tlEi»ORT OF THE SKCRETARY. 41 



Statistics of accessions to National Museum collections, 1880 to 1880. 



Name of tlepartment. 



Alts and iudiistries: 



Materia luedica 



Foods 



Textiles 



Fisheries 



Animal products 



Naval architecture 



Historical relics 



Coins, medals, p.aper money, etc 



Musical instruments 



Modern pottery, porcelain, and 

 bronzes 



Paints and dves 



"The Catlin Gallery" 



Physical apparatus 



Oils and gums 



Chemical products 



Ethnology 



American aboriginal pottery 



Oriental antiquities 



Prehistoric anthropology 



Mammals (skins and alcoholics) 



Birds • 



Birds' eggs 



Rexitiles and batrachians 



Fishes 



Mollnsks 



Insects 



Marine invertebrates , 



Comparative anatomy : 



Osteology 



Anatomy 



Paliieozoic fossils 



Mesozoic fossils 



Cenozoic fossils 



Fossil plants 



Kecent plants 



Minerals 



Lithology and physical geology 



Metallurgy and economic geology.. . 

 Living animals 



1885-'86. 



4, 850 

 '8-22 

 8, 063 

 '9, 870 

 2, 792 



1,002 



1,005 



400 



2, 278 



'77 



500 



250 



'197 



'G59 



^500, 000 



25, 000 



1886-'87. 



5,51G 



->77 



3,144 



10, 078 



2, H22 



13, 634 

 417 



2, 238 



'lOO 



500 



251 



198 



661 



503, 764 



*26, 022 



1887-'88. 



5,762 



■W7 



33, 144 



310,078 



32, 822 



Total 



65, 314 



7, 451 



55, 945 



44,163 



25, 344 



75, 000 



6460, 000 



4500, 000 



■•:i50, 000 



10,210 



80, 482 

 69, 742 



■7, 429 

 30, 000 

 18,401 

 20, 647 



48. 000 



101, 659 

 7,811 



54,987 

 ■■48, 173 

 27, 542 

 100, 000 

 425, 000 

 <585, 000 

 M50, 000 



••11,022 



81,491 



70, 775 



2, 420, 944 



8, 462 

 "32, 000 

 18,601 

 *21,500 

 H9, 000 



2, 666, 335 



14,640 

 427 



3,011 



3 100 



3500 



3251 



3198 



3(;6i 



505, 464 

 ^27, 122 



108, 631 



8,058 



56, 484 



50, 055 



27, 604 



101,350 



455, 000 



595, 000 



515,000 



11,558 



84,649 

 70, 925 



10, 000 

 ■»38, 000 

 21,896 

 22, 500 

 51,412 

 220 



2, 803, 459 



' Duplicates not included. 

 ■■' FoodM only. 



'No entries of material received during the year 

 have been made on the catalogue. 



1888-'89. 



5, 942 



911 



3, 222 



310, 078 



2,948 



3600 



314,990 



3427 



33,011 



109 



3500 



3251 



213 



688 



506, 324 



28, 222 



850 



116,472 



8 275 



57, 974 



50, 173 



28, 405 



107,350 



468, 000 



603, 000 



515, 300 



11,753 



91, 126 

 71,236 



10, 178 

 38, 459 

 27, 690 

 27, 000 

 52, 076 

 491 



2,864,244 



* Estimated. 



s 2,235 are nests. 



•■ Incliuling Cenozoic fossils. 



'Exclusive of Professor Ward's coUecliou. 



