78 ^ REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1891. 



Two thousand and twenty-four silver prints, made during the year, 

 were distributed as follows : 



Mammals 130 



Etlinology 191 



Prehistoric anthropolojfy 30 



Marine invertebrates 29 



Grapliic arts 44 



For the Smithsonian Institution 153 



For the National Zoological Park 95 



For the Department of State 450 



Miscellaneous 602 



In addition to these, HK) cyanotypes were made, of whieh 147 were 

 for the Museum and 52 for the Zoological Park ; 92 transparencies Avere 

 prepared for the purpose of illustrating public scientific lectures, and 

 5 photographs enlarged. Numerous i)hotographic outfits were supplied 

 for scientific exi)editions and for the World's Fair Commissioners; sev- 

 eral students instructed in the methods of photography, and a good 

 deal of experimental Avork done. 



As in past years, the photogrpahic work of the Fish Commission was 

 performed under the supervision of Mr. Smillie. This included 1,131 

 cyanotype prints, 15 silver prints, and 15 negatives. 



DHAFTSMEN. 



Mr. W. H. Chandlee pnd Mr. W. H. Burger have continued the prep 

 aration of illustrations for Museum publications. Drawings have 

 been made of objects belonging to the Abbott and Chatelain African 

 collections ; of tablets for Paymaster Thomson's paper on Easter Island ; 

 of arrows, powder-horns, lamps, matches, etc., for papers by Prof. Otis 

 T. Mason and Mr. Walter Hough; and also of specimens of marine 

 invertebrates, osteological specimens, and instruments used in taxi- 

 dermic work. In addition to this a large amount of miscellaneous work 

 has been accomplished, including the sketching and tracing of charts, 

 maps, and diagrams of the arrangement of exhibits, lettering and en-^ 

 graving of labels, etc. 



COLORIST. 



Mr. A. Zeno Shindler has been occupied during the year in painting 

 in oil for the department of ethnology representations of the various 

 races of men, and of a Japanese native; in coloring a number of x>ho- 

 tographs of Indians and negroes from the collections of Prince Koland 

 Bonaparte; in representing in Avater colors the process of silk reeling, 

 and the preparation of vegetable wax in Japan; in restaining and re- 

 pairing a bust of King Kalakaua of the Sandwich Islands, and in 

 painting life-sized casts of a Samoan, a Dyak, and a negro. He has 

 also x)repared a map showing the location of the Indian tribes in the 

 United States, and a relief map of one of the St. Gruan mining districts 

 of California. 



