10 REPOET ON NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1886. 



Birds' Eggs 253 



Reptiles and liatrachians 444 



Fishes CG2 



Mollusks (including Cenozoic Invertebrate Fossils). The total number of en- 

 tries is made up from nineteen different series) 18, 638 



Insects 1,41)0 



Marine Invertebrates (excepting Mollusks) : 



Crustaceans 1, 483 



Worms 238 



Tunicates and Bryozoa 284 



Radiates 3,741 



Sponges and Protozoa 1. 328 



7, 074 



Comparative Anatomy : 



Mammals 407 



Birds ..., 28M 



Fishes 137 



Reptiles and Batrachians 185 



1, 017 



Invertebrate Fossils — Paleozoic 610 



Invertebrate Fossils — Mesozoic 1, 5G3 



Fossil Plants 15 



Recent Plants 40 



Minerals 772 



Lithology and Physical Geology 1,021 



Metallurgy and Economic Geology 5,500 



52, 116 



0.— EEVIEW OF TIIE YEAR'S WORK IN THE SCIENTIFIC 



DEPARTMENTS. 



DIVISION OF ANTHROPOLOGY. 



DEPARTMENT OF ARTS AND INDUSTRIES. 



The collection of textiles is installed in the northeast court of the 

 Museum, and is provided with printed labels and illustrative diagrams: 

 it includes a very full series of the animal and vegetable fibers of the 

 world, together with devices for spinning and weaving, and the various 

 products of the textile industries. 



Much of the material intended for exhibition can not be installed in 

 the now limited space available, and is stored away in boxes until in- 

 creased space will warrant its display. 



A few cases containing food specimens are on exhibition, and the 

 composition of the human body is graphically illustrated, together with 

 its daily expenditure of tissues, and the manner in which this is com- 

 pensated for by daily rations of food. This collection is exhibited upon 

 the plan of the famous collection of similar character prepared by Dr. 

 Lankester and others for the Bethual Green Museum in London. It is, 

 however, based upon an entirely new series of analyses and a revised 

 plan prepared by Prof. W. O. Atwater, of Wesleyan University. 



The section of materia medica is under the charge of Dr. H. G. Beyer, 

 U. S. Navy, who has been detailed for this work by the Surgeon-Gen- 



