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flying machines has been suspended from the roof. The additions in zoology 

 have consisted mainly of mammals and insects, and in geology of fossil verte- 

 brates, rocks, and minerals. As explained elsewhere, the lecture ball is now 

 temporarily occupied by the National Gallery of Art. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Of duplicate specimens separated from the collections in the course of 

 recent investigations, about 1C.0OO were distributed in 208 sets to educational 

 establishments in different parts of the United State? and about 25,000 were 

 used in making exchanges with other establishments and with individuals. 

 Over G.000 specimens were lent to specialists for study. 



The publications issued during the year were the annual reports for 1905 and 

 1900 : volumes 31 and 32 of the Proceedings ; the second volume of Bulletin 

 53, completing the catalogue of type and figured specimens in the department 

 of geology ; Part I of Bulletin 50. on the mammals of the Mexican boundary 

 of the United States ; Bulletin 57, on the families and genera of bats ; a supple- 

 ment to Bulletin 51, being a list of the publications of the Museum from 1901 

 to 1900 ; Volume XI of the Contributions from the National Herbarium, consisting 

 of a single paper entitled " The Flora of the State of Washington," and three 

 parts of Volume X of the same series, relating mainly to the botany of 

 Mexico, Central America, and the Philippine Islands. The following bulletins 

 were in print at the close of the year, but were not issued until early in July : 

 Part IV of Bulletin 50, the Birds of North and Middle America; Bulletin 58, 

 Herpetology of Japan and Adjacent Territory, and Bulletin 59, " Recent Madre- 

 pora of the Hawaiian Islands and Laysan." A number of short papers based 

 on collections in the Museum were also printed in the quarterly issue of the 

 Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections and elsewhere. 



The additions to the library of the Museum comprised 2.5S1 books aud 3.507 

 pamphlets and periodicals. The total number of pieces recorded in the library 

 at the close of the year was 30,307 volumes, 47,042 unbound papers, and 108 

 manuscripts. 



At the Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition, which opened on April 20, 1907, 

 the subject assigned to the Museum, namely, the aboriginal, colonial, and 

 national history of America, has been as fully illustrated as the means and 

 space permitted. The collection comprises prehistoric Indian implements; 

 representations of the native arts of Alaska, Porto Rico, Hawaii. Samoa, and 

 the Philippine Islands; pictures, relics, and models illustrating the different 

 historic periods of the country, land and water transportation, the invention 

 of the telegraph and telephone, and the firearms used by the United States 

 Army. The central feature is a life-sized group, depicting Capt. John Smith 

 and his men in a small sailboat trading for corn and skins with the Powhatan 

 Indians at the mouth of the James River. 



The Museum has also taken part in the International Maritime Exposition at 

 Bordeaux which opened on May 1. although the exhibit of the United States was 

 not finally installed until about the 1st of July. The objects supplied by the 

 Museum consist of a number of models illustrating the water craft used by the 

 aborigines of the Western Hemisphere and illustrations and models of the 

 earlier steamboats, including those of John Fitch and Robert Fulton. 



Respectfully submitted. 



Richard Rathbtjn, 

 Assistant Secretary, in Charge of U. S. National Museum. 



Dr. Chaeles D. Walcott, 



Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



