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dental expenses. Of the latter amount an allotment of $14,500 was made to the 

 Smithsonian Institution and the National Museum. This amount was afterwards 

 increased by $1,700. Dr. Frederick "W. True was designated representatiTe of the 

 Institution and the Museum on the Government board of management. Mr. W. V, 

 Cox was made special agent in charge of the exhibit, and was afterwards also 

 selected, as secretary of the Government board. Exhibits were prepared by 18 

 departments and sections of the Museum, and were shipped to Nashville in the 

 latter part of April, 1897, the Exposition opening on May 1. A detailed statement 

 regarding the participation by the Institution aud its dependencies in this Expo- 

 sition will be presented in the report for 1898. 



Foreign excliariffes. — Exchanges of specimens have been made with a number of 

 foreign museums. Among them may be named the Albany Museum, Grahamstown, 

 South Africa; Australian Museum, Sidney, New South Wales; Berlin Zoological 

 Museum, Berlin, Germany; Botanical Gardens, Calcutta, India; Branicki Museum, 

 Varsovie, Russia; British Museum, London, England; Canterbury Museum, Christ- 

 church, New Zealand; Manchester Museum, Manchester, England; Museum of 

 Natural History, Paris, France ; Museum of Natural History, Lyons, France ; Museum 

 of Natural History, Genoa, Italy; Museum of Natural History, Geneva, Switzerland; 

 Provincial Museum, Victoria, British Columbia; Royal Zoological Museum, Turin, 

 Italy; St. John's College, Shanghai, China; Zoologiske Museum, Copenhagen, Den- 

 mark; Zurich Botanical Gardens, Zurich, Switzerland. Exchanges of interest and 

 value have also been made with individuals, among whom may be named Mr. A. 

 Batalin, St. Petersburg, Russia; Mr. Stefan Chernel von Chernelhiiza, KiJszeg, Hun- 

 gary; Mr. C. Copineau, Doullens, Somme, France; Dr. Wheelton Hind, Stoke-upon- 

 Trent, England; Prof. Wilhelm Leche, Stockholm, Sweden; Mr. J. de Morgan, Gizeh 

 Museum, Egypt; Mr. Victor Rittervon Tschusi zu Schmidhoffen, Hallein, Germany. 



Pnilications. — The Report of the Museum for 1894 was published during the year, 

 and on June 30 the Report for 1895 was practically^ all in type. 



Volume 18 of the Proceedings was issjied in bound form. About twenty papers 

 belonging to Volume 19 were published separately, aud advance sheets of three 

 papers, to be iu eluded in Volume 20, apjjeared during the year. 



In the series of Bulletins two numbers have been issued — No. 47, the iirst part of 

 an elaborate work entitled, ''The Fishes of North aud Middle America," by David 

 Starr Jordan aud Barton W. Evermann; and No. 49, "A Bibliography of the Pub- 

 lished Writings of Philip Lutley Sclater," by the late Dr. G. Brown Goode. 



Two important monographs have been issued as special bulletins. The first of 

 these (Special Bulletin No. 2) consists of a work on the deep sea aud pelagic lishes 

 of the world, by Drs. G. Brown Goode and Tarleton H. Bean. This volume contains 

 553 pages and is accompanied by an atlas of 123 plates. The second (Special Bulletin 

 No. 3) constitutes the second volume of Major Bendire's "Life Histories of North 

 American Birds," aud contains 518 pages and seven colored plates. 



Explorations. — Dr. William L. Abbott has extended his travels into Lower Siam, 

 and as the result of his explorations the Museum has already received two very large 

 and exceedingly valuable collections, inclu^ling natural history specimens and 

 ethnological objects. Many of the mammals were obtained at high altitudes, and 

 all of the material is of a i)eculiarly interesting character. 



Additional collections of ethnological objects from Arizona and New Mexico have 

 been received from Mr. J. Walter Fewkes. A specimen of Canyon Diablo meteorite 

 was also obtained and forwarded by him. 



Dr. David Starr Jordan, president of the Leland Stanford Junior University, 

 transmitted, in behalf of the Fur Seal Commission, a collection of natural history 

 specimens obtained in Japan and Bering Sea. 



Prof. O. F, Cook obtained during his travels in Africa valuable collections of 

 flowers, ferns, etc., which have been added to the herbarium. 



Collections of mammals, plants, invertebrates, and other natural history sj)ecimeus, 



