EEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1910. 51 



there were lent for study 15,715 specimens from the department of 

 biology, 1,241 from the department of geology, and 120 from the 

 department of anthropology. Exchanges wdth scientific institutions 

 and with individuals were conducted as usual, and for this purpose 

 24,361 specimens were used, 9,534 being biological, 14,713 geological, 

 and 114 anthropological. 



Following are the institutions abroad wdth which exchanges were 

 made during the year: The British Museum of Natural History, Lon- 

 don, and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kcw, England ; the Konigl. Bo- 

 tanischer Garten und ]\Iuseum, Dahlem, Steglitz bei Berlin, and the 

 Zoologische Sammlung des Bayerischen Staates, Munich, Germany; 

 the Jardin Botanique de I'Etat, and the Musee Royal d'Histoire 

 Nature lie de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium; the Botanisk Museum and 

 the Zoologisches Museum, Copenliagen, Denmark; the Musee d'An- 

 thropologie et d 'Ethnographic de Pierre le Grand, St. Petersburg, 

 Russia; the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseum, Stockliolm, Sweden; the 

 K. K. Naturhistorisches Hofmuseum, Vienna, Austria; the Cesko- 

 Slovanske Narodopisne Museum (Musee Ethnographique Tchequo- 

 Slave), Prague, Bohemia; the Colombo Museum, Colombo, Ceylon; 

 the Rhodesia Museum, Bulawayo, Rhodesia, British South Africa; 

 the Western Australian Museum and Art Gallery, Perth, Western 

 Australia; the Museo Ethnografico, Universidad Nacional de Buenos 

 Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina; the Department of Agriculture, 

 Hope Gardens, Kingston, Jamaica, British West Indies, and the 

 Geological Survey of Canada. 



Exchanges were also made with the following individuals abroad: 

 Mr. Arthur C. Banfield, and Mr. W. G. Rutherford, London, England; 

 Dr. Emile G. Racovitza, Sorbonne, Paris, Monsieur M. P. Thiery, 

 Chaumont, Haute-Marne, France; Dr. Enslin, Fiirth i. B., Mr. A. 

 Kneucker, Karlsruhe, Prof. Gustav Schwalbe, Strassburg, Alsace, 

 Prof. David Paul von Hansemann, Berlin, Germany; Prof. J. 

 Matiegka, Prague, Bohemia; Dr. Einar Lonnberg, Stockholm, 

 Sweden; Dr. K. Martin, Leiden, Holland; Dr. C. Christ and Dr. Jean 

 Roux, Basel, Charles Mottaz, Geneva, Switzerland; Dr. F.Werner 

 and Mr. I. V. Zelizko, Vienna, Austria; Senor Federico Eichlam, 

 Guatemala, Guatemala. 



NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART. 



At the beginning of the fiscal year the William T. Evans collection 

 of American paintings which, through the courtesy of the trustees of 

 the Corcoran Gallerv of Art, had been accommodated in the atrium 

 of that Gallery since the initial gift of 50 pictures in 1907, was 

 brought to the older Museum building. It was there installed in 

 the provisional picture gallery at the left of the main entrance, and 

 so fully occupied its walls and screens as to necessitate the removal 



