76 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUBEUM, 1898. 



PHOTOGRAPHY. 



Seven hundred and forty-six negatives, 790 platinum prints, 686 

 silver prints, and 62 cyanotypes have been made for the various depart- 

 ments in the Museum. The catalogue of negatives in the custody of 

 the photographer, Mr. T. W. Smillie, has been completed; 9,650 blue 

 prints having been made for this purpose during the year. 



EXPOSITIONS. 



Tennessee Centennial Exposition. — This exposition opened at Nash- 

 ville on May ], 1897, and continued until October 31. An appropri- 

 ation of $130,000 was made by Congress for the preparation of a 

 Government exhibit, the sum of $14,500 being allotted to the Smith- 

 sonian Institution and National Museum from this amount. A slight 

 increase in the Smithsonian allotment was afterwards made. Collec- 

 tions were exhibited by the following divisions and sections of the 

 Museum: Mammals, birds, reptiles and batrachians, fishes, mollusks, 

 insects, marine invertebrates, comparative anatomy, paleontology, 

 geology, minerals, ethnology, prehistoric archneology, religions, tech- 

 nology, electricity, historical collections, and medicine. 



The Eeport of the Smithsonian Institution for the present fiscal year 

 contains a full account of the participation in the exposition by the 

 Institution and its various bureaus. 



Trmis-Mississipjii cmd International Exposition. — The Trans-Missis- 

 sippi and International Exposition opened at Omaha on June 1, 1898, 

 and will continue for five months. An appropriation of $50,000 for the 

 erection of a Government building was made by Congress, and this 

 amount was afterwards increased to $60,000, with an additional appro- 

 l^riation of $2,500 for the erection of a building for an exhibit by the 

 Life-Saving Service. The sum of $137,500 was appropriated for an 

 exhibit by the Executive Departments, the Smithsonian Institution, 

 including the National Museum, and the U. S. Fish Commission. Of 

 this amount $19,491.71 was allotted to the Smithsonian Institution and 

 its bureaus. 



Exhibits have been prepared by each of the three scientific depart- 

 ments of the Museum — anthropology, biology, and geology. The Depart- 

 ment of Anthropology has sent series illustrative of fire-making and 

 illumination, exploitative industries, domestic arts, ceramic art, metal 

 working, sculpture, photography, land and marine transportation, and 

 the progress in certain branches of electrical engineering; groups of 

 life-sized figures representing people engaged in primitive arts; series 

 of weapons, tools, and musical instruments, and objects showing the 

 history of the development of bookmaking. The exhibit of the Depart- 

 ment of Biology includes series of the lower invertebrates, mollusks, 

 insects, fishes, reptiles and batrachians, birds, mammals, and aquatic 

 plants. The geological exhibits include series prepared in the divisions 



