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X CONTENTS. 



E.— Review of the administrative work — Continued. 



Progress of general and incidental work— Continued. 



Distribution of duplicates and domestic exchanges 26 



Foreign exchanges 27 



Publications 28 



Visitors 30 



Students; lectures and meetings of societies 31 



Current administrative work : 



Furniture, supplies and accounts 33 



Correspondence and reports 35 



Labels 37 



Buildings and labor; police and public comfort 37 



The work of the Museum preparators: 



Taxidermists 38 



Osteologicalpreparator 40 



Modelers 41 



Photographer 42 



Colorist 42 



Preparator in the Department of Arts and Industries 43 



Accessions 43 



Geographical review of the more important accessions 44 



Co-operation of the Departments and Bureaus of the Government.... 55 



Explorations 60 



Section II.— Reports of the Curators. 



Ethnology 65 



American Aboriginal Pottery 77 



Transportation 79 



Archaeology 83 



Mammals 87 



Birds 95 



Birds' Eggs 101 



Reptiles and Batrachians 103 



Fishes 105 



Mollusks (including Cenozoic Invertebrate Fossils) Ill 



Insects 117 



Marine Invertebrates 125 



Comparative Anatomy 137 



Invertebrate Fossils : 



Paleozoic 139 



Mesozoic 143 



Fossil Plants 145 



Recent Plants 147 



Minerals 149 



Lithology and Physical Geology 151 



Metallurgy and Economic Geology 155 



Section III.— Papers Illustrative of the Collections in the U. S. Na- 

 tional Museum. 



1. Cradles of the American Aborigines. By Otis T. Mason 161 



2. Notes on the artificial deformation of children among savage and civilized 



peoples. [With a bibliography.] By Dr. J. H. Porter 213 



3. The Human Beast of Burden. By Otis T. Mason 237 



4. Ethno-Conchology : A Study of Primitive Money. By Robert E. C. Stearns. 297 



