CONTENTS 



Page. 



Subjects v 



Letter ov i kansmittai. vii 



Contents ix 



List of ilu'strations xiii 



Section I. — Report of the Assistant Secretary in charge of the National 



Museum. 



A. — General cousiderations 3 



B. — Orjfanizatiou aucl scope of the Museum 7 



Principal .sources of tlie collections 8 



C. — Special topics of the year 9 



Increase in the collections duriny the decade 1881-18H1 9 



Increase in the Museum library 9 



Increased edition of Museum re})orts 9 



Visitors 9 



Museum appropriations for 1891-'92 9 



Propovsed additional Museum building 10 



Cast of statue of Liberty 10 



The Daguerre memorial 10 



The Capron collection 10 



Types of the Owen collection of fossils 11 



Meetings of associations in Washington during the year 11 



Participation of the Smithsonian Institution in the World's Colum- 

 bian Exposition 12 



Patent centennial celebration 13 



Board on geographic names 13 



Necrology l-i 



D. — The condition of the collections 14 



Census of the collections 15-17 



Catalogue entries 18 



Development and arrangement of tlie exliibiti<m series 19 



E.— The Museum staff 20 



The scientific staff 20 



List of curators, assistant curators, and aids 21 



The administrative staff 21 



List of the officers and employes of the National Museum, June 30, 1891 . 22 



F. — Review of work in the scientific departments 2;) 



Division of anthropology "^'^ 



Division of zoology - ^^ 



Division of botany •^•' 



Division of geology ^'^ 



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