52 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1889. 



It is probable that during the next fiscal year sets of bird-skins will 

 also be prepared for distribution. 



From the duplicate collections of the department of botany, distribu- 

 tions have been made to the Imperial Academy of Sciences, St. Peters- 

 burg, Russia; the Herbarium of the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, France; 

 the Herbarium of the British Museum, London, England ; the Eoyal 

 Herbarium, Kew, England; and the Botanic Garden, Natal, South 

 Africa. 



Several special requests for material for study have been complied 

 with. Among these were unmounted prints of photographs of the 

 Charnay casts for the Bureau of Ethnology; pieces of the vertebral col- 

 umns of Chimwra and Gymnotns for Prof. John A.Ryder; ethnological 

 material for the Cincinnati Museum Association ; cast of jade adze for 

 Mr. Kunz ; a loan of bird skeletons for Dr. J. L. Wortman, of the Army 

 Medical Museum, to aid in the preparation of a monograph upon the 

 anatomy of the fish hawk ; two enlarged negatives and prints of the 

 Red River Dam views for Commodore J. G. Walker, chief of the bureau 

 of navigation, Navy Department; a collection of fishes for the College 

 of the City of New York ; skull of Flat Head Indian for Prof. E. de Bois 

 Reymond, director of the Physiological Institute in Berlin.* 



EXCHANGES. 



The Museum has, as in past years, continued the exchange of dupli- 

 cate specimens with museums, scientific establishments, and individ- 

 uals at home and abroad. The domestic exchanges are indicated in 

 the accession list (section v). 



A classified statement of foreign exchanges is here presented. 



Ethnology. — The Royal Ethnological Museum at Berlin, Germany, 

 sent a series of casts of Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities. A list 

 of these casts is given in the List of Accessions. The Museum of 

 St. Germain. Paris, France, sent a collection of bronze implements 

 (molds) in exchange for spears, plummets, and sinkers. The Mus6e 

 d'Ethnologie of Geneva, Switzerland, sent in exchange, through Dr. H. 

 J. Gosse, director, one hundred and twenty-seven specimens of pottery, 

 bronzes, etc., from various localities in the Swiss lakes. Thirty-two 

 ethnological specimens were sent to the Musee d'Ethnologie, Geneva, 

 Switzerland, in exchange for a fine collection of pottery, bronzes, etc. 

 Exchanges have been continued with Mr. Edward Lovett, of Croydon, 

 England. 



Prehistoric anthropology. — A collection of archaeological specimens was 

 sent to L. Guesde, Guadeloupe, in exchange for a collection of birds. 

 A collection of thirty-four archaeological specimens was sent to William 

 Rauson, Fairfield, Hitchin, England ; and similar material was received 



* This skull was obtained by Dr. John S. P>illiugs, curator of the Army Medical 

 Museum, from the banks of Willamette River, Oregou, near its junction with the 

 Clackamas. 



