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Eight pupils have been instructed in photography. 



Every facility is afforded these students for acquiring sufficient knowl- 

 edge of photography to be of practical use to them in the field. In ad- 

 dition to this, a large amount of routine work has been done, number- 

 ing and tiling of negatives, making up outfits for expeditions, etc. 



Negative paper has been adopted for field work,- and in part the use 

 of bromide paper for making enlargements. 



The following apparatus has been purchased : Two Francais lenses 

 for field work, one roll-holder, one balance. 



At the request of the Post-Office Department, Mr. Smillie was ordered, 



as an expert in testing inks, to test eleven cancelling and record inks for 



the Department. As none of the inks were indelible, a comparative 



test was made and a report on their relative values submitted. Upon 



this report was based a decision for making contracts for ink during the 



coining year. 



(e) Artist. 



Mr. A. Zeuo Shindler has painted 218 casts of Indian heads and sev- 

 eral casts showing the anatomical structure of fishes. He has retouched 

 27 Corean pictures, and has colored 33 photographs of machinery, In- 

 dians, etc. He has painted 110 casts of reptiles, mammals, fishes, mol- 

 lusks, etc. He has also painted a collection of 23 Zuhi masks, and per- 

 formed a considerable amount of additional incidental work. 



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



Mr. E. H. Hawley has continued his work of preparing specimens for 

 exhibition. This work is varied in character, including the repair of 

 musical instruments, the framing of pictures, the arrangement of fibers 

 and cloths in frames, the mounting of photographs, the installation of 

 costumes. Considerable time has been devoted to the preparation of 

 the various Japanese collections for exhibition. 



4. ACCESSIONS. 



The number of boxes and packages received during the year was 

 0,890, including those which contained that portion of the objects ex- 

 hibited at the New Orleans Exposition, which arrived in Washington 

 after June 30, 1885. The number of accessions represented by these 

 packages was 1,490 (Nos. 10207-17704). 



The geographical sources of these accessions is shown in detail in the 

 geographical index to the list of accessions in Part v of this Report. 

 It is thought proper also to present in this place a running review 

 of the most important of the general collections. Every State and 

 Territory of the United States, excepting the Indian Territory, is 

 represented in the list, and from the most of them have been received 

 contributions to the departments of zoology, botany, mineralogy, and 

 anthropology. Many of the accessions are small, consisting of a single 

 object or of a few specimens. 

 H. Mis. 170, pt. 2 4 



