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Mr. C. R. Orcntt, of San Diego, California, lias, from time to time, transmitted to 

 tin' National Museum valuable collections of fishes, reptiles, fossils, marine inverte- 

 brates, etc., from California. During the past year he has been supplied with tanks, 

 alcohol, jars, and a seine for this purpose. 



Mr. W. Harvey Brown, of the National Museum, was appointed naturalist to ac- 

 company the United States Eclipse Expedition to South Africa. Being in the employ 

 of the Smithsonian Institution he was furnished with a large outfit of tanks, alcohol, 

 jars, oil, linen, and tools. It is probable that the next report will contain au account 

 of the results of this expedition. 



June 13. — Prof. O. P. Jenkins, of Do Pauw University, Indiana, intends to visit the 

 Hawaiian Islands, and has been supplied with seines to aid him in collecting fishes, 

 a duplicate set of which ho has expressed his intention of presenting to the National 

 .Museum. 



December 29. — Dr. John I. Northrup received an outfit of tanks and alcohol to use 

 during his visit to the Bahama Islands, where he expects to collect plants and ani- 

 mals, especially'marine invertebrates and fishes. He offers to present a duplicate set 

 of specimens to the Sinithsoniau Institution. 



K.— REPORTS UPON THE PARTICIPATION OF THE SMITH- 

 SONIAN INSTITUTION AND THE NATIONAL MUSEUM 

 IN THE EXPOSITIONS HELD AT CINCINNATI AND 

 MARIETTA IN 1888. 



Letter from the Assistant Secretary to the /Secretary of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, relating to the participation of the Institution in the Cin- 

 cinnati Exposition. 



May 7, 1889. 

 Sir : I have the honor to report that all work in connection with the 

 participation of the Smithsonian Institution and the National Museum 

 in the Centennial Exposition of the Ohio Valley and Central States, 

 held in Cincinnati in 1888, has now been completed. All objects sent 

 to Cincinnati have been returned to their proper places and damages 

 suffered by specimens and furniture have been repaired to as great 

 an extent as has been found practicable under the arbitrary and un- 

 usually stringent rulings of the Treasury officials in charge of the dis- 

 bursements and account. 



I transmit herewith a report (Appendix A) upon the Smithsonian 

 participation in the Exposition, which has been prepared by Mr. R. 

 Edward Earll, who was plaited in charge of the administrative work at 

 Cincinnati, it having been impossible for me to be absent from Wash- 

 ington during the continuance of the Exposition, and who performed 

 the responsible and difficult duties of his position in an exceedingly 

 efficient and faithful manner. 



In his report a history of our work is given, and also a history of 

 what was done by the various departments of the Museum and by the 

 Bureau of Kthnology. In addition to what is stated in this report, ref- 

 erence should be made to the willing and efficient aid rendered by the 

 curators of the Museum, who prepared a very instructive and impres- 

 sive collection in a remarkably short time, notwithstanding the fact 



