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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1897. 



Number of visitors to the Museum and Smithsonian buildings since the opentwj of the 



former in 18S1. 



Year. 



1881 



1882 



1883 --- 



1884 (half year) 



1884-85 rt 



1885-86 



1886-87 



1887-88 



1888-89(1: 



1889-90 



1890-91 



1891-92 



1892-93 « 



1893-94 



1894-95 



1895-96 



1896-97 « 



Total.... 



Museum 

 building. 



150, 000 

 167, 455 

 202, 188 

 97, 661 

 205, 026 

 174, 225 

 216, 562 

 249, 665 

 374, 843 

 274, 324 

 286, 426 

 269, 825 

 319, 930 

 195, 748 

 201, 744 

 180, 505 

 229, 606 



3, 795, 733 



Smithsonian 

 building. 



100, 000 

 152, 744 

 104, 823 

 45, 565 

 105, 993 

 88, 960 

 98, 552 

 102, 863 

 149,618 

 120, 894 

 111,669 

 114,817 

 174, 188 

 103, 910 

 105, 658 

 103, 650 

 115, 709 



1, 899, 613 



Total to 



both 



buildings. 



250, 000 

 320, 199 

 307, Oil 

 143, 226 

 311,019 

 263, 185 

 315, 114 

 352, 528 

 524, 461 

 395, 218 

 398, 095 

 384, 642 

 494, 118 

 299, 658 

 307, 402 

 284, 155 

 345, 315 



5, 695, 346 



a Years of Presidential inaugurations. 



MATERIAL RECEIVED FOR EXAMINATION AND REPORT. 



There has beeu aii. increase of nearly 25 per cent in the number of 

 "lots" of material received for identificatioh, the total for the present 

 year having been 710. The record for the year covered by the last 

 report also showed a considerable increase over that for the year 

 preceding. 



In Appendix VI a list of the material received during the present 

 year is presented. 



MEETINGS OP ASSOCIATIONS IN WASHINGTON DURING THE YEAR. 



The annual meeting of the Society of Agricultural Chemists was 

 held in the lecture hall of the Museum November 6, 7, and 9, 1890. 



On December 11, Dr. David Starr Jordan delivered a lecture on the 

 seal fisheries. 



The Geological Society of America held its ninth annual meeting in 

 Washington, December 29-31. During the second and third days the 

 sessions were held in the lecture hall of the Museum.^ 



Mr. J. S. Diller, of the U. S. Creological Survey, delivered a lecture 

 on " Crater Lake, Oregon," January 8, 1897. 



A memorial meeting was held in the lecture hall of the Museum on 

 February 13, under the auspices of the Joint Commission of Scientific 

 Societies and the i)atriotic and historical societies of Washington, to 



The-titles of the papers presented are given in Appendix vii. 



