REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1910. AY 
COLLECTIONS. 
The number of specimens received during the year was approxi- 
mately 970,698, of which 933,998 were biological, 17,979 geological, 
and 18,721 anthropological. This very large nominal increase over 
the receipts for any previous year, embraced in 1,450 accessions, 
resulted from the fact that the number of insects alone transmitted 
by the Bureau of Entomology of the Department of Agriculture 
*amounted to not less than 800,000 specimens. A detailed list of the 
accessions is given in the latter part of this report. 
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY. 
Ethnology.—The additions to the ethnological collections compared 
favorably, both in number and scientific value, with those of the pre- 
vious year. An important accession, comprising 253 specimens, from 
the Dyaks of Pasir River, southern Borneo, was received from Dr. 
William L. Abbott. This material, added to the previous sendings 
by the sarhe collector, forms a noteworthy monument to his energy 
and ability as an explorer. Another noteworthy collection, number- 
ing 431 specimens, transferred by the United States Government 
Board of Managers of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, consists 
of objects brought together during a number of years by Dr. N. B. 
Emerson, of Honolulu. The material illustrates the tapa-making 
industries, the preparation of poi and other foods, canoe and house 
building, and costumes and customs of the vanishing Kanakas, and 
also includes many valuable archeological objects. A most important 
contribution from the Department of the Interior, formerly constitut- 
ing a part of the museum of the United States Bureau of Education, 
comprises nearly 1,500 Eskimo specimens and 700 objects of art from 
Japan and other foreign countries. Also worthy of mention are a 
collection of brass ware, weapons, and ornaments from the Moros of 
Mindanao, gathered by Chaplain Joseph Clemens, United States 
Army; a number of native objects from British East Africa, including 
weapons, musical instruments and other articles, obtained by the 
Smithsonian African Expedition; examples of basketry from Java, 
contributed by Mr. Owen Bryant; a valuable series of textile materials 
illustrating the folk art of the country, from the Cecho-Slav Museum 
at Prague, Bohemia; and a number of rare Indian baskets from a cave 
in the Santa Barbara National Park, California, obtained through the 
Forest Service. A summary of all the collections received shows 
that 43 were from America, 6 from Europe, 3 from Japan, 3 from 
China and eastern Asia, 7 from the Philippine Islands, 5 from the 
East Indies, 8 from Polynesia and 6 from Africa. 
General work on the collections was mainly connected with their 
transfer to the new building. The large mass of material which for 
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