APPEiNDIX TO THE REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



Table sliounng the number of entries in the record-hooks of the Smithsonian 

 Museum at the close of the years 1871 and 1872, respectively. 



Class. 



Skeletons and skulls . . . 



Mammals 



Birds 



Reptiles 



Fishes 



Eggs of birds 



Crustaceans 



MoUusks 



Radiates 



Annelids 



Fossils 



Minerals 



Ethnological specimens 



Total 



177, 747 



Increase for 1872, 8,387, 

 Approximate table of distribution of duplicate specimens to the end of 1872. 



