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Of accessions other than textiles, the most noteworthy were the 

 gifts of industrial exhibits illustrating various branches of the rub- 

 ber industry which were received from the Rubber Association of 

 America (Inc.), New York City. This association added 960 speci- 

 mens and photographs to its gifts of last year, and thus placed the 

 representation of the rubber industry in the forefront of the indus- 

 trial exhibits in the National Museum. Included in these gifts is 

 the greater part of the exhibits illustrating American rubber indus- 

 tries which were shown at the Sixth International Kubber Exposi- 

 tion^ held in Brussels, Belgium, in April, 1924, and comprising the 

 following : Large statistical charts arranged to resemble open books 

 resting on easels, painted screens or panels depicting the utilization 

 of rubber, a life-size figure of a Malay native in the position of 

 tapping a rubber tree, specimens of all kinds of rubber articles, 

 automobile tires and mechanical rubber goods, and an automatic 

 projecting lantern and set of slides illustrating rubber manufacture. 

 The Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the Department 

 of Commerce transferred specimens of crude rubber and rubber 

 substitutes, vegetable oils, and oilseeds brought back from South 

 America by representatives of the department who had been detailed 

 in 1923 to make a survey of the crude rubber situation. 



With the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture, the Bureau of 

 ]3iological Survey, as custodian of material seized in violation of 

 Federal laws for the protection of birds, transferred to the Museum 

 a large part of a remarkable collection of bird plumage and feather 

 articles acquired by confiscation from plume hunters, importers, and 

 manufacturers. This material consists of whole birds, parts of birds, 

 feathers, and plumes of the bird of paradise and the American and 

 the snowy egret. Other birds represented are goura, roseate spoonbill, 

 wood ibis, ring-necked pheasant, whistling swan, gull, mallard duck, 

 Canada goose, pied-billed grebe, American eared grebe, Holboell's 

 grebe, western grebe, common loon, red-throated loon, penguin, great 

 blue heron, and European and Japanese herons. Together with the 

 bird skins and plumage in the natural condition, the collection in- 

 cludes dyed feathers and finished and partly finished millinery trim- 

 mings made from bird plumage coming under the ban of the law. 



A most attractive exhibit illustrating the manufacture and utiliza- 

 tion of sealing wax was obtained from the Dennison Manufacturing 

 Co., of Framingham, Mass., to replace an old exhibit presented many 

 years ago. The new material includes crude lac, fillers, pigments, 

 and other ingredients of sealing wax put up in attractive containers, 

 commercial sealing waxes of all grades, and a handicraft display 

 of articles made from or decorated with sealing wax. 



