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EEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1887. 

 Photographer. 



Mr. T. W. Smillie, in charge of the photographic work, states that 

 506 negatives have been added to the permanent files during the year, 

 as follows : 



Archaeological and ethnological 36 



Lithological 8 



Mineralogical .... 7 



Ornithological 13 



Metallurgical .... 7 



Mammals 24 



For illustrations of lectures 86 



Miscellaneous 324 



Total 506 



In addition, 117 transparencies have been made, 110 being for use in 

 connection with lectures given in the Museum. Seventy-two geological 

 negatives have been stripped and developed. Three thousand seven 

 hundred and six prints (silver) have been made, as follows : 



Archaeological and ethnological. .. 183 



Lithological 49 



Mineralogical 36 



Ornithological 28 



Metallurgical 94 



Mammals 48 



Miscellaneous 3,268 



Total .3,706 



In addition, 506 cyauotypes of case drawings and 45 enlargements 

 have been made. One hundred and fifteen miscellaneous photographs 

 have been mounted. In connection with experimental work for the In- 

 stitution upon solar and lunar spectrum, 5 negatives and 10 prints were 

 made. 



The following persons have been instructed in the methods of pho- 

 tography: Dr. May King (Kiu Yia Me), Mr. O. H. Townsend, Mr. G. P. 

 Merrill, and W. T. Hornaday, of the Museum; Lieutenants Schaefer, 

 Eogers, Bolles, and Werlich, of the IT. S. Navy ; Mr. Thomas Lee, d. 

 S. Fish Commission, and the photographer of the IT. S. Coast Survey. 

 Every facility has been afforded them for acquiring sufficient knowledge 

 of photography to be of practical use to them in the field. (See p. 32 

 antea.) 



The usual routine work of numbering and filing negatives has been 

 continued. Several photographic outfits for collectors have been pre- 

 pared. 



By order of the Secretary, a test of seven canceling inks and samples 

 of paper for postal notes was made at the request of the Post- Office 

 Department, and the contracts for the ensuing year were based upon 

 the results of the test. 



The large stereopticon has been transferred to the care of this de- 

 partment, and was very successfully employed during the last season 



of Fa,turday lectures. 



Colorist. 



Mr. A. Zeno Shindler has, in addition to his regular work of coloring 

 casts of fishes, reptiles, etc., for exhibition in the Museum, painted a 

 large collection of similar objects for the American Museum of Natural 

 History, New York, and has made a number of sketches in water color, 



