128 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. 
Efforts were made to continue along the general lines which Mr. 
Smillie had followed, and 22 accessions consisting of 333 specimens 
were received. They were of both scientific and historical value, 
as most of them were new to the section. 
The New York World, of New York City, presented a print from 
the first negative made in the United States by the Belin methood 
of sending illustrations by wire. The picture was the portrait of 
an old Indian, and was sent by the St. Louis Post Dispatch to the 
New York World on November 14, 1920. It is an interesting and 
timely exhibit. Photographs had been transmitted in Europe a 
short time previously by this method. 
The New York University furnished a bromide enlargement of 
the first daguerreotype portrait ever made, dating 1839 or 1840. It 
was of Prof. John W. Draper’s sister Dorothy, who posed in the 
bright sunshine, her face heavily powdered, for an exposure of about 
four minutes. 
Specimens of the McDonough color process were secured from Mr. 
A. J. McGregor, Chicago, Ill. There are very few specimens of this 
process in existence and the Museum is most fortunate to have these 
in its collection. 
The War Department printed and deposited over 100 photographs 
from the original negatives made by Brady of the Civil War, and 
also sent a collection of large toned bromide prints representing 
scenes in the Great World War, which have been placed on exhibi- 
tion. ‘These prints show, not only the comparative methods of war- 
fare of 1865 and 1918, but also differences in photographic results. 
The most recent development in motion-picture cameras is repre- 
sented by a Jenkins model of a high-speed camera that will make 
30,000 exposures a minute—these results are necessary in the study 
of analysis of motion. Strange as it may seem, Muybridge, who is 
known as the grandfather of motion pictures, began his work in an 
effort to study the motion of animals. To-day thie highest develop- 
ment of motion pictures is the analysis of motion—studying the 
motion of projectiles and airplane propeller blades, etc. 
The Canadian Government, Dominion Park Branch, sent a reel of 
motion-picture film picturing Trumpeter Swans, an almost extinct 
bird—and for this reason the film is valuable and will be increasingly 
so as the years go by. 
Several pate by processes Toe were not represented in the col- 
lection have been received: a bromoil of Andrew Carnegie from 
Harris & Ewing, from Mr. Edward Crosby Doughty an enlarge- 
ment on Japanese tissue, and Mr. Charles E. Fairman furnished 
some very attractive gum prints. 
One thousand three hundred and seventy-one printed plates and 
apparatus of the Muybridge collection were catalogued this year, 
