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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



Fifty-five skins were i)repared for the collection of the Department 

 of Agriculture and 172 were prepared for the study series of the 

 Museum, as shown in the following table: 



SMna made ap for the study series. 



Primatea... 



TJngulata . - 

 Carnivora.. 

 Chiroptera . 

 Eodentia... 

 Edentata... 

 Insectivora 



Total. 



Department 

 Museum ' of AgricuJ- 

 collection. tare collec- 

 tion. 



The number of skins remaining on hand June 30, 1896, was 453, as 

 shown below : 



Of the large amount of miscellaneous work performed during the 

 year the following items may be mentioned: Sixteen seal skins and a 

 number of other large skins were cleaned preparatory to mounting; an 

 antelope and several smaller mammals were mounted, although not 

 entirely finished; a large sea lion was skinned; more than one hundred 

 mounted mammals were crated, with a view to placing them in storage, 

 and a large model of the National Zoological Park was made. 



Casts were made of the following objects: Nine Egyptian inscrip- 

 tions, two gold ornaments for the new Congressional Library building, 

 two lizards, and a stone tablet. 



Mr. Joseph Palmer was engaged for nearly the entire year on work 

 for other departments in the Museum and for the Atlanta Exposition. 



Mr. Henry Marshall, taxidermist of the department of birds, cleaned 

 and renovated about 700 specimens in the exhibition series. Although 

 this is a much smaller number than was attended to last year, the 



