40 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



Statistics of accessions to National Museum Collections, 1882 to 1885. 



Name of departmeut. 



Alts aud iudnstries: 



Materia raedica 



Foods 



Textiles 



Fisheries 



Animal products 



Naval architecture 



Historical relics 



Coins, medals, paper money, etc 



Musical instruments 



Modern pottery, porcelain, and bronzes 



Paints aud dyes 



" The Catlin Gallery " 



Physical apparatus 



Oils aud gums 



Chemical products 



Ethnology 



American aboriginal pottery 



Oriental antiquities 



Prehistoric anthropology 



Mammals (skins aud alcoholics) 



Birds 



Birds' eggs 



Reptiles aud batrachians 



Fishes 



Mollusks 



Insects 



Marine invertebrates 



Comparative anatomy : 



Osteology 



Anatomy 



Palaeozoic fossils 



Mesozoic fossils 



Cenozoic fossils 



Fossil plants 



Recent plants 



Minerals 



Lithology and physical geology 



Metallurgy and economic geology 



Living animals 



1882. 



1883. 



4,000 

 n,244 



35,512 



4,6G0 



44, 354 



40,491 



4,920 



47,246 



50, 000 



333, 375 



1,000 



•'11,781 



05, 000 



314, 825 



3,535 3,G40 4,214 



70 103 3,000 



20, 000 73, 000 



100, 000 

 (Included with mollusks. ) 

 , 4,«24 I 67^291 



1884. 



4,442 



1,580 

 2,000 

 5,000 

 1,000 

 600 



200, 000 

 12, 000 



45, 252 



5, 694 



50, 350 



40, 072 



23, 495 



68, 000 



400, 000 



"151, 000 



6200, 000 



79, 075 



Total 



193, 362 



14, 550 

 12, 500 

 .30, 000 



16,610 

 18, 000 

 40, 000 



263, 143 1,472, 600 



11885. 



' Xo census of ci)llectioa taken. 

 '^ Includinfj paints, pigments, and oils. 

 •' Catalogue entrips. 



* Professor Kiley'a collection numbers 15,000 spe- 

 cimens. 



" Estimated. 



" Fossil and recent. 



' In reserve series. 



