CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Subjects v 



Ll'.I I KK OF Transmittai VII 



Table of Contents i x 



List of Illustrations xm 



Section [.—Report of the Assistant Secretary, in charge of the National 



Museum. 



A. — Organization ami scope of the Museum :; 



B. — Special topics of the year 4 



C. — The condition of the collections (I 



Increase of the collections 6 



Census of the collect ions 7 



Museum catalogues 8 



Catalogues of the departments in the National Museum •) 



Catalogue entries during the year ending June 30, 1889 '.'I 



Anangement of collections and assignment of space 22 



D.— The Museum staff 26 



The scientific staff -Jti 



Personnel of the scientific departments 27 



The administrat i vo sta II' 



E. — Review of work in the scientific departments :'.l 



Ethnology 34 



Oriental antiquities 34 



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Transportation and engineering :;.". 



Qrapbic arts 35 



I'lr historic anthropology 36 



Aboriginal pottery 36 



Ion st i'v collection :;7 



Mam inals !!? 



Birds 38 



Birds' eggs 38 



Reptiles and batracliians 38 



Fishes 39 



Mollusks in 



Insects 1 1 



Marine invertebrates " 



Comparative anatomy 12 



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