6 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1887. 



C— THE CONDITION OF THE COLLECTIONS. 



The general condition of the collections is fairly satisfactory ; for, 

 although greatly hampered by lack of room, and impeded by the in- 

 creasing amount of unproductive routine, such as the examination of 

 material for correspondents and the preparations for participation in 

 exhibitions in other cities, the curators have succeeded in bringing 

 the material under their charge more fully under control than it had 

 hitherto been and in preventing auy deterioration in its condition. 



CENSUS OF THE COLLECTIONS. 



The recent extensions of the collections are indicated by the accom- 

 panying table. No enumeration was made in 1885, and the variation 

 between the tables for 1884 and 1886 exhibits the increase during 

 eighteen months, from December, 1884, to June, 1886. 



Table showing yearly increase in the collections in the National Museum, 1882-1887. 



Name of department. 



Arts and industries : 



Materia medica 



Foods 



Textiles 



Fisheries 



Animal products 



Naval architecture 



■Historical relics 



Coins, medals, paper 

 money, etc 



Musical instruments 



Modern pottery, porce- 

 lain, and bronzes 



Paints and dyes 



" The Catlin Gallery".. 



Physical apparatus 



Oils and goons 



Chemical products 



Ethnology 



American aboriginal pottery, 

 Prehistoric anthropology ... 

 Mammals (skins and alco- 

 holics) 



Birds 



Birds' eggs 



Reptiles and batrachiaus 



Fishes 



Mollusks 



Insects 



Marine invertebrates 



Comparative anatomy : 



Osteology , 



Anatomy 



Palaeozoic fossils 



Mesozoic fossils 



Cenozoic fossils 



1882. 



35, 512 



4,660 

 44, 354 



50, 000 



7 33. 375 



1,000 



7 11,781 



1883. 



4,000 

 2 1, 244 



40, 491 



<*,920 



47, 246 



65, 000 



14, 825 



5,535 3,640 4,214 



70 103 3, 000 



20, 000 73. 000 

 100, 000 

 (Included with mollusks.) 



1884. 



4.442 



1,580 

 2,000 

 5,000 

 1, 000 

 600 



200, 000 

 12,000 

 45, 252 



5,694 



50, 350 



40, 072 



23, 495 



68, 000 



400, 000 



"151,000 



c 200, 000 



l 1885. 



J No census of collection taken. 



- [nclnding paints, pigments, and oils. 



"Duplicates not Included. 



4 Foods only. 



6 Estimated. 



18S5-'86. 



4,850 

 3 822 

 3,064 

 3 9, 870 

 2,792 



1,002 



1,055 

 400 



2,278 



377 



500 



250 



3 197 



3 659 



6 500, 000 



25, 000 



65,314 



7,451 



55, 945 

 44, 163 

 25, 344 



75, 000 

 8 460, 000 

 5 500, OuO 

 5 350, 000 



10,210 



80, 482 

 69, 742 



1886-'87. 



5, 516 



*877 

 3,144 



10, 078 



2,822 



• 13, 634 



417 



2. 238 



100 



500 



251 



198 



661 



503, 764 



5 26, 022 



101, 659 



7,811 



54,987 



«48, 173 



27,542 



100, 000 



425, 000 



6 585, 000 



6 430, 000 



ell, 022 



84, 491 



70, 775 



6 2,235 are nests. 



7 Catalogue entries. 



8 Including Cenozoic fossils. 

 ,J Professor Ei ley's collection numbers 150,000 

 specimens. 



