REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 



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PHOTOGRAPHER. 



Mr. T. W. Sniillie reports that 253 negatives have been added to the 

 permanent files. Of these, 88 related to ethnology. 116 to prehistoric 

 anthropology, 11 to mammals, 3 to osteology, 21 to transportation, 10 

 to graphic arts, and 181 to miscellaneous subjects. Thirty-nine trans- 

 parencies were also made. 



The number of priuts made daring the year is 2,199, distributed as 

 follows: ethnological, 190; anthropological, 138; mammals, 22; osteo- 

 logical, 3; transparencies, 77; graphic arts, 10; miscellaneous, 1,759. 

 In addition to this 23 enlargements have been made ; 39 cyanotypes 

 have been printed, and a collection of miscellaneous photographs, 113 

 in number, have been mounted. 



The following special work for the U. S. Fish Commission has also 

 been performed: Negatives made, 22; silver albumen prints, 22; cyan- 

 otypes, 476. 



The usual routine work of numbering and filing negatives, making 

 up outfits for expeditions, etc., has been continued. 



By request of the Postmaster-General and by order of the Assistant 

 Secretary, a number of samples of canceling inks have been tested 

 for the Post-Office Department. 



The illustrating of the lectures given in the National Museum has 

 been conducted by means of the stereopticon operated by the photog- 

 rapher and his assistants. 



A collection intended to show the uses of photography was pre- 

 pared for exhibition at the Cincinnati Exposition. This collection in- 

 cluded valuable contributions of photographs from Prof. E. C. Picker- 

 ing, of Harvard University, Mr. J. W. Osborne, of Washington, and 

 from several officers connected with the Government service, notably, 

 the Geodetic and Coast Survey: the Light- House Board ; the Army 

 Medical Museum, and the proving ground at Annapolis. At the close 

 of the Exposition this collection was returned to the Museum and is 

 now being prepared, in connection with additional material which has 

 since been received, for permanent exhibition. It is intended that the 

 scope of this exhibit shall be enlarged so as to take the form of an 



