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E. — Eeview of the half year's work in the scientific departments 37 



15. Division of Anthropology 37 



(a) Arts and industries 37 



(6) Ethnology 40 



(c) American prehistoric pottery 40 



(d) Antiquities 41 



16. Division of Zoology 41 



(a) Mammals 41 



(6) Birds 42 



(c) Reptiles and batrachians 44 



(d) Fishes 44 



(e) Comparative anatomy 44 



(/) Mollusks 45 



(g) Insects - 47 



(h) Marine invertebrates 48 



(i) Invertebrate fossils (Paleozoic) 49 



(fc) Invertebrate fossils (Meso-Cenozoic) 49 



17. Division of Botany 50 



(a) Fossil plants - 50 



(6) Eecent plants 50 



18. Division of Geology - - - 51 



(a) Minerals 51 



(&) Lithology and physical geology -- 51 



(e) Metallurgy and economic geology 53 



Part II.— Reports of the Curators akd Acting Curators. 



I. — Department of Arts and Industries: 



Section of Materia Medica. By H. G. Beyer, U. S.N 57 



Section of Textile Industries. By Romyn Hitchcock 59 



Section of Foods. By Romyn Hitchcock 61 



II (A)— Department of Ethnology. By Otis T. Mason 63 



II (B) — Department of American Prehistoric Pottery. By William H. 



Holmes 69 



III. — Department of Antiquities. By Charles Rau 71 



IV. — Department of Mammals. By Frederick W. True 79 



V. — Department of Birds and Birds' Eggs. By Robert Eidgway 85 



VI.— Department of Reptiles. By H. C. Yarrow, U. S. A 93 



VII. — Department of Fishes. By Tarleton H. Bean 95 



VIII. — Department of Comparative Anatomy. By Frederick W. True 99 



IX.— Departmen t of Mollusks. By W. H. Dall 103 



X. — Department of Insects. By C. V. Riley 113 



XI. — Department of Marine Invertebrates. By Richard Rathbun 117 



XII (A) — Department of Invertebrate Fossils (Paleozoic). By C. D. Walcott. 129 

 XII (B)— Department of Invertebrate Fossils (Meso-Cenozoic). By C. A. 



White 133 



XIII.— Department of Plants. By Lester F. Ward 135 



XIV.— Department of Minerals. By F. W. Clarke 137 



XV. — Department of Lithology and Physical Geology. By George P. 



Merrill 139 



XVI.— Department of Metallurgy and Economic Geology. By Fred. P. 



Dewey 143 



