4'2 REPORT OF THE SECRETyVRY. 



Catalogue entries. — The number of entries made in the catalogues of 

 the various dei)artments in tlie Museum during the year has been 

 23,171. 



The registrar states that 1G,G25 boxes and packages* have been re- 

 ceived during the year and entered upon the transportation records 

 of the Smithsonian Institution. Of this number 2,182 contained speci- 

 mens for the Museum. 



PRINCIPAL ACCESSIONS TO THE COLLECTIONS. 



Among the collections received during the year, those from the TJ. S. 

 Geological Survey and the Bureau of Ethnology are especially note- 

 worthy. The material transferred by the U. S. Fish Commission to the 

 National Museum included two very valuable collections made by the 

 steamer Albatross during the voyage from Washington to San Fran- 

 cisco and while cruising off the coast of Alaska. 



The accessions i-eceived during the year from general sources are 

 fully up to the standard of previous years. Among the most important 

 are the following : 



Ethnological. — Collections from Dr. James Grant Bey, of Cairo, Egypt, 

 and from Mr. W. W. Rockhill, formerly connected with the German 

 legation in Pekin, the former collection from Egypt, the latter illus- 

 trative of the religious practices, occupations, and amusements of vari- 

 ous peoples in different jiarts of China, Thibet, and Turkestan ; a col- 

 lection of oriental seals from Mrs. Anna Randall Diehl, of New York 

 City ; casts of Assyrian and Egyptian objects obtained by Prof. Paul 

 Haupt, of Johns Hopkins University. 



The valuable co operation of the Bureau of Ethnology is evidenced 

 in the transmission of a large and interesting collection of jiottery, 

 stone implements, woven fabrics, shells, beans, etc., collected by Major 

 J. W. Powell, Arthur P. Davis, Gerard Fowke, Dr. E. Boban, Dr. H. C. 

 Yarrow, -James Stevenson, Dr. J. S. Taylor, C. C. Jones, James D. Mid- 

 dleton* General G. P. Thruston, James P. Tilton, H. P. Hamilton, Victor 

 Mindeleff, H. W. Henshaw, G. H. Hurlbut, W. W. Adams, De L. W. Gill, 

 V/illiam A. Hakes, W. H. Holmes, and Charles L. M. Wheeler. This col- 

 lection was the result of x)ersonal research in the following localities: 

 Mexico, Peru, New Mexico, Wisconsin, California, Arizona, Alabama, 

 Georgia, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Massachusetts, New York, and Vir- 

 ginia. 



Arch(eological. — Collection of aboriginal pottery from Lake Apopka, 

 Florida, contributed by Dr. Featherstonehaugh, and a collection of simi- 

 lar material from Perdido Bay, Alabama, presented by Mr. F. H. Par- 

 sons, of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey ; a large collection of pre- 

 historic weapons and ornaments from graves in Corea, presented by Mr. 



*An iucrease of 4,225 over the number received last year. 



