16 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1944 
buildings to the War Department, Corps of Engineers, Camouflage 
Section; information on revolving airfoils to the Technical Data 
Laboratory, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio; furnishing photographs 
for Navy training films; identification of woods; also information on 
properties and uses of woods for Navy Department, War Production 
Board, Foreign Economic Administration, and Inter-American De- 
velopment Commission; methods of preserving specimens of dehy- 
drated foods for War Food Administration; advice on disposition 
of hemp produced in Kentucky to Commodity Credit Corporation ; 
assistance in drawing up contract specifications involving a true lock- 
stitch in sewing safety seams, to United States Maritime Commission ; 
suitability of palmyra fiber as a substitute for rattan for stiff brushes 
to the Navy Department; and aid in the training of document in- 
spectors of Federal Bureau of Investigation in identification of various 
printing processes. 
COLLECTIONS 
Accessions, for the year numbered 1,159 separate lots, totaling 
239,640 specimens. This was an increase over those received last year 
of 9,409 specimens, but a decrease of 18 in the number of accessions. 
Specimens were accessioned by the five departments as follows: An- 
thropology, 852; biology, 229,546; geology, 3,466; engineering and 
industries, 1,888; history, 4,388. Most of the accessions were gifts 
from individuals or specimens transferred from other Government 
agencies. The more important of these are summarized below. 
Catalog entries in all departments now total 18,098,775. 
Anthropology.—The division of archeology received an important 
gift of 115 lots of potsherds and other materials from various Indian 
sites, many of which are on or near the presumed route of De Soto’s 
expedition of 1539-42 through the southeastern United States. Two 
gold-and-silver book ends, reflecting the Tiahuanacan style of archi- 
tecture and sculpture, were presented by Vice President Henry A. 
Wallace, who received them as gifts from the Chamber of Commerce 
in Bolivia, on the occasion of his visit to La Paz. The division of 
ethnology was presented with a documented collection (159 speci- 
mens) pertaining to the Huichol Indians of northern Jalisco. Two 
other important collections received by the division were 26 oil por- 
traits of Navaho, Apache, and Pueblo Indians of Arizona and New 
Mexico, painted by Carl Moon, and an assemblage of excellent ex- 
amples of Moro and Indonesian brasses and Philippine metalwork, 
which had been presented to the late President and Mrs. William 
Howard Taft, during their residence in the Philippines. 
Biology.—The largest single collection received by the division of 
mammals in the past 25 years consisted of about 2,400 specimens from 
