120 fiEt^ORt OV" NATIONAL MUSF.UM, 1891. 



Lad been kei»t in a vaillt in the Tl'oasitiy J)eiHirlmeii( iiiilil I.^ST, wlu'ii 

 it was transferred to tlie Museum. 



Tlie U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and the Revenue Marine Divi- 

 sion have frequently afforded special facilities to Museum explorers. 

 Valuable contributions of material and information have been made by 

 ofdcers of the Light-House Board an<l the Life-Saving Service. Spe- 

 cialists sent out by the Museum have, through the courtesy of the 

 Superintendent of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, been supplied with 

 charts of the regions ahmg the coast to be explored. In April, 1880, 

 Dr. Tarleton H, Bean was detailed to visit Alaska to collect fishery 

 statistics, fishes, birds, and other objects of interest. Through the 

 courtesy of the Coast Survey he was permitted to accompany the exi)e- 

 dition on the schooner YiiJ{0)i, and was given all ]»ossible assistance and 

 facilities in making collections. More than eighty species of fishes and 

 fifty species of birds were obtained on that occasion. The Coast Survey, 

 in connection with the Smithsonian Institution, secured important 

 information as to the relative height of points upon the surface of the 

 North American continent. .Mr. W. J. Fisher, who Avas stationed at 

 Kadiak, Alaska, gathered much valuable material relative to the man- 

 ners and characteristics of the native tribes. On the occasion of the 

 visit of Mr. Henry Elliott to the seal islands of Alaska, on business of 

 the United States Government, the Secretary of the Treasury kindly 

 permitted* a taxidermist, selected by the Smithsonian Institution, to 

 accom\)any himfor the purpose of collecting specimens for the Museum, 

 and extended important aid in facilitating the preservation of the mate- 

 rial secured. 



The interest in the photographic exhibit of the Museum at the Cin- 

 cinnati Exposition was materially increased by a set of photographs 

 illustrating the methods of mounting prints, obtained through the 

 courtesy of the Superintendent of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and 

 a collection of photographs of counterfeiters, illustrating the uses to 

 which photogra])hy has been api)li('d in connection with the require- 

 ments of the Government service, was secured, through the kind 

 offices of Mr. John S. Bell, Chief of the Secret Service Division. An 

 interesting series of ])roofs of the current bonds and currency notes, 

 and of gold and silver certificates, coupons, and registered bonds, was 

 l)resented by the Chief of the Bureau of T^ngraving and Printing, 



In 1881, under instruction of the Treasury Department, through Mr. 

 E. W. Clarke, Chief of the Bureau of Revenue Marine, Oapt. Hooper, in 

 command of the revenue cutter Corivin, visited the Arctic coast. He 

 was instructed to take Mr. Nelson, an agent of the National Museum, 

 to St. Michaels, ami give him an opportunity to visit St. Lawrence 

 Island for the purpose of collecting P^skimo objects. Mr. Nelson 

 obtained on the island, in addition to a fine collection of implements, 

 utensils, dresses, etc., a large number of crania, fllling an important 

 deficiency in the Museum collections. In 1884 the Chief of the Bureau 



