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structed in the Museum shops, besides 650 unit drawers, 400 insect 

 drawers, and 379 special drawers. The inventory of furniture at the 

 close of the year showed 3,552 exhibition cases, 7,441 storage cases 

 and pieces of laboratory furniture, 3,547 pieces of office and other fur- 

 niture, 45,185 wooden unit drawers, 4,712 metal unit drawers, 10,342 

 insect drawers, 1,067 special drawers with compo bottoms, and 7,991 

 other miscellaneous drawers, wing frames, etc. 



COLLECTIONS. 



The total number of accessions received during the year was 1,288, 

 with an aggregate of approximately 142,902 specimens and objects, 

 classified as follows: Subjects comprised in the department of an- 

 thropology, 11,058; zoology, 61,537; botany, 38,123; geology and min- 

 eralogy, 11,370; paleontology, 17,896; textiles, woods, medicines, 

 and other miscellaneous animal and vegetable products, 1,532; min- 

 eral technology, 308; and National Gallery of Art, 1,078. In addi- 

 tion, 168 paintings and other art objects were accepted as loans for 

 exhibition in the Gallery of Art. 



Material to the extent of 781 lots, of which 375 consisted of geologi- 

 cal and 318 of biological specimens, was received for special exami- 

 nation and report. 



DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY. 



Ethnology. — A number of additions to the ethnological collection 

 deserve mention. Especially noteworthy is the gift by Dr. W. L. 

 Abbott of over 400 specimens collected by Mr. H. C. Raven in 

 Celebes, East Indies, illustrating agriculture and household economy, 

 including mats, baskets, water tubes, knives, reapers, etc. ; a full ex- 

 position of the bark-cloth industry, beaters of corrugated stone and 

 wood, and examples of the product; weapons, such as spears, blow- 

 guns, swords, shields, and knives; clothing of men and women for 

 ordinary and ceremonial occasions, including jackets, skirts of bark 

 cloth, turbans, and ornaments; appliances used by betel chewers; 

 musical instruments; and fetishes. 



The Dyaks of Borneo were represented in a valuable collection 

 donated by Mr. Alfred M. Erskine, with examples of carrying 

 baskets, mats, paddles, swords, spear, shield, war headdress, cos- 

 tumes of men and women, a bamboo fire producer, and musical in- 

 struments, numbering in all 82 specimens, and Miss Josephine A. 

 Rohrer presented a collection of 40 specimens of African, Chinese, 

 Filipino, and Porto Rican ethnologica. 



Among additions pertaining to American Indians were seven 

 baskets from the Koasati Indians of Louisiana and an interesting 

 series illustrating the pottery making of the Catawba Indians of 



