TABLE OF CONTENTS V 



Appendix Page.. 477 



List of circulars: 



No. 1. Plan of organization and regulations Page.. 479 



No. 2. Circular addressed to friends of the museum Page.. 687 



No. 3. Circular in reference to petroleum collections Page.. 539 



No. 4. Circular concerning the department of insects Page.. 541 



No. 5. Establishment and officers Page.. 543 



No. 6. Classification and arrangement of the materia medica collection. By James M. Flint, 



surgeon, United States Navy Page.. 545 



No. 7. A classification of the forms in which drags and medicines appear and are administered. 



By James M. Flint, surgeon. United States Navy Pago.. 547 



No. 8. Memoranda of collectors of drugs for the materia medica section of the National 



Museum. By James M. Flint, surgeon, United States Navy Page . . 555 



No. 9. Circular in reference to the building-stone collection Page . . 557 



No. 10. Two letters on the work of the National Museum. By Bamet Phillips Page . . 563 



No. 11. A provisional classification of the food collection. By G. Brown Goode Page. . 573 



No. 12. Classification of the collection to illustrate the art of taxidermy Page.. 595 



No. 13. Outline of a scheme of museum classification. By G. Brown Goode Page.. 597 



No. 14. Circular requesting material for the library Page.. 601 



No. 15. The organization and objects of the National Museum Page . . 605 



No. 16. Plans for the installation of collections Page.. 609 



No. 17. Contributions and their acknowledgment Page.. 611 



No. 18. List of publications of the United States National Museum Page.. 613 



General DJDKX Pao^e.. 625 



