2 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1933 



station is being equipped on Mount St. Katherine, Sinai Peninsula. 

 Among the year's ijublications were several of special interest from 

 the plant researches of the Division of Radiation and Organisms, and 

 the first of the new series, Oriental Studies, issued by the Freer 

 Gallery of Art, entitled "The Story of Kalaka", by W. Norman 

 Brown. 



National Museum. — Available appropriations for the past year 

 totaled $701,456, or $133,634 less than for the previous year. Addi- 

 tions to the collections numbered 348,012 specimens. Important 

 anthropological material came from Pliilippine and South American 

 Indian tribes and from village sites in Alaska, Texas, Virginia, and 

 Puerto Rico. Noteworthy biological material received consisted of 

 mammals from Siam, Java, and British Columbia; birds from Alaska, 

 Siam, and the southwestern United States; reptiles and ampliibians 

 from the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers and from Puerto Rico 

 and French Indo China; fishes, mollusks, and marine invertebrates 

 collected on the Johnson-Smithsonian and Hancock expeditions; the 

 Owen collection of Lepidoptera (about 40,000 specimens) ; and 3,600 

 plants from the historic Mutis Herbarium. In geology many 

 valuable examples of minerals, gems, ores, and meteorites were 

 received, and representative lots of fossil plants and animals, including 

 the most perfect bird skeleton yet collected from the Oligocene of 

 North America. Tne industrial collections were augmented by 

 manj^ generous gifts from commercial firms and individuals, and many 

 objects of historic interest were received. The number of visitors 

 for the year totaled 1,427,358. 



National Gallery of Art. — Dr. William H. Holmes, director of the 

 Gallery since its creation as a separate unit of the Institution in 1920, 

 was retired on June 30, 1932, and his death occurred on April 20, 1933. 

 During the year the Gallery has been under the direction of Ruel P. 

 Tolman, acting director. Early in the year, a large part of the 

 Gallery was occupied by exhibits of the National Society of Mural 

 Painters, the National Sculpture Society, and the alumni of the 

 American Academy in Rome, in connection with the George Wash- 

 ington Bicentennial celebration. An exhibition of paintings of 

 Gaucho life in Argentina, by Senor Don Cesareo Bernaldo de Quiros, 

 was held from January 13 to March 13, 1933. The Gellatly collection 

 was transferred from New York and installed in the GaUery, a special 

 opening view being held on June 22, 1933. A number of art works 

 were accessioned by the Institution subject to transfer to the Gallery 

 if approved by the National Gallerj^ of Art Commission. 



Freer Gallery of Art. — Additions to the collection include a Chinese 

 bronze vessel from the Chou dynasty; Chinese pottery, porcelain, and 

 jades; Japanese, Persian, and Arabic illuminated manuscripts; and 

 Japanese, Persian, and Arabic paintings. Curatorial work has been 



