TABLE OF CONTEN I S. 



Pasre. 



Subjects vi 



Introductory letter vn 



Table of contents ix 



Part I.— Report of the Assistant Secretary in charge of the Na- 

 tional Museum. 



Condition and progress of the U. S. National Museum; 1886 3 



A. — The Museum staff tf 



B.— The condition of the collections 7 



Census of collections 8 



Catalogue entries 9 



C. — Review of the year's work in the scientific departments: 

 Division of Anthropology : 



Arts and Industries 10 



Ethnology 13 



Aboriginal American Pottery 13 



Arclueology 14 



Division of Zoology : 



Mammals 15 



Birds 15 



Birds'" Eggs 16 



Reptiles and Batrachians 16 



Fishes 16 



Mollusks (including Ceuozoic Invertebrate Fossils) 17 



Insects 18 



Marine Invertebrates 20 



Comparative Anatomy 20 



Invertebrate Fossils, Paleozoic 21 



Invertebrate Fossils, Mesozoic 21 



Invertebrate Fossils, Ceuozoic 21 



Division of Botany : 



Fossil Plants 21 



Recent Plants 21 



Division of Geology: 



Minerals 22 



Lithology and Physical Geology 22 



Metallurgy and Economic Geology 23 



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



1. Progress of general and incidental work 25 



(a) Library 25 



(&) Exchanges and distribution of duplicates 26 



(c) Publications 29 



(d) Visitors 32 



(e) Students and lectures 32 



(/) Meetings of societies 34 



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