C OI^TENTS. 



Page. 



Subjects v 



Leiter of Transmittal vii 



Contents ix 



List of Illustrations xi 



PART I. 



Report of the Assistant Secretary. 



General Considerations. 



As a museum of record 7 



As a museum of research 9 



As an educational museum 10 



An additional museum building 12 



Summary of the Operations of the Year. 



Appropriations and expenditures 15 



Buildings 16 



Additions to the collections 17 



Explorations 25 



Distribution and exchange of specimens 26 



Researches 28 



Progress in the installation of the exhibition collections 36 



Visitors 38 



Meetings and lectures 39 



Correspondence 40 



Publications 41 



Library 44 



Photography 45 



Cooperation of the Executive Departments of the Government 45 



The Louisiana Purchase Exposition 45 



Organization and staff 46 



Necrology 47 



Reports of Head Curators. 



Report on the Department < >f Anthropology for the year 1902-3 51 



Gifts 52 



Purchases 54 



Transfers 54 



Exchanges 55 



Loans 55 



Care of the collections 56 



Explorations 57 



Researches 58 



Storage 60 



