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and ornaments from Java, nearly 1,000 potsherds and shell imple- 

 ments from Indian burial mounds near Belle Glade, Fla., skeletal 

 remains from Peru, and a reconstruction of the newly found remains 

 of the fourth Pithecanthropus ; in biology, 74 mammals, 472 reptiles 

 and amphibians, and nearly 2,000 fishes from Liberia, all resulting 

 from the Smithsonian-Firestone Expedition to that country, the 

 Nevermann collection of about 33,000 Costa Eican Coleoptera includ- 

 ing much type material, and a large collection of marine inverte- 

 brates resulting from the participation of Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt 

 in the Fish and Wildlife Service's investigations of the Alaska king- 

 crab; in geology, an 1,800-carat aquamarine crystal from Agua 

 Preta, Brazil, the Sardis, Ga., meteorite, weighing 1,760 pounds, 

 the fifth largest ever found in the United States, many thousands of 

 Cambrian, post-Cambrian, and Devonian fossils collected in various 

 parts of the United States by members of the Museum staff, and the 

 greater part of a fossil skeleton of the primitive mammal Uintather- 

 iimi ; in engineering and industries, an operating exhibit of the West- 

 inghouse air brake, a fighter plane known as the Curtiss Sparrow- 

 hawk, and a 93-dial display clock made by Louis Zimmer, of Lier, 

 Belgium, which tells the time at many places around the world, 

 the tides at various points, and many calendar and astronomical 

 events ; in history, busts, costumes, or mementos of famous Americans 

 including Abraham Lincoln, William Jennings Bryan, and Brig. 

 Gen. Caleb Cushing. As usual, many members of the scientific 

 staff took part in field expeditions, financed for the most part by 

 Smithsonian private funds or through cooperative arrangements 

 with other organizations or individuals. Twenty-five publications 

 were issued by the Museum, and 52,170 copies of its publications 

 were distributed. Visitors for the year totaled 2,505,871. Fourteen 

 special exhibits were held under the auspices of various educational, 

 scientific, and other groups. Changes in staff included the retire- 

 ment of Gerrit S. Miller, Jr., as curator of the division of mammals 

 and the advancement of the assistant curator, Dr. Remington Kellogg, 

 to succeed him, and the appointment of two new assistant curators. 

 Dr. Joseph E. Weckler, Jr., in the division of ethnology, and Dr. 

 Richard E. Blackwelder in the division of insects. 



National Gallery of Art. — The completed building of the National 

 Gallery of Art was formally accepted by the trustees of the Gallery 

 on December 10, 1940, and on the evening of March 17, 1941, the 

 opening ceremonies were held. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes 

 briefly described the purposes of the Gallery, Mr. Paul Mellon, son 

 of the donor of the Gallery, presented the building and the Mellon 

 Collection to the Nation, and Mr. Samuel H. Kress presented the 

 Kress Collection to the Gallery. The President of the United States 



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