REPORT ON THE DIVISIONS OF TEXTILES AND MEDICINE AND THE 

 SECTIONS OF WOOD TECHNOLOGY AND FOODS. 



By F. L. Lewton, Curator of Textiles. 



The accessions received during the year number 75 (including one 

 joint accession with another department), being just the same as the 

 preceding year. 



The entries covered by the above accessions number 943, 772 less 

 than were received in the fiscal year 1920. These entries may be 

 divided into five groups as follows: Textiles 61, medicine 509, wood 

 technology 152, foods 159, and miscellaneous organic products 62, 

 each group, with the exception of foods, showing fewer entries than 

 last year. 



"V^Tiile the number and quality of these accessions have undoubtedly 

 been influenced by the economic conditions prevalent throughout the 

 country, taken as a whole, they compare very favorably in historic 

 and scientific value with those of other years. 



ACCESSIONS DESERVING SPECIAL NOTICE. 



With the generous cooperation of American firms producing the 

 highest qualities of textiles, the National Museum is building up a 

 collection for exhibition and record to show the achievements of 

 American textile industries. 



In this connection, the most important and valuable accession of 

 textile specimens received during the year was a series of 18 speci- 

 mens of fur fabrics, velvets, and plushes, woven at Shelton, Conn., 

 and contributed by Sidney Blumenthal & Co. (Inc.), of New York, 

 N. Y., to whom the Museum has several times been indebted for 

 beautiful examples of this class of textiles. The specimens received 

 include " Kerami," " Chinak," " Perwitzky," " Baby Persian Lamb," 

 and "Kitmole," pile fabrics representing the skins of real animals; 

 " Continental," " Shelbourne," " Taranto," " Fenwick Textone," and 

 " Chadwick," upholstery velvets in two-pile and printed effects ; and 

 seven specimens of novelty pile fabrics for coats, dresses, and trim- 

 mings, sold under the names of " Glamorsheen," " Panoply," " Pan 

 Ondulay," " Ronge Plush," "Alfresco Plush," and "Audubon." The 

 last-named fabric has been finished to resemble the plumage of birds 

 and is adapted for millinery and dress trimmings and for bags and 

 fancy work. 



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