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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1891. 



CATALOGUE ENTRIES. 



The number of catalogue entries made iu the books of the several 

 departmeuts during the year amounts to 21,941i, Under one entry may 

 be mentioned one specimen, or a large number of specimens, if from 

 the same locality or of the same species. The following table shows 

 the number of entries made in each department during the year: 



Departments. 



Arts aud Industries : 



Materia medica 



Animal products 



Domestic animals (for mounting) . 



Historical coUectious, coins, 

 medals, paper money, etc 



Musical instruments 



Transportation and engineering . . 



Modern pottery, porcelain, and 

 bronzes ■ 



Physical apparatus , 



Graphic arts , 



Ethnology ,..,.. 



American aboriginal potter\' 



Prehistoric anthi'oi)ology 



Mammals, skins, and alcoholics 



Birds 



Birds' eggs and nests 



No. of 

 specimens. 



168 

 45 

 97 



50 

 95 

 L■2'^ 



12 



10 



1,326 



1,504 



33 



933 



465 



2, 382 



332 



Departments. 



Reptiles and batrachians 



Fishes 



Vertebrate fossils 



Mollusks (including cenozoic fossils) 



Insects , 



Marine invertebrates 



Comparative anatomy : 



Mammals (skulls and skeletons) . 



Birds 



Reptiles and batrachians 



Paleozoic fossils 



Mesozoic fossils , 



Fossil plants 



Recent plants . , 



Minerals 



Geology , 



Total 



No. of 

 specimens. 



908 

 1,542 



458 

 5,005 



174 

 1.239 



655 



205 

 1,488 

 40 

 44 

 1,131 

 873 



21, 942 



It may ])erhaps interest those who are watching the growth of the 

 national collections, to observe the figures in the following table, which 

 show the number of entries made in the catalogue books of the several 

 departments during the decade now completed, and also during the 

 previous decade — that is, before the occupancy of the Museum build- 

 ing. 



Number of entries made in the catalogue books of the National Museum, diirin;) the decades 

 1S71 to 1880 and 1881 to 1890, respectively. 



