REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 9 



No. of specimens. 



XI. Department of Marine Invertebrates *350, 000 



XII. Department of Comparative Anatomy 10,210 



Skeletons 1,987 



Skulls 6,5S1 



Antlers 89 



Casts of brains 34 



Birds' sterna 1, 519 * 



XII. (a) Department of Invertebrate Fossils (Palezoic) 80,482 



XIII. (6) Department of Invertebrate Fossils (Mesozoic) 69,742 



JXV. Department of Fossil Plants 7, 429 



XV. Department of Recent Plants . +30,000 



XVI. Department of Minerals Id, 401 



XVII. Department of Lithology and Physical Geology 20, 647 



XVIII. Department of Metallurgy and Economic Geology 48, 000 



Total 2,420,944 



There have been no important changes in the assignment of exhibition 

 space since the last report was prepared. In the ball devoted to the 

 display of the materia medica collection, a portion of the collection of 

 food substances has been arranged, and in a corner of the north hall are 

 exhibited a few of the objects collected for the section of steam trans- 

 portation. A few cases in the north hall have also been filled with 

 coins and medals. The east end of the northeast balcony in the Smith- 

 sonian building has been occupied by the department of Ethnology 

 in arranging the collection of weapons. There are still several depart- 

 ments to which no exhibition space whatever has been assigned, on 

 account of lack of room, and the only remedy is a new additional build- 

 ing. A great mass of material is at present stored in the Armory Build- 

 ing, and must remain there until Congress has provided more spacious 

 accommodations for the collections. 



CATALOGUE ENTRIES. 



The number of entries made during the year in the Museum regis- 

 ters of the several departments is 52,115, are indicated in the following 

 table : 



Arts and Industries: 



Materia Medica * 409 



Textiles 624 



Foods F 274 



Historical Relics, Coins and Medals, and Modem Pottery 1, 507 



Paints and Dyes 41 



Oils and Gums 112 



Chemical Products 38 



Fisheries and Animal Products 226 



3, 231 



Ethnology „ „ 1, 344 



American Prehistoric Pottery 3, 235 



Archaeology 647 



Mammals 407 



Birds 4,147 



* Duplicates not included. t Exclusive of Professor Ward's collection. 



