10 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



marbles, slates, and other building: materials, the several varieties of pe- 

 troleum and coal-tar, &c., &c. — in short, a most extended collection 

 of specimens of large size showing at one view the vast mineral resources 

 of the United States, to which was added a variety of specimens to rep- 

 resent the different stages of the manufactured articles derived from the 

 mineral kingdom. The display of the animal resources of the country 

 was also extensive and various. It embraced all the species capable of 

 economical application and such animals as were of special interest to 

 the naturalist. These were represented by stuffed specimens, by life- 

 size plaster models and by photographs. The industrial application of 

 these animals was also exhibited as well as the apparatus by which they 

 are pursued, captured and utilized. Among the larger mammals were 

 well mounted specimens of those most valued for food, as the different 

 kinds of deer, including the moose, elk and caribou, the musk-ox, and 

 the buffalo ; and the fur-bearing species were represented by bears, the 

 grizzly, brown, black, and white; by the foxes, yellow, black, cross, 

 gray, and kit; by wolves, fur-seals, sea-lions, sables, and minks ; the oil- 

 producing animals by whales, porpoises, and other cetaceans. Another 

 part of the animal display embraced a series of specimens of animal 

 food preserved by being dried, smoked, salted, pickled, and canned, to- 

 gether with representations of the various applications of the teeth, 

 bones, horns, and scales; and, again, of articles used for clothing, as 

 furs, leather, &c. 



The ethnological branch of the Exposition was at the joint expense of 

 the congressional appropriation for the Indian Bureau and that for the 

 Smithsonian Institution. Special importance was attached to this sec- 

 tion of the Exposition, and great exertion made to render it as complete 

 as possible. To this end, agents were temporarily employed to obtain 

 articles to illustrate the ethnology of portions of the country hitherto 

 imperfectly known. The success of the enterprise was commensurate 

 with the energy expended, and a more extensive and varied collection 

 of articles was obtained to illustrate the past and present condition of 

 the various native tribes of the American continent than was ever 

 before exhibited. It consisted of a large number of the different varie- 

 ties of specimens of the stone age from all parts of the continent and 

 the West Indies, and a series of articles in use at the present time 

 among the Indians, especially among tribes which have had but little 

 connection with the white race. There were also exhibited numerous 

 life-size figures to show every variety of Indian costume and personal 

 decoration. Independent of the temporary interest which was subserved 

 by this exhibition, the large collection of new articles has rendered an 

 important service to the ethnology of the country, since these articles 

 will be preserved for scientific study in the National Museum. 



In addition to the foregoing, representatives, in plaster, papier-mach6, 

 and photography, of all the edible fishes of our coast were exhibited, 

 in connection with the Smithsonian display, by the United States Fish 



