X CONTENTS. 



III. — RF.VIEW OF WORK IN THE SCIENTIFIC DEPARTMENTS. 



Department of — Page. 



Mammals 5*0 



Birds 53 



Birds' eggs, 56 



Reptiles and batrachians 57 



Fishes 58 



Mollusks (including Tertiary fossils) ... ... 60 



Insects 68 



Marine in vertebrate.s 64 



Helminthological collection . 67 



Department of — 



Comparative anatomy 69 



Paleontology . . 70 



Plants (National Herbarium) 74 



Minerals 80 



Geology ., 81 



Ethnology 83 



Prehistoric anthropology , 85 



Arts and industries _ 87 



Technological collections 87 



The graphic arts collection 89 



Materia medica 90 



The historical collections _ . 90 



Collection of musical instruments. 91 



The collections of oriental antiquities and religious ceremonial 



objects 91 



IV. — REVIEW OF WORK IN THE ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENTS. 



Finance, property, supplies, and accounts 93 



Division of corresijondence and reports. 94 



Registration and distribution 98 



Buildings and labor ; police and public comfort 99 



Work of the Museum preparators 99 



APPENDICES. 



I. — The scientific and administrative staffs. 103 



II.— List of accessions during the year ending June 30, 1895 105 



III. — List of the accessions to the Museum library received by gift and 

 exchange during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1895, exclusive of 



publications retained from the Smithsonian library. 163 



IV.— Bibliography of the U. S. National Museum for the fiscal year ending 



June 30, 1895 207 



V. — List of papers in the Proceedings of the National Museum, published 



in separate form during the year ending June 30, 1895 251 



VI. — Specimens sent to the Museum for examination and report 255 



VII. — Lectures and meetings of societies 267 



VIII. — Finance, property, supplies, and accounts 271 



IX. — Lists of duplicate specimens prepared for distribution to educational 



establishments since 1890 275 



X.— Statement of the distribution of specimens during the year ending 



June 30, 1895 ." 299 



XL — The work of the mechanics and laborers 307 



