110 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1889. 



historical collection in which shall be shown examples of every photo- 

 graphic process that has been invented, together with the appliances 

 used, beginning with the photograph of the solar spectrum, as made 

 by Scheele in 1777, and showing each step in the evolution of photog- 

 raphy from that time to the present day. Considerable material has 

 already been gathered which will be incorporated in this collection. 



The first camera made in the United States has been acquired by 

 purchase. A stereoscope, containing daguerreotypes and transparencies 

 by the old albumen process on glass, was presented by Mrs. E. J. Stone. 

 The Scoville Manufacturing Company of New York, presented a series 

 of cameras showing the latest improvements, and from the Eastman 

 Dry-Plate Company of Rochester, New York, has been received a 

 Kodak camera, together with a series of enlarged photographs, illus- 

 trating its use. 



The following students have been instructed in photography : Lieut. 

 E. H. Taunt, U. S. N., Mr. W. H. Perry, Miss Frances B. Johnston, 

 Dr. T. H. Bean, Mr. Howard, and Professor J. B. Daish. 



In the year 1887, Mr. Smillie was transferred from the IT. S. Fish 

 Commission to the National Museum as chief photographer. From 

 that time the photographic work of the Fish' Commission has been 

 done in the Museum on the following conditions : 



The Commissioner furnishes an assistant, as well as the material and 

 apparatus necessary for the work of the Commission. The work of the 

 assistant is under the supervision of the photographer of the Museum, 

 who makes the requisitions for material, and keeps a record of the 

 work done. In return, the assistant paid by the Fish Commission is 

 expected to assist in work for the Museum, when not occupied in the 

 interest of the Commission. 



COLORIST. 



Mr. A. Zeno Shiudler has spent a considerable part of the year in 

 repainting a collection of fish casts for the Cincinnati Exposition. 

 He has painted for use in the Department of Birds two maps, repre- 

 senting the two hemispheres. For the Ethnological Department he 

 has painted eighty-five photographs of Indians, and also sixty-four 

 photographs of Indians and negroes of Surinam, from the collection of 

 Prince Roland Bonaparte. Life-size busts of the King of Siam, King 

 Kalakaua of the Sandwich Islands and Miss Fairchild, have also been 

 painted. 



In connection with the formation of a collection of oil paintings repre- 

 senting the races of man, the following types have been finished : Eskimo 

 Dyak of Borneo; Apache (Arizona); Niam Niam (Africa); Chief of the 

 Clallam Indians. Washington; Aborrigine of Australia; portrait of the 

 Secretary of the Chinese Legation in Washington. 



