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(c) Property and supplies. 



The property clerk is cliarged with the inspection of all articles ni 

 furniture and with the distribution of supplies under the prescribed 

 rules. It is intended to bring this department into closer connection 

 with the department of accounts and requisitions, and for this reason a 

 detailed statement of the exact duties of this office will be deferred un- 

 til the next report. 



{d) Accounts. 



The routine work pertaining to the issue of orders and the adjustment 

 of accounts, preparatory to their payment from the office of the chief 

 clerk of the Smithsonian Institution, has been carefully and satisfac- 

 torily performed by Mr. W. V. Cox, financial clerk. A statement of the 

 receipts and expenditures of the Museum will be found in the report of 

 the executive committee of the Board of Eegents of the Smithsonian 

 Institution. 



13. THE WORK OF THE MUSEUM PKEPAEATOES. 



The work of preparing specimens for exhibition in the Museum or for 

 the study series has progressed very satisfactorily during these six 

 months. The force of preparators now includes nine men of undoubted 

 skill, whose work amply testifies to the thoroughness of their methods. 



(a) William T. Hornaday, chief taxidermist; Henry Marshall. 



{h) Frederic A. Lucas, osteological preparator. 



(c) Joseph Palmer and J. W. Hendley, modelers. 



{d) T, W. Smillie, photographer. 



(e) A. Zeno Shindler, artist. 



(/) E. H. Hawley and T. W. Sweeney, preparators in the Division of 

 Anthropology. 



{a) Taxidermists. 



The most valuable accessions of fresh specimens in the Taxidermic 

 Department during the first half of 1885 were as follows : 



A water-buck, dorcas gazelle, axis deer, and a fine ostrich from Mr. 

 W. A. Oonklin. 



A fallow deer, olive baboon, and dog-faced baboon from Barnum, 

 Baiiey «& Hutchinson. 



A Coypu rat, Hoffman's sloth, and two kangaroos from A. E.Brown, 

 superintendent Philadelphia Zoological Gardens. 



A white-faced antelope and olive baboou from W. T. Hornaday. 



A fine series of 8 large skins of California elephant seal. 



Three skins of harp-seal from C. Hart Merriam. 



Three tiger cubs from Mr. Adam Forepaugh. 



The most noteworthy of the animals mounted during the same period 

 were as follows : 



A fine specimen of the rare and remarkable guereza monkey, an olive 



