REPORT or NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1923. 11 



Museum, Hartford, Conn., April 15-30, 1923; Rhode Island School 

 of Design, Providence, R. I., during May, 1923; Public Library, 

 Bangor, Maine, during June, 1923. The second exhibit prepared 

 later in the year and containing the same information was shown 

 only at the City Library Association, Springfield, Mass., during 

 June, 1923. 



The Museum always gladly cooperates with other branches of the 

 federal service and with other scientific establishments as well as with 

 educational agencies. This year was no exception. Upon request, 

 the curator of American archeology has furnished information and 

 advice upon archeological problems to the National Park Service, 

 Department of the Interior, the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 

 and the National Geographic Society. The curator of physical 

 anthropology gave extended testimony on the racial status of the 

 Japanese before the Committee on Territories of the U. S. House of 

 Representatives, acted as consulting anthropologist to the Children's 

 Bureau of the U. S. Department of Labor, and gave advice to other 

 departments on a number of occasions. 



Information was supplied the Department of Agriculture for cer- 

 tain historical scenes for a proposed motion picture it was preparing 

 to film for the purpose of introducing yopon {Ilex cassene) a native 

 American substitute for tea. The Indian Office of the Department of 

 the Interior was likewise furnished Indian costumes needed in mak- 

 ing an education film. The Government Printing Office was aided in 

 its training of workers, its apprentice class being personally con- 

 ducted through the halls of graphic arts and the various exhibits 

 explained and discussed. 



During his visit to Czechoslovakia in October, 1922, and at the 

 invitation of the Minister of Education of that Republic, the curator 

 of physical anthropology gave nine lectures on man's evolution, 

 antiquity, and differentiation, at the Universities of Prague, Pilsen, 

 Brno, and Bratislava, and a lecture on racial influence upon in- 

 sanity before the Medical Association of Prague. 



VISITORS. 



The Museum exhibition halls, in the 3 buildings belonging to the 

 Museum and in the Smithsonian Building, were open free to the 

 public as usual from 9 a. m. to 4.30 p, m. on week days, holidays 

 included, and those in the Natural History Building were also open 

 on Sunday afternoons from 1.30 to 4.30, The limited maintenance 

 appropriation only precludes extending Sunday opening to all the 

 buildings of the Museum group. From June 4 to 9, during the Wash- 

 ington convention of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of 

 the Mystic Shrine, the halls were opened to visitors half an hour 

 earlier in the morning to facilitate the inspection of the collections. 



