26 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1910. 
executed by Mr. Isiqgore Konti on a commission from the Hon. 
Truxton Beale, son of Gen. Beale who at the time of this episode was 
an acting lieutenant in the Navy. Mr. Beale has happily selected 
the new building of the National Museum as an appropriate place for 
the tablet, which has been installed on one side of the north entrance 
vestibule, and was informally unveiled on May 31, 1910, in the pres- 
ence of members and friends of the family, brief remarks being made 
by Senator George C. Perkins. 
A large model in plaster and a perspective drawing of Andrew 
O’Connor’s competitive design for the Commodore Barry monument 
was presented by Mr. Jeremiah O’Connor, of Washington. One of 
the four sledges with whigi Commander Robert EK. Peary, United 
States Navy, reached the North Pole on April 6, 1909, and also a 
pick and pair of snowshoes, were contributed by Mr. H. L. Bridgman, 
of New York City. 
Among gifts to the collection of coins and medals were 24 papal 
and other medals from Mr. Joseph Pagani, of Washington; 38 Vene- 
tian and Byzantine coins from Georgius Constandenethos, of Brook- 
lyn, New York; and a set of the nine official medals and two badges 
struck in commemoration of the Hudson-Fulton celebration in New 
York City in 1909, from the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission. 
To the collection of portraits were added 88 photographs of persons 
mostly connected with the history of the Smithsonian Institution, the 
gift of Dr. Theodore Gill, and over 300 photographs of members of 
the Medal of Honor Legion of the United States, presented by the 
Legion through Mr. Walter Thorn, commander. 
Other accessions worthy of mention were a valuable set of casts of 
cameos of classical subjects, photographs of prominent educators, and 
photographic copies of old maps, transferred by the United States 
Bureau of Education; maps, facsimiles of treaties, photographs of 
early newspapers, portraits of historic personages, and various inter- 
esting objects illustrating the history of the Pacific coast and the 
Hawaiian and Philippine Islands, beg part of the Smithsonian 
exhibit at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, transferred by the 
United States Government Board of Managers. 
The collection of Washington relics and the Copp collection of 
colonial relics were moved in March to the new building, where they 
were temporarily installed at the north end of the middle hall as a 
part of the exhibition opened on the 17th of that month. They will, 
however, be restored to their places in connection with the general 
historical collections when the necessary arrangements have been 
effected. 
Anthropological laboratory.—The activities of the departmental 
laboratory were, as heretofore, confined largely to work in plaster and 
to repairing and poisoning specimens. The commodious quarters in 
