rai CONTENTS. 



Page. 

 D. — A review of the administrative work of the year — Continued. 



16. Work in connection with the expositions 47 



(a) The Cincinnati, Louisville, and New Orleans Expositions.. 47 



(6) Closing the work of the London Fisheries Exhibition 52 



E. — Review of the year's work in the Scientific Departments 53 



17. Division of Anthropology 53 



(a) Arts and industries 53 



(&) Ethnology 56 



(c) American prehistoric pottery 58 



(d) Antiquities 58 



18. Division of Zoology 59 



(a) Mammals 59 



(6) Birds 59 



(c) Reptiles and batrachians 60 



(d) Fishes 61 



(e) Comparative anatomy 62 



(/) Mollusks 62 



(g) Insects 63 



(h) Marine invertebrates 63 



(i) Invertebrate fossils (Paleozoic) 64 



(k) Invertebrate fossils (Meso-Cenozoic) 64 



19. Division of Botany 65 



(a) Plants — fossil and recent 65 



20. Division of Geology 65 



(a) Mineralogy 65 



( b) Lithology and physical geology 66 



( c) Metallurgy and economic geology 67 



21. Miscellaneous Departments 67 



(a) Exploration and field work 67 



(6) Chemistry 72 



(c) Experimental physiology 72 



(d) Vivaria 72 



Part II. —Reports of the Curators and Acting Curators. 



Section of Materia Medica. By Dr. H. G. Beyer, U. S. N 75 



Section of Textile Industries. By Romyn Hitchcock 79 



Section of Naval Architecture. By J. W. Collins 85 



Section of Foods. By Romyn Hitchcock 107 



Department of Ethnology. By Dr. O. T. Mason 109 



Section of American Aboriginal Pottery. By William H. Holmes 121 



Department of Antiquities. By Dr. Charles Rau 123 



Department of Mammals. By Frederick W. True 129 



Department of Birds. By Robert Ridgway 143 



Department of Reptiles and Batrachians. By Dr. H. C. Yarrow 157 



Department of Fishes. By Dr. Tarleton H. Bean (including also report upon 



Ichthyological Explorations made in behalf of the Museum by Dr. D. S. 



Jordan) 161 



Department of Mollusks. By William H. Dall 179 



Department of Insects. By Dr. C. V. Riley 185 



Department of Marine Invertebrates. By Richard Ratbbun 169 



Department of Invertebrate Fossils (Paleozoic). By C. D. Walcott 203 



1 department of Invertebrate Fossils (Meso-Cenozoic). By Dr. C. A. White 215 



Department of Fossil Plants. By Lester F. Ward , 219 



Department of Mineralogy. By Prof. F. W. Clarke 221 



