[Proceedings United States National Museum, 1884. Appendix.] 

 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



XTN-ITED STA-TKS N ACTION J^TL. MITJSBXXM: 



No. 24. 



PLAN OP A COLLECTION TO ILLUSTRATE TEffi TEXTILE INDUS- 

 TRIES OF THE UNITED STATES, TO BE EXHIBITED AT THE 

 WORLD'S INDUSTRIAL AND COTTON CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION 

 OF 1884-1885, AT NEW ORLEANS. 



By ROmVIV HITCBCOCK, 



Acting Curator, Section of Textile Industries. 



The National Museum will exhibit a collection of fibers and fabrics, 

 illustrative of the textile resources and manufactures of the United 

 States, at the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exhibition, 

 which opens at New Orleans in December, 1884. 



In preparing the exhibits the Museum will draw largely upon its pres- 

 ent store of material, which, as the following pages will show, is exten- 

 sive and varied. Many articles, however, are needed to make the collec- 

 tions as complete as it is desirable they should be. Some of the more 

 pressing wants are mentioned in this announcement, and manufacturers 

 and friends of the Museum are invited to make such contributions as 

 are necessary to supply these and other deficiencies. 



On the following pages will be found a very general account of the 

 collections in the Museum, which is given more as an indication of the 

 character of the material at hand and of the nature of the work in prog- 

 ress, than as even an approximately perfect catalogue of the specimens. 



In the preliminary list of textile fibers, and in all succeeding lists, the 

 numbers given are the numbers designating the specimens in the Mu- 

 seum records. 



TEXTILE FUJEKS. 



PRELIMINARY LIST OF TEXTILE FIBERS IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



5215. Ahelmoschus ficulneus. India. 



5175. Abies Canadensis^ Hemlock Spruce. (Bark.) British Columbia. 



5244. Adiantum sp. Maiden Hair Fern. (Stalks.) Hawaii. 



5187. ^schynomene aspera. (Hat made of stems.) India. 



6313. Agave sp. San Salvador. 



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