22 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1926 
NATIONAL MUSEUM 
During the past year the total appropriations received for the 
maintenance of the National Museum were $598,392, an increase of 
$13,600 over the previous year. This additional amount was applied 
to the increase of salaries, mostly through reallocation of positions 
by the Personnel Classification Beard, for the employment of spe- 
cial watchmen to allow the opening of the Arts and Industries 
Building on Sundays, and to the fund for printing and binding. 
The Museum was benefited by these increases, but they are only a 
small part of those needed. As pointed out in last year’s report, 
much more generous appropriations are needed to enable the 
Museum to properly reward efficient service by its employees and to 
maintain the collections at their greatest usefulness to thie ever- 
increasing public that they serve. It is also most important that 
representation of many natural forms that are rapidly disappearing 
under the spread of civilization should be secured for the benefit of 
future generations. 
In the series of Smithsonian radio talks, now an established 
feature of the winter program of Station WRC, the Museum con- 
tributed 12 speakers. Many of the talks have been published in the 
Scientific Monthly through the interest of its editor, Dr. J. McKeen 
Cattell. 
The total number of specimens added to the Museum collections 
during the year was 254,032, and more than 1,000 lots of material 
were received for examination and report. Three thousand eight 
hundred and fifty-seven objects were given to schools and other 
educational agencies and 387,682 specimens exchanged for other 
material, while many thousands of specimens were loaned to 
specialists for study. 
A detailed account of the accessions in all departments of the 
Museum is given in the Report of Assistant Secretary Wetmore, 
Appendix 1, but a few of the more noteworthy may be mentioned 
here. 
In the department of anthropology, the division of ethnology re- 
ceived an excellent series of ethnological and cult material from the 
Rev. D. C. Graham as a result of his explorations for the Smithsonian 
Institution in western China and eastern Tibet, and a collection of 
105 artifacts obtained in Young’s Canyon, Ariz., by J. C. Clarke, 
transferred by the Bureau of American Ethnology. The division of 
physical anthropology received valuable skeletal. material of Aus- 
tralian aboriginals by exchange with the Adelaide Museum and 
through personal collection by Doctor Hrdlitka. 
In the department of biology, the division of insects was greatly 
enriched by the purchase, with private funds raised by Dr. William 
