APPENDIX 1 

 EEPORT ON THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report on the 

 condition and operation of the United States National Museum for 

 the fiscal year ended June 30, 1935 : 



Appropriations for the maintenance of the National Museum for 

 the year totaled $716,071, which was $61,200 more than for 1934. 



COLLECTIONS 



Material added to the collections during the year came in 1,794 

 separate accessions, mostly as gifts from outside individuals and 

 organizations, and was varied and representative in character. It 

 totaled 296,468 specimens, divided as follows : Anthropology, 3,758 ; 

 biology, 258,692 ; geology, 28,528 ; arts and industries, 3,808 ; history, 

 1,682. Gifts to schools and other educational institutions numbered 

 4,039 specimens. Exchanges of duplicate material with other insti- 

 tutions and individuals totaled 17,194 specimens, and 17,783 specimens 

 were lent to workers outside of Washington. 



Following is a summary of the more important accessions received 

 in the various departments : 



Anthropology. — American ethnological material received from va- 

 rious sources represented the Point Barrow Eskimos, the Haida 

 Indians of British Columbia and Alaska, the Navaho, the Tarahu- 

 mare Indians of Mexico, the Delaware, Osage, Plains, Pueblo, and 

 Yakima Indians of North America, and the San Bias Indians of 

 Panama. From Matto Grosso, Brazil, came a number of weapons 

 of the fierce Parintintin Indians, and from the head-hunting Jivaro 

 of Ecuador a collection of textiles and adornments received through 

 the Bureau of American Ethnology. Specimens came also from 

 Africa, Oceania, and Malaysia. As in former years, ethnological 

 material presented by Dr. Hugh M. Smith, fisheries adviser to the 

 Royal Siamese Government, was extensive. 



Among the noteworthy archeological material received was a 

 plaster cast, presented by the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 

 of the elaborately carved surface of a Maya altar at Quirigua, 

 Guatemala, regarded as one of the finest examples of aboriginal 



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