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istrar, chief taxidermist and chief modeler, besides a considerable force 

 of preparators, mechanics, watchman, clerks, laborers, &c. 



The collections are stored and exhibited in the building erected for 

 the use of the Smithsonian Institution between 1847 and 1857, and in 

 the new building', just finished, known as the " National Museum." 



Composition of the collections. — The Museum is made up, in large part, 

 of the following materials: 



1. The natural -history and anthropological collections accumulated 

 since 1850 by the efforts of the officers and correspondents of the Smith- 

 sonian' Institution. 



2. The collections of the Wilkes Exploring Expedition, the Perry 

 Expedition to Japan, and other naval expeditions. 



o. The collections of the scientific officers of the Pacific Railroad 

 Survey, the Mexican Boundary Survey, and of the surveys carried on 

 by the Engineer Corps of the Army. 



4. The collections of the United States Geological Surveys under the 

 direction of the United States Geologists Hayden, King, and Powell. 



5. The collections of the United States Fish Commission. 



0. The gifts by foreign Governments to the Museum or to the Presi- 

 dent and other public officers of the United States, who are forbidden 

 by law to receive them personally. 



7. The collections made by the United States to illustrate the animal 

 and mineral resources, the fisheries, and the ethnology of the native 

 races of the country, on the occasion of the International Exhibition at 

 Philadelphia in 187G, and the fishery collections displayed by the United 

 States in the International Fisheries Exhibition at Berlin in 1880 and 

 at London in 1883. 



8. The collections given by the Governments of the several foreign 

 nations, thirty in number, which participated in the exhibition at Phil- 

 adelphia. 



0. The industrial collections given by numerous manufacturing and 

 commercial houses of Europe and America, at the time of the Philadel- 

 phia Exhibition and subsequently. 



10. The material received, in exchange for duplicate specimens, from 

 the museums of Europe, Asia, and Australasia, and from numerous in- 

 stitutions and collectors in North and South America. 



Adjuncts to aclnmiistration. — All necessary adjuncts to the work of 

 the Museum, a working library, a chemical laboratory, a photographic 

 establishment, a workshop for taxidermy, modeling, and the prepara- 

 tion of skeletons, and several smaller workshops are carried on as apart 

 of the general work of administration. 



Publications of the Museum. — The scientific results of the labors of the 

 officers of the Museum, and of investigations upon the collections be- 

 longing to it, are to be found for the most part in the following works: 



Bulletin of the Unitud States National Museum ; 



Proceedings of the United States National Museum; 



