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The models and drawings submitted in competition for the monu- 

 ment at Fort McHenr}^ Baltimore, in memory of Francis Scott Key, 

 author of the " Star- Spangled Banner," and the soldiers and sailors 

 who participated in the battle of North Point and the attack on 

 Fort McHenry in the War of 1812, were arranged in the rotunda 

 of the new building, where, after having been passed upon by the 

 jury of awards, they were exhibited to the public from May 17 to 

 June 17. 



The exhibition of American industrial art, held during the spring 

 and summer of 1915 under the auspices of the American Federation 

 of Arts, was repeated as a feature of the seventh convention of this 

 association, being opened on May 17, 1916, and continuing for one 

 month. The foyer and five of its communicating rooms were occu- 

 pied. The exposition was designed to bring together examples of 

 art on industrial lines, both hand and machine made, to show what is 

 being produced in this country, and though not exhaustive in any 

 particular, some of the best-known art workers of the country par- 

 ticipated, and it was felt that a fairly high standard had been 

 maintained. 



Following the close of the Panama-Pacific International Exposi- 

 tion on December 4, and in accordance with an act of Congress, a 

 large part of the Museum's ethnological exhibit was transferred from 

 San Francisco to the Panama-California International Exposition 

 at San Diego, to be shown there until the end of the calendar year 

 1916. The selection made for this purpose consisted of four large 

 family groups of Eskimo, Zulu-Kaffirs, Caribs, and Dyaks ; miniature 

 dwelling groups of aboriginal peoples in many parts of the world; 

 four cases of artifacts ; and a set of lithographs from Catlin's North 

 American Indian paintings. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Duplicate material to the extent of over 7,000 specimens, classified 

 and labeled for teaching purposes and arranged in 96 sets, was dis- 

 tributed to schools and colleges, the subjects principally represented 

 being rocks, minerals, ores, fossils, and recent mollusks. For obtain- 

 ing additions to the collections through the medium of exchange, 

 about 9,400 duplicates, chiefly from the natural-history divisions, 

 were utilized. A large number of specimens were sent for study to 

 collaborators of the Museum and other specialists. They consisted 

 mainly of plants, recent animals, and fossils, and were contained in 

 114 lots. 



The attendance of visitors at the new building aggregated 316,707 

 for week days and 64,521 for Sundays, being a daily average of 1,012 

 for the former and of 1,240 for the latter. For the older Museum 

 building, which is only open on week days, the total was 146,956 and 



