22 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1922. 



specimens in specially selected sets to meet particular needs. The 

 regular sets comprised 30 of rock weathering and soil formation, 

 aggregating 630 specimens; 30 of ores and minerals, aggregating 

 2,550 specimens; 3 of fossil invertebrates, aggregating 138 specimens; 

 8 of mollusks, aggregating 1,192 specimens; and 2 of fishes, aggre- 

 gating 181 specimens. The sendings prepared to meet special needs 

 covered a far wider range of subjects, as follows: Twelve lots of 

 marine invertebrates, aggregating 883 specimens; 6 of mammals, 

 aggregating 240 specimens; 1 of fishes, containing 45 specimens; 5 

 of birds, aggregating 162 specimens; 7 of insects, aggregating 439 

 specimens; 3 of mollusks, aggregating 20 specimens; 6 of fossils, 

 aggregating 2,529 specimens; 14 of miscellaneous geological mate- 

 rial, aggregating 741 specimens ; 2 of archeological specimens and 4 

 of ethnological material, comprising 151 and 94 specimens, respec- 

 tively ; 32 specimens of physical anthropology, 36 of textiles, and 29 

 of woods. 



Among the important accessions this year the Herbert Ward 

 African collection is unique as portraying in a remarkable man- 

 ner the native dignity of the African race at the time of Stan- 

 ley's explorations, before contact with the white race. The final 

 consignment of specimens from the Australian expedition under 

 Mr. Charles M. Hoy, large series of insects from South America 

 and Alaska, and the Otto Buchtien herbarium from Bolivia fur- 

 nished especially desirable material in the department of biology. 

 Exceptional geological additions included Bolivian tin and tungsten 

 ores, the best examples of carnotite and hewettite thus far found in 

 the United States, new meteoric falls and finds, exhibition specimens 

 of minerals, gems of beauty and value purchased through the Frances 

 Lea Chamberlain Fund, and paleontological material from North 

 and South America, Europe, and Asia, including fragments of the 

 Beresovka mammoth. To the industrial collections were added for- 

 eign trade samples of interest in encouraging foreign commerce, 

 American silks and other textiles, specimens illustrating the use of 

 wood pulp and of American walnut, an exhibit of the sixteenth- 

 century method of type making, and models of steam engines and 

 automobiles. Among notable historical accessions mention should 

 be made of flags and relief maps pertaining to the World War and of 

 a number of priceless relics of early statesmen transferred from the 

 State Department. 



The collection of old violins, referred to in the preceding report 

 as bequeathed to the Museum under the terms of the will of the late 

 Dwight J. Partello, has been lost to the Museum. It wa£ found to 

 be the property of one of his daughters through a previous bill of 

 sale. 



