CONTENTS. 



F.— Review of the administrative work— Continued. 



Finance, propertj , supplies, and accounts 56 



( lorrespondence and reports 61 



Preparation of labels 63 



Buildings and labor — police and public comfort 63 



Tlie \\«>ik of the Museum preparators 64 



(4. — Accessions - 66 



Number of accessions annually since 1881 66 



Geographical review of the more important accessions 66 



II. Cooperation of the Departments and Bureaus of the Government 82 



1 >epartmeni of State 82 



Treasury Department 83 



War 1 >epartment and the Army 84 



Navy 1 >epartment and the Navy - 85 



1 department of the Interior 86 



I (eparl ment of Agriculture 89 



United States Fish Commission 91 



Department of Justice 92 



Bureau of Ethnology 92 



I. — Explorations 93 



Collectors' outfits 95 



Section II. — Reports of the Curators. 



Ethnology 101 



American aboriginal pottery 109 



Oriental antiquities Ill 



Historical collections 115 



Graphic aits 121 



Forestry .• 125 



Transportation and engineering 127 



Materia medica 133 



Prehistoric anthropology 135 



Mammals 143 



Birds 147 



Birds 3 eggs 153 



Reptiles and batrachians 155 



Fishes 159 



Mollnsks (including cenozoic fossils) .• 163 



Vertebrate fossils 169 



Insects 171 



.Marine in vert el nates 175 



Comparative anatomy 181 



Fossil plants 185 



Invertebrate fossils : 



1'aleozoic \{)\ 



Mesozoic 195 



Botany 197 



Minerals 201 



Geology 205 



Section HI.— Papers Describing and Illustrating Collections in the 



U. s. National Museum. 



1. Japanese Wood-cutting ami Wood-cut Printing. Communicated by Mr. T. 



Tokuno, and edited by S. R. Koehler 221 



2. The Relation of Biology to Geological Investigation. By Charles A. White 245 



