SECRETARY’S REPORT Vf 
TaBLE 2.—Groups of schoolchildren visiting the Smithsonian Institution during the 
year ended June 30, 1959 
Year and month Number of Number of 
children groups 
1958 
Dilys SABO TLS SUP PO SES OR eee 7, 670 301 
ATIgUSt UL = ot om vice. srtedeaetinnes VL erm etes Leonean) 8, 648 405 
Septem bert. 8 $s mh 2s 1 ee te Bg 4, 433 145 
(QYatsl sii See Se Ee hE ees 19, 534 644 
INOV.eI Deri aren tere re ae ee eee ee eee en een 21, 083 612 
ECE pe eas eee A NO) hes Sty USERRA Et SE EE 9, 801 295 
1959 
STEN At SO oe SR ee eee Sek © Nee ere en ae 9, 769 346 
IEG Lrg aay pee tes Sree ne ewes ee NO Se eS 18, 339 581 
TN EEC Geant tla hon eh i lla hai Af dec UE Se ga al 54, 235 1, 426 
Steyr a limon, a kts AGRON _ OER! Lied hes AEM eee oa i te 110, 950 2, 431 
VTi epee: BS reg ATS Oe. I eal 2 OA 148, 789 3, 338 
ASD a s\4 Scone ug! Cour ch cea PEATE, ca, Oe eR, er wep ay 44, 424 1, 354 
ATSC Gt eee ee i Re ere ae ae Pee el ee 457, 675 11, 878 
SUMMARY OF THE YEAR’S ACTIVITIES 
National Museum.—The national collections were augmented dur- 
ing the year by a total of 1,144,445 specimens, bringing the total 
catalog entries in all departments to more than 52 million. Some of 
the outstanding items received included: In anthropology, a 12th-cen- 
tury stone Buddha from Cambodia, 4 collections of Micronesian 
ethnological material, and a cast of the Génovce (Slovakia) Neander- 
thal skull; in botany, the entire herbarium of Goucher College, con- 
sisting of about 6,100 specimens; in geology, the legendary Hope 
diamond, a superb collection of Chinese jade carvings, the largest 
dinosaur bone known from this country, and more than 7,300 speci- 
mens of Carboniferous plants; in zoology, large lots of mammals and 
birds from Panama, 2 large collections of fishes from the eastern 
United States; the Monrés collection of more than 54,000 chrysomelid 
beetles, and many mollusks and marine invertebrates collected by the 
Bredin-Smithsonian Caribbean Expedition; in civil history, an entire 
room from the Gothic Revival Harral-Wheeler house in Bridgeport, 
Conn., an entire 18th-century loghouse from Wilmington, Del., addi- 
tions to the White House china collection, and important lots of 
philatelic and numismatic material, including the Dwight D. Hisen- 
hower collection of coins, medals, and memorabilia; in Armed Forces 
history, early U.S. military and naval insignia from the W. Stokes 
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