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Books, pamphlets, and periodicals $2, 000 



Repairs to buildings, shops, and sheds 15, 000 



Rent of workshops and temporary storage quarters 4, 040 



Printing and binding 17, 000 



Purchase of specimens 10, 000 



Total 263, 540 



BUILDINGS. 



Skylights have been placed in the roof of the Museum building above 

 the four courts and above the west south, east south, and south east 

 ranges, in all of which the lighting has been poor, especially since the 

 construction of galleries in them. The galleries in the east, west, and 

 south halls and the stairways leading to the galleries from tlie rotunda 

 have been furnished with iron railings, and the gallery in the south 

 east range has been extended so as to form a complete second story, 

 adding much needed room for laboratory and storage purposes. 



The old wooden floor in the main hall of the Smithsonian building, 

 occupied by the exhibition collections of birds and mollusks, has been 

 replaced by a terrazzo pavement, a change long contemplated, which 

 greatly improves the comfort and appearance of the hall. 



ACCESSIONS AND REGISTRATION. 



The additions to the collections during the year were embraced in 

 1,467 accessions and numbered 206,617 specimens, which increases the 

 total number of specimens in the Museum to 1,819,836. The following 

 table gives the additions and totals under the Museum classification: 



Number of specimens received in 1899-1900, and total number in the several divisions on 



JnneSO, 1900. 



Division. 



Received 

 in 1899-1900. 



Total. 



Anthropology: 



Ethnology 



Historic archeology . . . 



Prehistoric archseology 



Technology 



Graphic arts 



Medicine 



Religions 



History and biography 



Somatology 



Ceramics 



Photography 



Music 



Biology: 



Mammals 



Birds 



2,387 



13 



29, 939 



156 



28 



Birds' eggs 



Reptiles and batrachians i 



1 Including material recently added to the Department of Agricultun: 



1 

 903 

 7 

 118 

 10 

 10 



4,814 



4,988 



159 



1,263 



series. 



456,295 



1,989 



307, 957 



30,784 

 7,383 

 6,800 

 2,367 



38,086 

 2,316 

 4, 127 

 1,781 

 1,435 



'31,830 



1 120, 047 



64,820 



40,240 



