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Subjects v 



Letter of Transmittai vn 



( 't INTENTS IX 



List op Illustrations xi 



PART I. 



Report of the Assistant Secretary. 



( Jeneral Considerations. 



As a museum of record 7 



As a museum of research 9 



As an educational museum 10 



Present conditions and needs 11 



Summary of the Operations op the Year. 



Appropriations and expenditures 13 



Buildings 15 



Additions to the collections 16 



Explorations -'-' 



Distribution and exchange of specimens 24 



Researches 26 



Progress in the installation of the exhibition collections 32 



Visitors — 35 



Correspondence 37 



Publications 37 



Library 39 



Photography 39 



Cooperation of the Executive Departments of the Government 39 



Expositions -10 



Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York 40 



Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 41 



The Museum staff 41 



Necrology 42 



Reports op Head Ci rators. 



Report on the Department of Anthropology for the year 1900-1901 51 



Collected for the Museum 51 



( rifts to the Museum 52 



Purchased by the Museum 53 



( Obtained through exchange 54 



Report on the Department of Biology for the year 1900-1901 63 



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