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Table showing yearly increase in the collections in the National Museum, etc. — Continued. 



Name of department. 



Fossil plants 



Recent plants 



Minerals 



Lithology and physical ge- 

 ology 



Metallurgy and economic 

 geology 



Living animals 



Total 



1882. 



4 9,07 



193, 362 



1883. 



4,624 



14,550 

 12, 500 



30, 000 



263, 143 



1884. 



•291 



16, 610 



18, 000 

 40, 000 



1885. 



L, 472, 600 



1885-'86. 



2 7, 429 

 30, 000 

 18, 401 



20, 647 



48, COO 



:J, 420, 944 



1886-'87. 



8,462 



3 32, 000 



18,601 



"21,500 



3 49, 000 



2, 666, 335 



1 Fossil and recent. 



2 Exclusive of Professor Ward's collection. 



CATALOGUE ENTRIES. 



3 Estimated. 



4 In reserve series. 



The words "accession," "specimen," and " catalogue entry" are by 

 do means synonymous. An accession may consist of several classes of 

 objects, or may be a single specimen, or may include several specimens 

 of only one class. A specimen is a single object. A catalogue entry rep- 

 resents one or more specimens of a class, and may include hundreds of 

 individual objects. The number of catalogue entries during the year, 

 as shown in the following table, is perhaps the best criterion of the im- 

 portance of the accessions to the collections, since they represent the 

 number of separate "lots" not only received but of sufficient value to 

 be added to the collections. It frequently happens that material is re- 

 ceived which is of no value and is therefore not entered on the catalogue. 



Number and name of depart- 

 ment. 



Total 



number of 



entries. 



Number and name of depart- 

 ment. 



Total 



number of 



entries. 



I. Arts and industries : 



Materia medica 



Textile industries 



73 



59 



55 



425 



1 



324 



2 



17 



3,122 



2,3C8 



1, 022 



3,863 

 417 



2, 393 

 355 

 130 



1,225 

 13 



IX. Mollusks 



10, 530 



I. Insects 



XI. Marine invertebrates . . 



XII. Comparative anatomy : 



Mammals 



101 

 5,252 



Animal products 



Philosophical instru- 

 ments 



1 



} 812 



Birds 



Reptiles and batra- 

 chians 





J 



1,036 



Chemical products 



Musical instruments .. 

 Historical relics, coins, 



Fishes 



XIII. Invertebrate fossils : 



b. Mesozoic 



1,033 



IT. Ethnology 



c. Cenozoic. * 

 XIV. Fossil plants 





American aboriginal pot- 



9 



XV. Recent plants 



30 





XVI. Minerals 



875 



IV. Mammals...-- 



XVII. Lithology and physical 

 geology 







442 





XVIII. Metallurgy and eco- 

 nomic geology 



Total 





VI. Reptiles and batrachians 

 VTT Fishes 



671 



VIII. Vertebrate fossils 



36, 695 







Included under " Mollusks." 



