148 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1914. 
Number of visitors to the Muscum and Smithsonian Buildings since 1881. 
Older New Smithso- Older New | Smithso- 
Year. Museum | Museum nian Year. Museum | Museum nian 
Building.| Building.| Building. Building.) Building.| Building. 
ISS one cosneseew as 150; 000 isos con 100,000 || 1898-99............. 192 470 |e ecceseans 116, 912 
URS ee aicietaerareise aie 167450) weceeee a 152, 744 |] 1899-1900........... 225,440) |e secceee 133, 147 
WRRSw oma sascae cues 202 IRB eee keaee 104, 823 |) 1900-1.........-.-.. 216) 556 4 ne seseeee 151, 563 
1884 (half year)..... 97,661 |aeean- 45,565 || 1901-2.............. 173) S990 |--aeneeeee 144, 107 
1884-85 (fiscal year) | 205,026 }......-.-.- 1055993) ||, 1902-3. ose s-c 25. 25 ce 315; 3074) 2e—sseceee 181,174 
WS85-86.. ce seceeece 7 220 ii\ eee ate aee 88,960 || 1908-4.............. 220.018: |'sceaeeeeee 143, 988 
AS86-S7k< 25 - so cccwe- 2165562) |e oocceces 98,552 || 1904-5...-....-.--.. 2355921 || Fan eects 149, 380 
1 ty: DAO 5665; | iccceece 2 102,868 || 1905-6... .25-2554 210, 886.) sccecenrs 149, 661 
1888-89......-....-- ies 843 alle eee cee 149; 618 |) 190627... .2<s25-5-55 | 210407, | Sasemeee 153, 591 
1889-90............- DIAL SOA | Ca sere vance 120,894 || 1907-8.........-.... 299659 ic cecceneee 237, 182 
1890-91............- 286,426 Ne eae ee = 111, 669 |} 1908-9.......-...... 245. 187) |'5..ceteeetaee 198, 054 
SOTO: oe ataiciectersic.s ZOO O20 ls sesise ms se 114,817 || 1909-10). 2.2222 ae 228, 804 50, 403 179, 163 
1} 2 es 319) 930) || ease cee 174,188 || 1910-11............. 207,010 151, 112 167, 085 
803 = 94 soa ae wcieecince NOG E748: | a oteiseterces 1085910)|| SOU oe ae eee 172,182 | 281,887 143, 134 
1894-05. 5 cone etn 2005 (440 oe eee: 105, 658 || 1912-13............. 173,858 | 319,806 142,420 
1895-96... nes seee- TSO. 505 cece hess 103,650 |) 1913-14............. 146,533 | 329,381 102, 645 
1896-97. .........-.- 2295606) |p ceee ree. 115, 709 —| ed 
1897-98. ..........-. UP e204 scan Saetoe 99,273 Total.........|7,447,574 |1, 182,589 | 4,492,092 
BEQUESTS. 
Although the Museum has received many and some exceedingly 
valuable additions to its collections by bequest, 1t is only recently 
that financial assistance has been rendered it in this way. On the 
death of Dr. Isaac Lea, publisher and eminent naturalist of Phila- 
delphia, in 1886, the Museum found itself in possession of his unriv- 
aled collection of fresh-water mollusks of the family Unionide. His 
daughter, Miss Frances Lea, retained a deep interest in this collec- 
tion, becoming, in fact, its patroness, and by the frequent gift of 
both specimens and of money for making purchases, she aided most 
materially in its enrichment. It remains to-day by far the most 
important and comprehensive collection of its kind in the world. 
Married in 1890, the daughter lived but four years longer, and on 
her demise she left to the Museum the fine series of gems and precious 
stones which her father had also assembled. Her trust in both col- 
lections was then assumed and faithfully continued by her husband, 
the Rev. Dr. Leander Trowbridge Chamberlain, who was made an 
honorary custodian in the Museum in 1897 and an honorary asso- 
ciate in 1905. The report of last year contains a brief account of 
Dr. Chamberlain’s relations to the Museum and the announcement of 
his death at Pasadena, Cal., on May 9, 1913. In his will, offered for 
probate in New York City on July 23, 1913, generous provision is 
made for perpetuating the assistance so long rendered in person, a 
