EEPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 



49 



Subjects. 



Ethnology 



Entomology 



Fisheries and fishing grounds 



Fishery industries 



Fishes 



Foods 



Fossil plants 



General natural history 



Geography and exploration 



History 



Invertebrate fossils 



Lithology and physical geology 



Mammals 



Marine invertebrates 



Materia medica 



Metallurgy 



Minerals 



Miscellaneous (including reviews). 



Mollusks 



Osteology and craniology 



Plants 



Physiology 



Reptiles 



Textiles 



Thermotics 



Total 



Papers by 

 Mnseum 

 officers. 



Papers 

 by other 

 investi- 

 gators. 



Total. 



VISITORS. 



During the year the total number of visitors to the Museum building 

 has been 249,665, and to the Smithsonian Building, 102,863. 

 The monthly register, as kept by the door keepers, is here recorded: 



Jiiiy --- 



August 



September 



October , 



November 



December 



1889. 

 January 



February 



March 



April 



May 



June 



Total 



Approximate daily average 



H. Mis. 142, pt. 2-^-^4 



ISTational Mu- 

 seum 

 Building. 



11,817 



17, 299 

 20, 820 

 16, 109 

 13, 161 

 18, 135 



18, 946 

 25, 603 

 30, 698 

 24, 822 

 33, 440 



18, 809 



249, 665 

 800 



Smithsonian 

 Building. 



5,219 

 7,674 

 9,836 

 6,908 

 5,711 

 7,949 



7,698 



9,773 

 10, 089 



9,822 

 14, 546 



7, 638 



1 02, 863 

 329 



