APPENDIX TO THE SECRETARY'S REPORT. 



Appendix I. 

 THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Sir: In accortlance with the provision of Congress, the Report of the National 

 Miisenm is published as the second voluiue of the Smithsonian Report. I shall here 

 refer briefly to only a few of the most important features of the operations of the 

 Museum during the j^ear. 



Accessions. — More than 171,000 specimens have been added to the collections. This 

 is more than double the total for last year, a gratifying result, m view of the fact 

 that very little direct eft'ort was made to increase the collections. 



Important collections have been received, as in past years, from the Geological 

 Survey, the Fish Commission, the Bureau of Ethnology, and other Bureaus of the 

 Government. Several valuable collections have been received from private sources, 

 and some very interesting material was presented by representatives of foreign 

 Governments to the National Museum at the close of the World's Columbian 

 Exposition. 



The detailed report for the year will contain a statistical statement showing the 

 number of specimens added during the year to each department, and for each year 

 since the opening of the Museum building. 



The scienUJjc staff. — The scientific staff is substantially the same as last year. A 

 few changes and additions have occurred in the cnratovships. Having, as Assistant 

 Secretary, resumed the active direction of the afiairs of the Museum, the designation 

 of Mr. True was on May 9 changed from Curator-in-charge to Executive Curator, 

 with special duties of administration. The Executive Curator may at times be called 

 upon to take general charge in my absence. On July 15, Dr. C. H. White, U- S. N., was 

 recalled from his custodianship of the materia medica collections by the Secretary of 

 the Navy. Dr. C. U. Gravatt was detailed in his place, and served until January 22, 

 when he was relieved by Dr. R. A. Marmion, who was succeeded on June 1.5 by Medical 

 Inspector Daniel McMurtrie, the present incumbent. Mr. Charles Schuchert, of the 

 United States Geological Survey, was on May 7 appointed honorary aid in the Depart- 

 ment of Paleozoic Fosils. Dr. C. W. Stiles, of the Department of Agriculture, was 

 on March 17 appointed honorary curator of the heliuinthological collections. 



Dr. Frank Baker resigned his position as honorary curator of the Department of 

 Comparative Anatomy in order to devote his entire time to his duties as Superin- 

 tendent of the National Zoological Park, and Mr. Frederick A. Lucas, assistant 

 curator of that department, was on November 21 appointed curator. Dr. Baker is 

 now recognized as associate curator. On January 1 Mr. Wirt Tassin was appointed 

 assistant curator in the Department of Minerals, filling the vacancy caused by the 

 resignation of Mr. William S. Yeates. 



Distribution of specimens. — Following the custom of previous years, the transmission 

 of duplicate specimens to educational establishments has been continued, and it is 



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