138 REPORT OF NATI0N"AL MUSEUM, 1914. 



tributed among a large number of scientific experts, both at liome 

 and abroad, for investigation and determination mainly for the 

 direct benefit of the Musemn, but partly in the interest of other 

 institutions. All were to be returned, and some had been received 

 before the close of the year. 



Exchange relations were carried on during the year with the fol- 

 lowing establishments abroad : The British Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, London, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Geological 

 Museum, Cambridge, and Alexandra Park, Manchester, England; 

 the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle and the Herbarium of Prince 

 Roland Bonaparte, Paris, France ; the Kgl. Zoologisches Museum and 

 the Rudolf- Virchow Krankenhaus, Berlin, the Konigl. Botanisches 

 Museum, Dahlem, Steglitz bei Berlin, the museum of the Geolog- 

 isches Institut der Universitilt, Breslau, the Naturhistorisches Mu- 

 seum, Hamburg, the Museum fiir Volkerkunde, Leipzig, and the 

 Zoologische Sammlung und Zoologisches Institut, Munich, Germany ; 

 the Botanisches Laboratorium, K. K. Universitat, Graz, and the 

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

 servatoire et Jardin Botaniques, Geneva, and the Musee d'Histoire 

 Naturelle, Neuchatel, Switzerland; the Royal Botanical Garden, 

 Palermo, Italy; the Musee Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 

 and the Geological Survey of Belgium, Brussels, and the Universite 

 de Liege, Liege, Belgium; the Universitets Botaniske Museum and 

 Zoologiske Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark; the Naturhistoriska 

 Riksmuseum, Botaniska Af delning, Stockholm, Sweden ; the Kaiser- 

 licher Botanischer Garten, St. Petersburg, and the Komitet Imp. 

 Geograficeskago Musei Oscesstva, Irkutsk, Siberia, Russia; the Geo- 

 logical Commission of Finland, Helsingfors, Finland; the Durban 

 Museum, Durban, and the Rhodesia Museum, Bulawayo, Rhodesia, 

 Union of South Africa; the Botanic Gardens, Sydney, New South 

 Wales, Australia ; the Indian JSIuseum and the Geological Survey of 

 India, Calcutta, and the Royal Botanic Garden, Sibpur, India; the 

 Botanical Garden, Lawang, Java; The Museo Nacional, San Jose, 

 Costa Rica; the National School of Agriculture, Lima, Peru; the 

 University of Alberta, Edmonton South, Alberta, the Provincial 

 Museum and the Royal Ontario Museum of Mineralogy, Toronto, 

 Canada. 



NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART. 



The most important acquisition of the year consisted in the formal 

 transfer to the Smithsonian Institution by Mr. Charles L. Freer, of 

 Detroit, Mich., on February 24, 1914, of 198 objects as additions 

 to his munificent gift to the Nation, comprising all of the material 

 which he had assembled since the last previous transfer on November 

 6, 1912. This contribution may be summarized as follows : 



