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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1897. 



Dr. I. M. Casauowicz was api^ointed aid on August 12, 1896. 

 A list of the officers of the Museum, corrected to June 30, 1897, is 

 printed in Appendix I. 



ACCESSIONS TO THE COLLECTIONS. 



There has been an increase of more than 50 per cent in the number 

 of specimens received during the year, as compared with 189G, the total 

 having been 111,910. The number of accessions or lots of material 

 shows an increase of 168, giving a total of 1,467 accessions for the year 

 just closed. The increase' is most apparent in the departments of 

 botany, insects, mollusks, geology, prehistoric anthropology, and orien- 

 tal antiquities, and in the section of helminthology and the historical 

 collections. The total number of specimens in the Museum is now esti- 

 mated to be 3,720,237. The figures for each department are given in 

 the appended tables. 



Number of specimens received in 1896-97. 



Department. 



Spe(dmpn8. 



Arts and iudiistries : 



Materia meilica 



Animal products 



Graphic arts 



Transportation and engineering 



Electrical collections 



Naval architectnre 



Historical collections 



Pliotoffrapliic collections 



Musical instruments 



Modern pottery, porcelain, bronzes, etc. 



Pliysical apparatus 



Domestic animals 



Ethnology 



Pueblo collection 



Oriental antifjuities and religious ceremonials 



Prehistoric anthropology 



Mammals (skins and alcoholics) 



Birds 



Birds' eggs and nests 



Koptiles and batrachians 



Fishes 



Mollusks 



Insects 



Marine invertebrates 



Ilelininthological collection 

 Compai'ativc anatomy : 



Mammals 



Birds 



5 

 1 



2 

 3 



253 



5 



3, 441 



47 



50 



143 



1 



2 



1,600 



2,234 



628 



a 13, 840 



1,011 



4,947 



940 



1,158 



2,110 



10, 400 



13, 217 



2,371 



h 2, 949 



Reptiles and batrachians if 



Fishes IJ 



«In addition, a large (luautity of aboriginal pottery, estimated at 20,000 s])eciinens, has been trans- 

 ftirrcd to this dei)artment. 

 fc Clumber ot catalogue entries during the year. 



