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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1895. 



The number of specimens received, cleaned, and mounted for the 

 department of comparative anatomy is shown in the following table: 



■^Sterna. 



PHOTOGKAPHER. 



]\Ir. T. W. Smillie, photographer, reports that 759 negatives were 

 made during the year, also 2127 platinum prints, 1,231 silver jnints, 25 

 cyanotype prints, 10 bromide enlargements, and 6 lantern slides. 

 Twenty-nine prints were mounted. A large portion of this work was 

 done for the departments of ethnology, prehistoric anthropology, 

 botany, mammals, geology, and marine invertebrates. The care of the 

 photographic collection and other work of a miscellaneous character, 

 including the testing of a number of different kinds of ink, in order to 

 determine the most suitable for the use of the IMuseum, occupied con- 

 siderable time. 



COLORIST. 



Mr. A. Zeno Sliindler continued the work of cleaning and restoring 

 some o( the pictures contained in the Catlin collection of Indian paint- 

 ings. About one hundred of these have received attention up to the 

 present time. He also continued his work on the series of ])aintings 

 representing the races of man. Some miscellaneous work was accom- 

 plished, including the painting of lay figures for the department of 

 ethnology, and the retouching of a series of i)hotographs of L'embroke 

 College, England. 



