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While practical results from, special exhibitions are seldom im- 

 mediately apparent, it is gratifying to note that as the result of 

 an exhibit in bromoil transfer in our photographic section of prints, 

 the Bureau of Public Eoads of the Department of Agriculture is 

 now using this process for making road pictures for display pur- 

 poses. A special exhibition designed to stimulate a better under- 

 standing and a keener appreciation of the role which forests play 

 in every field of American life was displayed in the wood court 

 during American forestry week, April 27 to May 3. Exhibitions 

 of primitive methods of weaving were given from time to time 

 in the division of textiles. A special temporary exhibit of numis- 

 matic material was arranged by the curator of history during coin 

 week, February 15 to 22, through the cooperation of the American 

 Numismatic Association, represented by its president, Moritz 

 Wormser, of New York City. Three members of the association, 

 residing in Washington, George H. Eussel, B. M. Comerford, and 

 Leander McCormick Goodhart of the British Embassy, loaned col- 

 lections of coins for this temporary exhibit. 



More detailed accounts of these exhibitions will be found in the 

 departmental reports forming part of this volume. 



visrroKS 



For the first time in the history of the National Museum, the 

 annual number of visitors to the four buildings containing the 

 Museum exhibits exceeded one million. The number of visitors to 

 the Natural History Building, the only building open every day 

 in the year, aggregated 461,799 for week days, and 95,217 for Sun- 

 days, a daily average of 1,475 for the former and 1,831 for the latter, 

 At the Arts and Industries Building, the attendance was 304,858, 

 at the Smithsonian Building 107,342, and at the Aircraft Building 

 52,787, with daily averages of 973, 310, and 168. 



The Congress has granted a small increase in the Museum main- 

 tenance fund for next year to permit the Arts and Industries Build- 

 ing to be opened Sunday afternoons, commencing July 1, 1925, an 

 action that will be greatly appreciated by the public. 



Out of respect to high Government officials who died during the 

 year the flags on the Museum buildings were flown at half-mast, as 

 follows: To Hon. Henry C. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, on 

 October 26-29, 1924; to Ned Hollister, Superintendent of the Na- 

 tional Zoological Park, on November 5; to Hon. Henry Cabot 

 Lodge, Regent of the Smithsonian Institution, from November 10 

 to 12; and to Hon. Thomas R. Marshall, ex- Vice President of the 

 United States, from June 2 to 4. 



