REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 47 
flying machines has been suspended from the roof. The additions in zoology 
have consisted mainly of mammals and insects, and in geology of fossil verte- 
brates, rocks, and minerals. As explained elsewhere, the lecture hall is now 
temporarily occupied by the National Gallery of Art. 
MISCELLA NEOUS. 
Of duplicate specimens separated from the collections in the course of 
recent investigations, about 16,000 were distributed in 208 sets to educational 
establishments in different parts of the United States and about 25,000 were 
used in making exchanges with other establishments and with individuals. 
Over 6,000 specimens were lent to specialists for study. 
The publications issued during the year were the annual reports for 1905 and 
1906; volumes 31 and 32 of the Proceedings; the second volume of Bulletin 
53, completing the catalogue of type and figured specimens in the department 
of geology; Part I of Bulletin 56, on the mammals of the Mexican boundary 
of the United States; Bulletin 57, on the families and genera of bats; a supple- 
ment to Bulletin 51, being a list of the publications of the Museum from 1901 
to 1906; Volume XI of the Contributions from the National Herbarium, consisting 
of a single paper entitled “The Flora of the State of Washington,” and three 
parts of Volume X of the same series, relating mainly to the botany of 
Mexico, Central America, and the Philippine Islands. The following bulletins 
were in print at the close of the year, but were not issued until early in July: 
Part IV of Bulletin 50, the Birds of North and Middle America; Bulletin 58, 
Herpetology of Japan and Adjacent Territory, and Bulletin 59, “ Recent Madre- 
pora of the Hawaiian Islands and Laysan.” A number of short papers based 
on collections in the Museum were also printed in the quarterly issue of the 
Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections and elsewhere. 
The additions to the library of the Museum comprised 2,581 books and 3,567 
pamphlets and periodicals. The total number of pieces recorded in the library 
at the close of the year was 30,307 volumes, 47,642 unbound papers, and 108 
manuscripts. 
At the Jamestown Ter- Centennial Exposition, which opened on April 26, 1907, 
the subject assigned to the Museum, namely, the aboriginal, colonial, and 
national history of America, has been as fully illustrated as the means and 
space permitted. The collection comprises prehistoric Indian implements; 
representations of the native arts of Alaska, Porto Rico, Hawaii, Samoa, and 
the Philippine Islands; pictures, relics, and models illustrating the different 
historic periods of the country, land and water transportation, the invention 
of the telegraph and telephone, and the firearms used by the United States 
Army. The central feature is a life-sized group, depicting Capt. John Smith 
and his men in a small sailboat trading for corn and skins with the Powhatan 
Indians at the mouth of the James River. 
The Museum has also taken part in the Internation dl Maritime Exposition at 
Bordeaux which opened on May 1, although the exhibit of the United States was 
not finally installed until about the 1st of July. The objects supplied by the 
Museum consist pf a number of models illustrating the water craft used by the 
aborigines of the Western Hemisphere and illustrations and models of the 
earlier steamboats, including those of John Fitch and Robert Fulton. 
Respectfully submitted. 
RICHARD RATHBUN, 
Assistant Secretary, in Charge of U. S. National Museum. 
Dr. CHARLES D. WALCOTT, 
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 
