REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 



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the department of geology, tlie total for a given year was liable to 

 exceed the total for the previous year by more tlian tlic number repre- 

 senting the specimens obtained during the year. This might be readily 

 accounted for by the fact that one large specimen u]>on its arrival 

 would not unfrequently be broken into a large number of smaller ones. 

 Hence the necessity for numerous explanatory notes arose, and for this 

 reason the arrangement of these tables, as here given, will bo ado])ted 

 in future reports of the Museum. 



A. — Xtimbcr of specimens rcceirvd in 1S04-95. 



Departmeut. 



Arts and industries : 

 Materia meuica. . . 

 Foods 



Textiles 



Animal products 



Graphic arts 



Forestry 



Transportation and engineering — 



Xaval architecture 



Historical collections 



Musical instruments 



Modern pottery, porcelain, bronzes, 



Physical apparatus 



Domestic animals , 



Ethnology 



Specimens 

 received in 

 1 1894-95. 



American aboriginal pottery 



Oriental anticxuilies and religious cciTmonials 



Prehistoric anthropologj- 



Mammals (skins and alcoholics) 



Birds 



Birds' eggs and nests 



Reptiles and batracliians . 



Fishes 



MoUusks 



Insects 



Marino invertebrates 



Holminthological collection 

 Comparative anatomy : 



Mammals 



Birds , 



Reptiles and batrachians 



Fishes 



Paleontology : 



Vertebrate fossils 



Invertebrate fossils — 



Paleozoic , 



Mesozoic 



Cenozoic , 



Fossil plants 



Recent plants 



Minerals , 



Geology 



Total 



298 

 81 

 14 



13, 



41 

 642 



75 

 171 

 096 

 484 

 499 

 023 

 093 

 000 

 132 

 000 

 378 

 106 



897 

 053 

 240 



127, 324 



d Number of catalogue entries to June 30, 1895. 



