SECRETARY’S REPORT 7 
Museum, on March 3, 1948, in the auditorium of the National Museum. 
This lecture, with illustrations, will be published in the Annual Report 
of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution for 1948. 
SOMMARY OF THE YBAR’S ACTIVITIES OF THE BRANCHES OF THE 
INSTITUTION 
National Muscum.—Additions to the Museum’s collections numbered 
507,000 specimens, coming mostly as gifts from individuals or as 
transfers from Government agencies. The total number of specimens 
in the Museum at the close of the year was 25,470,827. Among out- 
standing accessions for the year were: In anthropology, 2,000 arch- 
eological specimens from Cerro de las Mesas, Veracruz, collected by 
the National Geographic-Smithsonian Expedition, the famous Ken- 
sington stone lent by the Alexandria (Minn.) Chamber of Commerce, 
and casts of the famous Tepexpan skull from Mexico; in zoology, 
large collections of birds from Colombia, Panama, Paraguay, and 
India, and valuable collections of fishes, mollusks, and marine inverte- 
brates from the resurvey of Bikini Atoll; in botany, 5,000 specimens 
of fungi bequeathed by the late William H. Long, of Albuquerque, 
N. Mex., and 9,100 plants collected by H. A. Allard in the Dominican 
Republic; in geology, five meteorites not previously represented, many 
thousands of fossil invertebrates, including 15,000 Paleozoic and 
Cretaceous fossils collected by the curator of the division, and a number 
of outstanding fossil vertebrates including the skull and other bones 
of a very rare tillodont from the Bridger formation in Wyoming; in 
engineering and industries, a collection of 20,000 items assembled by 
the late Charles B. Chaney, Jr., bearing on the history of railroads, 
and equipment used in the first practical synchronization of sound in 
motion pictures; in history, a large collection from the estate of the 
late Victor L. Huberich including among other things 2,500 specimens 
of United States, Canadian, and Japanese paper money. 
Field parties from the Museum’s departments of anthropology, 
zoology, botany, and geology visited many parts of the world, including 
Arnhem Land in Australia, the Antarctic continent, the Bikini area 
in the Pacific, the Persian Gulf, Colombia, Panam4, and numerous 
localities in the United States. Changes in the Museum organization 
included the dividing of the department of biology into two depart- 
ments—those of zoology and botany. The division of aeronautics was 
separated from the Museum to become the nucleus of the National 
Air Museum, a newly created bureau of the Smithsonian Institution. 
Dr. Remington Kellogg, formerly curator of the division of mammals, 
became Director of the Museum on May 26, 1948. 
National Gallery of Art.—Visitors to the Gallery totaled 2,159,435 
for the year, an increase of more than 700,000 over the previous year’s 
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