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In order to acquaint Museum visitors with some of the unusual 

 products which are now made from wood, appropriate exhibit ma- 

 terial was solicited and received from the following cooperators: 

 The New York State College of Forestry, Syracuse, New York, 22 

 specimens made from wood flour and wood pidp. comprising such 

 articles as a wood flour phonograph record, wood flour linoleum, 

 sawdust sausage casings, etc. : The l T . S. Forest Products Laboratory, 

 Madison, Wisconsin, 13 specimens of paper and hark products; and 

 the Drake Process Incorporated, Cleveland, Ohio. 41 specimens of 

 wood pulp, paper milk bottles, and other paper containers made 

 therefrom. 



Attempts to secure photographs illustrating forestry operations, 

 methods of logging and lumbering in the live great forest regions 

 of the United States, met with a ready response from two lumber 

 organizations, who contributed original photographs specially taken 

 for the National Museum. The Museum is thus indebted to the Cali- 

 fornia Redwood Association for 20 photographs showing steps in 

 the production of redwood lumber, from the time the mighty tree 

 stands unmolested in the forest until, as lumber, it reposes in car or 

 vessel awaiting shipment: and to the Southern Pine Association for 

 another 20 photographs featuring southern yellow pine operations 

 from tree to trade. 



To the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company of Chicago, Illinois, 

 is due the thanks of the Museum for the gift of a finished, fancy- 

 wood billiard cue, to supplement a similar cue in the rough, contrib- 

 uted by this firm more than a year ago. 



Of special scientific value were the additions to the study collection 

 of woods which were received from Messrs. W. lv. Maxon and E. P. 

 Killip of the division of plants, who collected for the Museum 14 

 species of Jamaican woods, and from Henry Pittier, Caracas, Vene- 

 zuela, 324 small specimens of woods collected by him in Venezuela 

 and Panama. 



As accessions of importance other than those spoken of under 

 textiles, medicines, and wood technology, there should be men- 

 tioned the transfer, by the Supervising Tea Examiner, Treasury De- 

 partment, of 52 samples of official tea standards and three samples 

 of unusual Chinese teas, comprising the standards used from 1915 to 

 1920, to control the importation of foreign teas into the United 

 States, and to maintain a high standard for each commercial type. 



The Museum is indebted to Wilson and Company, Chicago, Illinois, 

 through their Chief Chemist, Mr. L. M. Tolman, for an extensive 

 series of edible and inedible oils and fats obtained from cattle, sheep, 

 and hogs. This collection represents an important branch of the 

 meat-packing industry and includes in addition to oils and fats used 



