KEPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 49 



Birds. — Inspected May 23. Contains 480 volumes, 22 pamphlets, and 

 203 parts of serials. These are mostly in good condition, although the 

 large volumes are necessarily exposed to dust for want of suitable cases. 

 At least two additional standard book-cases with locks are required in 

 this department. 



Insects. — Inspected June 7, 1889. Contains 29i> volumes, 16!> pam- 

 phlets, and 538 parts of serials in excellent order, and suitably pro- 

 tected. 



Editor, Smithsonian Institution. — Inspected May 7, 1889. Contains 

 809 volumes, 34 pamphlets, and 619 parts of serials, all in good order. 



Ethnology. — Inspected May 31, 1889. Contains 55 volumes, 10 pam- 

 phlets, 225 parts of serials and 1 chart, all in good order. 



Fishes. — Inspected May 23, 1889. Contains 78 volumes, pamphlets, 

 and 21 parts of serials, all in good order and suitably protected. 



Lithology and Physical Geology. — Inspected June 3, 1889. Contains 

 184 volumes, 175 pamphlets, and 102 parts of serials and 5 charts, in 

 good order and suitably protected. 



Mammals. — Inspected June 6, 1889. Contains 183 volumes and 270 

 pamphlets, in good order. 



Marine Invertebrates. — Inspected May 22, 1889. Contains 70 volumes, 

 41 pamphlets and 183 charts, all in good order and suitably protected. 



Materia Medica. — Inspected May 29, 1889. Contains 202 volumes, 4 

 pamphlets and 181 parts of serials, all in good order. 



Mesozoic Fossils. — Inspected June 25, 1889. Contains 34 volumes, 

 11 pamphlets, and 3 charts of serials, in good order. 



Metallurgy and Economic Geology. — Inspected June 4, 1889. Con- 

 tains 270 volumes, 139 pamphlets, 177 parts of serials and 1 chart, in 

 excellent order. 



Mineralogy. — (a) Inspected June 7, 1889. Contains 157 volumes, 9 

 pamphlets, and 511 parts of serials, all in good order. 



Mineralogy. — [b) Inspected June 3, 1889. Contains 01 volumes, 50 

 pamphlets, 3 parts of serials and 1 chart, all in good order. 



Molliisl:s and Cenozoic Fossils. — Inspected May 24, 1S89. Contains GG 

 volumes, 9 pamphlets and 10 parts of serials, all in good order. 



Oriental Archaeology. — Inspected May 28, 1889. Contaius 131 volumes, 

 6G pamphlets and 99 parts of serials, all in good order. 



Plants, recent and fossil. — Inspected June 5, 1889. Contains 236 vol- 

 umes, 224 pamphlets and 015 parts, in fair order. 



Prehistoric Anthropology. — Inspected May 25, L8S9. Contains 55 vol- 

 umes, 13 pamphlets and 35 parts, in fair order, in addition to the Ran 

 Memorial Library, which is still only partially catalogued. 



Textiles and Foods. — The officer in charge of this departmenl ha\ lug 

 returned to duty, the library is in process of reorganization, tt was 

 inspected dune 7, 1889, and at that date contained 22 volumes and 11 

 pamphlets in good order. 



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