REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 63 



The following table shows the nu,„ber of accessions to the Museum 

 annually, since 1881 : i ic luuseuni, 



Year Accession ^u"'berof 



^- i Dumbers i accessions 



I (inclusive;. ' ^during 

 . I the year. 



1881....' " 



1882 I 9890-11000 i 1,311 



1883 ][ 11001-12500 ' l,r,00 



1884 ' ^2501-13900 : 1,400 



1885 (January to June) ! 1^901-15550 1,6.50 



1886 15551-1C208 Co8 



1887 16209-17704 ],496 



1888 '^' I 1"70.5-19350 1,646 



1889 I 19351-20831 1,481 



1890 •' " I 20832-22178 1 1,347 



1891 ■ 22179-22340 [ 1,162 



1892 '.".' 22341-24.527 | 1, igT 



1893 I ^528-25884 j 1,357 



i 25885-27150 I 1,266 



A list of the accessions during the year, arranged alphabetically bv 

 £(S«„%j,._Mr. Heury Balfour, of the Ethnographic Museum of 



.~a7:;™er ' "''^'^°"' "-^ ^^^ ^ ™'-«"-eo\.'.,,ne,.tio„';re,:' 



Mr. William T. Brigham, curator of the Bernice Pauahi BishoD 

 Museum, Houo luh, Hawaiian Islands, sent a collection of bou S 



estinn^Zt r',T''"""" "'•""^•"^ *••""' 'loth-especiau/Ltr 

 esting as rllustrating the great varietv of patterns 



Mr. Edward Lovett, Croydon, England, sent ethnological objects 

 From Prof Henry H. Giglioli ha., been received f Al ullc and 



itirni r f;; °:.«""f»«-" -" »t^- objects .ro,;; ii; i; ' 



Tent nf "ttn. """ "" -^■'"'™"" ""-'"S-al objects has been 



Prehistoric anthropologn.^yir. Edward Lovett, Croydon En.dau.l 



has sent a collection of stone implements, flints hnn'a. eg and arm 



bones, and fragments of crania obtained in England IreLdOer 



Z "It ^^'«'T' f^ -"<=" - «l"ivalcnt has been Inu ' *'"" 



From the Koyal Zoological Museum, Florence, Italy (through Prof 



el s, tiagments of boue, and a piece of ,|uartz from a kitchen 

 nulden, near Port Blair, South .\„da,nan, fir which arc Ico o^ cal 

 objects and ,.«blications have been transmitted •'^"■'■ologltal 



.ia!;!a" Wa v""";' '"'"'"' ''"'"'"' "^ "'« ^""'"Skal .Museum, Chris- 

 uania.JNorway, sent .specimens of ttsbcs. 



