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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1889. 



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Instructions for taking paper molds of inscriptions in stone, wood, bronze, etc 



Plan of a collection to illustrate the textile industries of the United States, to be exhib- 

 ited at the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, 1884-'85 at New Or- 

 leans 



Preliminary plan for a collection of the building and ornamental stones and rocks of the 

 United States, to be exhibited at the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Expo- 

 sition, 1884-'85 at New Orleans 



Plan for a collection of the gems and precious stones of the United States, to be exhib- 

 ited at the Cincinnati Industrial Exposition and the World's Industrial and Cotton 

 Centennial Exposition, 1884-'85 at New Orleans 



Directions for collecting and preserving and transporting tortricids and other small 

 moths - 



Directions for mound exploration 



Provisional plan for a collection of mammals to be exhibited at the World's Industrial 

 and Cotton Centennial Exposition of 1884-'85 at New Orleans 



A list of birds the eggs of which are wanted to complete the series in the National 

 Museum, with instructions for collecting eggs 



Plan to illustrate the mineral resources of the United States and their utilization, at the 

 World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition of 1884-'85 at New Orleans 



Classification of the materia medica collection of the U. S. National Museum, and cata- 

 logue of specimens 



Notes on the preparation of skeletons 



Circular for the guidance of persons desiring to make exchanges of birds or birds' eggs 

 with the National Museum 



♦Concerning the lending of type specimens 



Circular concerning Department of Antiquities, Am erican Aboriginal Stone Relics 



♦Catalogue of the contributions of the section of graphic arts to the Ohio Valley Cen- 

 tennial Exposition, Cincinnati, 1888 



Contributions of the Department of Transportation and Engineering to the Ohio Val- 

 ley Centennial Exhibition, 1888 



The contribution of the section of Oriental Antiquities to the Ohio Valley Centennial 

 Exhibition 



Description of exhibit made by the Department of Prehistoric Anthropology in the 

 National Museum at the Ohio Valley Central States Exposition in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1888 



Guide to a collection illustrating the families of mammals exhibited in the Ohio Valley 

 Centennial Exhibition in 1888 by the U.S. National Museum 



* See Museum report 1880, p. 25. 



t This and the following circulars were erroneously numbered. 



♦See "Proceedings," Vol. x, p. 701. 



HISTORY OP 1 THE MUSEUM PUBLICATION FUND. 



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The publication of the Proceedings and the Bulletin was at first paid 

 for from the printing fund of the Interior Department, with which the 

 Museum was at that time in close relations in respect to financial mat- 

 ters. Subsequently it was paid for from a fund for printing the labels 

 of the Museum, estimates for which were annually submitted by the 

 Secretary of the Interior at the request of the Secretary of the Institu- 

 tion. The amount asked for was usually $10,000, but in I882-'83 the 

 estimate was for $20,000, which sum, however, was not allowed. 

 Although in the book of estimates, the Museum appears as asking a 



