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which were apportioned among the respective branches to which they 

 pertained as follows: Anthropology, 14,879; zoology, 257,816; bot- 

 any, 44,675; geology and mineralogy, 3,648; paleontology, 13,045; 

 textiles and animal and vegetable products, 2,930; mineral tech- 

 nology, 505; and the National Gallery of Art, 207. Numerically, 

 the division of insects received much more than one-half the total 

 acquisitions, namely, over 214,000 specimens. The loans aggregated 

 2,280 objects, of which 112 consisted of paintings and other articles 

 for the National Gallery of Art, practically all the remainder being 

 intended for exhibition in the divisions of ethnology, archeolog}^, 

 and history. 



Material was also received for examination and report to the extent 

 of 859 separate lots, each containing a greater or less number of 

 specimens, of which 59 lots related to anthropological subjects, 249 

 to biological, and 551 to geological. 



DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY. 



Ethnology. — Of the 62 accessions in ethnology, the most notable 

 was a collection gathered by Dr. W. L. Abbott in northern Dutch 

 New Guinea, the Moluccas, and Ambon of the Ceram group, during 

 a trip on a trading vessel and while making landings to discharge 

 cargo. The results of this interesting journey, aggregating more 

 than 500 objects which reached the Museum as a gift, indicate that 

 Dr. Abbott's time was most effectively employed. They comprise 

 baskets, mats of exquisite workmanship, bags, belts, necklaces, hair, 

 ear and breast ornaments, bark clothing, carved Avooden dishes, 

 stone mauls, adzes, bows, arrows, shields, carved and painted canoe 

 prow ornaments, carved wood idols, spirit flutes, etc. A number of 

 baskets were also received from the Abbott expedition to eastern 

 Borneo, conducted by Mr. H. C. Eaven. Probably the most thorough 

 ethnological collection that has come to the Museum from Alaska 

 was a series of over 630 objects obtained on St. Lawrence Island, by 

 Dr. Riley D. Moore, of the Museum staff. It consists of clothing of 

 men, women, and children, a large number of hunting weapons, 

 models of houses, traps, domestic utensils, tools of all classes, ivory 

 carvings, drums, religious objects and paraphernalia, examples of 

 medicines, etc. Man}' articles of Siouan ethnologica assembled by 

 Miss Frances Densmore, of Red Wing, Minn., are of particular im- 

 portance since their locality and tribal origin are properly recorded, 

 making the specimens useful for identifying other material from the 

 Plains Indians regarding which the present data are incomplete. 



Other noteworthy accessions relating to North America were a 

 series of bromide enlargements of American Indians from negatives 

 taken by Dr. Joseph K. Dixon diu-ing the Rodman Wana maker 

 expedition, and presented by Mr. ,Wanamaker; a large number of 



