32 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1895. 



Dr. Z. T. Daniel, of the ludiau Office, lias made several valuable 

 gifts of etLmologi(;al material to tlie Museum during tlie year. Dr. 

 William J. Elstuu, of the Pension Office, lias also been a contributor. 



Several collections Lave been transferred to the Museum by the Fish 

 Commission. From the material received from this source a large 

 number of specimens have been distributed to educational institutions 

 throughout the country, over fifty collections having been sent out 

 during the year. 



Prof. B. W. Evermann, Dr. Hugh M. Smith, Mr. Charles H. Townsend, 

 and Mr. C. W. Kendall have been personally instrumental in obtaining 

 interesting material for the collections. 



A number of important accessions have been received from the 

 Department of Agriculture. Dr. C. Hart Merriam, Mr. L. O. Howard, 

 Dr. A. K. Fisher, Messrs. E. W. Nelson, C. L. Pollard, and Theo. Per- 

 gande have rendered conspicuous assistance to the Museum. Prof. 

 C. V. Eiley, Mr. F. V. Coville, and Dr. C. W. Stiles have continued to 

 act in an honorary cajiacity. Many botanical collections are received 

 direct by the Department of Agriculture. These are in due time 

 incorporated with the National Herbarium according to law. The cir- 

 cumstances which led to the transfer of the National Herbarium from 

 the Department of Agriculture to the National Museum building are 

 referred to at length in another place. 



The Bureau of Ethnology, a branch of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 has transmitted large and valuable collections of ethnological objects 

 from Indian tribes in different sections of the country. 



collectors' outfits. 



During the year outf ts have baen furnished to collectors as follows: 

 To Mr. A. W. Eidgway, Point Lookout, Md.; to Capt. James P. Hare, 

 Avery, La.; to Dr. Edgar A. Mearns, San Diego, Cal.; to Mrs. Con- 

 stance McElroy, Livingston, Guatemala; to Mr. F. W. True, U. S. 

 National Museum, for collecting in Alaska; to Mr. Frank C. Dennis, 

 Livingston, Guatemala; to Eev. D. W. Snyder, Luebo, Congo Free 

 State; to Mr. F. W. Urich, honorary secretary of the Trinidad Field 

 Naturalists' Club, Port-of-Spain, British West Indies; to Mr. O. Bangs, 

 Micco, Brevard County, Fla. ; to Mr. E. S. Matthews, U. S. National 

 Museum, for collecting in West Virginia; to Prof. P. II. Eolfs, Florida 

 Agricultural College, Lake City, Fla.; to Lieut. Wirt Eobinson, steam- 

 ship Venezuela, Brooklyn, N. Y., and to Mr. William Palmer, U. S. 

 National Museum, for use during a collecting trip in Florida. 



DEVELOPMENT AND ARRANGEMENT OF THE EXniBITION SERIES. 



The changes in the exhibition halls of the Museum have not been 

 very extensive during the year. Most of the alterations were made 

 with a view to exhibiting to better advantage the collections previously 



