TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



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Staff of the Museum__ , VII 



Introduction 1 



Operations of the year : 



Appropriations 3 



Collections 3 



Cooperative work 7 



Visitors 11 



Publications 13 



Library 14 



Photographic laboratory 14 



Buildings and equipment 14 



Meetings, congresses, and receptions 19 



American Association of Museums 20 



Changes in organization and staff 29 



Reports on the collections : 



Department of anthropology, by Walter Hough, head curator 33 



Department of biology, by Leonhard Stejneger, head curator 43 



Department of geology, by George P. Merrill, head curator 81 



Department of arts and industries, W. deC. Ravenel, director — 



Mineral and mechanical technology, by Carl W. Mitman 97 



Textiles, medicine, woods, organic chemistry, and food, by F. L. 



Lewton 103 



Graphic arts, by R. P. Tolman 115 



Division of history, by T. T. Belote, curator 123 



List of accessions 131 



List of papers based on the national collectioijs 187 



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