CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA.

Professor Henry Hyvernat reports that the recent transfer and impending reorganization of the university museum make it impossible to give a report at present. The university is said by Merrill to possess a botanical collection of over 30,000 specimens, especially rich in plants of the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific coast, gathered by Professor Edward L. Greene, and containing types of several hundred species described by him.

CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART.

STAFF. Director, Frederick B. McGuire; Assistant director, C. Powell Minnigerode; 1 clerk and stenographer, 1 janitor, I engineer, I foreman, 7 guards and attendants and 3 char-women.

ART. Sculpture, about 350 pieces, including original marbles, casts of antique, renaissance, and modern sculpture, and 107 original Barye bronzes; Prints and engravings, the St. Memim collection of 820 engraved portraits; Oil paintings, 280±; Water colors, 15; Cloisonné, 6 pieces; Porcelains and glass, 15 pieces; Electrotype reproductions, 141 pieces.

HISTORICAL SKETCH. The art gallery and school were founded and endowed by the late William Wilson Corcoran in 1869, and opened to the public in 1874 in the building on the corner of Pennsylvania. Avenue and 17th Street. The gallery was opened in the new building

in 1897.

FINANCIAL SUPPORT. Annual income: from endowment, $35,000; from the art school, about $5000; from admission fees, about $3000.

BUILDING. Erected in 1893-7, at a cost of $650,000, paid from the endowment fund. About 35,000 square feet of floor space is available for exhibition purposes, and about 4000 for offices, workrooms, etc.

ADMINISTRATION. By a director, responsible to a board of

trustees.

SCOPE. In connection with the gallery there is a free art school with classes in drawing and painting from the cast, life, etc., also portrait and still-life classes. The students number about 300. Loan collections and special exhibitions are placed in the gallery from time to time.

LIBRARY. 1000 volumes on the fine arts, used chiefly as a reference library by members of the staff and students of the school. PUBLICATIONS. (1) Annual reports. (2) Catalogs of the permanent collection. (3) Catalogs of special exhibitions.

ATTENDANCE. The gallery is closed to the public every summer for necessary renovation. It is open during the remainder of the year, as follows: From November 1 to July 1, on Sundays from 1.30 to 4.30, on Mondays from 12 to 4, on other days from 9 to 4. Admission is free, except on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, when an entrance fee of 25 cents is charged. The total attendence for the year 1908 was 133,973, including 10,427 pay admissions, and 123,546 free admissions.

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY. The Coleman Museum.

STAFF. Curator, Francis A. Tondorf; Assistants, C. J. Ramage, John Langdale, Edward Connelly.

ANTHROPOLOGY. 1400 specimens, including a complete series of Indian remains from the District of Columbia, and fine collections from Alaska and the Philippine Islands.

ART. Oil paintings by ancient and modern masters; valuable engravings; prints and photographs; and the Beauchamp Hughes collection of laces, pictures, ancient manuscripts, bronzes, china, and bric-a-brac.

BOTANY. A herbarium of about 300 specimens, representing the flora of the District of Columbia.

GEOLOGY. Minerals, on exhibition, 3130, in storage, 400+; Rocks, on exhibition, 1500, in storage, 300+; Relief maps, models, etc., 5. The collections include a complete representation of local minerals and rocks.

HISTORY. A collection of 120 Maryland colonial relics is contained in a special room intended for the exhibition of Maryland history.

NUMISMATICS. A complete set of pontifical medals, and foreign and domestic coins.

PALEONTOLOGY. About 1200 fossils, including several fine tusks of the mammoth from Alaska.

ZOOLOGY. Shells, on exhibition, 3164, in storage, 400±, types and figured specimens, 100+; Birds, on exhibition, 1020, eggs, 1300, nests, 88; Mammals 100±. 10 small groups are exhibited in natural surroundings.

HISTORICAL SKETCH. In 1840 the collections had become sufficiently extensive to warrant the setting apart of a special room for their exhibition. In 1889 they were transferred to Coleman Hall in the main building.

FINANCIAL SUPPORT. Maintained by university funds.

BUILDING. The collections occupy the north pavilion of the main building, to which has been given the name, Coleman Hall. 2440 square feet of floor space is available for exhibition.

SCOPE. Research, college teaching, and instruction of the general public.

ATTENDANCE. Open free to the public daily from 9 to 5. The number of visitors is estimated at 5000 annually.

GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY 'MEDICAL SCHOOL. The Medical School now has, in charge of F. F. Russell, professor of pathology and bacteriology, the teaching collection of human pathology which formerly belonged to the Columbian University.

HOWARD UNIVERSITY.

The department of biology and geology possesses teaching collections including a phanerogamic herbarium of about 7500 specimens, chiefly flora of the District of Columbia, with a general collection of about 2000 plants from the United States and Mexico, and 23 fascicles of native plants issued by the United States department of agriculture; about 1200 minerals and rocks; about 2000 invertebrates; and about 500 vertebrates, including 12 groups mounted in natural surroundings, and a good collection of skeletons in comparative anatomy. These collections are maintained from the general appropriation for the department, are used for teaching purposes, and are in charge of R. E. Schuh, professor of biology and geology.

UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM.

STAFF. Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, keeper ex officio Charles D. Walcott; Assistant secretary, in charge of the museum, Richard Rathbun; Administrative assistant, W. de C. Ravenel. Department of anthropology: Head curator, William H. Holmes; Curators, Walter Hough (ethnology), Aleš Hrdlička (physical anthropology), William H. Holmes (prehistoric archeology), J. M. Flint (medicine), A. Howard Clark (history); Assistant curators, I. M. Casanowicz (historic archeology), George C. Maynard (technology), T. T. Belote (history); Custodians, Paul Brockett (graphic arts), T. W. Smillie (photography); Collaborators, J. W. Fewkes (ethnology), J. D. McGuire (prehistoric archeology); Aids, T. F. Lane (physical anthropology), E. P. Upham (prehistoric archeology); Associates, Paul Haupt and Cyrus Adler (historic archeology). Department of biology: Head curator, Frederick W. True; Chief of exhibits, James E. Benedict; Curators, Gerrit S. Miller, Jr. (mammals), Robert Ridgway (birds),

Leonhard Stejneger (reptiles and batrachians), B. W. Evermann (fishes), William H. Dall (mollusks), L. O. Howard (insects), Richard Rathbun (marine invertebrates), Frederick V. Coville (plants-National Herbarium); Associate curator, J. N. Rose (plants-National Herbarium); Assistant curators, N. Hollister (mammals), Charles W. Richmond (birds), Barton A. Bean (fishes), Paul Bartsch (mollusks), J. C. Crawford (insects), Mary J. Rathbun and Austin H. Clark (marine invertebrates), W. R. Maxon and P. C. Standley (plants-National Herbarium), O. F. Cook (cryptogamic collections-National Herbarium); Custodians, O. F. Cook (myriapoda), D. W. Coquillett (diptera), E. A. Schwarz (coleoptera), Harrison G. Dyar (lepidoptera), A. N. Caudell (orthoptera), Nathan Banks (arachnida), Otto Heidemann (hemiptera), C. W. Stiles (helminthological collections), W. T. Swingle (higher algae--National Herbarium), D. G. Fairchilds (lower fungi-National Herbarium); Assistant custodian, B. H. Ransom (helminthological collections); Collaborators, Mary Breen (mollusks), Harriet Richardson (marine invertebrates); Aids, J. H. Riley (birds), R. G. Paine (reptiles and batrachians), Alfred C. Weed (fishes), William B. Marshall (mollusks), Paul R. Myers (insects); Associates, Theodore N. Gill, C. Hart Merriam, W. L. Abbott, and Edgar A. Mearns (zoölogy), Edward L. Greene and John Donnell Smith (botany). Department of geology: Head curator, George P. Merrill; Curators, George P. Merrill (physical and chemical geology), F. W. Clarke (mineralogy), R. S. Bassler (invertebrate paleontology); Associate curators, W. H. Dall (invertebrate paleontology -cenozoic collection), David White (paleobotany); Assistant curators, F. B. Laney (physical and chemical geology), Joseph E. Pogue, Jr. (mineralogy), Lancaster D. Burling (invertebrate paleontology); Custodians, T. W. Stanton (invertebrate paleontology-mesozoic collection), T. Wayland Vaughan (madreporarian corals), James W. Gidley (mammalian collection), Charles W. Gilmore (reptilian collection), F. H. Knowlton (mesozoic plants); Aid, A. C. Peale (paleobotany); Associates, L. T. Chamberlain (mineralogy), Charles A. White (paleontology), Lester F. Ward (paleobotany). Department of minerai technology: Curator, Charles D. Walcott. National Gallery of Art: Curator, William H. Holmes. Administratice staff: Chief of correspondence and documents, R. I. Geare; Disbursing agent, W. I. Adams; Superintendent of construction and labor, J. S. Goldsmith; Editor, Marcus Benjamin; Editorial clerk, E. S. Steele; Assistant librarian, N. P. Scudder; Photographer, T. W. Smillie; Registrar, S. C. Brown; Property clerk, W. A. Knowles.

COLLECTIONS. The readjustment and moving of the collections necessitated by the construction of a new building prevents the compilation of statistics regarding the collections.

The total number of specimens in all branches of natural history amounts to several millions, the annual accretion during several years having averaged about a quarter of a million specimens. An enumeration of the type specimens has not recently been made, but the number is exceptionally large. These natural history collections have been received in greater part from government surveys and explorations, and are richest in material from North America. Many other parts of the world are also well represented in one subject or another, especially Central America, the Philippines, Malaysia, and some portions of Europe, Africa, and South America. The deep-water zoological collections from both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans are the most extensive and important in existence.

The National Gallery of Art, as the department of fine arts is designated, has come into prominence during the past four years through the bequest of Harriet Lane Johnston, and the gifts of Charles L. Freer and William T. Evans, consisting mainly of paintings and oriental pottery, valued at not less than one and one-half million dollars.

The department of arts and industries, the proper development of which has been delayed by lack of space, but is now rendered possible by the new building, has had on exhibition the most complete collections of firearms in this country, boat and railroad models, electrical apparatus, time-keeping and measuring devices, ceramics, graphic arts, laces, embroideries, etc. Large collections of other subjects are in storage.

The historical collection is rich in materials illustrative of periods and of important events and personages connected with the history of the United States from the colonial period.

HISTORICAL SKETCH. By congressional act of August 10, 1846, founding the Smithsonian Institution, that establishment was made. the custodian of the national collections in both nature and art. The museum branch was definitely organized in 1850, the title "United States National Museum" being authoritatively given by congress in 1875. During the first few years the expenses of the museum were wholly met from the Smithsonian fund, and it was not until 1878 that the government began to provide entirely for its maintenance, through annual congressional appropriations.