APPENDIX 1 

 KEPORT ON THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



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

 dition and operation of the United States National Museum for the 

 fiscal year ended June 30, 1937 : 



Funds provided for the maintenance of the National Museum for 

 the year totaled $763,970. This was a net increase of $3,228 over 

 the previous year, but since $25,000 was expended last year for the 

 purchase of the airplane Winnie Mae for the aeronautical collections, 

 the actual increase was $28,228 for purposes of maintenance and 

 operation, printing and binding, and preservation of collections. 



COLLECTIONS 



Additions to the Museum collections during the year, coming 

 mostly as gifts from individuals or from expeditions sponsored by 

 the Smithsonian Institution, comprised the usual wide variety of 

 material in all departments. A total of 361,951 specimens were re- 

 ceived in 1,800 separate accessions and distributed as follows: An- 

 thropology, 1,790; biology, 292,250; geology, 62,757; arts and indus- 

 tries, 3,180; and history, 1,974. These accessions are all listed in 

 detail in the full report on the Museum, printed as a separate pam- 

 phlet, but the more important are summarized as follows : 



Anthropology. — Important archeological material included two 

 Guatemalan vases — a replica of a stuccoed vase from Uaxactun and 

 an original Maya vase from Lake Peten. Alaska was represented by 

 52 bone and stone artifacts from the Rat Islands, Aleutians, and by 

 an ivory harpoon socket from St. Lawrence Island belonging to the 

 Old Bering Sea culture. From South Africa came 29 Neolithic stone 

 artifacts and potsherds. Other valuable specimens came from the 

 Bull Creek archeological site in Georgia ; the Black Mountains, Ariz. ; 

 and the Rappahannock River, Va. 



Of special interest among the ethnological material received were 

 unusual specimens presented by Mrs. Charles D. Walcott rej^resenting 

 the Kiowa Indians of Oldahoma, the Navahos, the Jivaros of South 

 America, and from Hawaii. Other accessions include Madagascan 

 woven fabrics and basketry and Kashmir copper and silver objects 

 collected nearly 50 years ago by the late Dr. W. L. Abbott ; baskets, 

 idols, combs, figurines, and other objects from Dahomey, Cameroons, 



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