﻿REPORT 
  OF 
  THE 
  SECRETARY 
  19 
  

  

  Ships, 
  Navy 
  Department, 
  for 
  testing 
  in 
  some 
  phase 
  of 
  their 
  wartime 
  

   shipbuilding 
  program. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  division 
  of 
  graphic 
  arts 
  a 
  large 
  collection 
  of 
  war 
  posters 
  

   constitutes 
  a 
  valuable 
  addition 
  to 
  the 
  pictorial 
  and 
  historical 
  record 
  of 
  

   our 
  participation 
  in 
  the 
  war. 
  Many 
  were 
  designed 
  by 
  outstanding 
  

   American 
  artists, 
  a 
  fact 
  that 
  enhances 
  their 
  purely 
  historical 
  value. 
  

  

  The 
  most 
  important 
  accession 
  received 
  by 
  the 
  section 
  of 
  photog- 
  

   raphy 
  was 
  a 
  Woodward 
  Solar 
  Camera. 
  No 
  other 
  example 
  is 
  known 
  

   to 
  exist, 
  and 
  it 
  came 
  to 
  light 
  largely 
  as 
  a 
  result 
  of 
  the 
  Nation-wide 
  

   drive 
  for 
  scrap 
  metal. 
  This 
  type 
  of 
  camera 
  was 
  manufactured 
  under 
  

   patents 
  dated 
  between 
  1857 
  and 
  1877, 
  and 
  it 
  was 
  the 
  first 
  means 
  

   available 
  to 
  commercial 
  photographers 
  during 
  the 
  latter 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  

   nineteenth 
  century 
  for 
  making 
  photographic 
  enlargements 
  on 
  the 
  

   then 
  slow 
  bromide 
  paper, 
  using 
  the 
  sun 
  as 
  a 
  source 
  of 
  illumination. 
  

  

  History. 
  — 
  The 
  three 
  most 
  important 
  accessions 
  of 
  the 
  year 
  in 
  the 
  

   division 
  of 
  history 
  were 
  in 
  the 
  fields 
  of 
  art, 
  arms, 
  and 
  numismatics. 
  

   The 
  first 
  of 
  these, 
  received 
  by 
  bequest, 
  consisted 
  of 
  five 
  paintings 
  of 
  

   unusual 
  interest 
  not 
  only 
  because 
  of 
  their 
  artistic 
  and 
  historical 
  value 
  

   but 
  also 
  because 
  they 
  complete 
  the 
  collection 
  of 
  paintings 
  on 
  historical 
  

   subjects 
  by 
  J. 
  L. 
  G. 
  Ferris, 
  71 
  of 
  which 
  were 
  presented 
  by 
  Mrs. 
  Ferris 
  

   in 
  1932, 
  after 
  the 
  death 
  of 
  her 
  husband. 
  The 
  finest 
  accession 
  of 
  fire- 
  

   arms, 
  swords, 
  and 
  daggers 
  received 
  by 
  the 
  National 
  Museum 
  in 
  recent 
  

   years 
  came 
  as 
  a 
  gift 
  from 
  Ralph 
  G. 
  Packard. 
  The 
  collection 
  illus- 
  

   trates 
  the 
  evolution 
  of 
  firearms 
  from 
  the 
  matchlock 
  to 
  the 
  automatic 
  

   of 
  the 
  present 
  day 
  and 
  includes 
  all 
  the 
  methods 
  of 
  ignition 
  used 
  

   during 
  the 
  past 
  350 
  years. 
  The 
  accession 
  of 
  most 
  importance 
  to 
  the 
  

   numismatic 
  section 
  was 
  the 
  large 
  collection 
  of 
  coins, 
  medals, 
  medalets, 
  

   and 
  tokens 
  presented 
  by 
  the 
  Hon. 
  Frederic 
  A. 
  Delano, 
  a 
  regent 
  of 
  the 
  

   Smithsonian 
  Institution. 
  

  

  Additions 
  to 
  the 
  stamp 
  collection 
  of 
  unusual 
  interest 
  were 
  stamps 
  

   of 
  Great 
  Britain 
  overprinted 
  "M. 
  E. 
  F." 
  (Middle 
  East 
  Force) 
  for 
  

   use 
  in 
  the 
  former 
  Italian 
  territory 
  of 
  Eritrea, 
  and 
  stamps 
  issued 
  by 
  

   the 
  Norwegian 
  Government 
  in 
  London 
  (used 
  on 
  letters 
  carried 
  by 
  

   Norwegian 
  warships 
  and 
  merchant 
  vessels), 
  and 
  by 
  the 
  exiled 
  Yugo- 
  

   slavian 
  Government 
  in 
  England. 
  

  

  EXPLORATIONS 
  AND 
  FIELD 
  WORK 
  

  

  Field 
  explorations 
  for 
  the 
  year 
  were 
  concerned 
  in 
  the 
  main 
  with 
  

   matters 
  connected 
  with 
  the 
  conduct 
  of 
  the 
  war 
  or 
  with 
  commitments 
  

   dating 
  back 
  to 
  the 
  pre-war 
  period. 
  With 
  the 
  usual 
  program 
  cur- 
  

   tailed, 
  the 
  scope 
  of 
  the 
  investigations 
  has 
  been 
  changed, 
  though 
  

   valuable 
  results 
  in 
  a 
  variety 
  of 
  directions 
  have 
  been 
  achieved. 
  

  

  Anthropology. 
  — 
  Dr. 
  Waldo 
  R. 
  Wedel, 
  associate 
  curator, 
  division 
  

   of 
  archeology, 
  was 
  detailed 
  to 
  the 
  Bureau 
  of 
  American 
  Ethnology 
  

  

  