30 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1919. 
during the year for the purchase of additions to the collection of 
birds. 
The council of the National Academy of Design inaugurated pur- 
chases from the Henry Ward Ranger fund by acquiring a landscape 
by Bruce Crane entitled “ December Uplands.” Under the condi- 
tions prescribed by the will of Mr. Ranger this painting was assigned 
to the Syracuse Museum of Art and can be reclaimed by the Na- 
tional Gallery of Art at any time during the five-year period begin- 
ning 10 years after the artist’s death. 
Anthropology.—The additions to the historical collections during 
the past year have been exceptionally large and are especially inter- 
esting on account of the fact that so many of them relate to the recent 
war with Germany. They also include, however, many objects of note 
connected with the history of the United States prior to that mo- 
mentous conflict.. Of special note in connection with the collection 
received relating to the war are many mementos of persons and events, 
battle-field trophies, military and naval uniforms, insignia, and field 
equipment. ‘These include the Combined Order of Battle Map cor- 
rected up to November 11, 1918, with its accessories, as used by Gen. 
Pershing and his staff at Chaumont, France, throughout the progress 
of the American military movements, showing locations of all 
United States divisions and exact location at the signing of the 
armistice, with the same information as to armies of the Allies and 
enemies, besides a large amount of other information; a most inter- 
esting collection of German military paraphernalia captured during 
the various engagements in which the American troops participated 
and assembled in France by Maj. Gen. H. L. Rogers, United States 
Army, while serving as chief quartermaster of the American Expe- 
ditionary Forces; two French military airplanes used on the western 
front and the first battle plane built in America; collections of in- 
fantry, artillery, cavalry, air service, and chemical warfare equip- 
ment of the type used during the war; a practically complete series 
of the uniforms, insignia, decorations, and medals of the Army and 
Navy; a notable collection of relics of Lieut. Benjamin Stuart Wal- 
cott, United States Army, who entered the French air service as a 
member of the Lafayette Flying Corps, was killed in aerial combat, 
and fell within the German lines December 12, 1917; also loan col- 
lections of uniforms worn by French officers. The war collections 
already received will be supplemented by others until the Museum 
possesses a complete representation of the vast amount of parapher- 
nalia required in the prosecution of a modern war, including repre- 
sentative series of objects actually used during the recent conflict by 
the United States, the Allies, and the enemy countries. 
The most notable collection not connected with the war received 
by the division of history during the past year consists of a very 
