APPENDIX 1 

 REPORT ON THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Sir : I have the honor to submit the following report on the condi- 

 tion and operation of the United States National Museum for the 

 fiscal year ended June 30, 1938 : 



Funds provided for the maintenance of the National Museum for 

 the year totaled $775,720, representing an increase of $20,250 over 

 the previous year. Owing to a compulsory administrative deduc- 

 tion of $8,500, however, this increase actually amounted only to 

 $11,750. 



COLLECTIONS 



Material added to the Museum collections during the year came 

 in 1,713 separate accessions totaling 312,729 specimens. These addi- 

 tions were mostly gifts from individuals or represented expeditions 

 sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution. The specimens were dis- 

 tributed among the five departments as follows : Anthropology, 2,162 ; 

 biology, 244,761 ; geology, 60,927 ; arts and industries, 2,297 ; and his- 

 tory, 2,582. All the accessions are listed in detail in the full report 

 on the Museum, printed as a separate document, but the more 

 important are summarized as follows: 



Anthropology. — Archeological accessions of importance included 

 nearly one hundred vessels and fragments from Honduras, obtained 

 by the 1936 joint expedition with the Peabody Museum of Harvard 

 University; a lot of Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age objects 

 from Denmark ; Neolithic stone implements from South Africa ; and 

 a collection of artifacts from the Temple Mound in Le Flore County, 

 Okla. 



As in previous years, C. C. Roberts donated many articles of eth- 

 nological interest from West Africa. Various objects came from the 

 Eskimo in Alaska and the Hudson Bay region. Navaho, Pueblo, 

 and Ojibwa blankets, beadwork, pottery, and baskets came from sev- 

 eral donors. Seventy-eight ceramic specimens were received, 10 musi- 

 cal instruments, and 57 objects representing period art and textiles. 



In the division of physical anthropology 555 specimens, including 

 much skeletal material, were received. Of these, 291 were obtained 

 by Dr. Ales Hrdlicka in Alaska during his field explorations; 144 

 from an Indian site in Stafford County, Va., were donated by the 



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