REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 



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The approximate number of specimens received by the Museum 

 during the year and tlie total number in the possession of the Museum 

 at the close of the year are recorded in the following table: 



Division. 



Received 

 in 1902-3. 



Total. 



Anthropology: 



Ethnology 



Historic archeology 



Prehistoric archeology . 



Technology 



Graphic arts 



Medicine 



Religions 



History and biography . 



Physical anthropology . 



Ceramics 



Photography 



Music 



Biology: 



Mammals ; 



Birds 



Birds' eggs 



Reptiles and batrachians. 

 Fishes 



Mollusks 



Insects 



Marine invertebrates.. 



Helminthology 



Comparative anatomy 

 Plants 



Forestry 



Geology: 



Physical and chemical geology 



Mineralogy 



Invertebrate paleontology 



Vertebrate paleontology 



Paleobotany 



4,547 



20 



10, 181 



149 



1,502 



7 



92 



1,502 



99 



146 



9 



65 



7,435 



3,800 



1,470 



«872 



1,000 



6,332 



37, 684 



12, 471 



a 646 



oll5 



38, 403 



2,820 



a 445 



97,000 



"36 



1,732 



478, 004 

 2, 223 



372, 979 

 31, 193 

 8,896 

 6,889 

 2,769 

 43, 048 

 2,770 

 4,610 

 1,800 

 1,625 



82, 435 



133,535 



64, 045 



44, 425 



157, 501 



929,037 



1,523,684 



518, 726 



5, 7:57 



15, 945 



504,405 



749 



78, 559 

 35, 878 



► 543,337 



Total 236, 580 



5, 654, 864 



(' Entries in catalogues. 



EXPLORATIONS. 



Fewer explorations than usual were carried on last year directlj^ by 

 the Museum, owing to insufficient means for that purpose. Field work 

 under the Bureau of American Ethnology, which 3'ielded interesting 

 collections of objects, since deposited in the Museum, as before men- 

 tioned, was conducted by Mr. William H. Holmes, Mr. Gerard Fowke, 

 and Dr. J. Walter Fewkes. Mr. Holmes visited the aboriginal hema- 

 tite mines at Leslie, Missouri, and Doctor Fewkes an ancient quarry 

 in Carter County, Kentucky, while Doctor Fewkes also spent consider- 

 able time in Santo Domingo and Porto Rico. 



The important explorations of Dr. William L, Abbott in Sumatra 

 and the adjoining islands, as well as on the mainland of the Straits 



