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of office and miscellaneous furniture, 1,585 unit specimen drawers 

 of wood, 500 insect drawers, and 1,061 miscellaneous specimen 

 drawers. An inventory of all furniture at the close of the year shows 

 that there were on hand at that time 3,414 exhibition cases, 6,616 

 storage cases and pieces of laboratory furniture, 3,270 pieces of office 

 and miscellaneous furniture, 37,660 unit specimen drawers of wood, 

 4,712 unit specimen drawers of steel, 7,839 insect drawers, and 

 16,024 miscellaneous specimen drawers and boxes of various sizes. 



COLLECTIONS. 



The total number of accessions received during the year was 

 1,378, embracing as permanent acquisitions approximately 302,132 

 specimens and objects, apportioned among the several branches of 

 the Museum as^foUows: Anthropology, 26,999; zoology, 113,509; 

 botany, 140,015; geology, 5,569; paleontology, 14,716; textiles and 

 vegetable products, 1,312; National Gallery of Art, 12 paintings. 

 Of the specimens assigned to anthropology over 20,000 were postage 

 stamps belonging in the division of history; and of zoological speci- 

 mens over 97,000 were insects, mollusks, and other invertebrates. 

 The loans received for exhibition comprised several hundred objects, 

 principally historical and ethnological, but including 18 paintings 

 and 2 pieces of sculpture for the National Gallery of Art. 



DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY. 



Ethnology. — The additions to the division of ethnology were com- 

 prised in 64 accessions, more than one-haK of which were donations, 

 and while none of these was extensive, several were especially 

 valuable and the more important related to countries other than 

 North America. A noteworthy collection made in the Philippine 

 Islands by the late Maj. Gen. Frederick D. Grant, U. S. Army, consist- 

 ing of swords, spears, bows and arrows, and other articles, several of 

 which are of types new to the Museum, was presented by Mrs. Grant; 

 and an interesting series of FiUpino weapons and other objects, 

 assembled by the late Maj. H. G. Lyon, U. S. Army, was contributed 

 by -Mrs. Lyon. A number of articles illustrating the culture of the 

 Central Sakai, a primitive tribe of the Batang Padang District of 

 Perak, Federated Malay States, including bark cloth, bamboo arrows, 

 personal ornaments, etc., were received as a gift from the Federated 

 Malay States Museums at Kuala Lumpur. A Japanese lady's court 

 dress, a Chinese lady's dress, and a Norwegian peasant's bridal dress, 

 together with the manikins for their display and the ornaments 

 appropriate to be worn with the costumes, were donated by Miss 

 Clementina Furniss, of New York; and a collection of India shawls 

 and scarfs in needlework and print, Chinese and Japanese arms and 



