REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY, 



65 



Xumber of visitors to the Museum and Sniithsoitian huiMitiijs 



former in 1881. 



<niri' till- DpeiiitK/ itf the 



Year. 



1881 



1882 , 



1883 



1884 (half year) 



1884-851 



1885-86 , 



1886-87 



1887-88 



1888-89' 



1889-90 



1890-91 



1891-92 



1892-931 



1893-94 



1894-95 



1895-96 



1896-97 1 , 



1897-98 



1898-99 , 



1899-1900 



Total. 



Yenrs of Presiidcntial inaugurations. 



RESEARCHES. 



All account of the researches carried on by members of the Museum 

 stiitf will be found in the reports of the head curators. A great deal 

 of the work of identifying and monographing the collections is, how- 

 ever, performed by persons not connected with the Museum, but for 

 the most part having relations with other establishments of learning 

 either in this country or abroad. Such services are, with rare excep- 

 tions, rendered gratuitously, even though they be directh^ solicited 

 on the part of the Museum. In xgv\ man}' cases, the use of speci- 

 mens is given to aid in the preparation of reports undertaken in the 

 interest of the expert himself or in behalf of the institution to which 

 he belongs, the Museum benefiting indirectly. It is arranged, wherever 

 possible, to have these investigations conducted in Washington, and 

 specimens are only sent awa}' for stud}' when their safety can be 

 definitely assured. Considerable progress has been made during the 

 year, under this practice, in the working up of collections. 



From the Department of Anthropology, a series of Shoshone and 

 Ute crania was lent to Dr. A. Hrdlicka, of the American Museum 

 of Natural History, New York, and a part of the collection of primi- 

 tive games to Mr. Stewart Culin. director of the museum of the 

 Tniversit}' of Pennsj'lvania. It mav also be mentioned here that a 

 number of the models of vehicles from the collections illustrating 



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