1<; REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, L892. 



.!. J'». Lippincotl Company, of Philadelphia. About 200 specimens were 

 added during the year, the catalogue entries numbering 179. 



FORESTRY. 



Dr. B. P. Fernow, honorary curator, reports that the forestry collec- 

 tion lias not received many additions during the year. The lack of 

 space tor exhibition purposes has restricted his efforts toward develop- 

 ing the collection, and the bulkiness of the material makes it undesira- 

 ble to add to it in the storage rooms. The curator has, during the year, 

 prepared for publication- a list, with notes, of all the species of trees 

 found in the parks of Washington, 1). ('. 



AMERICAN ABORIGINAL POTTERY. 



The operations of this department, as reported by Mr. William II. 

 Holmes, honorary curator, consisted in the installation of a number of 

 specimens from the tide water districts of Maryland and Virginia, and 

 the Gila Valley, Arizona. Among the principal contributions were 

 fragments of ancient Pueblo ware from Arizona, received from the U. S. 

 Geological Survey, and earthen vessels from Guadalajara. Mexico, 

 collected by ('apt. John G. Bourke, U. S. Army. The estimated num- 

 ber of specimens received during the year was 1,817. 



I KANSPORTATION AND ENGINEERING. 



Satisfactory progress is reported by the curator, Mr. J. E. Watkins. 

 The accessions during the year are both valuable and interesting. They 

 include, among other things, an electrical locomotive, which made a 

 speed of L20 miles an hour at Laurel. Md., in 1889. The value of the 

 collection of telegraphic apparatus has been greatly enhanced through 

 the cooperation of Mr. George C. Maynard. secretary of the American 

 Association of Inventors and Manufacturers. The collection showing 

 the development of the typewriting machine has also received several 

 important additions. Messrs. Wyckotf, Seamans & Benedict have de- 

 posited a model of the Sholes & (Hidden typewriter, invented in 1867, 

 and the original machine made from this model. Mr. J. T. Richards, 

 assistant chief engineer of the Pennsylvania Railroad, presented a 

 model of the monument elected at Bordentown, N. J. in 1891, to com- 

 memorate the first movement by steam on a railroad in the State of 

 New Jersey, which occurred on November P2, L831. Miss Katherine 

 Parsons, of Washington, deposited a sedan chair decorated with gold, 

 owned and used by the royal family of Prance during the reign of Louis 

 xiv. The number of specimens received during the year was 205, the 

 catalogue entries numbering 1(11. 



K< >OI>>. 



Prof. W. O. At water, the honorary curator, while in Europe during 

 the past fiscal year, spent considerable time in collating data available 

 for use iii preparing labels, charts, diagrams, and plans for the food 



