292 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1889. 



The catalogue of the section is kept by the Department of Ethnology. 

 The number of specimens on exhibition (including one hundred and 

 fifty photographs) is about four hundred and twenty -five, with an equal 

 number in the reserve and study collections, which include a collection 

 of paper squeezes from the Boulak Museum. 



We are indebted for co-operation and assistance, in addition to the 

 persons already named, to the Hon. Oscar Straus, ex-United States 

 minister at Constantinople; Prof. Howard Osgood, of Rochester, New 

 York; Dr. James Grant Bey, of Cairo, Egypt; and Prof. D. G. Lyon, 

 of Harvard University. 



