CONTENTS. VII 



P«ge. 

 Eepobt of the Secretary. — The Smithsonian Institution— Continued. 



Necrology — Continued. 



Hermann Diebitsch 46 



John Lawrence Smith, M. D 46 



George Shoemaker 47 



LeonardD. Gale, M. D 47 



John Lawrence Le Conte, M. D , 48 



Miscellaneous 49 



The Mercer Bequest 40 



Naval Museum of Hygiene 49 



Portrait of Darwin , 49 



Relics of Dr. Priestly*. 49 



Memorial objects in the new Pension building 50 



Instructions for Cave Research 50 



Obsequies of John Howard Payne 50 



National Museum 51 



Bureau op Ethnology 56 



United States Geological Survey ___ 66 



United States Fish Commission 81 



General results 82 



Cruise of the "Albatross" 82 



Fish-hatching 82 



Bulletin of the Fish Commission 83 



The London International Fisheries Exhibition, 1883 83 



Fisheries branch of the census of 1880 86 



Appendix to the Report of the Secretary 87 



Correspondence on Astronomical Announcements 87 



Report on exchanges for 1883 91 



Receipts of packages for distribution 93 



Foreign 93 



Domestic 94 



Government 95 



Transmissions of packages 95 



Foreign 95 



Domestic 102 



Government 105 



Correspondence relating to Government exchange Ill 



International Conference on Exchanges, at Brussels 120 



List of official publications from Public Printer, 1883 150 



Report on National Museum by Assistant Director and Curators . 161 



Assistant Director's report 162 



Materia-medica collection 190 



Foods and textile industries collection 196 



Archil ological collection 198 



Mammalian collection 208 



Bird collection 220 



Reptilian collection 225 



Fish collection 228 



Insect collection 239 



Mollusk collection 244 



Marine invertebrate collection - 250 



Fossil invertebrate collection 260 



Fossil plant collection 263 



Geological and lithological collection 263 



