REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 



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CATALOGUE ENTRIES. 



The number of catalogue entries made in the books of the several 

 departments during the year amounts to 40,550. One entry may include 

 one specimen, or a number of specimens, if from the same locality, or 

 several individuals of the same species. 



Departments. 



Materia raedica 



Historical collections 



Musical instruments 



Transportation and engineering 



Modern pottery 



Graphic arts 



Ethnology 



American aboriginal pottery 



Prehistoric anthropology 



Mammals 



Birds 



Birds' eggs and nests 



Reptiles and batrachians 



Fishes 



Vertebrate fossils 



Mollusks (including cenozoic fossils) 



Insects 



Marine invertebrates 



Comparative anatomy: 



Osteology 



Anatomy 



Paleozoic fossils 



Mesozoic fossils 



Recent plants 



Minerals 



Geology 



Number 



of 

 entries. 



55 



T."j 



59 



161 



111 



179 



1,243 



18, 874 



1,268 



1,086 



5, (JU9 



840 



1,055 



55:? 



1, 124 



2 510 



295 



1,318 



574 



95 



419 



512 



1,451 



1,045 



40, 550 



DEVELOPMENT AND ARRANGEMENT OF THE EXHIBITION SERIES. 



The overcrowded condition of the Museum building has prevented 

 any extensive changes in the arrangement of the exhibition halls. 

 Although a large number of interesting objects has been received during 

 the year in almost every department, it has not been possible to place 

 them on exhibition. They have, therefore, for the most part been stored 

 away until additional facilities for exhibition purposes shall have been 

 obtained. This can only be brought about by the passage by Congress 

 of an act authorizing the construction of an additional Museum build- 

 ing. In spite of the many disadvantages under which the work of the 

 Museum has been carried on during the year, considerable progress has 

 been made in connection with the rearrangement of the collections on 

 exhibition and in preparing specimens for installation, when it has been 

 possible to provide the necessary space. 



