X CONTENTS. 



SUMMARY OF THE OPERATIONS OF THE YEAR. 



Page. 



The Museum staff 51 



Appropriations and expenditures 51 



Buildings 53 



Accessions and registration 53 



Distribution and exchange 55 



Visitors 57 



Students and investigators 58 



Cooperation of the Executive Departments of the Government 62 



Information furnished 62 



PubUcations 63 



Library 64 



Explorations 65 



Taxidermy and osteology 68 



Photography 68 



Expositions _ 68 



Necrology 69 



APPENDICES. 



I. The Museum staff 71 



II. List of accessions during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1899 73 



III. Statement of the distribution of specimens during the fiscal year ending 



June 30, 1899 117 



lY. Bibliography of the U. S. National Museum for the fiscal year ending 



June 30, 1899 125 



Y. Papers published in separate form during the year ending June 30, 1899. . 151 



PART II. 

 Papers Describing and Illustrating Collections in the U. S. National Museum. 



1. Guide to the Study of the Collections in the Division of AppHed Geology. 



The Nonmetallic Minerals. By George P. Merrill 155 



2. A Primitive Frame for Weaving Narrow Fabrics. By Otis Tuf ton Mason . . 485 



3. An Early West Virginia Pottery. By Walter Hough 511 



4. Pointed Bark Canoes of the Kutenai and Amur. By Otis T. Mason 523 



5. Descriptive Catalogue of a Collection of Objects of Jewish Ceremonial 



Deposited in the U. S. National Museum by Hadji Ephraim Benguiat. 



By Cyrus Adler and I. M. Casanowicz 539 



