X TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Page. 

 D— Review of the administrative work of the year— Continued. 



2. Current administrative work: 



(a) Buildings and labor; police and public comfort 38 



(&) Electric service .• 41 



(c) Cases and fixtures 42 



(d) Property and supplies 42 



(e) Correspondence and reports . 44 



(/) Preparation of labels 44 



3. The work of the Museum preparatory: 



(a) Taxidermists 44 



(b) Osteological preparator 47 



(c) Modelers 48 



(d) Photographer 48 



(e) Artist 49 



(/) Preparator in the Department of Arts and Industries 4'.) 



4. Accessions to the Museum 49 



Geographical Review of the accessions 50 



5. Co-operation of the Departments and Bureaus of the Government.. 66 



6. Report upon the participation of the Smithsonian Institution in the 



New Orleans Exposition 70 



Part II.— Reports of the Curators. 



Ethnology. Otis T. Mason 87 



American Aboriginal Pottery. William H. Holmes 07 



Archaeology. Charles Ran 101 



Foods and Textiles. Romyn Hitchcock 113 



Steam Transportation. J. Elfreth Watkins 119 



Materia Medica. H. G. Beyer, M. D., U. S. N 14.'? 



Mammals. Frederick W. True 147 



Birds. Robert Ridgway 153 



Birds' Eggs. Capt, C. E. Bendire, U. S. A 168 



Reptiles and Batrachians. H. C. Yarrow, M. D., U. S. A 165 



Fishes. Tarleton H. Beau 167 



Mollusks, including Cenozoic Invertebrate Fossils. William H. Dall 173 



Insects. C. V. Riley 181 



Marine Invertebrates. Richard Rathbun 199 



Comparative Anatomy. Frederick W. True 209 



Invertebrate Fossils (Paleozoic). C. D. Walcott 215 



Invertebrate Fossils (Mesozoic). C.A.White 229 



Fossil Plants. Lester F. Ward 231 



Recent Plants. Lester F. Ward 233 



Minerals. F. W. Clarke 237 



Lithology and Physical Geology. George P. Merrill 239 



Metallurgy and Economic Geology. Fred. P. Dewey 245 



Part III.— Reports upon Special Collections in the National Museum and 

 Papers Illustrative of the Collections. 



I. The Meteorite Collection; a Catalogue of Meteorites represented Novem- 

 ber 1, 1886. By F. W. Clarke 255 



II. The Gem Collection. By George F. Kunz 267 



III. The Collection of Building and Ornamental Stones; a Hand-book and Cat- 



alogue. (With index.) By George P. Merrill 277 



IV. The Collection of Textiles; List of Fibers and Fabrics. By Romyn Hitch- 



cock 649 



