REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 29 



ARTS AND INDUSTRIES. 



The organizatiou of a new section of this department has been ar- 

 ranged. Dr. Paul Haupt, of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, has 

 beenappointedhouorarycuratorof the collection of Oriental Antiquities, 

 with Dr. Cyrus Adler, of the same university, as honorary assistant 

 curator. 



In connection with this arrangement the following circular, which 

 has been approved by the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, has 

 been published by the Johns Hopkins University : 



Memorandum of the understanding between tlie National Museum and the Johns Hoplins 



University. 



The National Mu&eum at Wasliingtou has undertaken the formations of study col- 

 lections of casts of Assyrian and Babylonian antiquities in association with the Johns 

 Hopkins University of Baltimore. The two institutions will co-operate for this pur- 

 pose, upon the following basis: 



1st. The Museum stands ready to make fac-similes and casts of Assyrian and Baby- 

 lonian antiquities. 



'2d. The attempt will first be made to obtain copies of the Assyrian antiquities pre- 

 served in this country. 



3d. P^'or the present the Museum will confine itself to the reproduction, in fac-simile 

 and flat casts, of Assyrian and Babylonian seal cylinders. 



4th. The Johns Hopkins University will attend to the proper arrangement and 

 cataloguing of the Assyrian collection in the National Museum, under the supei'vision 

 of Dr. Haupt, professor of Semitic languages, and Dr. Adler, assistant in the Semitic 

 courses, who will also co operate in the work of forming the collection and securing 

 the loan of objects to be copied. 



5th. Three sets of fac-similes and casts will be made in each case : the first to be 

 preserved in the National Museum at Washington ; the second to be transferred to 

 the Semitic library of Johns Hopkins University, at Baltimore; and the third to be 

 presented to the owners of the objects loaned. 



Numerous and valuable additions have been made to the collection 

 of graphic arts, under the energetic curatorship of Mr. S. R. Koehler. 

 An interesting exhibit of illustrations of engraving, etching, and of the 

 photo-mechanical j)rocesses, has been prepared by Mr. Koehler for the 

 Cincinnati Exposition. A catalogue of this collection has been pub- 

 lished in the appendix to the tenth volume of the Proceedings U. S. 

 National Museum.* After the close of the Exposition the collection 

 will be permanently installed in the National Museum. 



The collection of Materia Medica is now under the care of the former 

 honorary cura^tor, Dr. James M. Flint, U. S. Navy, Dr. H. G. Beyer, U. 

 S. Navy, having been ordered to other duty by the Navy Department. 

 A collection of Corean drugs has been purchased, and is of much im- 

 portance in completing the series of drugs from that country. The en- 

 tire collection is now installed in the east-south range. During the 

 year 246 specimens have been added to the collection. 



The collection of historical and personal relics, under the care of Mr. A. 

 H.Clark, has received some interesting additions, among which is the war 

 saddle of General Grant, deposited by General A. H. Markland. From 

 Mr. Stephen Yail has been received a i)iece of the original wire over 



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