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odicals. The number of books, pamphlets, and periodicals borrowed 

 from the central library- amounted to 23,149, including 6,800 withdrawn 

 for assignment to the sectional libraries, of which there are now 30, 

 as follows: 



Administration. 



Administrative assistant. 



Anthropology. 



Biology. 



Birds. 



Botany. 



Children's room. 



Comparative anatomy. 



Editor. 



Ethnology. 



Fishes. 



Geology. 



History. 



Insects. 



Mammals. 



Marine invertehrates. 



Materia medica. 



Mesozoic fossils. 



Mineralogy. 



Mollusks. ' 



Oriental archaeology. 



Paleobotany. 



Parasite.'i. 



Photography. 



Prehistoric aiitli n ipolof^y. 



Reptiles. 



Stratigraphic ])aleontology, 



Suiierintendent. 



Taxidermy. 



Technology. 



PHOTOGRAPHY. 



Mr. '^P. W. Smillie, the photographer of the Museum, reports that 

 1,621 negatives, 2,890 silver prints, 378 platinum prints, 32 lantern 

 slides, and 2,060 blue prints were made during the year. A part of 

 his time was also allotted to the Zoological Park, the Bureau of Inter- 

 national Exchanges, and the Astrophysical Observator3\ 



Mr. Smillie was appointed chairman of the jury of awards on pho- 

 tography for the Pan-American Exposition, causing his absence from 

 Washington during about a month of the summer of 1901. While 

 serving in this capacity he made a large number of photographs of 

 different exhil)its for the (rovernment Board of the Exposition. 



TAXIDERMY AND OSTEOLOGICAL WORK. 



Fifty-two maumials, including a specimen of Steller's sea lion, were 

 mounted during the year and added to the exhibition series. Eighty- 

 tive si)ecimcns in the tiesh, from the National Zoological Park and 

 other sources, were received and properly treated. Between 300 antl 

 400 of the small skins in vats were freed from grease and made over 

 into suitable form for permanent preservation. These included a 

 number of type specimens. Three new groups of game birds were 

 completed during the .year, and 38 large birds and 12 smaller ones 

 were also mounted. Fifty-one skins were prepared from birds received 

 in the flesh, and 112 specimens in the exhibition series were dismounted 

 and made into skins. 



One thousand and sixty-four skulls of mammals, mostly of large 

 size, were cleaned b}^ the Museum preparators, and more than 2,100 

 small skulls were cleaned by contract. 



