X TABLE OF CONTENTS, 



Pag& 

 D — Review of the admiuistrative work of the year — Coutiaued. 



2. Current admiuistrative work: 



(a) Buildiijgs and labor; police and public comfort 38 



{h) Electric service 41 



(c) Cases and tixtures 42 



(d) Property aud supplies 42 



(e) Correspondence aud reports 44 



(/) Preparation of labels 44 



3. The work of the Museiuu preparators : 



(a) Taxidermists 44 



(b) Osteological preparator 47 



(c) Modelers 4-* 



(d) Photographer ■ 4- 



(e) Artist 4L) 



(/■) Preparator in the Deiiartment of Arts and ludustries 4'J 



4. Accessions to the Museum 41' 



Geographical Review of the accessions [,:> 



5. Co-operation of the Departments and Bureaus of the Government.. GU 



6. Report upon the participation of the Smithsouiau Institution in the 



New Orleans Exposition 70 



Part II. — Repokts of the Cukatoks. 

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Ethnology. Otis T. Mason 87 



American Aboriginal Pottery. William H. Holmes 97 



Archaeology. Charles Ran 101 



Foods and Textiles. Romyn Hitchcock 118 



Steam Transportation. J. Elfreth Watkins 119 



Materia Medica. H. G. Beyer, M. D., U.S.N 14:} 



Mammals. Frederick W. True 147 



Birds. Robert Ridgway 158 



Birds' Eggs. Capt. C. E. Bendire, U. S. A Itiii 



Reptiles aud Batrachiaus. H. C. Yarrow, M. D., U. S. A 165 



Fishes. Tarleton H. Beau 167 



MoUusks, including Ceuozoic Invertebrate Fossils. William H. Dall 173 



Insects. C. V. Riley 181 



Marine Invertebrates. Richard Rathbun 199 



Comparative Anatomy. Frederick W. True 209 



Invertebrate Fossils (Paleozoic). C. D. Walcott 215 



Invertebrate Fossils (Mesozoic). C.A.White 229 



Fossil Plants. Lester F. Ward , 231 



Recent Plants. Lester F. Ward 233 



Minerals. F. W. Clarke 237 



Lithology and Physical Geology. George P. Merrill .. 239 



Metallurgy and Economic Geology. Fred. P. Dewey 245 



Part III.— Reports upon Special Collections ln the National Museum and 

 Papers Illustrative of the Collections. 



I. The Meteorite Collection ; a Catalogue of Meteorites represented Novem- 

 ber 1, 13-J6. By F. W. Clarke 255 



II. The Geiu Collection. By George F. Kunz 267 



III. The Collectiou of Building aud Oriiameutal Stones; a Hand-book aud Cat- 



alogue. (With index.) By George P. Merrill 277 



IV. The Collection of Textiles; List of Fibers aud Fabrics. By Romyn Hitch- 



cock 649 



