22 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



Number of specimens in the departments of the Museum on June SO, 1896-Coxitmned. 



Department. 



Art* aud industries— Continued. 



Fores t ry 



Transportation and engineering 



Kaval architecture 



Historical collections 



Musical instruments 



Modern pottery, porcelain, bronzes, etc . 



Paints aud dyes 



Pliysical apparatus 



Oils and gums 



Chemical jtroducts 



Domestic animals 



Ethnology 



Specimens. 



American aboriginal pottery 



Pueblo collection 



Oriental antiquities and religious ceremonials. 



Prehistoric anthropology .-- 



Mammals (skins and alcoholics) 



Birds 



Birds' eggs and nests 



Reptiles and batrachians . 

 Fishes 



MoUn.sks 



Insects 



Marine invertebrates 



Helminthological collection. 

 Comparative anatomj- : 



Osteology 



A natoniy 



I'aleontology : 



Vertebrate fossils 



Invertebrate fossils — 



Paleozoic 



Meaozoic 



Fossil ])lants 



Recent idants 



Minerals 



Geology 



Total . 



749 



1,911 



1,331 



31, 349 



1,343 



3,865 



197 



366 



1,112 



217 



428, 470 



133,368 



n, 553 



33, 020 



209, 346 



15, 215 



100, 000 



61, 947 



35, 619 



150, 000 



600, 000 



630, 000 



527, 209 



4 1,550 



15, 285 



316,812 



286, 126 

 27, 557 

 72, 249 



3, 588, 886 



' The aboriginal pottery, with the excei)liou of the Pueblo series, has been transferred to the depart- 

 ment of preliistoric anthropology. Since the figures showing the number of specimens so transferred 

 have not yet been made up, the record for the jirevious year will be allowed to stand for the present. 



'These tigures rei)resent tlie additions to the Pueblo collections during the year. 



^Tliese ligures are based >ipon an actual (^ount. 



*Kumber of catalogue entries to June 30, 1896. 



