APPENDIX 1 



KEPORT ON THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL LrUSEUM 



Sir : I have the honor to submit the following report on the condition 

 and operation of the United States National Museum for the fiscal 

 year ended June 30, 1947. 



COLLECTIONS 



Nearly 757,000 specimens, about twice as many as last year, came to 

 the Museum's collections during the year, these being divided among 

 the various departments as follows: Anthropology, 9,445; biology, 

 533,098 ; geology, 205,549 ; engineering and industries, 5,239 ; history, 

 3,539. 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 im- 

 portant are summarized below. Catalog entries in all departments 

 now total 19,561,872. 



Anthropology. — Archeological material came from many parts of 

 the world, especially noteworthy being about a hundred items from 

 Adak Island in the Aleutians; nearly 1,600 specimens from Mont- 

 gomery County, Md. ; a tripod bowl from a ruin near Oaxaca, Mexico ; 

 2 earthenware bowls from the Taino site of La Caleto, Province of 

 Trujillo, Dominican Republic; 2 Roman or Franko vessels from 

 Speicher, Germany; and 14 stone implements and fragments from 

 Larimer County, Colo. 



In ethnology, the year's accessions included collections from the 

 North American tribes of Alaska and the Aleutians, Eastern Wood- 

 lands, Great Plains, and the Southwest; the Indian tribes of Mexico, 

 Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia, and Brazil; the Oceanian 

 peoples of Hawaii and New Guinea ; the aboriginal tribes of Australia ; 

 the Indonesians of Java, Sumatra, and Bali; the Asiatic peoples of 

 India and Mongolia ; and the African tribes of the Belgian Congo and 

 neighboring parts of West Africa. A collection of major importance 

 was received as a result of the bequest of the late Princess Abigail W. 

 Kawananakoa of Honolulu, comprising a well-documented group of 

 masterpieces of Hawaiian handicrafts which were heirlooms of the 

 Hawaiian royal family. A valuable collection of American historical 

 Staffordshire china was received from an anonymous donor. 



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