in Biker and similar mounts ready for exhibition. Theywere at once placed in suitable cabinets , but the final arrangement andlabeling are still in progress . Another collection of Lepidoptera , consisting° of about specimens

,was donated by Mr. B . Preston

Clark. The W. D . Richardson collection of Coleoptera,about

specimens, was presented to the Museum by the collec to r. Anotherwelcome gift consisted of about specimens of miscellaneous Philippine insects , chiefly Hymenoptera , from Dean 0 . F . Baker

,Los

Bafios, P . I . Another notewo rthy acquisition relates to the c lassProtura

,animals similar to a very primitive w ingless type of insects ,

but without antennae. Of this group,of which onl y 26 species are

known in the wo rld , 1 2 species,1 1 new ,

collected and described byD r . H. E . Ewing

,were donated by him . It should final ly be men

tioned that Mr . William S chaus,of the Bureau o f Entomo logy

,and

an honorary assistant curator in the division of insects,has continued

to make gift s of Lepidoptera from his private co llection and by purchase, and has also donated much material which he has received fromother lepidopterists by exchanging portions of his own co llectionwith them . He has also purchased water-color paintings of mo re than50 ra re butterflies and donated them to the collection .

Mam'

ne im ertebm tes.—As usual

, the Bureau of Fisheries was thelargest single contributo r

,the p r incipal accession being some 360

lots of sponges co l lected by the Fisheries steamer Al batross in 1 902

(Hawaii ) and 1 904— 5 (eastern P acific ) estimated at comprisingmore than a thousand specimens . These were included in the shipment from Prague by Doctor Trojan. They had original ly beentransmitted to Doctor von Lendenfeld by the bureau direct. Amongthe other specimens transferred by the Bureau of Fisheries may be

noted a rather complete series of juvenil e stages in the life history ofUca pugz

’

l ator,one of the east-coast fiddler crabs

,th rough Mr . O. W.


Hyman,acting director of the Beaufort station o f the bureau . Such

material is highly desirable , as the stages in the life histories of

crustaceans present a field of investigation but little worked and

about whi ch little is known. A valuable l ot of about 600 decapodand amphipod crustacea

,part of the material secured by the Amer i

can Museum Congo expedition,was received from that institution

,

Miss M . J Rathbun and Mr. C. R . Shoemaker,both of the National

Museum,having worked up and reported upon the collections of the

expedition. S imilarly,87 specimens

,representing 57 species o f

decapod crustaceans,were received from the Australian Museum

,

Sydney,being part of the material gathered by the E ndea/vour expe

dition upon which a report by Miss Rathbun is now in process o fpublication. By exchange

,28 specimens

,9 species o f fresh-water

shrimps,part of the material upon which Dr . R . P . Cowl es based

his paper on the Palaemons of the Philippine Islands,

” publishedin 1 91 4

,were obtained from the department of zoology of the Uni

versity of the Philippines, Manila . From Japan two collections ofcrustacea were received , namely, 56 f rom the Pescadores Islands

,

presented by the Institute of S cience, Taihoku , Formosa , throughDr . M . Oshima

,and 337 specimens from northern Japan

,collected

and donated by Dr. Madoka S asaki,Hokkaido Imper ial University

,

Sapporo . The types o f several new species were also added as giftsby their discoverers or describers

,thus two parasitic copepods de

scribed by Pro f. C. B. Wilson,from the Venice Marine B iological

S tation,received through Prof. A. B. Ulrey ; another parasitic

copepod described by the same,and collected and p resented by Prof.

S . I . Kornhauser,Denison University ; and one polychaete worm

from Valdez Harbor,Alaska

,described by Prof . A. L. Treadwell

and collected by Lieut. Col . C . A . Seoane,United S tates Army

,who

donated the specimen.

Mo lhtska — The most important accession of the year is a gift fromMr. Y. Hirase, Kioto , Japan, embracing lots from the Japaneseislands ; in fact , according to Doctor Bartsch

’s report

,it is one o f the

most valuable accessions that has ever come to the division of mollusks. Together with the Thaanum collection and the materialdredged by the fisheries steamer Al batross

,it places the National

Museum collection of Pacific mollusks above al l other in the world .

”

It is the product of a lifetime’s efforts on the par t of Mr . Hirase and

a corps of private collectors employed by him . The actual numberof specimens included in this splendid accession can not be givenat the present time. as final unpacking awaits the receipt of printedblank labels and sufficient containers. About mollusks fromHawaii . contributed by Dr. Paul Bartsch and Mr . John B . Hendersch ,

make another valuable addition to our large collection from



sides 660 specimens co llected in Guatemala and Honduras by Dr. S .

F . Blake, and 700 from the western United S tates collected by W.

W. Eggleston. Another transfer from the B io logical Survey of the

same department , contained specimens from Alaska,Canada ,

and various parts of the United States. The University of Minnesotapresented the Museum with 749 specimens from several parts ofSouth America , while the National Geographic S ociety similarly donated Alaskan plants collected by the several Katmai expeditions under the leadership o f Prof . Robe rt F . Griggs. Other giftswere 730 specimens from Venezuel a

,collected and donated by Mr .

H. F ittier ; 726 specimens o f Louisiana plants presented by BrotherG. Arsene

,Covington

,La . ; and miscellaneous specimens

,the

herbarium of the late Dr . F . L. J. Boettcher,a gift from Mrs.

Boettcher. A large number of specimens were received in exchange,

thus mostly from the West Indies, w ith the New York Botanical Garden ; plants from Borneo and the Philippines , withthe Bureau of S cience at Manila ; 400 specimens from China and NewCaledonia , w ith G. Bonati

,Lure

,France ; 483 specimens from Mexico ,

with the Direccion de E studios Biol ogicos, Mexico ; specimens,chiefly Eu ropean, with Riksmuseets Botaniska Avdelning, S tockholm ; United States plants , with the Arnold Arboretum ; and71 3 specimens

,mainly from Quebec

,w ith College de Longueuil .

E XPLORATIONS AND E XP EDIT IONS .

From the standpoint of exploration and expedition the year justcompleted must be characterized as unusually poor . In fact

,were

it not for the expeditions still in the field at the beginning of theyear

,and for Dr. W. L. Abbott’s unfiagging interest and generosity,

the showing would be very poor indeed. It must be set down as an

indisputable proposition that a large museum,and most assuredly one

aspiring to be among the leading° museums,and

,moreover

,one repre

senting .the richest nation in the world,can not maintain its standing

without being able to send out properly planned and properly fittedout expeditions for the purpose of expanding, supplementing, andcompleting its collections . Take these away and the institution mustinfallibly sink down to an humble place among those striving for thepurpose of science and the benefit of mankind

,and

,incidentally

,the

benefit and glory of the country they rep resent. The value of a

national museum of natural history is not so much in the displayit is able to make as in the opportunity for research

'

and exploration.

It is not too much to say that for such a museum exploration is thevery breath of life. Even in countries impoverished by war , directlyor indirectly

,an honorable and

,let it be said, not altogether vain

struggle is being kept up to continue the work of adding to theworld’s knowl edge as ci rcumstances will best permit. If we look


back upon the past history of our own institution, is it not clea r thatthe high achievement we have attained and the splendid position wehave reached areI due in a great measure to the surveys and explorations which have emanated from here, and the researches and studiesof ou r men based on the material collected" The reputation of theSmithsonian Institution and its child , the National Museum ,

it isno exaggeration to say is largely based upon just that kind of wo rk.

To live up to that reputation,to keep from sliding down from this

enviable position,it will be necessary to find means for future ex

pl orations maturely planned and energetically carried out .At the end of the yea r

,only one of the previous mo re ambitious

expeditions is still in the field,namely

,that of Mr . C. M . Hoy, in

Australia,financed by Dr . W. L. Abbott . During the past year his

reports in part relate to co llections made at the follow ing local ities

Farina , S . A . : Work in the Farina d istrict was done at Lindhurst , 30 mileseast of the town of Farina . N ineteen days were spent here, resulting in the

collection of 1 1 0 birds and 64 mammals. A few reptiles and insects were a lsocollected.

Kanga roo Island , S . A . : Twenty-six days were spent , in the field, on Kan

garoo Island , with the result of 85 mammals, 51 birds, and miscellaneous rep

t iles, amphibians, and marine specimens collected .

Port L incoln ( E yres Peninsula ) , S . A. : Twenty-two days were spent in the

fiel d resulting in the collection of 86 birds and but 1 5 mammals. A few miscel

l aneous specimens , including reptiles, crus tacea , etc., were also obta ined .

Busselton,W . A . ( 50 miles south ) Camp was pitched 50 miles south of the

town of Busselton, on the edge of the Government timber reserve. Forty dayswere spent in camp. The weather was the worst tha t I have experienced .

During the while 40 days there were onl y 3 days free from ra in. Over 1 8inches fell in that time. It was impossible to keep things dr y , and even the

tent fly went green with mold. Despite these handicaps, however, a pretty fa ircoll ection was obta ined . The collection contains 94 mammals, 46 birds , and a

few miscellaneous alcoholic specimens ( reptiles and land shells ) .

Derby , W. A. (32 mi les southeast ) : Twenty-three days were spent in the

above loca l ity , August 7— 29. The local ity visited was very poor in both mammaland bird l ife, and a co l lection of only 43 mammals, 68 b irds, and 1 0 reptilessecured .

Port Darwin,N . T . ( 1 00 miles south ) : Forty-four days were spent, in the

field , in the Northern Territory of Austral ia . An area of country 30 mil es inextent , running south by west from Brooks Creek to th e Douglas R iver, wasworked . Ou this trip . 1 1 4 mamal s, representing about 1 5 species, 1 06 birds,and 1 7 miscellaneous reptiles and amphibians, etc., were obta ined .

E bor D ist rict , N . S . W. (52 mi les east of Armidale ) : Two camps werepitched, one near the highest point on the northern N . S . W. tableland , at an

eleva tion of feet and one a thousand feet lower. I t was a t the fi rst campthat the most successful work was done. Forty-four days were spent in camp(Jan. 1 8—F eb . 27 ) and some very interesting results were obta ined ; 1 41 mammals, 34 birds, and 1 9 miscellaneous reptiles, land shells, etc .

, were collected.

The wea ther was very much aga inst me, as heavy , drizzling fogs and ra in wasan a lmost everyday occurrence, and there were seldom two fine days a t a

stretch.


During the year two shipments were received from Mr . Hoy. A

total of 571 mammals , well prepared , several of which were hithertounrep resented in our collection

,together with a series of skeletal

and embryological material . The birds numbered 534 specimens andrep resented considerably over 1 00 species and subspecies. A num

ber of interesting reptiles,amphibians

,fishes

,and marine inverte

brates were also collected.

The Smithsonian African expedition, the o rganization and start

ing out of which were detailed in my last year’s report,completed

its biological work on July 1 4, 1 920.

In the V icini ty of Cape Town ,Mr . Raven was able to collect only

insects and inverteb rates, and from there he went to the Addo Bush ,where 1 9 days were spent in collecting small mammals and birds.

Going through Durban and Johannesburg,Mr . Raven spent two

weeks collecting at Ottoshoop in the Transvaal,after which he pro

ceeded to Victoria Falls, and from there he left for the Kafue Riverregion, where he camped fo r several weeks . After spending someweeks along the Congo , he reached Lake Tanganyika , where campwas made for about a month . The next stop of any length was inUganda

,where a few days over a month were spent in collecting in

the Budongo Fo rest.Though not numerically large, the collections are of unusual in

terest on account of the manner in which they supplement those ob

tained by other expeditions in which the Smithsonian Institution hasbeen interested. Among the most important material may be men

tioned 699 mammals ( including° 272 specimens from South Africa

,

a region hitherto very imperfectly represented in our collection ; 1 52from Lake Tanganyika ; the chimpanz ee of Uganda ) 567 bi rds, 206reptiles , and 1 93 fishes

,the latter from Lake Tanganyika . About

1 00 lots of moll usks were also collected.

A few new expedi tions undert aken dur ing the year have been ih

strumental in adding valuable material to our collections .Late in 1 920 Dr. W. L. Abbott undertook personally another ex

pedition, this time visiting the north side of Santo Domingo (VillaRiva

,Pimentel

,Catui, Mao in the Yaqui Valley , and several points

on the Samana Peninsula ) and returning in May, 1 921 . He broughtback a small but select collection of birds, but his main efforts weredevoted to the collecting of plants, approximately of whichhave been received and will doubtless prove of great value.

The B io logical Survey, Department of Agriculture, anxious to obtain first-hand information concerning the movements of NorthAmerican migratory birds in southern South America, in the Springo f 1 920 sent Dr. Alexander Wetmore to Argentina , where he coll ected information and specimens in the Provinces of Chaco and Formosa

,as well as in the Paraguayan Chaco , during the winter season.


Returning to the pampas in the Province of Buenos Aires , he laterproceeded to northern Patagonia. In Jannary

,1 92 1

,he crossed to

Montevideo,studying and collecting in Uruguay until the end of

February, when he returned to Argentina , extending his explorations west to the foothills of the Andes. Crossing the Andes intoChile he returned from there to New York by way of the Panama

Canal. Over specimens of mammals and birds were broughthome by Doctor Wetmore

,besides reptiles and lower animals. A

feature of his collection of particul ar importance is that , in additionto paying special attention to the main purpose of his expedition

,he

secured a la rge and valuable collection of anatomical material inthe form of skeletons and alcoholics .Incidental to his geological explorations in Canada during 1 920,

Dr. C. D . Walcott, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution,as usual

had the museum’s need of good fresh material for the renewa l of

its large mammal groups in mind , and among other specimens collected two Rocky Mountain goats.During August and September, 1 920, Dr. Paul Bartsch , curator ofmollusks

,was delegated by the S tate Department to attend the first

P an-Pacific Scientific Congress at Hono lulu. He was accompaniedby Mr . John B. Henderson. While the meeting of the congress consumed the greater port ion of their time

,they still found oppor

tunity to make a notable collection for the museum,among which

were about mollusks. These materially increase the value ofour rapidly growing and exceedingly important collection of Ha

wa1 1 an mollusks,and are remarkable for the fact that fully 80 lots

contain few or no duplicates of Hawaiian material already in the

co llection. Reestablishing the heredity experiments which are beingcar ried on under the j oint auspices o f the Smithsonian and CarnegieInstitutions and which were interrupted by the hurricane in 1 91 9

,

Doctor Bartsch,during a period of about six weeks in May and June

,

1 921,visited the Bahamas to secure new stock material and then

established a new set of cages for Cerions on Loggerhead Key, Tortugas

,in which the heredity wo rk is conducted. Incidentally

,he se

cured a collection of about Bahama Cerions and other mollusks

,as wel l as other invertebrates and a few birds

,reptiles, and

amphibians.Excursions into South America by several experts connected with

the Geo logical Survey resulted in the addition of noteworthy colleetions of land and fresh-water mollusks

,by Dr. C. Wythe Cooke

,from

Co lombia,and Mr. George L, Harrington from Argentina , Bolivia ,

and Chile.

Toward the end of the fiscal year it became possible to take ad

vantage of certain facilities offered over the Government railroadnow under construction in Alaska and have Dr. J M . Aldrich , asso

60 RE PORT or NATIONAL MUSEUM ,1 921 .

ciate curator of insects , proceed to the interior of Al aska for the purpose of making a general collection of insects from this entomologicall y almost unknown part of the country . The first step has thusbeen taken toward the realization of a plan which woul d eventuallyextend these explorations into the adjacent parts of Asia, and possibly the entire palearctic regions . Without tho roughly representativematerial from that part of the world it will be impossible to gain a

satisfactory knowledge of our own subarctic and boreal province.

When last heard from Doctor Aldrich’s expedi tion had reached thefield and begun collecting operations .About the same time Dr . William M . Mann

,of the Bureau o f

Entomology,and assistant custodian in the section of Hymenoptera ,

division of insects,j oined the Mulford biological expedition to South

America,which started on June 1 , and which , it is hoped , will enrich

the Museum’s collections materially.

Allusion has already been made to Dr. W. L. Abbott’s expedi tionto Santo Domingo

,chiefly in the interest of plant collecting. The

only other botanical expedition to be mentioned is that of Dr. A. S .

Hitchcock,custodian of the grass herbarium

,who left in April

,1 921

,

upon an extended Collecting trip in the Philippines, Japan, China ,and the Indo-Malayan region. At the request of Dr. E . D . Merrill

,

director of the bureau of science,he will elaborate the grasses for a

proposed flora of the’

Philippines . The primary object o f the tripis to gather data for a revision o f the bamboos of the wo rld .

WORK OF PRE S ERV ING AND INS TALL ING THE COLLE CT ION S . P RE S E NT CONDIT ION OF

COLLE CT ION S .

The conditions which at p resent hamper the development o f thebio logical exhibition series and which were detailed in my report o flast year have continued . Wh at was then Said about lack o f space ;the closing of most o f the exhibits on the second floor ; the inconvenience of the present arrangement to the specialists of the mammaldivision ; all these features remain unrelieved and explain the

apparent lack of progress in the exhibition halls,with the result

that the renewal of the bird exhibit,on the one hand

,and the

development of the District of Columbia exhibit,on the other

,

have come to a tempo rary standstill . The aim has thereforebeen to improve, whenever possible, the quality of the specimensalready on exhibition

,by remounting such skins as are still in good

condition or by substituting new material , whenever available, forthe old, faded , or poorly mounted animals. Some of the older specimens

,it must be remembered, date back to the early days when skins

were literally “stuffed ,” while others have come to the Museum in

later years ready mounted from dealers or other museums not practicing the most advanced methods of taxidermy. This art has under


gone a wonderful t ransformation from the time Mr. Hornaday , aschief taxidermist of the National Museum ,

and his colleagues intro

duced modern ideas into the craft . By their knowledge o f the livinganimals and improved technique, the National Museum achievedforemost rank, and a large number of lifelike mounts in the colleetion still testify to their ski ll and artistic sense. Naturally, however

,not al l the specimens from that time claim to be first class

,and

there is evident a tendency to exaggerate the bulk of many animals .Reacting against this tendency , the next generation o f taxidermistswent to the other extreme, by onl y consider ing the bony structu reof the animals, with the result that quite a number o f prominentspecimens look as if the skins had been stretched over the dryskeleton without reference to the soft tissues and o rgans. Obviouslythe ideal method of mounting a skin of a dead animal is to modelthe body f rom a living specimen o f the same species . When it wasdecided to remount an Afr ican leopard in the exhibition series,which

,though being of average quality, showed certain obvious de

fects when compared with a living leopard at the National Zool ogical Park

,arrangements were made with the superintendent , Mr .

N. Hollister,to allow Mr . W. L. Brown

,the taxidermist

,to work at

the park in front o f the leopard case. The skin was str ipped fromthe o ld manikin and tanned , and then the necessary alterations madeas the living animal posed before the taxidermist. The experimentwas highl y successful , with the result that, instead of an indifferentspecimen

,there has now been placed on exhibition a lifelike leopard

show ing al l the characteristics of this graceful, yet ferocious cat .

In addition to this, a number of new mammals have been incorporated in the show collection during the year. As Mr. Hoy’s Austral ian expedition has supplied a number of fine mountable skinsrep resenting the unique characteristics of the fauna of that far-awaycontinent , a beginning has been made to renovate the entire Austral ian mammal exhibit.In my last annual report I called attention to the fact that theclosing of the north and west ranges on the second floor had madeit necessary to display the miscellaneous collection of the animalsof the District of Co lumbia in the whale hall . The insistence ofthe public to see at least part o f the mounted insect coll ection madeit desirable to further add to the heterogenous character of the ex

hibits in that hall,by install ing there five sl ide screens holding 80

uni t trays of insects,displaying many striking fo rms from various

countries . When the splendid J P . Iddings collection o f butterfl ies

and moths,nearly all beautiful ly displayed in Riker mounts

,was

given to the museum it was found expedient to instal l it,tempo

rarily at least, in a couple of specially constructed cabinets so arranged that the visiting public could themselves pull out the


drawers , thereby guarding against the deterioration of the colleetion by continuous exposure to the light. This collection is notlabeled as yet , but the work is a slow one

, and the time which thecustodian can give to this work so limited that it may be some timebefore the task can be completed .

The curatorial work in the various divisions has p rogressed as

usual . In the division o f mammals no cases for skins were receivedduring the year so that this part of the collection is rather overcrowded at the present time. The skulls are in much better condition

,the improvement in the attic being° notable . Additional cases

in the latter storage have also been furnished for the rearrangementof the skeletons there, and considerable headway in their proper ihstal l ation has been accomplished during the year . The alcoholiccollection has been gone over and the condition, like that of the restof the collections in this division, is considered good . All of thelarger cetacean material

,formerly stored in the northeast basement

of the old museum has been removed to the new museum ,where

portions of it are now stored. The valuable collection of small andmedium-sized cetaceans has been reinstalled in 30 quarter-unit cases

,

arranged and labeled, and is now in good condition.

The rearrangement in the division of birds, due to the respacingmade necessary , was continued during the present year ; that o f theparrots being° completed . The weaver birds (Ploceidae) were alsorearranged. Otherwise most of the time has been occupied in labeling and distributing collections received during the year. A mattercausing a great deal of work is the poor quality of the cardsfurnished for case labels

,necessitating frequent renewals. Dur

ing the year 260 cases thus requiring relabeling . One of the mostimportant works of the associate curator consists in posting the oldrecords for data, supplying missing data to entries in the o l d catalogues, searching out lost types and work of similar character , but thework is of necessity slow

,and but little time is available from daily

routine work . The search for old types was rewarded by finding

the type of one of Peale’s specimens, a nightj ar (Caprimfulgus acquicauda ) , and possibly also one of the Polynesian kingfishers, but itsabsolute identity has not yet been established . Some of the skinshave been remade by the taxidermists , but more work of this characteris needed . The accessioning this year of the large R ichards egg collection of specimens

,with the necessary cataloguing and label

ing, has occupied a good deal of the time of the division, but as yetit has been found impossible to number the individual eggs, a workabsolutely necessary and for which Special provision has been asked ,as it can not be handled w ith the present force. The unusually largenumber of alcoholics and skeletons received this year also receivedproper attention, being catalogued and tin tagged , but the labeling


64 REPORT or NATIONAL MUSEUM ,

terial have been identified and incorporated . This places the eastcoast collection in good order and easily . available for study. Muchtime has been devoted to classifying the Philippine coll ection ac

co rding to genera and species and arranging it in systematic order.In the course of identifying material sent in by outside correspondents a considerable po rtion of the col lections has been arranged ao

cording to most recent classifications . This is particularly true cfthe west coast mollusks . Rearrangement of the coll ection of American shipworms is well under way, with a V iew to a monograph in thenear future. S ince last Feb ruary the time of one man for one daveach week has been devoted to the alcoholic mollusk collection. In

al l cases where necessary new containers have been supplied and the

o lder ones refil led. This work is pr ogressing satisfactorily. Microscopic slides of molluskan odontophores to the number of 724, belonging to the Thaanum collection and p repared by the late Rev .

R . Boog° Watson,were registered and numbered by the use of a dia

mond point . All defective slides were put into goo d repair . As may

be judged , the addition of so many slides has greatly enhanced thea lready valuable collection of anatomical preparations belonging tothis division. A number o f slides of odontophores and of theglochidia of several species of naiad have been made as an additionto our collection of microscopic slides. The recl assification andr eno

vation of the general recent collection have been continued throughout the year. The North American fresh-water univalves and the

great and difficul t families Tu rbinidae and Trochidae, among themar ine shells

,were gone over in this way. The labeling and register

ing of the great Thaanum collection of shells, most of which camefrom the Hawaiian Islands

,have been completed . Identification of

Philippine marine mollusks secured by the A l ba tross during thecruise of 1 907— 1 91 0 has been continued. As time goes oh

,more and

more of our material is being thoroughl y identified, and great p rogress in this respect has been made throughout the collection

,espe

cial ly in’

I—Iawaiian material,Philippine material

,and in material

from the east coast of North America and the West Indies and landand fresh-water mollusks from South America . The w riting of headlabels for the species in the collection has been progressing duringthe year until now a large pa rt of al l the co llections in our chargeis furnished with these labels, adding greatly to convenience in con

sul ting them . It seems appropriate to mention at this time the vastamount of time and labor saved by the use of the label holders andblocking- sticks equipped with brass clips . Our collection is growingso rapidly it is estimated that the entire time of at least one personis saved by the use of these small inventions

,making it possible for

us to keep current the work of the division w ithout asking, to date .

for additional assistance. The economy of Space in our storage cases

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM ,1 921 . 65

is also worthy of note . App roximately ca rds have been w rittenduring the year

,among them complete bibliographies of the South

Amer ican Corb icul idae, the Ampu l l aridae of world-wide distribution

,and the important genera of Philippine fresh-water shells .

This saves an enormous amount of time when working with the collections mentioned. The card catalogue gazetteer of the PhilippineIslands has been brought up to date. This is of material assist ancein working with the Phil ippine mollusks.

In the division of echinoderms considerable p rogress has been madein overhauling the crinoid collection. The entire collection of driedophiurans has been rearranged in accordance with the cl assification

used by H. L. Clark in his Catalogue of Recent Ophiurans,and a

synopsis of the new arrangement has been p repared and hung uponthe cases so that anyone can now find any species or specimen ofophiuran in the collection regardless of whether they know anythingabout these animals or not. All o f the specimens have been examinedand checked up with the card catalogue. To bring the co llection intoline with present concepts it was found necessary to transfer manyspecies to new genera and to rename many others which are now

placed in synonymy. The entire collection of dried echinoids has alsobeen rearranged in accordance w ith the cl assification used in Agassizand Clark’s Hawaiian and other P acific Echini

,and al l of the speci

mens have been examined and checked up with the card catalogue ;a number of the specimens have been reidentified

, and the gener icallocation of many of the species has been revised and brought up todate.

Curatorial work in the division of plants has p roceeded satisfac

torily during the past fiscal year . In part icular,Mr . S tandley

,in

the course of his wo rk upon the Mexican trees and shrubs,has identi

fied a large amount of Mexican material which had been mountedbut not named beyond the genus , and has redetermined many specimens from the same region which had p reviously been misidentified.

S imilar impo rtant wo rk of revision has been done in several othergroups

,notably in the composites by Dr . S . F Blake

,the willows by

Dr . C. R . Ball,the grasses by Dr . A. S . Hitchcock and Mrs. Agnes

Chase,and the ferns by Mr . Maxon. As in several recent years

,ma

terial has been received more rapidl y than it could be mounted and

prepared for the herbarium. This fact and the need of economizinggreatly in case room has l ed to the careful scrutiny of recent accessions and the elimination of much material which

,under mo re favor

able circumstances,would have been added to the herbarium . Fo r

similar reasons it has seemed desirable to select for immediate mounting and instal lation material in certain groups under investigation

( for example, ferns , grasses, cacti ) and from tropical America generall y, in o rder to facilitate special investigations previously under


way. The limit of this so rt o f selection is quickly reached , however,and it is impo rtant that additional case room be provided withoutdelay and that means be found of mounting p romptly all materialneeded for permanent preservation. About specimens havebeen mounted du ring the year . These have beenrecorded

,chiefly

through tempo rary cl erical help. The segregation ‘

o i type and duplicate type specimens from the main herba rium has been continuedas oppo rtunity offered

,mainly in connection with other wo rk

,and

1 0,1 36 specimens have now been distinctively labeled

,catalogued

,and

placed in individual covers in the so -called type herbarium .

At the beginning o f this part o f my repo rt the general tendencyo f the wo rk of the p reparato rs has been mentioned . Apart fromthe specimens which found thei r places in the exhibition ser ies muchwo rk was spent on study mater ial for the var ious divisions. Skinsof mammals and bi rds were made up or repai red for the studyser ies

,many dry preparations made for the division o f reptiles ;

skeletons and skulls cleaned whenever needed for study . Mr .

W. L. Brown,whose remounting o f the African leopard I have

already alluded to,also mounted a South American brocket deer

and a mule deer,which were placed in the exhibition series. A

large number of mammal skins were wo rked up , birds dismountedand made into study skins

, etc . Some time before his death Mr .

Wood had already begun to instruct Mr . Brown in his way of

prepa r ing d ry bird skins,as well as in his own particula r methods

o f mounting bi rds which had given him such a high rank amongbird taxidermists . It is therefo re felt that Mr . Brown and Mr .

George Marshall in the future w ill be able to fully take care o f

this branch of the exhibits. Mr . Marshall,in addition to a large

amount of repair wo rk , skinning freshmater ial coming in from localcollecto rs and the zoological park

,tanning , etc .

,has mounted a num

ber of smaller mammals,including several monkeys . Mr . J. W.

Scol l ick,the osteologist , in addition to cleaning a number of t urtle

skulls and bones,prepa red 1 79 whole skeletons

,some exceedingly

delicate . Among the l ot were no less than 1 55 bird skeletons,and

1 0 skeletons of rats,which were mounted for the Bureau of Animal

Indust ry,Department of Agriculture. Twelve -skins of the same

series of rats were also mounted by Mr . Marshall for the same bureauas an exhibit to illustrate the resu lt o f certain feeding experiments.

The bone-cleaning wo rk under Mr . Sco l l ick’s supervision resulted in

the cleaning of 57 mammal skeletons and 1 30 large mammal skulls .Mr . C. E . Mirguet

’s time was to a great extent taken up with two

tasks,the preparation and cleaning of the Florida whale skeleton ,

donated by the Miami Aquar ium Association and mentioned above,

and the building o f a drum for the tanning of mammal skins. The


whale skeleton was being put in shape for photographing , measur

ing, and description as preliminaries for an extensive monograph ,a fter which it will be hung in the exhibition whale hall . In addition he prepared a large number of reptile skins and skeletons for

the study series,besides plaster casts, repairs , etc.

,Mr . C. R . W.

Aschemeier has been assisting Mr. Brown in the mammal mounting,°

when requi red , has worked up 1 05 mammal and 2 1 bird skins andgone over the entire exhibition co llection of alcoholic invertebrates,refil l ing and otherwise caring for 672 jars. Mr . Palmer’s work

,up

to his death , was mostly on the faunal exh ibit of the District of

Unfo rtunately the crowding of the collections in many of the divisions must of necessity increase from year to year until additionalspace shall be allotted to the department of biology. To that extentthe condition of the collections must be considered un satisfacto ry andmust gradually grow worse. In other respects the conditions mustbe pronounced as generally good. Nevertheless

,the results of the

greater activity of the Museum since the stagnation period of the war,

which were presaged in my previous report , are al ready begi nningto make themselves manifest , inasmuch as the greater influx of material is consuming more and more Of the time and effo rts of the staff,which has remained pra ctically stationary dur ing the last 20 years.The mere physical care of the collections is al l that can be aecom

pl ished in many instances .

The practice of sending the large mammal skins to the pro fessionaltanner ies to betanned has had to be given up.

because of definite lo ssesand the general poor results . A rotary drum has been built in thetaxidermist shop ; and when the necessary motor shall have been re

ceived,it will be possible to handle the work and insu re perfect

results .The reports of the various divisions generally emphasize the free

dom the collections are now enj oying from the usual destructivemuseum pests . This IS undoubtedly due to the systematic fumigationwith bisulphide of carbon.

The crowding alluded to above might be relieved , as far as the

division of plants is concerned,by the building of a balcony as ady o

cated on previous occasions. The plan, although approved and ao

cepted as the only practical solution of a nearly into lerable condition,

awaits only the appropriation of sufficient means to be carried out .

Otherwise the condition of the National Herba r ium is satisfactory,

but as far as the cryptogamic section is concerned it has been impossible with the smal l

‘

stafi to incorporate in it the material receivedduring the past year. and for several years past , though the specimens have been pocketed and prepared for the herbarium as soon as


possible after they are received , and held ready for instal lation when~

ever one or mo re specialists can be secured .

RESEARCHES F OR THE BE NE F IT OF THE ) MUS E UM .

It is mainly by ,

the quality and amount o f its research work uponthe material intrusted to its ca re that the reputation of this Museumrests and its existence is justified. I am happy to say that the pastyear in no way falls short of the traditions of the Institution. The

appended bibliography clearly demonstrates this. It does not , however, fully represent the wo rk accomplished during the current year,as of necessity many of the papers published in 1 920—21 were preparedpreviously , nor does publication necessarily reveal the extent of theresearch work going on. Briefly, the scientific activities o f the staffwill be enumerated below ,

but before taking° up the work in the divisions I wish to call attention to the signal honor which was bestowedby the National Academy upon a member of the staff for one of thepublications issued by the Museum. During° the April meeting o f

the academy this year, the Dani el Giraud Elliot gold medal , togetherwith the honorarium, was voted to Dr. Robert Ridgway in recogni

tion of the eighth vo lume of The B irds of Middle and North America ,which forms part 8 of Bulletin 50 of the United S tates NationalMuseum

,an award which is open to the zoologists and paleontologists

of the world . When announcing the award the chairman of theElliot medal committee saidIn undertaking this great work R idgway was not only placing the crown on

his labors of a third of a century , but was giv ing expression to a plan madeby Ba i rd a half century before . R idgway was therefore doubly inspired

‘

when,

in 1 90 1 , he undertook the stupendous task of preparing a 1 0-volume treatiseon al l the birds of the Western Hemisphere north of South America . Withunremitting zeal , and always ma inta ining the standard of thoroughness and

a ccuracy set by the first volume of the series, he continued h is labors unti leight volumes have appea red , the last in 1 91 9. E ach volume conta ins about850 pages, a tota l of pages in a l l . Nearly 900 genera a re defined and

over species and subspecies described .

Whi le giving expression to h is exceptional powers of anal ysis and descriptiontra ined by years of experience and observation, R idgway has produced a workwh ich in method , comprehensiveness, and accuracy, as well as in volume, has

never been surpassed in the annals of ornithology.

This wil l gl ve you an idea of some o f the work which is beingquietly and unostentatiously performed in the divisions of thisMuseum. Taking them up one by one the work of the scientific staff

may be epitomiz ed as followsMr . Gerrit S . Miller, jr .

,found but little time for scientific investi

gation dur ing the past year. Some progress was made, in conjunction with the late William Palmer , in investigating the charactersof the whale from Pablo Beach , F l a .,

and in conjunction with Mr .


N. Hollister,in making a p reliminary examination of the Celebesian

mammals col lected several years ago by Mr. H. C. Raven and

presented by Dr. W. L. Abbott . Dr. Robert Ridgway, curato r ofbirds

,continued hi s work on. the ninth part of Bulletin 50

,The

B irds of North and Middle America . The matter relating to thehigher groups , including genera of the Falconiformes, with the

illustrations,was nearly finished. A large number of bibliographic

references for the synonymies not only for part 9, but part 1 0 also ,were co llected . It is pleasant to be able to report that the manuscriptfor part 9 of this monumental wo rk is nearing completion. D r .

Charles W. Richmond, associate curator , owing to the press o f the

routine curator ial work , found but little time for research . He

made some p rogress , with Mr . B . H. Swales,in their proposed jo int

work on the bi rds o f the island of Haiti , but not so much as they hadhoped. Progress was also made on their p roposed list of typespecimens of birds in the National Museum

,as mentioned in last

year’s report . Mr . J H. Riley, aid, continued his studies of thebirds of Celebes and also furnished the curator with certain dataon generic characters of vultures and hawks. The study of theNorth American turtles by Leonhard Stejneger prog ressed butslowly

,due to the lack of leisure from routine work. Miss Doris

Cochran, aid , besides identifying the African and Malaysiansnakes in the collection, devoted special attention to the reptilesand amphibians of Haiti with a view to a herpetology of thatisland. Mr. B. A . Bean

,assistant curator of fishes

,reports satisfac

tory progress of the report by himself j ointly with Dr . Henry W.

Fowler, of the Academy of Natural S ciences , Philadelphia , on thefishes of the Wilkes exploring expedition and other collections.Dr

.J M. Aldrich , assoc iate curator of insects , when not occupied

with general routine duties, identifications, etc., devoted his time

mostly to the study of the muscoid group of Diptera , publishing two

short papers and nearly completing several others . Bulletin 1 1 6 of

the Museum ,being a monograph of the dipterous genus D ol ichopus,

the resul t of the j oint labors of Mr. M . C. Van Duz ee,Mr. F rank

R . Cole, and himself , was completed and publ ished during the year.The scientific activities of the honorary custodi ans of the vari oussections will appear from the appended bibliography.

Dr. Mary J Rathbun, honorary associate in zoology , has completed

the second paper in the series on crabs obtained by the fisheries investigation ship E ndeavour , 1 909

— 1 91 4 ; it covers the Brachyrhyncha ,Oxystomata , andDromiacea, and, like the first paper on the Oxyrhyncha, will be published by the Commonwealth of Australia. Consid

erab le progress has been made on a bulletin on the spider crabs ofAmerica . This is the second of her series o f valuable monographs

,

which , when completed , will describe and figure al l the species of


crabs known from North and South America. She has also namedthe crabs of various current accessions , notably of large collectionsfrom California and Japan

,including Formosa . Mr . Waldo L.

S chmitt, curator of marine invertebrates, has had but little timeleft from routine duties for research work. The first installment

,or

part, of a report on the Macrura and Anomura of the AustralianMuseum

,collected by the E ndeavour

,covering the families Peneidae,

Campyl onotidae, and Pandal idae, has been completed. The reportson the Macrura and Anomura of the American Museum Congo expedition and the Barbados-Antigua expedition of the University ofIowa are still in progress. Mr. C. R . Shoemaker

,assistant

,

curator,has given much of his time to the working

° up of several large lots ofAmphipods

,which were sent to the Museum for identification. Sev

eral reports were completed and published as shown in the bib l i

ography. Dr. Harriet Richardson Searle,co llaborator

,I am happy

to report,has resumed her studies on the Isopoda and has recently

completed a report on the collection of terrestrial isopods,secured

by Dr. E . J Jakobsen in Java . Mr . Harry K. Harring,custodi an of

rotato ria,has completed his report on the rotatoria of the Canadian

Arctic expedition and the first part of a report on the rotifers ofWisconsin

,which includes a revision of the Notommatid rotifers.

Both of these papers are now in press. The second part of the reportonWisconsin rotifers is well under way. In addition

,he has identi

fied a number of interesting collections .Dr. William H. Dall’s completed summary of the West Ameri

can collection from San D iego to the Polar Sea was published asBulletin 1 1 2 of the United S tates National Museum. It includesthe results of research and collections made by west- coast contrib

utors and the honorary curator since 1 865, amounting to more thanspecies and varieties. A number of interesting new forms,

including a second species of the peculiar South Amer ican F el ipponea ,were received and descr ibed during the year, as indicated in the bibl iographic list. Most of the time not occupied by routine mattershas been given to a monograph of the marine shell-bearing molluskso f the Hawaiian Islands , based chiefly on the important collectiondonated by Mr. D . Thaanum, of Hilo , Hawaii , and on the fisheries

steamerAlbatross dredgings about the islands. This work is well advanced and only certain troublesome and prol ific groups of minuteshells remain to be worked up of the material in hand. Mr. JohnB . Henderson

,a regent of the Smithsonian Institution, has been en

gaged on a monograph of the Antillean land and fresh-water mollusks. A list of the mollusks collected by the Barbados-Antigua ex

pedition of the S tateUniversity of Iowa has been begun. Considerabletime was devoted to the identification of east-coast mollusks sent inby correspondents. In the little remaining time he and the curator



4 is well advanced. Doctor Rose has continued his studies,also

,of

Ecuadorean plants referred to in the last report . Mr . William R .

Maxon,asso ciate curator

,has continued his investigation of the pteri

dophyta and has prepared manuscript for Part VIII of S tudies ofTropical American Ferns. He has nearly completed a report , also ,

°

upon the large collection of Haitian ferns made by Dr.W. L. Abbottand Mr . Emery C. Leonard last year and has reviewed critically theWest-American allies of S el agifnel la mpestmis, describing several newspecies. A popular article on the botani cal gardens of Jamaica has

been contributed to the Smithsonian Annual Report . Mr . Paul C.

S tandl ey,assistant curator

,has nearly completed manuscript sum

mariz ing his studies of the trees and shrubs of Mexico,and has sub

mitted parts 2 and 3 for publication ; parts 4 and 5 ( conclusion) willbe turned in fo r publication during the coming year. He has recentlyundertaken the preparation of a synoptical account of the flora o f

Central America and Panama,based p r imarily upon the collections

in the National Herbarium,and in this connection proposes V isiting

Salvador,in which region practically no botanical collecting° has been

done. Mr. S tandley also has completed manuscript for the Flo raof Alaska . Mr. Ellsworth P . Kil l ip, aid , has finished his revision of

the genus P assiflom as rep resented in Mexico,Cent ral America, and

Panama , and the manuscript is nearly ready for publication. Mr .

Emery C. Leonard,aid

,has continued his study of the genus S cutel

l am . With the assistance of Mr . Standl ey he has nearly completedthe identification of the phanerogams of his Haitian collection oflast year.Dr. C. Hart Merriam

,associate in zoology, continued his study

‘

on

North American bears . Mr . N Hollister h as continued wo rk on the

African Artiodactyla,but it is greatly delayed by the housing of the

mammalian study series on different floors from the basement tothe attic. Dr. 0 . P . Hay, of the Carnegie Institution

,has made

constant use of the collections in connection with his work oh-the

Pleistocene fauna of North America. The thanks of the Museumare due to Mr. Oldfield Thomas, of the British Museum,

for havingcompared specimens sent to him with types and other material inthe collections under his care.

Dr. W. L. Abbott,associate in zoology, made two visits to the

division of birds for purpose of examining material collected inHaiti and S anto Domingo by h im , and giving information about thespecimens and localities. Dr. H. C. Oberhol ser , of the B iologicalSurvey, continued his determination of the Malayan mater ial collected by Dr. W. L. Abbott

, and made occasional identifications inother parts of the ornithologi cal study series. Dr. A. Wetmore , alsoo f the Biological Survey, although away from Washington most ofthe year , spent some time in work on the bird skeletons.


Dr. E .R . Dunn

,of the Museum of Compa rative Zoology

,identified

various reptiles and batrachians dur ing his visits to the Museum.

Dr . 0 . P . Hay and Mr . C. W. Gilmore have examined reptil ianmaterial from time to time. Mr . Remington Kellogg

,of the Bio

logical Survey, has spent considerable time in the division o f reptilesidentifying and studying the entire collection of American toads of

the genus Bufo with a V iew to preparing a monograph .

Mr . Walter Koel z’s studies of the whitefishes in the division o f

fishes,mentioned in last year’s report , were concluded during° the

p resent year. S imilarly Mr . Carl L. Hubbs , of the University ofMichigan

,studied the lancelets and lampreys of the col lection in

connection with a fo rthcoming review of these groups. Dr. HenryW. F owler , Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences

,has greatly

aided in the ichthyological wo rk of the Museum.

It is quite natural that when specialists V isit the Museum toexamine the collections in connection with the working up or monographing la rger groups in thei r home museums or own p r ivate col

lections,a considerable amount of original identification or correc

tion of current identifications of our own specimens must result . In

this way the National Museum benefits directly by the Visits o f .

scientific workers from other institutions. Again,with the lack in

Washington o f specialists in many groups,the Museum is entirely

dependent upon the generous assistance of many outsiders for properidentification of specimens sent to it . F or these favo rs gratefulacknowledgments are due. The division o f insects has been par

ticul arly fortunate in this respect during the p resent year . ThusDr . E . P . Felt

,State entomologist of New York

,has recently re

turned a large °collection o f the dipterous gall -midges (Cecidomyidae) which were sent him several years ago . He has mountedour material on microscoPic slides, the onl y possible permanentmethod for these very delicate and tiny fli es ; most of our mater ialis now returned as types of new species

,and he has added a large

amount of his own type material , making our collection in the famil yprobably second onl y to that of the New York State Museum in theworld. As usual , Prof . T. D . A. Cockerell , of the University of

Co lorado , has aided greatly with the bees, while Mr . Nathan Banksand Dr. R . V . Chamberlin

,both of the Museum of Comparative

Zoology,have identified sp iders and myriopods , respectively . So

much work of a similar nature has been done by the various mem

bersof staff of the Bureau of Entomology in connection with theirother studies that it would be impractical to acknowledge the

assistance separately and individually.

What is true of the division of insects with regard to dependenceon the aid of specialists residing outside of Washington

'

for aid in

identifying and classifying material due to insufliciency of the


Museum staff ho lds good to a still greater extent in the division ofmarine invertebrates. In fact

,so extensive is

'

the number of thesespecialists

,to whom the Museum is under great obligations

,that a

mere list of their names, with the particular g roup of invertebratesthey have undertaken to work upon

,must suffice for this report.

It includes the follow ing : Dr. Henry B. Bigelow (Medusae, Ctenophora ) , Dr. L. A. Borr adaile (Crustacea : P ontoniidae) , Dr . L. R .

Cary (Alcyonarians ) , Dr . R . V . Chamberlin (Annelids and Gephyrea ) , Dr . N. A. Cobb ( free- living Nematodes ) , Dr. Wesley R . Coe

(Nemerteans) , Dr. Leon J Cole (Pycnogonids) , D r . Henri Goutiere

(Crustacea : Crangonidae) , Dr. R . P . Cowles (Pho ronidea ) , Dr .Joseph A . Cushman (Fo raminifera ) , Prof. G. S . Dodds ( freshwater Entomostraca ) , Mr . A. A. Doolittle ( fresh-water Entomostraca ) , Prof. Max Ellis (D iscodril ids) , Dr. C. O. Esterly (marineCopepods ) , Dr . A. G. Huntsman (Ascidians ) , Mr. Fritz Johansen

( fresh-water Entomostraca ) , Prof. Chauncey Juday (CrustaceaD aphniidae) , D r . C. Dwight Marsh ( fresh-water Copepods) , Dr .Alfred Gr. Mayor (Scyphomedusae) , Dr. Maynard M . Metcalf

(Salpa , Pyrosoma,Protozoa ) , D r . J Percy Moore (Leeches ) , Prof .

J Playfair McMurrich (Actinians ), Dr. Charles C.

‘Nutting (Hydroids ) , Dr. Raymond C. Osburn (Bryozoa ) , Dr. Henry A. P il sbry

(Barnacles) , Capt. F . A. Potts (Crustacea : Rhiz ocephal ids) , Prof .Frank Smith (Earthwo rms) , D r . W. M . Tattersall (CrustaceaMysidacea ) , Dr. Aaron L. Treadwell (Annelids ) , Dr . Willard G.

Van Name (Ascidians) , Prof. L. B. Walton (Planarians ) , Dr .C. B. Wilson (parasitic Copepods) .The division of mollusks , although less dependent on outside help ,

nevertheless gratefully acknowledges assistance received from var ious Specialists . Thus D r . Frank Baker

,of the University of Illi

nois, and Dr. Victor S terki , of New Philadelphia , Ohio , have kindly

determined material . Through the kind cooperation of co r respondents several puzzling po ints concerning Museum material have beencleared up by references to the o riginal types or typical material inthe collections under their care. These co rrespondents are Dr. H. A.

P il sbry, of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia ; Dr.F . B. Loomis

,of Amherst College ; and Mr. W. F . C lapp

,of the

Museum of Comparative Zoology. The Museum is under great obli

gation to the United S tates Navy Department for cooperation of adifferent kind

,inasmuch as the investigations by Dr. Paul Bartsch ,

curator of mollusks,into the shipworm problem were greatly expe

dited through the efforts of the commanding officers of two of ournavy yards. The deeper understanding of the subject gained throughthis investigation has greatly enhanced the value of our shipwormmaterial . The officers referred to are Admi ral C. W. Pa rks, Chiefof the Bureau of Yards and Docks

,United States Navy Department ;


Commander C. D . Thurber,United S tates naval station

,Pearl Har

bor, Oahu , Hawa ii ; and Capt. Edward L. Beach , commandant of theMare Island Naval S tation ,

Calif. As noted in previous reports, thestudy of fossil mollusks is so dependent on that of the recent fo rmsthat the paleonto logists of the Geological Survey, notably Dr .W. P .

VVoodring, Dr. Julia A. Gardner,Mr . W. C. Mansfield

, and Dr. C.W.

Cooke spent considerable time studying material in the division ofmollusks.

The National Herbarium,as in previous yea rs

,is used frequently

by many members of the scientific staffs of the Department of Agriculture. In particular Dr . S . F . Blake

,Dr . C. R . Ball

,Pro f. C. V .

Piper , and Dr . W. E . Safi’

ord have given attention to several cr iticalgroups. Mr . Iva r Tidestrom has continued his wo rk upon the plantsof Utah and Nevada.

RE S E ARCI IE S ELSEWHERE AIDE D BY MU SEUM MATE R IAL

The liberal policy of the Museum in keeping its collections and

labo rato r ies open to visiting specialists and in sending° out its material to scientific wo rkers in this and other countr ies , as outlined in lastyear’s report

,was continued during the present year to the mutual

advantage of both parties.A number of p rominent students V isited the various divisions forlonger or shorter periods, as shown by the follow ing list : Mr . Rem

ington Kellogg used the cetacean and other osteological mammalianmaterial ; Mr . Herbert Lang

,American Museum of Natural History

,

studied African squi r rels ; Mr . H. E . Anthony , of the same museum,

SouthAmer ican mammals ; Mr . R .M .Anderson,Geological Survey of

Canada,specimens o f caribou . The bird collections

,besides being

freely used by members of the staff o f the B iological Survey , wereexamined by Dr . W. B. Alexander

,Perth

,West Australia ; D r .

Stanley C. Ball,B ishop Museum

,Honolulu

,Hawaii ; Maj. Allan

Brooks,Okanagan Landing

,British Columbia ; Dr . H. C. Bryant

,

Museum of Verteb rate Zoology,Berkeley

,Calif. ; Mr . James P .

Chapin,Amer ican Museum of Natural History

,New Yo rk ; Mr .

H. K. Coale,Highland Park

,Ill . ; Mr. Donald R . Dickey

,Pasadena

,

Cal if. ; D r .

'Jonathan Dwight,New York City ; Mr . J H. Fleming

,

To ronto,Canada ; Dr . Joseph Gr innell , di rector o f Museum of Ver

tebrate Zoology,Berkeley

,Calif. ; Mr. Ludlow G riscom

,American

Museum of Natural History,New York ; Mr . A. K. Haagner , Pre

toria Transvaal ; Mr . Romeyn B. Hough,Lowville

,N . Y. ,

Rev.

H.W. Hubbard,Peking

,China ; Mr . M . J Kelly

,Everhart Museum

,

Scranton,P a . ; Mr. F H. Kennard

,Newton Center

,Mass ; Mr . H.

Matsumoto,N . E . Imperial University

,Sendai

,Japan ; Mr .W. D eW.

Miller ,Amer icanMuseum of NaturalHistory,New York ; Mrs. M . M .

Nice,Norman

,Okla ; Dr . W. H. Osgood

,Field Museum of Natural

76 RE PORT or NATIONAL MUSEUM,

History,Chicago

,Ill . ; Mr. C. J. Pennock

,Kennett Square

,P a . ; Dr .

J C. Phillips,VVenham,Mass. Mr .H. C. Raven,Bayshore

,N . Y. Mrs.

E . M . B. Reichenberger,American Museum of Natural History

,New

York ; Mr . James Henry Rice, jr.

,Wiggins

,S . C . ; Mr . Charles H.

Rogers,Pr inceton

,N. J.

° M,

r . Ralph H. Rose,South Kortright

,N. Y. ;

Dr. L. C. Sanford,New Haven

,Conn.

°

,.Mr P . A. Taverner

,Ottawa

,

Canada ; Mr . W. E . Clyde Todd,Carnegie Museum

,Pittsburgh

,P a . ;

Prof. M . Oshima,of Japan . The above list covers those who ex

amined the skin collection,and includes a goodly number of member s

o f the American O rnitho logists’ Union , who spent considerable timeduring,

° the period of the meeting (Nov. 8— 1 1,1 920) in investigating

var ious questions in connection with their wo rk in other museums o rin relation to their own private collections. In the othee of the division of birds there is a case reserved for common birds of the EasternS tates

,and certain birds about which inquiry is most frequent (the

nightingale,the robin redbreast o f Europe

,the Sta rling , etc ) , as well

as examples of a few birds noted for their b right colo rs or strangefeatures of bill

,plumage

,etc . The inqui ries of many amateurs and

nature-study students are satisfied by reference to this case of birds,

but no list o f these Visitors or statistics as to thei r numbers has beenattempted. The following students have examined the ser ies of

North Amer ican eggs or parts of it ; Prof. W. B . Barrows,Agricul

tu ral College,Mich ; Mr . H. W. B randt

,Cleveland

,Ohio ; Mr . E . J

Court,Washington

,D . C . ; Mr. A. F Ganier

,Nashville

,Tenn. ; Mr .

A. H. Hardisty,Washington

,D . Mr . R . G. Pape

,Texarkana

,

Ark. ; Dr . A. G . Ruthven,University of Michigan

,Ann Arbor

,Mich ;

Mr . W. E . Saunders,London

,Ontario

,Canada ; Mr . J Fletcher

S treet,Philadelphia

,P a . Mr . GeorgeH. Stuart

,3d

,Philadelphia

,P a .

Reptiles and amphibians were examined by Dr. Thomas Barbour ,Museum of Comparative Zoology ; and Dr. E . R . Dunn

,o f the same

museum ; and D r . S idney F . B lake,of the Department o f Agricul

ture. An unusual number of outside entomologists made p rolongedstays of from several weeks to several months studying our material s ; thus Mr . Ray T. Webber, Melrose Highlands

,Mass ; Mr .

John Tothill,of the Canadian entomological staff ; Mr. C. F . W.

Musebeck, Dr. W. T. M . Fo rbes , and Mr. R . T. Shannon,al l o f

Cornell University. Many o ther entomologists have Visited the division o f insects for a few days or a single day at a time

,such as Mr .

S . W. Frost , of the entomo logical staff of the Pennsylvania StateCo llege ; Dr. W. J Ho lland

,director of the Carnegie Museum

,Pitts

burgh,P a. ; D r .William Barnes ,Decatur, Ill . ; andDr. C. T Ramsden

,

Guantanamo,Cuba . While no outsiders pursued any studies in the

laborato ries of the division of mar ine invert ebrates during the p resent year, personal inquiries by members of the scientific staffs o f the

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Bureau of Fisheries and of various bureaus o f the Department o f

Agriculture were frequent. Docto r Ball , recently appointed curato rof the Berenice Pahui Bishop Museum ,

in Honolulu , spent severaldays in the division of mollusks reviewing the collections to ac

quaint himself with the methods employed . Mollusks were also

studied by Dr . G. Dallas Hanna,of the University o f California ;

Dr.Bruce Clark

,of the same university ; and Hon. Truman H.

Aldrich,who brought a l ot of his material for compar ison w ith that

in the Museum . The division also had numerous personal callsfrom specialists in the Department of Agricultu re, Bureau of F isheries, and Geological Survey for info rmation or examination of

collections as an aid in thei r part icular lines of research . The visitors calling for info rmation on special points at the division o f echinoderms were Mr

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. Wilfrid B. Alexander,of the Western Australian

Museum,Perth

,West Aust ralia ; Dr . August F . F oerste

,Dayton,

Ohio ; Prof. T . Harvey Johnston, Queensland University , Brisbane ;Pro f . Hiko Matsumoto

,Sendai University , Japan ; Capt . Frank A.

Potts,Cambridge

,England ; and Dr . S . Yoshida , Osaka , Japan. Mr.

Arthur de G. S owerby,on his way to China to collect for theMuseum ,

stopped for several days and V isited w ith the curators and examinedspecimens. Dr. R .W. Shufel dt ,Washington City

,used the mammal

,

bird,and fish collections considerably in photographing and com

paring material . Among the p rofessional botanists from el esewhere

thanWashington who have wo rked in the herbar ium during the yearare the following : Prof. H. M . Hall and Pro f. Frederick E . Clem "

ents,o f the Carnegie Inst itution of Washington

,who were engaged"

in studying Atriplex , Chrysothamnus, and several other criticalgenera ; Dr . C . F Millspaugh

,of the Field Museum o f Natural

Histo ry , engaged in p reparing an account of the flora of S antaCatalina Island

,Calif. ; Dr . P . A. Rydberg o f the New York Bo

tanical Ga rden,in connection w ith studies o f Leguminosae and Com

positae for the No rth American Flo ra ; Mr . C. A. Weatherby,of East

Hartfo rd,Conn.

, engaged in the study of certain genera o f ferns ;Prof. S . Mihara

,directo r o f the cotton experiment station at Mokpo ,

Chosen, Japan ; and Pro f . Koyomitsu Ryu , of the College of Agricultu re

,Morioka

,Japan.

A large number of specimens were asked for as loans by numerousoutside investigators and institutions as an aid in the study of theirown material . Mammals were loaned to Dr. J A . Allen

,Mr . H. E .

Anthony,and Mr . Herbert Lang

,of the American Museum of Nat

uralHistory,New York ; the University of Califo rnia , Department of

Geology ; Mr . Arthu r de G. Sowerby,London ; Dr . Oldfield Thomas ,

British Museum ; Dr . G . D . Hanna,Califo rnia Academy of Sciences ;

Dr. Joseph Gr innell , University of California ; D r .

‘

R . W. Shufel dt ,lVashington City . Birds were sent to Witmer Stone

,

“ Phil adelphia


Academy of Natural S ciences ; Messrs. W. de W. Miller and J P .

Chapin,American Museum of Natural History

,New York ; Mr .

Frank Bond,Washingt on C ity ; Maj. Allan Brooks and Mr . Louis

Agassiz Fuertes,Ithaca

,N Y. ; Mr . Charles B. Cory

,Field Museum

o f Natural History ; Dr. N Kuroda , Tokyo , Japan ; Mr .H.H. Bailey,

Miami Beach Zoological Park, Fla. ; Mr . A. C. Bent and Mr. J C.

Phillips,Cambridge

,Mass. Reptiles and amphibians were sent to

Dr. Thomas Barbour and Dr . E . R . Dunn,Museum of Comparative

Zoology ; Miss M . C. Dickerson,American Museum o f Natural His

tory,New York ; Dr. F rank N. Blanchard

,Zoo logical Museum

,Uni

versity of Michigan ; and Prof. A. M . Reese,West Virginia Univer

sity. From the division o f fishes spec imens were loaned to Mr . CarlL. Hubbs

,Zoological Museum , University of Michigan, and Dr.

Henry W. Fowler , Philadelphia Academy of Natural S ciences . In

addition,specimens of fishes have been borrowed repeatedly by the

specialists of the Bureau of Fisheries. No insect material of anyportance was transmitted to investigators outside of the Museum .

Marine invertebrates were sent to Dr. K. H. Barnard, South African

Museum,Cape Town ; Capt . F A. Potts

,Zoological Laboratory

,The

MuseumsyCambridge, England ; Mr . W. A Richter

,North Milwau

kee,Wis ; Dr . Frank Smith , University of Ill inois ; Mrs. Leon S .

S tone,New Haven

,Conn. Mr .

‘

Joel H. Swartz,geological laboratory

,

Jobus Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md . ; Dr. A. L. Treadwell,

Vassar College,Poughkeepsie

,N. Y. Plants sent out from the Na

t ional Herbarium to specialists or institutions outside of Washingtonfor study numbered comprised in 71 lots

,a slight falling off

from the p revious year. Only the larger and more important loansare mentioned in the following list : 208 specimens of Az a lea lent tothe Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University

,for monographic

study by Dr . Alfred Rehder ; 1 84 specimens of V iolets of the westernUnited States lent to Dr . Ezra Brainerd , Middlebury, Vt. , for studyin connection w ith his forthcoming monograph of the North American Violaceae ; 298 specimens of Hosackz

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a, lent to the University ofCalifornia

,Berkeley

,Calif

,for study by Prof. W. L. Jepson ; 1 27

specimens o f Mimu lus lent to Cornell University , Ithaca , N. Y.,for

study by Mrs. Adele Lewis Grant,who is engaged in a revision of

the North American species of this genus ; 1 08 specimens of F fl it lentto the Gray Herbarium o f Harvard University for study by Mr . C. A.

Weatherby ; 280 specimens of Hypoxia lent to the Gray Herbariumof Harvard University for study by Miss Amelia E . Brackett ; 269specimens of S crophulariaceae lent to the New York Botanical Garden for monographic study by Dr. Francis W. Pennell ; specimens of North American species of P iper lent to Prof. WilliamTrelease

,of the University of Illinois , Urbana , Ill. , for use in connec

tion with his monographic study of this genus , During the year 1 1



possible number of duplicates which the rest of the series mightyield when eventually wo rked up. With the receipt this year of

app roximately specimens of Philippine fishes this methodof arr iving at a fa 1 r estimate of the number o f duplicates availablefor distribution proved utterly inadequate. It has therefore beenconsidered the better plan only to list the number of duplicatesactually segregated . It may be further noted that the figures for thedivision of plants are exclusive o f the lower cryptogams . In the

follow ing table the figures in parentheses indicate the number ofduplicates included in the total :

DivisionMamma lsB irds (9, 1 50 )R eptilesF ishes ( 25, 000 )InsectsMarine invertebrates

E chinodermsPlants

Tota l 6 , 729, 869

RE PORT ON THE DE PARTMENT OF GE OLOGY.

By GEORGE P . MERRILL, Head Curator .

Considered with reference onl y to the wo rk actually accomplishedalong lines of investigation, the year ending June 30, 1 921 , has, withthe possible execption of the year immediately preceding, been one

unprecedented in the history of the department.Accession8 .

— A marked increase in the number of accessions isshown over those recorded in any one of the past 1 5 years. The totalnumber listed is 231

,a gain o f 51 over last year, and of 29 over the

reco rded number in 1 91 4— 1 5, next highest on the list. Oi the acquisitions of the present year , 1 51 were received as gifts , 39 as exchanges,24 as transfers f rom other departments o f the Government , chieflythe Geological Survey, 5 were acquired by purchase, and 5 as depositsor loans . A considerable quantity of the gift and transfer materialwill, doubtless, on examination prove to be duplicate or undesirable,what proportion it is yet too early to state , but apparently the totalvalue is well up to the average. The additions to the geological ,mineralogical, and petro logical co llections number individualspecimens and 1 40 boxes and trays, only a few of which have as yet

been unpacked and assorted , but which it is estimated w ill yield a

total of not less than specimens,while upwa rd o f speci

mens have been added to the paleontological collections.

The largest contributor to the division of geology was as usualthe Geological Survey, whence were transferred 1 31 boxes and 7

trays o f material , much of it being described sets of rocks and ores.F rom this source also were received 5 specimens of the platinumbearing covellite from the Ramb ler Mine

,Wyo . ; the type set of

specimens from the R and S molybdeum mine, N. Mex .

,described

by E . S . Larsen and C . S . Ross ; and a small co llection of carnotiteminerals and associated ores from Routt County

,Colo .

,collected

and reported on by Hoyt S . Gale.

Accessions of materials from South America have been especiallyimportant. Through the courtesy of the Guggenheim interests

,

Custodian Frank L. Hess was enabled to add a large se r ies illustrative of the Bolivian tin and tungsten o res , and through Messrs L. L.

Ellis and Don S tewart,of O ruro

,Bolivia, and Prof. Joseph T.

S ingewald, of Johns Hopkins University,Baltimo re, to secure other

examples of like nature. From Mr . Tomas A. Le Breton,am

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bassador from Argentina,was received a representative series o f

°Argentina ores and minerals.Impo rtant additions were made to the bo rate collections from

California by Assistant Curator F oshag. Other contributions re

ceived through the same source include specimens of rich silverore f rom the Califo rnia Rand S ilver Co .

,Randsburg , Calif. ; of cerar

gyrite from the Calico District , gift of J R . Lane, of Yermo , Calif. ;and an uncommonly large and pure example o f Cinnabar contributedby the New Almaden Mining Co .

Among the radium-bearing materials received are carnotite ore

from the Long Park , Colo .

,properties of the Radium Luminous

Materials Co rpo ration, furnished by the Radium Information Service

,New Yo rk C ity ; euxenite ore, sent at the request of F . L. Hess

by the Orser-Kraft Feldspar Co . of Perth,Ontario ; to rber

nite from White S ignal,Grant County, N. Mex .

,gift of the Radium

Treatment S anato rium Co ., S ilver City , N. Mex . ; and approxi

mately a kilogram of uraninite from Joachimstahl , Bohemia , ao

qui red by exchange from Ward’s Natural S cience Establishment.Among miscellaneous gifts may be mentioned two specimens o f

gold ore from the Mo ther Lode,Calif .

,and one of the White Pine

County,Nev .

,scheelite, received from W. J Loring

, S an Francisco ,Calif. ; examples of crude tale of unusually fine quality from DeathValley

,sent by the Pacific Minerals Chemical Co .

,Glendale

,Calif. ;

bauxite from British Guiana,donated by the D emerara Bauxite

Cc .

,Phi ladelphia ; a specimen of a sandstone used as a pulp

stone in grinding woo d for paper making,contributed by the Inter

national Paper Co .,New York C ity ; and a sandrock used for

va rious industrial purposes,by the National S ilica Co .

,O regon

,Ill.

Ah exceptionally la rge example of fil amentous basalt,Pele’

s hair,from Kil auea Crater , Hawaiian Islands, was presented by Prof. T . A .

Jaggar through Dr . H. S . Washington,and fou r specimens of an

unusual form o f lava from the eruption of a vo lcano in San Salvadorin 1 91 7, together with photographs o f the region, were received fromBartho lomew McIntire

,San Francisco , through the Department of

State.

But four addi tions to the meteorite collection were recorded during

° the year. These comprised two examples of the Forsyth County ,N C.

,iron

, and one of the Chinautla , Guatemala , by exchange w ithWard’s Natural S cience Establishment ; a fragment o f the Troup ,Tex .

,stone

,deposited by the University of Texas ; and a piece weigh

ing 75 pounds cut from a 475-pound mass of iron found in OwensValley

,Calif

,in 1 91 3

,by Mr . Lincoln Ellsworth

,o f New Yo rk C ity .

The extent of the mineral collection was materially increased. A

large number of new or rare species,including fine examples o f


precious opal from Nevada, a suite of rare sulphosal ts from the Bin

nenthal,Switzerland , and miscellaneous minerals , chiefly from for

eign sources, were obtained through exchange with Ward’s NaturalS cience Establishment . In a like manner were added a number o fItalian minerals, received from Prof. Alberto Pelloux , Genoa ; miscel l aneous minerals from Califo rnia , including some rare sulphatesand an attractive exhibition specimen of beautifully crystall izedpink halite from Searles Lake, received from Mr . M . Vonsen

,Peta

luma,Cal if. ; interest ing lead and vanadium minerals sent by Mr .

C. A. Heberlein,Supai, Ariz . ; and a collection of the unusual z eo

lites from North Table Mountain, near Golden, Colo .,received from

the School of Mines at Golden.

The Rainbow Ridge Mining Cc .

,through Mr. Archie Rice, New

Yo rk City,presented a suite of precious opal from their mines in

Humboldt County,Nev . These show the variations in the coloring

o f the Opal,ranging from the very dark on

“ black ”opal to the

palest opalescent tints. The collection forms a part of an exhibitcomposed entirely of opals in the matrix.Additional accessions of note include the following gifts : Ra recopper minerals from Chuquicamata , Chile, presented by Guggenheim Bros

,New York City ; exceptional specimens of wo lframite

,

by J F . Aguilar Revoredo,Oruro

,Bolivia

,and of the rare mineral

hewettite,by A. O. Egbert

,Prescott

,Ariz . ; sphenomanganite and

catopt rite from Sweden,new to the collections

,by Col . W. A. Roe

bling,Trenton

,N. J inyo ite from New Brunswick

,by E . J Arm

strong,Erie

,P a . ; a large specimen of bismuthini te, by W. H. Wey

her,Alta

,Utah

,and an exceptional specimen of sphalerite

,by C . H.

Short,S alt Lake C ity

,both obtained through the effort s of Mr . Vic

to r C. Heikes ; a large group of fluorspar cryst als, by the DiamondF luorspar Co.

,Karbers Ridge, Ill. ; described specimens of augite

and apthital ite, by Dr. Henry S . Washington ; and several exampleso f semiprecious stones

,by F . M . Myrick

,Johannesburg, Calif.

A most impo rtant addition to the collection of gems and gem

minerals was afforded by the acquisition, through the Frances LeaChamberla in fund

,of 56 cut and uncut tourmalines from Mesa

Grande,Calif . The out forms include both cabochons and facetted

stones and show the rich variety of coloring character istic of thi smineral ; the crystals are of varying sizes

,showing two to th ree

colors in each example. Through the same means were secured 9cabochons of chrysop rase ; 6 blue zircons from Queensland

,Aus

tral ia ; 4 carved jades ; 2 cabochons Of Persian tu rquoise ; 2 cut gemseach of Madagasca r orthoclase and wernerite ; 1 Australian opalcarved in the fo rm of a pansy blossom ; 4 blue and yellow Australiansapphires ; and an Australian opal

,cut cabochon

,weighing


carats. A cut topaz weighing carats was received as a loanfrom Mrs. George P . Merrill .The p rincipal addition to the petrological collection is the ex

tensive and valuable series comp r ising upward of 300 hand specimens of igneous rocks from the islands of the Pacific and IndianOceans , coll ected by the late Dr . Joseph P . Iddings and presentedby his sister

,Mrs. Francis D . Cleveland

,of Cambridge

,Mass. These

,

one regrets to state, have not as yet been fully described . Severalbrief. papers under the joint authorship of Drs. Iddings and

Morely are sufficient to show their interest and impo rtance,but it is

evident much work upon them remains to be done. Including alsothe scientific portion of Dr. Iddings

’s library, a s well as valuable

collections assigned to other departments,this is considered one of

the most notewo rthy accessions of the year .Other additions

,received by transfer from the Geological Survey ,

consist of collections o f rocks from the western New England and

eastern New York lime belt , collected by Prof. T. Nelson Dale,and

miscellaneous rocks from Montana , Colorado , and Washington,col

l ected by Messrs. Hancock,F ishel , and Beekley.

The accessions in the section of invertebrate paleontology are ofespecial interest on account of the wide range of localities repre

sented. China,Australia

,Tunis

,Thrace

,Java

,Philippines

,Hawaii

,

T rinidad,Jamaica

,Haiti

,Colombia

,Argentina , Chile, and Bolivia

are the most prominent of the foreign sources.Perhaps the most valuable of these foreign collections are the

mo lluscan types from Bowden, Jamaica,described by W. P . Wood

ring and deposited by Johms Hopkins University,and important

acquisitions o f fossil invertebrates and plants collected in China byProf . George D . Louderback

,of the University of California . Large

coll ections from Haiti , the result of surveys being made for theHaitian Government under the ‘direction of the Geological Survey

,

through which inst itution they were presented by the Haitian Republic

,must also be mentioned

,as well as a valuable lot of Tertiary

fossils from Australia,received as an exchange from the National

Museum,at Melbourne.

Additions to the Cambrian collections are comprised in threeaccessions . About specimens

,collected and studied by Secretary

Walcott,were deposited by the Smithsonian Institution ; approxi

mately from the Upper Cambrian of Wisconsin, received as agift from Dr.W. O. Hotchkiss, S tate geologist, were secured throughthe efforts of Dr . E . O. Ulrich to supplement the monographic studiesby himself and Dr . C . E . Besser ; and 332 specimens from LancasterCounty

,P a .

,were presented by Dr. H. Justin Roddy , of Millers

ville,Pa.


Approximately specimens o f S ilur ian and Devonian fossilsfrom Maine

,representing the final shipment of collections made by

the late Prof. H. S . Williams,have been transferred from the Geo

logical Su rvey. The collections from these horizons have beenfurther supplemented by valuable and much-needed materials se

cured through three exchanges with Raymond R . Hibbard,of Buf

falo,N. Y.

Additional notewo rthy accessions are : An especiall y selected l otof Carboniferous foraminifera , gift of Hon. Charles H. Morrill

,

Lincoln,Nebr. ; a large collection containing many new species , par

ticul arl y of fossil sponges and trilobites,from a hitherto unrepre

sented a rea in Nevada , received in exchange from Mr . H. G . Clinton,

Manhattan,Nev . ; and a large slab of fossiliferous O rdovician lime

stone from southwestern Ohio,obtained by the cu rato r for exhibi

tion purposes .

By far the most important accession to the section o f vertebratepaleontology is a collection of more than a hundred specimens o fverteb rate remains

,mostly mammalian

,representing a new Pliocene

fauna of 30 or more species,obtained by Mr. J W. Gidley

,wo rking

under the jo int auspices o f the National Museum and the GeologicalSurvey . The col lection includes basic material for two skeletonresto rations

, one of a little-known species of mastodon, the other anew species of Glyptotherium . Mr. Gidley also collected from the

bone quarry at Agate, Nebr. , a block or slab,by 33, feet , and

1 4 inches thick,weighing upward of pounds

,and containing

numerous fossil bones,most ly of the little two-horned rhinoceros

D iceratherium cooki .

Mr . C. W. Gilmore,while investigating certain fossiliferous areas

in New Mexico,noted elsewhere

,secu red interesting° mammalian

Of the mate rials acquired by exchange,mention may be made of

a fossil turtle,Bystm nanus

,a rare specimen and the type of the

genus,received from the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences ; a

disarticul ated skull and lower j aws of the crested dinosaur Stephanosaurus

,the first representative of this reptile to be secu red for the

national collections ; part of a skull and lower jaw of a Pleistoceneelephant from an unknown locality

,and an elephant tooth from

Otranto,Italy

,received from Ward’s Natural S cience Establish

ment ; approximately 200 specimens o f Pleistocene mammals from a

cave deposit near Coconino County,Ar iz.

,received from the Uni ~

versity of Arizona ; and two skulls of D icera themlum cooki and castsof two Permian reptile skulls from the University of Chicago .

The lower jaw of a Pleistocene mastodon from near Yazoo C ity,

Miss,gift o f the Yazoo Commercial Club ; a j awbone with teeth

intact o f the fossil shark , E destus her’

mfl chsu,gift of the Southern


Coal , Coke Mining Cc .

,S t. Louis

,Mo . ; and a fossil elephant skul l

,

acquired by purchase,are additional accessions wo rthy of note . Men

tion may also be made o f the acquisition of an o riginal oil paintingof a life restoration o f the flying reptile Ornithostoma which .was

deposited by the Smithsonian Institution.

Of p rime impo rtance among° the accessions to the section o f

paleobotany are la rge collections from the Eocene fo rmations o f

southeastern No rth America,described and figured by E . W. Berry

in Pro fessional Papers of the United S tates Geological Survey .

Following these should be noted gifts o f unusually well-p reservedexhibition and study specimens from Malheur County

,Oreg.

,and

Coeur d’Al ene,Idaho

,the fo rmer presented by Mr. Sam Ballantyne

,

Bo ise,and the latter by Henry J Rust

,Coeur d’Al ene

,Idaho .

Valuable material was also included in the extensive collection fromChina received from Professo r Louderback

,mention of which is

made above.

E xp l om tz’

ons anal expedition8 .— Explo rations were confined wholly

to the division of paleontology . The field season of 1 920 was spentas usual by Secretary l Va l cott in the Canadian Rockies. His wo rkhad for its object the determination o f the character and extent o fthe great interval of nondeposition of sedimentary rock- formingmaterial along the Front Range of the Ro ckies west o f Calgary

,

Alberta,and the clear ing up of the relations of the summ it and base

of the great Glacier Lake section of 1 91 9 to the geological fo rma

tions above and below . Ea rly in July wo rk was begun along theGhost R iver northeast of Banff ; the Rocky Mountain front wasstudi ed and among its cl ifi

’

s a new fo rmation of Lower MiddleCambrian age was determined . F orty miles north of Lake Louisea geological section was studied in detail that tied in the base o f

the Glacier Lake section with the Middle and Lower Camb rianformations. Proceeding to the upper valley of the Clear Wate rRiver

,a most perfectly exposed series of limestones

,shales

,and sand

stones of Upper Cambr ian and later formations was found,which

cleared up the relations of the upper po rt ion of the Glacier Lakesection to the Ordovician formations above.

Du r ing° July,1 920

,and again in January, 1 92 1 , Cu rator Bassler

was engaged in the p reparation of casts of type specimens o f fos

sils in the Walker Museum,University of Chicago , in continua

tion of plans to attain for the national co llections their p roper com

pleteness by having represented al l available type specimens. The

casting° o f a l l the Devonian, Mississippian, and Pennsylvanian typesin the Walker Museum ,

amounting to some thousands o f specimens,was accomplished du ring these two V isits .Dr . E . O. Ulrich

,of the Geological Survey, associate in paleon

to l ogy, continued his field researches on the Cambrian and Ordo



masses of mo lybdenum ore has recently been inst alled,and an in

st ructive addition made by Mr . Shannon to the economic series inthe form of weighed samples of some of the more important ores

,

each of which is accompanied by samples of its constituent elementsin their relative po rtions . The saline series has been greatly imp roved by the addition of materials collected in California. by Mr .

F oshag. To make space for a co llection of o res from Argentina,a

series of mercu ry-antimony ores from Huitzuco ,Mexico,was removed

from exhibition .

Information sufficient for the disposition o f some 250 boxes o f miscel l aneous material st ored for the Geological Survey in the summero f 1 91 9 having been received from the Director

,the task o f assorting

them was undertaken and carried out so far as the identity o f the

boxes could be definitely determined. This proved bo th tedious anddifficul t owing to careless and incomplete labeling. A part of theboxes were returned to the survey

,some turned over to various sur

vey men located in the National Museum,and 1 28 boxes were acces

sioned as a transfer . Of the last named but a small p roportion hasas yet been unpacked . The work goes slowly since much of the ma

terial is in such a condition that the disposition of each lot requi rescareful consideration

,and in many cases can not be made w ithout

thorough invest igation and consultation with the survey collectors .Where decision is possible the mate rial has either been rejected asunsuitable for museum purposes or has been catalogued and incorporated in the co llections .Two cases supplementing the collection of gems have been added to

the exhibits in the mineral hall. One of these contains gem mineralsin the matr ix or as found in nature ; the other illustrates the varietiesand occurrence of precious opal .Incidental to the V isit of Madame Curie the exhibit illustratingradio-activity was mate r ially enlarged and reinstalled in two casesat the east end of the mineral hall , where it is more attractive as wellas more instructive than as formerly displayed .

The study series of minerals has been entirely overhauled,cleaned ,

and rearranged . A number o f specimens were t ransferred to otherseries

,and the drawer labels improved to facilitate the ready location

of specimens. The duplicate collection has likewise been overhauledand a large amount of wo rthless material discarded. Several hundred petrographical specimens selected from old sets broken up havebeen incorporated in the study series of rocks.The great influx of new collections to the section of invertebratepaleontology has required continued rearrangement of the studyseries in order to accommodate the new material . Much time has tobe spent each year in this purely manual labor

,but condensation and

elimination of duplicates is necessary since the collections at present


nearly fil l the available space . The Cambrian co llections under thecharge of Secretary Walcott were so condensed du ring the year thatan enti re room in the Smithsonian building,

° was made available forother purposes. Assistant Curato r Besser has also reduced the Cambrian collections housed in the Museum Building until they now

occupy the minimum o f space and still remain ac cessible.

S imilar work on the post-Camb rian Paleozo ic collections has beenca r ried on by Cu rato r Bassler . Additional space affo rded by thetransfer of a number of steel cases from the department of anthro

pol ogy hasmade possible the w ithdrawal of al l material f rom sto rage,

so that al l collections are now easily accessible. Lack of time,how

ever,has p revented completion of the ar rangement of large col lec

tions of Devonian inverteb rates known as the Williams co llection,

although Doctor Besser has devoted considerable time to this wo rk.

The preparation and cl assification of 1 0 boxes of Cambr ian and

O rdovician fossils forwarded by the Canadian Geological Surveyfor study by Secretary Walcott occupied about two months of Docto rResser’s time.

The Mesozo ic co llections have as heretofore been ca red for byD r . T. W. S tanton

,Dr . W. H. Dall has kept the biologic collections

of the Cenozo ic series up to their usual high standard , and Dr . T. W.

Vaughan has cared for the numerous large accessions secu red throughhis activities.

Miss Jessie Beach, aid, has assisted in al l work on both the exhibi

tion and study ser ies where literary and clerical help were required.

Her duties have included reading of proo f,preparation o f manu

script , registering and numbering specimens , and general routinework of the division.

The preparation of photographic material for il lustration, particul ar ly of fossil insects, cephalopods, and protozoans, o ften microscopic , has as heretofore devo lved onMessrs. Bassler and Besser

,and

been executed with their customary skill and taste.

In addition to the cleaning° and rear ranging necessary every yearexhibition work in the section has included the preparation of a

mount illust rating an Ordovician sea beach ; an exhibit o f fossil insects occupying one-half of an up right case ; and wo rk toward theimprovement o f the stratigraphic exhibit of Paleozoic faunas. The

forms are often small and so inconspicuous to the average visito rthat in many cases enlarged photographs are now introduced withthe specimens. Experience has shown that a picture ca lls attentionto the descriptive label and this to the fossil itself .Dr . Frank Springer has selected from his collection an instructive

and showy biological series of fossil crinoids, an exhibit which occu

pies two entire cases,and which can not be surpassed in any museum .


Several additions to the exhibits of fossil vertebrates resulted fromthe wo rk in that section during the year . A skeleton o f Brachycem

tops montanensis,unique in being the smallest horned -dinosaur yet

discovered, forms a most interesting addition ' to the exhibits illustrative o f the Ceratopsia . Mr. N. H. Boss is to be highly commendedfor the excellence of the mount, which in some respects proved to be 1

a most difficul t subject. It might also be mentioned that the National Museum now has mounted skeletons of the small est as wellas the largest individuals of this race o f dinosau rs

, and, indeed , theonly ones of thei r kind in any museum in the wo rld (pl . 2 )Mr . Boss also prepared the skeleton of the smallest lizard , S amma

ensz'

deozs,the type specimen, which had been in the Museum ' for the

past 50 yea rs in the condition as received from the fiel d and describedby Leidy. Instead of consisting of but a few bones, the specimen

was found to have the greater part of the skull,the backbone

,and

numerous other bones preserved. This is a most important specimen °

from a historical standpo int, being the first Varanid lizard to be described from North Amer ica ; also , it is now known to be the mostperfect skeleton of its kind as well a s the most ancient .The wo rk of mounting the skeleton of the fossil wo lverine

,Gul o

,

from the Cumberland cave deposit,reported as under prepa ration

last year, has been completed by Mr . Ho rne, as has also that ,of a com

posite mount of a bear . There are now on exhibition three skeletonmounts from the material collected from this deposit several yearsago by Mr. Gidley (pl .Mr. Home has also completed mounts o f the skulls o f Monocl onius

776 q and E lephas prionrigenius and cleaned and restored the miss

ing° part s of eight large Oreodont skulls from the Miocene of Oregon.

A number of Titanothere skulls have been prepared for use in a

special exhibit comprising some 26 individuals now being installedin a new case in the southeast corner o f the exhibition hal l . Mountsfor mo re than half of these are made , and thework iswell under way. .

Mr . Barrett was engaged for the entire year in preparatory repairwork , chiefly on specimens from the study collections. Spec ial mention should be made o f the complete overhauling o f the many traysof miscellaneous Titanothere materials. S cattered parts of individual s were assembled

,broken bones repaired

,and the mater ial ar

ranged in standard trays in the steel cases,thus rendering them

easily accessible. Several hundred individual bones of the Cumberland cave material

,several small collections received from the United

S tates Geological Survey,a large cetacean sku ll from the diatom de

posits of California,numerous Ceratopsian fragments

,and a consid

erable portion of a wolf skeleton have also received attention.


Mr .Gidley has continued his systematic a r rangement of the Fort

Union mater ials, adding about 200 to the identified and 450 to thecatalogued lists of this collection.

S ince the resignation of Mrs. Stelle, the position of aid in paleobotany has remained vacant . Messrs. Bassler and Resser have therefo re been obliged to look after the wo rk o f this section. Exhibition

wo rk has dealt ma inly w ith the biologic series occupying° the longwall case in the paleobotanical hall . This exhibit , now well advanced ,illustrates the biologic relationships of fossil plants, and

,supple

mented by ample descriptive labels and numerous diagrams and pho

tographs, shows adm irably the evolution o f these organisms. MissBeach has assisted in the cataloguing and numbering° of the new ac

quisitions in the section.

P resent condition of the co l lections.— The mineral collection,

though ranking but third among° those o f the public museums of thecountry

,is nevertheless entitled to almost first consideration on ac

count of the method of display. As in the year past , the gem po rtionof this collection has been under the immediate supervision of MissMa rgaret Moodey, to whose taste is due much of its attractiveness.This collection has greatly p rospered through the Chamberlain en

dowment . Were it necessary to emphasize the desirability of havinga perfectly definite specified sum from which could be drawn imme

diatel y funds for purchase, it is here offered . Among the entireser ies the opals have perhaps profited the most . The collection as a

who le is fairly balanced,though natu rally lacking as complete a

series of diamonds,rubies, sapphires, and other expensive stones as

might be w ished.

Little has been added to the exhibition series in physical and

chemical geology,the petrographical series and the collections of

la rger materials groupedu nder the heads of rock-weathering, gl acia

tion,vulcanism

,etc.

,remaining practically unchanged from last

year . The meteorite exhibit has received several important additions as listed below :

Grams .

Appley Bridge, E ngland ( stone ) 590

0 1 6850 1b W s. ston0 y 1 e )

1 956

Forsyth County , N . 0 . ( i ron ) figOwens Valley , Ca lif. ( iron )Troup , Texas ( stone ) _ 1 1 5

Yenberrie , Austral ia ( i ron )

The collection,though ranking but third among the public collee

tions in America, ,is nevertheless one of great impo rtance on account

o f the unusually la rge propo rtion o f stones whi ch have been the

subject of systematic investigation . The total number o f falls and

finds now represented is 490 .

92 RE PORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM ,1 921 .

As a whole,the exhibition co llections throughout the department

are now in good order,although there are impo rtant gaps . This is

particularly the case in vertebrate paleonto logy,where there is need

o f skeletal remains of some o f the larger reptilian forms. The studyser ies in all divisions are in good order and accessible

,and the cata

l ogues are well up to date.

R esearclwa — The Head Curator has continued his studies on

meteo rites and has completed,for the time being

,researches on

chondritic structure and metamorphism.

For the first time in the history of the depa rtment there has beenmade— at least begun— a systematic attempt at determining the

mineralogical nature of the ore collections. Heretofo re,owing to

lack o f assistance,it has been possible to classify these collections

only according to the principal metal they carried,regardless of its

fo rm of combination. Mr . Shannon has attacked the problem withenergy

,skill

,and intelligence

,and

,

in connection with his work hasnot merely discovered minerals new to the localities , but in severalinstances new to science. Andorite

,not previously known from

America,has been found to constitute silver ore from Nevada , and

lead ores from Colo rado have been found to consist of phosgeniteand strontium-bearing cerussite. Mr . Shannon has also made a de

tailed study of the black sands of Idaho , disclosing many new and

unusual facts regarding them . Crystallographic investigations on

datolite,V ivianite

,and boulangerite have been published or are

process of publication. Chemical examinations of four new mineralspecies

,owyheeite

,nyeite, higginsite, and orientite

,have been com

pleted, and ludwigite from several localities has been investigated .

The mineral col lbranite has been proven identical with ludwigite.

The division of mineralogy has likewise prospered under the con

ditions existing during the past two yea rs . Assistant CuratorF oshag has tho roughly overhauled and rea rranged the mineral collection, and co r rected and b rought up to date the card catalogueof the same. He has also

,incidentally

,analyzed and described sev

eral minerals,some of which were new to science. Among these

mention may be made of plazolite, a new mineral , creedite, and anumber of the borate minerals. He has under investigation the

minerals microlite,eakl eite

,a new mineral from California

,and

some rare lazu rite-bearing rocks,also from California .

With the departu re of Mr . F oshag, work on the petrographicseries must come to a stop. This is greatl y to be regretted sincethere are thousands of specimens which need assorting , a portionto be reserved , a portion held for duplicates, and still another portion to be rejected. This is a work which can be done only by one

with some petrographic training. The work is falling more and

mo re behind yearly and unless we are more fo rtunate in holding our



Mr . J W. Gidley’s long absence in the fiel d p revented the com

pletion o f his researches on the Fo r t Union Pr imates. However, hisstudies are nearing an end

,and he hopes to present the results fo r

publication in a short time. Some progress has also been made on

the study o f the Cumberland Cave carnivo res .Within the yea r

,347 lots of material have been sent in from vari

ous sources for determination. No inconsiderable amount of time isspent in this work . In the maj ority of cases

,a laboratory test is

necessary to determine the nature of the material,and when fossils

are submitted,one lot o ften consists of a number of forms which

frequently require careful study. Incidentally,the clerical work

necessary to keep t rack o f these,and in writing the repo rts , is a con

siderab le item in the day’s work. In addition to this,and aside from

inquiries which come direct to members of the staff, 484 letters frompersons seeking information on various subjects have passed throughthe office w ithin the yea r .Various students outside the staff have engaged in researches on

the collections,particularly the paleontological . Dr. Augu st F .

F oerste,

‘

of Dayton, Ohio , spent the summer of 1 920 in a study o f

S ilurian cephalopods and O rdovician trilobites ; Dr. Arthur Hol l ick

has been engaged for a part o f the year studying° the Alaskan flo ras ,under the auspices of the United S tates Geological Survey . MissWinifred Go ldi‘ ing, of the New York S tate

‘Museum ; Prof. E . W.

Berry,of Johns Hopkins University ; D r . Ralph Chaney

,of the

University of Cali fornia ; and Dr. G. R . Wieland,of Yale University

,

have likewise beeri students of the plant collections . Mr . A. S .

Romer,o f Co lumbia University

,New York

,studied our Permian

reptilian and amphibian materials in connection with his thesis on

comparative myology ; Mr . Childs Frick,of New York

,spent some

time in looking over our Equus specimens in connection with hisstudies of the P acific coast Pliocene and Pleistocene faunas ; and Mr .

Remington Kellogg,of the Biological Survey

,studied certain of our

cetacean materials as an aid to his investigations of the P acific coastCetacea. It might be said that aside from the advantage to the

student,the help of these va rious speciali sts is of very great benefit

to the collections.Messrs. P a l ache

,of Harvard University

,and Hewett and Larsen

,

o f the Geological Survey , have collabo rated on sundry, occasionswith Messrs. Shannon and F oshag, as will appear in their publications. Cooperation with the Maryland Geological Survey is shownin the forthcoming S ilur ian volume o f that o rganization

,a wo rk

which has resulted in the acquisition of many type specimensby the National Museum . Mr. Bruce Wade

,of the Geo logical Sur

vey of Tennessee,has studied and described the Museum’

s large co l

lection of Cretaceous fossils from that State ; Dr. 0 . P . Hay has

RE PORT or NATIONAL MUSEUM,1 921 . 95

continued his descriptive wo rk on American Pleistocene faunas ; andmany other specialists, among whom may be mentioned FerdinandCanu

,Versailles

,F rance ; Dr . M . A . Howe

,New Yo rk Botanical

Gardens ; Dr . J A. Cushman,Boston Society of Natural History ;

Prof. T. D . A . Cockrell,Boulder

,Colo . ; and

,Dr . R . T . Jackson,

Peterboro,N. H.

,have collaborated by their studies .

Mr . A. Rodolfo Mart inez,of the Geo logical Institute o f Mexico

,

has been wo rking in the labo ratory studying methods of mineralogical and petro logical research .

D istri bu tiona — Exchanges predominated in the distributions madeduring the year. These were comprised in 41 shipments with an

aggregate of specimens and 374 pounds o f mater ial in bulk.

Eleven specially prepared lots, comp r ising,° 447 specimens

,were sent

out as gifts,and 61 2 individual specimens

,with the addition of 1 50

pounds of magnetite,were transmitted in 20 shipments to special

students and institutions for investigation or experimental work.

In addition,23 sets o f ores and minerals

,3 sets illustrating rock

weathering° and so il formation,and 3 sets of invertebrate fossils , ag

gregating specimens,were distributed to schoo ls.

Total number of specimens in the depar tment — It is impossibleto give with even approximate accuracy the number of specimens ina collection of this nature. It is estimated

,however

,that the co l l ec

tions of the several divisions yield a total of not less thanspecimens . No statement as to the number of duplicates includedcan possibly be made.

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98 RE PORT or NATIONAL MUSEUM,

The silk collection was increased by seven specimens of noveltysilk fabrics woven at Hazelton ,

P a .

,the gift of the Duplan S ilk

Co rporation,New York City. These compr ise beautiful piece and

cross-dyed combinations of silk and artificial silk,woven with

hard-twisted c repe ya rns and slack-tw isted novelty yarns in plain,

satin, and twill weaves .In acco rdance w ith the plan of preserving as

‘

an Historical recordal l types of equipment and apparatus used in the War with Germany

,the Museum obtained by transfer from the Di recto r o f Air

Service,specimens of the airplane fabrics used in the construction

and equipment of airplanes for military use. These included twogrades of imported Irish linen manufactured in accordance w ithBritish Ai r Board specifications, and the best grades of cottonairplane cloth and balloon cloth . These wonderful

“

fabrics weremade in America from sea - island

,cotton of not less than one

and one half inch st aple.

“

The airplane cotton weighs about 4ounces to the square yard

,is mercerized

, and looks like fine silkpoplin . The D irector of the Air Service, through the MaterialD isposal and Salvage Division, sold a suipl us of these fabrics

,

amounting to many hundred thousand yards, to the public and tomanufacturers . In order to demonstrate to the dry goods tradehow the cotton airplane and balloon fabrics could be used , some of

it was“ converted ” into dress and drapery f abrics by bleaching

,

dyeing,or printing, The converteda irpl ane fabr ics were also sold

to the public,and samples of these were included in the specimens

transferred to the Museum .

The Museum is indebted to' Mr . T. J Keleher

,of ' Washington,

D . C .

,for a Biker mount of a series of entomological specimens

exhibiting the life cycle of the silkworm moth .

The collection of hand-woven and hand-worked textiles was aug

mented by a number of interesting specimens acquired by gift,loan

,

or purchase. To Miss Em-S idell S chroeder , o f Washington, the

Museum is indebted for the gift o f a fine specimen'

of tied and dyedwork in the shape o f a

“ Shikar made ‘ in Rajputana ,India . This has onl y a part of the strings removed , and shows themethod of tying the cotton fabric to enable po rtions of it to resistthe dye and so develop the intended pattern. Miss S chroeder alsocontributed two specimens of hand weaving done at the

‘WashingtonHandicraft S chool , and a bark cloth pillow cover . An old blue and

white double-woven coverlet was received by'

exchange from Mrs .

M . W. Gil l of Washington,D . C. Two patchwork ' quil ts, repre

senting a form of needlework which was once'

a popular househo ld

art , but is now fast passing away,were received during the year.

One, of silk

,loaned to the collections by Mrs . A; F . Graham

,o f

Washington, D . C .

,presents good examples of patchwo rk , quilting,


and hand embro idery ; the other , a cotton quilt , interesting becauseof its o ld, English landscape chintz lining , was obtained fromMiss Edith C. Long , also of Washington

,D . C.

Our collection of Cashmere shawls has been augmented by the loan

of an interesting° specimen from Mrs. Louise E . Hogan,Neponsit ,

Long Island,N. Y.

,which represents a quality unlike those heretofo re

received , and for this reason is a valuable acquisition,as this class

o f art textiles presents a large field for study,because of the w ide

variety of design,color

,and quality of yarn used in the manufacture

o f these shawls .

Examples of the interesting textile fabrics woven by the Mo ros of

the Lake Lanao region of the Island of Mindanao,in the southern

part o f the Philippine Archipelago,were loaned to the Museum by

Lieut . Co l . F . W. Brown,Washington

,D . C . The 26 specimens of

Mo ro weaving include b right-co lo red plaid squares of cotton for

headdresses ; long, st riped cotton scarfs or sashes ; and al l cotton ,and

co tton and silk sa rongs in gay stripes of blue,red

,green

,yellow

,

and magenta . Several o f these fabrics showed wide str ipes wovenwith warp threads which had been tied and dyed

,giving beautiful

mottled or clouded effects.

Examples of the household crafts o f ea rlier days,consisting of a

spinning wheel of the type used to spinwoo l and cotton yarns ; a homemade

,feu r -arm clock reel for reeling the spun yarn into the skeins

or cuts of uni fo rm length required for warping the old hand looms ;three homemade baskets woven from aspen and w illow sprouts grownin Virginia ; two candle molds ; and a bundle of dressed raw flax whichwas grown in Fai rfax

,Va .

,soon after the CivilWar , were contributed

by Mrs. Charles R . Weed,o f Seat Pleasant

,Md .

The National Museum is indebted to Mrs. M . W. Gill,of Wash

ington, for the deposit o f a Florence lock-stitch sew ing machine,

which will be added to the series of sewing machines illustrating thedevelopment of this most useful invention, the first o f which to sew

a seam by machinery is the Howe machine o f 1 845.

In the division of medicine, the most important accession o f the

year was the deposit of an automatic tablet machine by the ArthurCo lton Co . , of Detroit, Mich . Comp ressed tablets are now used to an

eno rmous extent in medicine,being made with machinery of in

genious construction. The fact that this class of tablets requires nomedium or vehicle to aid in their administration

,and the ease with

which ‘ they can be tested , as well as their permanent character ( ihmost cases being just as valuable years after they are made as whenfresh ) has made them a Very popular form of medication. This ma

chine is equipped with an electric motor,and will p roduce from one

to three hundred tablets a minute. It will be used to demonstratehow medicated tablets are made.

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Next in importance is the accession covering the contr ibution o f

the H. K. Mulford Co ., of Philadelphia , P a .,

illustrating vaccine andserum therapy. F ew of the present generation are aware of the factthat smallpox , the most terrible of all the ministers of death , kill edat least people in the 1 8th century

,and that in preceding

centuries,about 1 0 per cent of al l deaths were attributable to this dis

ease. Mil lions of the survivo rs weakened, crippled, sightless , al l borehideous t races of the power of this scourge. It was left for a humblevillage doctor , Edward Jenner, in 1 789 to conquer this disease by abit o f V irus on the point of an ivory lancet. It was he who demonstrated to the world that this disease in the cow is mild, while inman it is virulent , and introduced cowpox V irus into the system ofhuman subjects to render them immune from the malignant type.

With compulsory vaccination , Jenner’s discovery has become so effec

tive that many active physicians have never seen a case of smallpox.

The average person knows comparatively little about this wonderfuldiscovery and the manner in which one of the greatest scourges tomankind was conquered. An exhibit has been arranged in a mannerwhich tells something of the history of the di scovery ; the terribleefiects of the disease ; the trifling inconvenience of vaccination ; andthe modern sanitary methods of procu ring the V irus

,etc

Another valuable medical di scovery was that o f the antitoxicproperty of the blood serum of animals immunized by the inoculation of bacterial toxins. The principle of this discovery

,which was

made in 1 890 by Behring and Kitasato,is that the blood serum of a

subject whi ch has recovered from an attack of a communicable disease caused by bacter ia when transferred to another subject willrender the latter immune. S ince this discovery

,antitoxins for the

p rophylactic and curative treatment of diphtheria and lockj aw havebeen included in the United S tates Pharmacopoeia. All serums areobtained in p ractically the same manner , and so an educational exbi bit was a r ranged to give the public a better understanding of thetheory and principles of serum therapy. The subject o f

‘

diphtheria

was chosen to illustrate in detail , and there follows exhibits relatingto lockj aw

,pneumonia

,and cerebrospinal meningitis. By means of

charts,photographs

,and specimens Museum V isito rs are shown how

the bacteria which cause these diseases are grown in Loeffler’s bloodserum ; the manner of injecting these organisms into horses ; how theimmunized horses are bled ; steps in obtaining the blood serum ; testsfor pur ity with fil led syringes ready for administration ; and mor

tality tables showing the decrease in fatalities from these diseasessince this discovery.

That hay fever is the result of pollen irritation is now an acceptedfact

,and the protein sensitization theory has received a great deal


1 02 REPORT or NATIONAL MUSEUM ,1 921 .

indebted to the following companies which have donated the materialfor this exhibit : Powers-Weightman-Rosengarten Co . , Philadelphia ,P a .

,20 specimens of medi cinal chemicals ; E . R . Squibb Sons , New

York City,1 5 pharmaceutical preparations ; McKesson Robbins

(Inc. New York C ity,1 1 medicinal substances ; Eli Lilly Co . ,

Indianapolis , Ind.,1 0 pharmaceuticals ; Dodge Olcott Co .,

New

York C ity,6 medicinal oils ; S chieffelin Co .

,New York

,N. Y.

,

6 pharmaceutical products ; Parke, Davis Cc .

,Detroit

,Mich .

,5

medicinal substances ; Armour Cc .,Chicago

,Ill ., 2 animal products .

The disguising of disagreeable medicines is a problem which haslong taxed the ingenuity of doctors and pharmacists . With adultsthe task is comparatively -easy, and is accomplished by sneaking themedicinal substance past the pal ate, coatedwith gelatin, sugar , chocolate, etc . But in the case of children it is difficult. By instinct theyobject to disagreeable medicines , and due to the natural inclinationto disintegrate food , usually hold a pil l , capsule, or tablet in the

mouth until the purpose of the coating is defeated . Dr. BernardF antus

,professor of pharmacology and therapeutics, College of

Medicine, University of Illinois , has devoted a great deal o i. attentionto the matter of candy medication for children,

his object being,° to so

incorporate medicinal substances in fats and sugars that they maybe dissolved in the mouth as candy without disagreeable taste or odorbeing detected. Doctor P antus visited the Museum during the weekof the meet ing of the Pharmacopoeial Convention, at which timehe consented to furnish material to illustrate this form of medication.

The specimens donated by him for this purpose consist of 6 coloredfat sugars used as the base in which to incorporate the medi cines

,

and 43 specimens attractive to children and free from disagreeableodor and taste.

Many interesting and valuable articles showing the progress anddevelopment of medicine and pharmacy were received during theyear. The Wh ital l Tatum Co .

, Philadelphia , Pa.,donated 1 4 speci

mens consisting of liquid measures,a suppository mold and ma

chine, a tablet mold and machine,an emul sifier

,prescription sieve,

and pil l tile. Mr .W. deC. Ravenel,United S tates National Museum

,

contributed an o ld balance of the type used in drug stores 40 or 50years ago . The National College of Pharmacy

,Washington

,D . C .

,

through the dean, Dr. H. E . Kalusowski,presented the Museum with

a supposito ry mold made by James Dominic O’D onnel l , o f Washington, D . C.

, previous to 1 873, which is believed to be the first oneever used for making suppositories by compression. One o f the

first instruments ever used for throwing a finely divided spray fo rmedical purposes

,consisting of a rubber bulb 4 inches long

,and a

metal bottle 2 inches long with connecting metal parts,was made by

Asahel M . Shurtleff, of Codman Shurtleff,makers of surgical in

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struments,Boston, Mass , about August 27 1 871 . This old atomizer

was contributed to the Museum by Mr. Arthur A. Shurtl efi‘

,of

Boston.

The following° material of an historical nature was received bygift : From the board of trustees o f theUnited S tates PharmacopoeialConvention through Dr . E . Fullerton Cook , chai rman o f the

revision commi ttee,Philadelphia , Pa .

,manuscr ipts

,proofs, and docu

ments relating° to the S ixth,Seventh

, and E ighth Revisions o f the

Uni ted States Pharmacopoeia ; from the United States Pharmaco

poeial Convention through Dr . Murr ay Galt Motter,Wash

ington, D . C., one typewr itten copy of the Proceedings of the Sev

enth,E ighth

,and Tenth Decenni al Conventions ; from Dr . Murray

Galt Motter,Washington,

D . C .

,four photographs of p rominent

members of the American Pharmaceutical Association ; and fromMrs. Frances Long° Taylo r , of Athens , Ga .

,through Miss Katherine

Wootten,Washington, D . C .

, a number o f papers and documentsrelating to the life and career of Dr. Crawford W. Long

,the first

to intentionally p roduce anesthesia by inhalation of sul phur ic etherfor a surgical operation. Mrs . Taylor also loaned DoctorLong’smedica l diplomas and a case of surgical instruments used by him.

In planning the development of the collections of the division, aninteresting featu re was added

,namely

,group representations of the

more important d rugs showing° the several stages in their productionfrom their natural sources. Opium and cinchona were selected tobe rep resented in detail , and the work of obtaining the necessaryspecimens and photographs was completed during the year. The

first item of the fol lowing material received for these exhibits wasprocured by transfer

,and the remainder by gift : Fourteen opium

products from the Bureau of Internal Revenue, T reasury Department ; photographs of poppy cultivation and opium manufactu rewere received from the fo llowing :Mr . J H. Hill

,managing director

of the Ghazipur Opium Facto ry,Ghazipur

,India

,through Mr .

Harold R . Foss, American consul in charge, Calcutta , India ; M r .

Ernest B. Price, V ice consul in charge, Canton, China ; Dr . Lew is R .

Thompson,Shenchowfu

,China

,through the American consulate

,

Changsha,China ; Rev . W. Hartman

,Shenchowfu

,China

,. through

the American consul ate,Changsha

,China . F or the cinchona case

there were received 1 0 specimens of Cinchona suceim bra ba rk f romDr. M . Kerbosch

,directo r of the Government C inchona Plantations ,

Tjinjiroean, Java , Dutch East Indies, through Mr . S . W. Zeverijn,Amsterdam

,Holland.

New exhibits of animal p roducts were arranged during the cou rseof the year

,and the following material was obtained for this pur

pose :Eli Lilly Co .,Indianapolis

,Ind

,donated 6 sheets of co lored

gelatin,1 3 specimens o f el astic capsu les

,and 4 specimens of globules ;

1 04 RE PORT or NATIONAL MUSE UM,1 921 .

9 medicinal substances from the animal kingdom were presented byMcKesson Robbins of New York City ; and the H. K. Mulfo rd Cc .

,Philadelphia

,P a .

,contributed 4 specimens of antitoxin

serum and 1 spec imen of vaccine virus.The Medicinal F o rms exhibit was enhanced by the addition o f

22 photographs contributed by Parke,Davis Co . These pictures

were made especially for the Museum,and illustrate the wo rkings of

a modern pharmaceutical manufactur ing plant. They show the crudedrugs as received from the market ; vacuum driers ; percolators forextracting soluble medicinal constituents ; how pills, tablets , capsules ,and suppositories are manufactured

,counted

,and bottled by machin

ery ; how pastes and ointments are placed in collapsible tubes, etc .

A needlework illustration of enlarged microscopic Views of animalcells , tissues , and blood crystals was presented to the division by Dr .J S . Foote

,p rofessor of pathology

,College of Medicine

,Creighton

University, Omaha , Nebr. Oh this piece of hemstitched linen the

tissues,cells

,and crystals are embroidered in colored silks represent

ing° the hematoxylin and eosin stains . The nuclei are in blue, the

cytoplasm in pink,and

’

the crystals in brown. These cells are ar

ranged around a large Purkinje cell of the cerebellum . The linen hasa l g- inch frame, and is a very unique and interesting piece of work .

A plaster bust and a marble medallion of Dr. Andrew Taylor S tillthe founder of osteopathy, was contributed by Dr. George A. S tillsurgeon in chief of the American S chool of Osteopathy Hospital ,Kirksville

,Mo.

,and are valuable additions to the exhibit which illus

trates the history and principles of osteopathy .

The American Osteopathic Association of Orange,N. J appointed

a committee to cooperate with the Museum in obtaining material tocomplete the exhibit relating to this subject , and there has been re

ceived for this purpose by gift,through Dr. Norman C. Glover

,the

Washington representative of this committee, a small collection ofbooks dealing,

° with osteopathy,photographs

,and an unmounted

human spine.

Old homeopathic medicine cases were contributed by Dr. Mary,

E . Hanks, Chicago , Ill ., and Dr . Lynn A. Mart in,o f B inghamton

,

N. Y.,through Dr. W. A. Dewey , of Ann Arbor, Mich . The case

presented by Doctor Hanks is made in the form o f a book,and is

very interesting. The case donated by Doctor Martin contains twohundredth potencies and was used for many yea rs by Dr. Titus L.

Brown, a well—known homeopathic physician and instructor.

The collections in the section of wood technology , were increasedby a number of accessions of importance. To the office of worksof the British Government

,through S ir Lionel Earle and the Amer i

can ambassador to G reat Britain,the Museum is indebted for the

gift of a most interesting piece of oak timber . This is a la rge sec



f rom selected stock grown by him . This exhibit represents an 1n

dustry that is gaining in importance in the United States,and is

deserving of more recognition.

The importance of the closer utilization of wood as a conservation measu re, and the practicability of laminated wood constructionin the manufacture of a number of articles subject to severe usage ,is shown by a series of 23 specimens of built-up airplane wingribs

,tenpins, duckpins, and shoe lasts , which were received by trans

fer from the Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, Wis.

A moth-proof cedar chest was presented by the Piedmont RedCedar Chest Cc .

,of S tatesville, N. C . This chest

,designed and

built espec ially for exhibition in the National Museum,is devo id of

al l brass trimmings, save the keyhole plate, and is finished with ahigh wax polish , so that nothing has been added to detract fromthe simple beauty of the wood itself.As accessions of importance other than those mentioned undertextiles

,medicine, and wo od techno logy, there should be mentioned

the transfer from the S tates Relations Service of the Departmentof Agriculture

,of an exhibit of over 1 00 examples of canned fruits

,

vegetables, fish , and meats , which has attracted the attention of largenumbers of V isitors. This appetizing array of canned foods wasput up by children according to the col dpack method, and repre

sents a selection from the jars winn ing prizes in 1 7 S tate contestsbetween members of boys and girls canning clubs. The 1 0 bestjars entered in each S tate contest were selected by the State clubleader , and sent to Washington for exhibition in the NationalMuseum

,as an additional honor to the youthful prize winners. These

examples of an important work in food conservation,now being

carried on by children all over the United S tates, represent a greatadvance in canning methods

,and show that home—put-up foodstuffs

which can be shipped about from local to S tate fairs, and acrossthe country to Washington, for exhibition under severe conditionsof light and heat , well deserve the attention they have received in thesection of foods.F ifteen large charts

,showing graphically the composition and

fuel value of important articles of food,were added to the section of

foods,by transfer from the Department of Agriculture. They serve

to further explain the models of 1 00 calorie portions,and the exhibits

showing the principal classes of foods,which were mentioned in a

previous report .The importance of dehydration as a means of conserving a local

surplus of fresh foods,and of avo iding many t ransportation difficul

ties,is b rought to mind by a series of 22 specimens o f dehydrated

California fruits and vegetables,contributed by the Cal adero Prod

ucts Co .

,Atascadero

,Calif .

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A very complete series of specimens illustrating steps in the manufacture and use of the

“ chank ”shell of India

,was contributed by

Dr. Hugh M. Smith,United States Commissioner of Fisheries. This

shell held in veneration by the Hindus , is collected by divers in theGulf of Manar

,off the coast of Travanco re and elsewhere in India,

and has been used from time immemorial for b racelets, armlets,

cha rms,etc.

The Museum’s extensive collection of authentic commercial raw

materials used in American industries was increased by the efforts ofMr . A. E . Carlton

,American consul at Medan

,Sumatra

,who sent

through the S tate Department,eight samples of Hevea rubber

,rep

resenting al l the grades p roduced and sold in that market, includingthe grades most in demand for making automobile tires.Mr. D an P . S teeples

,of Sumner

,Wash

,presented to the Museum

,

a large sheet of so -called fungus paper,

” a wonderfully preservedpiece of the leathery velvet- like mycelium or absorbing organ of a

parasitic fungus, F omesZambia,which is rather common upon Douglas

fir,larch

,pines, and other species of trees in the Northwestern S tates .

Several hundred years ago , a similar material,called surgeons’

fungus,was used as a styptic for stopping bleeding and for binding

wounds,like a plaster.

E XP LORATIONS AND EX PEDIT IONS .

No expeditionsor trips of any great impo rtance were made by anymember o f this division during the year. The International S ilkShow

,held at the Grand Central Palace, New York C ity, February

7 to 1 2,1 92 1

,was attended by thecurator in response to the invita

tion from the management that the National Museum be representedofiicial ly by exhibits and a member of the staff . Advantage wastaken of this opportunity for enlisting the cooperation of the mostimportant manufacturers of silk fabrics in the extension of theMuseum’s exhibits

,resulting in the accession of two valuable groups

of fabrics and the promise of many others.Through the courtesy o f the Hammermil l Paper Co.

,of Erie

,Pa.

,

the assistant curator,section of wood technology

,was enabled to visit

the plant at Erie from May 1 1 to 1 5, 1 92 1 , and study under the mostfavorable conditions the manufacture o f high-grade sulphite paper.As a result of this trip

,two

,separate but closely related series of

specimens are being prepared for the Museum ; one qualitative, showing every step in the manufacture of paper from spruce wood ; theother quantitative, showing the exact amounts of every material required to make 1 00 pounds of bond paper .

WORK OH‘ PRE S E RVING AND INSTALLING COLLE CTIONS .

All of the co llections under the care of the curator have been carefully inspected for insects

,and al l perishable material like wools and


foodstuffs have been fumigated several times. Thi s has meant,how

ever, constant vigilance, as we have to fight not only the usual Mu

seum pest s like the drug-store beetle,Dermestes

,and wool and grain

moths , but recently the cigarette beetle has become a menace and wasfound attacking the tobacco specimens. The o ld exhibit and duplicate collections dating back prior to 1 895 have been carefully goneover

,checked in the catalogues

, and the specimens past usefu lnesswere laid aside for exchange with other institutions and schools orfor condemnation. The catal ogueing of new specimens has been keptup to date, and the installation of new material hasbeen made assoonafter its receipt as was possible. A large part of the time ofone preparator was given to making gummed-letter case labels forthe textile exhibits, a large number of group labels for the medicinalcollections

,and labeling the transparencies in the section of wood

technology,so that the legends may be read by transmitted light.

The examination and indexing of new text ile terms and otherspecial info rmation contained in the large number of trade papersand periodicals received by the sectional libraries of textiles

,woods

,

medicine, and foods has occupied the time of the preparators whennot engaged in other duties . A set of upward of small samplesof North American woods

,which are pieces of the actual wood

specimens experimented upon by Dr. Charles S . Sargent and hisassistants in connection with his report on the forest wealth -

of the

Uni ted S tates for the Tenth Census , which had long been in storage,was gone over carefully by the assistant cu rator , section of woodtechnology, and matched up with the data published by Dr. Sargentin volume 9 of the Tenth Census Report. This very valuable scientific collection of authentic specimens is thus rendered available forthe study and identification of new material .In the division of textiles eight new permanent installations and a

special temporary exhibit were set up during the year. The specialexhibit of live silkworms was installed in the South Hall duringJune 1 3—20

,1 921 . During this period about 300 si lkworms of both

the Italian and Japanese races reached their maturity and spuncocoons. Before the exhibit closed on June 30 moths had emergedfrom most of the cocoons

,so that during° practically the whole 1 8

days the feeding and spinning,° of the silkworms and the activities

of the adult moths could be seen. The public was informed of theexhibit through notices in the local newspapers , which were copiedby papers in Baltimore and Philadelphia

,and its interest in the

subject was evidenced by an increased attendance of V isitors to theArts and Industries Building of over the first week. The

installations included exhibits of cartridge silks,airplane

,and bal

loon fabrics,plushes and velvets , tied and dyed textiles, a rearrange

ment of the series o f early American implements for spinning , reel


1 1 0 RE PORT or NATIONAL MUSE UM ,1 921 .

Medicine ”

; Hippocrates, Father of Medicine ”

; Galen , a notedmedical wr iter

,sometimes called the Father of Pharmacy ”

;

Avicenna,the Arab medical writer , whose teachings were followed

by myriads of medical p ractitioners ; P aracelsus, the founder of

chemical pharmacology and therapeutics ; Vesalius , who did much toadvance the study of anatomy ; Pare, a famous French surgeon ; andEdwa rd Jenner

,the originator o f vaccine therapy

,who extirpated

the loathsome disea se smallpox . These pictures have been framedand labeled and are hung° on the pilasters above the cases on the

east gallery .

A special exhibit of al l the books in the sectional library on the

subject of homeopathy -was arranged for the benefit of the delegatesto the annual meeting of the American Institute of Homeopathy,which was held in this city from June 1 9 to 24, 1 92 1 , and many of thedelegates Visited the Museum for the purpose of seeing this exhibitand the permanent one arranged to illustrate the history and principl es of this school of medicine.

The southeast court containing the wood collections was closed tothe public from January 20 to March 3

,1 92 1

, in order to permitthe installation of the large colored transparencies and bromide eu

l argements showing forest stands, lumbering methods, and woodutilization. Each of the transparencies was labeled on the glass withblack letters

,permitting the title to be easily read from the floor , even

at some distance. A specific title in white letters was put on the

frame below each of the colored bromide enl argements, and four

large general labels , one for each set of 1 2 pictures around the foursides of the gallery

,were mounted above the frame. Upon opening

the wood court to V isitors two bulletin boards were installed,one on

either side of the entrance,on which to put items of public interest

concerning woods and their uses. Other installations include a largesection of British oak from the roof of Westminster Hal l ; the ex

hibit of handmade willow baskets ; an assembling of the Californiaredwood material , including the refinishing of a large 6- foot board ;and the exhibition of a Piedmont redcedar chest.

PRE S ENT CONDITION OF THE COLLE CTIONS .

With the exception of slight fading of certain textile fabrics whichare affected by the light

,and the discoloration of certain food sam

ples due to exposure to light and heat,there has been but very little

deterioration of either the exhibit or study materials . The colleetions in the section of wood technology are also in very good condition.

The exhibition and study series of the division of medicine are

in good condition. It was found necessary to renew the preservingfluid on the specimens comprising the exhibit of organotherapy.

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RE S EARCH AND STUDIE S CARR IE D ON AT THE M US E UM .

F or the benefit of the Mnaeam.— As much time as coul d be spared

from routine work has been given by the curator and one assistantto the preparation of comprehensive technical definitions o f textilefabrics based upon authentic specimens in the Museum’

s collections .This has meant the careful examination of al l available current textile literature, as the techni cal mill and trade terms used in o lderworks of reference are often not in accord with those in current usein the United S tates . Considerable progress has been made towardthe completion of a fabrics glossary based on actual specimens.The use of the Museum’

s col lections and facilities by visitors and

correspondents.— Dr. Arno Viehoever and Mr . J F . Clevenger

,of

the pharmacognosy laboratory o f the Bureau of Chemistry, D e

partment o f Agriculture, made frequent use of the study collectionsin the division o f medicine for identifying and comparing commercial drugs submitted to that laboratory under the food and drugs act .

Dr. H. E . Kalusowski,dean of the college of pharmacy

,George

Washington University,made use of the collections in the study o f

gums and resins.Mr . Samuel D . S tevens North Andover , Mass made use of thecollections in a study of the development o f hand spinning and

weaving in colonial times.One of the pro fessors of the school of medicine, George Washing

ton University,frequently brought his class to the Museum to study

the exhibits in the section of foods .The research director of the trade paper Women’s Wear and hisass istant spent some time studying and sketching the models ofspinning and knitting machinery in the division of textiles for use inthe investigation o f the history of the knitting industry.

Numerous visitors made inquiry at the curator’s office in search ofspecial information suggested by the exhibits

,and made particula r

use of the technical books'

in the sectional library. The curato rfurnished special information on industrial raw materials and theidentification of specimens, from time to time during the year to theBureaus of Chemistry and Plant Industry

,United States Department

o f Agriculture, and to the New York appraiser’s office, T reasuryDepartment. The identification of specimens of fibers and fabrics ,gums

,resins, seeds , and woods, and bibliographical compilations on

various subjects for numerous individuals,both in and out of the

Government service, has been a regular part of the work of thisdivision. He furnished the identification of the cottons and cottonseeds introduced by the Othee of Foreign Seed and Pl ant Introduction and Distribution, Department of Agriculture.

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Several groups of school chi ldren from private and public schoolsof Washington and Alexandria

,Va .

,were given talks on the textile

collections by the curator . He al so arranged for lectures and demonstrations at the Museum to the classes in home economics and textiles at George Washington University and the University of Maryland.

Names of special cooperator8 .— Special thanks are due to Dr.

Murray Galt Motter,librarian of the Hygienic La borato ry

,Wash

ington, D . C. ; to D r . W. A. Dewey,registrar of the homeopathic

medical school,University of Michigan

,Ann Arbor

,Mich . ; Dr.

Caswell A. Mayo and Mr . Charles Gr. Merrell, of Cincinnati , Ohio ;Dr. J Norman Taylor

,chemist

,Fungicide Board, Department of

Agriculture ; Mr . T. J Keleher and Dr. Norman C. Glover, of Washington, D . C.

,for their splendid cooperation in arranging for the

contribution of specimens to the Museum,and for making use of

every opportunity of presenting the needs of the Museum to personsand professional bodies in a position to render assistance.

RE SEARCHE S ELSEWHERE AIDE D BY MUS EUM MATE R IAL.

Dr. H. E . Howe,of the National Research Council

,was furnished

w ith small samples of mercerized cotton, woo l , flax , silk, and artificial

silk for invest igations with the microscope.

The Microchemical Laboratory of the Bureau of Chemistry,De

partment of Agriculture, was also supplied with fiber specimens formicroscopical work.

The firm of Darby Darby,patent attorneys of New York City

,

was furnished a sample of a silk fabric of special construction foruse in a patent investigation.

Mr . M . D . C. Crawford,research edi tor for Women’s Wear

,a

trade publication, was supplied with 1 1 photographs of historicaltextile machinery for use in a study of the development of certainphases of the textile industry .

At the request of the management of the International S ilk E xposition

,held in the Grand Central Palace, New Yo rk City , February

7 to 1 2,1 921

,the Museum loaned to the committee on historic ex

hibit's several specimens concerned with the early manufacture and

use of silk in this country.

DI STR IBUT ION AND EXCHANGE OF S PE C IMEN S .

A set of small samples of American woods,representing 1 8 species ,

were sent as an exchange to the New York State College of Forestry,Syracuse

,N. Y.

,at the request of Dr . H. P . Brown, professor of

wood technology, for use by his graduate students in certain researchwork .


RE PORT ON THE D IVIS ION OF ME CHANICAL TE CHNOLOGY.

By CARL W. MITMAN ,Cura tor .

S tafi.

— In the last annual report it was stated that the goaltoward which this division was bending its effo rts and for which itpossessed the nucleus was a museum of engineering. Some p rogresshas been made toward this end, in that on May 1 , 1 921 , the w riterwas placed in charge of the division of mineral technology and his

title changed to read cu rator,divisions of mineral and mechanical

technology.

” In this capacity he will administer the work o f al l

strictly engineering units of the department of arts and industr ies .In addition to the advantages to be thus gained in the developmento f these phases of the Museum’

s activi ties,the reorganization is ma

terial ly more economical in that the two divisions, which for the past1 0 years have been cared for by a staff in each

,will now be adminis

tered by the w riter aided by two assistant curato rs,one assigned to

mineral technology and one to mechanical technology .

Accessiom .— During the time covered by this report there was a

marked increase in the amount of material received. The totalnumber of accessions is 33 as against 1 3 for the year 1 91 9— 20

,while

the number o f objects is 1 62 against 97 for the previous year.Of these accessions, 25 were gifts, 4 were loans , 1 a transfe r

,and

2 were prepared in the division laboratory. The designation ofthe objects was as follows : 1 22 to transportation and machinery

,

1 7 to metro logy , 6 to firearms,6 to communication

, and 1 1 wereobj ects of a miscellaneous character .

In a division covering such a range of subjects as that in me

chanical technology , it is difficul t to place comparative values uponthe various accessions

,for each one received is of importance in

the section to which it belongs . Thus in land transportation,the

Du ryea gasoline automobile of 1 892— 93,presented by Mr . Inglis

M . Uppercu , New York City, is undoubtedly the accession of greatestimportance historically. On the other hand

,the full-size single

cylinder sectioned and hand-operated gasoline engine which visualizes the cycle of operations in the internal-combustion engine as the

visitor operates it, is by far the most important accession educational ly. There is not a visitor who

,upon seeing this exhibit

,does

not stop before it, operate it , and study it . The exhibit was pre1 1 5

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sented by the Willys-Overland Cc .

,Toledo

,Ohio

,through Mr . John

N Willys,p resident.

Through the efforts o f Mr . E . H. S ithens, Millville, N. J in pro

cur ing two ordinary bicycles , one a Columbia and the other aVictor,

”the collection o f bicycles was greatly enhanced

,and now

includes 1 2 distinct types ranging from about the first introduction in1 863 to the new rapid safety,

” introduced about 1 887. Mr . .Ransom

Matthews,Selma , Cali f. , added to his collection of gasoline engine

spark plugs loaned to the Museum , which now embraces a total of 1 50different types of plugs.The collection being assembled to V isualize the development in

aeronautics was considerably improved by the gift of the experi

mental hydroplane model made by Mr . Edson,F . Gallaudet in 1 898,

and used by him in the fall of that year in experimental aeronauticalwo rk on Long,

° Island. The model was presented to the Museum bythe Gallaudet Aircraft Co rporation, East Greenwich , R . I .

Du ring the year Mr. George W. Spier, of Washington, D . C.,

custodian o f watches,donated eight valuable Specimens of early time

pieces,both of American and European manufacture. They are in

corporated in the horological collections which are being arranged toillustrate the mechanical developments in this art. In this connection, an important watch was donated by John J and Charles E .

Bowman,Lancaster, P a. It is No . 49 of 50 watches made about 40

years ago by the donors’ father, Ezra F . Bowman. One of its most

interesting features is that it is regulated by timing screws ratherthan the usual type of regulator , so as to avoid the disturbance of itsisochronal adjustment . The watch is also of a smaller design thanthe customary watch carr ied in that day and was a pioneer of thenow established smaller and more convenient watch . The many partsused in the construction of several of the models of Hamilton

watches, al l attractively mounted in a massive framework , was re

ceived as a gift o f the Hamilton Watch Co ., Lancaster , P a. This ex

b ibit, placed with a part of the collection of watches on exhibition,adds materially to the instructive features of the horological colleetions.Mr . Emile Berliner , Washington, D . C. , presented two gramo

phonesi

of importance in the developments of the talking machine.

One is the first commercial type of machine brought out in 1 893, and

the other is an electrically operated machine devised by Mr . Ber

l iner in 1 896 . Another valuable educational exhibit received duringthe year was that prepared by the Royal Typewriter Co.

,New York .

The exhibit consists o f four objects which illustrate the structuralfeatures o f the typewriter generally, with particular reference to theRoyal . This is done by means of a sectional or skeleton model of


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about 1 840,was also undertaken and completed . The work just

enumerated required the whole time of the preparator when ‘

not

otherwise engaged in the maintenance and preservation of the

collections.The writer’s activities during the year when not required by thegeneral administrative work and supervision of staff

,centered in

the composing of descriptive labels to accompany exhibits. Approximately 300 labels were prepared and submitted for final printing.

The writer prepared also a descriptive catalogue of the mechanicalengineering collection, which is now in press andwill be issued as

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aMuseum bulletin. The catalogue is confined entirely to motors

,

locomotives,and objects dealing with the developments in transpo r

tation, and does not include metrology and horo logy . These lattersubjects

,it is expected

,will be the ba sis of a second volume of the

mechanical collections,to be prepared at some future date. A be

ginning was made,too

,in the preparation of a descriptive catalogue

of the collections devoted to naval architecture,and it is a satisfaction

to report that about one-fourth of the manuscript has been preparedat this writing.

Considering the scope of the activities of this di vision, therefore,and the small stafi

’

engaged,the condition of the collections is very

satisfactory,but maintained with difficul ty.

Specia l investigations.— No special invest igations were conducted

upon the materials in the division other than those which were re

quired in the construct ive development of the Collections . Prior tothe actual construction of the models Visualizing° the developments ina ircraft

,Mr. Garber was closely engaged in study so as to obtain the

most authentic data available on these subjects . The results of this

Study are shown in the models on exhibition and described earl iei° inthis report. In original

~work such as this there is,of course

, the

possibility of error in interpretation, so that the division welcomesany constructive criticism .

Inquiries relative to watches, clocks, locomotives, ships , firearms,electricity, and to many other subjects were answered

,the effort be

ing made to not only answer the direct inquiry , but to enlarge upon

it,giving all information which might prove useful.

The shortage o f watchmakers and scientific instrument makersthroughout the count ry to -day has been the subject of earnest consideration by those particularly involved . Through the efforts of

Mr. Spier, honorary custodian of watches, the National ResearchCouncil was made conversant with the situation, as a result of whichrepresentatives of the watchmaking industry and the watchmaking°

schools were invited to attend a conference under the auspices of thecouncil

“ to discuss the question and devise means of remedying'

it .

This conference was held in Washingt on May 1 9 and and

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as a result there was fo rmed tentatively the Horological Instituteof Amer1 ca

,whose chief purpose is to bring about the unification of

the schools of watchmaking throughout the country and to increasethe capacity and standard of instruction so that there may be de

veloped a wholly American industry . At this conference the writerspoke of the Museum’s educational work and was assured of the cc

operation of those present in the horological work being conducted .

In this connection, and as an added feature for the people attending

the conference,the Hamilton Watch Co . loaned to the Museum for

a period o f two months a working model, enla rged six diameters , o f

their standard 23 jewel watch movement. The exhibit is still onexhibition at this writing and is viewed with great interest by thedaily V isitors to the

O

Museum . In the organization of the Horological Institute

,too

,Mr . Spier was elected chai rman of the organiza

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In addition to themodel there are charts showing some of the intermediates and finished products obtained from each of the four crudechemical materials— su lphur

,salt

,coal

,and atmospheric nitrogen.

On these charts actual samples of the chemical substances are attached .

Other features of the exhibit are a collection of American dyes,

war gases,explosives

,pharmaceuticals

,synthetic flavors

,food colors

,

and perfumes,al l derived from coal intermedia tes

,and models to

show the molecular structu re o f these chemicals.

The Bausch Lomb Optical Co .

,Rochester

,N. Y.

,presented eight

spec imens of optical glass . These are valuable as indicative o f the

wholly American optical-glass 1ndustry which was developed duringand since the World War.Upon request of the Georgetown Un1versity School of Foreign

Service a few specimens of mineral commodities such as Chilenitrate, manganese ore

,copper ore and copper , raw tin

,etc .

, weresupplied for illustrative purposes in the classroom .

The prime object in view for the division since its 1nception wasto obtain latitude in depicting the mineral industrial operations andtheir soci al bear ing. But to have concentrated on any one projectuntil complete

,with the facilities at hand

,would have been to

narrow down the scope of instruction afforded for years ahead .

It seemed best,therefore, to make the exhibits cover the fiel ds of

metals and nonmetals inclusively, even though sketchily to beginwith. Thus the activities were gradually widened so that the totalnumber of industries represented at this writing is 22 , or aboutone-half of the important types of mineral occurrences. None iscomplete ; some depict only the industrial processes ; some showonly the stages from native occurrences to finished product ; andfew deal with the economic aspects, the most difficul t and at thesame time the most important phase of the undertaking. All needa thoroughgoing attention to

“

arrangement and labeling. In otherwords

,the exhibits already assembled need amplifying

,and addi

tional exhibits are to be obtained .

RE PORT ON THE DIVIS ION OF GRAPHIC AR TS .

By R . P . TOLMAN , Assistant Curator .

On July 1,1 920

,this division was transferred from the depart

ment o f anthropology to the department of arts and industries,and

Mr . R . P . To lman placed in charge,with title of assistant curato r .

Plans were fo rmulated for complete rearrangement of the seriesin a logical sequence so as to bring both historical and technicalmaterial of a kind together in a chronological o rder. This planhas been carried out onl y in a sma ll part , but it p romises to be a

great improvement and will be followed carefully and should becompleted in the next fiscal year.The year has been devoted largely to preparation o f card cata

l ogues in both the division of graphic arts and the section of photography and w ith the collection o f material for the completion of the

exhibition series. A number of gaps in the exhibition series havebeen fil led. As an illustration, the exhibit of handmade paper andwatermarks is one of a series showing the materials used in graphica rts. Printing ink has been installed for several years . An ex

hibit show ing the steps in designing° and making of type is thenext in the series, and Dard Hunter has p romised to send theMuseumthe materials, tools , etc .

,used by him fo r cutting the punches, cast

ing the type, etc .,for the two books made entirely by him . This

w ill show the hand methods of early times. An exhibit showmgmodern methods is being planned .

The definite scientific value of an accession is hard to determinewith such varying material as was received this year . The follow ingdeserve to be mentionedThe exhibit of handmade paper and watermarking of handmadepaper consists of 90 specimens beginning with the rags from whichthe paper is made

,photographs of machines used to beat the rags

,

four sizes o f hand molds,on which the paper is made showing the

va rious kinds of watermarks, the ordinary wi re marks, and the beau

tiful light and shade watermarks with method of how the mold iswired or embossed

,together with photographs showing the interior

of a French handmade paper mill,and the model of the paper mill

in the S cience Museum ,London. Samples of laid paper made about

1 480,1 570

,1 660

,and 1 780 with attention called to the differences in

the paper of various dates, especially noticeable in the even texture

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of the 1 780 example. Al so an early sample of wove paper,which

was invented by John Baskerville in 1 750, and an example of lightand shade watermark made by Mr. W. H. Smith

, the inventor ofthe process , about 1 850, as well as other fine and beautiful watermarks . The whole exhibit was assembled and labeled by Mr . DardHunter

,of Chillicothe

,Ohio

,who is an authority on handmade paper,

both as a writer and a manufacturer . One of the many labels may

be of general interest, as it gives a brief history of paper.

PAPE R .

221 — 2 1 0 B . was made in China from silk refuse. The o ldest moldcovering was made of strips of bamboo , bound together byfi laments of vegetable fiber.

1 05 A. D __ Paper made from rags and plant fibers nrst made in China byTs’

a i Lun.

Unknown Da te of invention of wire screen unknown.

1 2 th made in E urope by the Moors. F irst mention of rag

paper occurs in the tract of Peter , Abbot of Cluny ( 1 1 22— 1 1 50 )Fi rst wa termarked design.

F irst E nglish paper mill was establ ished at Hertford by JohnTate.

First American paper mill operated by Will iam R ittenhouse at

Roxborough , nea r Philadelphia .

Wove paper invented by John Baskerville.

F irst paper-making machine invented by Louis Robert , a

Frenchman. Introduced into E ngland by Henry F ourdriner,who perfected the process.

1 81 9 First colored watermarks.

1 849 Light and shade watermarks invented in E ngland by Mr.

W. H. Smith .

Mr. Dard Hunter has also made a second valuable contribution tothe division of two books in unbound condition which he made frombeginning to end. They are The Etching of Figures , by WilliamAspinwall Bradley, and The Etching of Contemporary Life, byFrank Weitenkampf , curator of the print department, New YorkPublic Library. Both o f these books were published by The ChicagoSociety of Etchers for their associate members , limited to 250 and 275copies respectively, and accompanied by an etching by an active mem

ber of the society. To quote from the introduction in The Etchingof Figures

,by Mr . Bradley :

This publ ication is the ent ire work of Dard Hunter, Marlborough-on-Hudson.

The paper was made by h im especially for th is book, each sheet separately in a

hand mold. The steel punches for the type were cut by h im, thematrices struck,and the type cast in a hand mold . The printing was done on a hand press.

These methods are practically the same as those used by printers at the t imeof Albrecht Durer.In an exhaust ive study of paper making and typography Mr. Hunter has never

seen mention of a book produced in which paper, type, and print ing were thework of one man as they are in the present volume.



Museum . The originals were made about 50 years earlier than’

mov

able type are said to have been made in Europe. The type are con

cave underneath and irregular in thickness,but this was of no con

sequence. They were set up in wax and all pressed down, so that theprinting surface was level .Clay types were invented in China by a smith named Pi Shing

,

between 1 041 — 1 049. He engraved a type in a very fine plastic clayand burned it . He had no successor, and after his death the Chinesereturned to their ancient methods of using engraved blocks of wood,which process is said to date back to 581 A. D .

Electrotyping is a method used in graphic arts to duplicate printing plates . Where large editions are wanted several plates are mecessary and duplicate plates may be made at very small cost, in comparison to the original engraved plate.

“ The claim is made that themetal deposit is harder in proportion to the hardness of the materialon which it is deposited , and therefore the electrotype deposit madeon lead is harder and tougher than that made on wax , so that largereditions can be printed from lead-molded electrotypes.The Royal Electrotype Co .

,of Philadelphia

,furnished an exhibit

showing the process of manufacture of lead-molding electrotypesfrom a halftone-and-type original through the various steps tothe finished electrotype ; and also had it carried through the McKee

treatment which process puts the overlay and underlay in the platei tself.At the present time a large percentage of the electrotype plates

are called “nickel-steel .” This name is a misnomer because only

nickel and copper are used. A thin sheet of nickel three one- thousandths of an inch in thickness is deposited first

,then a thick layer

of copper. The smooth nickel surface prints with very little wear.The electrotype exhibit now consists of wax molding, lead molding ,

and the McKee treatment of electro type plate.

Mr . Karl Arvidson and Mr . Charles Furth of the PhotogravureColor Cc .

,contributed several hundred specimens of photogelatine

and photogravure work extending over a period of 30 or 40 years,

w ith fine examples of the work they are do ing at present in photogravure

,both in color and black and white.

The Ketterl inus Lithographic Manufacturing Co .

,of Philadelphia ,

gave 1 0 specimens of their work in lithographic color printing,which

presents an excellent idea of the results obtained by lithographicprinting.

The three states of the etched plate Shoveller Drake, by Frank W.

Benson,of S alem

,Mass

,the well-known artist

,together with the

original plate in its destroyed condition,show the methods used

by the art ist in carrying the plate from the first state to the finished

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published one. This is especially evident f rom the careful study o f

the plate itself. The exp ression “ plate destroyed ” does not meanthat the plate has been actually destroyed but that the plate is disfigured so that prints from it have no artistic or commercial value.

It also insures the commercial value o f the published prints.Mr. Walter Tittle, of New York, has contributed two of his finedry-point etchings of President Harding

,taken from life. The divi

sion needs more contemporary work o f the artists .

The specimens contributed by Mr . Howard Levy,of Philadelphia ,

are the work of the Overton Engraving Co .,and show how the Open

ing in the diaphragm o f the camera affects the form of the halftonedot in the finished product. The effect is truly remarkable.

Examples of two -color printing on both sides of the paper and

four-color printing on one side only were received from the CurtisPublishing Co .

,of Philadelphia ; the paper going th rough the p ress

but once. By this method of wet printing a different effect from dryp rinting is obtained . The ink being

,

° wet mixes and mellows,giving

good results,but with not quite the brilliance of dry printing.

Max Lery presented an etched master screen,1 50 lines to the inch ,

for rotary intaglio photogravure. From this master screen photographic copies are made on glass or film

,and such copies are used for

photo printing on carbon tissue.

Mr . Paul Brockett contributed a three-color p rint,1 33 lines to the

inch is shown, and the same picture printed seven lines to the inch .

It is the work of the Trichromatic Engraving Co .,and shows clearly

the formation of the halftone dot in color work.

Nearly al l the accessions received this year deserve comment, eachone having part icular qualities which are of interest.The total number of specimens received was about four times

as many as last year,making a

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total of in the division June30

,1 921 . These figures do not take into account the photographic

collections in the section of photography. Mr . A. J Olmsted,custo

dian of that section,makes the following report as to the collections

under his charge.

S ECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY.

On July 1,1 920

, the section of photography, as a part of thedivision of graphic arts, was transferred from anthropology to

the department of arts and industries. Only one accession had beenreceived since the death of Mr. Thomas W. Smillie, in 1 91 7, to

whom the Museum owes a great debt for his untiring efforts , knowledge, and fo resight in collecting the historical material now in the

section of photography. It would be practically impossible at thistime to duplicate it. Mr . Smillie began collecting as early as 1 886,

and even then realized that the historical specimens were fast di sappearing.

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orts were made to continue along the general lines which Mr.

Smillie had followed, and 22 accessions consisting of 333 specimenswere received. They were o f both scientific and historical value ;as most of them were new to the section.

The New York World, of New York C ity, presented a p rint fromthe first negative made in the United S tates by the Belin methood

of sending illustrations by wire. The picture was the portrait ofan o ld Indian

,and was sent by the S t. Louis Post Dispatch to the

New York World on November 1 4, 1 920. It is an interesting and

timely exhibit. Photographs had been transmitted in Europe a

sho rt time previously by this method .

The New York University furnished a bromide enlargement o fthe first daguerreotype portrait ever made, dating 1 839 or 1 840. Itwas of Prof. John W. Draper’s sister Dorothy

,who posed in the

bright sunshine,her face heavily powdered

,for an exposure of about

four minutes.

Specimens of the McD onough co lor p rocess were secured from Mr .

A . J McGregor , Chicago , Ill. There are very few specimens of thisprocess in existence and the Museum is most fortunate to have thesein its collection.

TheWar Department pr inted and deposited over 1 00 photographsfrom the o r iginal negatives made by Brady of the Civil War

, and

also sent a collection of large toned bromide prints representingScenes in the G reat Wo rld War

,which have been placed on exhibi

tion. These pr ints show,not only the comparative methods of war

fare o f 1 865 and 1 91 8,but also differences in photographic resul ts .

The most recent development in motion-picture cameras is represented by a Jenkins model of a high - speed camera

,that w ill make

exposures a minute— these results are necessary in the studyof analysis of motion . S trange as it may seem

,Muybridge, who is

known as the grandfather of motion pictures,began his work in an

effo rt to study the motion of animals . To -day the highest development of motion pictures is the analysis of motion- studying the

motion of p ro jectiles and ai rplane propeller blades, etc .

The Canadian Government,Dominion Park Branch

,sent a reel o f

motion-picture film pictur ing T rumpeter Swans,an almost extinct

bi rd— and for this reason the film is valuable and will be increasinglyso as the years go by.

Several pr ints by processes that were not represented in the collection have been received : a bromoil of Andrew Carnegie fromHarris Ewing

,from Mr . Edward Crosby Doughty an enlarge

ment on Japanese tissue, and Mr . Charles E . Fairman furnishedsome very attractive gum prints .One thousand th ree hundred and seventy one printed plates and

apparatus o f the Muybridge collection were catalogued this year,


RE PORT ON THE DIVIS ION OF HISTORY.

By T . T . BELOTE, Curator .

IMPORTANT CHANGE S m ORGANIZATION.

During the past fiscal year the organization of the division of

history has undergone an important change. On July 1 , 1 920, thedivision which had been a branch of the department of anthropologysince its o rganization in 1 881 , was given an independent status as a

separate and distinct branch of the Museum’s activities. This actionwas the logical result of the tremendous development of the historicalcollections, particularly during the more recent period of their existence

,a development which rendered their efficient and economic admin

istration except as an independent unit a very difficul t matter. The

change was desirable,however, not only from the standpo int of ef

ficiency and economy but from the scient ific point of view as well,

in that the historical collections in the Museum represent classes o fmaterials of an unique character . They are o f special interest andvalue to the public and to the student o f history on account of theirexceptional patriotic and educational significance in connection withthe national development of the United S tates . Illustrating primarily military and naval history

,they represent also many other

phases of American achievements and contributions to world progress along social

,political , technical , and scientific lines.

The establishment of the division upon an independent basis, and

the addition to the staff of an aid in connection w ith the war colleetions has greatly increased the facilities of the division for systematichistorical museum work. The separation of the historical from the

anthropological collections permits their future development alongstrictly historical lines, and at the same time eliminates a great vo lume o f work of routine character which was necessary under theformer arrangement.

COMPAR I SON OF INCREMENT OF S PE C IME NS OF 1 920—2 1 W ITH THAT OF 1 91 9— 20.

The number of specimens received during the past fiscal year ismuch smaller than the number received during the previous year.This is explained by the fact that the number received during thefiscal year 1 91 9— 20 was uncommonly large, owing to the acquirementby the Museum of an immense amount of military and naval ma

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terial relating to the war with Germany. Even so the additions during the past year are sufficient ly large to materially increase thematteron hand and to indicate that the col lections w ill continue to expandin a no rmal and satisfacto ry manner. The specimens receivedcover a wide range as regards their character

,and represent very

evenly the various fields and sections of the historical activities o f

the Museum .

ACCE S S ION S DE S E RV ING S P E CIAL NOT ICE .

The extent and importance of the materials added to the histo ricalco llections during the past fiscal year can only be made clear aftera b rief reference to the various classes into which these materials aredivided in accordance with the present scheme of the activities o f thedivision.

The historical collections are at present divided under two general heads

, one including the material relating to the recent WorldWar ; the other , known at present as the o riginal historical colleetions

,includes much material relating to United S tates history prior

to and subsequent to that period . The collections relating to theWo rld War are further divided into the following classes o f ma

terial : Commemo rative,foreign, military , naval , numismatic , and

pictor ial . The original collections are divided into the followingclasses of matter : Antiquarian

,biographical , costume, military ,

naval,numismatic, philatelic, and pictorial .

Thus it may be noted that the division of history seeks to illustrate

the national development o f the United S tates by an accumulation

of museum mater ial belonging to the classes stated above, whichwhen associated together and exhibited in contiguous terr itory w illpresent a graphic story of the most notable phases of Amer ican history. Each of the classes of materials mentioned above has a specificduty to perform in this connection ,

and al l unite to form a vast reservoir of objects for the graphic p resentation 1n museum fo rm of the

annals of the United S tates from the colonial period down to mostrecent times.

WAR COLLE CTIONS

The additions to this section of the historical collections have notbeen so large as during the previousfiscal year when they attained togigantic proportions . They have nevertheless been notable both in

size and interest.Most notable have been the contributions made by the Navy D e

partment . The exhibit of this Department in the rotunda of the

Natu ral History Building and in the Aircraft Building now includes

among other objects the following of Special note. In the latter loca

tion are shown two naval aircraft of the latest design, a flying boat


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various purposes, including a magnetic compass , a master gyroscopiccompass , a chronometer, a sextan t, a pelorus, a patent l og, a sounding machine, a hand lead, a stadimeter

,and an anero id barometer .

These illustrate in an excellent manner the character o f the delicateand complex machinery by means o f which the modern ships o f warare managed.

The exhibit of the Navy Department also contains a number o f

typical pieces o f ordnance of the type used during the wa r,as the

6 - inch gun from which was fired the first American sho t dur ing thewar

,and the p rimer which fired the last shot on November 1 1

,1 91 8

,

at 1 0 o’clock 57 minutes 30 seconds

,and examples of regular types

of naval guns,as a l -pounder rapid-fire gun on a boat cage stand

mount used on the bows of boats when employed in landing armeddetachments or on harbor patrol ; a 3- inch Davis nonreco il 1 3-pounder

gun used on small patrol vessels having decks too light to stand theshock of reco il of the usual type of guns ; a 3- inch 50-caliber antiaircraft gun ; and a Ygun or depth -charge projec tor used to attacksubmarines. Of particular interest in this connection are uniquemodels

,complete in every detail

,of the long- range naval guns on

tractor and railroad mounts used in France during the war,includ

ing the 7-inch naval tractor and the 1 4- inch naval ra ilway batter ies

,

marks 1 and 2 . In connection with these guns are a number of firecontro l instruments

,including a bore- sight telescope

,a gun

-sighttelescope

,a gun

-sight check telescope,a short-base range finder

,and

a turret periscope. Other ordnance mater ials of note are projectilesof the type used by the Navy during the war— a number of aircraftbombs ; 1 2 , 8, 7 , 6 , 5, 4, 3, inch shells ; 6 , 3, and 1 pounder gun pro

jectil es ; and a number of to rpedoes and torpedo tubes.Of special interest are a number of pieces of the delicate yet power

ful signaling apparatus used during the war on naval airplanes andships . These include a radio -telephone set , a radio compass , and

specimens of receiving and transmitting vacuum tubes .‘

A very st riking exhibit in this connection is a set of hydrophones for the detection of the proximity o f submar ines

,mounted on a model of a ship’s

stern.

The Navy Department has also deposited a number of pieces o f

captured German naval material . The most interesting of these

are the engines of a German submarine, complete in every detail ,a torpedo

,and seven naval-gun shells.

As may be noted from the fo regoing summary , the exhibit alreadydeposited by the Navy Department relating to the great war is moststriking and presents in a graphic manner the leading features ofthe work of that branch of the service during the great conflict .

This exhibit is,constantly receiving additions of note and will nu


doubtedly in time become one o f the most notable collections o f suchmaterials in existence.

Of important additions to the numismatic section of the war collection are replicas of the victory medal with the buttons and ribbonspertaining thereto , received from the War Department, Quartermaster Corps . F rom the same source were received copies of thecertificates issued by the War D epartment to those wounded in theservice during the war and to the next of kin in the case of thosewho were killed. Replicas of the naval medals issued for specialservices during the war , including the medal of honor , distinguishedservice cross

,and distinguished service medal were purchased. From

the Italian Government, through the S tate Department , were re

ceived two bronze replicas set in marble of the obverse and reverseo f the gold medal of honor presented by the Italian National Committee founded for that purpose to King Victor Emmanuel III as

commander in chief o f the army and navy as a national testimonialof the deeds of heroism and sacrifice performed by the Italian peopleduring the World War . Of special interest among other medalsadded to the collection during the past year are replicas of the medalcommemorating the achievements of the American Red Cross War

Council,1 91 7— 1 91 9

,received from the American Numismatic Society ;

of the medal awarded in 1 91 9 by Williams College to Williams menwho served in the Army or the Navy of the United S tates or of anyof the Al lies during the war , from Williams College ; o f the medalby A . Bonnetain

,commemorating the services of Marie D upage and

Edith Cavell,from Mrs. E . H. Harriman.

An interesting series of European commemorative medals of thewar was also added to the collection. These include portrait medalsof President Wilson, General Pershing, Premier Clemenceau , and

Marshal Foch . Of special interest in connection with the work o f

American patriotic societies during the war are a replica of theWorld War service insignia and a copy of the certificate for civilianservice issued by the General Society of Colonial Wars to membersof the society in recognition of patriotic service rendered to the

United States during the war . These were p resented to the Museumby the society.

The pictorial material relating to the war has been increased bya number of specimens

,the most important being two large paint

ings by Arthur M . Hazard of Boston , Mass ,entitled “ Not by

Might ” and The Spirit of the Armistice.

” These two wo rks typifythe noble and unselfish achievements of the American so ldiers and

sailors in a spirited and st riking manner. They were used in . the

United S tates during the fourth and fifth Liberty loan dr ives,and

also in Canada during the Victory loan drive of that Dominion.

1 36 RE PORT or NATIONAL MUSE UM ,1 921 .

They have been p resented to the Museum by the Woman’s Liberty

Loan Committee of New England .

The collection of uniforms of the type worn by Amer ican womendur ing the war , which is being assembled in the Museum by theNational Society of the Colonial Dames of America

,has been in

creased by representatives o f the following organizations :Chief yeoman (F ) , United S tates Naval Reserve Force ; yeoman

(F ) winter uniform ; yeoman (F ) summer uniform ; National Leaguefor Women’

s Service, first lieutenant , Junior Co rps ; League of

Catholic Women,canteen service ; Woman’

s Land Army of Hamilton County

,Ohio

,under auspices of C incinnati Garden Club ; Na

tional Land Army of Ohio,canteen uniform ; War Camp Com

munity S ervice ; contract surgeon,United States Army ; Salvation

Army ; United S tates Army nurse ; American Fund for FrenchWounded ; Knights of Columbus ; Emergency Fleet Corporation,United S tates Shipping Boa rd ; Navy Nurse Corps , blue and whitehospital uniforms ; and Young Women

’s Christian Association“

To the commemorative section o f the war collections was addeda collection of British and Canadian uni forms worn during the warby Lieut . Louis Bennett of the 4oth Squadron ,

Royal Ai r Force,

who was killed in action in France August 24 , 1 91 8. These are

accompanied by a number o f miscellaneous documents and photographs relative to the service of Lieutenant Bennett . The col l ec

tion was p resented to the Museum by Lieutenant Bennett’s mother ,Mrs. Louis Bennett

,of Weston

,W. Va .

A touching reminder of the conflict reaching the Museum duringthe past year is the body of the carrier pigeon Cher Ami receivedfrom the United S tates S ignal Corps and mounted by the Museumtaxidermist. This pigeon was one of 600 birds which were donatedby the pigeon fanciers of Great Britain for use in France duringthe World War . Trained by American pigeoneers and flown fromAmeri can lofts

,1 91 7— 1 8

,Cher Ami returned to his loft with a

message dangling from the ligaments of a leg cut off by rifle orshell shot . He was also shot th rough the breast and died fromthe effects of this wound June 1 3, 1 91 9.

The foreign material relating to the World War has been l n

creased by a collection of French military objects p resented to theMuseum by the French Government. This collection includes a

steel listening post,a steel cupo la with gun, a catapult , a Brandt

cannon,a number of hand and rifle grenades, several swords and

bayonets , signal rockets,a number of pieces of armo r and mis

cel l aneous relics . From the Cz echo -S lovak Army in Russia , artillerysection

,with headquarters at Vladivostok , was received a Russian

3- inch fiel d-

gun, model of 1 903, manufactured at Perm , which waso riginally mounted upon a wheeled carriage but later removed



which fell within the area o f the Fort,and some o f them o f the

diameter o f this vase.

” These interesting souvenirs of the bomba rdment of Fort McHenry have been installed in the case w ith theoriginal United S tates flag which flew over the fort at that timeand which

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inspi red Francis S cott Key to w r ite the words of theS ta r Spangled Banner . They are presented to the Museum by Mr .

Alexander Gordon, jr .

,o f Baltimore

,a great-grandson o f Lieut.

Co l . Geo rge Armistead . A very handsome gold mounted and jewel ed sword p resented to Maj. Gen. George B . McCl el l an in 1 861 bythe city o f Philadelphia was donated to the Museum by his daughter

,

Mme . Paul D esprez . A pa rticularly interesting relic in connectionw ith the lives of famous Americans is an i ron wedge bear ing theinitials “ A. L.

” which was used by Abraham Lincoln when a resident of New Salem ,

Ill .,1 830— 1 834, and given by him to Mento r

Graham ,his instructor in surveying. This impo rtant memento of

the early life of the great war President has been presented to theSmithsonian Institution by Mr . Henry W. Allen

,of California .

Other notable relics of the Civil War acquired during the past fiscalyear were a dress swo rd w ith belt

,sash

,gauntlets , and spurs , pre

sented to Brig. Gen. Marcus La Rue Harrison by the officers and

men o f his command , the First Arkansas Regiment , and donated tothe Museum by Mrs . Harrison. The National American Woman’

s

Suffrage Association has added to their already large and interestingcollection o f relics in the Museum a gold badge presented to SusanB. Anthony by the C itizens Suffrage Assoc iation of Philadelphia in1 848

,a flag pin p resented to her by the ladies o f Wyoming on the

occasion of her eightieth birthday in 1 900,and the distinguished

service medal awa rded to Dr . Anna Howard Shaw by the UnitedS tates War Department for especially mer itorious and conspicuousservice as chairman o f the Woman’s Committee of the Council ofNational Defense during theWar with Germany . The biographicalcollections have also been increased by a large collection o f objects relating to the scientific career o f Joseph Henry, first Secretary o f

the Smithsonian Institution,transfer red from the division of me

chanical technology .

The principal feature o f the per iod costumes section of the his

torical collections, namely , the series of costumes wo rn by mistresseso f the Wh ite House

,has been brought up to date by the addition of

the dress wo rn by Mrs. Ellen LouiseWilson during the first adminis

tration of President Wilson . This costume o f satin brocade, thebodice t r immed with rhinestones and pearls and the train of lace,has been lent by Mrs. Wilson’

s daughter , Miss Margaret Wilson.

Other additions of note to the costumes section included a numbero f costumes cover ing the period from colonial times to the presentday, both American and European, the gift o f the estate of Mrs.


Mary E . P inchot. Numerous other addi tions o f the same generalcha racter have also been made to this important section o f. the his

torical collections.The mil itary section has received a number of interesting acces

sions,the most notable being the uni fo rm coat , vest, breeches , and

sash worn by Capt. Ely D agworthy of the British Army during theFrench and Indi anWar . This uniform ,

lent by the National Societyof the Coloni al Dames of America , is the earliest British uniform in

the possession of the Museum , and is a splendidl y preserved specimen o f the uniforms of the type which played such a prominent partin America during the French and IndianWar

,theWar o f the Revo

l ution,and the War of 1 81 2. Other military relics o f note received

during the past fiscal year are two pairs of epaulets of the periodof theWar of 1 81 2 , presented by Mrs . Mary Mason Barlow ; a sword,a saber, a hat , belt, cup, and powder horn, used during theWar w ithMexico by Lieut . Baldwin J Crosswait

,Third Ohio Infantry , pre

sented by Miss Fo rest M . Crosswait ; a sword, sash , and four belts,owned during the C ivil War by t . Capt. Frank M . Smith , FirstMaryland Volunteers, presented by Mrs. Smith ; a pair of epauletsworn during the C ivil War by Col. E . W. Chastain

,E ighth Georgia

Regiment , Confederate S tates Army, lent by Mr. Norman C. Stow ;and a sword

, Scabbard , and belt, taken from the body of a Mexicanbandit after the raid of F rancisco Vil la on Co lumbus , N. Mex

,March

9,1 91 6

,presented by theHon. A. S . Burleson.

The mater ials relating to the history of the Navy p rio r to the

World War have been increased by a number o f accessions o f im

portance. Among these are a collection of relics recovered from the

wreck of the U . S . battleship Md ine when the remains o f this shipwere removed from Habana Harbor in 1 91 1 , including such materialsas chinaware, silverware, timepieces , rifles, powder cans , binoculars,and various other objects in use on the ship in 1 898 at the time o f

the explosion. All of them now show plainly the effects o f the saltwater by which they were covered during the period when the w reckremained submerged . These were received from the Navy Department . A fitting companion piece to this collection is a b ronze memo

rial plaque, designed by Charles Keck,and cut from metal recovered

from the wreck at the same time as the relics described above. Thisbeautiful tablet , presented to the Museum by Dr. Gertrude R . Brigham

,is one of a number of such pieces made from various parts of

the Maine in accordance with act of Congress of August 22 , 1 902 ,whi ch authorized their manufacture.

The materials relating to the early history of the Navy have alsobeen increased by the transfer from the division of mechanical techno logy of models of the frigate Constitution, the first Uni ted StatesMonitor, and the Confederate ram Merm

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The collections of the section of numismatics have been increasedby a number of interesting specimens. As was the case during theprevious year the principal contributor to the coin collection hasbeen Mr. Douglas N. S tarr, of Washington ,

D . C. , who has made a

niunber of notable additions to his al ready la rge and interesting loancollection o f United S tates and foreign co ins . Among these are the

following United States gold pieces : Five doll ars , 1 884 ; twenty dollars

,1 850 ; twenty dollars , 1 907, designed by Augustus St . Gaudens ;

one dollar,McKinley memorial , 1 91 7 and two specimens o f the

United S tates silver half dollar commemorating the Pilgrim Ter

centenary , 1 920. Mr . S tarr has also lent a most interesting series ofuncirculated German commemorative coins , showing the portraits ofthe German emperors from 1 871 to 1 91 4. Mr . George W. Conner,of Hollywood , Calif. , has presented an interesting series o f the papercurrency o f the Republic

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of Texas. Among interesting additions tothe collection o f medals are a bronze portrait plaque of AmbroseSwasey

,designed by Victor D . Brenner , which has been presented

by Mr . Swasey ; a bronze medal commemorating the centennial anniversary of the University o f Virginia , presented to the Smithsonianby the university ; and a b ronze replica of the medal of awa rd of theAlaska-Yukon P acific Exposition, presented by Erastus Brainard,o f Seattle, Wash.

The philatelic collections have been increased during the year bythe addition of numerous specimens from the Post Office Department ,andmany of these are examples of new issues received by that

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department from the International Bureau of the Universal Postal Union,Berne, Switzerland. Unfortunately

,owing to the serious illness o f

the philatelist it is impossible at present to give specific descriptiono f the materials received in this field of the activities of the divisiono f history.

RE S EARCHE S F OR. THE BE NE F IT OF THE ' MU S E UM .

Under this head may very appropriately be considered a mostimportant work undertaken du ring the past fiscal year in connectionwith the recl assification of the records of the di vision. This wasrendered necessary by the separation of the historical records fromthose o f the department of anthropology w ith which they had hereto fore been connected . It is now possible for the first time to unitethe entire body of data relating to the hi storical specimens in the

offices of the division. This will be accomplished by the entry ofthis data in skeleton form in Museum catalogue books ‘

of standardtype from which series of catalogue numbers will be assigned to al l

the historical material involved , both old and new. Thus the historical records will be greatly simpl ified and the entire series of

catalogue books containing them will be located in a single consecu


LIST OF ACCESSIONS TO THE COLLECTIONS DURINGTHE FISCAL YEAR 1 920— 1 921 .

(EXCEPT WHE N OTHERWI SE INDICATE D , THE S PE CIME NS WE RE PRE S ENTE D OH WERE TRANS

FERBE D BY BUREAUS OF THE GOVE RNMENT IN ACCORDANCE W ITH LAW. )

ABBOTT , E . L.,Washington, D . C. :

Fragment of a leaf-shaped blade anda chipped arrow po int collected at

Ocean City, Md. sacredpaint slab and piece of fl int workedfor drill, from ArizonaABBOTT

,Dr. W. L Philadelphia ,

Pa . : 201 bird skins, 9 skeletons and

2 nests, 6 a lcohol ic b irds, 1 turtleand 2 eggs, 3 reptiles, 2 myriapods,and 4 packages of shells from Haiti( 65280, plants , 1 0

specimens of cacti , 31 b ird skins,several eggs and nests, 5 skeletonsof bi rds, 6 lots of mollusks, 6 snakes,1 insect , 1 0 a rcheological specimensand l ot of human bones, al l from the

D ominican R epublic ( 66026 , 66323,66659 ) 57 1 mammals , 534 b irds, 1 1 8repti les, 65 fishes, 258 invertebra tes,4 vials of ants, 1 7 insects, a coll eetion of mollusks, and a bottle of

parasit ic worms ( collected by

CharlesM . B oy in Austra li a ) ( 65456 ,

ABBOTT,Dr . W. L. , and C . BODE N

KLoss, Federa ted Malay S tatesMuseums, Kuala Lumpur, F . M . S . :

1 44 mammals, 496 birds 3 reptiles,and 6 ethnologica l spemmens fromS iam, Anam, and Cochin China

ABBOTT,Dr. W. L and EMERY C .

LEONARD, U . S . National Museumplants from Ha iti , collected

for the MuseumABRAMS , Prof. LE ROY . ( See underLeland S tanford Junior University,and E . A. McGregor . )

7 1 305°

— 21 1 0

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCI

ENGE S , Philadelphia , Pa . : 1 2 specimens of minerals ( 65445, exchange ) .

ACKERMAN , CARL, Los Angeles,Calif. 3 specimens of cacti (65420 )4 specimens of cacti ( 65485, ex

change ) .

ADAMS , PAUL J Knoxville, Tenn1 76 specimens of land and freshwater shells, representing 1 1 species,from Tennessee

AGNES SCOTT COLLE GE ,Decatur,

Ga z

D ragonfly, Gmn/phaeschna furoi l

l ata

AGRICULTURE , DE PARTMENT OFSet of 1 5 charts il lustra ting the

composition of food materials

( S ee a lso under Copenhagen, D en

ma rk , Zoologica l Museum. )Bureau of B io logica l S urvey :

insects representing 1 96 speciesin the Orders Neuropteroidea ,Coleoptera , Homoptera , D iptera,and Hymenoptera ( 651 83 ) 1 85

miscellaneous reptiles and ba

trach ians from various locali tiesreceived during 1 91 9— 1 920 ; also

miscellaneous mammalsfrom various localities receivedbetween July 1 , 1 91 7 , and June30 , 1 920, inclusive , and not previously accessioned 39

reptiles and batrachians fromvarious localities 8

specimens of Anodonta wahl a

mete wsis from the mouth of BearR iver, Utah , 8 mollusks, 9 crus

1 43


AGRICULTURE , DE PARTMENTOF — Cont inued.

Burea u of Bio l ogica l Survey— Con.

taceans, 1 4 fishes, 6 amphibians,2 specimens of Aegla laevis, and

7 reptiles, from Argentina and

Paraguay , al l collected by D r.Alexander Wetmore ( 65232 ,

88 bunches, 75 sprays,and 1 2 heads of B irds of Paradise ( 6531 2 ) 2 turtles, 1 3

snakes, 4 lizards, 25 amphib ians,and 49 batrachians from va riouslocalities in the United S tates( 65594, 6571 3) 46 plants fromWisconsin, collected by H. H. T.

Jackson and H. H. Sheldon( 65659 ) 23 eggs, 2 nests and 1

skeleton of birds nestand 2 eggs of Megaquisca lus

major ma ior ( 65881 ) 3 plants,S elagmel l a and cacti, 1 0 specimens of cacti , and a specimen of

Mamm/il larta , all co llected in

Ar iz ona , by Mr. Vernon Ba iley( 6591 3, 661 90, 66406 , 6622 1 ,

66336 ) a lso 37 specimens, 2

species, of freshwater mollusksfrom North Dakota , collected byMr. Ba iley 44 specimens, 1 0 species, of land shellsfrom D ijon, France, collected byM r . E . A. Goldman ( 66089 )4 plants from Washington

( 661 35 ) ( through Bureau of

E ntomology ) 1 1 6 specimens of

Coleoptera , 60 species ; 231 specimens of Hemiptera , 22 Species ;37 specimens of Lepidoptera , 1 2

species, 1 53 specimens of D iptera , 23 species, and 236 specimens of Hymenoptera , 20 species( 66252 ) 23 reptiles and batrachians, 6 mollusks, and 1 cactuscol lected by Dr. Alexander Wet

more in South America , and 9

frogs collected by M r. FrancisHarper and M r. H. M . Laing inAlberta , Canada 260

alcoholi c birds , 21 0 skeletons,skulls, etc., and 82 b irds eggs,a lso 7 fishes from South America( 66331 , 66403, 66675 ) 1 0 speci

AGRICULTURE , DE PARTMENTOF — Cont inued .

Bureau of Bio l ogica l S urpey— Con.

mens, 3 species, of freshwatermollusks, from Athabaska Delta ,Alberta , Canada , and 1 3 specimens, 1 species , of freshwa termo llusks from Carlisle, La .

( 66377 ) 81 beetles from Brazil ,collected by Messrs. E . G . Holtand J. O. Vasquez ( 66395 ) 24

al coholic specimens of b irdsfrom Canada ; and 52 skeletonsand skul ls, and 4 eggs fromArgentina ( 66596 ) 61 skeletonsand pa rts of birds, 36 a lcoholicspecimens of birds, 1 0 eggs and

2 nests, from Argentina , Mon

tana , etc. ( 66645 ) ( through0 . R . R isinger and W. E . Mus

grave ) Cotton seed and a li ttlefiber found by C . R . R isinger ina cl ifi dwell ing about 1 5 milesnorth and a little east of Cottonwood, Ariz . ( 66691 ) plants

mammals transferred by the B iological Surveybetween July 1 , 1 920, and June

inclusiveBureau of Chemi stry: 8 specimensof starches and 2 specimens of

dextrinBureau ofE ntomol ogy: specimens of miscellaneous Hymenoptera 4 specimens of

fresh water isopods, Caecidoteaspecies, collected in a well at

Dallas,Tex , by M r . F . C . Bishoppan earthworm taken

from earth about the base of a

palm purchased from a localflorist by Col . Charles A. Will iams,United S ta tes Army ( retired ) ( 65645 ) 1 40 miscel l a

neons insects from Auch , Gers,France, collected by Dr. L. 0 .

Howard ( 65670 ) 25 specimens,al l type material , including typeand allotype, of a remarkablehemipteron constituting a new

subfamily , collected at Santiagode l as Vegas, Cuba , by Dr. MarioCalvina miscell aneous



AGRICULTURE , DE PARTMENTOF — Continued .

Bureau of P lant Industry— Contd.

ida ,collected by M r. M . B . Wa ite

4 fragmentary specimens of plants, A l s 0 d e i a

5 photographs and a

fragmentary specimen of plant ,R inorea ( 66231 ) 2 slugs, Agril omaa: agrestis, young, from citrus plants in g r e e n h o u s e s( 66246 ) plant , Ba l timora , fromJava ( through W. E .

Saiford ) 79 specimens and pho tographs of p l a n ts , D a t u r a

3 plants from Trinidad , one of them representingthe species P o lyga la ( 66360 ,

4 plants from Cal iformia and Texas, collected byD r. 0 . F . Cook 30

ferns col lected in Utah and

Nevada by M r. I . Tidestrom

9 plants collected byMr . George E . Murrell ( 66483 )2 photographs and 2 plants

5 specimens of cactifrom Cal ifornia , collected by L.

G. Polhamus plantfromAlabama ( 66577 ) 2 plants,Casimiroa plant fromNew Mex ico ( 66599 ) ( throughMr. E . O. Wooton ) 85 plantsfrom Montanaplants from S iam, Burma , and

India , col l ected by Mr . Joseph F .

Rock plant , P rotea

argenta

S tates R elations S ervice : A col

lection of canned food productsrepresenting the finest examplesof canning done by S tate leadersin boys’ and girls’ club workfrom prize-w inning exhibits at

S tate Fa i rs

AINSLIE , C . N ., S ioux City , IowaApprox imately 200 small moths,M icrol epidopera , from Iowa

ALEXANDE R , Dr. C . P ., Urbana , III

4 mosquitoes collected in I llinois byMr. S . 0 . Chandler

ALE XANDE R , W. B . , Buenos Aires,Argentina : 2 specimens of cacti fromArgentina

ALFARO, Dr. A. , Museo Nacional , S anJose, Costa R ica : 988 specimens of

mosqu itoes ( 65990, 65991 , 66062 ,

661 1 9, 66523 ) 33 fl ies belonging tothe fami ly Tipulidae( See also under S an José, CostaRica . )

ALLEN , Dr. E UGENE T ., Washington, D . C . : 661 plants collected in

Norway. by Dr. O laf Andersen

AMERICAN AMBASSADOR TOGREAT BRITAIN . ( See underBritish Government , H. M . Ofl

‘

ice of

Works ) .AMERICAN BALSA CO. New

York City : 8 photographs, 1 reprint ,and 3 specimens show ing growth anduse of balsa woodAMERICAN BATH STONE CO. , Bos

ton, Mass : 2 four-inch cubes of“ Bath stoneAME R ICAN BIBLE SOCIE TY , New

York C i ty : 3 pamphlets containinga verse- John III , 1 6 — from the

B ible, printed in 269 d ifferent l anguagesAME R ICAN HARDWOOD MANUFACTURE R S

’ ASSO C I A T I O NMemphis, Tenn. ; 64 photographs,8 by 1 0 inches, picturing the manufacture of hardwood lumber

AME R ICAN MUSEUM OF NATURALHISTORY, New York C ity : 50 typemetal casts of the fi rst movablemeta l type ever made, Korea , 1 403

( 65998 ) 35 echinoderms, 23 amphipod crustaceans, and a coll ection of

decapod crustaceans, a duplicateseries, secured by the AmericanMuseum Congo exped i tion ; a lso 5

decapod crustaceans from Patago

nia and 1 decapod crustacean fromthe Fa lkland Islands 25

muscoid fl ies ( 661 46 ) 4 fl ies of the

genus Mesembrinel l a ( 66288, ex

change ) ; plant , E rigeron,from

E cuador ( 66441 , exchange ) ; 64

spec imens, 34 species, of dipl op

LIST OF ACCE SSIONS.

AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURALHISTORY— Continued .

terous wasps (Hymenoptera ) fromCongo , determined by J Bequaert

1 1 cotype adults and 9

cotype galls of 1 3 species of ga llmaking Cynipidae

AMERICAN OSTEOPATHIC ASSOCIATION ,

Orange, N . J. ( throughDr. Norman C . Glover, Wa shington,

D . C . ) A collection of photographs,books, and charts, a lso an uh

mounted human spine for use in

exhibit i llustrat ing principles of

osteopathyAMERICAN SE CUR ITY TRUSTCO. ( See under Miss Carol ineHenry . )

AMERICAN TYPE F OUND E R S CO. ,

Jersey Ci ty, N. J. : 1 8-po int typebody wi th the Lord’s Prayer cast onits face, and 1 8—point type body w ithAmerican Typefounders advert isement on its face , and one type A

AMERICAN WALNUT MANUFAC

TUBE R S ’ ASSOCIATION. ( See

under P ickrel Veneer Co . )AM E S , OaKE s , Boston, Mass : 49 or

chids from the Philippine Islands( 66272 , exchange ) .

ANACONDA COPPER MINING CO . ,

Anaconda ,Mont : A specimen of

crystallized arsenic ox ideANDE RSON ,

M rs. THOMAS H Washington, D . C . : Shrunken head of an

Indian,Jiva ro Indians, South

AmericaANDREWS , D . M . , Boulder, Colo . : 3

plants from ColoradoANDREWS , Mrs . GEORGE L. ( throughM iss Emily 0 . Battles and M rs.

Julian-James , Washington, D . C . )

2 Chinese vases, rectangula r, and 8specimens of modern Mex ican pot

tery a collection of laces,jewelry , and si lverware, and an em

bro idered crepe de chine dress ; a lsoa wash draw ing of Two Boys Playing wi th a D og,

”signed F . O. C.

Da rley , fecit ( 6531 9, loan ) .A_NBOT , R ev. BROTHER, St. M ichael’sCollege, Santa F e, N . Mex . : 1 90

pl ants‘

f rom New Mex i co

1 47

ANGE L , MAY Goonmcn ,Ha iley, Idaho

Sample of black sand from Idaho

ANHYDROUS FOOD PRODUCTSCO. , THE , Chicago , Ill. 22 specimensof dehydrated fruits and vegetables

ANTHONY, Miss LU CY. ( See underNationa l American Woman

’

s Suf

frage Association. )

APOLLINAIRE MARIE ,BROTHER

,

( See under Instituto de l a S alle,Bogota , Colombia . )

ARANA , Sefior IGNACIO , Pipi , SantaCruz , Bolivia , South America( through P . L. Ports, Washington,

D . C . ) A bracelet canteen used bythe Chiriguano Indians, Bol ivia ,

some 30 or 40 years ago

ARISTE JOSE PH, BROTHER . ( See

under Instituto de l a Salle , Bo

gota , Colombia . )ARIZONA , UNIVE R S ITY OF , Tucson,

Ariz . : A collection of about 200 specimens of mammalian fossils from a

cave near Anita , Coconino County,Ariz . ( 65379, exchange ) .

ARMOUR CO. , Chicago , Ill . : 2 specimens of med icinal substances fromthe animal kingdom ( 65790 ) 4 sam

ples of suprarenal inARMSTRONG

,E . J E rie, P a . : Speci

men of inyoite from H illsborough,New Brunswick 5 spec imens of Upper Devonian spongesfrom western New York ( 6601 3 )ARMSTRONG

,L. K . ( See under

Henry Fa i r. )ARNOLD , P . B Lavino Furnace Co.,

Sheridan. Pa . ( through Dr. E dgar T.

Wherry ) A specimen of manganeseore from Wassan district , UpperGuinea , western AfricaARSENE ,

BROTHER G S t . Paul’s College Covington,

La . : 726 plants fromLou isiana plant , Burma/nnia ,

from LouisianaARVIDSON

,KARL. ( See under Photo

gravure and Color Cc . )ASTORIA MAHOGANY CO.

Long Island Ci ty , N . Y. : 1 2 photographs showing the manufacture of

mahogany veneers ( 65873 )

1 48 REPORT or NATIONAL MUSE UM,1 921 .

ATKINS,JOHN R . , Da llas, Te n : 3

specimens of cacti from Texas

ATKINSON , C . M ., Florence, S . 0

United S tates si lver half dollar issued in 1 829

AUSTEN ,Maj . E . E . ( See under

Bri tish Government , British Museum(Na tura l

AUSTRALIAN I N S T I T U T E OF

TROPICAL ME DICINE , Townsville, North Queensland , Austra lia :

40 specimens, 1 2 species, of named

Australian insects ( 66587 )AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM

, Sydney , N .

S . W . , Austral ia : A collection of

crustaceans co llected by the“E n

deavour ( 66308 ) 51 fishes ( 66543,

exchange ) .

BACKE R , C . A . , Buitenzorg, Java : 2

specimens of S ol idago

BAILE Y , HAROLD H. ,Miami , F la . : 7

mice, P eromyscus, from Hog Island ,Va and a collection of miscel laneous beetles in a lcoholBAILE Y, Dr. L. H. ,

Ithaca ,N . Y. : 4

specimens of Venezuelan cacti , and

52 ferns from Trinidad and Venez uel a ( 66329, 20 specimensof cacti

,and 2 ferns from Trinidad

( 6661 2 , 6671 8, exchange ) ( throughM rs. Agnes Chase ) plant F uirena ,

from VenezuelaBAIN, Dr . and Mrs. H. FOSTER , Washington, D . (1 : Collection of minororiental art objects (49 specimens )( 65364 , loan ) .

BAIN, Mrs. H. FOS TER, Washington,

D . C. : 3 Chinese embroideredsquares and a yel low brocade satinimperial throne cushion,

collectionof vases , jars, etc. ( 66227 , 66464 ,loan ) .BAKE R, Prof. C . F . , College of Agriculture, Los Banos, P . I . ; 300 butterfl ies and moths from the PhilippineIslands 45 specimens of

Sphecinae (wasps ) , representing 1 4species, including types of

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species ; 58 specimens of Scol l inae

(wasps ) , representing 1 8 species, ihclud ing types of 7 species ; 4 spec imens of E l idinae (wasps ) represent

BAKE R, Prof. C. F .

— Continued.

ing 1 species new to the collection( 65465 ) 61 specimens, 31 species, ofmollusks from Luzon and Mindanao ,

P . I . ( 66249 ) 2 1 1 specimens of un

identified Ch rysidi idae ( c u c k o owasps ) , ma inly from the Philippines

BAKE R , Dr. FRANK 0 . ( S ee underI l linois, University of . )BALDWIN , RALPH ,

Clarendon, Va

Specimen of fungus, Amani ta stro

bi l iformis, from V i rginiaBALDWIN , S . W. , U . S . NationalMuseum : Chimney swift, Chaeturapel agica

BALLANTYNE , SAM , Bo ise, Idaho :Coll ection of fossi l plants fromMal heur County , Oreg ; a fossi l leafof P l a tanus from the same county( 65985,BANKS , Dr. C . S . , Bureau of S cience ,Mani la ,

P . I . ; 1 26 named mosquitoesfrom the Philippine Islands ( 66064 )skeleton of a shrew, P achyura

luz on/Lensis, from ManilaBARBER ,

M rs. A. W. , care H. S . Bar

ber, U . S . Department of Agr icul

ture : 1 2 minia ture bows collected onthe R osebud Indian Reservation,

South Dakota , in 1 900

BARBER , HERBERT S ., U . S . Depart

ment of Agriculture , Washington,

D . O. 3 specimens, 2 species, of landshells and 8 sma l l terrestria l isopodsfrom Plummer Island , Md . ( 66037 ,

( See a lso under E . A. S chwa rz . )BARBE R

,MANLY D . ,

Knoxville, Tenn229 specimens, 1 4 species, of freshwater mollusks from Tennessee

BARBOUR , Prof. E DW IN H. ( See

under Hon. Charles H. Morrill . )BARKE R , FRANK , Gem, Idaho : a new

species of minera l from the Tam

arach-Custer mine, Coeur'

d’AJene

D istrict , IdahoBAR LOW , Miss CATHER INE BRITTE N ,Washington, D . C . : Black s ilk lacesca rf bought in Brussels, and pre

sented in memory of the donor’s sis

ter, Mary E lizabeth Barlow



BE RLINE R,E M ILE ,

Washington, D .

C . : Photograph showing the gyrocopter in fl ight , June 1 0 , 1 920, Col

lege Park , Md. 2 gramophones, one of the commercial typeproduced in 1 893, and the other, thefirst electrica lly operated typewhich was devised by the donor

BE RNICE PAUAHI BISHOP MU

SE UM ,Honolul u , Hawa ii ( through

Dr. C . H. E dmondson ) : 1 0 Specimens, 6 species , of. crustaceans fromPa lmyra Island , collected by Dr. C .

M . CookeBE RRY , Prof. E . W .,

Johns HopkinsUniversity , Baltimore ,

Md. : Colleetion of type specimens of fossilplants from the Tertiary rocks of

M ississipp i , described in P rofes

siona l Paper 1 25A, U . S . GeologicalSurveyBE THE L , E LLSWORTH , S tate Museum,

Denver, 0 0 10 . ( through Dr. Frederick V. Coville ) : 73 plants fromthe western United S ta tesBE VE RLE Y, M iss LUCY S . Washington, D . C . : Pa ir of S ilver shoebuckles worn during the War of the

R evolution by L ieut . 0 0 1 . ThomasPosey, Seventh V irginia Regiment( 65884, loan) .

BIERBAUM , BEN , Powder R iver ,WyoPart of a lower jaw of Coryphodon

BIGE LOW, 0 0 1 . JOHN , U . S . Army ( retired ) , Washingt on, D . C. : Photograph of John Bigelow, minister toFrance , 1 865— 66BIRD , HENRY, Rye, N . Y. ; 1 0 spec imens of D ipteraBITTE RMAN , Capt . THEODORE , Med ica l Administra tive Corps , U . S .Army ,Washington,

D . C . : 3 specimens of

gl ass sponge Venus FlowerBasket ,”

E up l ectel la , speciesBLACKMORE , E . H Victoria , BritishColumbia , Canada : 50 specimens of

Lepidoptera col lected in British Columbia ( 65829 ) 30 moths co llectedby the donor in V ictoriaparatype of a spec imen of LepidOp

tera , E u lype a l bodecora ta . and a

specimen of Pyl a , species

BLAKE , Dr. S . F ., Bureau of Plant Industry, U . S . Department of Agriculture, Washington,

D . C . : 7 plants and6 spotted turtles from Massachusetts( 65408 , 65940 ) plant from the D is

triet of Co lumbia( See a lso T . S . Brandegee and New

York Botanical Garden )BLE ECKER , Rear Admiral J V U . S .

Navy ( retired ) , Morristown, N . J

( through Miss M . N . Bleecker ) : Acarved wooden idol from Oahu , Hawai ian Islands ( 65907 )

BLINCHO, Mrs. LAURA : A pitcher of

Alb ion ware made at Col bridge Pot

tery , Stafiordsh ire , E ngland ( 65303,loan ) .

BLUMENTHAL CO S IDNEY, NewYork City : 1 8 samples of upholstery ,dress, and millinery pile fabr ics( 66732 )

‘BOE TTCHE R ,Mrs. F . W. J Washing

ton, D . C . : Collection of plants

BOGOTA, COLOMBIA. ( See under

Institute de la Sa ll-e. )BONAPARTE ,

HERBARIUM OF ,

Prince ROLAND , P a r i s, F r a n c e( through Mr. H. Heuvrard, Curator ) 8 fragmentary specimens of

ferns from Costa R ica ( 66739,

E xchange.

BONATI , G. , Lure (Haute - Saone ) ,France : 400 plants, mainly fromChina and New Ca ledonia ( 66374 ,

exchange ) .

BOONE ,M iss PEARL L., Hya ttsville,

Md . : Plant from MarylandBOTANISCHE R GARTEN UND MUSE UM ,

Berlin-Dahlem bei S teglitz ,Germany : Fern from Ha iti ( 661 25 )4 fragmentary specimens of fernsfrom tropical America E x

change.

BOTANISCHE S MUSE UM , BerlinDahlem,

Germany : 5 plants, Selaginella ( 65543, E xchange )BOURNE , A. I . ( See under Massachusetts Agricultural College E x

periment S tation. )BOWEN , Mrs. E DNA,

Hanalei , Kauai ,Hawa i ian Islands : 87 Specimensrepresenting 40 spec ies of marinemollusks from the Hawa i ian Islands


BOWMAN , CHARLE S E . ( See underJohn J. Bowman. )BOWMAN , JOHN J. and CHARLE S E . ,

Lancaster , P a . : A watch , No . 49 of

the 50 made by E zra F . Bowman.

Lancaster, Pa ., the father of the

donors ,between 1 879— 1 881 . Marked

E . F . Bowman, Lancaster , Pa ., No.

49

BOYLE , JOHN , Jr Washington, D . CAmerican flag woven during the

World War from Navaho blanketyarn by Hosteen Nez Basa , an Ih

dian woman of New Mexi coBRADLE Y , Mrs. J. E . ,

Washington,

D . C . : Abnormal , soft-shelled egg of

a domestic fowlBRADSHAW , R . V . , E ugene , Oreg2 plants ( 65341 ) 4 plants from Ore

gon ( 65573, 65672 ) 3 Specimens of

plants, S a l im, and 2 plants from Ore

gon, including duplica te type of

E ucepha lus via l is ( 65745 ,plant , LeptotaeniaBRADY,

Mrs. SAM UEL, Los Angeles ,Cali f. : Specimen of sulphur foundon the surface of o ld machinery a t

F lint S teel Mill,Rockland , M ich .

BRAINERD , E RASTU S,Washington,

D . C. : Meda l of award of the

Alaska Yukon Pacific E xposi tion,

Sea ttle, Wash.,1 909

BRAND E GE E , T . S . , Department of

Botany , Universi ty 0 11 Cal ifornia ,

Berkeley , Calif. : 5 plants fromMex ico ( 65285 ) ( through Dr. S . F .

Blake ) 3 plants from Mexico ( 65407 ,

BRANNE R , Dr . J. C . , Little Rock ,Ark . ( through Dr. 0 . P . B ay ) : 3specimens of D iscinoid brachiopodfrom ArkansasBRAUN, ANNETTE F ., C incinnati , Ohio7 specimens of Mi crolepidoptera , ih

cluding 6 paratypes of 4 species

BRAUNTON , E RNE ST C ., Los Angeles,Ca li f. : 1 7 photographs of plants

BRICKER, JOSEPH W., Smi thville,Ohio : Photograph of a letter wri ttenby Gen. U . S . Grant to M rs . GeorgeWilliam Bricker, Apri l 1 1 , 1 863. re

1 51

BRICKER , JOSEPH W.— Continued .

gard ing her two sons in the Armyunder h is commandBRIDWE LL , J. C . , Bureau of E ntomol ogy, U . S . D epartment of Agriculture, Washington, D . C . : 31 parasitic wasps (3 species ) from the

Hawa i ian IslandsBRIGHAM , Dr . GERTRUDE , SmithsonianInstitution : Bronze memorial tabletdesigned by Charles Keck and castfrommetal recovered from the wreckof the U . S . S . Maine

BRIMLE Y , C . S . ( See under NorthCarol ina S ta te Depa rtment of Ag

ricu l ture. )BR ITISH GOVE RNMENT

Bri tish Museum (Natura l His

tory ) , London, E n g l a n d( through Maj . E . E . Austen ) 55

specimens, 21 of them cotypes ,representing 32 species of Mex ican D iptera 2 beetlelarvae, Henoticus ca l ifornicus

7 Ordovician cyst idsE xchange.

Imperia l Bureau of E ntomo logy,London, E ngland ( through Mr.

James Wa terson ) 1 0 specimensof African Tetrastichi representing 6 species, four of them co

typesH. M . Oflice of Works, London,

E ngland ( through S ir LionelE arle and the American Ambassador ) : Section of oak timberfrom the hammer-beam roof of

Westminster Hall , 4 photographs, 2 drawings, and 1 mimeographed copy of Notes uponthe H istory and Repa i rs to the

Roof,” by S ir Frank Ba ines

R oya l Botani c Gardens,Kew ,

Surrey , E ngland : 1 00 miscel l aneous plants ( 6294 ) E xchange.

(T h r o u g h War Department )Special sand b ag of the type usedby the Bri tish Army during theWorld War

BRITTON , Dr. N . L. ( See under NewYork Botanical Garden. )BROCKE TT , PAUL , Smithsonian Institution : E nlarged halftone, 7 dots tothe inch

1 52 RE PORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM,

BR OOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTSAND SCIE NCE S , CENTRAL MU

SEUM , Brooklyn, N . Y. ( throughCharles S chaeffer ) : B iological materia l with pupal cells and adult ofS agra beetles from India4 bats, D esmodus rotundus, alcoholies, collected on Asia Island ,PeruBROWN

,BENJAM IN 0 Pasadena ,

Ca lif. : 6 soft ground etchings , 1 in

brown and 5 in color, the work of

the donorBROWN

,EDWARD J. , Los Angeles ,

Ca lif. : 4 skins of sandpipers, E reunetes, from V irginiaBROWN , Lieut. 0 0 1 . F . W . , U . S .

Army, Washington,D . C . : 26 speci

mens of textile fabrics from the

Lake Lanao region, M indinao ,P . I .

( 6521 1 ; loan ) .BROWN

,WILL, San Bernardino ,

Ca lif. : Crystal of ax ini te ( 65256 ,

exchange ) .BROWNE , Mrs. AR THUR S Washington, D . C . : Chinese carved ivoryca rdcaseBRUE S , Dr. C . T . , Melrose H ighlands,Mass . ( through 0 . F . W . Muese

beck ) Paratype of Apm tel es ca/uda

tus and one of M icropl i tis stigma

ticus ( 66429 , exchange ) .BRYAN

,Maj . HARRY S .

, Springfiel d,

Ohio : Archeo logical objects and a

reproduction from the Valley of

Mex ico archeological material from the Va lley of Mexico( 65939, loan ) lacquered box , 2 documents, 5 samplers, and 2 co in dies

ethnologica l and rel igi ousspecimens ( 66049 , loan ) ; carvedlacquer gourd from Mex ico ( 661 22 )religious Mex ican h ierogl yphicpa inting and a pioneer band saw

( 661 93, loan ) ; obsidian blade fromMex ico ( 66704 , loan) .

BRYAN,KIRK, Tucson, Ariz . : 8 living

cacti from ArizonaBUCKINGHAM , M rs. B . F . , and MissI . C . FRE EMAN , Washington,

D . C6 ol d plaques, 2 caps, 2 handker

ch iefs, 2 embroidered dresses, and

2 petticoats, of the period of 1 81 2 ,

and a bronze statuette

BUDDINGTON ,A . F . ( S ee under

Princeton Universi ty, Department o fGeology. )

BUFFALO SOCIE TY OF NATURALSCIENCE S , Buffal o, N Y. : The typespec imen of the fossil turtle, Bystrananus ( 65488, exchange ) .

BULLBROOK, J. A Port-of -Spa in,

Trinidad, West Indies ( through D r .

T . Wayland Vaughan ) Collection of

invertebrate fossils from Trinidad ,

and a monkey skeletonBURCHARD , E . F U . S . Geo logicalSurvey, Washington, D . C . : 23 lotsof fossils from Pedatin district ,M indanao , and 4 lots from TayabasProvince, Lu z on, P . I .

BURLE SON , Hon. A. S ., PostmasterGeneral , Washington, D . C . : Sword ,scabbard , and belt , taken from the

body of a Mexi can bandit after thera id of Francisco V i lla on Co lumbus,New Mexi co , March 9, 1 91 6BURNE TT, JEROM E B ., University of

Nebraska , Depa rtment of Geology ,Linco ln, Neb Invertebrate fossilsfrom Colombia , South America , col

lected by M r. C. W. Washburne and

the donorBURT , Mrs. A. S . , Washington, D . CPortion of a right max i llary , carrying 2 teeth , of a Titanothere ( 65820 )BUSH, B . F ., Courtney , Mo. ; 1 37

plants ( 66364 ) 54 plants from M is

souriBUSHNE LL , D . I .

, jr.,Washington,

D . C . : Beaded cap , Scotch style ,

made by a Greek Indian in Georgiafor General Ga ines ( 65435, loan ) .

BYRNE , Co l . CHARLE S B . , U . S . Army,Washington, D . C . : 2 hardwood barsfrom the Casa Blanca , the reputedresidence of Ponce de Leon in PortoR icoBYRNE , Miss E LLEN ABERT, Washington, D . C . : Indian objec ts

CALADE RO PRODUCTS CO. , Atascadero, Calif. : 1 4 samples of dehy

drated fru its and vegetablesCALDERON, Seiior SALVADOR, Chiefof the Laboratory , D ireccion Generalde Agricul tura , San Sa lvador , E l

Salvador : About 30 insects fromCentral America ( 65307 ) 6 1 fishes,

Poeci l ids ( 66497


1 54 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM , 1 921 .

CARTERET BOOK CLUB , OF NEWARK

, THE , Newark , N . J. ( throughR udolph R uzicka ,

New York Ci ty )9 spec imens, comprising 4 engravedwood blocks and 5 proofs, des igned ,

engraved , and printed by RudolphRuzicka

CARTWRIGHT ,L. W. , Vallejo , Ca l if

A carved wooden image from the

Solomon Islands ( 65572 ) model ofSamoan outrigger canoe

CASE RESEARCH LABORATORY ,

Auburn,N . Y. ; Dyscrasi te sender,

receiver, and tube of the type furh ished the S ignal Corps, U . S . Army,subsequent to November 1 1 , 1 91 8

CASTE LLANOS , ALBERTO , B u e n o s

Ai res, Argentina : 5 specimens of

cacti ( 65535, exchange )CAUDE LL , A. N . ( See under Frederick Knab , E state of . )

CAWTHORN INSTITUTE OF SCIE NTIF IC RE SEARCH , THE ,

Nel

son,New Zealand ( through Dr. R . J

Til l yard ) : 78 species of Pyra l idae,a l l new to the Museum collections

CHAMBE RLAIN , EDWARD B . , New

York C ity : 2 specimens of pteridophyta from Dominica , BritishWest Indies( See a lso under Sullivant Moss

Society, The. )CHAMBERLAIN FUND

,FRANCES

LEA, Smi thsonian Institution : Col

lection of tourmal ines, cut and uh

cut,and other cut gems ( 65235 ) 3

cut blue z ircons 4 carvedjades ( 65783 ) 2 cabochons of Per

sian turquo ise ( 65785 ) 2 cut gems

each of Madagascar orthoclase and

wernerite, and 1 Austral ian opa l4 Austra l ian sapphires , 3

cut blue zircons from Queensland ,Austral ia ,

and a cut opal we ighingcarats, from Austra lia ( 6591 0 ,

66224 ,

CHAMPLAIN , A. B . ,Bureau of Plant

Industry, Harrisburg, Pa . : 33 specimens of parasitic Hymenoptera( 661 08 , exchange ) .

CHANDLER , Prof. ASA 0 . ( See

under R ice Institute , The. )

CHAN SLE R , WALTER S B i cknel l ,Ind. : 9 small mamma l skulls , and a

partial skeleton of a dog from E d

wardsport , Ind. ( 65252 ,

CHAPIN ,E . A. , Bureau of Animal Ih

dustry , U . S . Department of Agriculture, Washington , D . C . : 22 exoticbeetles, including 8 species new to the

Museum col lections ( 66 1 45, ex

change ) .

CHAPMAN, M rs. E . M .,Washington,

D . C . : Cincinna ti china teacup and

antique Mex ican cha i r

CHAPMAN , Dr. F . ,V ictoria , Aus

tra l ia : 5 lots of Tertiary bryozoansfrom Austra l ia

CHAPMAN , Mrs. R OBERT HOLLISTER ,Washington, D . C . E thnologica lspecimens and a

,lyre-bird ta il

CHASE , Mrs. AGNES , Department of

Agriculture, Washingt on, D . C . : 54

plantsS ee also under Dr. L . E . Bailey . )

CHASE , E NOCH A Washington,D . 0 .

Origina l trade-mark No . 1 , issued bythe U . S . Pa tent Office, October 25,1 870, to the Averill Chemical Pa intCo . ; a lso Patent Othee specification

for same ( 65684, loan ) .

C H I C A G O , UNIVE R S ITYY OF ,

WALKER MUSE UM , Chicago , I llCasts of type Specimens of invertebrate fossils in the Walker Mu

seum,made by Dr. R . S . Bassler

( 65569, exchange ) : 2 skulls of

D icera therium coohi from Aga teSprings, Nebr. ; casts of the skullsof E daphosaurus and D iadectes

from the Permian of Texa s, and a

collec tion of casts of type specimensof invertebrate fossils prepared byDr. R . S . Bassler ( 6601 4, exchange ) .

CHILDS , L. J. ,R ial ot , Ca lif. : Speci

men of the minera l bayldoni te fromR iverside County

,Ca lifornia

( 66570 )

CHINA, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ,

Peking, Ch ina ; V . K. T ing, D irector4 spec imens of fossil crabs, M corop

tha lmus l a trei l lei used as medicinein China (65587 )

LIST OF ACCE S S ION S .

CHRISTIAN IA, NORWAY , ZOOLOGISK MUSE UM OF THE UNIVE R S ITY : 2 snakes collected byCarl Lumhol tz in Borneo ( 66768 , exchange ) .

CLARK,AU ST IN H U . S . Na tional

Museum : Prehistoric shell impl e

ment from Barbados, West Indies

CLARK, B . P . , Boston, Mass : 263

exotic beetles

CLARK, H. WALTON . ( See underM issE liza Garvin. )

CLARKE , LOU IS C . G . , London, E ng

land : A sma ll jade t iki from New

Zea land , and a collection of neo

li thic stone implements from GreatBrita in, Ireland , and Greece ( 65772 ,

E xchange .

CLARKSON, GROS VE NOR B Washington,

D . C . : 2 Japanese vases

CLAUDE-JOSEPH BROTHER . ( See

under Instituto de l a Salle, CorreoNuiioa . Chile. )

CLEMENS , M rs. JOSEPH ,Greenville.

Cal if. : 6 plants 3 plantsfrom Cal ifornia

CLE VE LAND,M rs. FRANCIS D .

, Cam

bridge, Mass : The entire collectionof insects and rocks, and the sci

entific portion of the l ibrary of the

la te Dr. Joseph P . IddingsCLINTON, H. G .

, Manhattan,Net7

Collections of invertebrate fossilsfrom Nevada ( 65692 , exchange ) .

CLOKE Y , IRA W. , Denver, Colo. : 1 3

Colorado plants and 2 ferns ( 65689 ,

271 plants ( 661 1 0 , ex

change ) .

COCKE RE LL , Prof. T. D . A. , Boulder,Colo . : Bee , P oeci locona los q s, a

species and genus new to the Mu

seum collections 86 specimens of insects from E ngland , mostlynamed , and 4 pa ra types and 4 othernamed species of beetles from the

Seychelles Islands mol

lusks, marine invertebra tes , echinoderms, insects and plants from the

Madeira Islands ( 66057 , 66238.

shells, insects, and fl ies.

beetles, and plants ( 66 1 74,

1 55

COLE , E LM ER E . ,Washington, D . 0

Powder horn w ith ca rved cap and

spout , used in the early fifties byThoma s Smiley ,

M e a d v i l l e , P a .

( 65507 , loan ) .COLE ,

M iss LILLIAN A. ,Union,

Me

1 1 plants ( 66356 ,COLE GIO D EL SAGRADA CORAZON

,Guantanamo , Oriente, Cuba

( through BrotherHioram) 26 fernsfrom Cuba

COLE GIO D E SAN PEDR O APOSTOL

,Cartegena , Colombia ( through

Brother Heriberto ) 1 61 Colombianplants ( 65449,

COLLE GE OF PHYS ICIANS AND

SURGE ONS .

( See under Columbia University. )COLONIAL DAMES OF AME RICA ,

NATIONAL SOCIE TY OF , Washingt on,

D . C . ( through Mrs. CarolynG ilbert Benjamin ) : Lady’

s fan of

the colonial period ol d

E nglish china pitcher presented bythe poet James Montgomery to the

journa list, Joseph Galesuniform coat , vest , breeches, and

sash worn during the French and

Indian Wars by Capt. E l y D ag

Worthy of the British Army (66546 )miscellaneous relics of the colonialperiod ( 66552 ) 4 documents of the

eighteenth century glasstumbler owned by George Washington ( 66626 ) collection of uniformsof the type worn by Americanwomen,

members of war organizations during the World War , 1 91 44

1 91 8 ( 66674, loan ) .

COLON IAL WARS , GENERAL So o

CIE TY OF ( through W. W. Ladd,Governor Genera l , New York C ity )Bronz e war service insignia and

cert ificate for civil ian service of the

type issued by the General Societyof Colonial Wars to members of the

society in recognition of patrioticservices rendered to the UnitedS tates during the World War , 1 91 7

1 91 9

COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINE S ,Depa rtment of Geology, Golden,

Colo. : 1 9 specimens of zeoli tes fromNorth Tabl e Mountain, nea r Golden,

Colo . (66695, exchange ) .


COLORADO STATE MUSE UM , D en

ver , Co lo. : 8 plants from New Mex

ico

COLORADO ,UNIVE R S ITY OF , D e

partment of B iology , Boul der , Col o26 plantsCOLTON COMPANY, ARTHUR ,

D e

troit , M ich : Ah automa tic tabletmachine complete With punches ,dies, and electric moto r ( 66765, deposit ) .COLUMBIA UNIVE RSITY, COL

LE GE OF PHYSICIAN S AND

SURGE ONS , New York, N . Y.

( through Dr. George S . Hunt ington ) 1 72 cases of skeletal material( 66480, exchange ) .

COMME RCE ,DE PARTMENT OF

Coast and Geodetic Survey : 53

bottom samples taken duringthe summer of 1 91 9 by the

Coast and Geodetic Surveysteamer Surveyor on passagebetween Norfo lk , Va ., and San

D iego , Ca lif., via PanamaCana l chronoscope ;dip circle, bought between 1 848

and 1 885 ; verticl e circle, boughtbetween 1 885 and 1 893 ; geo

detie level , and an astronomica ltransit , 46 inches, purchasedbetween 1 848 and 1 852

Bureau of F isheries: 1 0 Turbellarian worms taken from oysterscollected on Port Ingl is oysterbar , near Cedar Key. F l a .

2 plants. Opuntia ,from North Carol ina25 juvenile forms of crabs,Uca. pugi la tor , from the sandybeach south of D iver’s Island

,

Beaufort, N . C . ap

prox imately fishes col

l ected by the steamer A l ba trossin Philippine waters ( 65731 ) 1 5

specimens of dried sponges fromIkatan Bay, Unimak Island ,Alaska , collected by WardenJoseph N . Braun ( 65787 ) ; 360 +

lots of sponges collected by thesteamer Al batross, 250 of

them from the Al batross Hawa iian Cruise of 1 902 , and 1 1 0 4

from the E astern Pacific Cruise

COMMERCE , DE PARTME NT OF

Continued.Bureau o f F isheries— Continued.

of 1 904- 5 type specimen of Peristedion gi l berti

9 skulls of fur seals,Ca l lorhiwus, from St. PaulIsland , and 25 sku l ls and 1

skeleton of fur seals from S t.

George Island ( 65959 ) 6 skullsof branded 8-year ol d fur seals,Ca l lorhinus, from the P rib il off

Islands, Alaska skel e

ton of a leather back turtle,and 72 crustaceans ( 1 5 speciesof amphipods and 5 species of

isopods ) , al l from Wood’s Hole,Mass. ( 65977 , ( throughSamuel W . Geiser ) 5 specimensof a new species of aniph ipod

from Chesapeake Bay, collectedby the steamer F ish Ha/wk

specimen of croaker,M icropogon undu la tus ( her

maphroditie ) (661 40 ) 7 typespecimens of 1 6 cotypes of new

mala-copterygi an fishes ( 66257 )a miscellaneous l ot of fishes fromthe Potomac R iver and its tributaries 2 1 1 specimens,38 lots, of mollusks, Sphaeri idae,

from Iowa 54 Specimens, 1 species, of l andsh el l s

from Key West, F l a . ( 66455 ) a

miscellaneous collection of ma

rine invertebrates, starfishes ,

mollusks, fi sh , and stomach con

tents of fish from Alaska , together with 8 lots of unidentifiedPhi l ipp ine sponges ( 66605 ) 4

microscopic slides and 2 vials of

cestode worms including the typeand cotypes of P hyl l obothriumtumidum ( host Carcharodon ca/r

eharias ) and the type of P hyl lo

bothrium l o l igih/is from a sword~

fish

( See also under N . H. Cowdrey,and Dr. A. R . S tubbs. )

Bureau of F oreign and D omestic

Commerce: A skein of tussahsilk, Two Deer Brand , producedby the Chun Yi F ilature of

Mukden, Manchuriasamples of mica from China



CROSTHWAITE ,Miss FORE ST M

Washington, D . C. : Military equ ipment owned during the Mex icanWar by Lieut. Baldwin H. Crosswa it , Third Oh io Infantry ; lady

’

s

riding saddle of the period of the

R evolution, and riding-hab it coat ofthe period of the C ivil War ; 2 Ger

man religious books of the eighteenth century ; and miscellaneousnatura l h istory materia l

CROTHE R ,A. H.,

Laurel , Md . : E gret,Herodias egretta , from Maryland

CURRAN ,HOWARD , Or il lia , Ontario,

Canada : 4 fl ies

CURTIS PUBLISHING CO., Phil adel

phia , Pa . ( through Perry R . Longand William S lagle ) : 98 printedproofs of four-color work and 24

prints as they come from the press,printed in two colors on both sides

CURTIS S AEROPLANE AND MOTOR CORPORATION , Garden City ,

Long Island , N . Y. ; Photographs of

a irplanes E agle, Wasp, and Oriole

CUTLE R ,M r. and Mrs. RUSSELL G . ,

Kanab , Utah : Archeologica l objectsfound while digging a cellar in

Kanab , UtahCZECHO-SLOVAK ARMY IN RUSSIA

,ARTILLERY SECTION , Vlad i

vostok , S iberia ( through the Quartermaster Corps, U . S . Army ) Rus

sian 3-inch gun captured w ith the

armored tra in Orlik from bolshevik forces by Cz echo-S lovak troops,July

, 1 91 8 , and used by the latter intheir defense of the Trans-S iberianRa ilroad , 1 91 8— 1 920 ( 65821 )DALL , Dr. W. H. , U . S . GeologicalSurvey , Washington, D . C . : Art istproof wood-engraving of Asa Grayby Gustav Kruel ( 1 843— 1 907 )

( See a lso under J G. Malone, andC . R . Orcutt. )DANIE L

, R OBERT E . L. ,Moqui Indian

Agency , Keams Canon, Ariz . : 7sheets of drawings in color il lustrating triba l myths of the K iowa In

dians, Fort S ill, Okla ., an earthen

DANIE L , R OBERT E . L.

— C ontinued .

ware jar from Marsh Pass, and a

stone figurine of ancient Pueblomanufacture

DARBY, M iss CHARLOTTE L FallsChurch , Va . z House wren, Troglo

dytes aedon,from Virginia

DAR LING , NANCY, Woodstock , V t

Fern,Polystichum adiamtiforme

,

from FloridaDAVIDSON , Dr. A. ,

Los Angeles,Calif. : Plant , P etrophyton, fromCa lifornia ‘

8 plants fromCa lifornia ( 65777, 66642 ) 1 0 plants( 65253,DAVIDSON , W. M Vienna

, Va . z Syr

phus fly, from southern Ca lifornia ,

collected by the donorDAVIS , Prof. DONALD W. ( See underE astern S tate Hospita l , Wil liamsburg, Va . )DAVIS , R ev. JOHN , Hann iba l , Mo

31 7 plants ( 65402 ,DAVIS , J. J., R iverton E ntomologicalLaboratory , R iverton,

N . J 23 paratypes of 8 species and varieties of

'

May-beetles, P hyZZOphaga ( 65344 )

DAY , Prof. A. L. ( See under Philippines , University of . )DAYTON -WR IGHT Co.

,Dayton,

Ohio : Isometric plan of D e Haviland 4 battle plane, show ing milita ryequipment (3 copies )

BEAM , CHARLE S C ., B luffton,

Ind. : 1 7

plants 9 plants, S e l egi

nel la , from the United S tates and

Canada ( through W . W.

E ggleston ) 66 plants from Ind iana

D EAM , Miss ROBERTA E . ( See underMichigan, Universi ty of , Museum of

Zoology. )DEAN ,

F . A. W Al l iance, Ohio :‘ 5

specimens representing 5 spec ies of

mollusks ( 65208 ) wh ite metal tokencommemora ting the Hudson-Fultoncelebration, 1 909 , and 2 bronzemedalets commemorating the Lin~

coln centennia l , 1 909D E GOLYE R , E ., Chief Geologist,Compania Mexicana E l Aguila , S . A.,

New York City ( through Dr. T.

Wayland Vaughan ) Type specimenof the fossil pelecypod , S auvagesiadego lyem

LIST or ACCE SSIONS . 1 59

DE INARD , E phraim, Arlington, N . J

Collection of objects of Jewish and

Mohammaden religious ceremonial,consist ing of textiles, specimens of

wood , stone, copper, brass, silver,and manuscripts, ch iefly from Palestine ( 255 specimens ) ( 65324 , loan) .

DEMERARA BAUX ITE CO.

Philadelphia , Pa . : Samples of British Guiana bauxite

D E NEALE , M iss E DNA,Washington,

D . C. : Ah American Hornbookpa inted on bone ( 65390, loan ) .

DENSLOW, Rev. E . M ., New YorkCity : Plant, Listera, from New York( 66571 , exchange ) .

D E RONCERAY, M iss MAR I E E STE LLE ,Smi thsonian Institution : 3 chinadol l heads, and a l ot of doll clothes,a l l of the period o f 1 870 , and a laceshawl worn in Porto R ico between1 858 and 1 864 by M rs. Charles deR onceray (Henrietta R a s a 1 e e )

D E SPRE Z , Mme. PAUL, P a r i s ,

France : Gold mounted and jeweledsword presented by the city of Philadelphia to Maj . General George B .

McCl el lan in 1 86 1

DE TMERS , Miss FREDA , Ohio Agr icultura l E xper iment S tation, Woos

ter , Ohio : PlantDE TWILE R, FREDERICK KNECHT, NewYork C ity : 6 wa ter-color drawingsby the donor showing the construetion of wooden ships in the UnitedS tates shipyard at Noank , Conn ,

during the World War, 1 91 8

DE UTSCHE S ENTOMOLOGISCHE SMUSE UM , Berlin-Dahlem, Germany( through Dr. Wa lther Horn ) : 1 96sawfl ies

DE VE RE UX ,M rs. J. RYAN , Chevy.

Chase, Md. : Ha rp pianoDEWE Y

,Dr. WILLIAM A. ( See under

Dr. Mary E . Hanks and Dr. LynnArthur Martin. )DIAMOND FLUORSPAR CO Kar

bers R idge, I ll. ; Specimen of fluor

sparDICKENS , Mrs. E . W Washingt on,

D . C . : 1 5 pieces of American h is

torica l chinaware ( 66092 , loan) .71 305

°-21 1 1

D IRE CCION D E E STUDIOS BIOLOGICOS . ( See under Mexi canGovernment. )

D IRE CCION GENERAL D E AGRICULTURA. ( See under Gua temala . )DOBBIN , FRANK,

Shushan, N. Y. ; 55

plants from New YorkDODGE OLCOTT CO., New YorkCi ty : Sample of bay leaves, P imento,

mom’

s, and 6 medicina l oils ( 65343,

DOGNIN , PAUL, Wimil l e, France : 200specimens of pyralidae ( l epidopterous insects )DOUGHTY , EDWARD CROSBY, Will iamstown, Mass : Framed photographic enlargement on Japanese

t issueDUKE S , W. C. , Mobile, Al a . : 1 0 specimens of a moth , Aegeria teppezri ,

new to the Museum col lections

DUNN,L. H., Ancon,

Cana l Zone : 8mosqu itoes fly, P seudol

fersia mexicana.

DUPLAN SILK CORPORATION,New

York C ity : 7 samples of noveltysilk fabric woven at Hazleton,

Pa .

DU PONT DE NEMOUR S CO., E . INew York City: An embossed bookb inding of fabrikoid

,in imi ta tion of

lea therDUTTON, D . LEWIS , Brandon, Vt. : 1 7

plants, chiefly from Vermont

DYAR, Dr. H. G. , U. S . Na t iona l Museum : 350 crane fl ies from the Pa

cific NorthwestEARLE , CHARLE S T. , Palma Sola ,

F l a . : A collection of fragmentarybones and teeth of fossil vertebrates

22 specimens of fragmentary bones and teeth from the Pleistocene of Florida( See a lso under Harry Wa lling ) .

EARLE , CHARLE S T . , and HARRYWALLING, Palma Sola , F l a . : Fossi lbones and teeth from B ishops Har

bor , F l a .

EARLE , S ir LIONEL . ( See underBrit ish Government, H,

M , Othee of

Works. )

1 60 RE PORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM ,1 921 .

EASTERN STATE HOSPITAL , Will iamsburg, Va . ( through Prof. D onald W. Davis ) Portions of a fossilwhale skeleton

E BE RT , 0 0 1 . R . G ., Vancouver, WashPlant , V a n c o u v e r i a hemandm

E C L I P S E E LE CTROTYPE EN

GRAV ING CO., THE , Cleveland ,Ohio : A chart showing the var ioushalftone screen effects, 5 photographs, and some miscellaneouspamphlets ( 1 5 specimens )

E DMONDSON , Dr. C . H. ( See underBernice Pauah i B ishop Museum,

Honolulu , Hawai i. )E GBE RT ,

A. O Prescott , Ariz .

( through F . L. Hess ) : Specimen of

hewetti te in gypsum from ParadoxVa l ley , M o n t r o s e County , Colo .

E GGLE STON, W. W. ( See underCharles C. Beam. )

E IGE NMANN, Dr . C . H. ( See underIndiana University Museum. )

E LLIOTT ,WILLIAM E . ,

Chicago ,1 1 1 .

( through F . L. Hess ) : Sample of

rock show ing the occurrence of radioactive minerals, and a small piece of

pitchblendeE LLIS , L. L. , Oruro , Bol ivia ( throughF . L. Hess ) : Specimen of crystall iz ed wolframite and 1 o f cassiteritefrom Bolivia

E LLSWORTH , E . K. ( See underCouncil of Na tional Defense. )

E LLSWORTH, LINCOLN , New YorkC ity : A p iece weighing 78 poundscut from the Owns Va lley, Calif. ,meteorite ( 66591 , exchange )

EMERY,D . L. , S t. Petersburg, F l a

50 specimens, 3 species, of Crepidula ,and 1 1 lots of marine shells fromthe west coast of Florida ( 65862 ,

3 spec ies of marine shellsfrom St . Petersburg and LongboatInl et, West Florida 7

species o f ma rine shells from southwest Florida , between Longboa t Inl et .and Caseys Pass, and 1 speciesfrom' San D iego C o u n t y , Cal if.

4 specimens of mollusks,Ma/rgi/nel la ,

1 of them from Gulfport, F l a . , and 50 specimens of D e

trecia bu l loides, 1 of them fromBoca Ce iga Bay, F l a .

ENGBE RG , Dr . C . 0 University of

Nebraska , Lincoln, Nebr. : 2 1 lots of.

mollusks from the west coast of theUnited S tates ( 65632 ) 1 2 specimensrepresenting 3 species of marineshell s from Olga , Wash.

5 specimens, 1 species, of freshwatermoll usks from Fidalgo Island , and 1alga

ENGE LHARDT , GEORGE P ., BrooklynInstitute of Arts and S ciences,Brooklyn, N . Y. ; 1 00 specimens of

Mi crolepidoptera from Long Island ,N . Y. 3 specimens of rob

ber fl ies collected by the donor at

Great Falls, Va ., October, 20, 1 920

ENTOMOLOGICAL'

SOCIE TY OF

WASHINGTON . ( See under Prof.Otto S cheerpel tz and Prof. Emi lMocz arski . )

E PLE R ,M rs. LULU HILLEARY , Govans,

Balt imore, Md . : 2 glass decantersformerly owned by Henry Clay

ESTACION AGRONOMICA DE

HAINA , Santo Domingo , DominicanRepublic 43plants ( 66729 )

E VANS , Prof. ALEXANDER W. , OsbornBotani cal Laboratory , Yale University, New Haven, Conn. : Specimen of

hepa t ic from JamaicaE VANS , VI CTOR J. , Washington,

D . C

2 hand-print cloths of the Moros,Philippine Islands ( 66280, ex

change ) .

FAIR,HENRY

, Spokane, Wash .

( through M r . L. K. Armstrong )Basalts from the environs of Spo

kane , Wash .

FAIRMAN,CHARLE S E . , Washington,

D . C. : 4 gum prints and 1 platinumprint

PANTUS , BERNARD ,Ch icago , Ill. : 49

specimens i llustrating candy medica~

tion for childrenFARWE LL , OLIVER A., Detroi t , Mi chP lant , Amara/nthus, from Michigan

( 65429 ) plant , from M ississippi

FAWCETT , C . T. , Fawcett Gap, Va

Grooved stone ax and 9 chipped ar

rowheads collec ted at Fawcett Gap,Va .


1 62 RE PORT or NATI ONAL MUSEUM ,1 921 .

FOUR WHE E L DRIVE AUTO CO.,

THE ,Clintonville Wis. : Model of

four-wheel-drive ammunition truckof the type used by the Uni tedS tates Army during the World Wa r

FOX , R . A.,Dawson, Yukon, Canada .

Specimen of asbestos

FRAME , A. M . , Sutton, W . Va . z Specimen of pisoli tic siderite ( 661 72 )FRANK

,CHARLE S L. , Washington , D

C . : 300 Japanese match-box labelsprinted in color and in black and

white l ithograph by JulesArnout

O

partly printed in color ,partly colored by handFRE EMAN , Miss I . 0 . ( See underMrs. B . F . Buckingham. )FRE EMAN , O. M ., Washington, D . C

4 plants from the D istrict of Co.

lumbia ( 65405, 65741 ,

FRENCH GOVE RNME NT :Bureau of Informa tion, New YorkCity ( through Maj . Jean Ma lye

,

D irector ) M ilitary rel ics of theWorld War ( 47 specimens )

FRENCH , Col . WILLARD ( through Mrs.

Lou ise D . French , Washington, D .

C . ) Mechanica l navigator— a mathematica l instrument for the purposeof solving a l l problems in Sphericaltriangles which arise in navigation( 65609, loan ) .

FRIE SE , Dr. H., S chwerin,Meckl en

burg, Germany : 45 specimens, rep

resenting 30 Species , of bees ( 66299 ,exchange ) .

FROST , C . A Framingham,Mass

Male cotype of weevil, A l bandrusbrevieornts

FROST , G. ALLAN , Tubbenden Cot

tage, Farnborough , Kent , E ngland1 3 specimens of E nglish S ilurianand Mesozoic fossils ( 66454, ex

change ) .FROST , S . W. , S choo l of Agricultureand E xperiment S tat ion, the Pennsylvania S tate College, Arendtsvi l le,P a . z 1 95 specimens of parasiticHymenopteraFURTH , CHARLES . ( See under Photogravure and Color Co. )

GAE R STE,Dr. THOMAS , Cura cao ,

Dutch West Indies : 2 cicadas, F idicine bogotam ( 65464 ) katydid , b elongi ng to the group Pseudophyl l inae, and a l izard , Anohis l ineatus beetle , Ligyrus joaaor

GAINE S , MARSHALL R . ( See underDr. Y. H irase. )GALE , HOYT S Hollywood ,

Los An

geles, Calif. : Samples of thenarditefrom R hodes Marsh , E smera ldaCounty

,Nev.

GALLAUDET AIRCRAFT CORPORATION ,

E ast Greenwich , R . IOrig inal Ga l laudet hydroplanemodel

GANDOGE R ,Dr. MICHEL , Arnos

(Rhone ) par V illefranche , France5 plantsGARDENER

,M rs. HELEN H. ( See

under Na tional American Woman’

s

Suffrage Associat ion. )GARFIE LD

,ABRAM . ( S ee under M rs.

G . S tanley-Brown. )GARFIE LD , Dr. HARRY A . ( See un

der M rs. G. S tanley-Brown and

W il liams College. )GARFIE LD

,IRW IN McD . ( See under

M rs. G. S tanley~Brown. )GARFIE LD , JAME S R . ( See underM rs. G. S tanley-Brown. )GARMAN , Prof. H.

,Kentucky Agri

cultura l E xperiment S tat ion, Lex

lugton,Ky . z Plant , and 2 micro

sc0pic sl ides conta ining fresh-waterE ntomostraca from Frankf ort , Ky.

( 651 91 ,

GARRE TT , Prof. A. O. , Sal t LakeCi ty, Utah : 2 plants, S elaginel la ,

from Utah ( 65362 ,GARRE TT , C . , Cranbrook , BritishColumbia , Canada : 300 mosquitoes

GARVIN , Miss E LIZA,Fort Wayne,

Ind . ( through H. Walton Clark ) :1 44 specimens of Japanese algae, 8bryozoans, and 5 hydrozoans ( 66502 ,

GE D E IST, OLIVER . ( See under Monitor S tove Co The. )

GE E , Prof . N. GIST, Summerton, S . C

84 specimens representing 32 speciesof marine mollusks from China

LIST OF ACCE SSION S .

GE E , Prof. N. GIs'r— Continued .

1 6 vials of insects and 7

vials of crusta ceans ( 66488 ) l ot of

fresh water sponges from a fish pondand 3 fragmentary specimens of

mi llipeds from Summerton, S . C .

GE ISE R,SAMUEL W . ( See under

Commerce, Department of , Bureauof F isheries. )

GERMAN SOUTH POLAR EXPEDITION ,

The Berlin, G e r m a n y( through Prof. Dr. R . Hartmeyer )23 Antartic crinoidsGEROULD , Dr . JOHN H. , Hanover ,N . H. : 4 braconids, Apanteles flavi

conchaeGERSTENBE RG , E . , Washingt on,

D . C . : Skull of a hippopotamus

GIDLE Y, J. W. , U . S . National Mu

seum : 1 6 cacti from Ar izona ( 66260 ,

GIE S , Mrs. EDWARD L . ,Washingt on,

D . C. : Chinese carved sandalwoodfan in a lacquer boxGIFFARD , WALTER D . ,

Honolulu ,Hawa i i : 83 specimens , 68 species , ofma rine shells from Hawai i ( 65499 )GILBRE TH , FRANK B . Montclai r , N . J 9 photographs i l lustrating motion study and el imination o f

fatigue in industryGILKE Y , Miss HELEN M . ( See underOregon Agricultura l College . )GILL , M rs. MARY WRIGHT

,Washing

ton, D . C. : A Florence lock-stitchsew ing machine

,No . 69948 ( 65529 ,

deposi t ) ; a blue-and-white doublewoven coverlet ( 66 1 43, exchange ) .GILMER , Capt. W . W . , U . S . Navy, U .

S . Naval S tation, Guam : Skull bonesfound about a half mi le north of thevillage of Yona , between the Pagoand Yl ig rivers, GuamGILPIN , LANGDON CO.

Baltimore,Md . : Specimen of sassa

fras pithGLE ISSNE R , Dr. MAX J. , U . S . Geo

logical Survey , Washington, D . CSpecimen of lava from the 1 920

K ilauea fl ow

GLOVER , Dr. NORMAN C . ( See underAmerican Osteopath ic Associa tion ) .

1 63

GLUCKSTE IN , Mrs. SOPHIA R oos ,

Washingt on, D . 0 . ( through her

daughters Fannie and N ina Gluckstein . Print on si lk , “Apotheos is o f

ShakespeareGOCHENOUR , Dr . DAVID T . , S tuartsDraft , Va . z 38 specimens, 8 species ,

of mollusks, including the type of a

new subspecies , from the Philippines

GODDARD , Dr . H. S . , Vancouver,Wash : Female Indian skull , foundin the hills near the Yakima IndianR eservation, Wash . ( 65452 ) 5

chipped bladesGODING ,

D r . F . W . , American ConsulGeneral , Guayaquil , E cuador : 1 321specimens of Homoptera ,

including38 of C icadell idae, 58 of Ci cad idae ,850 of Membracidae , 300 of. C icopidae, and 75 of FulgoridaeGORDON , ALEXANDER , JR .

,Balt imore,

Md S i lver punch bowl w ith tray,

ladle, and 1 0 mugs, presented to

0 0 1 . George Armistead by cit iz ens of

Baltimore in recognition of h is serv:ices in connection w ith the defenseof Fort M cHenry, aga inst the British a ttack in 1 81 4

GORDON , Mrs. MARY E . ,E ast Frank

l in,Me. : Copy of the souveni r news

paper ent itled Boston, 1 630— 1 880”

issued by R and Avery Co . , Boston,

September 1 7 , 1 880GOTE BORGS BOTANISKA TRADGARD

, GGTEBORG , sw E D E N ,

S tora Anggarden, Dr . Carl Shottsberg, Director : 84 ferns, ma inl yfrom Juan Fernandez ( 65520 , ex

change ) .

GOTTSCHALK , ALFRED LOU IS IVIOREAU( through M rs. Louise Josephine Gottschalk , executrix , New York C ity )Sma ll collection of antiquities, ihcluding specimens of Inca potteries,Aztec idol , Trojan' lamps, etc. , pot

tery and porcela ins from SpanishAmerica ,

E astern brasses , and a col

lection of miscellaneous ‘

arms , bequeathed to the Na tional Museum in

memory of the late Prof. O tis T .

Mason


GRAHAM , M rs. A. F . , Wash ington,D .

C . : S ilk patchwork quilt embroid

ered w ith Odd Fellow emblems,made by M rs. E liza R oz enkrantz

Hussey , grandmother of M rs. Gra

ham, about 1 845 ( 65537 , loan) .

GRAHAM,DAVID C . , Suifu , Szechuan,

China : Coll ection of insects, reptilesand batrachians, shells, 8 birds, 2mammals, 2 crabs, 2 fishes, an eel ,

and parasitic worms fos

sils and insects from China ( 66009 )bird skins , fossi ls, insects, a leech ,a bat and a reptile from China

GRANT, J. M . , Langley , Wash : 45

plants, and 1 50 specimens of cryptogamic plants from the westernUnited S ta tes ( 661 92 ,GRAVE S

,E . W . , Bentonsport , Iowa

74 plants from Iowa 72

plants ( 66275, exchange ) .

GRAY,L. J Iron C ity , Tenn. : Phos

phatic minerals from Iron Ci ty ,

Tenn.

GRE ENE,F . C . , Tul sa , Okla : 1 5

ferns from Oklahoma and M issouri ;plant, Ophioglossum,

from Kansas ;plant , S elaginel l a , from Oklahoma( 65349 , 65427 ,

GRE ENE , GEORGE M ., Philadelphia ,

Pa . : D ipterous gall on stem o f

ha ckberry , Cecidomyia ,new species

GRE GE R ,D . K . , Fulton, M o . : Speci

men of ammoni te from PettisCounty, M o . ( 65275 , exchange ) ; 3blastoids from the Carboniferous of

Oklahoma , and 1 crino id from the

Carboni ferous of Texas ( 66202 , ex

change ) ; an exhibition specimen of

cephalopod from the Lower M ississippian of M issouri fossilcrino id , Cactocrinus

,from Marion

Count , Mo . ( 66462 , exchange ) .

GRIFFIN , W. W.,Paskenta ,

Ca lifSkin of a gopher, Thomomys, fromPaskentaGRIFFITH , CHAU NCEY H.

, New YorkCi ty : Martin Luther B ible, da ted1 748

GRIME S , M rs. G . S Washington, D .

0 . ( through George Harris ) 1 blacknegative silhouette, made about theyear 1 895

GUATEMALA , GOVE RNMENT OF

D irecc zon Genera l de Agricu l ture ,

Gua temala Ci ty ( through S enorD on A d 0 1 t o Tonduz ) : 358

plants, ferns, and cacti fromGuatemala ( 6626 1 , 66371 , 66421 ,66476 , 66602 )

GUGGENHE IM BROS .,New York

C ity ( through F . L. Hess ) Copperminerals from Chuquicamata ,

Chile

GUITE RRE Z , Sefior JOSE N . ,Campo

Duran, Province de Sa lta ,Argen

tina , via Embarcacion ( through Dr.E dwin K irk ) : Bead pouch , 4 cordbeaded bracelets, and 2 earrings

GUNNE LL , L. C . , Smi thsonian Institut ion : 27 specimens of halftonecolor printing

HAAGNE R ,A . K. , Pretoria , Union of

South Africa : Skin of a monkey ,Lasiopyga pygerythm , from NorthRhodesia , Africa ( 65892 )

HABE RYAN , H. D Fa rmersville, LaD ragonfly, P rogomphus, s p e c i e s( 66 1 89 )

HAITI , RE PUBLIC OF ,Department

of Public Works, Office of the E ngineer in Chief, Port au Prince, Ha iti( through Di rector of the U . S . Geo

10 gica1 Survey , Washington ,D . C . )

6 boxes of geological ma terial co ll ected in Ha iti by Wendell P . Woodring (66093) 1 7 boxes of geologicalmateria l from the Republic of Ha it i

HALE , Prof. GEORGE E . ,Mount Wilson

Solar Observatory , Pasadena , Cal if2 photographs of the moon

HALL , M rs. CARLOTTA C ., Berkeley ,

Ca lif. : 3 plants, S e laginel l a , fromColoradoHALL , Prof. H. M . ( See under Cal ifornia , University of , Department ofBotany . )

HAMILTON WATCH CO. , Lancaster,P a . z Framed panel of parts used inHamilton watches ( 66052 )HAMLIN, JOHN , Miami , F l a. : Maleand fema le specimens of the fly

Neorondwm'

a



HAYE S , WILLIAM MCKIM , Baltimore,Md . : A l ot of 1 5 pieces representingcetaceans, and several sha rk’s teeth ,from Calvert M iocene Cl iffs, just bel ow Chesapeake Beach , Md.

HAYNE S,CAROLINE C . , Highlands, N .

J 29 specimens of Hepa ticae fromthe United S tates plant ,S el aginel la, from CaliforniaHAZEN , Prof. T . E . , Barnard College,Columbia University, New YorkCity : 26 photographs of Tr inidadplantsHEATON

,Mr . and Mrs. FRANKLIN A. ,

Kanab , Utah : Archeologi cal objectsfrom a cave on the east slope of

Mount Trumbull , northwestern ArizonaHE BARD

,MORGAN , Ph iladelphia Acad

emy of Na tura l S ciences, Ph il adelphia , Pa . z 1 30 specimens of NorthAmerican O rthoptera from the private collection of Mr . Hebard( 65791 , exchange ) .

HEBE RLE IN , C . A Supai , Ar iz . : 1 4specimens of lead and vanad iumminerals ( 6671 5, exchange) .

HE IDEMANN , Mrs. MICA, ChevyChase, Md . : Gold wa tch , thin model ,silver dia l , Swiss make, about theperiod of 1 860

HE IGHWAY, Dr . A. E . , Alexandria ,

Va . z Samples of tin ore from BattleMountain,

Nev and of wulfenitefrom Tecoma ,

Nev. ( 65265 ) 2 specimens of powelli te replacing mol ybdemite specimen of longfibered chrysotile asbestosHE IKE S , V ICTOR 0 . ( See underGeorge H. Short and W. H. Wey

her. )HE ITMULLE R

,ANTON

,Washington,

D . C . : Indian beads, crucifix , woodcarving, horn spill holder, brasscandlestick , brass swivel lamp , and

poker ( 66434,HE LLE R , A A. , Chico, Ca lif. : 6 plantsfrom Oregon’

and Cali fornia ( 6631 7HE LSINGFORS

,FINLAND

,LABO

RATOR IUM ZOOLOGICUM UNIVE R SITATIS ( through Dr. Va l ioKorvenkontio ) : 8 skulls and

{

1 3

skins of sma ll mamma ls from F in

land ( 66535, exchange ) .

HENDERSON, JOHN B . , Washington,

D . C . : Sponge, hydro id , 8 annelids,1 70 crustaceans , mollusks, 3ascidians, 1 5 fishes, 5 fungi , echinoderms, and about 50 fossi ls collectedin Hawa i i by Messrs . Henderson and

BartschHENRY

,M iss CAROLINE , Washington,

D . 0 . ( through American SecurityTrust 1 69 pieces of Japa

nese blue porcela in ( 66550, be

quest ) .

HENSHAW , HENRY W Cosmos Club ,Washington, D . C . : P lant fromMassachusettsHERIBE RTO , BROTHER. ( See underColegio de San Pedro Apostol , Cartagena , Colombia . )

HERRE,ALBERT C . ,

Washington S tateNormal S chool , Bellingham, Wash. :

79 lichens, 58 mounted specimens of

plants, and 301 plants ( 65228 , 65264,

HERRE RA ,Dr. A. L. ( See under

Mex ican Government . )BERTRICH

,WILLIAM

, San Gabriel,Cal if. : PlantHE SS

,FRANK L U . S . Geological

Survey, Washington, D . C. : Tin and

tungsten ores from Bol iv ia , collectedfor the Museum( See a lso under A . O. E gbert ,W. E . E ll iott , L. L. E llis, T .

H irabayashi , W . J. Loring,O rser-Kraft FeldsparRadium Co. of Co loradoJ. F . Aguilar R evoredo , Alexander R . Shepherd , 2d, Prof.Joseph T . S ingewald , and D on

S tewart . )HEUVRARD ,

H. ( See under Bonaparte, P rince R oland , Herba riumof . )HEWE TT

,D . F . , U . S . Geological

Survey, Washington,D . C . : Fossils

and minerals from CubaHIBBARD

,RAYMOND R .,

Buffa lo, N.

Y. : 87 specimens of Devonian conodonts from western New York( 65233) 500 specimens of fossil ihvertebra tes from the Hami ltongroup

,1 8 Mile Creek , E rie County,

N. Y. ( 65442 ) collection of S ilurian

LIST OF ACCE SSIONS .

HIBBARD, RAYMOND R .— Continued.

and Devonian fossils ( conodontsand annelid rema ins ) from New

York ( 6561 9 , exchange )HIBBERD , Miss JOCELYN P . , Washington, D . C . : Collection of stone ar

row and spear heads gathered by thedonor from Will istown Township ,Chester County , Pa ., 8 mi les fromValley ForgeHIGGINSON,

Mrs. F . L. ( See underWoman’

s Liberty Loan Committee of

New E ngland . )HILL , FREDERICK W. ( See under Ahdrew J Leach . )HILL

,Dr. GERALD F . , Austra lian In

stitute of Tropica l Medicine , Hospital

,Townsville , North Queensland ,

Australia ( through U . S . D epartment of Agriculture, Bureau of E n

tomol ogy, Washington,D . 73

named Austra lian insectsHILL , J. H. Managing Director ,Ghazipur Opium Factory , Ghazipur ,India ( through Harold R . F oss,

American Consul in Charge , Ca l

cutta , India ) : 1 0 photographs of

poppy cultiva tion and opium manufacture in IndiaHINE , Prof. JAME S S . , Ohio S tate University , Columbus, Ohio : 3 specimens of Hymenoptera , Aphel inus

semiflavidus , and 1 specimen of

P horoce m

HINKLE Y, A. A . , D u Bois, I1 1 . : 41 4l andshel l s from ArizonaHINSDALE ,

F . GILBERT, New YorkCi ty : 7 specimens of whaling appara tus 66767 , exchange )

HIORAM , BROTHER. ( See underColegio del Sagrada Corazon,

Guantanamo , Oriente, Cuba .

HIPSHE R,E DWARD, Morris College ,

Ba rboursville, \V . Va . z 4 livingplants ( 65263, exchange. )

HIRABAYASHI , T . , Bureau of Mines,Tokyo , Japan ( through Mr . F . L.

Hess ) Samples of rare earth minera l s from JapanHIRASE , Dr . Y. , Okazaki , Kyoto , Ja

pan ( through Ma rshall R . Ga ines )A collection of mo llusks from the

Japanese islands, embracing

lots

1 67

HITCHCOCK , Prof. A . S . ( See underG . C . Munro . )HOE S , M rs. R . G . ,

Washington , D . CLady’

s straw bonnet used in V i rginia during the period prior to theCivil War ( 6671 2 , loan ) .

( See a lso under M rs. Isabel R ives.M rs. Madd in Summers, and

Mrs . William H. Walker . )HOFF ,

M rs. JOHN VAN R E NS SALAE R ,

Wa shington, D . C The ColonelJohn Van R enssal aer Hofi Colleetion ” comprising Chinese and

Japanese jade and bronze, Philippine brass , and Porto R ican and

American Indian specimensHOGAN

,M rs. LOU ISE

,Neponsit , Long

Island , N . Y. ; Cashmere shawl( 66753, loan ) .

HOLLAND , Dr . W. J. ( See underCarnegie Museum, P ittsburgh , P a . )HOLLISTER , N. , Washington, D . C

Thrush , Hyl oci ch la , species, fromWashingt on, D . C. ( 65477 ) head of

a ring-necked duck, Marita co l laris,

from WisconsinHOLME S JOSEPH A. , 2d , Casper,Wyo 6 cactiHOLWAY, Prof. E . W. D .

,University

of Minnesota ,Minneapol is, M inn

Cactus from Chile( See also under Minnesota , Uni

versi ty of . )HOLZMAN , JACOB, R eed College, Portland , Oreg. : 7 slugs from O regon

HOPKINS , Mrs. ARCHIBALD,Washing

ton, D . C. : Cambric frock worn by

Charlotte Brooks E verett about 1 830

HORN, Dr. WALTHER. ( See underD e u t s c h e s E ntomologi sches Museum. )HOTCHKISS , Dr. W. O . , S ta te Geol ogist , Madison, Wis. ( through Dr . E .

O. Ulrich ) specimens of

Upper Cambrian fossi ls from WisconsinHOUGH , M iss CATHERINE, U . S . Na

tional Museum : 30 Devonian fossilsfrom PennsylvaniaHOUGH , Dr. WALTER , U . S . Nationa lMuseum : Archeological objects fromKeetz eel

, and Zuni region,Arizona


HOUGH, Dr. WALTEB— Cont inued .

2 beetles collected in Arizona during th e summer of 1 920

( 65754 ) 2 stone pipes found about30 yea rs ago, one nea r Morgantown,

W. Va ., and the other near Cha in

Bridge, Md . ( 65848 ) lantern,spirit

stove, lamp , l ighters, etc. , handbracket

, saw frame, ba ttledore, and

l id of coiled basket

HOWARD , Dr. C .W. ( See under Canton Christian Co llege. )

HRDLICKA, Dr. A., U . s. Na tiona l

Museum : Skull of a cat , F elts ca tus,

from Cleveland Park, D . C .

HUBBARD , H. W American BoardM ission, Peking, China : 26 b irdskins from North ChinaHUBE RT , H. E DWARD, New Orleans,La. : 5 crawfish , 3 shrimps, 1 earthworm, and 2 fishes

HUCKE L , EARLE WENTWORTH , Ger

mantown, Philadelph ia , Pa . z Col l ec

t ion of prints, consist ing of etchings,engravings, l ithographs, wood en

gravings, and photomechanicalprints and one sixteenth centurybookb inding ( 1 25 specimens )

a collection of about 31 7Bew ick wood engravings and 272

American wood engravings datedabout 1 825— 1 835, and 85 miscellaneous prints ( 674 specimens )HUNNEWE LL , F . W.,

Cambridge,Mass. ( through Dr. Frederick V .

Coville ) Plants from the D istrict ofColumbiaHUNTE R , DABD

, Chill icothe, OhioHandmade paper exhibit consisting of rags, half—stuff, animal size ,hand molds, and various styles of

watermarks, dies, and casts for lightand shade watermarks ; watermarked paper and

,photographs of

beating machines and one of a modelof a handmade paper mill in the

Science Museum in London,E ngland

2 books, The E tching of

Figures, by William A. Bradley,with an artist proof etching by William A. Levy, and The E tching of

Contemporary Life, by Frank Wei

tenkampf , w ith an artist proof etch

HUNTE R, D ABD— Continued.

ing by E rnest D . R oth , each beingenti rely the work of the donor , whomade the paper, designed the type,cut the steel punches, struck the

matrices, cast the type, and printedthe books a l l by handHUNTINGTON , Dr. GEORGE S . ( See

under Co lumbia University. )HYDE , M rs. CHARLE S C ., Washington,

D . C. : Cowichan Indian blanket wi thtotemi c paintingHYDE , FREDERICK B . , Washington,

D . C . : Skin and skull of a deer,Odocoi leus, collected in Maine

HYDE , JOHN , Washington, D . C . : 2

fans from Capri , a pa i r of o l d E ng

l ish pattens, an o ld E nglish hat

stretcher, and an E nglish tassel ( orteazle ) used in the prepara tion of

woolen clothICE , M iss CLEO , U . S . Na tional Museum : Grooved stone ax found in

the va lley of the Cottonwood R iver,Chase County, Kans. , by M r. R . A.

Ice

IHE R ING, Dr . HERMANN VON , BuenosAi res, Argentina : 3 specimens, 2

species, of crabs from F l orinapol is,

BrazilILLINGWORTH , Dr. J. F . , Meringanear Cairns, North Queensland , Austral ia : 66 fl ies from Austra l ia( 6521 0, 661 85 )ILLINOIS STATE NATURAL HISTORY S U R V E Y, Urbana , 1 11 .

( through Dr. S . A. Forbes ) : 1 2specimens of Cynipidae, “ cotypesof 5 species described by Prof. C . P .

G illette ( 66635, exchange )ILLINO IS , UNIVE R S ITY OF

,Ur

bana , I l l . ( through D r. Frank 0 .

Baker ) : 1 6 specimens, 2 species ( 1amphipod and 1 5 isopods ) fromWinnebago Lake, Wis.

IMPERIAL BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY. ( See under British Government . )INDIA , MYSORE DE PARTMENT OFAGRICULTURE ,

BANGALOR : The

3 stages , larva , pupa , and adult , ofS eym , species, collected at Malleswar , India , November 24, 1 920 , inthe stem of Chapmda (ware


1 70 RE PORT or NATIONAL MUSEUM ,

INTE R IOR DE PARTMENT— Con.

U . 8 . Geol ogi cal S urvey— Contd .

specimens from Western Aus

tral ia rock carryingmolybdenum bearing hal otrich

ite from the south s ide of D u

chesne R iver , 2 miles southwestof Ouray ,

Utah , collected by M r .

F . L. Hess in 1 91 7 2

specimens of dike rock fromHa ll Qua rry , Mount DesertIsland, Me . dupl icatephosphate specimens from western phosphate fiel ds of Utah ,Idaho, and Wyoming, collectedby Messrs. H. S . Gale ,

R . W.

R ichards, and E . Blackwelder

( See a lso under Ha iti , R epublic of ,B. Leo La ird and D r. FrederickW. Sardeson. )

INTE RNATIONAL PAPER 0 0 New

York City : Specimen of sandstoneused as a pulp stone in gr indingwood for paper making

IOWA STATE COLLE GE OF AGRICULTURE AND ME CHANIC ARTS ,Ames, Iowa ( through Dr. L. H.

Pammel ) : 9 flies a n d b e e t l e s

IOWA,STATE UNIVE R S ITY OF ,

Iowa City , Iowa ( through Prof. C . C .

Nutting ) : 7 1 ophiurans from the

Univers ity’

s Barbados - Antigua ex

pedition

JACKSON , Prof. H. S Department ofBotany ,

Purdue University , Lafayette, Ind. : Specimen of rust fromIndianaJACKSON,

RALPH W., Cambridge,

Md . : 2 skins of horned larks, genusOtoeoris ; 38 specimens, 1 2 species,of mollusks and larva of 2 species of

insects, a l l from Maryland ( 65366 ,66435 ) skin and skull of a squirrel .S ciurus ( 66338 ) 51 specimens, 9

species , of mollusks from L ittleChoptank R iver , Md including one

type spec imenJACKSON ,

R ear Admi ra l R . H. ,U . S .

Navy . ( See under M rs. Margaret A.

S . Smith . )

JAE GE R,E DMUND C ., Palm Springs,

Calif. : 3 plants, S el agi/nell a, fromCalifornia

JAGGE R , Prof. T . A., Volcano House,

Hawa i i ( through Dr . H. S . Washington,

Washington,D . C . ) A mass

of fi l amentous basalt ( Pele’

s Ha i r )from K ilauea Crater, Hawa i ianIslandsJAME S , H B isbee, Ariz . : Tooth o f anext inct species of horseJAME S

,M rs. JULIAN Washington,

D .

C . : Purple boudo ir cap ( 65241 ,

loan ) ; cut-glass night lamp of the

period of 1 850 ( 65554 ) gold locketcontaining portra i ts o f Mr . and Mrs.

James, June 1 7 , 1 869 ( 65565, loan)dress worn by M rs. Julian-James a t

the Col onial Ball held at the New

Willard Hotel , Washingt on,D . C . ,

on March 31 , 1 921 , when she repre

sented h er s ix th great-grandmother ,M rs. Hugh Mason ( 66445, loan ) .

( See a lso under M rs. George L.

Andrews , M rs . Charles W . R ichardson, and M rs. J. KearnyWarren. )

JAND ORF ,MORTON L.

, York , P a . : 5

specimens of z inc minerals ( 6621 5,

exchange ) .

JAN E S,F R A N K

,Truman, Ark .

( through Dr . 0 . P . Hay ) Fragmentof a tooth and a part of a dorsa lvertebra of a mastodonJARDIN BOTANICO , Trinidad , Paraguay (Dr. Carlos F iebrig, Superintendent ) 20 living cacti and 3 packages of seeds ( 65282 , exchange ) .

JENKINS , C. FRANCIS , Washington,

D . C . : A model high-speed mot ionpicture camera for the analysis of

motion a motion-picturecamera with a vertical reciprocatingmot ion of lens barrel and fi lm (no

lens ) , and a mot ion-p icture camerawi th a longitudina l reciprocatingmot ion of lens ba rrel and fi lm,

Tessar Lens, Tessa r, No.

Carl Zeiss ( 65552 , loan ) .JOHANSEN ,

FRITS,V ictoria Memorial

Museum,O ttawa , Canada : 9 spec i

mens of amphipods represent ing 2

species, consisting of 3 specimens

LIST OF ACCE SSION S .

JOHANSE N , FR ITs— Continued .

of Gammarus bimnaeus and 6 specimens of Hya le l la az teca3 specimens of crustaceans, Lepi

durus couesm,from Alberta ,

Can

ada , and 3 specimens of Hya l el la

az teca. from James Bay, Ontario9 sea urchins, S trongylo

centm tus drobach iensis,and a sta r

fish , Asterias acervate borea l is, al l

from Hudson Bay

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ,

Baltimore,Md . : Types and pa ra

typ es of mollusca from Bowden , Ja

ma ica , described by W. P . Woodring ( 65234 , deposit ) .

JOHNSON, Hon. BEN ,

House of R ep

resentatives, Washington, D . C . :

Nest of a large waspJOHN SON , C. W.

,Boston, Mass : F ly ,

B'

ethen’

a, species, and 2 beetles,N iptus ho l o leucus

JOHNSON , D . , Cl inton , Ky . z 2 adultsand 1 0 larvae of a beetle, D ynastestityus

JOHNSON,Dr. D UNCAN S . ,

JohnsHopkins University

,Ba ltimore,

Md . : 2 plants, Oxabis ( 65930 )JOHNSON, J. CHESTER

,Marine on S t .

Croix , Minn : Austra lian stone im

p l ements ( 1 2 specimens ) ( 65363,exchange ) ; coral , P oci l l ozaora ,

spe

ciesJOHNSON

,MYRTLE E . ( See under

S cripps Inst itut ion f or B iologica lR esearch. )JOHNSTON, IVAN M .,

University of

Ca lifornia , Berkeley , Cal if. : 25plants, S elaginel le ,

from Colorado

JOHNSTON,JOHN B . , Fruitland Pa rk,

F l a . : Worm lizard,R hineum flori

dana ,from Florida

JOHNSTON , Prof. T. HARVEY,Bris

bane, Queensland , Australia : 1 3

specimens of Austral ian fl ies,ih

cluding paratypes of 3 spec ies and

named representa tives of 4 others

JONE S , R . N .,Brooksvi l le, F la .

( through Mr. H. C. Skeels, Bureauof Plant Industry , U . S . Departmentof Agriculture, Washingt on, D . C . )270 plants from Florida

1 7 1

JORDAN , Dr. DAVID STARR , S tanfordUniversity, Cal if. : F ishes killed bya lava fl ow from Mauna Loa

,Ha

wa i i , collected by Tom R e inhardtand Carl S . Carl smith

JULIAN , GEORGE H.,Bl untsvi l l e , Al a

Fragment of a branch of a fossi ltree, Lepidodendron,

from BlountCounty ,

Al a .

JURICA , Prof. HILARY S . ( See underS t. Procopius College. )

KALUSOWSKI , Dr. H. E . ( S ee un

der Na tional College of Pharmacy . )KE ENAN , MICHAEL , Springer , N .

Mex : Dried lizard and a mollusk

KE LEHE R ,T. A., Washington, D . C . :

A Keleher silk culture exhibit inB iker mountKE LLE RS , Lieut. H. C . (M . U .

S . Navy , Washington, D . C . : 3 toads,2 frogs, 7 lizards, and 1 4 snakescollected a t Bremerton, Wash

, and

at Gorse Creek, Kitsap County,Wash .

KE RBOSCH, D r . M . , D irector of the

Government Cinchona Planta tionsTjinj iroean,

Java ,Netherlands, I h

dia ( through S . W. Zeverijn, Am

sterdam, Holland ) 1 0 specimens of

cinchona succirub ra barkKE SSLE R , ANDREW ,

Washington , D .

C. : A series of 9 specimens show ingthe manufa cture of handmade w il

l ow basketsKE TTE RLINUS LITHOGRAPHICMAN UFACTURING CD . , THE ,

Philadelphia , P a . z 1 0 lithographicprints in color

KEW , Dr. W. S . W . , San Francisco ,

Ca l if. : 3 cacti from Mex i co ( 65391 )1 9 specimens of cacti ( 65735,

KEW , SURRE Y ,E NGLAND . ( See

under British Government . )KE YSE R, E . W. , Washington, D . C

Textile specimens from Peru

KILLIP , E LLSWORTH P ., U . S . Nationa lMuseum : 1 1 8 plants from New

York and New Jersey 34

plants 57 plants fromPanama 1 22 specimens of

grasses from the D istrict of Co

lumbia and vicini ty


KIMBALL,M iss KATHER INE D . ( See

under R . R . S tewart . )KINSE Y, Dr. ALFRED G., Departmentof Zoology , Universi ty of Indiana ,

Bloomington,Ind. : 32 cotype fl ies

and 1 1 cotype galls representing 1 0species of cynipids new to the Mu

seum collections ( 66431 , exchange ) .

KIRK , Dr. E DWIN , U. S . GeologicalSurvey , Washington, D . C. : Specimen of w ind-polished sil icified wood

and 4 w ind-faceted quartz pebbles,from Neuquen, Argentina2 small lots of Cretaceous invertebrate fossils from Argentina and

Bol ivia , and a small collection of

Tertiary invertebrates from Bol ivia

( Se also under S efior José N .

Gu iterrez .KLOSS , C . BODEN . ( See under Dr .W. L. Abbott. )KNAB , ESTATE OF FRE DE RICK( through A. N . Caudell , executor )Bamboo blowgun

,qu iver and gourd

for cotton, from Upper Amazon,

South AmericanKORNHAUSE R , Prof. S . I DenisonUniversity, Granvill e, Ohio : Amicroscopic sl ide with the type of

Clausidium dissim/il e, a commensalcopepod , taken from Ca l l icmassa at

Co ld Spring Harbor , Long Island ,N . Y.

KORVENKONTIO, Dr. VALIO . ( See

under Helsingfors, F inland. )LABORATORIUM ZOO L O G I C U M

UNIVE RSITATIS . ( See under Hel

singfors, F inland. )LADD , W. W. ( See under Colonia lWa rs, Genera l Society of . )LAIRD , B. LEO, San Francisco ,

Cal if.( through the Interior Department ,U . S . Geologica l Survey ) A col lec

tion of Pliocene and Pleistocene ihvertebrate fossils from the neighborhood of La Purissima , Baja California

LAKE , STUART N ., Rome, N . Y

Scrafier or chisel, probably from the

Neolith ic period of the S tone Age

LAMANCE , Mrs. Lona S ., Lake Wal es,

F l a. : S calp-lock headdress

LANE , J B . , Yermo , Cal if. : Specimenof cerargyrite from Cal i co D istrict,Calif.LANE , M . C. , R itzvil le, Wash . : 1 56

beetl es from Washington S tate

LARSEN, E . S . , U . S . Geological Survey , Washington, D . C . : 1 0 crystalsof feldspar from Northern B lackH i lls, S outh D ak.

LEACH , ANDREW J. ( through Frederick W. Hi ll , executor , Chicago ,

S ilk handkerchief decoratedw ith portra i ts of noted Confedera teleaders, captur ed at Cedar Creek ,Va ., October 1 9, 1 864, by Capt.Andrew J. Leach , F irst New YorkDragoons ( 66346 , bequest ) .

LE BRE TON,THOMAS A Ambassador

o f Argentina , Washington, D . C

A collection of ores and mineralsfrom Argentina and 8 photographsof mining locali ties

LE E , FITZHU GH , Newborn, Ga . z F un

gus from Georgi aLE E , OLAN IVAN , New York M ineralogica l Club , New York City : Specimen of lava from Mount E rebus,R oss Island , McMurdo Sound , SouthVictoria LandLE IM ,

A. H. ( See under Toronto,University of , B iological Department. )LE ITH , Prof. O. K. ( S ee under Wisconsin, University of . )

LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVE RSITY, S tanford Universi ty,Calif. ( through Prof. Le Roy

Abrams ) 5 Specimens of S el aginel la

from Ca l ifornia and Oregon ( 65748,exchange ) ; fossil fishes, representing 7 species, from the M iocene diatom beds at Lompoc, Ca lif .

LEN MAN , Miss ISOBEL H.,Washing

ton, D . C . : Anthropo logica l specimens

LE ON, BROTHER. ( See under Instituto de l a S alle, Havana , Cuba . )LE ONARD , E M ERY C . , U . S . Na tionalMuseum. ( See under Dr. W. L. Ah

bott. )LE STAGE , J. A Uccle, Brussels, Belgium : 1 0 specimens of the coffeeborer, Zylotrechus quad/ripes, and



MCGRE GOR ,E . A. ,

Los Angeles, Calif.( through Prof. Le R oy Abrams ) 39

l ichens from Santa Catalina Island ,Cali f.MACINNE S , NORMAN , Miami , F l a . : ASpider, Gastem cantha cancm

‘

formis,a species belongi ng to the Gulf S ta tes

MCINTIRE ,BARTOLOM EW , S an F ran

cisco , Calif. ( through Department o fS tate ) : 4 specimens of lava fromthe eruption of a volcano in S an

Sa lvador in 1 91 7 , and 1 6 photographs

MCKE S SON R OBBINS New

York C ity : 9 medicina l substancesfrom the animal kingdom, and 1 1

medicina l substances ( 6541 5 ,M cLE OD , C . Y.

, Clarksdale , MissPosterior half of an upper molar ofthe American mastodonMACE , C . B . ( See under S chlesw igInternationa l Commission. )MAHIN , Mrs. F . W . ,

Washington,

D . C . : 4 pieces of ol d lace ( 66426 ,

loan) .

MALDONALDO , M rs. E STELLE, Washington, D . C . : 2 specimens of pot

tery from Guatema laMALONE , J. G ., Newport, O reg.( through Dr. W. H. Dall ) : P lant ,Boschniahia strobt laoea ( 66452 )MALYE , Maj . JEAN . ( See underFrench Government . )MANN, Dr. W. M . , U . S . National Mu

seum : 5 specimens of braiding in

fiber i llustrating the manufacture of

arm bands, from R ub iana Lagoon,

New Georgia , B ritish Solomon Is

landsMARINE -VICTORIN, R ev. BROTHER.

( See under Longueuil , College of . )MARSHALL , E RN E ST B .

,Laure1 , .Md

5 specimens of Cooper’s hawk, Aceipiter cooperi , and a sha rp-sh innedhawk, Accipi ter b el ow, a l l fromMaryland ( 65478, 66380 , 66509 ) skin and

skull of a squ irrel , S ciurus, and

skul ls of two opossums, D idelphys,from Maryland ( 65524 , 65845,

66091 ) skull of an opossum, B idez

phys, and 2 skulls of minks, fromLaurel , Md . ( 661 55 ) bat , E ptesicus

( alcoholi c )

MARSHALL,GEORGE, U . S . National

Museum : F ishes collected from the

Pa tuxent R iver near Laurel , Md .

skull of a fox , Vu l pes,

f r o m Fa i rland , MontgomeryCounty , Md . ( 65846 ) skeleton of a

gray fox , Urocyon,from Camp

Meade , Md. ( 65908 ) skin of a cedarwaxw ing, Bombyct l la cedrorum,

w ith unusual markings ( 65945 )bird from Ma rylandMARSHALL , HENRY B . , Wilson,

N .

C . : 2 birds from North Carolina

MARTIN,Dr. LYNN ARTHUR ,

B iIl gham

ton,N . Y. ( through Dr. W . A . Dewey ,

Ann Arbor , Mich ) : Ah ol d homeo

pa thic medicine case owned and

used for many years by Dr . Titus L .

B rown,of B inghamton, N . Y.

MASSACHUSETT S AGRICULTURALCOLLE GE EXPE R IMENT STA~

TION , Department of E ntomology,Amherst , Mass. ( through A. I .

Bourne ) : Lepidoptera larvae co l

l ected in eastern Massachusetts

MATTHEWS , RANS OM , Selma , CalifA collection of automobile and mo

tor cycle spark plugs and a vulcanizing outfit ( 65294, loan ) .MAYNE , BRU CE, Delta ,

Utah : 2 fl ies ,

Ta banus productus

MAYNARD,E . A. ,

Jama ica , Long Island , N . Y. : 1 6 pol ished crysta ls of

chiastol ite from Lancaster , Mass.

( 65441 , exchange ) .

ME DINA , L ieut. Col . FREDERIC DIEZ DE ,

Bol ivian Lega tion, Washington,D .

C. : A sheet of gold , gold tassel or

pendant , specimens of arrow po intsand fragments, and a textile wovenin colors, a l l from th e S tate of La

Paz , Bolivia ( 65769 , exchange) .

ME LBOURNE ,

‘ VICTORIA , AUSTRALIA ,

THE NATIONAL MU

SE UM : 8 lots of Tertiary bryo

z oans from Austral ia ( 65701 , ex

change ) .ME RRILL , Dr. GEORGE P . , U . S . Na

tional Museum : 37 wood engravingsby American engravers of about1 830, comprising 8 by Alexander Ah

LIST OF ACCE SSIONS . 1 75

MER RILL, Dr. GEORGE P .— Continued.

derson, 5 by J. H. Hall , 1 7 by AbelBowen, and 7 unknown ( 65358 )

microscope and accessories in case,owned during the period 1 830— 1 870

by R ev. E lijah Jones, pastor of theCongrega tiona l Church at M inotCenter, Androscoggin County , Me.

ME RRILL,Mrs. GEORGE P . ,

Washington, D . C . : A cut topaz weighing

carats ( 661 51 , loan ) .

ME SSMANN , GEORGE, New York City( through the Na tional GeographicS ociety , Washington,

D . P ieceof scrimshawed whalebone

MEXICAN GOVE RNMENT :

D epartment of Agr icu l ture, Mex ico ,

D . F . : About beetlesrepresenting 700 species ( 66757

D ireccion de E studios Bio l ogicos,

Mex ico , D . F . ( through Dr. A .

L. Herrera ,D i rector ) : 483

Mex ican plants ( 65243, ex

change ) ; 2 phyllopod crustaceaus, E stheria comp lemimanus,from Guadalupe H i d a l g o

7 specimens, repre

senting 7 Species, of marine

mollusks from Lower Cal ifornia2 photographs of a

specimen of a starfish , Acanthester el l isi/i, from Lower Cal ifornia 1 5 scorpionsVaejom

’

s subcrista tus ( 66492 ,exchange ) .

ME YE R , Dr. REINHOLD , Landsberga/W, Germany : 1 22 specimens, rep

resenting 23 species of bees ( 6621 3,exchange ) .

MIA MI AQUARIUM ASSOCIATION ,

James Asbury All ison, President ,M iami , F l a : Skeleton of a whale,Ba laenozatera , found on Pablo Beach ,F l a.

MICHIGAN , UNIVE R S ITY OF , Mu

seum of Zoology, Ann Arbor, M ich . ;

2 vials of isopod crustaceans, 3 frogsand 2 garter-snakes from Washington, al l collected by Dr. F . N .

Blanchard 4 tadpoles o f

Ascaphus truei . collected in Washington by T . M . and H. T . Ga ige( 65798 ) ( through Dr. A. G. Ruth

71 305°— 21 — 1 2

MICHIGAN, UNIVER S ITY OF— Con.

ven, d irector ) shrimp , M oeroeh

rahium jamaicense, from Colombia( 65836 ) ( through M iss R oberta E .

D eam ) 550 plants, ch iefly fromMichigan and Ontario ( duplicates fromthe C. K. Dodge Herba rium)( 66689, exchange ) ; frog, paratypeof E l eutherodactylus mega l ops, col

l ected in San Lorenzo , Santa MartaMountains, Colombia , by Dr. R uthven

MILLAR, M . A.,Venus, F l a . : 0 1d

wooden idol plowed up on the northshore of Lake Okeechobee , F l a .

MILLE , R ev. LOU IS , S . J Quito ,E cua

dor ; Cactus from E cuador

MILLE R , Prof. ARTHUR M . , Universityof Kentucky , Lex ington, Ky. z Ablock of oolitic carbonate iron ore

from Preston,Ky .

MILLE R , GEBRIT S ., jr U . S . Na

tional Museum : Skeleton of a mink ,Mustel a , from F a irfax County , Va .

( 65395 ) mollusks , egg and 2 skullsof the wedge-ta iled shearwa ter ,Puffinus cunea tus, and 2 incompleteskeletons of Bulwer’s petrel , Bul

weria bu lweri ; also 6 skins and

skulls of ra ts and 1 rat skeleton, al l

from the Hawa i ian Islands ( 65604 ,66573 ; 3 plants from Cal ifornia

MILLE R , Dr. M . G. , Philadelphia , PaIndian skull from a shell heap nearCape Blanco, Ca l oosahatchee R iver,Lee County , F l a . ( 65239 )MILLIKE N ,

F . B . , Manhattan, Kans1 4 oil beetles, representing 3 species,namely , E pi center, ca l losa , Nemogna tha Zutea , and Ca/ntham

'

s biguttata

MILLS , M rs. STE PHEN C . , Washington,

D . C. : Tonto Apache basket bowland a Tlinkit basket, from the col

lection of her father, Gen. G. C .

Lee

MILLSPAUGH , Dr. C . F . ( See underF ield Museum of Na tural H istory . )MINASSIAN

,KIRKOB, New York Ci ty

Postage stamps of Afghanistan and

Kashmir ( 55 Specimens ) a lso 6


MINASSIAN,K IRKOR— Continued.

leaves ( 5 of paper and 1 of vellum )from Arabic and Turkish manuscripts ( 65300 )MINNE SOTA ,

UNIVE R S ITY OF ,

M inneapol is , M inn. ( through Prof.C . O . R osendahl ) : 4 specimens of

S elaginel la ( 661 58, exchange )specimen of S el aginel la from British Co lumbia ( throughProf. E . W . D . Holway ) : 749

plants from western South America

MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDE N ,

S t. Louis, M o . : Plant, Abronia ,

from western Colorado 2

plants,

S e laginel la ( 66357 , ex

change ) .

MITCHE LL , H. H. ,R egina , Sas

katchewan,Canada Dried skin of a

tiger salamander, Ambystoma timinum

,from S askatchewan

MITCHE LL , MASON ,American Con

su l,Queenstown,

Ireland : E gg of

the dodo pigeon,or tooth-b illed

pigeon,D iduncu lus stm

'

gtrostris,

from S amoa , new to the Museumcollections

MOCZAR SKI , Prof . E M IL. ( See un

der Prof. O tto Scheerpel tz . )

MONITOR STOVE CO. ,THE , Cincin

na ti , Ohio ( through O liver Gedeist ,D irector of Publicity ) Model of

ca loric pipeless furnace , invented byW . J. Doyle , 1 909MOORE

,ALFRE D F ., Los Angeles,

Ca l if. : A rat , 7 insects, and a colleetion of rocks and fossils collectednear Calama ,

ChileMORELEY, SYLVANU S G. , CarnegieInstitute of Washington , Washington, D . C . : 4 lots of potsherds from4 loca lit ies in Central America and

MexicoMORRILL , Hon. CHARLE S H., L incoln,

Nebr. ( through Prof. E dwin H. Bar

bour ) A collection of exhibitionand study specimens of Carbonifer

ous foraminifera ( 65277MORRIS , M rs. GOUVERNEUR

,Washing

ton,D . C . : Hale piano decorated by

Cottier of New York

MORROW,M iss C . F . , S t . Thomas,

Vi rgin Islands of the United S tates :1 33 plants from S t . John and S t.

Thomas, V irgin Islands of the

Uni ted S ta tes ( 661 71 , 66302 , 66489.

MORSE,EDWARD L. , P ittsfiel d ,

Mass

O rigina l spec imen of a message re

corded by the Morse register , May

25, 1 844

MOSE LE Y , E . L . , Bowl ing Green,

Ohio . : 91 plants 3 plants,Lacinam

‘

a

MOSONYI , E M ILIO, New York Ci ty : Ah ighly embellish ed , cylindri calearthenware vase from “Ataco ,”

northwestern part of Sa lvador, and

a bronze ax blade found in “S an

Jose V illaneuva ,

”in the southwest

ern part of the same R epublic

MOTTE R,Dr. MURRAY GALT

,Wash

ington, D . C . : 4 photographs of

prominent members of the AmericanPharmaceutical Associat ion ( 66348 )MOUSLE Y, H.

, Ha tley, Quebec, Canada : 1 2 ferns ( 65221 , exchange ) .

MOXLE Y,GEORGE L. , Los Angeles,

Calif. : P lant from southern Ca l ifornia ferns

,Asp l enium and

Chei l cmthes, from California ( 65900 ,

plant , S elaginel l a wa tsom’

( 66327 ) 1 5 specimens of S el aginel la

from Ca lifornia ( 66370, exchange ) ;3 plants from Ca l ifornia

MUE SE BE CK, C . F . W. ( S ee underDr . C . T. Brues and Cornel l University , Department of E ntomology . )MULFORD CO H. K ., Philadelphia ,

P a . 4 specimens of antitox in serums1 5 charts mounted wi th

specimens, photographs, etc showing the prepa ra tion and use of vac

cines and serums for the preventionand treatment of diphther ia , smallpox ,

pneumonia , tetanus, meningitis,and hay fever ; a lso 1 3000 . vacul e

package of digitol

MULLIS , M iss FRANCES , Friday Har

bor , Wash . : 5 specimens, 4 spec ies ,of crustaceans from Friday Harbor,Washington,

one of them, Spironto

carts grandimana , being for the first

time recorded from Americanwaters ( 65831 )


1 78 RE PORT or NATIONAL MUSEUM,1 921 .

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY— Continued .

ologi cal material collected by the

Na tional Geograph ic S ociety’s expe

dition of 1 920 (Nei l M . Judd , D irector ) from ancient ruins in the ChacoCanyon Nat ional Monument, N Mex ,

and the Canyon de Chelly, Ariz .

( See also under George Messmann. )

NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL ,Wash ingt on, D . C. Chemical exh ib itconsisting of topographical modelrepresenting a group of chemical ihdustries ; charts ; collection of dyes,explosives, medi cinals, etc. ; and a

series of molecular models ( 66664 ,deposit ) .NATIONAL S ILICA 0 0 O regon, 1 11

Specimen of siliceous sandrock usedfor industrial purposes

NAVY DE PARTMENT : Uni ted S tatesNavy model F — 5—L seaplane with accessories, aeromarine 39— B seaplanecomplete with OXX Curt iss engine,and 1 6 enlarged photographs of

naval airplanes ( 6571 7 ) flying su itsand accessor ies of the type used bythe United States Navy during theWorld War ( 28 spec imens ) ( 65856 ,loan ) ; collection of nava l models,ordnance, signal , and marine instruments of the type used by the UnitedS tates Navy during the War w ithGermany, 1 91 7— 1 8, and Germannaval ma terial captured during thesame period ( 66742 ) relics re

covered from the wreck of the U . S .

battleship Maxin e in Habana Harbor, 1 91 1

NE LSON, J. C ., Salem, Oreg. : 4

plants from OregonNE LSON , NORMAN E ., Fort Worth ,Tex : 47 specimens of Lower Cretaceous bryozoans from Texas

( 65755, exchange) .NEW ALMADEN MINING CO., New

Almaden, Cal if. : Specimen of cinnabar from Senator mine, New AI

maden,Calif.

NEWTON,R ev. J C. , CALHOUN , Kaw

nesi Gaku in,Kobe, Japan : Photo

graph of the Dragon God (D a i Ja )in Idz umo, Japan

NEWTON, S . H R eno, Nev. : About1 00 specimens representing 6 speciesof mollusks

NEW YORK BOTAN ICAL GARDE N ,

Bronx Park, New York C ity ( throughDr. N . L. Britton,

Director ) : 25

plants, 1 90 ferns, 70 specimens of

hepatics, 3 specimens of Rub iaceae,6 plants, 46 mosses, plant , Achyranthes, plant , S a lvin/ia, plant , P assiflom ; ( through Dr. S . F . B lake ) 5specimens of Polygala , a l l fromTrin idad (651 89, 65722, 66687 ,

65778, 6591 1 , 66078, 661 60, 66568,

66639, 66726 , 65932 ) 77 plants fromTrinidad and Jama ica

plants, chiefly from Trinidad ,Cuba , and Jama ica ( 65984 ) 46 l iving plants ( 65200 ) ; 36 plants ( 65201 ,65246 , 65262 , 65888, 66096 ,

1 4 mosses and 1 0 specimens of 0mmtia from' Florida ( 65321 , 3

living plants, Opuntia ( 65368 ) cac

tus from Pennsylvania (6541 8 ) 6 1

plants from South Amer ica ( 65436 )plant , Oampnosperma , from Panama

( 65487 ) 25 ferns, from Cuba ( 65660 ,( through Dr. S . F . Blake )

plant , S enecio , from Cubafern, Woodsia scopuh

’

na ,from North

Carolina ( 65730 ) 47 ferns, collectedby Doctor Underwood and M rs. E .

G . Br itton in Jamaica , 5 specimensof ferns, Hymenophyl lum,

fromJama ica ( 65956 , 48 WestIndian plants ( 65999 ) 1 9 ferns and

2 specimens of cacti , from Tobago ,West Indies ( 65807 , 66481 ) 49

plants from the Southern S tates, coll ected by Dr. F . W. Pennell ( 66332 )plant from Long Island , N . Y.

( 66243, exchange ) .NEW YORK STATE COLLE GE OF

AGRICULTURE , Cornell University, Ithaca , N. Y. ( through Prof. K.

M . Wiegand ) 286 plants, ch iefly

from central New York ( 66680, exchange ) .

NEW YORK UNIVE RSITY,New

York City : A bromide enlargementof the original daguerreotype madeof Miss Draper by Prof. John W.

Draper, the first photographic portra it ever made


NEW YORK WORLD , THE , New

York City ( through Mr . ArthurBennington ) : Origina l photographof an Indian sent by w ire ; bromidegenera l view of sending appara tus ;bromide of M r . E dward Belin, the

inventor, and assistant , and a b ro

mide of M r. Bel in at the send ing ihstrumentNORTH CAROLINA , STATE DE

PARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE ,

Agricultural E xperiment S tation,

R a leigh , N . 0 . ( through 0 . S . Briml ey ) : 1 tachinid fly ( exchange ) , 1ortalid fly ( gi ft ) , 2 tachinid fl ies

( loan ) 3 fl ies, 2 presum

ably new,co llected at R a leigh , North

Ca rolinaNORTON, J. B ., Ha rtsvill e, S . C . : 53

plants from South Carolina ( 6601 9,exchange ) .

NOYE S , I . G ., Somervill e,

”

Mass : 2

plants, Mammi l lam’

a and Cereus

( 6661 7 ,NUTTING, Prof. C . C. ( See underIowa , S tate University of . )NYLANDE R , OLAF 0 Caribou , Me

50 Devonian fossils from Maine

O’DONIGHUE , Prof. CHARLE S H., Uni

versity of Manitoba , Winnipeg, Manitoba , Canada : 3 specimens of D iptera , 4 of. Hymenoptera , 5 of Coleoptera ,

and a leechO’KE E FE , M rs. MILLS , Hyattsville,Md . : Photo-engravings and souvenirpost cards relating to the P ilgrimTercentenary , 1 920 ( 1 3 specimens )

OLDROYD ,Mrs. IDA S S tanford Uni

versity , Calif. : 1 2 specimens repre

senting 8 species of mol lusks, and 1 3specimens, 4 species, of land and marine mollusks, a l l from Cal ifornia( 65704,

OLIVA, Sefiora IGNACIA G., Guada l a

jara , Mex ico : 12 2 Mexican grasses

OPPE RMANN FUR CO. , THE , Saginaw, Mich . ; The sk in of a melani sticwi ldcat ( lynx )ORCUTT , C. B . , San D iego , Ca lif. : 3specimens of barnacles, Ba l anus or

catti , B. amphitri te inexpectatus,

1 79

ORCUTT , C . R .

— Continued .

first United S tates record , and Tet

raeli te squamosa rubescens formelegans, from La Jolla ,

8

Specimens of cacti from Ca lifornia( 66262 ) ( through Dr. W. H. Dali )1 5 species of fossi ls from S an Quentin Bay , Lower Cal ifornia ,

probablyPl iocene or early Pleistocene ( 66620 )ORE GON AGRICULTURAL COL

LE GE , Corvall is, Oreg. : 1 1 plants6 plants from Oregon( through M iss Helen M .

G ilkey , curator ) plant , Centaurea ,

from OregonORSER-KRAFT FELDSPARPerth , Ontario , Canada ( through M r.

F . L. Hess ) : Samples of euxeniteore ( 65480 )

ORTE GA, Sefior D on JESU S G ., Maz at

l an, S inaloa , Mexi co : 1 1 1 plantsfrom Mexi co 7 plants

OSHIMA Dr. M . ( See under Institute of S cience, Ta ihoku ,

Formosa ,

Japan. )OSTE RHOUT, GEORGE E .,

Windsor,Colo . : 9 plants ( 66565, exchange ) .

OTI S,IRA C . , Seattle, Wash . : 1 06

plants from wes tern United S tates

OTTAWA,CANAD A. ( See under

Canadian Government . )OTTOLENGUI , Dr. R ., New YorkC ity : 1 0 noctuid moths, including 2cotypes and 2 others new to the

collec tionOWEN , VIRGIL W. ,

Los Angeles, Calif. :1 2 beetlesPACIFIC MINE RALS CHEMICALCO Glenda le, Cal if. : Specimen of

crude talc from Acme, Death Va lley ,Calif.PALMER

,Dr. E . C., Philadelphia ,

Pa. z S tone club of the Maori , NewZealandPALME R , WILLIAM , U . S . Na tiona lMuseum : Black snake, and 7 crabs,Rh/Zthropanopeus herr isii

,a l l from

South Chesapeake Beach , Md. , the

latter collected by the donor ( 65370,6551 7 ) 3 b irds from the vicinity of

Wash ington, D . 0 including a


PALME R ,WILLIAM — Continued .

snow bunting, P lectmphenaw nival is

( 65506 ) sa lamander from P lummerIsland , Md., collected by M r. H. S .

Barber, and a musk turtle fromChesapeake Beach

PAMMEL,Dr. L. H. ( See under

Iowa S tate Coll ege of Agricultureand Mechanic Arts. )PARISH

, S . B . ,Berkeley , Cal if. : 2

specimens of cacti ( 6641 3 ) ( throughG. P . Van E sel tine ) : Plant , S el eginel l a , from Ca liforniaPARISI

,Dr. BRUNO, M il an, I ta ly

Specimen of tha l assimid , Typh lo

carts lethwea ( 66240 , exchange ) .

PARKE,DAVIS CO., Det ro it ,

M ich . : 22 photographs show ing l abora tory opera t ions in the manufac

ture of pha rmaceutica l prepa ra tions5 specimens of medicinal

substancesPARKE R ,

Dr. A. C .,Altmar , N . Y

Young ring-necked snake from Altmar

,N. Y.

PARMAN , D . C ., Uvalde, Tex . : 33 living cacti from TexasPATTE N , Mrs. L. DEAR , Washington,

D . C . : E thnol ogica from the OglalaTeton S ioux ,

P ine R idge, S . D ak .

( 65596, loan ) .PATTISON,

Mrs. S . L Canutillo ,Tex . : 1 8 specimens of cacti ( 66244,

PEABODY MUSE UM , Salem, Mass2 photographs of models of the ves

sels F riendship and R ising S ta tes

PEABODY MUSE UM OF NATURALHISTORY. ( See under Ya le Uni

versi ty . )PEARSE , Dr. A. S ., University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis : 36 slides of

fish parasi tes from Lake Va lencia ,

Venezuela 23 mi croscopicslides of parasitic worms, representing 2 1 species , 7 of which are types

2 slides of parasi ticworms, Crepidostomum bi l oba

,type

and cotypes from Lake Pepin, and

Capi l l aria catostomi,type, from

S turgeon Bay

PE CK ,L. H. , Delta , Utah : Topaz in

ma trix and 2 topaz crysta ls

PE LLE TT , FRANK C ., American Bee

Journal,Hamilton, Ill . : 50 bees and

waspsPE LLOUX , Prof. ALBERTO, Genoa ,

Italy : 24 specimens of minerals( 66409, exchange ) .

PENNSYLVAN IA DE PARTMENT OFAGRICULTURE ,

Harrisburg, Pa .

( through P . T . Barnes, E xecutiveAssistant ) : 9 specimens, 1 species,of slugs, Limaaz maximusPENNY , F . W., Po inte-a-P ierre, Trinidad , British West Indies : 1 4 fossi lcora ls from Trinidad , from type 1 0ca l ity of corals described by P . M .

Duncan from S t . Cro ix , Trinidad

PE RE Z , GILBERT,Bureau of E ducation,

Lucena , Tayabas, Luz on,P . I . ; 27

Philippine Island land shells ( 652 1 7 ,exchange ) .PE RKINS , JOHN U Smithsonian In

stitution : Photogravure by Goupilof Winslow Homer’s pa inting The

Herring NetPERRY,

M rs. RUTH HARM ISON , Washington,

D . C . : Rifle and powderhornPHILIPPINE ISLANDS , GOVE RNMENT OF , Bureau of S cience,Manila ,

P . I . ; Skin of a crane, Antigone sherb et, and 20 mammals fromthe Philippine Islands ( 65339, de

posit ) ; 33 plants from Borneo( 65423, exchange ) ; plants,ch iefly from the Phil ippine Islands( 65568, exchange ) .

PHILIPPINE S,UNIVE R S ITY OF ,

Manila, P . I . ( through Prof. A. L.

D ay ) 28 specimens, represent ing 9species, of named freshwatershrimps ( 65969, exchange ) .

PHOTOGRAVURE COLOR CO. ,

New York Ci ty ( through KarlArvidson and Charles Furth )Photogravures in black and whiteand 3 colors ; photogravures in

co lors at one impression ; photogelatin prints in black and whiteand 3 colors ; historical specimensand Muyb ridge materia lPICHON,

M iss E U GENIE C . , Upperville,Va . z 2 beaded bags, 2 beaded neckla ces , beaded belt and a mortar



POWE RS WE IGHTMAN R OSE NGAR TEN CO.

, Philadelph ia , P a . : 20

specimens of med i cinal chemica ls

PRASHAD , Dr. B . ( See under India ,

Zoologica l Survey. )PRENTISS

,Dr. E LLI OTT 0 E l Paso ,

Tex . 2 specimens of cactiPRICE , E RNE ST B . , V ice Consul incharge at Canton, China ( throughDepartment of S tate, Washington,

D . C . ) 7 photographs of poppy fiel dsin Fukien Province, ChinaPR INCE TON UNIVE RSITY

,Depart

ment of Geology , Princeton,N . J

( through A . F . Budd ington ) 3 specimens of minerals from New York( 65702 , exchange ) .

PRUITT , BERTIE, Lomax , N . C . : E ggsof a luna mothPURDUE UNIVE RSITY

,Department

of Botany , La Fayette , Ind . : 26

specimens of rustsPURPUS , Dr. J A . , Botanical Garden,

Darmstadt , Gerr'

nany 8 plants( 65723, exchange ) .

QUEHL,L. , Halle b ei S aa le, Germany

plant , Mamm/il l aria ( 6671 9 , ex

change ) .

RADIUM 0 0 . OF COLORADOTHE ( through M r. F . L. Hess ) : 2specimens of Kentsmith ite ” fromLong Park, Montrose County , Colo . ,

coll ected by James S . JamesRADIUM INFORMATION SE RVICE

,

New Yo rk Ci ty : 3 specimens of car

notite ore from the Long Park, Colo. ,

properties of the R adium LuminousMaterial Corporation ( 66623 )

RADIUM TREATMENT AND SANATOR IUM CO. , THE , S ilver C ity ,

N . Y. : S amples of torbernite fromWhite S ignal , Grant County , N . Mex .

RAINBOW RIDGE MINING CO.

( through Archie R ice, New Yo rkCity ) A series of opa l specimens inthe rough , from the mines of the

R ainbow R idge M ining Co . , locatedin Humbo ldt County, Nev .

RAM SDE N , Dr. C . T . , Guantanamo ,

Cuba : A collection of rept iles, batrach ians

,moths, and isopods, the

latter comprising the type and 1 4

RAMSDEN, Dr. C. T .— Continued.

paratypes of Cu baris ra/msdeni,new

species, from “E l Ocujal ,” Guan

tanamo , Cuba 1 0 isopodsrepresenting a new species of P seu

darmadil l o

RAVENE L , WILLIAM DEC . , U . S . Na

tiona l Museum : Memorial certificateissued by the United S tates Government and memorial certificate issuedby the French Government in com

memoration of the dea th of SecondLieut. William de

'

o . R avenel , jr.,

U . S . Air Service, killed in l ine of

duty June 30, 1 91 8 ; also a bronzevictory service medal awarded to

Lieutenant R avenel by the U . S .

War Department , and a bronze crossawa rded by the citizens of the D is

triet of Columbia hobbleof finel y bra ided rawhide from Argentina , S outh America ( 65585 ) an

ol d pharmaceutica l ba lanceRE E D , D r . E DWYN P . , Va lpara iso , Chile( through Dr . Al exander Wetmore )Snake and 3 liza rds collected in Valpara iso ( 66595 )RE E D , L ieut . RICHARD C ., U . S . NavySupply Corps, U . S . Navy , Tutuila ,

Samoa : 1 2 bird skins , 1 fish ,para

sitie fl ies and centipede eggs , a l l

from Samoa ( 66 1 02 ,

RE E S ID E , J. B .

, Jr. ( See under Instituto de l a Sa lle , Bogo ta , Colomb ia. )

RE ICHE , KARL , Mex ico , Mex ico : 23plants ( 66398 ,RE ID

,EARL D ., U . S . Na tiona l Mu

seum : 33 fishes, and 1 6 invertebrates from Chesapeake Beach , Md .

( 65205, 60 pa irs of ear

stones ( otoli ths ) d issected from the

heads of fishes obta ined in the Washingt on marketsRE INHARD ,

E . ,ButTal o , N . Y. ; 8

specimens of S ilurian and Devonianfossils from New York S ta teRE INHARD

,H. J Texas Agricultura l

E xperiment S tation, College S tation,

Tex . : Mollusk, Succi/nea luteola , and

a dermestid beetle ,Trogoderma ,

species, from Co llege S tation

LIST or ACCE SSIONS. 1 83

RE KO,D r . Bra s P .

, Oaxaca de Juarez ,Mex ico : 6 plants ( 65841 ,

REMBRANDT INTAGLIO PR INTING CO. Queens Mill , Lancaster, E ngland : 20 specimens of

rotary intaglio printing, . 1 7 in blackand white and 3 in color , the earliestspecimen da ted 1 894 and the latest1 920

BENSON , Sefior D ON CARLOS . ( See

under San Sa lvador, E l Sa lvador. )RE VORE DO, J. F ., Aguilar , Oruro ,

Bolivia ( through Mr . F . L. Hess )Specimen of wolframite from Chicote H ill , east of Oruro ,

Bol ivia

RICE , ARCHIE . ( See under Ra inbowR idge Mining Co. )RICE , A . P Brookline, Mass : 4 earsof corn in the husk and 2 samplesof cotton from YucatanRICE INSTITUTE ,

THE ,Houston ,

Tex . ( through Prof. Asa C . Chandl er ) Specimen of ska te

,new species,

and a minnow ,Zygonectes hensha l l i i

'

RICE , J. B . , Washington,D . C

Specimen of black grani te ( gabbro )from R owan County , N C .

RICHARDS , Dr. THE ODORE W. , U . S .

Navy , Washington,D . C . : Collection

of severa l thousand b irds’

eggs,ch iefly from North AmericaRICHARDSON, M rs. CHARLE S W.,

Washington,D . 0 . ( through M rs.

Julian-James ) Leghorn straw pokebonnet ( 65567 , loan ) .

RICHARDSON , W . D .,Fredericks

burg, Va . z beetles, comprisingthe donor’s collection, except the

fami ly D ryopidae ( 65775 )RICKE R ,

P . L., U . S . Department ofAgriculture

,Washington,

D . 0

Land planarian from a greenhouse,Fourteenth and B S treets, Washington, D . C.

RIDGWAY, ROBERT, O lney ,Ill. : 3

bird skins from I llino isR IKSMUSE E TS BOTAN ISKA AV

DELNING , S tockholm, S W e d e n( through Dr. Carl Lindman,

D irector ) 280 plants, Bryophyta , fromnorthern E urope 880

plants, largely algae and grasses( 66282,exchange )

RIVE S , M rs . ISABEL, Washington, D .

0 . ( through M rs. R . G. Hoes ) :Smoking cap , S cotch style, emb roidered in moose ha ir, from Canada( 65437 , loan ) .ROBERTS , E . W.

,Cincinnati , Ohio

1 4 deta il photographs of HiramMaxim’

s early flying machine , and

copy of a photograph of h im, a lso

a copy of the Journa l of the Societyof Automotive E ngineers, April ,1 91 8, conta ining a description of

the machineROBE RTSON , Miss LIDA B .

,Living

ston Norma l S chool , Livingston,

Al a . : Plant , F irmicma. p la tanifo l ia.

( 65266 ) plantROBINSON, Col . Wm'

r, U . S . Army ,

West Point,N . Y. : Shrew ( a lco

holic ) , M icrosorem winnemanna

ROCK , Prof. JOSEPH F U . S . Department of Agriculture

,Washington,

D . C . : 4 plants, Kok/ia ,from the

Hawa i ian Islands (651 99 )ROCKWOOD

,L. P . ,

Forest Grove ,Oreg. : 2 type specimens of D iptera

RODDY, Dr. H. JU STIN , Millersville,Pa . : 332 Cambrian fossils fromLancas ter County, P a .

ROE BLING , 0 0 1 . WASH INGTON A.,

Trenton,N . J. : 3 specimens of min

era l s from Sweden

ROGE RS,L. E Washington, D . C

The nest of a wasp collected a t ShinPond , Pa tten,

Me.

ROIG , Dr. MARIO SANCHEZ , Havana ,

Cuba : Selenite from Cuba , a lso 8

specimens, 2 species,of terrestrial

isopods ( 65904 , 65968 )

ROMAN, Dr. A E ntomol ogi ska Afdel

ning, Naturh istoriska R iksmuseet ,S tockho lm, Sweden : 2 ichneumonfl ies, P o l ysphincta, c a r b o n a t o r

( 65792 )

ROSENDAHL , Prof. C . 0 . ( See underM innesota , the University of . )

ROSS , O. S ., U . S . Geo logical Survey,Wash ington, D . C . : Specimen of

onyx from Lime Creek , D el NorteQuadrangle, nea r B idell , 0 0 1 0 .

( 66051 )

1 84 REPORT or NATIONAL MUSE UM ,1 921 .

ROST, E . C . , Alhambra , Cal if. : 8 cacti

( 65657 , 6641 4, exchange ) ; 27 cacti( 66444,ROWLE E , Prof. W. W . , Departmentof Botany

,Cornell Univers ity , I th

aca , N . Y. : 3 plants, Ochroma , fromCentra l America( See a lso under Cornell Uni

versity ) .

ROWLE TT,Mrs. S . C . , Ha l ifax , Va

8 plants ( 66453,ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS . ( See

under British Government. )ROYAL E LE CTROTYPE CO Philadelphia, P a . z E xhib it show ing leadmolding electrotype and M cKee

process of trea t ing electrotypes( 661 96 ) 6 photographs of the R oyalE lectrotype Co .

’s plant

ROYAL TYPEWR ITE R CO.

THE , New York Ci ty ( through G . E .

Smith , Pres ident ) R oya l typewriter , No . 1 0, lates t model ; R oya ltypewriter, skeleton model , to af

ford inspection of a l l working parts,

working model , double size, of the

R oya l typewriter accelerating key

lever action, and working model o fthe R oya l typewriter roller tr ip es

capement

RUNYON , ROBERT , Brownsville , Tex27 cacti from Texas ( 65652 , 65700 ,

65830, 29 plants ( 66424 ,6651 8 , 66558, 66657 , 66747 ) 8 plants,Lophopiwra, from TexasRUSH, Mrs. PAUL J., Proctor, TexSk in and skul l of a pall id whitefooted mouse, P eromyscus manicula tus pal l escens

RUST , HENRY J.,Coeur d

’Al ene,

Idaho : Collection of fossil plantsfrom Coeur d’

Al ene

RUTH , Prof. ALBERT, Polytechni c ,Tex . : 48 plants , 4 plants from Texas,and a plant , Opuntia ( 65403, 66041 ,

RUTHVE N , Dr. A. G. ( See underM ichigan, Univers ity of

,Museum of

Zoo logy . )RUZICKA , RUDOLPH . ( See under theCarteret Book C lub , of Newark. )

ST. PROCOPIUS COLLE GE ,Lisle,

I ll . ( through Prof. H ilary S . Jurica )1 76 Specimens of miscellaneous ih

ST. PROCOPIUS COLLE GE— Contd .

sects ( 1 60 from L isle, Dupage

County, Ill. , and 1 6 co llected in the

Key Islands, Dutch E ast Indies )

SANCHE Z , Dr. MARIO , S r Habana ,

Cuba : 1 9 specimens , 9 species, of

mollusks from Cuba , including thetypes of 5 new species 9

specimens, representing 8 species , offossi l mollusks from Vedado , nearHabana , Cuba

SAN JOSE , COSTA RICA,MUSE O

NACIONAL ( through Dr. A. A1

faro ) 23 crane fl ies representing 1 7species, including the type of a new

species, from Costa R ica ( 6567 1 , exchange ) .

SAN SALVADOR , EL SALVADOR ,

LABORATORIO D E AGR ICUL

TURA ( through Sefior D on CarlosBenson ) 1 4 plants fromE l S alvador

( 65931

SAO PAULO , BRAZIL. ( See underMuseu Paulista . )

SARD E SON , Dr. FREDERICK W. , Min

neapolis, Minn. ( through InteriorDepartment , U . S . Geological Survey ) : Collection of Cretaceous ih

vertebrate fossils including about 1 2species and over 200 specimens fromthe Arcturus, H ill , and Walkerminesof the Mesabi Iron R ange , M inn.

SARGE NT , C . S . ( See under HarvardUniversity, Arnold Arboretum. )

SASAKI , MADOKA, Sapporo ,Japan

337 specimens, 34 species, of crustaceaus from Japan

SAUNDE RS, C . F . , Pasadena ,

Cal if. :3 plants, S elaginel la , from Cal ifornia( 661 07 ,

SAVAGE , M . F New York C ity : 4photographs, a daguerreotype, and 2tintypes of the period of the C ivilWar

, and a souvenir badge issuedon the occasion of the dedication of

Grant’s Tomb , 1 897 ( 65641 ) ironlamp sa id to have been found in thetrench warfare on the Austrian frontin the region of Venice, Ita ly , and

bought in Rome , Italy


REPORT or NATIONAL MUSE UM,1 921 .

SE CHRIST , E . LLOYD , Washington,

D . C . : Model of Tahitian outriggercanoe, and 3 photographs of scenesin Tahiti

SEGUY, Mons. E . , Museum d’Historie

Naturelle , Paris , France : 24 specimens of mosqu itoes

,and 29 speci

mens, 1 2 species of named mos

quitoes ( 66242 ,

SE IF R IZ ,Dr. WILLIAM ,

Johns Hop

kins Universi ty, Baltimore , Md . : 2

ferns from Java

SE LLS,M rs. CATO , Wash ington, D . C

White lace vei l and black lace veilmade by M iss Abiga il S ias, of D an

ville, Conn , about 1 830

SE OANE , Lieut . Col . 0 . A. , S ignalCorps, U . S . Army, Seattle, WashPolychaete worm, type o f new species

SE TCHE LL , Prof. W. A. ( See underCarnegie Institution of Washington . )

SE YMOUR,Mrs . HENRY, Ancon, Canal

Zone : E arthenware double jar of

recent make, from Honduras ; meta te of cellular l ava and a potteryjar with pa inted designs, both fromHonduras, also a stone image fromMex icoSHANNON, R . C . , E ntomologica l D epartment , Cornel l University , Ithaca ,

N. Y. : Specimen of an unknowndrOSOph il id from Camp Meade, Md .

,

2 specimens of a very small speciesof anthomyidae collected at Ithaca ,

N . Y. , and 602 beetles from Washington S ta te ( 65739, 65776 ,

SHARKIE , R ev. ANTONIU S , Washington,

D . C . : Wooden ba lance for

weighing money from SyriaSHAW, Dr. E . W. , Washington,

D . C

200 specimens, 6 species, of landshel ls from BoliviaSHE PHE RD

,ALEXANDER B . , 2d,

Tungstonia , Nev. ( through Mr. F . L.

Hess ) Specimen of hubnerite from60 miles northeast of E ly, Nev .

SHE PPARD , M . J Washington, D . 0

Fossi l pecten from the Tertiary rocksof Contra Costa County ,

Calif.

SHE PPARD , WALTER B . ,Jackson,

Wyo. : Smal l co llection of plantsfrom WyomingSHIDE LE R , Prof. W . H. , M iami University, Oxford , Ohio : Collection of

rare Upper Ordovician fossils fromOxford, Ohio ( 6581 8, exchange ) .

SHORT , GEORGE H Salt Lake C ity ,Utah ( through Victor C . Heikes )Specimen of sphalerite from th e

Judge mine , Park C ity , U tah

SHRE VE , Dr . FORES T, D esert Laboratory, Tuscon, Ariz . : Plant , ca ctus,from Arizona

SHUF E LDT , Dr. R . W. , U . S . Army( retired ) , Washington, D . C . : 7

small mammals from South America( 65523 ) plant , Mei bomia , from the

D istrict of Columbia 2

skeletons of fishes, a dried fish , and

~ skeleton of a hawkSHU F E LDT , Dr. R . W. , U . S . Army

Washington, D . C . , and

Dr. A. d’

E . TAUNAY, Sao Paulo ,Brazil : 3 skeletons of fishes

SHUF ELDT,Mrs. R . W.,

Washington,

D . C . : Common sw ift from GreatF alls, Md .

SHURTLE FF , ARTHUR A. ,Boston,

Mass : O riginal atomizer or vapori z er made about August 27 , 1 87 1 , byAsahel M . Shurtleff, Boston ,

Mass.

SIGMUND , LOUI S , Gol dfiel d, Nev

Samples of fibrous opal from E smera lda County, Nev.

SIMONS , Mrs. CARRIE L., S an D iego ,

Calif. : 1 0 mollusks representing thespecies S chismope ea l iforwica , fromNorth Coronado Island , Lower Ca lifornia ( 66024 )

SIMPSON , CHARLE S T . , Little R iver,F la . : 36 specimens, 22 subspecies, ofmollusks, Liguus, from Florida , rep

resent ing type lots of new subspeciesdescribed by the donor

SINGEWALD , Prof. JOSE PH T JohnsHopkins Univers ity, Baltimore, Md .

( through M r . F . L. Hess ) Specimenof wolframi te and cassiterite fromCarmen Mine, Yungas, Boli via( 6591 6 )


S ITHENS E . H Millville , N . J

Victor ordinary bicycle( See also under Lawrence Wo r

stall . )SKE E LS , H. 0 . ( See under R . N .

Jones . )

SLAGLE, WM . ( S ee under Curtis

Publishing co . )

SLOANE,WILLIAM

,New York Ci ty

Gold watch seal owned by Gen.

George Washington and presentedby him to Judge Bushrod Washington

SLOCUM , A. W Chicago , Sma llcollection of fresh-water shells fromCrooked Lake, Bay View , M ich and

post-glacial shells and marl fromMud Lake, Mich .

SMALL, Hon. JOHN M . , House of R ep

resentatives, Washington ,D . C . :

S ilver loving cup presented in 1 920

by the Chinese Chamber of Com

merce, Peking, China , to a party of

American Congressmen ( of whichM r . Small was cha i rman ) on a tourthrough China and Japan ( 661 68 ,

deposi t ) .

SMITH,M rs. F . M . , Ba ltimore ,

Md

Sword , sash , and 4 belts owned dur

ing the Civi l War by t . Capt.Frank M . Smith , Fi rst MarylandVo lunteersSMITH

, G . E . ( See under R oyalTypewriter Co .

SMITH,Dr. HUGH M .,Bureau of F ish

eries, Washington, D . C . : A seriesof specimens illustrating the chankindustry of IndiaSMITH

, J. A . ,Canon Ci ty , 0 0 10

Specimen of fossi l brachiopod fromthe Man i tou limestone, near CanonCity , 0 0 10 . ( 65855 )

SMITH,Capt . JOHN DONNELL, Ba lt i

more, Md. : 1 0 plants from N icaragua , collected by A. Tondu z

SMITH,Mrs. MAR GARE T A. S New

York C i ty ( through R ear AdmiralR . H. Jackson, U . S . Navy ) Plasterdeath mask of Rear Admi ra l Will iam T . Sampson, U . S . Navy ( 1 8401 902 )

1 87

i i

SMITH,Miss MARY, Arco la , Va

D ouble egg o f a domestic fow l

SMITH , M iss OLGA, Honolulu , Hawa i i48 specimens, 36 species, of Hawa i ianmarine shells ( 65494 ) 36 specimens,representing 5 species of land shellsfrom the island of Oahu , Hawa i i

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONAh oil pa inting representing the

Pterodactyl O r n i t h o s t o m a

iron wedge used byAbraham Lincoln when a resident of New Sa lem, I l l . , 1 830

1 834, and given by h im to hi s

instructor in survey ing, MentorGraham 2 bronze re

plicas of the meda l designed byA . Bonneta in, 1 91 9, in commemo

ration of the services of MarieD epage and E dith Cavell( 65828 ) oil portra i t o f BearAdmiral William Harkness, U . S .

Navy , and gold chronometerowned by him about

Cambrian fossil s ( 66540 )bronze meda l commemora tingthe centenn ia l anniversary of

the University of Virginia,1 921

( 66628 , deposit ) .

Smi thsonian African expedi tion

under the direction of E dmund

Hel ler in conjunction wi th the

U'n/i/versa l F i lm Manufac turingCo . ( collected b y H. 0 . R aven )5 mamma l s, 3 birds, 3 rep

tiles , and 1 fish ( 65475 ) co l l ec

tion of mamma ls , b irds, reptiles,mollusks

, and insects ( 65771 )collection of mammals, b irds,reptiles

,fish

,mollusks, insects,

and 3 via ls of helminths fromE ast Africa collectionof mammals, birds , reptiles,fishes, mollusks, insects, and

helminths from E ast Af rica( 66059 ) collection of parasites ,insec ts, and a l izard

Bureau of Americ an E thno logy

Skull, bones, and lower jaw ,

found at a village site nearGatesville, Tex . , and presentedto Dr. J. W. F ewkes in April ,


S M ITH S ON IAN INSTITUTIONContinued.

Bureau of Amer ican E thno l ogy

Continued .

1 91 9 archeologica lspecimens and human bonesfound at Indian H ill , F l a . ,

sentto the Bureau by M r. CharlesT . E arle, Pa lma Sola , F l a .

stone arrow polisher,presented to the Bureau of

American E thnology by D r.

Walter Both , of Geo rgetown,

British Guiana a rcheol ogica l material collected in

the Spring of 1 920 in no rthwestern Arizona and southwesternUtah by M r. Ne i l M . Judd

a pseudo stone impl e

ment of limestone found by

R ev. E . N . Kremer, Harrisburg,Pa . ,

in the vicinity of Camphill ,Cumberland County ,

P a . ,and

presented by h im to the Bureau( 65795 ) 3 human skulls and a

quantity of human bones col

l ected by Dr. J W . F ewkes

from the Fire Temple group of

ruins on the Mesa Verde Na

tiona l Pa rk , Colo . , during the

summer . of 1 920 25

skeletons collected during the

summer of 1 920 from the

F ewkes and Gordon Moundsnear Nashville, Tenn by M r.

W illiam E . Myer, of Nashville( 661 1 5 ) archeologi ca l ma teria lcollected by Mr. J. A. Jeancon

for the Bureau of AmericanE thnology from a ru in nea rTaos, N. Mex ,

in the summer of1 920 antique R ussianax head found at Port Graham,

Alaska ,in 1 91 3

Nationa l Museum, co l lected by

members of the staff: Bassler,R . S . : 1 0 slabs of fossils illustrating an Ordovician sea beach

F oshag, W. F . : 0 0 1

lection of minerals from Califormia , obta ined in May, 1 920

( 6541 6 ) G idley , J W. 1 4 specimens of cacti ( 661 91 ,1 6 plants ( 66390 ) collection of

S M ITH S O N IAN INSTITUTIONContinued .

Na ttona l Museum— Cont inued .

vertebrate rema ins m o s t l ymamma lian— representing a new

P i l ocene fauna , from the San

Pedro and Sulphur Springs Va lleys, Ariz . ( 66702 ) a large slabcontaining numerous f o s s i lbones from the

“ bone quarryat Agate, Nebr. Gil

more, C . W . : A sma ll collectionof mamma lian

,fossils from

Santa F e Marls , near E spanola ,

N . Mex . Hough , Wa l

ter, a small collection of invertebra te fossils from Polacca ,

HopiR eserva tion, Ar iz .archeologica l materia l collectedat Po lacca , Ariz . , during the

summer of 1 920

Maxon, William R : 75 plantsfrom New York , Maryland , andV i rginia Walcott ,Charles D . : Skin and skull of amule deer , Odocoi leus, 2 goats,Oreamnos

,and a porcupine ,

E rethi z on,collected in Alberta ,

CanadaNa tiona l Museum, ob tained by

purchase: Bronze meda l com

memorating the achievements ofthe American R ed Cross War

Council , 1 91 7— 1 91 9 (2 specimens ) ( 6621 2 ) medal of honor ,distinguished service cross, anddistingu ished service medal of

the type awarded by the UnitedS ta tes Navy Department for

services during the World War ,

1 91 7- 1 8 ( 65766 ) 3 prints showing 3 states of the etching of

plate No. 1 83. ShovellerDrake 1 1 2 Mex icanplants, collected by C. A. Purpus ( 65799 ) silver Indianpeace medals ( 6 spec imens )( 66770 ) 1 1 2 plants fromPa inted Desert , Ariz .1 09 Uganda plants ( 65254 ,

225 specimens of M is

sour i Lower Devonian fossils( 65971 ) collection of bees con

taining 222 specimens, 1 50


1 90 REPORT or NATIONAL MUSE UM ,

S M I TH S O N IAN INSTITUTIONContinued .

Na tatona l Zool ogica l P ark— Con.

( alcohol ic ) , skull of a coyote,Cam

’

s l atrons, and skin and skullof a kangaroo ,

M acropus gigan

teus ( 65804 ) skin and skull ofa fox squirrel , S eiurus niger,

and skin and skeleton of a sootypaca , Cunicu lrus pacegolden pheasant , Chryso l ozihus

pictus, little brown crane, Gruscanadensis ( 2 specimens ) whiteeyed duck , Nyroca nyroca ,

kea

parrot, Nestor notabi l is, wh itefaced tree-duck, D endrocygna

viduata,sultana , P orphyrio ca l

vvus, scarlet ibis, Guam rubm

( 2 specimens ) ; roseate spoonb ill , Ajaja ajaja skinand skull of a goat , Oreamnosmontanus, and a monkey , Mae

caca rhesus ( alcohol ic ) ( 66088 )egg of the large Indian paroquet , Conums n e p a l e n s i s

( 661 78 ) skin and skeleton of a

hunting dog, Lycaon pietus

( 66265 ) skin and skeleton of a

monkey , P amo ha/madryas, skinand skeleton of a bandicoot ,P emme les nasuta , and a ninebanded a rmadillo , D asypus novemcinc tus ( alcohol ic ) ( 66566 )piping—crow-shrike, Gym/norhtna

tibicen, and a sun - b ittern,

E urypyga hel ias

SGD E RSTROM ,LuDovrc Quito, E cua

dor : Bulbs of 2 species of plantsfrom E cuador

SOHNE R ,HARRY L. Washington,

D . C . : Indian chief s beaded coatfrom Valdez , AlaskaSOLIS

, Senor Dr. OCTAVIO , Mex icoCity

,Mex ico : 3 plants from Mex ico

( 6641 2 , exchange ) 3 plants ( cacti )from Mexico

SOMME R, D r. H. OTTO, Washington,

D . C. : A love flute of th e U te In

dians, Ute M t , S . E . Colorado

SOUTH DAKOTA, UNIVE R SITY OF ,

Department of Geology, Vermillion,

S . D ak. ( through Prof. Freeman

i i

SOUTH DAKOTA , UNIVE R S ITYOF — Continued.

Ward , S tate Geologist ) : Skeletalmaterial, consisting of 3 completeskeletons, 1 1 skulls

,and a few mis

cel l aneous bones, excavated and col

l ected by the Universi ty of SouthDakota in connection w i th the S ta teGeologica l Na tural H istory Survey ,from the ol d Arikara and Mandanvillage sites on the fl ood

’

pla ins of

the M issouri R iver in South Dakota( 65650 ) 1 40 plants from South D akota

SOUTHE RN COAL , COKE MININGCO. , S t . Lou is, Mo. : Jawbone w ithteeth intact of th e fossil shark,E destus hetnm

’

chstt, from the Shiloh‘

mine, nea r Shiloh , 1 1 1 .

SPAULDING,IRWIN , Honolulu , Ha

wai i : 85 spec imens, 69 species, o f

marine shells from th e Hawa i ianIslandsSPIE R , GEORGE W. , Chevy Chase, MdE nglish silver watch , about 200 yearso ld, marked on the works G .

Windle, London, #3926”

French silver wa tch markedL

’E p ine a Paris, and an E nglish

silver watch , Charles Dunning,London ( 65646 ) lady’s gold watch,Swiss make, 1 860 ; gold watch , en

graved gold dial , E nglish make,1 840 ; silver double-case watch , Irishmake, 1 760 ; si lver double-casewatch , E nglish make, 1 820 , and ol d

time gold watch keySPITZKA

,D r. EDWARD ANTHONY, E u

reau of War R isk Insurance, Washington,

D . C . : Human brains, ethnologica l and a rcheologica l specimens,shells, fossil s, minerals, and 1 1

ech inoderms ( 66608 ,SPRINGE R

,Dr . FRANK , E ast Las

Vegas, N . Mex . : S amples of mol yb

denite, from near E ast Las Vegas

SQUIBB SONS ,‘

E . R . , New YorkC ity : 1 5 specimens of pharmaceu

tical preparations 66203 )STAB E L , Dr. GEROLD , Paramaribo,Surinam : 3 specimens of cacti fromSurinam


STANBROUGH , WILLIAM MONELL,Custodian,

Falls House MemorialCollection, Newburgh , N. Y. ; Cast offragment of carved soapstone IndianheadSTANDLE Y, . J. E ., Seattle, WashFreak tooth of a walrus from the

Arctic regi onSTANLE Y-BROWN, Mrs. G., JAME S R .

GARFIE LD , Dr. HARRY A. GARF IELD

KABRAM GARFIELD , and

IRWIN M cD . GARFIELD ( throughM rs. G. S tanley-Brown, Kew Gar

dens, Long Island , N . Y. ) Lavendersatin dress worn by Mrs. Lucretia A.

Garfield at the inaugural ba ll on theoccasion of the inauguration of her

husband , President James A. Gar

field, in 1 881

STAN TON, Dr. T. W. ( See under Albert L. Beekly, and R . K . Thomas. )STAPLE S , A. H Douglas, Ga . z Fossilteeth of mammoth , mastodon,

and

sha rkSTARR , DOUGLAS N Washington,

D . C. : Gold , nickel, and silver coinsof the Uni ted S tates, Germany, GreatBritain, Japan, and China ( 1 7 specimens ) ( 65457 , loan ) 2 UnitedS tates silver half dollars commemorating the Pilgrim Tercentenary,1 920 (65575, loan ) ; United S tatesand German coins issued 1 834— 1 91 3

specimens ) ( 65656 , loan ) a F ilipino spearhead from Luz on,

an In

dian spearhead from Montana , an

Indian-made frontier knife, and a

pair of S ioux moccasinsUnited S tates silver half dime issuedin 1 795, Bechtler gold dol lar, and a

United S tates twenty-dollar goldpiece issued in 1 850 ( 66554, loan ) .

STATE DE PARTMENT : Bronze re

pli cas ( set in marble ) of the ob verseand reverse of the gold medal of

honor presented by the Italian Nationa l Committee, founded for thatpurpose, to K ing V ictor Emanuel I IIas commander in chief of the armyand navy , as a na tional testimonialof the deeds of hero ism and sacrifice

performed by the Italian people during the World War

( See also under Bartol omew McIntire, and E rnest B. Price. )7 1 305

°—21 — 1 3

1 91

STE E PLE S , DAN P ., Sumner , Wash

A large sheet of fungus paper ,” themycel l ium of the quinine fungus ,F omes l aricts, taken from a cavity ina 4-foo t Douglas fir at Hi llsboro ,Oreg. , 1 893

STE VENS , Prof. O. A., Agricultural

College, N . D ak. : 1 5 plants fromNorth Dakota 1 0 namedspecimens of bees representing 6

species, of which 4 are representedby typesSTEWART ,

D ON ,Oruro, B o l i v i a

( through Mr. F . L. Hess ) : Specimen of wolframi te from the Con de

Auqui district , BoliviaSTEWART

,R . B . , Gordon College,

R awalp indi , India ( through M issKa therine D . K imba ll , Bureau o f

Plant Industry , U . S . Department ofAgriculture, Washington, D . C. ) 32

specimens of H i m a l a y a n ferns

STILL,Dr. GEORGE A. , K irksville , Mo

Bust and meda ll ion of Dr. AndrewTaylor S t ill , founder of osteopa thy

STOCKHOLM,SWEDE N. ( See under

R iksmuseets Botaniska Avdelning. )STOW , NORMAN 0 Washington, D . 0

Pa ir of epaulets worn by 0 0 1 . E . W.

Chasta in, E ighth Georgia R egiment ,Confederate S tates Army , during theCivil War ( 66506 , loan )STUBBS , Dr. A. B . , Tampico , Mexico( through Department of Commerce ,Bureau of F isheries, Washington,

D . 9 specimens of fish, Ga/mbusta nicaraguensis, from Tuxpam,

Mex icoSUFFERN , ROBERT A P lainfield, N.

J. : Small collect ion of Pleistoceneshells from a ma rl bed at Marksboro , N. J

SUKSDORF , W. N . , B ingen, Wash1 4 plants, S el agtnel la , ch iefly fromthe western Uni ted S tates (66044 )

SULLIVANT MOSS SOCIE TY ,THE ,

New York C ity ( through Mr. E d

wa rd B. Chamberla in) : 60 mosses( 66495, exchange ) .SUMME RS , M rs. MADDIN , Washington,

D . 0 . ( through Mrs . R . G . Hoes :Laces, b ed spread , and pillow shams( 1 1 specimens ) ( 66771 , loan) .

1 92 REPORT or NATIONAL MUSEUM , 1 921 .

SURR,GORDON , San B e r n a r d i n o ,

Ca l if. : 2 varieties of minerals, as

bol ite and al exandrol ite fromTulare County , Cal if.SWALE S , B . H. , U . S . National Mu

seum : 1 3 bird skins from the O ldWorld representing species mostlynew to the Museum ( 65595 ) egg of

emu , D romiceius noveehol l andiae

( 661 79 ) 8 bird skins, mostly new to

the Museum collections ( 66276 ) 20

bird skins from the O ld World

SWARTS , CLIFTON R Guaymas,Sonora ,

Mex ico : L iving cactus fromMex icoSWASE Y, AM BROSE, Cleveland , OhioBronze portrai t plaque of the donordesigned by Victor D . Brenner, 1 91 5

SWISHE R , 0 . LEE : Ah exhibitionspecimen of Devonian starfish fromTucker County , W. Va .

SYDNE Y, NEW SOUTH WALE S ,AUSTRALIA. ( See under Australian Museum. )

TABER , Prof. STEPHEN , University of

South Ca rol ina , Columb ia , S . 0 .

( through Dr. T . Wayland Vaughan)Fossi l cora l from Swan Island , WestIndies

TABOR, I . C Danbury , Wis. : Moth .

Telea po l yphemus ( 66677

TAUNAY , A. d’

E . ( See under MuseuPaulista , and Dr. R . W. Shufel dt . )

TAYLOR , Mrs. FRANCE S LONG , Athens,Ga. ( through M iss Katherine Wootten, Washington, D . C . ) Printeddocuments rela ting to the fi rst use

of ether as an anaesthetic in surgeryin 1 842 by Dr. Crawford W . Long( 65997 ) articles and documents re

la ting to the life and career of Dr .Crawford W. Long, the first to use

ether as an anaesthetic in surgery( 6621 6 , loan) .

TAYLOR , Capt. WILLIAM , Granbury ,Tex . : Cast from the interior of a

fossil mollusk

TEXAS , UNIVE R S ITY OF , Austin,

Tex . : Specimen of the Throup ,

Tex ., meteorite ( 65858, deposit) .

THOMAS , R . K. , Navajo , Ar iz.( through Dr. T . W. S tanton ) :Specimens of mollusks, Oreoheh

’

w

u tahensis, from Hardscrabble Draw ,

nea r Zuni Sacred Lake, ApacheCounty , Ariz .

THOMPSON , CHARLE S A . ,H illsdale ,

Mich. ; Specimen of the fossilcephalopod ,

Huronia

THOMPSON , Dr . LEWIS B . ,F incastle,

Va . z Bat , reptiles , and insects col

l ected in the southwestern part of

the Human Province, China ( 65432 )( through the American Consul ,Changsha , China ) original photograph showing poppy nel d in bloom

9 bees and wasps and 1 5

reptiles and amphibiansTHOMPSON

,M rs. OTTO , Glacier Park ,

Mont : 21 plants from Montana

THORNBE R,Prof. J J University of

Arizona , Tucson,Ariz . : Cactus from

Ar izonaTHORNTON, C. W., Nome, Alaska35 plants from AlaskaTHORPE

, 0 0 1 . G. C . , U . S . MarineCorps, Washington

,D . C . : Speci

mens from Santo Domingo , in eth

nol ogy , ceramics, American archeology , and mechanical technology( 66707 , loan) .

TILLE S,GEORGE

,Jr.

,Wilmington, N.

C . : 2 l iving specimens of Venus’sfly-trap , D ionaea musetpu l a , fromNorth Ca rol ina

TILLYARD , Dr. R . J. , Nelson, New

Zea land : 6 specimens of rare two

winged fl ies from New Zealand , ihcluding two named species( See also under Cawthron Institute of Scientific R esearch,th e ) .

TIMBE RLAKE , P . H. , Honolulu , Hawa i i : 32 specimens of determinedOpiinae, represent ing 5 species, withparatypes of one

( See a lso under Hawa iian SugarPlanters’ Associa tion, E xperi

ment S tat ion. )TINSLE Y, R . W.

, Southwestern Uni

versi ty , Georgetown, Tex. : Skin of

a bridled weasel, Mustela frenata



UN IVERSAL FILM MANUFACTUR

ING CO., New York C ity : Copies of

the films of the picture Shipwrecked Among the Cannibals ”

( See also under Smi thsonian Ih

stitution. )

UPPE RCU , INGLI S M New YorkCity : Gasoline automob ile, the sec

ond machine designed and con

structed by Charles E . Duryea , and

tested on the road early in September, 1 893

VANATTA , E . G. , Phi ladelph ia , Pa6 mo llusks, Opeas pum/tltum, l ivingin decayed boards of fences in Philadelphia

VAN E SELTINE , G . P ., Bureau of

Plant Industry, U . S . Department ofAgriculture, Washington, D . C . : 64

plants, ch iefly from the United S tates

( See also under S . B . Pa rish , andPomona Coll ege. )

VAN ZWALUWENBURG, R . H U . S .

E ntomological Labora tory, S tonehenge, Charlottesville, Va . z 4 typespecimens of a beetle, M ela/notus

hyslom’

VAUGHAN , Dr. T. WAYLAND, U . S .

Geological Survey, Washington,

D . C. : 1 50 specimens, 1 8 lots, of

land and fresh-water shells fromMex ico( See also under J. A. Bul l brook ,

E . D e Gol yer, and Prof. S tephenTaber. )

VAUPE L , F Botani sches Garten, D ah

l em, Berlin, Germany : Plant , cactus,from PeruVEATCH , CHARLES , Kansas Ci ty, Mo

Mollusk, Tel ltna tdae, collected bythe donor in the vi c inity of LongBeach , Ca lif.VENICE MAR INE BIOLOGICALSTATION , University of SouthernCa l ifornia , Los Angeles, Cal if.( through Dr. A. B. Ulrey ) 1 0 plusspecimens, 3 species , including the

type of 2 new species of parasiticcopepods from fishes in the aquariaat the Venice Marine B iologica lStation a collection of

VENICE MARINE BIOLOGICALSTATION— Continued.

mol lusks, hydro ids, trema todes,bryozoans, echinoderms, and salpaco llected in the vicinity of the

Venice Marine B iologica l S tation off

southern Ca lif ornia ( 65631 )YONSEN ,

M ., Petaluma ,Ca lif. : 1 6

specimens of minerals from Ca lifornia ( 6521 9 ) spec imen of selenitein coleman i te, from Bora te , Ca l if.

E xchange.

WAITE , M . B ., Bureau of Plant Industry, U . S . Department of Agriculture

,Washington,

D . C . : Plant fromMarylandWALCOTT ,

M rs . CHARLE S D ., Washington, D . C . : 3 Specimens of l ichensfrom Alberta , Canada 3

plants, Tri l l ium 6651 4 )WALFORD , E DWIN A .

, F . G . S WestBar , Banbury ,

E ngland : 28 specimens of fossi l invertebra tes from the

neighborhood of Banbury ,E ngland

WALKE R ,H. E DWARD

,Ba l timore,

Md. : 464 miscellaneous microscopicmounts of natura l h istory objects inmahogany sl ide case, 1 smal l re

ducing lens for use with microscope,and 1 stone ax

WALKER MUSE UM . ( See under Ch icago , University of . )WALKER , ROBERT S Chattanooga ,

Tenn. : Ga ll from TennesseeWALKER ,

Mrs. WILLIAM H. , Washington, D . 0 . ( through M rs. R . G.

Hoes ) Ar t icles of infant’s costumefrom the Wa lker fami ly of Washington, period of 1 81 5—30 ( 65459, loan ) .

WALLING , HARRY ( through CharlesT. E arle, Pa lma Sola ,

1 0

specimens of fossil bones from the

east coast of Tampa Bay , Mana teeCounty, F l a.

WAR DE PARTMENTGenera l S taff of the United S tates

Army : Historical Bran ch : 5 re

productions on tracing paper ,actua l size, of character sketchesfound on the walls of a Germandugout in the Mont-S ec regi on,

France , by the American E xpe

ditionary Forces, 1 91 8

LIST OF ACCESSIONS .

WAR DE PARTMENT— C ontinued .

Aw S ervice : Specimens representing 4 standard grades of cottonand linen a irplane and ba lloonfabrics, together with samplesof converted balloon and air

plane cloth ( 65668 ) chemicalsused in waterproofing and fire

proofing a irplane wings (22

specimens ) ( 6581 3 ) mi lita rya i rplane engi nes of the type usedduring the World War (8 specimens )

Motor Transport Corps : 2 Germanmotor trucks and a German tractor captured by American E xpeditionary Forces in 1 91 8 duringthe World War

Ordnance, Oflioe of the Chief ofProgress boards illustrating themanufacture of mil itary exp l o

sives used during the WorldWar ( 7 specimens ) ( 6551 5,

loan) .

Quartermaster Gene ra l , Ofi‘ice of

Wound certificate and death cer

tificate of the type used by theWar Department in recognitionof services during the WorldWar , 1 91 4

— 1 91 8 ( 65299 ) UnitedS tates Army medals and decorations ( 1 4 specimens ) , also 2

victory ribbon barsUnited S tates Army nurse’

s uni

form and insignia ( 21 specimens ) United S tatesArmy standard B t ruck withaccessories uniformand equ ipment of Dutch infantryman, period of the WorldWar , 1 91 4

— 1 91 8

S igna l Corps : Carrier p igeon CherAmi which new from Americanlofts during the World War and

died June 1 3,1 91 9, from the

effects of a wound received in

action in France 99

sepia bromide enlargements1 09 Brady Civil War

ph otographs( See also under British Government. )

WARD , Prof. FREEMAN . ( See underSouth Dakota, University of . )

1 95

WARD S NATURAL SCIENCE E S

TABLISHMENT, R ochester, N . Y. :

2 examples of the Forsyth County ,

N . C . , meteoric i ron, and 1 of Chinantl a , Guatemala ( 65375 ) a crystalof blue z ircon from Queensland,Austra lia 1 00 O rdovicianfossi ls from Nevada ( 65727 ) skulland lower jaw of an elephant , and a

tooth of an elephant from the Pleistocene at O tranto , Ita ly ( 65824 ) 62

specimens of minera ls a

small collection of S te. Genevievefossils from Founta in Creek

,near

Waterloo, Ill. ( 661 27 ) skul l of thefossil reptile

, S t e p h a n o s a u r u s,

( 661 53 ) specimen of lap iz lazulifrom Persia ( 661 80 ) 3 trilobitesfrom the Devonian of Gerolstein( 662 1 9 ) a kilogram of uranini tefrom Bohemia ( 66669 ) E xchange.

WARNER ,Maj . MURRAY ( through h is

widow Mrs. Margaret E . Warner ) ,E ugene, Oreg. : Collection of objectsof Buddhist religious art

WARREN ,M rs. J KEARNY

,New York

Ci ty ( through M rs. Julian-James,Washingt on, D . C . ) Cluny lace sun

shade wi th ivory handle ( 66539 ,loan ) .

WASHINGTON , CHARLE S S ., U . S . Na

tional Museum : 1 0 crustaceans, 50insects , 6 frogs, and 2 liz a rds col

l ected by the donor at, Hopkins,

R ichland County , S . C.

WASHINGTON , Dr. H. S . , Geophysi

ca l Laboratory , Carnegie Institutionof Washington, Washingt on,

D . C

A columbite crystal from Had

dam, Conn. specimen of

aphthitalite from K i lauea ,Hawa i i

specimen of rhyolite fromSardin ia ( 65894 ) 2 ana lyzed spec imens of augite( See a lso under Prof. T. A. Jag

ger. )

WATERSON, JAM ES . ( See underBri tish Government , Imperial E ureau of E ntomology. )WATSON , Mrs. H. w P inos A1tos, N.

Mex. : 3 prayer sticks from a cave inS teamboat Canon

,near Pinos Altos


WATSON,J R . ( See under Florida ,

Univers ity of,Agricultura l E xperi

ment S tat ion. )WE ED,

M rs. Char les B ., Seat P leasantS tation, Washington, D . C . : Woolsp inning wheel , yarn reel , V irgin iagrown raw fl ax , 3 willow baskets,and 2 cand le moldsWE EKS PHOTO-ENGRAVING CO. ,

Philadelphia ,P a . ; 6 prints made

from electrically etched copper plate

WE IK,KARL W., Lakeside, Conn

Specimen of igneous rock fromLakesideWE IR ,

Dr. JAME S R Laborato ry of

Forest Pathology , Spokane, WashPlant , S elagtnel la , from Washington

WE LD ,L. H., Bureau of E ntomology ,

U . S . Department of Agriculture,Washington, D . C . : 51 7 specimens of

gall-making wasps, Cynipidae, rep

resenting 34 new species, describedby the donor ( 65491 ) 30 determinedCynip idae, representing 9 species, 6of which are cotypesWE STLAKE , S . B . , Ironwood , M ich1 2 specimens of i ron minerals fromIronwood ( 6631 3, exchange ) .WE TMORE , Dr. ALEXANDER. ( See

under Dr. E dwyn P . R eed. )WE YHER , W. H.

,Alta , Utah ( through

Victor C . Heikes ) Specimen largelyof bismuthinite from the Sells mine,Alta , UtahWHERRY ,

Dr. EDGAR T ., Bureau of

Chemistry , U . S . Depa rtment of Agriculture, Washington, D . C . : Specimen show ing glauberite crystalcavities in shale, from York County,Pa . ( 65269 ) 30 ferns from the eastern Uni ted S tates ( 65688 ) pl antfrom Maryland ( 65724 ) plant , S el agtnel la ,

from Maryland 2

plants from th e D istrict of Columb ia( 66641 ,

( See also under P . B. Arnold . )WE ITALL TATUM 0 0 Ph iladelphi a ,

Pa . : 6 pieces of pharmaceutical apparatus ( 65273) a suppository machine w ith a set of molds ( 65353 )7 specimens of pharmaceutical equipment

WHITE , M rs . JOHN JAY , New YorkCity : 2 mounted heads of Africanantelopes , Oreotmgus ( 65490, de

posit ) .

WHITE , Capt. S . A Wetunga ,Ful

ham, S outh Australia : 2 bird skins,Aphelocepha l a. pectora l is, and A.

ntgm‘

cincta , both species new to the

Museum collectionsWHITFORD , H. N . , S chool of Forestry, Yale University , New Haven,

Conn : Plant , Gordie ,from Mex ico

WICKHAM , H. F ., University of Iowa ,

Iowa City, Iowa : 1 1 beetles fromthe Bahama IslandsWIE GAND , Prof. K. M . ( See underNew York S tate College of Agricul

ture. )WILDER, Dr. GEORGE D ., AmericanBoard M ission, Peking, China : 1 8

b ird skins from North China ( 66651 )WILLE TT , G . , Wrangel , Alaska : 4

mollusks and 3 foraminifera fromForrester Island

,Alaska

WILLIAMS , Col . CHARLE S A., U . S .

Army ( retired ) , Washington, D . C . :

Myriopods

WILLIAMS COLLE GE,Will iamstown ,

Mass. ( through Dr. H. A. Garfi el d,

President ) Bronze meda l of the

type awarded in 1 91 9 by WilliamsCollege to a l l Williams men in goodstanding, who served in the Army orNavy of the United S ta tes, or any of

the All ies during the World War ( 2

specimens )WILLIAMS , Dr. FRANCIS X . ( See

under Hawa iian Sugar Planters’ Association. )

WILLIAMSON,E . B ., B luffton, Ind

26 dragon-flies and damsel nies fromthe Uni ted S tates, also food of 3

species ( 65463 ) skull of a b at , Ar tibeus jamatcensis, from R io Frio ,

Colombia 61 dragon-fi ies

WILLIAMSON, THOMAS N .,Graham,

Va . z Pigeon hawk, F a l co commbartus, from V irginiaWILLIS , Mrs. LEWIS , Beahm, Va

Horned grebe, Co lymbus auri tas,

from Vi rgi nia


LIST OF PAPERS BY MEMBERS OF THE MUSEUM STAFF

AND OTHERS ,BASE D DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ON

MATERIAL IN THE NATIONAL COLLE CTIONS , PUB

LISHE D BY THE MUSEUM AND ELSEWHERE DURINGTHE FISCAL YEAR 1 920

ALDRICH , J. M . Co l orad ia pandoraBlake, a moth of which the ca terp illar is used as food by Mona LakeIndians.

Anna l s E nt , S oc. Amer.,vol . 1 4 , no. 1 , M ar .

1 92 1 , pp . 36— 38 .

The Musco id genera P seudeuantha and Uramvia (D iptera ) .

Insecutor Inscz ttae Men

s truus, vo l . 9 ,nos. 4

6 , Apr.— June , 1 92 1 ,

pp . 83— 92 .

The anthomyiid genus Atherigona in America (Diptera ) .

Inseoa tor Inscittae Men

struus, vo l . 9 , nos. 4

6 , Apr.— June, 1 92 1 ,

pp. 93— 98 , fig . 2 .

( See a lso under M . C . Van

D uz ee. )ALEXANDE R, C. P . , and W . L. McATE E . Diptera of the superfami lyTipulo idea found in the D istrict o fColumbia .

Proc. U . 8 . Na t . Mua ,

vol . 58 , no . 2344 ,

D ec . 7 , 1 920 , pp .

385— 4 35 , p l . 26 .

ASCHEME IE R , C . R . On the gorillaand the chimpanzee .

Journ. Mam , vol . 2 , no .

2 , May 2 , 1 92 1 , pp .

90— 92 .

BANGS,OUTRAM , and THOMAS E .

PENARD . Notes on some American birds, chiefly neotropical .

Bu l l . Mus . Comp . Zoo l ,

vo l . 64 , no . 4 , Jan ,

1 921 , pp . 365— 397 .

BARBER , H. S . ( See under H. F .

D ietz . )1 A few papers published pri or to th is fisca l

tent l y omitted f rom previous repo rts.

BARTSCH ,PAUL. A new shipworm.

Proc. Bio l . 8 0 0 . Wash

mgton, vol . 33, July24 , 1 920, pp. 69 , 70 .

The west American mo llusksof the families R issoel l idae and

Synceratidae and the R issoid genusBarl eeia .

BARBOUR , THOMAS . Some reptilesfrom O ld Providence Island.

Proc. New E ng. Zoo l .Cbub, vol . 7 , May 6 ,

1 92 1 , pp . 8 1 — 85.

and G . K . NOBLE . M ph i

bians and reptiles from southernPeru col lected by the Peruvian ex

pedition of 1 91 4— 1 5 under the aus

pices of Yale Univers ity and the Nat iona l Geographic Society.

Proc. U. S . Nat . Mus .,

vol . 58 , no. 2352 ,

Jan. 6 , 1 92 1 , pp . 6 09

620

P roc. U. 8 . Nat . Mua ,

vol . 58 , no . 2331 ,

Nov . 9 , 1 920 , pp .

1 59— 1 76 , pl s. 1 2 , 1 3.

The Caecidae and o ther marine mollusks from the northwestcoast of America .

Journ. W a s h i n g t o n

Acad. S e t , vol . 1 0 ,

no . 20 , D ec. 4 , 1 920 ,

pp . 565— 572 .

A new cl assification of the

shipworms and descriptions of somenew wood-boring mollusks.

Proc. Bio l . 8 0 0 . Wash

ington, vol . 34 , Mar .

31 , 1 92 1 , pp . 25— 32 .

yea r are incl uded , having been inadver

200

BARTSCH , PAUL. New marine mollusks from the west coast of

America .

Proc. Biol . S oc. Wash


3 1 , 1 92 1 , pp.

( See a lso under John B . Hen

derson. )

BASSLE R , R . S . The Cambrian and

Ordovician deposits of Maryland.

Mary l and Geol . S ara ,

Cambrian and Ordo

vi cian, 1 91 9 , pp . 1

424 , pl s. 1 — 58 .

( See a lso under FerdinandCanu )BEAN , BARTON A. ( See under HenryW. Fowler. )BE LOTE , THEODORE T . Commemorative medals of the World War.

D au gh ters Amer . R ev.

Mag ., Dec . , 1 920 , pp .

667— 6 99, illustrated.

BE NT,A. C . The probable status of

the Pac ific coast Skuas.

Condor, vo l . 23, no . 3,

June 3, 1 92 1 , pp.

7 8— 80.

BERRY,EDWARD W. A pa lm nut

from the M iocene of the Canal Zone.

Proc. U. 8 . Nat . Mua ,

vol . 59 , no. 2356 ,

June 1 0 , 1 921 , pp .

2 1 , 22 , text figs. 1 — 3.

Tertiary foss il plants fromCosta R ica .

Proc. U. 8 . Na t Mu8 .,

vo l . 59 , no . 2367 ,June 1 4

,1 92 1 , pp.

1 69— 1 85 , pl s. 22— 27 .

Tertiary fossil plants fromthe Dominican R epubl ic.

Proc. U. S . Na t. Mus.,

vol . 59 , no . 2363,

June 28, 1 92 1 , pp .

1 1 7— 1 27 , pl . 2 1 .

BE RRY, S . STILLMAN . Preliminary

diagnosis of new cephalopods fromthe western Atlantic.

Proc. U. 8 . Na t . Mua ,

vol . 58, no . 2335 ,

Nov . 1 0, 1 920 , pp.

293- 300 , pl . 1 6 .

BLAKE, S . F . N ine new plants of

the genus S tylosanthes.

Proc. Bio l . S oc . Wash

ington, vol . 33, July24, 1 920, pp. 45— 53.

REPORT or NATIONAL MUSEUM,1 92-1 .

BLAKE , S . F . F ive new species of

Cedrela .

Proc. Bio l . S oc . Washington, vol . 33, D ec.

30 , 1 920, pp . 1 07

1 1 1 .

Two new Salvias from Guatemala.

Prov. Bio l . 8 0 0. Was hington, vol . 34 , Mar.31 , 1 921 , pp. 43— 46 .

Revisions of the genera Acanthospermum, F l ourensia , Oyedaea ,

and Tithonia

Proo. Bio l . 8 0 0 Washington, vo l . 33, D ec.

30, 1 920, pp . 1 1 3- 1 1 5.

New trees and shrubs fromMex ico and Guatemala .

Proc. Bio l . S oc . Wash

ington, vo l . 33, D ec.

30, 1 920 , pp . 1 1 7

1 20.

Neomi l l spaughia , a new genusof Polygonaceae, with remarks on

related genera.

Bu l l . Torrey Bot . Cht b,

vol . 48 , no . 3, Man ,

1 92 1 , pp. 77- 88 , pl . 1 .

The American species of Max

imi l ianea (Cochlospermum )Jowrn. W a s h i n g t o n

Acad. S et , vo l . 1 1 ,no. 6 , Mar . 1 9, 1 92 1 ,

pp. 1 25- 1 32 , figs. 1 , 2 .

New trees and shrubs fromYucatan.

Contr. U. 8 . Nat. Herb.,vol . 20 , pt. 1 0 , June20 , 1 921 , pp. 383

436 , pl . 23.

New Meliaceae from Mexico .

Proc. Biol . Soc. Washington, vol . 34 , June30 , 1 92 1 , pp. 1 1 5

1 1 7 .

A new Aspi l ia from Tr inidad .

Proc. Biol . 8 0 0 . Washington, vol . 34 , June30 , 1 921 , pp . 1 1 9,1 20 .

BLANCHARD,FRANK N . Three new

snakes of the genus Lampropeltis.Occasiona l papers, Mus.

of Zool . , Univ. ofM ich , 81 , Apr. 28 ,

1 920, pp . 1 — 1 0 , p l . 1 .

A synopsis of the king snakes,genus Lampropeltis F itz inger .

Occasional papers, Mus.

of Zool ., Univ. ofMich , 87 , June 24 ,

1 920 , pp. 1 — 7 and

table.



CHAMBERLAIN ,RALPH V .

-Contd .

in cha rge of Alexander Agassiz , bythe U . S . F ish Commission steamerA l ba tross, from October, 1 904, to

March , 1 905, L ieut . Commander L.

M . Garrett , U . S . Navy , commanding ,XXXI .

M em. Mus. Comp . Zoo l .,vo l . 48, July, 1 9 1 9 ,

pp. 1 —5 1 4 , p l s. 1 — 80.

CHAMPLAIN ,A. B . ( See under

Adam G. Boving. )CHAPIN , JAME S P . Description of

four new birds from the BelgianCongo .

Amer . Mus . N ovi ta tes,

no . 7 , April 4 , 1 92 1 ,

pp . 1 — 9 .

CHAPMAN ,FRANK M . The distribu

tion of bird life in the UrubambaValley of Peru . A report on the

birds collected by the Yale-Na tiona lGeographic Society’s expedi tions.

Bu l l . U. 8 . Nat . Mus ”

no . 1 1 7 , June 2 9 ,

1 921 , pp . 1 — 1 38 , pl s.

1 — 9.

CHASE,AGNES . The Linnean con

cept of pearl millet.Amer. Journ. Bot ., vol .

8,no . 1 , Jan. , 1 92 1 ,

pp . 4 1 — 49.

The North American'

speciesof Pennisetum.

Contr . U. 8 . Na t. Herb.,vol . 22 , pt . 4 , F eb . 1 2 ,

1 92 1 , pp . 209— 234 ,

figs. 63— 76 .

CLARK ,AU ST IN H. A new unstalked

Crinoid from the Phil ippine Islands.

Proc. Bio l . S oc. Wash

ington, vol . 33, pp .

21 , 22 , July 24, 1 920 .

R eport on the Crinoids col

l ected by the Barbados-Antigua ex

ped ition from the University of Iowain 1 91 8.

Universi ty of I o w a

S tuMes ; S tudies in

Natura l History , vo l .

9 , no . 5, pp . 3— 28 ,

Mar. 1 5 , 1 92 1 .

Rep0rt on the Ophiurans col

l ected by the Barbados—An tigua ex

pedition from the University of Iowain 1 91 8.

Universi ty of I o w (1

S tudies ; S tudi es in

Natw ml History, vo l .

9 , no . 5 , pp . 29—63,

Mar . 1 5 , 1 92 1 .

CLARK , AU STIN H. Sea-lilies and

feather stars.

Smi thsonian M isc. Ca l l a ,

vol . 72 , no . 7 , Apr . 28 ,

1 92 1 , pp. 1 —4 7 , pl s.

1 — 1 6 .

The steps in the evolution o f

anima ls.

Peru.

Bu l l . Amer. Mus. Na t.

His t , vol . 42 , art . 1 1 ,

D ec . 1 920 , pp. 459

468

S ome fossi l fish sca les from

Joum Washi ng ton Acad .

S et,

vo l . 1 1 , no . 9 ,

pp. 207 , 208 , May 4 ,

1 92 1 .

CLAR K, HOWARD WALTON . ( S ee underB . W. E yermann. )

COCKERE LL , T . D . A. A new Trigonalia from India

Proc. E nt. S oc. Wash

ington, vol . 22 , no . 7 ,

Oct . 1 920, pp. 1 9 1 ,

1 92 .

Some neotropical mel iponid

Proc. U. 8 . N at . Mua ,

vol . 59 , no . 2355 , June

1 0, 1 92 1 , pp. 1 9 , 20 ,

text figs. 1 — 7 .

Some E ocene insects fromColorado and Wyoming.

Proc. U. 8 . Nat . Mus ,

vol . 59 , no. 2358 , June

27 , 1 92 1 , pp. 29— 39 ,

p l . 8 , text figs. 1 — 9 .

COOKE ,CHARLES WYTHE. Tertiary

mollusks from the Leeward Islandsand Cuba .

Car negie Inst itu tion ofWashington, pub . no .

291 , 1 9 1 9 , pp. 1 03

1 56 , pl s. 1 — 1 6 .

COOKE MAY THACHEB. Bi rds of the

Wash ingt on region.

Proc. Biol . 8 00 . Wash


31 , 1 92 1 , pp. 1 — 2 1 .

COLE ,F . R . ( See under M . C . Van

Duz ee. )

COVILLE ,FREDERI CK V . The influ

ence of cold in stimulating the

growth of plants.

Joum . Agric. R esear ch,

vo l . 20 , no. 2 , Oct . 1 5 ,

1 920 , pp. 1 51 — 1 60 , pl s.

20—35.

LIST or PUBLICATION S . 203

COVILLE ,FREDERICK V . A new hy CUSHMAN , R . A . The ma les of the

brid— the Katherine blueberry. Ichneumonid genera Myersia and

Journ . Hered. , vo l . 8 . 11 0 . Thaumatotypidea , w ith descriptions1 1 , Nov.

-Dec., 1 920Of new Species.

( frontispiece , w ith ex

pl anatory text )CRAM , E LOISE B . ( See under Brayton H. Ransom. )

CUSHMAN, JOSEPH AU GU STINE. F os

sil foraminifera from the WestInd ies.

Carnegie Insti tut ion ofWashington, pub . no .

291 , 1 9 1 9 , pp. 2 1 — 7 1 ,

p l s. 1 — 1 5 ,text figs.

1 - 8.

TheM exican species of Orthophragmina and Lepidocycl ina .

Prof. P aper U. S . Geo l .S ara , no . 1 25— D , July26 , 1 920 , pp . 39— 1 08 ,

pl s. 7— 35 , text fig. 3.

Lower M iocene Foraminiferaof Florida.

Prof. P a/per U. S . Geol .S urv., no . 1 28—B , Aug.

1 2, 1 920 , pp. 67— 74 ,

pl . 1 1 .

The foraminifera of the Atlantic Ocean, Part 2 , Lituol idae.

Bu l l . U. 3 . Nat. Mu8 ., no.

1 04 , Oct . 6 , 1 920 , pp.

1 — 1 1 1 , p l s. 1 — 1 8 .

Foraminifera from the NorthCoast of Jama ica .

Proo. U. S . Nat . Mu8 .,

vol . 59 , no . 2360 , June1 0 , 1 921 , pp. 47— 82 ,

pl s. 1 1 — 1 9 , figs. 1 — 1 6 .

CUSHMAN , R . A. The North American Ichneumon-fl ies of the t ribesLycorini , Po lysphinctini , and Theroniini .

Proo. U. 8 . Nat . Mua ,

vol . 58 , no . 2326 , Sept.3, 1 920 , pp. 7—4 8 ,

pl . 2 .

North American Ichneumonfl ies, new and described , with taxonomi c and nomenclatorial notes .

Proo. U. 8 . Nat. Mua ,

vol . 58 , no . 2334 , Nov .

8 , 1 920 , pp . 251 — 292 ,

fig. 1 .

North Ammican Ichneumon

Bu l l . U. 8 . Nat . Mus. ,

no . 1 1 2 , F eb . 24 ,1 92 1 ,

pp . 1 — 2 1 7 , pl s. 1 — 22 .

Molluscan species named in

fl ies of the tribe E ph ial tini .th e I

’ortl anq catalogue, 1 786 ’ part 2’

P roc . U . S . Na t . Mua ,foreign species.

vol . 58 , no . 2340 , Nov . Nau ti lus, vol . 34 ,no . 4 ,

1 0 , 1 920. pp . 327— 362,

Apr . , 1 921 , pp . 1 24

pl . 2 1 , fig. 1 . 1 32 .


ington, vol . 23, no. 5 ,

May , 1 92 1 , pp. 1 09

1 1 2 , fig. 1 .

and S . A . ROHWE R . Noteson Hel l en’

s Beitrage zur Kenntnisder Ichneumoniden F inlands : Subfami lie Pimplinae.

”

Inseca tor Insci tae M erv


9 , Oct . 1 5 , 1 920 , pp.

1 6 1 -4 64.

DALL , W ILL IAM’HEALEY. Pliocene

and Pleistocene fossils from the Arctic coast of Alaska and the auriferous beaches of Nome, NorthernSound , Alaska .

Prof. P aper U. S . Geo l .Surv., no . 1 25—C , Jan.

27 , 1 920 , pp. 23— 37 ,

pl s. 5 , 6 .

A new Al askan Chiton.

Nau ti lus, vol . 34 , July,1 920 , pp. 22 , 23.

Turritidae vs. Turridae.

Nauti lus, vol . 34 , Jul y ,1 920 , pp . 27 , 28 .

Two new Pliocene Pectensfrom Nome , Alaska .

Nauti lus, vol . 34 , no . 3 ,

Jan 1 92 1 , pp . 76 , 77 .

Species names in the Portlandcatalogue I , American.

Nauti lus, vol . 34 , no . 3 ,

Jan. , 1 92 1 , pp . 97

1 00 .

Summary of the marine shellbearing mollusks of the no rthwestcoast of America , from San D iego ,

Ca lif. , to the Polar Sea, mostly con

tained in the col lection of the UnitedS tates Nationa l Museum, wi-th illustrations of h itherto unfigured

species.


DALL,WILLIAM HEALEY. Two new

S outh American shells.

Nauti lus, vol . 34 , no . 4,

Apr . ,1 92 1 , pp . 1 32 ,

1 33.

New fossil invertebrates fromS an Quentin Bay, Lower Cal ifo rnia.

The West American S oi

entiat, vol . 1 9 , no . 2 ,

Apr . 27 , 1 92 1 , pp 1 7 ,

1 8.

New shells from the Plioceneor E arly Pleistocene of San QuentinBay , Lower Cal ifornia .

The West American S otentist, vo l . 1 9 , no . 3 ,

June 1 5 , 1 921 , pp .

2 1 — 23.

DAUBNE Y , Capt . R . The l ife h is

tories of D ictyocaulus fi l aria (Rud. )and D . viviparus (Bloch ) .

Journ. Comp . P ath . and

Therap ., vol . 33, no .

4 , D ec . 31 , 1 920 , pp .

225, 226 , ngs . 1 , 2 .

D E C A N D O L L E , CAS IM IR . New

species of piper from Central Ameri ca .

Bo t . Goa , vol . 70 , no . 3 ,

S ept . , 1 920 , pp. 1 69

1 89 .

DEWE Y,W . A. Smithsonian Insti

tution E xhib it of Homeopathy.Joum . Amer. Inst .

Homeopathy, vol . 1 3,

o . 7 , Jan. , 1 921 , pp .

608 , 609 , il lustrated.

DIE TZ,H. F . , and H. S . BARBE R . A

new avocado weevil from the CanalZone.

Journ. Agrio. Resear ch ,

vo l . 20 , no . 2 , Oct . 1 5,

920 , pp . 1 1 4 ,1 1 5 ,

pl s. 7— 9 .

DIXON ,H. N . R eports upon two col

lections of mosses from British E astAfr ica .

Smi thsoMan M isc. Co l tsvol . 72 , no . 3 , Sept .1,1 920 , pp. 1

pl s. 1 , 2 .

DYAR , HARRISON G . The cl assifica

tion of Ameri can Aedes (Diptera ) .

Insecutor Inscttiae M en


9 , Jul y— Sept . , 1 920 ,

pp . 1 03- 1 06 .

The American Aedes of the

stimulans group (Diptera ) .

Insecutor Inscitiae Mehstruus, vo l . 8 , nos. 7

9 , Jul y— Sept . , 1 920 ,

pp . 1 06—1 20.

DYAR , HARRISON G. The larvae of

Aedes campestr is Dya r and Knab(D iptera ) .

Inseoutor Inscit lae Men

struus, vol . 8 , nos.

1 0— 1 2 , Oct .— D ec. , 1 920,

pp. 1 98 , 1 99.

Insecutor Insoitiae Mehstruus, vo l . 8 ,

nos. 7

9 , Jul y— Sept., 1 920 ,

p . 1 20.

A note on Aedes niphadopsisDyar and Knab (Diptera ) .

Insecutor Inseitiae Men


9 , July—S ept. , 1 920 ,

pp . 1 38 , 1 39 .

The Grabhamia group of P so

rophora (D iptera ) .Insecutor Insoittae Men

struus, vo l . 8 ,nos. 7

9 , July— Sept ., 1 920 ,

pp. 1 40 , 1 4 1 .

A new Noctu id from Oregon( Lepidoptera )

Insecutor Insoitiae Mehstruus, vol . 8 ,

nos. 7

9 , July—S ept ., 1 920 ,

p . 1 46 .

The Aedes of the mountainsi

of Ca lifornia and Oregon (Diptera ) .

Inseeu tor Insci tiae Mehstruus, vol . 8 , nos.

1 0— 1 2 , Oct .— D ec . , 1 920 ,

pp . 1 65— 1 73.

A new Culex from Panama;(D iptera ) .

Insecutor Inscttiwe Men


1 0— 1 2 , Oct .—D ec. , 1 920,

pp . 1 73, 1 74 .

Notes on Aedes fulvus Wiedemann (Diptera )

Inseeutor Insci tiae Men


1 04 1 2 , Oct . —Dec. , 1 920 ,

pp. 1 74 , 1 75.

A collection of mosquitoesfrom the Philippine Islands (D ip

tera ) .

Insecutor Insci tiwe M en


1 0 — 1 2 , Oct .—D ec. , 1 920 ,

pp . 1 75—1 86 .

New Lepidoptera , ch iefly fromMex ico , w ith synonymic notes.

Insecutor Inseitiae Men


1 0— 1 2 , Oct .— D ec 1 920,

pp . 1 87— 1 98.

Note on the distribution of

the fl ood mosquitoes of the West(Diptera )


206 REPORT or NATIONAL MUSEUM ,

’

1 921 .

E VERMANN ,BARTON WARREN— Con.

no . 7 , vols. 1 , 2 , 1 920

vol . 1 , pp. 1 — 6 60 , 9

half t one p l s . , 38 col

ored p l s. , 23 text figs ,

1 map ; vol . 2 , pp .

1 — 51 2 .

EWING ,H. E . A Gamasid mite an

noying to man.

Journ. P ar isi tol ., vol . 6 ,

pp. 1 95 , 1 96 ,

fig. 1 .

New predaceous and parasi ticmites of the superfamily Gamaso

idea (Acarina ) .

E’nt . News. vol . 31 , no.

1 0 , Dec. , 1 920 , pp .

286— 293 , figs. 1 — 1 1 .

The genus Tromb icula Ber

l ese, in America and the Orient.Awn. E nt. S oc. Amer.,

vol . 1 3, no. 4,D ec

1 920 , pp . 381 — 390 ,

figs. 1 — 3 .

FOSHAG, WILLIAM F . Sulphohali tefrom Searles Lake, Calif.

Amer. Joum . S et , vol . 49,

Jan. , 1 920 , pp. 76 , 77 .

Thaumasite ( and spurrite )from Crestmore , Calif.

Amer . M inera l ogist , vol .

5, Apr . , 1 920 , pp. 80 ,

81 .

Apth ita l ite ( Glaserite ) fromSearles Lake, Calif .

Amer . Joum . S et , vol .

49, May. 1 920. pp .

367 , 368 .

I llustration of the hexagonalsystem. Hematite from New Mex

ICO.

Amer . M inera l ogist, vol .

5 , no . 8 , Aug. , 1 920 ,

pp . 1 49— 1 52 , text , fig .

31 .

The chemica l composition of

hydrotalcite and the hydrota lcitegroup of minerals.


vol . 58 , no . 2329 , Sept.9 , 1 920 , pp . 1 47— 1 53.

Some recent accessions to themineral collections of the UnitedS tates Na tional Museum.

Proc. U. 3 . Nat. Mua ,

vol . 58 , no . 2337 , Nov.

1 3, 1 920 , pp . 303— 305,

pl s, 1 8—20.

F OSHAG , WILLIAM F . Plazol ite,new minera l

a

Amer . M inera l ogist, vol .

5 ,. no . 1 1 , Nov . , 1 920 ,

pp . 1 83— 1 85.

The origin of the colemanitedeposits of Cal ifornia .

E con. Geo l ., vol . 1 6 , no.

3 , Apr.-May , 1 92 1 , pp .

1 99— 2 1 4.

The isomorphic relations of

th e sul phosal ts of lead and copper.Amer . Journ. S et , vol .

1 , May , 1 92 1 , pp.

44H 46 .

FOWLE R, HENRY W . and BARTON A.

BEAN. A small collection of fishes

from Soochow, Ch ina , with descript ions of two new species.


vol . 58 , no . 2338 , Nov.

3, 1 920 , pp. 307— 32 1 ,

figs. 1 , 2 .

GAHAN , A. B . New reared parasiticHymenoptera from the Phil ippines.

P hih’

xppine Journ. S et ,

vol . 1 7 , no. 4 , Oct . ,1 920 , pp. 343— 35 1 .

Oh the identity of several species of Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera ) .

P roe. E nt . S oc. Wash

ington, vo l . 22 , no . 9 ,

D ec ., 1 920 , pp . 235

243.

R emarks on the genus Pleurotropis w i th description of a paras ite of Trachelus tab idus Fabricius(Hymenoptera Chalcido idea ) .


ington, vol . 23, no. 5,

M ay, 1 92 1 , pp . 1 1 3

1 20 , figs. 1 , 2 .

GIDLE Y, JAME S WILLIAM S . New spe

cies of Cl aenodonts from the FortUnion (Basa E ocene ) of Montana .

Bu l l . Amer . Mus. Nat .

Hist , vol . 4 1 , D ec . 8 ,

1 91 9 , pp. 541 — 555, pl .

28 , text figs. 1 — 1 0.

Pleistocene peccaries from the

Cumberland cave deposit .Proo. U. 8 . Nat . Mua ,

vo l . 57 , no . 2324 ,

June 1 8 ,1 920 , pp.

651 — 678 , pl s . 54 , 55.

( See a lso under Gerrit ‘ S .

Miller. )

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS.

GILBE RT , CHARLE S HENRY and CARL

L. HUBBS . The Macrouroid fishes

of the Phi lippine Islands and the

E ast Indies.

Bul l . U. 8 . Nat . Musno. 1 00 , vol . 1 , pt . 7 ,

Oct . 5 , 1 920 , pp. 369

588 , figs. 1 — 40 .

GILMORE , CHARLE S W.

~

D imetrodongigas , a giant spiny l izard fromTexas bone bed s.

S ci . Amer. Supp l , no .

227 1 , July 1 2 , 1 91 9 ,

pp . 20 , 21 , 3 figs.

New fossil turtles, with noteson two described species.


vo l . 56 , no. 2292 , July30 , 1 91 9 , pp. 1 1 3

1 32 , p l s. 29— 37 , textfigs. 1 — 8 .

Ah ornithomimid dinosaur inthe Potomac of Maryland.

S cience ( 11 . vol . 50 ,

no . 1 295, Oct . 24 ,

1 91 9 , pp . 394 , 395.

A mounted skeleton of D imetrodon gigas in the Uni ted S ta tesNa tiona l Museum, with notes on the

skeleta l anatomy.Proc. U. 8 . Nat . Mua ,

vol . 56 , no . 2300 , D ec.

1 5 , 1 91 9 , pp. 525

539 , pl s. 70— 73, textfigs. 1 —8 .

R eptilian faunas of the Torrejon, Puerco , and underlying UpperCretaceous forma tions of San JuanCounty, N. Mex.

Prof. P aper U. S . Gao l .S urv., no . 1 1 9 , 1 9 1 9 ,

pp . 1 — 7 1 , pl s. 1 — 26 ,

text figs. 1 - 33 .

Osteo logy of the carnivorousD inosauria in the United S tates Nationa l Museum, with special reference to the genera Antrodemus (All osaurus ) and Ceratosaurus.

Bu l l . U. 8 . Nat. Mus

no . 1 1 0 , Sept. 9 , 1 920 ,

pp. i— xi , 1 — 1 59 , p l s .

1 —36 , text figs. 1 — 79 .

A new horned dinosaur fromCanada.

S ci . Amer . Month ly, vo l .

3, no . 1 , Jan., 1 92 1 ,

DP . 7 , 8 , text figs .

1 — 3.

71 305°— 21 — 1 4

207

GRISCOM , LUDLow, and J. T.

NICHOLS .

‘A revision of the sea

side sparrows.

Abstr . Proc. Li/nn. 8 00 .

New York, no . 32 ,

Nov. 3 , 1 920 , pp.

1 8— 30.

GILMORE , CHARLE S W . Ah extinctsea lizard from western Kansas.

S ci . Amen , vol . 1 24 , no.

1 4 , Apr. 2 , 1 921 , pp.

273 and 280 , 3 textfigs.

Fossi l footprints of Texas.

S ci . Amen , vo l . 1 24 , no .

1 7 , Apr . 23,1 92 1 , pp.

333 and 340 , 4 tex tfigs.

GIRAULT , A. A. New Serphidoid,

Cynipoid and Chalcidoid Hymenoptera .


vol . 58 , no. 2332 ,

Sept. 9, 1 920 , pp.

1 77— 2 1 6 .

GRE ENE , CHARLE S T . A new genusof Bombyliidae (D iptera ) .

P roe. E nt. S oc. Wash

ingt on, vo l . 23, no . 1 ,

Jan. , 1 92 1 , pp . 23, 24 ,

fig. 1 .

Dipterous parasites of saw

Proc. E nt. 8 0 0 . s h

ington, vol . 23, no . 2 ,

F eb ., 1 92 1 , pp. 41 —43.

Further notes on Ambopogon

hyperboreous Greene (D iptera )Proc. E nt . S oc . Wash

ington, vo l . 23, no . 5 ,

Apr. , 1 921 , pp . 1 07

1 09.

Two new species of Diptera .

Pro c. E nt . S oc . Wash

ington, vo l . 23, no. 6 ,

June, 1 92 1 , pp. 1 25

1 27 , fig. 1 .

Common fl ies and how to tellthem apart .

Chapter 9 of S ani tary

E ntomol ogy, by W. D .

P ierce, pp . 1 38— 1 52 ,

pl . 4 , hgs. 1 0—30 .

( See a lso underW. D . P ierce. )GRINNE LL

,JOS E PH. R evised list of

the species in the genus Dipodomys.

Journ. Mam , vol . 2 , no.

2,May 2 , 1 921 , pp.

94— 97 .

208

HALL , MAURICE C . Parasitic wormsof swine and diseases due to them.

P o land OM/na Journ.,

vol . 6 , no . 23, July25 , 1 920 , pp. 1 96 , 1 97 ,200 , figs . 1 , 2 .

Apparent atrophy of spiculesassocia ted wi th increasingly closeand permanent union of the maleand female Syngamus.

Journ. P axrae itot., vo l . 7

no. 2 , Jan. , 1 92 1 , p .

1 00.

Parasi tes and parasitic dis

eases of sheep.F armers’ Bu l l U . S .

D ept. Agric. , no. 1 1 50 ,

Jan. 4 , 1 92 1 , pp .

1 — 53, figs. 1 — 34 .

Carbon tetrachlorid for the remova l of parasitic worms, especiallyhookworms.

Journ. Agric. R esearch ,

U . S . D ept. Agr ic ,

vol . 2 1 , no. 2 , Apr .

1 5 ,1 92 1 , pp . 1 57— 1 75 .

( See also under B rayton H.

R ansom. )HAUSMAN

,LE ON AU GU S TU S . A mi

crol ogica l investiga tion of the ha irstructure of the Monotremata .

Amer. Journ. Ana t

vol . 27 , Sept ., 1 920 ,

pp. 463—495 .

Mamma l fur under the microscope.

Na tural His tory , vo l .

20 , no. 4 , Sept.— Oct .,1 920, pp . 434— 444 , 9

figs.

S tructura l characteristics of

the hair of mammals.

Amer . Nat , vol . 54 ,

Nov .— Dec . , 1 920, pp .

496—523, pl s. 1 — 7 .

HAY,OLIVER P . Descriptions of some

mamma l ian and fish rema ins fromFlorida of probably Pleistocene age.


vol . 56 , no . 2291 , July31 , 1 91 9, pp . 1 03— 1 1 2 ,

pl s. 26— 2 8.

Descriptions of some P l eisto

cene vertebra tes found in the UnitedS ta tes .


vol . 58, no. 2328, Oct .

1 2,1 920 , pp. 83— 1 46 ,

pl s . 3— 1 1 , text figs.

1 —4 .

RE PORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM,1 921 .

Proo. U. 8 . Nat . Mua ,

vol . 58 , no. 2327 , July8 , 1 920 , pp . 49— 82 .

HEWE TT , D . F . and EARL V . SHANNON O rientite, a new hydrous sil icate of manganese and calcium fromCuba .

Amer. Jou/rn. S at , vol .

1 , June, 1 92 1 , pp.

491 - 506 , text ngs.1 —5 .

HITCHCOCK , A. S . Genera - and

supergenera .

S cience, ( 11 . vol . 52 ,

no. 1 335, July 30,1 920, pp. 1 07, 1 08.

HAY, WILLIAM PERRY. The Crawfishes ( in

“ Lake Maxinkuckee , a

physical and biologicalD ept . of Conserva tion,

S tate of Ind., pub . no.

7 , vol . 2 , pp . 83— 86 .

HE INRICH , CARL. Co leophora noteswith descriptions of two new species

Proc. E nt. S oc . Wash

ington, vol . 22 , no. 7,Oct ., 1 920 , pp . 1 59

1 62 .

The pea moth , a new species.

Can . E nt . , vol . 52 , Nov.,

1 920 , pp . 257 , 258,figs. 24 , 25 .

Synonymica l note in Oeco

phoridaeProc. E nt. S oc. Washington, vo l . 22 , no . 9,D ec., 1 920, p . 232 .

New synonymy in a recentpaper on the E uropean corn-borer

E nt . News, vol . 32 , no.

2 , F eb 1 92 1 , pp. 57 ,58 .

S ome Lepidoptera l ikely to beconfused wi th the pink bollworm.

Journ. Agric. R esearch ,vo l . 20 , no. 1 1

,Mar.

1 , 1 92 1 , pp. 807— 836 ,

pl s. 93— 1 09 .

HENDERSON, JOHN B . A mono

graph of the east American Scaphopod mollusks .

Bu l l. U. 8 . Nat . Mua ,

no . 1 1 1 , Oct . 6 , 1 920 ,

pp . 1 — 1 77 , pl s. 1 — 20 .

and PAUL BARTSCH. A classificat ion of the American opercul ateland mol lusks of the family Annulariidae.


2 1 0

JOHANSEN ,Fan s . The larger fresh

wa ter crustacea of Canada and

Alaska .

Canadian F ield-Na t . , vol .

34 , no . 7 , Oct . , 1 920 ,

( " F eb . 9 , pp .

1 26— 1 32 .

The larger fresh-water crustacea from Canada and Al aska, IIIsopoda.

Canadian F ield-Nat vol .

34 , no. 8 , Nov. , 1 920,

( " Mar. 1 1 , pp .

1 45— 1 48.

The larger fresh-wa ter crustacea from Canada and Alaska , II IE uphyllopoda (Branch iopoda ) .

Canadian F ield-Nat. , vo l .

35 , no . 2 , F eb . , 1 92 1

( " June 22 ,

pp. 2 1 - 30 .

Fresh-water crustacea fromCanada.

Canadwn F iel d-Nat., vo l .35 , no . 2 , F eb 1 92 1

" June 22 ,

p . 36 .

JORDON,E RIC KNIGHT. Notes on a

collection of shells from Trinidad ,Calif.

Proo. U. 8 . Nat . Mus

vol . 58 , no . 2325 ,

Sept. 8 , 1 920 , pp . 1 — 5 ,

pl . 1 .

KENDALL , WILLIAM CONVERSE . Peritoneal membranes, ovaries, and ovi

ducts of Salmoniod fishes and theirsignificance in fish -cultura l practices.

Bu l l . Bur . F isheri es,

vol . 37 , doc. no . 90 1 ,

, Mar . 28 , 1 92 1 , pp.

1 84— 208 , figs. 1 — 1 1 .

‘KNOWLTON, F . H. A catal ogue of

the Mesozoic and Cenozo ic plants of

North America .

Bu l l . U. S . Geol . Sure ,

no . 696 , 1 9 1 9 , pp. 1

8 1 5.

E volution of geologic climates.

Bul l . Geol . S oc. Amer.,vol . 30 , D ec. 31 , 1 91 9 ,

pp . 499—566 .

A dicotyledonous fl ora in the

section of the Morrison forma

Amer . Jcum S et , vo l .

49 , Mar 1 920 , pp .

1 89— 1 94.

RE PORT or NATIONAL MUSEUM ,1 921 .

LARSEN , E SPER S . , and EARL V .

SHANNON . Boussingaultite fromSouth Mountain,

nea r Santa Paula ,

Cal if.

from

Amer. Minera l ogist, vol .

5 , no . 7 , Jul y , 1 920,pp. 1 27— 1 29 .

LEWTON, FREDERICK L. The historyof kidney cotton.

J o u r n Washtngton

Acad . S et , vol . 1 0 , no.

2 1 , D ec. 1 9 , 1 920 , pp .

59 1 — 597 , figs, 1 , 2 .

LINCOLN , FREDERICK C . A pecul iarlyma rked example of Dumetella carol inensis.

Auk, vo l . 37 , no. 4 , Oct .,

1 920 , p . 593.

McATE E , W. L. , and F . P . ME TCALF.

Notes on cockleburs (Ambrosiaceae ;Xanthium) of ‘

the District of Co

lumb ia and vicinity.

Proo. Biol . 8 0 0 . Wash

ington, vol . 33, Dec.

30 , 1 920 , pp. 1 77

1 79 .

McATE E , W. L. ( See under 0 . P .

Alexander. )McEWAN , EULA DAVIS . A study of

the brachiopod genus P l atystroph ia .

Proo. U. 8 . Nat .

vol . 56 , no . 2297 ,

Sept. 2 , 1 91 9 , pp.

383- 448 , pl s . 42— 52 .

MANN , WILLIAM M . The occurrenceof Mallophaga on a dragon-fiy.

E nt. News , vol . 31 , no.

9,Nov., 1 920 , p . 252 .

Additions to the ant fauna of

the West Indies a n d C e n t r a lAmerica .

Bu l l . Amer . Mus. Nat.

Hist , vol . 42 , art . 8 ,

D ec. 20 , 1 920, pp .

403— 439, figs. 1 — 9.

The ants of the F ij i Islands.

Bul l . Mus. Co'

mp . Zool .,vol . 64 , no . 5 , F eb . ,

1 921 , pp . 401 499.

figs. 1 — 38 .

A new genus of Termite guestF ij i .

P syche, vol . 28, Apr. ,

1 92 1 , pp . 54— 56 , fig.

1

MARSHALL, WILLIAM B . New freshwater shells from Guatama l a .


vo l . 58 , no. 2336 ,

Nov. 1 3, 1 920 , pp.

301 , 302 , pl . 1 7 .

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS.

MAXON,WILLIAM R . New sel aginel

las from the western United S tates.

s thsonian Misc. Co l ts ,

vo l . 72 , no . 5 , D ec.

22 ,1 920 , pp. 1 — 1 0 ,

p l s. 1 — 6 .

Notes on American fernsXVI.

Amer . F ern Journ., vol .

1 1 , no . 1 , Man , 1 92 1 ,

pp. 1 — 4 .

A neglected fern paper.P roc. Bio l . 8 0 0 . Wash

ington, vo l . 34 , June

30 , 1 92 1 , pp. 1 1 1

1 1 3.

MAY,HENRY G . Observations on the

nematode genus Nema todirus, w ithdescriptions of new species.

Proc . U . S . Nat . Mus .,

vo l . 58 , no . 2350 ,

Nov . 30 , 1 920 , DP

577— 588 , pl s . 29— 35 .

MERRE LL , CHARLE S G . MedicinalD ivision of the National Museum.

Amer . Joum . P hwrmacy,

vol . 92 ,no . 9 , S ept. ,

1 920 , pp . 66 1 — 665, 1

fig .

Journ. Amer . P harma

ceutica l Assoo., vol . 9,

no. 9 , Sept., 1 920 , pp.

896— 899 , 1 fig.

Northwestern D ruggis t,

vo l . 28 , no . 9 , Sept. ,1 920. pp . 27. 2 8 , 1

fig .

ME RRILL , GEORGE PERKINS . Secondreport on researches on the chemical and mineralogical compositionof meteorites.

M emoirs . Nat . Acad .

S e t , vo l . 1 4 , mem. 4 ,

1 9 1 9 , pp . i— vii , 1 — 1 5,p l s 1 — 5 , texf figs. 1

4 .

The Cumberland Falls, Whitl ey County , Ky . , meteorite.

Proc . U. 8 . Nat . Mus .,

vol . 57 , no . 2306 ,

June 1 5 , 1 920 , pp .

97 — 1 05, pl s. 1 4 — 1 8 ,

text fig . 1 .

The composit ion ancl strueture of meteorites compared withthat of terrestria l rocks.

Ann. R ep . Smi thsoni anInst , for 1 9 1 7 ,

pp . 1 75— 1 88 ,

pl s. 1 — 9 , text figs.

1 — 3.

21 1

ME RRILL,GEORGE PERKINS . Contri~

butions to a history of AmericanS tate geologica l and natura l historysurveys.

Proc. Bio l . 8 0 0 . Washingi en, vo l . 34 , Mar.

31 , 1 92 1 , pp. 67— 76 .

Twenty new mammalscollected by H. C. Raven in Selebes.

Proc. Biol . S oc . Wash

ing ton , vol . 34 ,June

30 , 1 92 1 , pp.

Bu l l . U. 8 . Nat . Mua ,

no . 1 09 , Aug . 2 , 1 920 ,

pp . i — xviii, 1 — 549 ,

pl s . 1 — 37 .

On chondrules and chondri ticstructure in meteorites.

Proc. Nat . Acad S et ,

vol . 6 ,no . 8 , Aug. ,

1 920 , pp. 449— 472 ,

pl . 1 , text figs. 1 — 1 7 .

A retrospective view of the

origin of Meteor Crater , Ariz .P ub . Astr . S oon, P acific,no . 1 89 , Oct . ,

1 920 ,

pp. 1 — 6 , p l . 7 , textfig. 1 .

Notes on the meteo rite of

E stherville, Iowa , w ith especial reference to its included peckhamiteand probable metamorphic nature.

Proe. U. S . Na t . Mua ,

vol . 58 , no . 234 1 ,

Nov . 1 1,1 920, pp.

363- 370, pl s. 22— 24 .

ME TCALF , F . P . ( See under W. L.

McAtee. )MILLE R , GERR IT S ., Jr., and JAME SW . GIDLE Y. A new rodent fromthe Upper Oligocene of France.


Hist , vol . 4 1 , D ec .

29 , 1 91 9 , pp. 595— 601 ,

pl . 34 , text figs. 1 — 3.

Confl icting views On the probl em of man’

s ancestry .

Amer . Journ. P hys. Ah

th/ro., vol . 3, no. 2 ,

Aug. , 1 920 , pp. 2 1 3

245.

[Note on the rela tionship of

the E uropean cave bears to the

American grizzly and brown bears ]Journ. Mama , vol . 1 , no .

5, Nov . , 1 920, pp .

228 , 229 .

and N . HOLLISTE R. D escrip

tions of sixteen new murine rodentsfrom Celebes.

2 1 2 RE PORT or NATIONAL MUSEUM ,1 921 .

MITMAN , CARL W . Ancestors of the

L iberty motor.S ci. Amer. Month l y,

vol . 3 , no. 2 , Main,

1 92 1 , pp. 247- 250, i1

lustrated.

MORGAN , THOMAS H. Variations inthe secondary sexual characters of

the Fiddler crab .

Amer . Na t , vol . 54 , no.

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pp . 220— 246 , textngs . 1 — 6 .

Va riation in juvenile F iddlercrabs.

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The geographic races of Cya

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de Industrie van Zee

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Four new birds from Celebes.

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ROBINSON, B . L. The E upatoriumsof Bol ivia .

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SASAKI, MADOKA. R eport of cephalo

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SCHAUS , WILLIAM . New species of

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I n s e c u t o r InsemtzaeM enstruus, vol . 8 ,

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Descriptions of two new spec iesof butterflies from Tropica l America .

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New species of neotropicalPyraustinae

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1 90 .

New species of neo trop ica lPyraustinae

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New species of Heterocerafrom South America .

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SCHWARTZ , BENJAM IN . Active sub

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Antibody production by asca

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E ffects of X -rays on trichinae .

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U. S . D ep t . Agric .,vol . 20 , no . 1 1 , Mar .

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SEARLE , Mrs. HARRIET RICHARDSON .

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Bul l . Mus. Nationa l

His t . No tun , P aris ,vol . 25 , Annee. 1 9 1 9 ,

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(Th is is a reprint, except for a slightchange of title , of a

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no . 227 , Bull. Inst.Oceanog. , M o n a c o ,Mar. 30 ,

( See a lso under Harriet R ichardson. )SHANNON , EARL V . Oh coarse gabbroid diabase in Westfield , Massa

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The occurrence of b indhiemiteas an ore minera l .

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A new description of amesite.

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SHANNON , EARL V. D iabantite , stilphonomelane, and chal codite of the

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vol . 57 , no . 231 6 ,

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Petrography of some l ampro

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vo l . 57 , no. 231 8 ,

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An occurrence of naumannitein Idaho.

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Boulangerite , b ismutopl agionite, naumanni te and a silver-bearingva riety of jamesonite.

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Some minerals from the o l d

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R ecent accessions in the division of applied geology.

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Analyses and optica l properties of amesite and corundophilitefrom Chester , Mass , and of chromi

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Notes on anglesite, anthophylli te, calcite, da tolite, si llimanite,sti lpnomelane , tetrahedrite, and triplite.

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RE PORT or NATIONAL MUSEUM ,1 921 .

SHANNON, EARL V . Massive l aumontite from Montana .

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SHOEMAKE R , CLARENCE R . Amphipods collected by the American Mu

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The ol d cobal t mine in

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Additional notes on the crysta l l ography and composition of bou

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Report on the amphipods col

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SWINGLE , WALTER T. A new speciesof P istacia native to southwesternTexas, P . texana.

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TAYLOR,WALTER P . A new ptarmi

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A new meadow mouse fromthe Cascade Mounta ins of Washington.

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THOMAS , OLDF IELD . R eport on the

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TODD, W. E . CLYDE. Descriptions of

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TOLMAN, R . P . Description of the

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RE PORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM,1 921 .

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WADE , BRUCE. The fossil annel idgenus Hamulus Morton, an opercu

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WALCOTT,CHARLE S D . Cambrian

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VAN CLEAVE , H. J Two new generaand species of acanthocephalusworms from Venezuelan fishes .

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VAUGHAN , THOMAS WAYLAND . F os

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Corals from the Cannonballmarine member of the Lance formation.

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WALCOTT, CHARLE S D . Cambrian WE TMORE,ALEXANDER . The wing

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WEATHERBY, C . A. Va rieties Of

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F ive new species of b irdsfrom cave deposits in Porto R ico.

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New species and a new genusof parasitic copepods.

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YUNCKE R , T. G. R evision of the

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