14 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1946 
and adjoining States, 226 specimens from Ezion-geber in Trans- 
Jordan, and documented field collections from Melanesian villages of 
northeastern New Guinea; in biology, large numbers of specimens 
from the Pacific area, most of them resulting from activities of mili- 
tary and naval organizations or personnel, including birds and mam- . 
mals from the South Pacific and the Orient, fishes from the Marianas, 
10,000 mosquitoes from various Pacific islands and Burma, and plants 
from the Admiralty, Aleutian, Caroline, and Solomon Islands, and 
other Pacific areas; in geology, specimens of four minerals not hitherto 
represented, sal-ammoniac crystals and other sublimates from the new 
Mexican volcano, Paricutin, and large collections of fossil inverte- 
brates from various localities in the United States; in engineering and 
industries, 3 electromechanical tabulating machines and several high- 
speed precision gages, 2 early commercial sewing machines of 1858 
and 1874, and a specially designed exhibit illustrating the contribu- 
tions of the mineral kingdom to materia medica; in history, a 
Japanese parachute found in New Guinea, 37 models of United States, 
French, and British warships of World War II, and 4 dresses dating 
from 1814, 1855, 1861, and 1894 for the collection of American period 
costumes. Field work included insect studies in Colombia, a survey 
of the fish and game resources of Guatemala, a survey of the fauna of 
Bikini Atoll in connection with the atom-bomb tests, studies of the 
bird life of Panama and of Colombia, and fossil collecting in various 
parts of the United States. Visitors for the year totaled 2,115,593, 
an increase of nearly 400,000 over the previous year. The Museum 
published two Annual Reports, six Bulletins, and five Proceedings 
papers. 
National Gallery of Art.—Six new gallery rooms were completed 
and opened to the public on February 2, 1946, and a contract was 
entered into for the installation of additional air-conditioning equip- 
ment. The Gallery continued to receive many valuable gifts of paint- 
ings, sculpture, decorative prints and drawings, and one painting 
“Siegfried and the Rhine Maidens,” by Albert P. Ryder, was pur- 
chased with Gallery funds. Traveling exhibitions of water colors 
and drawings from the collection of the Index of American Design and 
prints from the Rosenwald Collection were shown at a number of 
art galleries and museums. The Gallery accepted for safekeeping 202 
paintings from German museums; these have been placed in storage 
until conditions in Germany insuring their proper care have been 
reestablished. The staff prepared a number of books and catalogs on 
the Gallery collections, and contributed articles to outside art journals. 
The second edition of “Masterpieces of Painting from the National 
Gallery of Art” was placed on sale, and a third edition was being 
prepared. A new edition of the General Information booklet, for 
