26 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



Professor Tyndall, that but a small portion of the income of the fund 

 has been expended, and the original sum has been thereby augmented. 



On the death of two of the trustees — Professor Henry, at Washing- 

 ton, and General H. Tyndale, at Philadelphia, — Dr. F. A. P. Barnard, of 

 New York, and Prof. Joseph Lovering, of Cambridge, Mass., were duly 

 appointed as their successors; and how judiciously the trustees have 

 continued to husband the resources committed to them is sufficiently 

 evinced by the remarkable fact that the Tyndall fund has now ac- 

 cumulated, by the constant addition to it of the unappropriated income, 

 from the original sum of $13,000, to $32,000. 



Under these circumstances the distinguished donor has been induced 

 to modify the original conditions of the gift, so as to divide the in- 

 creased principal into three separate funds (of nearly $11,000 each), and 

 to give the charges thereof, respectively, to Harvard College at Cam- 

 bridge, Columbia College at New York, and the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania at Philadelphia, for the perpetual maintenance in each of these 

 institutions of learning, of a graduate fellowship in tbe department of 

 jihysics. There can be little doubt that this change of the direction 

 was, under the peculiar circumstances, eminently judicious; and that 

 the several endowments will constitute brilliant prizes to aspiring 

 American students, and will greatly contribute to the noble purpose of 

 their founder — the stimulation of original research, and the advance- 

 ment of physical science in the United States. 



UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Arrangement of material. — The regular work of the Museum has been 

 considerably interrupted during the six months now under consideration 

 by the participation of the Museum in the World's Industrial and Cotton 

 Centennial Exposition at New Orleans. Several members of the staff 

 were in attendance at this exposition, in custody of the collections of the 

 Museum there displayed, and in May and June ten curators and me- 

 chanics were sent to New Orleans to attend to the re-packing and for- 

 warding of the collections sent by the Smithsonian Institution, as well 

 as to care for the numerous exhibits transferred to the Museum by for- 

 eign and domestic exhibitors at the close of the exposition. The extent 

 of these accessions was very considerable. One hundred and seventy-six 

 thousand pounds of exhibits were sent to New Orleans. Of this amount 

 138,624 pounds were sent direct, 19,814 pounds from Cincinnati, and 

 17,(i3L pounds from Louisville, at each of which places the Smithsonian 

 Institution had displayed large exhibits during the summer of 1884 

 320,744 pounds were returned, including 51,267 pounds received from the 

 State Department, whose valuable exhibit, gathered by the United States 

 consuls all over the world, was transferred in bulk to the National Mu- 

 seum with the understanding that a limited number of loan exhibits 

 were reserved for return to their owners. Besides this amount, 74,489 



