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REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



the year is more tban 2,800,000. These figures are in immy iustauces 

 estimated, aud are always subject to revision. 



Name of department. 



Arta and industries : 



Materia medica 



Foods 



Textiles 



Piaheries 



Animal products 



Na%'al arch itecture 



Historical relics 



Coins, medals, paper monej', 

 etc 



Musical instruments 



Modern pottery, porcelain, 

 aud bronzes 



Paints and dyes 



" The Catliu Gallery " 



Physical apparatus 



Oils and gums 



Chemical products 



Ethnology 



American aboriginal pottery 



Prehistoric anthropology 



Mammals (skins and alcoholics) . 



Birds- 



Oology 



Keptiles and batrachians 



Fishes 



Mollusks 



Insects 



Marino 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 



Totol 



1882. 



35, 512 

 4,660 

 44, 354 



50, 000 



833, 375 



1,000 



«11,781 



3,535 

 70 



1883. 



4,000 

 n, 244 



40, 491 



4,920 



47, 246 



"14, 825 



3,640 

 103 



20, 000 



(Included with ra 



4,G24 



4,442 

 1,580 

 2,000 

 5,000 

 1,000 

 600 



'39. 075 



193, 362 



200, 000 



12, 000 



45, 252 



5,694 



50, 350 



40, 072 



23, 495 



68, 000 



400, 000 



■»151, 000 



«200, 000 



4,214 



3,000 



73, 000 



100, 000 



bllusks.) 



J'7, 291 



14. 550 

 12, 500 

 30, 000 



203, 143 



16, 610 

 18, 000 



40, 000 



'1885.1 1885-'86. 



I 



1, 472, 600 



4,850 



3822 

 3,064 

 39, 870 

 2.792 



1,002 



1,055 

 400 



2,278 

 377 



500 



250 



'197 



3659 



0500, 000 



25, 000 



65,314 



7,451 



55, 945 



44,163 



25, 344 



75, 000 



'460, 000 



6500, COO 



6350, 000 



10, 210 



80, 482 

 69, 742 



1886-'87. 



5,516 

 ^877 

 3,144 

 10, 078 

 2,823 



i., 



634 



"»7,429 

 30, 000 

 18,401 



20, 647 

 48, 000 



2, 420, 944 



417 



2,238 



100 



500 



251 



198 



661 



503, 764 



«20, 022 



101,659 



7,811 



51,987 



'48, 173 



27,542 



100,000 



425, 000 



658:., 000 



6450, 000 



""■11, 022 



84, 491 



70, 775 



8,462 

 032, 000 

 18, 601 

 «21, 500 

 «49, 000 



2, 6C6, 335 



' No census of collection taken. 



2 Including paints, pigments, and oils. 



3 Duplicates not included. 

 * Foods only. 



' No entries of material received during the year 



Lave been made on the catalogue. 

 8 Estimated. 

 '2,2S5 are nests. 



* Catalogue entries. 

 ' Including Cenozoic fossils. 

 "•Professor Riley's collection nnimbcrs 15,000 



specimens. 

 " Fossil and recent. 



'2 Exclusive of Professor Ward's collection, 

 '3 In reserve series. 



The number of entries made in the Department catalogues during the 

 year, as far as can now be ascertained, is 25,415. Tliis number may bo 



