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In addition to this 2,200 plates have been numbered, and filed for 

 future use. 



(e) Artist. 



Mr. A. Zeno Shindler had been engaged in painting easts of fishes, 

 reptiles, &c, for the Museum and lor the Louisville, Cincinnati, and 



New Orleans Expositions. He has also made numerous sketches iii oil 



and water-color of certain specimens on exhibition in the Museum. 



Pour full-sized Indian busts were also painted by him for exhibition at 

 New Orleans in connection with the ethnological department of the 

 Museum. 



(/) Preparators in the Division of Anthropology. 



Mr. E. H. Hawley has been for the greater part of the year engaged 

 in mounting collections for the New Orleans, Louisville, and Cincinnati 

 Expositions. During the early part of the year he also arranged for 

 exhibition the collections received from the foreign exhibition, held in 

 Boston during the latter part of 1883. In November and December 

 eight valuable India cashmere shawls were mounted and placed on ex- 

 hibition in the Museum. An interesting collection from the Dennison 

 Manufacturing Company, consisting of the ingredients used in the prep- 

 aration of sealing wax, together with the manufactured products, is be- 

 ing installed by Mr, Hawley; also, a magnificent collection of ostrich 

 leathers presented by Mr. R. T. B6ne, and imported by Joseph Andrade 

 and Company, and some fine specimens of walrus leathers received from 

 V. W. Gesswein. 



Mr. T. M. Sweeny devoted his time during the first half of the year 

 to the mounting of ethnological objects for display in the National Mu- 

 seum. As soon as the Department of Ethnology was organized, in July, 

 he was assigned as assistant to the curator, Prof. O. T. Mason. 



16. WORK IN CONNECTION WITH THE EXPOSITIONS. 

 {a) The Cincinnati, Louisville, and New Orleans Expositions. 



The participation of the Smithsonian Institution, as directed by Con- 

 gress, in three exhibitions, has — although in many respects detrimental 

 to the growth of the Museum — contributed largely to the prosperity of 

 several of its departments. In the first place, in order that material 

 might properly be selected for exhibition, it w T as found necessary in 

 many departments of the Museum to employ additional assistants in 

 making a thorough overhauling of the material and getting it system- 

 atically arranged. In the second place, it waja found necessary to pur- 

 chase a considerable amount of material to till vacancies in the various 

 series of specimens which were shown at tin 4 exhibitions. 



It has been our policy to expend the appropriation for the New Or- 

 leans Exposition in such a manner that there also might result a per- 



