REPORT OP ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 



the ethnological collection, had not been made in 1882, and that there- 

 fore no figures appear under the head of ethnology for that year or for 

 1883, although the ethnological collection was at that time probably 

 half as large as it is now. Some of the other collections had not been 

 classified, and thus an increase in the collections more apparent than 

 real appears to have taken place in 1885-'86. 



CENSUS OF THE COLLECTIONS 



Table showing tht estimated number of specimens in the Museum in 1882 and each year 



since. 



(No census of collection taken in 1885.] 



Name of department. 



1882. 



1883. 



4,000 

 1,244 



Aits ami industries : 



Materia niedica 



Foods 



Textiles 



Fisheries 



Animal products 



Naval architecture 



1 1 i st orical relics 



Coins, medals.paper money, etc 



Musical instruments 



Modern pottery, porcelain, 

 and bronzes 



Paints and dyes 



"TheCatlin Gallery " 



Physical apparatus 



Oils and gams 



Chemical product 



Ethnology 



American aboriginal pottery 



Oriental antiquities 



Prehistoric anthropology I 35,512 40,491 



Mammals (skins and alcoholics) . . 4,600; 4,920 



Birds 44,354 47,246 



Birds' eggs 



Reptiles ami batrachians 



1884. 



4,442 

 1,580 

 2,000 

 5,000 

 1,000 

 600 



18S5-'86. 1886-87. 



4,850 

 822 

 3,063 

 9,870 

 2, 792 



Fishes 



Mollusks 



Insects 



Marine-invertebrates 



Comparative anatomy : 



Osteology 



Anatomy 



izoic fossils 



Mi Bozoic fossils 



Cenozoic fossils 



Fossil plants 



K' ''Hi plants 



M i lie la Is 



Lithology and physical geology . 

 Metallurgy and economic geolog j 



Living animals 



50, 000 



33,375 



1,000 



11,781 



3,535 



70 



65, 000 



45, 252 



5,694 



50, 350 



40, 072 



23, 195 



68, 000 



400, 000 



151, 000 



200, 000 



4,211 

 3,000 

 73, (100 

 100, 000 

 (Included \\ ith mollusks. I 



14, 825 



3,640 



103 



20, 000 



200, 090 

 12, 000 



1,002 



1,005 



400 



•J, 278 



77 



500 



250 



197 



659 



500, 000 



25, 000 



5, 516 

 877 



:;. 144 



10, 078 



2, 822 



1887-'88. 



1888- - 89. 



13, 634 



417 



2, 238 

 100 

 500 

 251 : 

 198 ! 

 661 



5,762 



877 



3,144 



10, 078 



2,822 



14, 640 

 427 



3,011 



100 

 5QP 

 251 

 198 

 661 



503, 764 505, 464 



65.314 



7,451 



55, 945 



44, 163 



25, 344 



75, 000 



460,(1111) 



500, 000 



350, 000 



> 10,210 



(ill. 7 CJ 



26, 022 



1,624 



9, (I7r. 



14, 550 

 12,500 

 30, 000 



7,291 



16,610 

 18, 000 

 40, 000 



7,429 



30, 000 

 18,401 

 20, 647 

 48, 000 



101,659 



7,811 



54, 987 



48, 173 



27, 512 



100,000 



425, 000 



585, 000 



450^000 



11,022 



X4.491 

 7c, 775 



27, 122 



8, 402 

 32, nod 

 18,601 

 21, 500 



49, 000 



108, 631 



8,058 



56, 484 



50, 055 



27, 664 



101,350 



455,000 



595, 000 



515, 000 



llj 558 



84, ('49 

 70, 925 



Total 193,362 263,143 1,472,600 2,420,944 2, OL- 



IO, 000 

 38, 000 

 21,806 

 22, 500 

 51,412 



220 



:, 159 



5, 942 

 911 



3,222 

 10, 078 



2, 948 

 600 



14, 990 

 427 



3,011 



109 



500 



251 



213 



688 



506, 324 



28 222 



850 



110,472 



8,275 



57, 974 



50, 173 



28,405 



U)7, 350 



168,000 



603, 000 



515,300 



11,753 



91, 126 

 71,236 



in, ITS 



27,690 

 27,000 

 52, 076 



491 



2,864 



