APPENDIX 1 
REPORT 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, 1946. 
Appropriations for the operation of the National Museum for the 
year totaled $991,053, including funds for the increase, study, exhi- 
bition, and preservation of the national collections; for maintenance, 
repair, operating, and guarding all the buildings of the Smithsonian 
group; and for printing and binding. This amount represented an 
increase of $52,059 over the previous year. 
COLLECTIONS 
Approximately 379,000 specimens came to the Museum’s collections 
during the year, received in 1,594 separate lots. The five departments 
registered specimens as follows: Anthropology, 9,026; biology, 320,- 
037; geology, 45,163; engineering and industries, 1,480; history, 3,600. 
Most of the accessions were acquired as gifts from individuals or as 
transfers by Government departments and agencies. The complete 
report on the Museum, published as a separate document, includes a 
detailed list of the year’s acquisitions, of which the more important are 
summarized below. Catalog entries in all departments now total 
18,820,000. 
Anthropology.—Prehistoric specimens received derived from such 
diverse parts of the world as Trans-Jordan, Italy, Ecuador, México, 
and the United States. They include 6,765 artifacts from protohis- 
toric Indian sites in Kansas and adjoining States; 226 specimens 
from Ezion-geber, seaport to King Solomon’s copper smelters, on the 
. north shore of the Gulf of Aqabah, Trans-Jordan; a carefully docu- 
mented series of 193 potsherds from surface sites throughout Trans- 
Jordan; 486 diverse artifacts from the highlands of México; 149 
stone, earthenware, and copper artifacts from the former Cherokee 
region of Tennessee and North Carolina; 17 earthenware vessels of 
Daunian ware from Apulia, Italy; and a hammered ox with cut-out 
figures from Loja Province, Ecuador. 
In ethnology, major documented field collections came from Mela- 
nesian villages of northeastern New Guinea, including objects of 
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