138 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1889. 



Museum are due to the Department for its friendly office* in affording 

 facilities to collectors and explorers in behalf of the Museum. The 

 Light-House Board, the Life- Saving Service, the U. S. Coast and Geo- 

 detic Survey, and the Revenue Marine Division have ea<;h contributed 

 interesting specimens to the Museum, and have in various ways facili- 

 tated the work of some one or more of the departments in the Museum. 



Life-Saving Service. — Hon. S. I. Kimball, Superintendent of the Life- 

 Saving Service, has aided the Museum by giving instructions to the 

 keepers of Life-Saving stations to forward to the Museum any marine 

 specimens captured in their vicinity which might be desired. As a 

 result of this co-operation the followiug material has been received : A 

 fresh specimen of Sowerby's whale (Mesoplodon bidens), from Capt. J. 

 L. Gaskill, keeper of the Absecom Life-Saving station, Atlantic City. 

 William H. Gaskill, keeper of the Cape Lookout Life-Saving station, 

 North Carolina, transmitted a fresh specimen of Sunfish (Mola mola). 



Light-Rouse Board. — A collection of blue prints of lamps and flames, 

 illustrating the illuminating system of the Light-House Service, was 

 sent, at the request of the Museum, for exhibition at the Cincinnati 

 Exposition, and formed an important feature of the photographic ex- 

 hibit of the Museum on that occasion. W. M. Quinn, keeper of the 

 Cape Sanbias Light-House station, Florida, sent a collection of turtles. 



Revenue Marine Division. — A valuable and interesting collection of 

 photographs of the natives and scenery of Alaska, taken by the officers 

 of the revenue steamer Bear, was lent to the Museum by Mr. Peter 

 Bonnett, chief of the division. 



Secret Service Division. — A collection of photographs of counterfeiters 

 was, through the kindness of Mr. John S. Bell, chief of the division, 

 lent to the Museum for exhibition at Cincinnati, for the purpose of illus- 

 trating the uses to which photography had been applied in connection 

 with the requirements of the Government service. 



The Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Mr. J. S. Miller, presented 

 two living Black bears from West Virginia. 



Dr. J. W. Jewett, examiner of drugs, Custom-House, New York City, 

 sent a collection of drugs. 



U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey presented a series of photographs, 

 showing the methods of mounting photographic exhibits. Specimens 

 of marine invertebrates, fishes, mollusks, and insects collected at Cape 

 Sable, Florida, were transmitted to the Museum. 



Several specialists engaged in making collections for the Museum 

 have, through the courtesy of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey, 

 been supplied with charts of the regions along the coast to be explored. 



WAR DEPARTMENT. 



The Museum has received valuable aid from this Department in many 

 ways, especially through the Quartermaster's Department of the Army. 



