38 ANNUAL, REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1920. 



of correspondence and documents, where the files of the Museum are 

 kept, and the duties of shipping clerk were combined with those of 

 property clerk. 



The collections of echinoderms were removed from the division of 

 marine invertebrates, a separate division of echinoderms being es- 

 tablished and Mr. Austin H. Clark promoted from assistant curator 

 of marine invertebrates to curator of echinoderms and placed in 

 charge. As he had devoted much time to the onychophores, they 

 were included in the new division. At the close of the year the 

 division of graphic arts was transferred from the department of 

 anthropology to that of arts and industries. 



The sundry civil bill for 1921 carries a small appropriation for 

 the National Gallery of Art. For economic reasons the gallery has 

 up to now been administered as an integral part of the Museum, the 

 scientific and administrative staffs of which have cared for the gal- 

 lery in addition to their own regular Museum duties. This appro- 

 priation will permit of the gallery being separated from the Museum 

 on July 1, 1920, and organized as an independent bureau under the 

 Smithsonian Institution, and to it will be transferred the fine art 

 collections of the Museum which have heretofore been administered 

 under the curator of the National Gallery of Art. The gallery will 

 for the present, however, continue to be housed in the Natural His- 

 tory Building of the Museum. 



The year has witnessed the bringing together here of large war 

 collections, made possible by the hearty cooperation of the War and 

 Navy Departments. Besides supplying the objects, they transported 

 them without cost to the Museum, set them up in the Museum build- 

 ings, and in many instances detailed officers and men to assist in 

 labeling and otherwise preparing them for exhibition. 



COLLECTIONS. 



The total number of specimens acquired bj^ the Museum during 

 the year was approximately 216,871. Received in 1,480 separate ac- 

 cessions, they were classified and assigned as follows : Department of 

 anthropology, 15,254; zoology, 101,554; botany, 35,211; geology and 

 mineralogy, estimated, 22,400; paleontology, estimated, 40,000; tex- 

 tiles, woods, medicines, foods, and other miscellaneous animal and 

 vegetable products, 1,716; mineral technology, 627; mechanical tech- 

 nology, 97; and National Gallery of Art, 12. Loans and deposits 

 for exhibition added 8,348 more, chiefly in the division of history, 

 war collections. 



Material to the extent of 495 lots was received for special examina- 

 tion and report. While this free identification of material sent in 

 from all parts of the country requires considerable time on the part 



