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Several ofQcers of the U. S. Army have made valuable contributions. 

 The Quartermaster's Department has extended important assistance in 

 connection with the transportation of bulky material for the Museum. 



From officers of the U. S. Navy many collections have been received 

 from foreign countries, including the West Indies, Liberia, the Samoan 

 Islands, and Mexico. 



Through the courtesy of the Secretary of the Interior, the Museum 

 has received a very valuable collection of ethnological specimens from 

 the Indians of the Tulalip Reservation, Washington. The material 

 transmitted to the Museum by the U. S. Geological Survey is large in 

 extent and quite equal in importance to the collections received from 

 that source in previous years. 



From the Divisions of Animal Industry', Entomology, Botany, For- 

 estry, and Ornithology and Mammalogy, in the Department of Agricul- 

 ture, numerous contributions have been received. 



Distribution of Duplicate Specimens. — Collections of ethnological, zoo- 

 logical, botanical, and geological specimens, contained in two hundred 

 and one packages, have been distributed during the year to about one 

 hundred and twenty educational establishments at home and abroad. 

 A large number of duplicate sets of minerals and marine invertebrates 

 were included in these distributions. 



Numerous applications for duplicate specimens, chiefly minerals, still 

 remain unfilled. It is hoped that during the next fiscal year it will be 

 possible to send out bird-skins and rocks also. 



Museum Publications. — This department of the Museum work has 

 been unusually active during the year. 



The Museum Reports for 1886 and 1887 have been published. Each 

 of these volumes contains several papers based upon collections in the 

 Museum by Museum officers and other collaborators. 



Volume XI of the Proceedings of the National Museum, for 1888, has 

 been issued. This contains xi + TOS pages, 60 plates, and 122 text fig- 

 ures. It includes eighty-five papers by forty-three authors, nineteen 

 of whom are officers of the Museum. The papers composing Volume 

 XII of Proceedings of the National Museum, for 1889, are twenty-nine 

 in number (Nos. 761-789) ; and were all published as separates dur- 

 ing the year, although the bound volume has not yet been issued. 

 Commencing with this volume the system of issuing sixteen pages at 

 a time — forming a signature — as soon as sufficient manuscript had 

 accumulated, has been discontinued. Each paper is now printed separ- 

 ately, in advance of the bound volume, and is immediately distributed 

 to specialists. 



Five numbers of the Bulletin have been published (Nos. 34-38, inclu- 

 sive). Bulletin 34 relates to '* The Batra(5hia of North America," by 

 Prof. E. D. Cope. Bulletin 35 contains a " Bibliographical Catalogue 

 of the Described Transformations of North American Lepidoptera," by 



