TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



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Staff of the Museum 7 



Inception and history II 



Operations of the year IT 



Appropriations 17 



Buildings and equipment 18 



Collections 21 



Cooperative educational work 23 



Visitors 27 



Publications 28 



Library 29 



Photographic laboratory 30 



Meetings, congresses, and receptions 30 



Organization and staff 35 



Reports on the collections : 



Department of anthropology, by Walter Hough, acting head curator- 39 



Department of biology, by Gerrit S. Miller, jr., acting bead curator- 49 



Department of geology, by George P. Merrill, head curator 75 



Department of arts and industries, W. deC. Ravenel, director — 



Textiles, medicine, woods, and food, by F. L. Lewton 91 



Mineral and mechanical technology, by Carl W. Mitman 105 



Graphic arts, by R. P. Tolman 111 



Loeb collection of chemical types, by F. L. Lewton 119 



Division of history, by T. T. Belote, curator 121 



List of accessions 131 



List of papers based on the national collections 193 



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