18 - REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 188S. 



The collections of the Museum are made up, in large part, of the 

 following materials: 



1. The natural history and anthropological collections, accumulated 

 since 1850 by the efforts of the officers and correspondents of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution. 



2. The collections of the Wilkes exploring expedition, the Perry ex- 

 pedition to Japan, and other naval expeditions. 



3. The collections of the scientific officers of the Pacific Eailroad sur- 

 vey, the Mexican boundary survey, and of the surveys carried on by the 

 Engineer Corps of the Army. 



4. The collections of the U. S. geological surveys under the direc- 

 tion of the TJ. S. geologists, Hayden, King, and Powell. 



5. The collections of the U. S. Fish Commission. 



6. The gifts by foreign Governments to the Museum or to the Presi- 

 dent or other public officers of the United States, who are fordidden by 

 law to retain such gifts in their private posessions. 



7. The collections made by the United States to illustrate the animal 

 and mineral resources, the fisheries, and the ethnology of the native 

 races of the country, on the occasion of the International Exhibition at 

 Philadelphia in 1876, and the fishery collections displayed by the United 

 States at the International Fisheries Exhibition at Berlin in 1880 and 

 at London in 1883. 



8. The collections given by the Governments of the several foreign 

 nations, thirty in number, which participated in the exhibition at Phila- 

 delphia in 1876. 



9. The industrial collections given by numerous manufacturing and 

 commercial houses of Europe and America, at the time of the Philadel- 

 phia Exhibition and subsequently. 



10. The material received, in exchange for duplicate specimens, from 

 the museums in Europe and America, at the time of the Philadelj)hia 

 Exhibition and subsequently. 



In connection with the general work of administration there is in the 

 Museum a library, a chemical laboratory, a photographic establishment, 

 and various workshops for taxidermy, modeling, and for the prepara- 

 tion of skeletons for exhibition. In connection with the department 

 of art and industry two preparators are constantly employed. 



The publications of the Museum consist of (1) The Annual Eeport; 

 (2) The Proceedings of the United States National Museum ; (3) The 

 Bulletin of the United States National Museum ; (4) The series of circu- 

 lars. These have, in part, been reprinted in the volumes of the Smith- 

 sonian Miscellaneous Collections, 



