REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 45 



Editor. 



Ethnology. 



Fishes. 



Geology. 



History. 



Insects. 



Mammals. 



Marine invertebrates. 



Materia medica. 



Mesozoic fossils. 



Mineralogy. 



MoUusks. 



Oriental archeology. 



Paleobotany. 



Parasites. 



Photography. 



Prehistoric anthropology. 



Reptiles. 



Stratigraphic paleontology. 



Superintendent. 



Taxidermy. 



Technology 



PHOTOGRAPHY. 



Mr. T. W. Smillie, photographer of the Museum, reports that 1,689 

 negatives, 3,367 silver prints, 307 phitinum prints, 49 lantern slides, 

 and 1,016 blueprints have been made, and a large number of prints 

 have been mounted. Under Mr. Smillie's direction much photographic 

 work has also been done for the National Zoological Park and the 

 Astrophysical Observatory, an assistant having been furnished by 

 those bureaus for that purpose. 



Mr. Smillie has continued to act as chairman of the board of exam- 

 iners in photography for the U. S. Civil Service Commission. 



COOPERATION OF THE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS OF THE GOVERNMENT. 



The Museum has received, as usual, important assistance from 

 several of the Departments and Bureaus of the Government. Its rela- 

 tions to the U. S. Geological Survey, the U. S. Fish Commission, the 

 Biological Survey, and the Divisions of Entomology and Botany of the 

 Department of Agriculture, and the Bureau of American Ethnology, 

 especially in regard to the transmission of collections, have been 

 referred to elsewhere. Officers of the Army and Navy stationed in 

 the new possessions have made valuable contributions, and representa- 

 tives abroad of the Department of State have been instrumental in 

 securing interesting material. The Departments of War and of the 

 Navy have rendered generous help toward building up the collections 

 of history and of the implements of war, having presented and 

 deposited' during the year many objects of exceeding interest and 

 value. The Army Medical Museum has cooperated most liberally in 

 promoting the welfare of the recently established Division of Physical 

 Anthropology, and special acknowledgments are due to the Quarter- 

 master's Department of the Army for many courtesies in connection 

 with the transportation of specimens and outfits to and from distant 

 points. 



THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION. 



An act providing for the celebration in the city of St. Louis, Mis- 

 souri, of the one hundredth anniversary of the acquisition by the 

 United States of the "Louisiana Territory," purchased from France, 



