72 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1904. 



The following material was transmitted to students and investigators 

 outside of the Museum: A number of photographs lent to Miss Maude 

 Barrows Dutton, of New York City, for reproduction in a series of text- 

 books prepared under the supervision of the Teachers College, Columbia 

 University; whale tusks, implements connected with whale fishing, and 

 a number of models of fishermen's boats lent to Mr. W. de C. Rave- 

 nel, in charge of the exhibit of the Bureau of Fisheries, Department 

 of Commerce and Labor, at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition; a num 

 ber of arrows from the Natano (Hupa) Indians of California, Indian 

 games (3), Indian tops, and Indian popguns, were lent to Mr. Stewart 

 Culin, to be used in illustrating a paper published by the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology; models of Indian fire-making apparatus were 

 lent to Mr. Gerard Fowke, for the general anthropological exhibit at 

 the Louisiana Purchase Exposition; the original Francis life-saving 

 car was lent to the Treasury Department for exhibit at the Louisiana 

 Purchase Exposition. To Mr. S. W. Stratton, of the Bureau of 

 Standards, for the same purpose, were lent examples of Mexican and 

 Japanese scales, the coin scales of England, and a set of antique silver- 

 smith's weights, manufactured in Nuremburg, Germany; from the 

 division of histoiy a number of specimens connected with the mili- 

 tary life of Gen. W. T. Sherman were lent, upon the request of Mr. 

 P. T. Sherman, to the U. S. Military Academy, for exhibition at the 

 Louisiana Purchase Exposition; and an interesting case of historical 

 specimens belonging to the Daughters of the American Revolution 

 was sent to the exposition in the care of Mr. Paul Beckwith, for 

 installation. 



It is the policy of the Department of Anthropology not to send out 

 valuable specimens to individuals for stud} r , but to invite them to 

 carry on their investigations at the Museum. This course is safer for 

 the collections, and the student himself is thereby brought into touch 

 with other materials of which he probably has had no knowledge. 



PLANS FOR FUTURE DEVELOPMENT. 



The Acting Head Curator calls attention to the need of additional 

 help in the several divisions. Accessions are multiplied, the corre- 

 spondence has greatly increased, and yet the same number of men and 

 women have to do the work. These conditions have been recognized 

 and remedied as far as possible by temporary aid. 



From Doctor Hough the following observations are received with 

 reference to the plans for the development of the division of eth- 

 nology: 



This is the era of collector-dealers in ethnology. Material that falls into their 

 hands is held for sale, so that a museum must enter the lists with money to purchase 

 or must go into the field as a collector. The latter plan tends to build up a museum 

 with the most desirable material, but it requires funds as well as trained men who 



