DEPARTMENT OF ARTS AND INDUSTRIES. 



REPORT ON THE DIVISIONS OF TEXTILES AND MEDICINE AND THE 

 SECTIONS OF WOOD TECHNOLOGY AND FOOD. 



By F. L. Lkuton. Curator of Textiles. 



COMPARISON OF INCREMENT OF SPECIMENS OF 1021-22 WITH THAT OF 1920-21. 



The accessions received during the year number 85 (including 

 3 joint accessions with other departments), being 10 more than the 

 preceding year. 



The entries covered by the above accessions number 2,792, 1,856 

 more than were received in the fiscal year 1921. These entries may 

 be divided into six groups, as follows: Textiles 920, medicine 1,029, 

 wood technology 711, foods 71, and miscellaneous organic products 

 61, each group, with the exception of foods and organic products, 

 showing more entries than last year. 



The additions to the collections assigned to these divisions repre- 

 sent for the most part specimens not heretofore represented in the 

 Museum and taken as a whole are of greater value than those re- 

 ceived last year. 



ACCESSIONS DESERVING SPECIAL NOTICE. 



Cooperation with the Department of Commerce has resulted in 

 the addition to the Museum's collections of several hundred speci- 

 mens of industrial raw materials not heretofore represented. This 

 material had been sent to the department by American consular 

 officers and trade commissioners and placed in the files of the Bureau 

 of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. After having been referred 

 to in the Commerce Reports and loaned to interested business firms 

 and manufacturers, the specimens served their main purpose, but 

 by transfer to the National Museum they are made to serve general 

 education and are available for scientific study. The 833 specimens 

 thus acquired include spinning and cordage fibers, packing materials, 

 paper yarns and fabrics, and some interesting textile fabrics of for- 

 eign manufacture ; also woods, tanning materials, dyestuffs, crude 

 drugs, gums, resins, rubber, waxes, casein products, sugars, and 

 spices. A card catalogue of this material, connecting it with the 

 commercial reports concerning it, is filed in the Bureau of Foreign 

 and Domestic Commerce, which makes these specimens still avail- 

 able to inquirers. 



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