152 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1892. 



The following minor routine work was performed during LS < ,(L- ,, ,»2: 



< Uncial letters written 1X6 



Official memoranda written 213 



< >r<lers for wmk 62 



Requisitions ( house ) 97 



Requisitions (outside) 130 



Memoranda of packing IX 



Monthly reports pages.. 72 



Papers for publication written and turned in_ do (57 



Invoices of specimens distributed do 30f 



Proof corrected do 407f 



Proof corrected, galleys do 95^ 



Manuscript revised do 3 



Annual report for 1890-'91 written , do 37 



SPECIAL RESEARCHES. 



Under this heading may be mentioned chiefly the curator's work upon 

 collections from Honduras, Costa Rica, the Galapagos Archipelago, 

 Cashmir, etc., and upon special groups, as the genus Formicarius; 

 Dr. Stejneger's upon collections from Japan and the Sandwich Islands; 

 Mr. J. A. Allen's on the genus Golaptes, and Mr. Frank M. Chapman's 

 upon the Genus Quiscalus. Sonic of these investigations have not been 

 concluded; but the results of others have been published. (See Biblio- 

 graphy, Section iv.) 



PRESENT STATE OP THE COLLECTK >N. 



The present state of the collection is considerably improved over that 

 of last year, -ring to the tar more convenient arrangement of the larger 

 part in modern cabinets. A considerable portion (much the bulkier 

 part, though numerically less; has yet to be rearranged, the work having 

 been retarded by the preparation of the World's Fair exhibit as well 

 as by want of cases. It will, however, be resinned at as early a date 

 as possible, and it is to be hoped that by the end of the current year 

 the entire study collection may be put in a thoroughly systematic state, 

 and the duplicates separated and classified, so that by next year an 

 extensive distribution of sets can be made. 



The number of specimens contained in the collection at the end of 

 June, 1892, is shown in the following table: 



Study series 



Exhibition series 

 Duplicate scries. . 



Total 



1890-'91. 



1891-92. Increase. 



62,806 68,416 



srtained 1>\ actual count. 



The last entry in the catalogue for June, L891, is 1l'075l'; that for 

 June, 1892, is 126361. 



