APPENDIX I 

 REPORT 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, 1934. 



Appropriations for the maintenance of the National Museum for 

 the year totaled $654,871, which was $46,585 less than for the previous 

 year. About 40 percent of this decrease was in the printing and bind- 

 ing allotment, which resulted virtuallj^ in the abandonment of the 

 publication program for the year. 



COLLECTIONS 



Expeditions and purchases were greatly curtailed by the reduction 

 of appropriations, but additions of valuable material to the Museum 

 collections continued in all departments, mainly by gift from outside 

 individuals and organizations. New material came in 1,842 sepa- 

 rate accessions, with a total of 340,780 specimens divided as follows: 

 Anthropology, 9,599; biology, 289,347; geology, 30,747; arts and in- 

 dustries, 5,832 ; history, 5,255. Gifts of specimens to schools and other 

 educational institutions numbered 7,197 specimens. Exchanges of 

 duplicate material with other organizations and with individuals 

 totaled 16,356 specimens, and 30,065 specimens were lent to workers 

 outside of Washington. 



Following is a summary of the more important accessions received 

 during the year in the various departments: 



Anthro2)ology. — The C. C. Roberts ethnological collection from 

 Africa was augmented by splendid examples of wood carving from the 

 Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Gold Coast, and Cameroons; wooden drums 

 and other musical instruments from Nigeria; and many other objects 

 representing the handiwork of the tribes of these countries. Impor- 

 tant collections transferred from the Bureau of American Ethnology 

 include Sumu and Misketo ethnologica from the Honduran and 

 Nicaraguan coasts gathered by Dr. W. D. Strong wliile a member of 

 the Haskell-Smithsonian expedition. A collection of stone imple- 

 ments used in the daily life of Australian and Papuan tribes was given 

 by Joel H. DuBose. 



A remarkable gift from Koldchi Mikimoto, prominent in the culture 

 pearl industry of Japan, is a miniature replica of Mount Vernon 

 executed entirely in worked pieces of mother-of-pearl and studded 



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