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which were apportioned among the respective branches to which they 
pertained as follows: Anthropology, 14,879; zoology, 257,816; bot- 
any, 44,675; geology and mineralogy, 3,648; paleontology, 13,045; 
textiles and animal and vegetable products, 2,930; mineral tech- 
nology, 505; and the National Gallery of Art, 207. Numerically, 
the division of insects received much more than one-half the total 
acquisitions, namely, over 214,000 specimens. The loans aggregated 
2,280 objects, of which 112 consisted of paintings and other articles 
for the National Gallery of Art, practically all the remainder being 
intended for exhibition in the divisions of ethnology, archeology, 
and history. 
Material was also received for examination and report to the extent 
of 859 separate lots, each containing a greater or less number of 
specimens, of which 59 lots related to anthropological subjects, 249 
to biological, and 551 to geological. 
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY, 
Ethnology.—Of the 62 accessions in ethnology, the most notable 
was a collection gathered by Dr. W. L. Abbott in northern Dutch 
New Guinea, the Moluccas, and Ambon of the Ceram group, during 
a trip on a trading vessel and while making landings to discharge 
cargo. The results of this interesting journey, aggregating more 
than 500 objects which reached the Museum as a gift, indicate that 
Dr. Abbott’s time was most effectively employed. They comprise 
baskets, mats of exquisite workmanship, bags, belts, necklaces, hair, 
ear and breast ornaments, bark clothing, carved wooden dishes, 
stone mauls, adzes, bows, arrows, shields, carved and painted canoe 
prow ornaments, carved wood idols, spirit flutes, ete. A number of 
baskets were also received from the Abbott expedition to eastern 
Borneo, conducted by Mr. H. C. Raven. Probably the most thorough 
ethnological collection that has come to the Museum from Alaska 
was a series of over 6380 objects obtained on St. Lawrence Island, by 
Dr. Riley D. Moore, of the Museum staff. It consists of clothing of 
men, women, and children, a large number of hunting weapons, 
models of houses, traps, domestic utensils, tools of all classes, ivory 
carvings, drums, religious objects and paraphernalia, examples of 
medicines, etc. Many articles of Siouan ethnologica assembled by 
Miss Frances Densmore, of Red Wing, Minn., are of particular im- 
portance since their locality and tribal origin are properly recorded, 
making the specimens useful for identifying other material from the 
Plains Indians regarding which the present data are incomplete. 
Other noteworthy accessions relating to North America were a 
series of bromide enlargements of American Indians from negatives 
taken by Dr. Joseph K. Dixon during the Rodman Wanamaker 
expedition, and presented by Mr. Wanamaker; a large number of 
