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KEPOET OF THE SECRETARY. 



the year is more tliau 2,800,000. These figures are in luuuy iustauces 

 estimated, and are always subject to revision. 



Name of department. 



1882. 



1883. 



1884. '1885. 1885-'86. 1886-'87. 1887-' 



Arts and industries : 



Materia medica 



Poods 



Textiles 



Fisheries 



Animal products 



Naval architecture 



Historical relics 



Coins, medals, paper money, 

 etc 



Musical instruments 



Modern pottery, porcelain, 

 and bronzes 



Paints and dyes 



" The Catliu Gallery " 



Physical appaiatus 



Oils and gums 



Chemical x'i'oducts 



Ethnology. 



American aboriginal pottery 



Prehistoric anthropology 



Mammals (skins and alcoholics) . 



Birds- 



Oology 



Reptiles and hatrachians 



Fishes 



Mollusks 



Insects 



Marine invertebrates 



Comparative anatomy : 



Osteology 



Anatomy 



Palaeozoic fossils 



Mesozoic fossils 



CoDozoic fossils 



Fossil plants 



Recent plants 



Minerals 



Lithology and physical geology.. 

 Metallurgy and economic geology 

 Living animals 



Total 



4,000 

 n. 244 



4,442 

 1,580 

 2,000 

 5, 000 

 1,000 

 600 



35, 512 

 4,660 

 44,364 



40, 491 



4,920 



47, 246 



50, 000 



»33, 375 



1,000 



«11, 781 



65, 000 



"14, 825 



200, 000 



12, 000 



45, 252 



5,694 



50, 350 



40, 072 



23, 49S 



08, 000 



400, 000 



i»151, 000 



«200, 000 



3, 535 3, 640 4, 214 

 70 103 3, 000 

 20, 000 73, 000 

 100, 000 

 (Included with raollu.sks.) 

 4, 624 »i7, 291 



"9, 075 



193, 362 



14, 550 

 12, 500 

 30, 000 



203, 143 



16, 610 



18, 000 

 40, 000 



1, 472, 000 



4,850 



3g22 

 3, 064 

 39, 870 

 2,792 



5,510 



^877 



3,144 



10, 078 



2,822 



1,002 



1,055 

 400 



2,278 

 377 



500 



250 



«197 



3659 



«500, 000 



25, 000 



65,314 



7,451 



55,945 



44,163 



25, 344 



75, 000 



"460, 000 



6500, 000 



«350, 000 



10, 210 



80, 482 

 69, 742 



'»7,429 

 30, 000 

 18,401 

 20, 647 

 48, 000 



2, 420, 944 



S 13,634 



417 



2, 238 



100 



500 



251 



198 



661 



503, 704 



«26, 022 



101,659 



7,811 



54,987 



'48, 173 



27, 542 



100,000 



425, 000 



6585, 000 



6450, 000 



611, 022 



84, 491 

 70, 775 



8,462 

 632, 000 

 18, 601 

 621, 500 

 649, 000 



2. 006, 335 



' No census of collection taken. 



^ Including paints, pigments, and oils. 



3 Duphcates not included. 



* Foods only. 



' No entries of material received during the year 



have been made ou the catalogue. 

 6 Estimated. 

 '2,235 are nests. 



• Catalogue entries. 



'Including Cenozoic fossils. 



'"Professor Riley's collection numbers 15,000 



specimens. 

 " Fossil and recent. 



''Exclusive of Professor Ward's collection, 

 's In reserve series. 



The number of entries made in the Department catalogues during the 

 year, as far as can now be asccrtaineil, is 23^415. This number may bo 



