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EEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1889. 



The recipients of this assistance are scattered over the whole country, 

 but, as might be expected, reside chiefly in those localities where libra- 

 ries and collections are least accessible. 



Prof. Alex. Agassiz. 

 S. Arnlieim. 

 H. G. Askew. 

 W. B. Barrows. 

 Dr. Stephen Bowers. 

 Theo.D. A. Cockerel 1. 

 Dr. A. K. Fisher. 

 S. S. Greeley. 

 General A. W. Greeley. 

 Dr. W. B. Hartman. 

 Henry Hemphill. 

 Capt. E. P. Hereutleen. 

 Prof. A. Heilprin. 

 C. S. Hill. 

 Dr. W. Kobelt. 



George F. Kunz. 

 J. B. La Penotiere. 

 Col. M. McDonald. 

 W. <i. Mazyck. 

 Thomas Morgan. 

 Lieut. J. F. Moser. 

 Hon. J. B. Moore. 

 C. R. Orcutt. 

 Prof. A. S. Packard, jr. 

 F.M.Phillips. 

 H. A. Pilsbry. 

 G. H. Ragsdale. 

 W. J. Raymond. 

 J. M. Rogers. 

 I. C. Russell. 



SPECIAL RESEARCHES. 



Prof. N. S. Shaler. 

 Dr. R. W. Shufeldt. 

 C. T. Simpson. 

 E. A. Smith. 

 Dr. V. Sterki. 

 George J. Sfcreator. 

 M. A. Suchetet. 

 Prof. J. B. Tilton. 

 G. W. Webster. 

 W. W. Westgate. 

 J.J.White. 

 Prof. R.P.Whitfield. 

 Joseph Willcox. 



The limited time for research has been employed by the Curator 

 partly in concluding the investigation of the mollusca of the expedi- 

 tion on the U. S. S. Blake, under the supervision of Professor Agassiz, 

 in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. The second and conclud- 

 ing part of this report, including the Gastropoda and Scaphapoda, is 

 now printed and forms a volume of about 800 pages with thirty-one 

 plates. Work has also been done on the dredgings of the U. S. Fish 

 Commission in the same region, and on the voyage of the Albatross to 

 California, a report of which is nearly finished. A new systematic ar- 

 rangement of the bivalve shells or pelecypoda has occupied the Cura- 

 tor's attention, and the correlation of the Tertiary, especially the Plio- 

 cene, fossils of our southeastern Atlantic coast, with the recent fauna 

 of that coast, is in progress, with a prospect of publication during the 

 coming year. Dr. Stearns has prepared for publication a paper, which 

 is now in press, on Shell Money, Prehistoric and Historic,* a subject 

 upon which he has made long-continued investigations. 



STATE OF THE COLLECTION. 



In previous reports I have stated why it is impossible to give the 

 exact number of specimens, species, duplicates, etc., contained in the 

 collection. In my last report I estimated that the collection contained 

 455,000 specimens of all sorts. Since then about 13,000 have been 

 received. 



The total number of entries in the Museum register, or catalogue for 

 1887-'88, was 11,803; the number for 1888-'89 is 6,323. The discrep- 

 ancy is entirely accounted for by the interruptions to our work already 



Report of National Museum, 1887, pp. 297-334. Nine plates. 



