26 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1937 



Nigeria, Belgian Congo, Portuguese East Africa, and Southern 

 Rhodesia; jewelry from Tibet; a collection of ethnological material 

 from Guatemala ; and costumes and ceremonials of the Blackfcet and 

 the Indiana Algonkians. Nearly 100 specimens -were received in the 

 division of ceramics, 57 in musical instruments, and 43 in period art 

 and textiles. 



The 600 specimens added to the physical anthropology collection 

 came mostly from Alaska, as a result of the field work of the curator, 

 and from Florida, as a result of Smithsonian-C. W. A. projects. 

 Another lot of skeletal material came from three ossuaries in Mary- 

 land and the District of Columbia. 



Biology. — Nearly 300,000 biological specimens a year now come to 

 the Museum, and the total now exceeds 12,000,000. Of those received 

 during the past year the following are outstanding: An unusually 

 large number of mammals from Pananin, West Virginia, Siam, Japan, 

 Formosa, and the Philippine Islands, and Dr. Ira N. Gabrielson's 

 private collection, numbering 855 specimens, which were transferred 

 from the Biological Survey; more than 1,100 skins and skeletons of 

 birds from Siam, 360 from Guatemala, and 1,000 from West Virginia; 

 types and ]iaratypes of many new forms of reptiles and amphibians, 

 both North and South American ; 90 large fishes from Lower Califor- 

 nia, over 1,700 fishes collected on the Smithsonian-Roebling expedi- 

 tion, over 800 Siamese fishes, nearly 6,900 fishes deposited in the Mu- 

 seum by the University of Washington, and over 4,400 fishes from 

 Maryland, Virginia, and miscellaneous localities; 60,000 insects trans- 

 ferred from the Bureau of Entomology^ and Plant Quarantine, 60,000 

 more collected in the West Indies by Drs. E. A. Chapin and R. E. 

 Blaclcwelder, and the J. F. G. Clarke collection of 10,000 Lepidoptera, 

 mostly from the Pacific Northwest; over 15,000 marine invertebrates 

 chiefly from various expeditions cooperating with the Smithsonian; 

 108,000 mollusks from many sources, including 10,000 from Siberia, 

 from the Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship, and 11,000 

 purchased through the Frances Lea Chamberlain fund; and more 

 than 45,000 plants, about a fourth of which were transferred from 

 the United States Bureau of Plant Industry. 



Geology. — Income from several Smithsonian funds brought valu- 

 able mineralogical specimens. Through the Roebling fund, crystal 

 groups and mineral examples from many localities; through the Can- 

 field fund, minerals from the copper mines at Tsumeb, Southwest 

 Africa, and crystals of various kinds that make up an unusually 

 colorful exhibit ; and through the Frances Lea Chamberlain fund, four 

 rare gem stones. There were also many donated specimens of rare 

 crystals, ores, and other minerals that notably enhance the Museum's 

 collections. 



