98 ANNUAL REPORT SMnHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1940 



Townsend Kussell, Jr.: 100, relating mainly to the natural history 

 of Brazil, from Ernest G. Holt; 23, on airplane engines of various 

 makes, from John E. Rae; and a large number, on miscellaneous 

 subjects, from the Honorable Usher L. Burdick, Member of Con- 

 gress from North Dakota. Other generous gifts came from members 

 and associates of the Smithsonian staff, notably Secretary Abbot, 

 Assistant Secretary Wetmore, and Mrs. Charles D, Walcott. Among 

 the publications presented by Mrs. Walcott was a highly prized set, 

 in 23 volumes, attractively bound and lettered, of the scientific and 

 other papers, both published and unpublished, of her husband, the 

 late fourth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. This will 

 be given a place of honor in the library alongside of similar col- 

 lected works by Secretaries Henry, Baird, and Langley. 



Of the other gifts, only a few, chosen from the large number, can 

 be mentioned here, such as 7 books by Vilhjalmur Stefansson — Hunt- 

 ers of the Great North, The Northward Course of Empire, My Life 

 with the Eskimo, Adventures in Error, My Life with the Eskimos, 

 Unsolved Mysteries of the Arctic, and Iceland the First American 

 Republic — from the author; 6 copies of The Museum in America, in 3 

 volumes, by Laurence Vail Coleman, from the author, as director of 

 the American Association of Museums; Chinese Jade Carvings of the 

 Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century in the Collection of Mrs. Georg 

 Vetlesen, in 3 volumes, compiled by Stanley Charles Nott, from Mrs. 

 Georg Vetlesen; Portraits of Shipmasters and Merchants in the 

 Peabody Museum of Salem, and New England Blockaded in 1814 

 (the Journal of Henry Edward Napier, Lieutenant in H. M. S 

 Nymphe) — ^both edited by Walter Muir Wliitehill — from the Peabody 

 Museum; Voyages of the Valero II I ^ by De Witt Meredith, from 

 Captain G. Allan Hancock; O. C. Marsh, Pioneer in Paleontology, by 

 Charles Schuchcrt and Clara Mae Le Vene, from the authors; Les 

 Beaux Arts et les Arts Decoratifs, in 2 volumes, by M. Louis Gonse, 

 from Dr. William Schaus; The Macrolepidoptera of the World, by 

 Adalbert Seitz, from Mrs. Wirt Robinson, the widow of the late 

 Colonel Robinson, professor of chemistry at West Point, who, it will 

 be recalled, was a friend and benefactor of the National Museum; 

 Moss Flora of North America North of Mexico, volume I, part 4, by 

 A. J. Grout, from the author; Communications, volume 10, of the 

 Institut de Geophysique et de Meteorologie de L'Universite de Lwow, 

 by Dr. Henrj^k Arctowski, from the author; A Bibliography of Scien- 

 tific Papers on Climatic Variations, compiled by Dr. Henryk Arctow- 

 ski, from the Union Geographique Internationale — Commission of 

 Climatic Variations; Science and Social Ethics, by Sir Richard Arman 

 Gregory, from The Friedenwald Foundation; Mouth Infections and 



