122 REPORT ON NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



of eighteen circulars (iu all 14li pages), exi)lauatory of the work pro- 

 jjosecl for the Museum. A list of these circulars is here appended. 



Pages. 



No. 1. Plan of organization and regulations 58 



No. 2. Circular addressed to friends of the Museum 2 



No. 3. Circular iu reference to petroleum collections 2 



No. 4. Circular concerning the department of insects 1 



No. .5. Establishment and officers 2 



No. 6. Classification and arrangement of the materia medica collections. By 



James M. Flint, surgeon, United States Navy 2 



No. 7. A classification of the forms in which drugs and medicines appear and 

 are administered. By James M. Flint, surgeon, United States 



Navy 7 



No. 8. Memoranda of collectors of drugs for the materia medica section of the 

 National Museum. By James M. Flint, surgeon. United States 



Navy 2 



No. 9. Circular in reference to the building-stone collection 9 



No. 10. Two letters on the work of the National Museum. By Barnet Phil- 

 lips 10 



No. 11. A provisional classification of the food collections. By G. Brown 



Goode , 18 



No. 12. Classification of the collection to illustrate the art of taxidermy 2 



No. 13. Outline of a scheme of Museum classification. By G. Brown 



Goode 4 



No. 14. Circular requesting material for the Library 3 



No. 15. The organization and objects of the National Museum 4 



No. 16. Plans for the installation of collections 2 



No. 17. Contributions and their acknowledgment 1 



No. 18. List of publications of the United States National Museum 12 



Bulletin 19 of the Museum, consisting of Mr. Samuel H. Scudder's 

 " Nomenclator Zoologicus," has been published during the year ; also 

 Bulletin 11, consisting ot Prof. Theodore Gill's "Bibliography of the 

 Fishes of the Pacific Coast; " Bulletin 22, consisting of Mr. Lester F. 

 Ward's " Guide to the Flora of Washington and Vicinity ; " and Bulle- 

 tin 24, consisting of Dr. H. C. Yarrow's " Check-List of North Ameri- 

 can Eeptilia and Batrachia," complete the list of those published in 

 1882. Bulletin 23 has been sent to press. Bulletins 16 and 20 have 

 been passing through the press during the year, but have not yet been 

 issued. 



Dr. Bean has prepared a list of the publications of the Museum, with 

 indexes. This has been printed in Circular 18, and is of great aid in 

 the consultation of the matter which has been published by the Museum 

 during the last seven years. It has not yet been found practicable to 

 issue, from time to time, as provided for in Section C of the " Plan of 

 Organization," the list of accessions to the Museum, although the de- 

 sirability of such a publication as this is growing constantly more ap- 

 parent. 



Duplicates and Exchanges. — During the year 1882 there were only 



