4 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1944 
first and second parts appeared in print during the year, and the 
third part was in press. 
A number of scientists on the Institution’s staff made trips to other 
American republics during the year in the furtherance of cooperative 
scientific projects in biology, geology, and anthropology. 
Other wartime activities —As stated above, for the benefit of mili- 
tary and naval personnel and war workers the Smithsonian and 
National Museum buildings have again been kept open all day on Sun- 
days. To accomplish this with available funds, it was necessary to 
have the buildings closed on Monday mornings. Sunday Museum 
tours for service personnel were arranged in the Natural History 
building through cooperation with the U. 8S. O. <A Field Collector’s 
Manual in Natural History was published and distributed free on 
request to Army and Navy personnel. One thousand copies each were 
turned over to the Army and Navy for distribution through their own 
channels. 
War Committee.—The Smithsonian War Committee appointed early 
in 1941, after canvassing fully all the possibilities of increasing the 
Institution’s usefulness in the war and embodying the results of this 
study in recommendation for action, felt that its function was fulfilled 
and asked that it be dissolved. In assenting to the dissolution of the 
committee, I wrote to the chairman, C. W. Mitman, as follows: 
I beg to express, for myself and on behalf of the Institution, a deep sense of 
the value of the work of the committee in these several years, and the feeling 
that those of its recommendations which have been carried through cannot but 
have been very helpful to the war effort. 
SUMMARY OF THE YEAR’S ACTIVITIES OF THE BRANCHES OF THE 
INSTITUTION 
National Museum.—Again this year the time of the scientific staff 
has been largely occupied with conferences on war problems with 
Army, Navy, and war agency officials and with furnishing technical 
information on requests to military and naval organizations. The 
Museum buildings have again been kept open all day on Sundays for 
the benefit of service personnel, and Sunday Museum tours were ar- 
ranged for them in cooperation with the U. S. O. New accessions 
for the year totaled 239,640 specimens, an increase of more than 
9,000 over last year. Among the outstanding additions to the col- 
lections were the ‘following: In anthropology, an important lot of 
material from Indian sites on DeSoto’s route through the south- 
eastern United States in 1539-42, a collection pertaining to the Huichol 
Indians of northern Jalisco, Mexico, and an assemblage of Moro and 
Indonesian brasses and Philippine metalwork presented to the Tafts 
during their residence in the Philippines; in biology, 2,000 mammal 
specimens from Colombia collected by Philip Hershkovitz, a bird 
