TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



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Subjects y, 



IXTKODUCTOKY LETTER yj, 



Ta ble of coxtents • , ^ 



Pakt I.— Report of the Assistant Secretary in (-iiAitGE ok ihe Na- 

 tional Museum. 



Coiulition and progress of the U. S. National Mus(Miin, 188G ,1 



A. — The Museum staflP ; 



B. — The condition of the collections 7 



Census of collections o 



Catalofjiie entries <; 



C. — Review of the year's work in the scientific departnieiits: 

 Division of Anthropology : 



Arts and Industries t;^ 



Ethnology 13 



Aboriginal American Pottery 13 



Archa'ology 14 



Division of Zoology : 



Mammals ]5 



Birds 1 f; 



Bird.s' Eggs If) 



Reptiles and Batrachians «!-; 



Fi.shes IH 



Mollusks(incliuling Cenozoic Inveitcbrate Fossils) 17 



Insects 18 



Marine Invertebrates 2O 



Comparative Anatomy ^;C; 



Invertebrate Fossils, Paleozoic 21 



Invertebrate Fossils, Mesozoic 2] 



Invertebrate Fossils, Cenozoic 2 j 



Division of Botany : 



Fossil Plants •,.>} 



Recent Plants 21 



Division of Geology: 



Minerals J2 



Lithology and Physical Geology 22 



Metallurgy and Economic Geology 2'A 



D. — Review ot the administrative work of the year: 



1. Progress of general and incidental work •jr> 



(a) Library '25 



(6) Exchanges and distribution of duplicates 26 



(c) Publications j:; 



(d) Visitors 'A'<-1 



(e) Students and lectures :',J 



(/) Meetings of societies HI 



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