APPENDIX 1 

 KEPOKT ON THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



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

 dition and operation of the United States National Museum for the 

 fiscal year ended June 30, 1942 : 



Appropriations for the maintenance and operation of the National 

 Museum for the year totaled $830,978, which was $12,673 more than 

 for the previous year. 



COLLECTIONS 



Additions to the collections of the Museum aggregated 1,388 sepa- 

 rate accessions, comprising 284,582 individual specimens, a decrease, 

 compared with the previous year, of 130 accessions and 42,104 speci- 

 mens. Distribution of these additions among the five departments 

 was as follows: Anthropology, 3,000; biology, 245,200; geology, 32,- 

 418 ; engineering and industries, 2,415 ; and history, 1,549. These ac- 

 quisitions were received principally as gifts from individuals, or as 

 a result of expeditions sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution. 

 All are listed in detail in the full report on the Museum, published as 

 a separate document, but the more important are summarized below. 

 The total number of catalog entries in all departments is now 17,- 

 578,240. 



Anthro'pology. — The division of archeology received 68 Greek, 

 Roman, and Egyptian specimens collected by Thomas Nelson Page; 

 several examples of ancient Persian pottery and armor; about 700 

 artifacts excavated in Florida; more than 200 stone, bone, pottery, 

 and shell specimens from the old Indian village site of Potawomeke, 

 Stafford County, Va. ; and 175 artifacts from southern California. 

 In ethnology, blankets, jewelry, and wearing apparel, representing 

 the culture of the Navaho of Arizona, the Zufli, the Tule Indians of 

 the San Bias coast of Panama, the Indians of Guatemala, the Choco 

 Indians of Darien, and the Comanche Indians were of outstanding 

 interest. The ethnological collections were also augmented by 

 masks, food bowls, head rests, and cult objects from voodoo shrines in 

 Haiti, and cutting and slashing weapons made by the Moro of Min- 

 danao, P. I. Among the important accessions to the collection of 

 ceramics were a glazed Parian pitcher made about 1850 in Vermont ; 

 a Bilston snuffbox made in 1759; an interesting collection of 



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