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The reinterment took place on the 9th of June ; and in the appoint- 

 ment of pall-bearers, the Smithsonian Institution, among other literary 

 and scientific establishments of the city, was recognized by the selection 

 of its Secretary, to act in the above-mentioned capacity. The serv- 

 ices on that occasion were very impressive, and attracted a large gath- 

 ering of people. 



UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



During the year the officers of the Museum have continued the work 

 of rearranging the materials under their charge on the greatly extended 

 space afforded by the completion of the new building. It will be remem- 

 bered that this building was first occupied late in 1881, and that there- 

 fore 1883 is really only the second year of systematic effort. Some ex- 

 periments in installation were made in 1881, but the chief thing accom- 

 plished was the accumulation in some of the inner courts of the building 

 of the great mass of unassorted material which had been gathering for 

 many years in the various store-rooms of the Smithsonian building and 

 elsewhere, and which, on account of lack of space, had been allowed for 

 the most part to remain in the original packing cases. 



After a struggle of twenty-four months with this mass of unassorted 

 material, the floors of th© Museum have at length been cleared, and only 

 three of the seventeen exhibition halls are now occupied for storage pur- 

 poses. 



A provisional classification of the departments of the Museum was 

 adopted early in 1882, and during the past two years has been prac- 

 tically applied. Twenty-two scientific departments were provided for 

 and grouped in five divisions, namely, anthropology, zoology, botany, 

 geology, and exploration and experiment. There are also eleven exec- 

 utive departments, grouped together in the division of administration. 



A brief review of what has been accomplished in each department 

 up to the present time, and especially during the past year, will per- 

 haps be the most satisfactory mode of bringing before the Board the 

 present methods and tendencies of the work in the Museum. I shall 

 not, however, attempt to discuss the additions of the year to the Mu- 

 seum, as those will be treated of in detail in the reports of the several 

 executive officers, and of which a complete list, arranged alphabetically 

 by donors, will be found in the Appendix to the Keport of the Assist- 

 ant Director. 



Department of Art and Industry. — In the department of art and in- 

 dustry is included for the present all ethnological material except that 

 belonging to prehistoric archaeology. Under the head of ethnological 

 material are included the products of the arts and industries of civil- 

 ized as well as of semi-civilized and barbarous races. These collections 

 are being arranged in accordance with a teleological rather than a geo- 

 graphical plan of classification, objects of a similar nature being placed 



