46 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1821. 
DISTRIBUTION AND EXCHANGER OF SPECIMENS. 
The department began in a systematic way the distribution of 
duplicate material to educational institutions. Despite the limited 
variety of duplicates available, series of ethnology were selected 
with the view of conveying concrete facts of value in culture studies, 
and sent out to deserving schools. An intelligent distribution of 
the duplicate materials in anthropology is prospectively of great 
educational benefit to many institutions in the United States, espe- 
cially to smaller schools with limited facilities. An increasing 
number of schools teach art, and such collections as are sent out 
are adapted for instruction in designing, using Indian art as a basis 
for the coming American school. 
Besides the gifts noted above, several exchanges were made in 
the division of ethnology which added valuable specimens to the 
collection. The division supplied Rev. Dr. James M. Magruder, 
Annapolis, Md., with two model arrows of the southern Maryland 
Indians of 1750, to be sent by the Patriotic Society of the Ark and 
Dove of Baltimore to the King of England as a reminder of the 
tribute of arrows sent by the colony of Maryland during the colonial 
period, 
From the division of physical anthropology a quantity of un- 
identified skeletal material was prepared for the George Washington 
University, at their request, as a gift. 
The department of anthropology sent out 7 gifts, comprising 151 
specimens, and 10 exchanges, comprising 287 specimens. There 
were received in the department, for examination and report, 36 
lots of specimens, diversified in character. 
NUMBER OF SPECIMENS ADDED TO THE DEPARTMENT. 
During the year there were received 149 accessions comprising 
2,324 specimens, in addition to the major portion of the Hunting- 
ton collection of skeletal material, which has not yet been completely 
catalogued. Of these, 24 accessions, containing 691 specimens, were 
loans and deposits. The total number of specimens were assigned 
as follows: Ethnology, 586 specimens; American archeology, 861 
specimens; Old World archeology, 414 specimens; physical anthro- 
pology, 115 specimens besides the skeletal material mentioned above; 
art textiles, 133 specimens; musical instruments, 16 specimens; and 
ceramics, 199 specimens. In addition, 6 accessions, comprising 84 
specimens, were entered in the department before the transfer of 
the recording for the section of period costumes to the division of 
history and are not included in the figures given. 
