36 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



visited the two buildings. Tliis total shows au increase of 109,476 over the previous 

 year. 



Fublications. — The Report of the National Museum for 1890 (Part ii of the Smith, 

 son ian Report) has been published, and that for 1891 will shortly be issued. The 

 report for 1892 is in the hands of the Public Printer. 



Volume XIV of the Proceedings of the Museum has been issued in bound form, and 

 all the separate papers composing Volume XV have been received i.nd distributed. 

 The mauuscrijit of a number of papers belonging to Volume xvi has also been 

 sent to the Public Printer, and several of these were issued in pamphlet form before 

 the close of the fiscal year. 



Part F, of Bulletin No. 39, "Directions for collecting and preserving insects," by 

 C. V. Riley, and Part G, of the same Bulletin, ''Instructions for collecting mollusks 

 and other useful hints for the concliologist," by William H. Dall, and also Bulletin 40, 

 "The Published Writings of G.eorge Newbold Lawrence, 1814-1891," by L.S. Foster, 

 have been jiublished. Bulletin 41, "The Published Writings of Dr. Charles Girard," 

 by G. Brown Goode, and Bulletin 42, "A preliminary descriptive catalogue of the 

 systematic collections iu economic geology and metallurgy in the U. S. National 

 Museum," by Frederic P. Dewey, were issued during the preceding year. 



The manuscript for Bulletin 43, "A Monograpli of the Bats of North America," by 

 Harrison Allen, m. d.. Bulletin 44, "Catalogue of the Lepidopterous Superfamily 

 Noctuidic found in Boreal America," by John B. Smith, Bulletin 45, "The Myriapoda 

 of North America," by Charles Harvey Bollman, and Bulletin 46, " Monograph of the 

 North AmericauProctotrypida'," by William H. Ashmead, has been sent to the Public 

 Printer, the illustrations have been engraved, and the text put in type. S]»ecial 

 Bulletin No. 1, "Life Histories of North American Birds," by Capt. Charles E. 

 Beudire, houorary curator of birds' eggs in the Museum, has been issued. This is 

 the first quarto volume published by the Museum. Special Bulletin No. 2, "Oceanic 

 Ichthyology," a monograph of the deep sea and pelagic fishes of the world, by G. 

 Brown Goode and Tarleton 11. Bean, is in the hands of the Public Printer, and it 

 is expected that the volume will be ready for distribution early in the next year. 



The demand for the Museum publications has increased to such an extent that 

 many worthy applications are daily refiised. An increase in the allotment for 

 printing can uot be too strongly urged, in order that the Museum may be enabled to 

 place a full series of its publications in representative libraries in different jiarts of 

 each State. If a wider distribution of publications of the Museum were provided 

 for, the Museum would undoubtedly receive in exchange the valuable publications 

 of many scientific institutions which are at present only meagerly represented in 

 its library. 



The World's Columbian Exposition. — On April 25, 1890, an act "to provide for 

 celebrating the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America by Christopher 

 Columbus by holding an international exhibition of arts, industries, manufactures, 

 and the product of the soil, nune, and sea in the city of Chicago, in the State of 

 Illinois," was approved by the President of the United States. This act authorized 

 the participation of the Executive Departments, the Smithsonian Institution and 

 National Museum, and the U. S. Fish Commission in the Exposition. A Gov- 

 ernment Board of Control was organized, consisting of representatives of each 

 of these Departments. They were appointed by the President of the United States, 

 and under their control was placed the preparation, installation, and administration 

 of the Government exhibit. Upon my recommendation. Dr. G. Brown Goode, 

 Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in charge of the National 

 Museum, was appointed Representative of the Smithsonian Institution and National 

 Museum . 



As soon as the character and scope of the exhibit had been decided iipon, agents 

 were at once instructed to proceed to various localities, with a view to collecting 

 material necessary for illustrating the condition of the continent at the time of its 



