REPORT OF ACTINfi ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 19 



Hon. \V. W. K()(^kliill, Assistant Secretary of State, presented a 

 Korean idol to the Museum. 



The IMuseuni is much indebted to the Treasury Department tor its 

 continued assistance in connection with the prompt free entry of mate- 

 rial fiom various foreign countries. 



I'ortraits of Franklin, Henry, Morse, and Kendall li;ive been received 

 from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. 



Dr. Stejneger and Mr. Lucas, members of the Fur-Seal Investigation 

 Commission, were given permission by the Secretary of the Treasury 

 to kill a limited number of fur-seals on the coast of Alaska for the 

 National jNIuseum. 



The ^fuseum is indebted to Capt. J. .1. Dunton, keeper, Life-saving 

 station. Ocean City, Md., for a specimen of Angler, or Fishing Frog 

 ( Lophius piscatoriiis). 



Several officers of the IJ. S. Army have secured material of various 

 kinds for the Museum, consisting of natural history and botanical 

 specimens and ethnological objects. Among those who have shown 

 special interest in behalf of the Museum are Dr. Edgar A. Mearns, Dr. 

 W. H. Forwood, Dr. ,1. C. Merrill, Capt. J. W. Pope, Capt. W. L. Car- 

 penter, Lieut. Wirt llobinson, and Lieut. U. L. Willoughby. Dr. E. R. 

 Hodge, of the Army Medical Museum, contributed specimens of Con- 

 federate paper money. 



From the U.S. Signal Office, Gen. A. W.Greely, Chief Signal Otticer, 

 was received the Beardslee magneto-dial telegraph instrument. 



The Museum is under obligations to several officers of the U. S. Navy 

 for valuable contributions to the collections. Commander F. W. Dick- 

 ins sent two clay pipes fouiul in an Indian grave at Newi)ort, Khode 

 Island. Commander S. D. Sigsbee transmitted a specimen of sea-lily 

 obtained from near Havana. Lieut. C. (t. Calkins secured for the 

 Museum a collection of bamboo objects from Japan and some musical 

 instruments from China. 



Dr. James M. Flint has continued to act in the capacity of honorary 

 curator of the section of nuiteria medica. 



Large collections of geological and other material obtained by field 

 parties and individual geologists have been transmitted to the Museum 

 collections by the U. S. Geological Survey. Special mention should be 

 made of tlu' material obtained by i*rof. 1"\ VV. Clarke, Dr. W, II. Dall, 

 Dr. David T. Day, Mr. J. S. Diller, Dr. W. F. Hillebraud, Dr. F. H. 

 Knowlton, Whitman Cross, Dr. T. W. Stanton, David White, and 

 others. Mr. Charles D. Walcott, Director of the Survey, transmitted 

 gold-bearing (piartz from Nevada. Large collections of Middle Cam- 

 brian medusa' and ^liddle Cambrian trilobites have also been made in 

 Alabama under the direction of Mr. Walcott. 



Four bufialo heads from animals killed by ])oachers in the Yellow- 

 stone Park, and ten photographs and sketches made by IMr. F. Jay 

 Haynes, of Mammoth Hot Springs, Wyoming, have also been added to 

 the Museum collections. 



