X CONTENTS. 



Page. 

 E. — Review of work in the scientific departments — Continued. 



Invertebrate fossils : 



Paleozoic 43 



Mezozoic 43 



Botany 44 



Fossil plants 44 



Minerals 45 



Lithology and phy sical geology 45 



Metallurgy and economic geology . 46 



Living animals 46 



F. — Review of the administrative work 47 



Progress of general and incidental work 47 



Library 47 



Transportation, storage, and distribution of duplicates 50 



Exchanges 52 



Publications 54 



Publications during the year 65 



Visitors 67 



Lectures and meetings of societies 69 



Students 70 



Property, supplies, and accounts 72 



Preservation of collections 72 



Furniture and fixtures 72 



Standard cases and other Museum furniture 73 



Heating and lighting 75 



Electrical service 75 



List of Museum employes 76 



List of vouchers for expenditures for preservation of collections, 



1888-'89 .'. 77 



List of vouchers for expenditures for furniture and fixtures, l;88-'89 - 84 



List of vouchers for expenditures for heating and lighting, 1888-89 87 



Correspondence and reports 88 



Preparation of labels 99 



Buildings and labor; police and public comfort 100 



The work of the Museum preparators 104 



Taxidermists and modelers 104 



Osteological preparator 1 08 



Photographer 109 



Colorist -.. 110 



Draftsmen Ill 



G. — Accessions Ill 



Geographical review of the more important accessions 112 



H. — Specimens sent for examination and report 127 



I. — Cooperation of the Departments and Bureaus of the Government 137 



J. — Explorations 143 



K. — Reports upon the participation of the Smithsonian Institution and the 

 National Museum in the Centennial Exposition of the Ohio 

 Valley and Central States, held at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1888, 

 (with Plates i-iv), and in the Centennial Exposition at Mari- 

 etta, Ohio, in 1888 (with Appendices A and B) 149-186 



Biographical notice of James Stevenson (Appendix C) 1H7 



Lists of institutions and foreign and domestic libraries to which it is desired 



to send future publications of the National Museum (Appendix D) 191 



List of institutions under State control and of colleges of liberal arts to 



which it is desired to send future publications of the National Museum 193 



