6 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, ISbl. 



istrar, chief tiixidern list and cliief modeler, besidew a considerable force 

 of ])rei)arator8, ineclianic«, watcbiuan, clerks, laborers, «&c. 



Tbe collections are stored and exbibited in tlie building erected lor 

 the use of tlie Sniitlisoniau Institution between 1847 and 1857, an<l in 

 the new buildiug, just finished, known as the " National Museum." 



Composition of the collections. — The Museum is made up, iu large part, 

 of the following materials: 



1. The uatural -history and anthropological collections accumulated 

 since 1850 by the eflbrts of the officers and correspondents of the Smith- 

 sonian' Institution. 



2. The collections of the Wilkes Exploring Expedition, the Perry 

 Ex^iedition to Japau, aud other naval expeditious. 



3. The collections of the scientific officers of the Pacific Itailroad 

 Survey, the Mexicau Boundary Survey, aud of the surveys canied on 

 by the Engineer Corjxs of the Army. 



4. The collections of the United States Geological Surveys under the 

 direction of the United States Geologists Hayden, King, and Powell. 



5. The collections of the United States Fish Commission. 



G. The gifts by foreign Gov^ernmeuts to the Museum or to the Presi- 

 dent and other public officers of the United States, who are forbidden 

 by law to receive them personally. 



7. The collections made by the United States to illustrate the animal 

 and mineral resources, the fisheries, aud the ethnology of the native 

 races of the country, on the occasion of the International Exhibition at 

 Philadelphia in 187G, and the fishery collections displayed by the United 

 States iu the International Fisheries Exhibition at Berlin in 1880 aud 

 at Loudon in 1883. 



8. The collections given by the Governments of the several foreign 

 nations, thirty in number, which participated in the exhibition at Phil- 

 adelphia. 



9. The industrial collections given hy numerous manufacturing aud 

 commercial houses of Europe and America, at the time of the Philadel- 

 phia Exhibition and subsequently. 



10. The material received, in exchange for duplicate sijeoimens, from 

 the museums of Europe, Asia, and Australasia, and from numerous in- 

 stitutions and collectors in North and South America. 



Adjuncts to administration. — All necessary adjuncts to the work of 

 the Museum, a working library, a chemical laboratory, a photographic 

 establishment, a workshop for taxidermy, modeling, and the prepara- 

 tion of skeletons, aud several smaller workshops are carried on as a part 

 of the general work of administration. 



Publications of the Museum. — The scientific results of the labors of the 

 officers of the Museum, and of investigations upon the collections be- 

 longing to it, are to be fouiul for the most part in the following works; 



liulletin of the United States National Museum ; 



Proceedings of the United States National Museum ; 



