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in 9 miscellaneous sets made up of representatives of several groups 

 each. 



Among the more important foreign museums and other scientific 

 institutions with which exchange relations were had during the year 

 the following may be mentioned: The British Museum of Natural 

 History, London, and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England; 

 the Museum of Natural History. Paris, France; the Botanical Mu- 

 seum, Berlin, the Botanical Garden, Darmstadt, the Senchenberg- 

 ischen Museums, Frankfort, and the Natural History Museum, 

 Lubeck, Germany; the Botanical Garden, Brussels, Belgium; the 

 Botanical Museum. Copenhagen, Denmark: the Naturhistoriska 

 Riksmuseum, Stockholm. Sweden; the Zoological Museum, Chris- 

 tiania, Norway; the Zoological Museum of the Imperial Academy of 

 Sciences, and the Royal Botanical Garden. St. Petersburg, Russia; 

 the Musee Cantonale d'Histoire Naturelle, Freiburg, Switzerland; 

 the K. K. Naturhistorisches Hofmuseum, Vienna, Austria; the Hun- 

 garian National Museum, Budapest, Hungary; the Botanic Gardens, 

 Durban, Natal, South Africa; the Department of Fisheries, Sydney. 

 New South Wales; the Selangor State Museum, Kuala Lumpur, 

 Federated Malay States; the Instituto Medico Nacional, City of 

 Mexico; the Hope Gardens, Kingston. Jamaica; the Universite 

 Laval, Quebec, the Geological Survey of Canada, ami the University 

 of Toronto, Canada; and the Estacion Central Agronomica, Santiago 

 de las Vegas. Cuba. 



Exchanges were also conducted with the following individuals 

 abroad: Mr. Edward Lovett, of England; Mons. Drouin de Bouville, 

 Dr. Henri Martin, and Mons. M. Petitmengin, of Trance; Dr. YVal- 

 ther Horn, of Germany; Dr. J. E. Hibsch, of Austria : Mi-. A. Roman, 

 of Sweden: Baron Harold Loudon, of Russia; Dr. A. Berger, of 

 Italy; Dr. II. Christ and Mr. Henry Volkart, of Switzerland: Rev. 

 Longin Navas, of Spain; Mr. R. L. Mestayer, of New Zealand; 

 Senor Juan Tremoleras, of Uruguay; Mr. Constantine G. Richards 

 and Dr. Nicolas Leon, of Mexico: Mr. dames Fowler and Dr. G. F. 

 Matthew, of Canada. 



VISITORS. 



The total number of visitors to the National Museum building dur- 

 ing the year was "210, 107, a daily average of (ill, and to the Smith- 

 sonian building 153,591, a daily average of 4'.hi. Were the buildings 

 kept open during evenings and Sundays, as is the general practice 

 elsewhere, these numbers would lie at least doubled. 



In the following tables are shown, respectively, the attendance dur- 

 ing each month of the past year, and for each year beginning with 

 1881, when the Museum building was first opened to the public. 



