22 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1888. 



specimeus, on hand at the close of the year is more than 2,800,000. 

 These figures are in many instances estimated, and are always subject 

 to revision. 



Approximate number of specimens in the Museum in 1882 and received each year since. 



Name of Department. 



Arts and industries : 



Materia medica 



Poods 



Textiles 



Fisheries 



Animal products 



Naval architecture 



Historical relics 



Coins, medals, paper money, 

 etc 



Mirsical instruments 



Modern pottery, porcelain, 

 and bronzes 



Paints and dyes 



"TheCatlin Gallery " 



Physical apparatus 



Oils and gums 



Chemical products 



Ethnology 



American aboriginal pottery 



Prehistoric anthropology 



Mammals (skins and alcoholics). 



Birds 



Bird's eggs 



Keptiles and batrachians 



Fishes 



Mollnsks 



Insects 



Marine invertebrates 



Comparative anatomy : 



Osteology 



Anatomy 



Palaeozoic fossils 



Mesozoic fossils 



Cenozoic fossils 



Fossil plants 



Eecent plants 



Minerals 



Lithology and physical geology.. 

 Metallurgy and economic geology 

 Living animals 



Total 



1882. 1883. 1884. 11885. 1885-'86. 188C-'87. 1887-88. 



35, 512 



4,660 



44, 354 



50, OOO 



«33, 375 



1,000 



811, 781 



4,000 

 21, 244 



40, 491 



4,920 



47, 246 



65, 000 



814, 825 



3, 535 3, 640 4, 214 



70 103 3, 000 



20, 000 73, 000 

 100, 000 

 (Included with mollusks.) 

 4,624 I "7,291 



4,442 

 1,580 

 2,000 

 5,000 

 1,000 

 600 



200, 000 



12,.000 



45, 252 



5,694 



50, 350 



40, 072 



23, 495 



68, 000 



400, 000 



"151,000 



6200, 000 



139, 075 



193, 362 



14, 550 

 12, 500 

 30, 000 



16, 610 

 18, 000 

 40, 000 



263,143 1,472,600 



4,850 



^822 



3,664 



SQ, 870 



2,792 



1,002 



1,055 

 400 



2,278 



377 



500 



250 



3197 



3659 



"500, 000 



25, 000 



65, 314 



7,451 



55, 945 



44, 163 



25, 344 



75, 000 



9460, 000 



«50O, 000 



6350, 000 



10, 210 



80, 482 

 69, 742 



5,510 



"877 



8,144 



10, 078 



2,822 



1 



j- 13,634 



417 



2,238 



100 



500 



251 



198 



661 



503, 764 



«26, 022 



101, 659 



7,811 



54, 987 



'48, 173 



27, 542 



100, 000 



425, 000 



"585, 000 



?450, 000 



«11, 022 



84, 491 



70, 775 



i'7, 429 

 30, 000 

 18, 401 

 20, 647 

 48, 000 



2, 420, 944 



8,462 



632, 000 



18, 601 



«21, 500 



649, 000 



2, 666, 335 



5,762 



=877 

 % 144 



«10, 078 

 =2, 322 



14, 640 



427 



3,011 



«100 



6500 



^251 



«198 



«061 



505, 464 



"27, 122 



108, 631 



8,058 



56, 484 



50, 055 



27, 664 



101,350 



455, 000 



595, ooe 



515,000 



11,558 



81, 649 

 70, 925 



10, 000 

 «38, 000 



21, S96 



22, 500 

 51,412 



220 



2, 803, 459 



• No census of collection taken. 



2 Including paints, pigments, and oils. 



3 Duplicates not included. 

 " Foods only. 



^No entries of material received during the year 



have been made on the catalogue. 

 'Estimated. 

 '2,235 are nests, 



^Catalogue entries. 



9 Including Cenozoic fos.sils. 

 '"Professor Riley's collection numbers 15,000 



specimens. 

 11 Fossil and recent. 



1- Exclusive of Professor "Ward's collection. 

 13 In reserve series. 



