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etc.; an ancient form of raft made of three logs; a seagoing raft 

 of logs, provided with a kind of platform, cabin, and sail; a rough 

 bark canoe from Peru and the Amazon region, and a specimen of 

 the Fuegian bark canoe, frequently constructed in sections for con- 

 venience in portage. 



The Museum also furnished drawings, photographs, and models 

 of John Fitch's boat, which steamed on the Delaware River in 1787. 

 and of Robert Fulton's steamer Clermont, which, on August 11. 1807, 

 made its famous trip on the Hudson River from New York City to 

 Albany, a distance of 150 miles in thirty-two hours. Other celebrated 

 boats, represented by models, are the Savannah, the first steamship 

 to cross the Atlantic, and the Phoenix, the first steamboat to navi- 

 gate the ocean. 



The Bureau of Fisheries, the Coast and Geodetic Survey, the Bu- 

 reau of Navigation, the Reclamation Service, the Isthmian Canal 

 Commission, the War and Navy Departments, and the Life-Saving 

 Service also contributed models and photographs. Through the 

 courtesy of Mr. P. Fulton Ludlow, grandson of Robert Fulton, there 

 was also exhibited the compass used by Pilot Acker on the Clermont 

 on the Hudson River, during 1807 and 1808, and a number of other 

 relics of Fulton belonging to Mr. Ludlow. 



ORGANIZATION AND STAFF. 



To the National Gallery of Art, a definite status, under the imme- 

 diate direction of the National Museum, was given during the past 

 year, as elsewhere explained. The curatorsliip of this important 

 branch has been temporarily accepted by Mr. W. H. Holmes, Chief 

 of the Bureau of American Ethnology, and an artist of distinction. 



Mr. Lancaster D. Burling, formerly of the Geological Survey, was 

 appointed an assistant curator in the division of stratigraphic pale- 

 ontology, in charge of the Cambrian collection; and, in the absence 

 of Dr. \X. II. Ashmead. Dr. Harrison G. Dyar acted as assistant 

 curator of insects during several months. Mr. Otto Heidemann, of 

 the Bureau of Emtomology, was made custodian of the Hemiptera in 

 the division of insects. 



Mr. Alvin Scale, formerly of Leland Stanford Junior University. 

 was employed during three months of the winter to assist in rear- 

 ranging the collections of fishes. 



The furlough of Mr. Gerrit S. Miller, jr.. now temporarily con- 

 nected with the British Museum, was continued for another year. 

 Mr. LeRoy Abrams, assistant curator of plants. Mr. Walter L. Hahn, 

 aid in the division of mammals, and Mr. F. J. Horgan, aid in the sec- 

 tion of birds' eggs, severed their connection with the Museum. 



