36 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1923 



designated by the board of education and used in certain fitting 

 courses of the grade schools. One of the interesting reactions re- 

 sulting from this work was the assistance rendered by Mr. Wyer to 

 the city of Erie, Pa., in an intensive educational campaign organized 

 by the local chamber of commerce in an endeavor to conserve the 

 city's natural gas supply, which is rapidly declining, due largely to 

 preventable wastage. 



Graphic Arts. — The 1,146 specimens assigned to this division 

 covered a wide range, materially exceeded in number those received 

 the preceding year, and brought the total number of specimens in 

 the division up to 22,936. Almost the beginning and the latest de- 

 velopment of type composition were represented in the year's acces- 

 sions by a leaf of the Gutenberg Bible, one of the first books to be 

 printed from movable type, and examples of the monotype system 

 of composing and casting justified lines of single type. Other im- 

 portant acquisitions included a newspaper exhibit; specimens of 

 bookbinding; a unitype typesetting machine, wood-block prints and 

 etchings by Helen Hyde; 50 proofs of etchings, aquatints, wood- 

 block prints, lithographs, etc., the gift of 24 contemporary artists; 

 Woodville Latham's motion picture projector of 1895; notable addi- 

 tions of pictorial photographic prints and color collections in pho- 

 tography; and many additions supplementing and completing ex- 

 isting exhibits. 



Seven loan exhibits, five in the graphic arts halls and two in the 

 gallery devoted to the photographic section, brought the Museum 

 collections in these lines prominently before the local and visting 

 public. Two collections of pictorial photographs were lent for exhi- 

 bition elsewhere and, in furthering publicity outside of Washington, 

 two traveling exhibits of about 100 specimens each were prepared 

 illustrating the principal processes of the graphic arts. The first of 

 these was shown in seven different cities and the second, prepared 

 later in the year, was exhibited only in one city. 



History. — During the past fiscal year the historical collections re- 

 ceived, in addition to the normal increase along this line, two acces- 

 sions of imusual size and importance and one of unparalleled in- 

 trinsic and scientific value. The first of these includes the large 

 aggregation of antiquarian, costume, military, naval, and miscella- 

 neous materials collected by Mrs. Julian James during a long period 

 for deposit in the National Museum, which by the terms of her will 

 have now become the permanent property of the Institution. This 

 collection has already been described in previous reports, but its 

 permanent acquirement by the Museum is worthy of special note. 

 The second accession of unusual significance is a large collection of 

 historical military materials deposited in the Museum by the Mili- 

 tary Service Institution. The collection was assembled by this 



