72 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1884. 



Rev. C. H, A. Dall has furnished samples of fibers and other native 

 products of the Indies, and the greater part of the exhibit of the For- 

 eign Exhibition in Boston made by Ceylon has been received; while a 

 very valuable collection of musical instruments of East India were con- 

 tributed by the Eajah of Tagore. 



Africa.-^-^This country is represented by a few objects of art and in- 

 dustry, while from New Guinea the collection of weapons, implements, 

 &c., obtained from Mr. A. P. Goodwin, has added very greatly to our 

 representation of that little known island. 



The Sandwich Islands. — The greater part of the exhibit made by the 

 Hawaiian Government at the Boston Foreign Exhibition was secured 

 and transferred to the National Museum. 



{b) Chemistry. 



The chemical laboratory of the Smithsonian Institution, which was 

 for a time transferred to the custody of the Museum, has now been as 

 such abandoned. The chemical analyses which it is found necessary 

 to have made in connection with the work of the Museum and the cor- 

 respondence of the Smithsonian Institution are made under the di- 

 rection of the chemist of the Geological Survey, Prof. F. W. Clarke, 

 who occupies laboratories in the northeast jjavilion of the Museum 

 building, and who is authorized by the Director of the Geological Sur- 

 vey to carry on investigations of this character as a partial return for 

 the accommodations afforded to the Survey in the Museum building. 



(c) Experimental physiology. 



Mr. John A. Kyder, embryologist of the United States Fish Commis- 

 sion, occupies a laboratory in the east wing of the Smithsonian building 

 and is constantly engaged in physiological and embryological researches 

 upon material supplied by the Museum and Fish Commission. He may, 

 therefore, for the present be regarded as the honorary head of this de- 

 partment, and his numerous contributions to zoological literature are 

 included in the bibliography of the work of the officers of the Museum. 



(d) Vivaria. 



A small collection of living animals is always kept up under the 

 charge of the chief taxidermist. The collection of aquatic animals at 

 the Government carp ponds, is still in a flourishing condition. 



