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Subjects v 



Letter op Transmittai vii 



Contexts * ix 



List of Illustrations xm 



Section I. — Report op the Assistant Secretary in charge op the 



National Museum. 



A. — General considerations 3 



Principal sources of the collections 4 



B.— Special topics of the year r 6 



Increase in the collections 6 



Increase in the Museum library : 6 



Decreased edition of the reports of the Smithsonian Institution and 



National Museum 6 



Visitors G 



Museum appropriations for 18!L'-'!'3 G 



Proposed additional Museum building G 



Representation of the United States at the Madrid Exposition 7 



Necrology 7 



C. — The condition of the collect ions 8 



Census of the collections 8 



Catalogue entries 11 



Development and arrangement of the exhibition scries 11 



D.— The Museum staff 13 



The scientific staff 13 



List of curators, assistant curators, and aids 13 



The administrative statf 14 



E. — Review of work in the scientific departments 14 



Division of anthropology 14 



1 Hvision of zoology 17 



Division of botany 22 



Division of geology 23 



F. — Review of the administrative work 23 



Registration and distribution 23 



Geographical statement of the distribution of specimens during the 



year 24 



Library 31 



Specimens sent to the Museum for examination and report 32 



Foreign exchanges 45 



Publications 49 



Visitors 53 



Lectures and meetings of societies 54 



Students 55 



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