CONTENTS. IX 



Page. 

 National Museum— Continued. 



Increase of the Musenm — Continjied. 



Plants 56 



Fossils 56 



Minerals 5G 



Paintings > 5G 



Miscellanea 50 



Work done in the Museum 57 



AVork done on collections 58 



Distribution of duplicate specimens 00 



Assistants in the Museum 01 



Courtesies from foreign museums 01 



Ethnological Bureau 02 



Eelations of the Institution to other establishments 62 



The Government 02 



Gallery of Art 03 



Polaris expedition 63 



Alaska Commercial Company 64 



Centennial Commission archives 64 



National Academy of Sciences - 65 



Paris International Congress and Exposition relative to electricity 05 



Eecognition by foreign governments 65 



Miscellaneous matters 56 



Deaths of employes and collaborators 60 



Thomas M. Brewer 66 



James W. Milner 67 



J. Homer Lane 08 



William Q. Force 09 



Carl Hermann Berendt 69 



Special donations ''O 



Loan of books and apparatus 71 



Loan of specimens ''1 



Kestoration 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 op 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 



