Report on the United States 

 National Museum 



Sir : I have the honor to submit the following report on the condition 

 and operations of the U.S. National Museum for the fiscal year ended 

 June 30, 1963: 



COLLECTIONS 



During the year 1,723,830 specimens were added to the national 

 collections and distributed among the 8 departments as follows : An- 

 thropology, 11,993; zoology, 1,361,586; botany, 69,642; geology, 80,- 

 414 ; science and technology, 2, 588 ; arts and manufactures, 2,910 ; civil 

 history, 191,753; and Armed Forces history, 2,944. The largest di- 

 visional acquisition was in the division of insects, which accessioned 

 a total of 1,209,339 specimens. Most of this year's accessions were 

 acquired as gifts from individuals or as transfers from Government 

 departments and agencies. The complete report on the Museum, pub- 

 lished as a separate document, includes a detailed list of the year's 

 acquisitions, of which the more important are summarized below. 

 Catalog entries in all departments now total 57,541,770. 



Anthropology. — The division of archeology received as its largest 

 accession a lot of 8,431 specimens from Alaska collected for the Mu- 

 seum by Dr. James A. Ford. His published monograph, "Eskimo 

 Prehistory in the Vicinity of Point Barrow," made it possible to ac- 

 cession the specimens according to the published types and illustra- 

 tions. James P. Mandaville, Jr., donated a well-documented 

 collection of 185 specimens from northern Arabia, including potsherds, 

 terra-cotta figurine fragments, and an inscribed copper hoe blade. 

 Three important collections of Iranian artifacts were presented by 

 Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Cuomo, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel F. Magner, and 

 C. Edward Wells. Represented among the 160 specimens are pottery, 

 bronze weapons, inscribed mud bricks, and glazed architectural 

 fragments, ranging in dates from 2000 B.C. to the third century A.D, 

 A group of five Korean bronze weapons of the Han Dynasty was 

 donated by Gen. George H. Decker. A rare anthropomorphic pottery 

 figure from the Bahia culture of the Esmeraldas region was acquired 

 from Mrs. Erika Burt. 



The division of ethnology received a collection of 25 items of tradi- 

 tional court costume from Indonesia, presented by His Higliness Sri 



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