REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 49 



Eight pupils have been iustructed in i)hotogKiphy. 



Every facility is afforded these students for acquiring sufficient knowl- 

 edge of photography to be of practical use to them in the lield. In ad 

 dition to this, a hirge amount of routine work has been done, iiumber- 

 ing and tiling of negatives, making up outlits for expeditions, etc. 



Negative paper has been adopted for field work, and in part' the use 

 of bromi(h> paper for making enlargements. 



The following ap])aratus has been purchased : Two Franyais lenses 

 for held work, one roll-holder, one balance. 



At the request of the Post-Office Department, Mr. Smillie was ordered, 

 as an expert in testing inks, to test eleven cancelling and record inks for 

 the IJepartment. As none of the inks were indelible, a comparative 

 test was made and a report on their relative values submitted. Upon 

 this report was based a decision for making contracts for ink during the 



coming year. 



(c) Artist. 



Mr. A. Zeno Shindler has painted 218 casts of Indian heads and sev- 

 eral casts showing the anatomical structure of fishes. He has retouched 

 27 Corean pictures, and has colored 33 photographs of machinery, In- 

 dians, etc. lie has painted 110 casts of reptiles, mammals, fishes, mol- 

 lusUs, etc. ne has also painted a collection of 23 Zufu masks, and per- 

 formed a considerable amount of additional incidental work. 



(/) PiJp:PARAT01i IN THE iJp^PAltTMENT OF AKTS AND INDUSTRIES. 



Ml'. E. II. Ilawley has continued his work of preparing specimens for 

 exhibition. This work is varied in character, including the repair of 

 musical instruments, the framing of pictures, the arrangement of fibers 

 and cloths in frames, the mounting of photographs, the installation of 

 costumes. Considerable time has been devoted to the prex)aration of 

 the various Japanese collections for exhibition. 



4, ACCESSIONS. 



The number of boxes and ])ackages received during the year was 

 G,SD(), incliiding those which contained that portion of the objects ex- 

 hibited at the New Orleans Exposition, which arrived in Washington 

 after June 30, 1885. The nnmber of accessions represented by these 

 packages was 1,40(3 (Nos. 10207-17701). 



The geograi)hical sources of these accessions is shown in detail in the 

 geographical index to the list of accessions in Part V of this Ileport. 

 It is thought proper also to present in this place a running review 

 of the most important of the general collections. Every State and 

 Territory of the United States, cxce[)ting the Indian Territory, is 

 rei)resented in the list, and from the most of them have been received 

 contributions to the departments of zoology, botany, mineralogy, and 

 anthropology. IMany of the accessions are small, consisting of a single 

 object or of a few specimens. 

 H. Mis. 170, pt. 2 1 



