O O I^ T E T^ T S 



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Subjects v 



Letter of Transmittal vii 



Contents ix 



List of Illustrations - xiii 



PART I. 



Report of the Assistant Secijetary. 



General C'( jnsideratk )ns. 



As a museum of record 7 



As a museum of research 



As au educational museum 10 



Present condition and needs of the Museum 12 



Summary of the ()perations of the Year. 



Appropriations and expenditures 19 



Buildings 20 



Additions to the collections - 21 



Explorations - 29 



Distribution and exchange of specimens 30 



Researches -^2 



Progress in the installation of the exhil )ition collections -id 



Visitors 41 



Correspondence ^13 



Publications - "13 



Library 45 



Photography 40 



Taxidermy and osteological ^vork 4t) 



Cooperation of the Executive Departments of the (Government 47 



Expositions 47 



Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York 47 



South Carolina Interstate and West Indian Exposition, Charleston 47 



Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Missouri 47 



Organization and staff 48 



Necrology 49 



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