^6 EEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1910 



executed by Mr. Isidore Konti on a commission from the Hon. 

 Truxton Beale, son of Gen. Beale who at the time of this episode was 

 an acting heutenant in the Navy. Mr. Beale has happily selected 

 the new building of the National Museum as an appropriate place for 

 the tablet, which has been installed on one side of the north entrance 

 vestibule, and was informally unveiled on May 31, 1910, in the pres- 

 ence of members and friends of the family, brief remarks being made 

 by Senator George C. Perkins. 



A large model in plaster and a perspective drawing of Andrew 

 O'Connor's competitive design for the Commodore Barry monument 

 was presented by Mr. Jeremiah O'Connor, of Washington. One of 

 the four sledges with which Commander Robert E. Peary, United 

 States Navy, reached the North Pole on April 6, 1909, and also a 

 pick and pair of snowshoes, were contributed by Mr. H. L. Bridgman, 

 of New York City. 



Among gifts to the collection of coins and medals were 24 papal 

 and other medals from Mr. Joseph Pagani, of Washmgton; 38 Vene- 

 tian and Byzantine coins from Georgius Constandenethos, of Brook- 

 lyn, New York ; and a set of the nine official medals and two badges 

 struck in commemoration of the Hudson-Fulton celebration in New 

 York City in 1909, from the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission. 



To the collection of portraits were added 88 photographs of persons 

 mostly connected with the history of the Smithsonian Institution, the 

 gift of Dr. Theodore Gill, and over 300 photographs of members of 

 the Medal of Honor Legion of the United States, presented by the 

 Legion through Mr. Walter Thorn, commander. 



Other accessions worthy of mention were a valuable set of casts of 

 cameos of classical subjects, photographs of prominent educators, and 

 photographic copies of old maps, transferred by the United States 

 Bureau of Education; maps, facsimiles of treaties, photographs of 

 early newspapers, portraits of historic personages, and various inter- 

 estmg objects illustrating the history of the Pacific coast and the 

 Hawaiian and Philippine Islands, being part of the Smithsonian 

 exhibit at the Alaska- Yukon-Pacific Exposition, transferred by the 

 United States Government Board of Managers. 



The collection of Washington relics and the Copp collection of 

 colonial relics were moved in March to the new building, where they 

 were temporarily installed at the north end of the middle hall as a 

 part of the exhibition opened on the 17th of that month. They will, 

 however, be restored to their places in connection with the general 

 historical collections when the necessary arrangements have been 

 effected. 



Anthropological laboratory. — The activities of the departmental 

 laboratory were, as heretofore, confined largely to work in plaster and 

 to repairing and poisoning specimens. The commodious quarters in 



