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7. The remnaut of the collectious of the old "National Institute." 



8. The collectious made by the United States to illustrate the 

 animal and mineral resources, the fisheries, and the ethnology of 

 the native races of the country on the occasion of the Centennial 

 Exhibition at Philadeli)hia in 1870 ; the fishery collections displayed 

 by the United States at the International Fisheries Exhibition at 

 Berlin in 1880 and at London in 1883, and the collections obtained 

 from various local expositions, as, for instance, the New Orleans 

 Cotton Centennial Exposition in 1884 and 1885, the Cincinnati 

 Exposition in 1887, and the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. 



9. The collections given by the Governments of the several for- 

 eign nations, thirty in number, which participated in the exhibition 

 at Philadelphia in 1876. 



10. The industrial collections given by numerous manufacturing 

 and commercial houses of Europe and America at the time of the 

 Philadelphia Exhibition and subseiiuently. 



11. The materials received from museums in Europe and America 

 in exchange for duplicate specimens. 



12. Collections received as gifts, deposits, or in exchange from 

 individuals, numbering usually from 1,000 to 1,500 each year. 



The publications of the Museum consist of — 



1. The Annual Report. 



2. The Proceedings of the National Museum. 



3. The Bulletin of the National Museum. 



4. The series of circulars. 



Papers by members of the Museum staff, based upon the collections, 

 have been printed in every scientific periodical in the United States 

 and in many of those of Europe. 



RELATIONS OF THE MUSEUM TO THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



The Smithsonian Institution, although it bears the name of a for- 

 eigner, has for half a century been one of the most important agencies 

 in the intellectual life of our i^eople. It has been a rallying point for 

 the workers in every department of scientific and educational work 

 and the chief agency for the free exchange of books, apparatus of 

 research, and of scientific intelligence between this and other coun- 

 tries. Its publications, which include more than two hundred volumes, 

 are to be found in all the important libraries in the world, and some of 

 them, it is safe to say, on the work-table of every scientific investigator. 

 Its great library constitutes an integral and very important part of 

 the national collection at the Capitol, and its museum is the richest in 

 existence in many branches of the natural history and ethnology of 

 the New World. Many wise and enlightened scholars have given their 

 best years to its service, and some of the most eminent men of science 

 to whom our country has given birth have passed their entire lifetime 

 in working for its success. 



Through these books, through the reputation of the men who have 

 worked for it and through it, and through the good accomplished by 

 its system of international exchange, by means of which within the 

 past forty-four years about one and a half million i)ackages of books 



