REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 



The following table shows the number of accession lots aciiuiied 

 the Museum annually since 1881: 



25 



Tear. 



Accoaaiou 



mnnbers 



(inclusive). 



1881 98'JO-llOUO 



188-- 11001-12500 



1883 12501-13900 



1884 ! 13901-15550 



1885 (January to June) I 1 5551-16208 



1886 16209-17704 



1887 17705-19350 



1888 19351-20831 



1889 1 20832-22178 



1890 ' 22179-22340 



1891 22341-24527 



1892 ' 24528-25881 



1893 25885-27150 



1894 ' 27151-28311 



1895 ' 28312-29534 



Xuinber of 



accessions 



(luring 



tljo year. 



1,111 



1,50') 

 1,400 

 1,050 

 C58 

 1,496 

 1,640 

 1,481 

 1,347 

 1,102 

 1,187 

 1,357 

 1,206 

 1,101 

 1,223 



A list of the accessions during the year covered by this report is 

 printed as Appendix ii. The list proper, which is arranged alphabet- 

 ically by names of contributors, is accompanied by indexes showing 

 the localities from which the specimens were obtained and the depart- 

 ments in the Museum to which they have been assigned. 



TRANSFER OF THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



In 1860 the ISTational Herbarium was transferred from the Smithsonian 

 Institution to the Department of Agriculture. The reasons for this 

 transfer are given under the head of "Review of work in the scientific 

 departments.'" Within the last year, however, a formal communication 

 was received from the Assistant Secretary of Agriculture proposing 

 that the Herbarium be again housed by the Smithsonian Institution. 

 The reasons for the desired change are given in the letter of the Assist- 

 ant Secretary of Agriculture, dated July 21, 1891, which is reprinted 

 in the chapter referred to above. The proposition was agreed to by the 

 Smithsonian Institution, and the actual transfer of the Herbarium took 

 place in September of the same year. 



