128 EEPOET OF NATIONAL, MUSEUM, 1921. 



Efforts were made to continue along the general lines which Mr. 

 Smillie had followed, and 22 accessions consisting of 333 specimens 

 were received. They were of both scientific and historical value, 

 as most of them were new; to the section. 



The NeAv York World, of New York City, presented a print from 

 the first negative made in the United States by the Belin methood 

 of sending illustrations by wire. The picture was the portrait of 

 an old Indian, and was sent b}^ the St. Louis Post Dispatch to the 

 New York World on November 14, 1920. It is an interesting and 

 timely exhibit. Photographs had been transmitted in Europe a 

 short time previously by this method. 



The New York Universitv furnished a bromide enlargement of 

 the first daguerreotype portrait ever made, dating 1839 or 1840. It 

 was 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 McDonough color process were secured from Mr. 

 A. J. McCxregor, Chicago, 111. There are very few specimens of this 

 process in existence and the Museum is most fortunate to have these 

 in its collection. 



The War Department jDrinted and deposited over 100 photographs 

 from the original negatives made by Brady of the Civil War, and 

 also sent a collection of large toned bromide prints representing 

 scenes in the Great World War, which have been placed on exhibi- 

 tion. These prints show, not only the comparative methods of war- 

 fare of 1865 and 1918, but also differences in photographic results. 



The most recent development in motion-picture cameras is repre- 

 sented b}^ a Jenkins model of a high-speed camera that will make 

 30,000 exposures a minute — these results are necessary in the study 

 of analysis of motion. Strange as it may seem, Muybridge, who is 

 known as the grandfather of motion pictures, began his work in an 

 effort to study the motion of animals. To-day the highest develop- 

 ment of motion pictures is the analysis of motion — studying the 

 motion of projectiles and airplane propeller blades, etc. 



The Canadian Government, Dominion Park Branch, sent a reel of 

 motion-picture film picturing Trumpeter Swans, an almost extinct 

 bird — and for this reason the film is valuable and will be increasingly 

 so as the years go by. 



Several prints by processes that were not represented in the col- 

 lection have been received: a bromoil of Andrew Carnegie from 

 Harris & Ewing, from Mr. Edward Crosby Doughty an enlarge- 

 ment on Japanese tissue, and Mr. Charles E. Fairman furnished 

 some very attractive gum prints. 



One thousand three hundred and seventy-one printed plates and 

 apparatus of the Muybridge collection were catalogued this year, 



