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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1922. 



Number of visitors to the Museum and Smithsonian Buildings since 1881. 



Smith- 

 sonian 

 Build- 

 ing. 



100,000 



1.52,744 



104, 823 



45,565 



105,993 

 88,960 

 98,552 

 102,863 

 149,618 

 120,894 

 111,669 

 114,817 

 174, 188 

 103,910 

 105,658 

 103,650 

 115,709 

 99,273 

 116,912 

 133,147 

 151,563 

 144,107 



Year. 



1902-3 



1903-4 



1904-5 



1905-C 



1906-7 



1907-8 



1908-9 



1909-10 



1910-11 



1911-12.... 



1912-13 



1913-14 



1914-15 



1915-16 



1916-17 



1917-18 



1918-19 



1919-20 



1920-21 



1921-22 



Total 



Museum buildings. 



Arts 

 and 

 Indus- 

 tries. 



315, 

 220, 

 235, 

 210, 

 210, 

 299, 

 245, 

 228, 

 207, 

 172, 

 173, 

 146, 

 133, 

 146, 

 161, 

 161, 

 266, 

 250, 

 286, 

 262, 



307 

 778 

 921 

 886 

 107 

 659 

 187 

 804 

 010 

 182 

 858 

 533 

 202 

 956 

 700 

 298 

 532 

 982 

 397 

 151 



Natu- 

 ral 

 His- 

 tory. 



9,116,792 



50,403 

 151,112 

 281,887 

 319,806 

 329,381 

 321,712 

 381,228 

 407,025 

 401,100 

 '132,859 

 422,984 

 467,299 

 441,604 



4,108,400 



Air- 

 craft. 



31,235 

 46,380 



77,615 



Smith- 

 sonian 

 Build- 

 ing. 



181,174 



143,988 



149,380 



149,661 



153,591 



237,182 



198,054 



179, 163 



167,085 



143, 134 



142,420 



102,645 



40,324 



48, 517 



86,335 



67,224 



101,504 



86,013 



90,235 



83,384 



5,095,628 



• Building open only three months of the year. 



PUBLICATIONS. 



The publications of the year comprised 9 volumes and 78 separate 

 papers. The former consisted of the Annual Report of the Museum 

 for 1921 ; volumes 57, 58, and 59 of the Proceedings ; and the follow- 

 ing bulletins, namely : No. 100, volume 4, " Contributions to the 

 biology of the Philippine Archipelago and adjacent regions — Fora- 

 minifera of the Philippine and adjacent seas," by Joseph A. Cush- 

 man ; No. 113, " Life histories of North American gulls and terns — 

 Order Longipennes," by Arthur Cleveland Bent; No. 114, "A re- 

 vision of the king snakes: Genus Lampropeltis," by Frank N. 

 Blanchard; No. 118, "Handbook and descriptive catalogue of the 

 collections of gems and precious stones in the United States National 

 Museum," by George P. Merrill, assisted by Margaret W. Moodey 

 and Edgar T. Wherry; and No. 119, " Catalogue of the mechanical 

 engineering collection in the United States National Museum — Mo- 

 tors, locomotives, and self-propelled vehicles," by Carl W. Mitman. 



The 78 papers issued separately for prompt distribution to special- 

 ists were: Part 2 of volume 1 of Bulletin 82; part 3 of Bulletin 104; 

 two parts of volume 20, one part of volume 22, and one part of vol- 

 ume 24, Contributions from the United States National Herbarium ; 

 25 papers from volume 59, 26 papers from volume 60, and 21 papers 

 from volume 61, Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 



The editorial office, in addition to supervising the printing of the 

 Museum publications, has charge of the printing of the many labels 



