REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 1-17 



as well. A small sum of money was placed in his hands for the pur 

 chase of objects to complete the series of the Museum collection from 

 this region. 



Dr. John M. Crawford, United States Consul-General at St. Peters- 

 burgh, expects to make extensive ethnological researches in Russia and 

 Finland, and has generously offered to allow t he National Museum to 

 participate in the results. Dr. Crawford is well known as the author of 

 the English translation of the Finnish epic "The Kalevala," as a philol- 

 ogist and a student of Scandinavian antiquities. His acquirements in 

 these directions led to his being appointed Consul-General at St. Peters- 

 burgh, from which place he would be able to carry on his studies of the 

 Finnish race, and related peoples. Letters of introduction to several 

 correspondents in Russia and Finland, have been furnished by the 

 Smithsonian Institution in order to facilitate his work. 



Rev. Frederick II. Post, late rector of St. Paul's Church, Salem, Ore- 

 gon, has recently assumed charge of the mission of the Episcopal 

 Church at Anvik on the Yukon River, Alaska. He is. very much inter- 

 ested in the study of natural science and history, and has offered to 

 serve the Smithsonian Institution in collecting information relating to 

 the tribes of the Upper Yukon, and also in transmitting to the Museum 

 specimens, of the mammals and birds of that region. It is probable 

 that Mr. Post will, next year, be furnished with an outfit of alcohol, 

 guns, and ammunition. 



Lieut. J. F. .Moser, commanding the 17. S. Coast Survey steamer Backe, 

 has continued his explorations for the Museum and has sent a collection 

 of fishes, mollusks, insects, and marine invertebrates from the viciuity 

 of Cape Sable, Florida. 



Prof. O. P. Jenkins. <>!' De Pauw University, Indiana, proposes to visit 

 the Hawaiian Islands during the summer for the purpose of collecting 

 fishes, and has kindly offered to present a duplicate series of specimens 

 to the .Museum. To aid him in this undertaking tin? Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution has supplied him with seines, giving him also a letter of intro- 

 duction to the curator of the National Museum in Honolulu. 



I during the summerof L888, Mr. George P. Merrill, Curator of Geology, 

 made a collecting trip to North Carolina, Pennsylvania. New York. Ver- 

 ba on t, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Maine. Large collections 

 of rock were obtained for the Museum. 



Mr. Thomas Wilson, Curator of Prehistoric Anthropology, visited 

 mounds in Ohio, and made interesting collections. 



In August Dr. \Y. F. Hillebrand, of the U. S. Geological Survey, vis- 

 ited some of the Western States ana Territories, partly with a view to 

 making collections of minerals. These will eventually be incorporated 

 with the Museum collections. 



In order to further the work of those who have expressed their willing- 

 ness to collect specimens for the Museum, as well as those who have been 



Bent out as collectors by the Museum, outfits of apparatus, tanks, al 





