REPOET OP THE SECRETARY. 29 



the division of textiles much material was added, many gaps were 

 filled, and numerous novel features were introduced. In mineral 

 technology, where the construction of models makes progress slower, 

 the number of comprehensive educational features was nevertheless 

 considerably increased, and so many more are in course of preparation 

 that another year should see a wide representation of the subjects 

 covered. Toward the end of the year a section of wood technology 

 was established with the main object of setting forth in a manner to 

 satisfy the artisan and the public the qualities and sources of the 

 woods available for any purpose to which that material is put. It 

 is not doubted that a creditable collection can soon be gathered. 



COLLECTIONS. 



The additions to the collections, comprised in 1,481 accessions, 

 aggregated approximately 304,647 specimens, which were classified 

 and assigned as follows: Anthropology, 15,140; zoology, 101,928; 

 botany, 51,295; geology and mineralogy, 4,063 ; paleontology, 129,981 ; 

 textiles and animal and vegetable products, 1,511; mineral technol* 

 ogy, 607; National Gallery of Art, 122. Loans for exhibition were 

 also received to the extent of 1,760 articles, consisting of paintings 

 and sculptures, laces, embroideries and tapestries, costumes and 

 other historical objects, ethnological specimens, etc. The number 

 of lots of material sent in for examination and report amounted to 

 790, of which about 64 per cent were geological and 28 per cent 

 zoological. 



Among the more important gifts to the division of ethnology were 

 a large series of old Japanese art, assembled about 30 years ago by 

 the late J. Crawford Lyon and presented by the Misses Lyon ; a col- 

 lection of baskets, bark cloth, sword hilts in process of making, 

 quivers for blowgim darts, musical instruments, and other objects, 

 gathered in Dutch Borneo by Mr. H. C. Raven, and donated by Dr. 

 W. L. Abbott; examples of modern Egyptian clothing contributed 

 by Mr. Herbert E. Winlock ; and interesting articles from the Plains 

 Indians, which belonged to the late Maj. George Henry Palmer, 

 United States Army, presented by Mrs. Palmer. A valuable series 

 of musical instruments, household articles, tools, and other objects 

 from the Ute Indians of the Uintah and Ouray Eeservation, south- 

 eastern Utah, was purchased. The loans comprised objects from 

 southern Mindanao, P. I., Abyssinia, Japan, China, Egypt, and 

 Europe. 



The principal accession in American archeology was secured 

 through the cooperation of the Smithsonian Institution with the 

 management of the Panama-California Exposition at San Diego, and 

 comprised important series of implements and other objects of stone. 



