CONTENTS. IX 



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 National Museum — Continued. 



Increase of the Museum — Continued. 



Plants 56 



Fossils 56 



Minerals 56 



Paintings , 56 



Miscellanea 56 



Work done in the Museum 57 



Work done on collections 58 



Distribution of dui)licate specimens 60 



Assistants in the Museum 61 



Courtesies from foreign museums 61 



Ethnological Bureau 62 



Relations of the Institution to other establishments 62 



The Government 62 



Gallery of Art 63 



Polaris expedition 63 



Alaska Commercial Company 64 



Centennial Commission archives 64 



National Academy of Sciences 65 



Paris International Congress and Exposition relative to electricity 65 



Recognition by foreign governments - 65 



Miscellaneous matters 56 



Deaths of employes and collaborators 66 



Thomas M. Brewer 66 



James W. Milner 67 



J. Homer Lane 68 



William Q. Force : 69 



Carl Hermann Berendt 69 



Special donations 70 



Loan of books and apparatus 71 



Loan of specimens 71 



Restoration of the Declaration of Independence 72 



United States Fish Commission 72 



General objects and results 73 



Fishery census of 1880 ■; 77 



Berlin International Fishery Exhibition 80 



Appendix to the Report of the Secretary 85 



Statistics of exchanges for 1880 85 



1. Foreign exchanges in 1880 85 



Boxes and parcels received in 1880 85 



Boxes sent abroad in 1880 85 



Shipping agents of the Institution 86 



Agencies for the distribution of exchanges 87 



Foreign institutions in correspondence with the Institution 88 



2. Domestic exchanges in 1880 88 



Packages received from abroad for distribution in the United States . 88 



Packages received for distribution in British America 92 



Packages received for individuals 92 



3. Government exchanges in 1880 96 



List of periodicals received by the Institution 98 



Rules for the examination of specimens submitted to the Institution 108 



Report of the Chemist, F. W. Taylor 108 



