34 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1J)20. 



Hrdlicka, to the P^ar East added to the collections some 2,000 portraits 

 of peoples of that locality. 



Mr. Hugo Worch contributed 3 pianos and a harpsichord to the 

 series he is building up here representing the history of the piano- 

 forte, and from Mrs. J. Ryan Devereux came a noteworthy collection 

 of 81 musical instruments of various types. 



The additions in graphic arts included a collection of several hun- 

 dred specimens of wood engravings, mezzotints, aquatints, etc., 

 donated by Mr. Earle W. Huckel ; miniature mosaics from Mr. Stock- 

 ton W. Jones, showing a method of making pictures not heretofore 

 represented in the division; sephiograph reproductions from the 

 Crane Lithograph Co. ; and American-made vellum from Mr. George 

 A. Hathaway. The section of photography was enriched by photo- 

 graphic apparatus used by Edward Muybridge in his study of mo- 

 tion in animals, presented by the Commercial Museum of Phila- 

 delphia. 



In the ceramic gallery loans were credited from Miss E. B. Lowe 

 of old English porcelain, and from Miss Eliza Euhamah Scidmore 

 of Japanese porcelain and bronze. 



Biology. — The additions to the biological collections aggregated 

 approximately 136,765 specimens. Not only was the year numerically 

 a very prosperous one, but the reports of the curators show^ a gratify- 

 ing increase in the scientific importance of the material received. 

 This is particularly true of the division of birds, in which no less than 

 163 species new to the collection were among the accessions. This 

 splendid result was to a great extent due to the liberality of Mr. B. H. 

 Swales, of Washington, D. C, who placed a fund at the disposition 

 of the Museum for this particular purpose. No less important was 

 the material received through the continued generosity of Dr. W. L. 

 Abbott. Impressed by the importance of securing for the Museum 

 an adequate representation of the fast disappearing higher vertebrate 

 fauna of Australia, he granted the means to send Mr. Charles M. Hoy 

 to that Continent for the purpose of collecting especially mammals 

 and birds. No less than 240 specimens of the former and 228 of the 

 latter from a region hitherto very poorly represented in the national 

 collection are contained in this first installment. Dr. Abbott's per- 

 sonal explorations in Haiti have also yielded very important addi- 

 tions. A third expedition was of particular interest as supplementing 

 our African collections, which were hitherto confined chiefly to the 

 eastern side of the Continent, viz, the Collins-Garner expedition to 

 the French Congo. More than 2,350 mammals, birds, reptiles, fishes, 

 and invertebrates were thus added, among them 2 gorillas, 2 chim- 

 panzees, 2 buffalos, etc. The first installment from another African 

 expedition, carried out by the Institution in conjunction with the 

 Universal Film Co., contained 239 mammals and birds from southern 



