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lleport on the Department of Biology for the year 1902-3 61 



Exhibition collections ^^ 



Kxplonitions 



Acces^sions "" 



Work on the study series ^1 



Ix)an of collections and cooperation of specialists 74 



Distribution i >f duplicates 76 



Laboratory use of collections by investigators 76 



Scientilic researches and jmblications 77 



Expositions ^" 



Personnel ^^ 



Report on the Department of Geology for the year 1902-3 83 



Accessions .' - ^^ 



Division of Geology 83 



Division of Mineralogy 84 



Section of In vertel)rate Paleontology 86 



Section of \'ertcl irate Paleontology 86 



Section of Paleobotany 86 



Routine 86 



Exchanges and loans 88 



Present condition of collections 88 



Research 89 



APPENDICES. 



I. The Museum staff 93 



11. List (if accessions 95 



III. Bibliography 143 



PART II. 

 Papers Descriptive of Museum Buildings. 



The United States National Museum: An account of the buildings occupied by 



the national collections. By Richard Rathbun 177 



Studies of the museums and kindred institutions of New York City, Albany, 

 Buffalo, and Chicago, with notes on some European institutions. By A. B. 



Clever 311 



