20 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 11>19. 



Of the many articles received during the year for the War Col- 

 lections, special mention is made of the combined order of battle 

 map corrected to November 11, 1918, with its accessories, as used by 

 General Pershing and his staff at Chaumont, France, throughout the 

 progress of the American military movements; a collection of Ger- 

 man military paraphernalia captured during the various engage- 

 ments in which the American troops participated, and assembled in 

 France by Maj. Gen. H. L. Rogers, United States Armj?; two French 

 military airplanes used on the western front, the first battle plane 

 built in this country for the United States Government, and a 

 Curtiss training plane such as used at all the training fields in the 

 United States. The Museum is particularly fortunate in having a 

 very excellent series of objects showing the development of the air- 

 plane, beginning with the Langley models which have been in its 

 possession for a number of years, and the first Government-owned 

 aeroplane of the world purchased by the United States from Wright 

 Brothers in 1909. 



Through arrangement with the Army and Navy, the Museum is 

 also planning to exhibit examples of every plane, engine, radio ap- 

 paratus, and other accessory in production in the United States at 

 the time of the armistice, and has secured for this exhibit the tem- 

 porary metal structure erected on the Smithsonian grounds in 1917 

 by the War Department for the use of the Air Service. 



The inauguration of the War Collections gave great impetus to the 

 division of history and added largely to the duties of its extremely 

 small staff. Representing the War Department in the historical 

 phase of the matter. Col. C. W. Weeks, Chief of the Historical 

 Branch of the General Staff, Army War College, was of much as- 

 sistance in connection with the inception of the work. Capt. J. J. 

 Hittinger, Quartermaster Corps, detailed to the Museum by the War 

 Department, gave general supervision to the assembling and instal- 

 lation of the exhibits, and to his efforts are due the success of many 

 phases of the development of the collections. 



Other collections. — Aside from the War Collections, the Museum 

 received this year much material of value and interest in other lines. 

 In the division of history these additions included a large series of 

 costumes worn by the actor Richard Mansfield in some of his leading 

 roles, donated by Mrs. Mansfield; the gold medal awarded by Con- 

 gress in 1800 to Capt. Thomas Truxtun, lent by Mr. Thomas Truxtun 

 Houston ; a telescope owned by Thomas Jefferson, lent by Brig. Gen. 

 Jefferson Randolph Kean ; and a jeweled sword belonging to and pre- 

 sented to the Museum by Maj. Gen. John R. Brooke. Other important 

 acquisitions in the department of anthropology were archeological 

 material from Arizona collected by the curators of ethnology and of 



