REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 



Number of specimens received in 1895-96. 



21 



Department. 



Arts and industries : 



Materia medica 



Animal products 



Graphic arts 



Transportation and engineering 



Xaval architecture 



Historical collections 



Musical instruments 



Modern pottery, porcelain, bronzes, etc - 



Domestic animals 



Ethnology 



Specimens. 



Pueblo collection .. 



Oriental antiquities and religious ceremonials. 



Prehistoric anthropology 



Mammals (skins and alcoholics) 



Birds 



Birds' eggs and nests 



Keptiles and batracbians 



Fishes 



Mollusks 



Insects 



Marine invertebrates 



Helminthological collection 

 Comparative anatomy : 



Mammals 



Birds 



Reptiles and batrachians. . . 



Fishes 



Paleontology : 



Vertebrate fossils 



Invertebrate fossils — 



Paleozoic 



Mesozoic 



Cenozoic 



Fossil plants 



Recent plants 



Minerals 



Geology 



Total 



3 



11 



59 



112 



12 



1,053 

 43 



268 



14 



2,828 



1,553 



300 

 5,826 

 1,048 

 8,488 

 1,883 



32» 

 3,000 

 3,173 

 7,000 

 4,831 

 11,444 



207 



81 



832 

 2,574 

 3,663 

 2,616 

 17, 118 

 1,073 

 1,662 



73, 104 



' Number of catalogue entries during the year. 



Number of specimens in the departments of the Museum on June 30, 1896. 



