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20 pieces were purchased and 96 manufactured in the shop. No 

 contracts for the manufacture of cases and other furniture outside 

 of the Museum were made on account of the high cost of labor as 

 compared with the salaries paid by the Museum. 



At the close of the fiscal year there were on hand 3,679 exhibition 

 cases, 11,572 pieces of storage, laboratory, office, and other furniture, 

 47,355 standard unit drawers, 4,712 metal unit drawers, 1,047 wooden 

 unit boxes, 224 wooden double unit boxes, 11,844 standard insect 

 drawers, 752 wing frames, 11,681 special drawers with compo bot- 

 toms, and 5,885 special drawers with paper bottoms. 



Blue prints of Museum exhibition and storage furniture were sup- 

 plied individuals connected with the following institutions: The 

 Carnegie Institution of Washington, the Red Cross Museum, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. ; the University of Pennsylvania; the Alabama Poly- 

 technic Institute; the Mississippi State College; the Chamber of 

 Commerce, Columbus, Ohio; the Fergus County High School, Lewis- 

 town, Mont. ; the Eastern High School, Washington, D. C. ; the Bu- 

 reau of Supplies and Accounts of the Navy Department; and the 

 Bureau of the Biological Survey and the Bureau of Entomology of 

 the Department of Agriculture. 



COLLECTIONS. 



The total number of specimens acquired by the Museum during the 

 year was approximately 359,676. Received in 1,899 separate acces- 

 sions, the specimens were classified and assigned as follows: An- 

 thropology, 6,568 ; zoology, 220,369 ; botany, 98,581 ; geology, 23,504 ; 

 textiles, woods, medicines, foods, and miscellaneous organic products, 

 2,792; chemical types, 7; mineral and mechanical technology, 386; 

 graphic arts, 1,014; and history, 6,455. 



Additional material to the extent of 995 lots, mainly geological, 

 was received for special examination and report. This determina- 

 tion, without charge, of material, sent in from all parts of the coun- 

 try is of advantage to the Museum in furnishing occasional desirable 

 specimens and records of many new localities. Its economic use was 

 well demonstrated during the World War when the Allies were in 

 urgent need of certain raw material and the Museum, through its 

 department of geology, furnished information concerning localities 

 known to yield the same. Material lent to specialists for study, 

 mainly on behalf of the Museum, amounted to 19,902 specimens. 



Some 33,268 specimens were sent out in exchange, for which the 

 Museum received valuable material specially desired for the collec- 

 tions. Also 10,092 specimens were used as gifts to educational estab- 

 lishments, of which 4,691 specimens were contained in regular sets 

 of labeled material previously prepared for shipment and 5,401 



