REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1892. 

 0.— THE CONDITION OF THE COLLECTIONS. 



CENSUS OF THE COLLECTIONS. 



Although no special effort has been made to increase the collections 

 during the year, the accessions to the Museum since July, 1891, have 

 exceeded that of the preceding fiscal year by 94,639 specimens, the 

 total number of specimens received during the year covered by this 

 report being 228,249, as is shown in the following' table: 



Departments. 



Arts and industries: 



Materia medica 



Domestic animals 



1 1 istorieal collections, coins, medals, et< 



Musical instruments 



Transportation and engineering 



Modern pottery, porcelain, and bronzes 



Graphic arts 



Ethnology 



American aboriginal pottery 



Prehistoric anthropologj 



Mammals (skins and alcoholics) - 



Birds 



Birds' eggs and nests 



Reptiles and batrachians 



Fishes 



Vertebrate fossils 



Mollusks (including cenozoic fossils) 



Insects 



Mai ine invertebrates 



Comparative anatomy : 



( teteology 



Anatomy 



Invertebrate fossils: 



Paleozoic 



Mesozoic 



Fossil plants 



Recent plants 



Minerals 



i leologv 



Number 

 of speci- 

 mens. 



207 



6 



4.50(1 



94 



265 



88 



200 



2.241 



1,817 



9, 326 



1,086 



5, 610 



• 3,004 



1,004 



1.900 



1, (Mil 



6,225 



10,50(1 

 7, 120 



426 



869 



3,099 



100. 000 



53, 384 



4, 121 



4, 000 



228. 240 



The yearly growth of the collections since 1882 is presented in the 

 following table, the total number of specimens now in the Museum 

 being 3,223,941 : 



