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(c) Photographer. 



Mr. T. W. Smillie reports that 567 negatives have been added to the 

 permanent files, as shown in the following statement: ethnological, 9; 

 mineralogical, 17 ; lithological, 21; archaeological, 150; historical, 16; 

 osteological, 6 ; mammals, 76 ; transportation, 30 ; Fish Commission, 

 16 ; miscellaneous, 181. 



Two thousand five hundred and sixty-five prints have also been 

 made: ethnological, 175; mineralogical, 74; lithological, 26; archaeo- 

 logical, 226; historical, 170; osteological, 10; mammals, 77; transpor- 

 tation, 34; miscellaneous, 1,228; cyanotypes, 106; enlargements, 33 ; 

 collection of miscellaneous photographs mounted, 270. 



Work for the TJ. S. Fish Commission : negatives, 61 ; silver, albumen, 

 and plain prints, 545 ; cyanotypes, 218 ; enlargements, 16. 



The usual routine work of numbering and filing negatives, making 

 up outfits for expeditions, etc., has been continued. 



The illustrating of several of the lectures given in the N"ational Mu- 

 seum has been conducted by means of the stereopticon operated by 

 the photographer and his assistants. 



{d) COLORIST. 



Mr. A. Zeno Shindler has accomplished during the year the work 

 here si)ecified : Painting cast of two copperhead snakes ; repairing and 

 painting a portrait of St. Domingo, making a colored sketch of a Quin- 

 iiat salmon, making a colored sketch of a rattlesnake, making a col- 

 ored sketch of a large lizard (British Guiana), painting the cast of the 

 same, water-color painting of a Pimo Indian, weaving; repairing forty 

 fish casts for the Minneapolis Exhibition. 



In the Department of Ethnology : Painting three casts of Mound- 

 builders' pipes, repairing cast of a Sioux woman, painting seven busts 

 of Moqui Indians, copies of three Japanese paintings on silk, painting 

 four casts of tablets of ancient sculpture, repairing and repainting nine 

 Mexican idols, painting life-size bust of a Zuui Indian, three crayon 

 drawings of the Behistom Sculptured Eock, 6 feet by 3 feet ; eighty-five 

 Indian photographs colored, making colored sketches of Pacific Ocean 

 invertebrates, repairing two shells, constructing and painting five maps 

 of prehistoric France, four oil ijaintings of Funk Island, two water- 

 icolors of the Great Auk and eggs. 



The painting, repairing, and repainting of a considerable number of 

 miscellaneous objects has been also attended to. 



(e) Prepara-tor in the Department of Arts and Industries. 



Mr. E. H. Hawley has devoted the greater portion of his time to the 



preparation of material for exhibition. Among the more important col- 



leetio?as which he has installed during the year, were the Hippisley col- 



lefitipoof Chinese pottery; the Grant relics, a collection of Japanese 



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