I 6k) -REPORT ON THE SECTION OF NAVAL ARCHITECTURE OF 

 THE U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM FOR 1884. 



By Joseph W. Collins, Hoiiorary Curator. 



REVIEW OF IMPORTANT ADDITIONS DURING THE YEAR. 



The niimber of accessions diirin«>- the year, botli of models, full-sized 

 boats, and boat and vessel equipments, has been larj^^e, and generally 

 of an important and interesting character. A considerable portion of 

 these accessions was collected for exhibition at the International 

 Fisheries Exhibition held in London in 1883, where also many very in- 

 teresting and valuable objects were obtained, some by exchange with 

 other countries, while others were i)resented to the Museum. Although 

 these collections of American craft and their equipment were made in 

 1882 and 1883, and the exchanges and donations received from the Lon- 

 don Exhibition were made prior to the close of the past year, the various 

 objects did not reach this country until after the close of the exposition, 

 and become available to the Museum until after the beginning of 1884. 

 We therefore feel justified, while preparing this, the first annual report 

 of this department', in considering all the material gathered in 1882, 

 1883, and 1884 as coming under the head of the accessions for the pres- 

 ent year. Elsewhere the general character of the material gathered, 

 and its relation to the present condition of the collection, will be more 

 fully discussed. Here it is proposed to give only a review of the more 

 important additions to the collection, with such notes as may be deemed 

 desirable to show from what sources they were obtained, as well as to 

 give an idea of their value and importance. 



There have been-collected in the period above named, 1882 to 1884, 

 inclusive, 123 models and full-sizeil specimens of vessels and boats of 

 North America, chiefly, however, such as are used in the United States; 

 30 models and full-sized specimens of foreign fishing boats; 12 large 

 India-ink and crayon sketches (30 by 40 inches) of American fishing 

 boats; 92 photographs of fishing craft of the United States: 4 water- 

 color sketches of vessels of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth 

 centuries; 8 photographic negatives of merchant vessels of the United 

 States in the period between 1805 and 1845; 1 water-color sketch of a 

 merchant bark of 1844; 1 photographic negative of a naval battle, war 



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