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there were lent for study 15,715 specimens from the department of 
biology, 1,241 from the department of geology, and 120 from the 
department of anthropology. Exchanges with scientific institutions 
and with individuals were conducted as usual, and for this purpose 
24,361 specimens were used, 9,534 being biological, 14,713 geological, 
and 114 anthropological. 
Following are the institutions abroad with which exchanges were 
made during the year: The British Museum of Natural History, Lon- 
don, and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England; the Kénigl. Bo- 
tanischer Garten und Museum, Dahlem, Steglitz bei Berlin, and the 
Zoologische Sammlung des Bayerischen Staates, Munich, Germany ; 
the Jardin Botanique de l’Etat, and the Musée Royal d’Histoire 
Naturelle de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium; the Botanisk Museum and 
the Zoologisches Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark; the Musée d’An- 
thropologie et d’Ethnographie de Pierre le Grand, St. Petersburg, 
Russia; the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden; the 
K. K. Naturhistorisches Hofmuseum, Vienna, Austria; the Cesko- 
Slovanské Narodopisné Museum (Musée Ethnographique Tchéquo- 
Slave), Prague, Bohemia; the Colombo Museum, Colombo, Ceylon; 
the Rhodesia Museum, Bulawayo, Rhodesia, British South Africa; 
the Western Australian Museum and Art Gallery, Perth, Western 
Australia; the Museo Ethnografico, Universidad Nacional de Buenos 
Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina; the Department of Agriculture, 
Hope Gardens, Kingston, Jamaica, British West Indies, and the 
Geological Survey of Canada. 
Exchanges were also made with the following individuals abroad: 
Mr. Arthur C. Banfield, and Mr. W. G. Rutherford, London, England; 
Dr. Emile G. Racovitza, Sorbonne, Paris, Monsieur M. P. Thiéry, 
Chaumont, Haute-Marne, France; Dr. Enslin, Firth i. B., Mr. A. 
Kneucker, Karlsruhe, Prof. Gustav Schwalbe, Strassburg, Alsace, 
Prof. David Paul von Hansemann, Berlin, Germany; Prof. J. 
Matiegka, Prague, Bohemia; Dr. Einar Lénnberg, Stockholm, 
Sweden; Dr. K. Martin, Leiden, Holland; Dr. C. Christ and Dr. Jean 
Roux, Basel, Charles Mottaz, Geneva, Switzerland; Dr. F. Werner 
and Mr. I. V. Zelizko, Vienna, Austria; Sefior Federico Eichlam, 
Guatemala, Guatemala. 
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART. 
At the beginning of the fiscal year the William T. Evans collection 
of American paintings which, through the courtesy of the trustees of 
the Corcoran Gallery of Art, had been accommodated in the atrium 
of that Gallery since the initial gift of 50 pictures in 1907, was 
brought to the older Museum building. It was there installed in 
the provisional picture gallery at the left of the main entrance, and 
so fully occupied its walls and screens as to necessitate the removal 
