APPENDIX 1 

 REPORT ON THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Sm : I have the honor to submit the f oUowuig report on the condi- 

 tion and operation of the United States National Museum for the 

 fiscal year ended June 30, 1941. 



Funds provided for the maintenance and operation of the National 

 Museum for the year totaled $818,305, which was $6,580 more than 

 for the previous year. The amount was reduced $6,500, however, 

 by reason of a compulsory administrative reserve. 



COLLECTIONS 



Building up of the gi^eat collections of the Museum continued, 

 and a total of 1,518 separate accessions, aggregating 326,686 indi- 

 vidual specimens, was received during the year. Although this was 

 about 400 fewer separate accessions tlian last year, the individual 

 specimens increased by 114,000. Distribution of these additions 

 among the five departments was as follows: Anthropology, 4,064; 

 biology, 262,521; geology, 55,818; engineering and industries, 2,688; 

 and history, 1,595. For the most part these acquisitions were gifts 

 from individuals or represented expeditions sponsored by the Smith- 

 sonian Institution. All are listed in detail in the full report on the 

 Museum, published as a separate document, but the more important 

 are summarized below. The total num.ber of catalog entries in all 

 departments is now nearly 17% million. 



Anthropology. — Important archeological material included a col- 

 lection of Paleolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Age implements and 

 ornaments from Java; over 700 stone artifacts from western New 

 York; about 450 specimens from an Indian village site in Page 

 County, Va. ; and nearly 1,000 potsherds and shell implements from 

 burial mounds near Belle Glade, Fla. In ethnology, many objects 

 were received representing the cultures of the Navaho; Alaskan 

 Indians and Eskimos; Plains, Pueblo, and Southwestern tribes; the 

 Iroquois ; and others. Collections from peoples outside the Americas 

 included specimens from Malayan tribes of the Philippines, from the 

 Grebo of Liberia, and from the natives of Bali. Twenty-nine ce- 

 ramic specimens, 30 musical instruments, and 47 pieces of period art 

 and textiles were added. In the division of physical anthropology, 

 skeletal remains from Peru and from southeastern Alaska and a 



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