APPEiNDIX TO THE REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



Table sJioiving the number of entries in the record-booJcs 

 Museum at the close of the years 1871 and 1872, 



of the Smithsonian 

 resijectively. 



Class. 



Skeletons aud skulls 



Mammals 



Birds 



Eeptiles 



Fishes 



Eggs of birds 



Crustaceaus 



Mollusks . . 



Radiates 



Annelids 



Fossils 



Minerals 



Ethnological specimens 



Total 



1871. 



1872. 



12, 059 



9,849 

 61,250 



7, 536 



7,983 

 15, 986 



1, 287 

 24, 792 



2, 730 

 100 



7, 697 



7,160 

 10, 931 



169, 360 



12,450 



11,195 



62,718 



8,729 



9,758 



16,322 



2,187 



24,792 



3,107 



100 



7,715 



7,167 



11,607 



177, 74- 



Increase for 1872, 8,387. 

 Approximate table of distribution of duplicate specimens to the end of 1872. 



