50 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1889. 



TRANSPORTATION, STORAGE, AND DISTRIBUTION OF DUPLICATES. 



The total number of boxes, packages, barrels, tanks, etc., received 

 during the year is 16,625, of which 2,182 contained specimens for the 

 Museum, the remainder being distributed to the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion and the other persons addressed. 



The registrar, Mr. IS. O. Brown, has continued to act as transportation 

 clerk for the Smithsonian Institution, and this has entailed a consider- 

 able addition to the routine work of his office. 



During the fiscal year 261 packages were entered upon the storage 

 records, and 203 packages were removed from storage and turned over 

 to the curators for study, and to aid in making up sets for distribution. 



Forty-eight boxes of duplicate and reserve material have been sent 

 to general storage, and 57 specimens were sent out in exchange. 



Duriug the month of May the general storage room was removed 

 from the "Old Armory" building to the storage shed west of the Armory 

 building, and the storage separated into three sections. 



First. General storage, which is now confined to the large shed 

 proper, and is used for the storage of Museum specimens only. 



Second. The south track of what is known as the "car shed " has been 

 set aside for the accommodation of specimens collected by the U. S. 

 Geological Survey and Bureau of Ethnology. All such specimens are 

 entered in the Museum storage record, but are kept by themselves for 

 convenience in haudling. 



Third. A new shed, 88 by IS feet, has been erected west of the old 

 one. The south end of it, 10 by 18 feet, is reserved for the department 

 of Lithology and Physical Geology, for the storage of its duplicate ma- 

 terial; the remainder of the new shed (78 by 18 feet) has been assigned 

 to the property division of the Museum, for the storage of cases, draw- 

 ers, etc. 



The total number of packages sent out during the year is 2,552, of 

 which 1,302 contained Museum material, transmitted as gifts or loans, 

 or in exchange. 



The Museum has continued to lend photographs of exhibition cases 

 to all who have made .formal application, and to send sample trays and 

 boxes aud copies of labels to applicants. 



The distribution of specimens for the year, from the several depart- 

 ments of the Museum, is shown in the appended table. 



