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portant cameras, one a Kodak No. 210 and the other an E. & H. 

 T. Anthony No. 1025. Dr. Robert Taft gave a portrait of Hamilton 

 H. Smith, the inventor of the tintype, wliich is a copy of a self-por- 

 trait (1889) printed on platinum paper of Smith's preparation, 



A 35-mm moving-picture film, the gift of Geophysiches Ins ti tut, 

 Prague, illustrates the copying of books in this compact form, each 

 page being copied on one fram^e and projected onto a screen for 

 study. Libraries are using this method to copy rare old books, thus 

 to preserve the originals and make them available for others. 

 Another film acquired from the Universal Talking Newsreel, New 

 York, illustrates the method of locomotion of a walrus in the San 

 Diego Zoo. 



Mrs. Hazel Englebrecht, Des Moines, Iowa, specialist in X-ray 

 photography, presented to the section 2 photographs of flowers 

 and 9 negatives of various assorted subjects. DeLancey Gill, 

 Alexandria, Va., for many years illustrator of the Bureau of Ameri- 

 can Ethnology, upon his retirement on June 30, 1932, gave the col- 

 lection a Thornton Pickard shutter, a Triplex shutter, an old focusing 

 glass, and a Watkins meter. Eugene Augustin Lauste, Bloomfield, 

 N.J., pioneer inventor of sound and sight motion pictures, presented 

 22 photographic copies of his early inventions. Ida F. Arnold, 

 Canton, Mass., presented a collection of 4 daguerreotypes, 4 ambro- 

 types, 2 tintypes, and 1 cabinet portrait. 



Loeh collection of chemical types. — Miss Aida M. Doj^le, of the 

 section of organic chemistry, devoted 2 days a week to the Loeb 

 collection of chemical types under the head curator's direction, and 

 by the close of the year had made satisfactory progress toward com- 

 pleting a technical catalog of the collection, wliich now numbers 

 1,336 specimens. 



INSTALLATION AND PRESERVATION OF COLLECTIONS 



Engineering. — In the section of aeronautics the erection of the 

 gondola and part of the envelop of the airship Pilgrim was the larg- 

 est new installation. In addition, the collection of kites was in- 

 stalled in metal swinging frames and a complete series of illustrations 

 portraying the evolution of the parachute was added. In mechani- 

 cal technology the most popular new arrangement was the addition 

 of a horse, harness, and liveried driver to the hansom cab presented 

 last year by Mrs. James Parmelee. Mrs. Parmelee donated a nicely 

 carved wooden horse, the original harness, and the driver's livery. 

 The large tower-clock movement presented last year by the city of 

 Frederick, Md., was installed at the level of the "clock gallery" on 

 the top of a steel tower erected from the main floor, and wiU be 

 operated during the coining year. The glass and metallurgy exhibits 

 of the section of mineral technology were completely rearranged. 



