APPENDIX 1 



REPORT ON THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL 

 MUSEUM 



Sir : I have the honor to submit the following report on the con- 

 dition and operation of the United States National Museum for the 

 fiscal year ended June 30, 1936 : 



Appropriations for the maintenance of the National Museum for 

 the year totaled $760,742, which was $44,671 more than for 1935. 



COLLECTIONS 



Material added to the collections during the year embodied a great 

 variety of valuable accessions, coming mostly as gifts from indi- 

 viduals interested in the Museum and from expeditions sponsored 

 by the Smithsonian. A total of 486,581 specimens were received, 

 comprising 1,784 separate accessions and distributed among the five 

 departments as follows: Anthropology, 4,856; biology, 263,705; 

 geology, 213,024; arts and industries, 2,281; and history, 2,715. 



The more important of these accessions are summarized as follows : 



Anthropology. — Outstanding among the ethnological material re- 

 ceived in the department of anthropology were the large Richard K. 

 Peck collection of weapons, costumes, and other articles illustrating 

 the decorative arts of the Negritos and Papuans of Dutch New Guinea 

 and of the Dyaks of Borneo ; and specimens illustrating the culture 

 of the Jivaro Indians of Ecuador. In North American material the 

 Sioux, Hopi, and Navaho Indian tribes were represented. President 

 Franklin D. Roosevelt presented a collection of costumes, musical 

 instruments, and weapons from the Cuna and Tule Indians of south- 

 eastern Panama. There came also ethnologic artifacts from West and 

 South Africa, Australia, China, and Japan. The noteworthy Virgil 

 M. Hillyer collection of articles illustrating the history of lighting, 

 with an endowment to the Smithsonian of $7,000, was presented by 

 Mrs. Hillyer. Over 200 specimens were added to the collection of 

 musical instruments. 



Of special interest among the archeological material received were 

 the following: 557 Paleolithic artifacts from Palestine collected by the 

 1934 joint expedition of the British School of Archeology in Palestine 

 and the American School of Prehistoric Research; several lots of 

 earthenware, stone, shell, and other artifacts from Alabama, Alaska, 



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