APPENDIX 1 

 Report on the United States National Museum 



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

 tion and operations of the United States National Museum for the 

 fiscal year ended June 30, 1951 : 



BUILDINGS AND EQUIPMENT 



Construction began on the conversion of the southwest court in the 

 Arts and Industries Building to a modern storage facility, and $80,295 

 was obligated from funds appropriated for this purpose. The sum 

 of $47,013 was allotted for the construction of storage cases and 

 drawers, and outside contracts were let for building the wooden 

 frames for these ; the mechanical shops of the Institution will cover 

 the frames with sheets of thin steel. Steel racks to provide accessi- 

 bility to the stacks of large-sized drawers, totaling about 3,500, are 

 now being fabricated by the maintenance and operation division. 



COLLECTIONS 



More than 303,000 specimens were incorporated into the national 

 collections and distributed among the six departments during the 

 year, as follows: Anthropology, 15,396; zoology, 225,638; botany, 

 38,603 ; geology, 16,723 ; engineering and industries, 3,073 ; and history, 

 3,716. Most of the accessions were acquired as gifts from individuals 

 or as transfers from Government departments and agencies. The 

 complete report on the Museum, published 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 32,617,298. It may be noted that the annual increment of 

 specimens varies from a quarter to three-quarters of a million objects, 

 depending upon the number of large collections obtained. 



Anthropology. — Household furniture, ceramics, glassware, pewter, 

 wrought-iron and brass utensils, woodenware, folk paintings, em- 

 broideries, and textiles used by residents of New England during the 

 period 1630 to 1840, which had been assembled by Dr. and Mrs. Arthur 

 M. Greenwood at Time Stone Farm, Marlborough, Mass., have now 

 been added to the national collections. Another outstanding addition 

 to the ceramic and cultural collections is the gift by Mrs. Lura 

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