REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 



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The statistics of accessions for the past and previous years are given 

 in the following tables: 



Number of specimens received in 1900-1901, and total number in tht several divisions on 



June 30, 1901. 



Anthropology: 



Ethnology 



Historic Archaeology 



Prehistoric Archaeology 



Technology 



< Jraphic Arts 



Medicine 



Religions 



History and Biography 



Somatology 



Ceramics 



Photography 



Music 



BiologJ : 



Mammals 



Birds 



Birds' Eggs 



Reptiles and Batrachians 



Fishes 



Mollusks 



Insects 



Marine Invertebrates 



Helminthology 



i lomparative Anatomy 



Plants 



Forestry 



Geology: 



Physical and Chemical Geologj 



Mineral* >gy 



Invertebrate Paleontology 



Vertebrate Paleontology 



Paleobotany 



Total 



Received in 

 1900-1901. 



, 887 



98 



,644 



195 



37, 



3 



, M 

 77 

 It 

 3 

 16 



, 976 

 ,478 

 899 

 , 752 

 ,000 



,1 







. 889 



il38 



135 



000 



,637 

 116 



. -'.77 

 160 

 575 



178,987 



Total. 



159, 182 



2, 0S7 



334,601 



30,979 

 7,390 

 6,800 

 '_', 370 



39,267 

 2,393 

 4,171 

 1,784 



i, ni 



39,806 

 126, 131 



G3, 667 



11,988 



151,501 



759,390 



1,370,370 



517,231 



a 5, 091 



1.5,768 



17::. 162 



749 



88j330 

 35,266 



H ., L53 



1,994,672 



a Number of catalogue entries 



Note. — It is obviously impossible to make an actual count of the specimens in many of the col- 

 lections, notably those of the lower invertebrates, where single bottles often contain hundreds of 

 specimens. 



The number of entries made in the catalogues of the several divisions 

 was 53,573. In Appendix II will be found a complete list of the 

 accessions of the veai\ 



