CONTENTS. 



Page 



Subjects v 



Letter of Transmittal vn 



Contents „ ix 



List of Illustrations xi 



PART I. 



Report op the Assistant Secretary. 



General Considerations. 



Asa museum of record 7 



As a museum of research 9 



As au educational museum 10 



The new museum building 12 



Growth and needs of the museum 13 



Summary of the Operations of the Year. 



A 1 1] iropriations and expenditures 21 



Buildings 22 



Additions to the collections " 25 



( reneral work upon the collections 33 



The exhibition collections 36 



Researches 38 



Explorations 44 



Distribution and exchange of specimens 4ti 



Visitors 47 



Meetings and lectures 48 



Correspondence 49 



Publications 49 



Library 52 



Photography 52 



Cooperation of the Executive Departments of the Government 53 



Expositions 53 



International Congresses 55 



Organization and staff 55 



Necrology 56 



Reports of Head Curators. 



Report on the Department of Anthropology for the year 1903-4 61 



Gifts 61 



Purchases <>•> 



Exchanges 64 



Transfers and loans 64 



Explorations - (i,i 



ix 



