TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



LIST OF APPENDICES. 



No. 1. Plan of organization and regulations Pages.. 58 



No. 2. Cii'culai' adtlressed to friends of tlie museum Pages.. 2 



No. 3. Circular in reference to petroleum collections Pages. . 2 



No. 4. Circular concerning the department of insects Pages . . 1 



No. 5. Establishment and officers Pages.. 2 



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



surgeon, United States Navy .. Pages.. 2 



No. 7. A classification of the forms in which drugs and medicines appear and are aAninistered. 



By James M. Flint, surgeon, United States Navy Pages . . 7 



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



By James M. Flint, surgeon. United Stites Navy Pages . . 2 



No. 9. Circular in reference to the huilding-stono collection Pages.. g 



No. 10. Two letters on the work of the National Museum. By Barnet Phillips Pages. . 10 



No. 11. A provisional classification of the food collection. By G-. Brown Goodo Pages. . 18 



No. 12. Classification of the collection to illustrate the art of taxidermy Pages.. 2 



No. 13. Outline of a scheme of museum classification. By G. Brown Goode Pages.. 4 



No. 14. Circular requesting material for the library Pages.. 3 



No. 15. The organization and objects of the National Museum Pages . . 4 



No. 16. Plans for the installation of collections ....Pages.. 2 



No. 17. Contributions and their acknowledgment Pages.. 1 



No. IS. List of publications of the United States National Museum Pages. . 12 



