REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1908. 61 
EXPOSITIONS. 
Jamestown Ter-Centennial Hxaposition—tThe participation by the 
Smithsonian Institution and National Museum in the Jamestown 
Exposition, which opened on April 26, 1907, was outlined in the last 
report. The exhibit, prepared and maintained under the direction 
of Mr. W. de C. Ravenel, who represented these establishments on 
the government board, was, in accordance with the act of Congress, 
designed to illustrate the aboriginal, colonial, and national history 
of America, and, notwithstanding the small allotment granted, it 
proved an especially noteworthy feature. Although the exposition 
closed on November 30, the dismantling of the exhibits was, by direc- 
tion of the President, deferred until January 18, 1908, but by Febru- 
ary 10 all the objects belonging to the Institution and Museum had 
been shipped to Washington. 
Besides the material taken from the existing collections, many addi- 
tional groups and objects were specially prepared or purchased for 
the exposition, and these have since been incorporated in the collec- 
tions of the Museum. Among them was a group of 14 white and 
Indian figures representing a trading expedition by Capt. John 
Smith at the mouth of the James River in 1607, designed by Mr, 
William H. Holmes, and executed under his direction by Mr. H. W. 
Hendley and Mr. U.S. J. Dunbar. Another exhibit, prepared under 
the supervision of Dr. James M. Flint, U. S. Navy, curator of medi- 
cine, was a collection illustrative of the history of medicine in 
America by means of photographs of distinguished medical men, 
with information regarding their achievements, from the physician 
who accompanied Captain Smith to America to Dr. Carlos Finlay, 
who is credited with having first formulated a definite theory as to 
the transmission of yellow fever by the mosquito. 
The other more important acquisitions from the same source were 
as follows: One hundred and thirty-three enlarged colored photo- 
graphs of individuals who have attained prominence in connection 
with the history of America; 17 enlarged colored photographs from 
colored drawings made by John White for Sir Walter Raleigh in 1585; 
48 engravings, paintings, and photographs of historic scenes and land- 
marks; 27 enlarged photographs illustrating the history of the Capi- 
tol; 4 groups of two figures each, representing by costumes of the 
colonial period the nations most prominent in the settlement of 
America; a model of John Stevens’s side-wheel steamboat, the Phoe- 
nix; a model of the side-wheel steamship Savannah; a model of an 
American Indian travois; a primitive sled; a number of the gold coins 
of the United States: and a fine color photograph from a painting, by 
Miley & Sons, of Lexington, Va. A number of cases and other pieces 
of furniture, used in connection with other exhibits, were also secured 
for the Museum. 
