REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 31 



Museum library. — The u umber of publications added to the Library 

 during the year is 12,437, of which 1,479 are volumes of more than 100 

 pages, 2,250 pamphlets, 8,672 parts of regular serials, and 3G charts. 

 With the exception of the charts these numbers are more than double 

 the receipts of last year. The most notable gift was a nearly complete 

 set of Kiener's " Iconographie des Coquilles Vivantes," illustrated with 

 very beautifully colored plates. This was presented by the Wagner 

 Free Institute of Science, in Philadelphia. 



Museum labels. — During the year 3,920 forms of labels have been 

 printed (twenty-four copies of each form) for use in connection with 

 labeling the collections of ethnology, geology, mammals, comparative 

 anatomy, porcelains, oriental antiquities, graphic arts, foods, textiles, 

 and materia medica. 



Meetings and lectures. — The use of the Lecture Hall has been granted 

 for lectures and meetings of scientific societies, as The Association of 

 American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, November 

 12-15, 1889, inclusive; the American Historical Association, December 

 28-31; the American Institute of Mining Engineers, February 18, 1890; 

 Memorial Meetin g of the Academy of Sciences, March 27 ; the Geological 

 Society of America, April 17; the National Academy of Sciences, April 

 15-18, inclusive; Meeting of the Committee on Arrangements of the 

 Geological Congress, April 18; The National Geographic Society, May 2. 



The course of Saturday lectures, ten in number, beginning February 

 1, and ending April 3, was delivered under the direction of the Joint 

 committee of the scientific societies of Washington. A course of four 

 lectures relating to the anthropological exhibits at the Paris Exposi- 

 tion in 1889 was given in May by Mr, Thomas Wilson, curator of ar- 

 chieology. A lecUire, under the auspices of the National Geographic 

 Society, was delivered on April 11 by Ensign J. B. Bernadou on the 

 subject of '• Corea and the Coreans." 



Visitors. — The number of visitors to the Museum building during the 

 year ending June 30, 1890, was 274,324. The number of visitors to the 

 Smithsonian building during the same period was 120,894. These fig- 

 ures are considerably less than during 1889, when, on account of the 

 inauguration of President Harrison, immense numbers of people visited 

 the Museum. On March 5, it may be remembered, more than 56,000 

 people visited the Museum and Smithsonian buildings. The total num- 

 ber of visitors since 1881 to the Museum building is 2,111,949, and to the 

 Smithsonian building, 970,012. 



Extension of hours for visiting the Museum. — On December 20 a bill 

 was introduced in the House of Representatives by the Hon. W. H. 

 Crain, having for its object the opening of the Smithsonian and Museum 

 buildings during extra hours. Mr. Crain also introduced a bill la-ter iu 



