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In addition to this 2,200 plates have been numbered, and filed for 

 future use. 



(e) Artist. 



Mr. A. Zeno Shindler has been engaged in painting casts of fishes, 

 reptiles, &c., for the Museum aixl for tbe Louisville, Cincinnati, and 

 Xew Orleans Expositions. He has also made numerous sketches in oil 

 and water-color of certain specimens on exhibition in the .Museum. 

 Four full-sized Indian busts were also painted by him for exhii)ition at 

 ifew Orleans in connection with the ethnological department of the 

 Museum. 



(/) Preparators in the Division of Anthropology. 



Mr. E. H. Hawley has been for the greater part of the year engaged 

 in mounting collections for the New Orleans, Louisville, and Cincinnati 

 Expositions. During the early part of the year he also arranged for 

 exhibition the collections received from the foreign exhibition, held in 

 Boston during the latter part of 1SS3. In November and December 

 eight valuable India cashmere shawls were mounted and placed on ex- 

 liibition in the IMuseum. An interesting collection from the Dennison 

 Manufacturing Company, consisting of the ingredients used in the i)rep- 

 aration of sealing wax, together with the uumufactured products, is be- 

 ing installed by Mr. Hawley; also, a magnificent collection of ostrich 

 leathers presented byMr. R. T. Bdn^, and imported by Joseph Andrade 

 and Company, and some fine specimens of walrus leathers received from 

 F. "W. Gesswein. 



Mr. T, M. Sweeny devoted his time during the first half of the year 

 to the mounting of ethnological objects for display in the National Mu- 

 seum. As soon as the Department of Ethnology was organized, in July, 

 he was assigned as assistant to the curator. Prof. O. T. Mason. 



16. WORK IN CONNECTION WITH THE EXPOSITIONS. 

 {a) The Cincinnati, Louisville, and Nerc Orleans Expositions. 



The participation of the Smithsonian Institution, as directed by Con- 

 gress, in three exhibitions, has — although in many respects detrimental 

 to the growth of the Museiun — contributed largely to the prosperity of 

 several of its departments. In the first i)lace, in order that material 

 might properly be selected for exhibition, it was found necessary in 

 many departments of the Museum to employ additional assistants in 

 making a thorough overhauling of the material and getting it system- 

 atically arranged. In the second place, it was found necessary to pur- 

 chase a considerable amount ot material to fill vacancies in the various 

 series of specimens which were shown at the exhibitions. 



It has been our policy to expend the ai>propriation for the New Or- 

 leans Exposition in such a manner that there also might result a per- 



