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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1889. 



beginning with 1881 (the first year of occupancy of the Museum build- 

 ing), is here given : 



The decrease in the number of the accessious this year may be ac- 

 counted for in part by refusals of collections which have been necessi- 

 tated owing to lack of both storage and exhibition room. 



A geographical statement has been prepared, showing the sources of 

 the more important accessions. 



GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW OF THE MORE IMPORTANT ACCESSIONS. 



During the year, material has been received from nearly every part 

 of the world, although as usual the greater number of the accessions 

 have come from the United States. The following statement has refer- 

 ence to the most important accessions. These have, as far as possible, 

 been arranged under the localities from which they were gathered 

 rather than the place of residence of the sender. 



AFRICA. 



Madagascar. — Two linen table-covers, a silver watch-chain, a gold 

 breast-pin, an ivory carving, and a small basket were deposited in the 

 National Museum by President Cleveland, to whom they had been pre- 

 sented by the Queen of Madagascar. 



Egypt. — Miss Aleue Solomon, of Washington, District of Columbia, 

 gave two Egyptian scarabs. 



Dr. James Grant-Bey, of Cairo, Egypt, sent several water-color 

 sketches of ancient lamps, two fragments of leather cover (fac-simile) 

 of the catafalque of Isi-Em-Kheh, a queen of the twenty-first dynasty, 

 1000 B. C, and a fragment of mummy cloth, with characters of the 

 "Ritual of the dead." 



A series of casts of Assyrian and Egyptian antiquities were trans- 

 mitted by the Royal Museum at Berlin. 



Oberlin College, at Oberlin, Ohio, presented seventeen bird-skins 

 chiefly from Africa, many of them new to the collection. 



