REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 



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D.— THE CONDITION OF THE COLLECTIONS. 



CENSUS OF THE COLLECTIONS. 



The additions to the collections daring the year are indicated in the 

 following table: 



No. of specimens. 

 Arts and industries: 



Materia medica *200 



Foods 200 



Textiles 66 



Fisheries 2 



Animal products 1 



Domestic animals (for mount- 

 ing) 66 



Historical collections, coins, 

 medals, paper-money, etc... +5, 900 



Musical instruments 20 



Transportation and engineer- 

 ing 1,250 



Modern pottery, porcelain, and 



bronzes 121 



Paints and dyes 88 



Physical apparatus 12 



Chemical products 211 



Graphic arts 600 



Ethnology 2,506 



American aboriginal pottery 1,047 



Oriental antiquities - 2, 635 



Prehistoric anthropology 7, 205 



Mammals (skins and alcoholics) 561 



Birds 2,245 



No. of specimens. 



Birds' eggs 1, 068 



Reptiles and batrachiaus 645 



Fishes 15, 225 



Vertebrate fossils 512 



Mollusks 3, 500 



Insects 15,000 



Marine i n vertebrates 4 , 700 



Comparative anatomy : 



Mammals (skulls and skele- 

 tons) 308 



Birds ,236 



Reptiles and batrachiaus . . 29 



573 



229 



69 



Paleozoic fossils 



Mesozoic fossils 



Cenozoic fossils (included with 



mullusks), fossil plants 329 



Recent plants 1, 195 



Minerals 9, 411 



Lithology and physical geology. \ 

 Metallurgy and economic geol- *• 13,600 



ogy S 



Total 81,992 



* Although about 200 specimens have been received during the year, the total num- 

 ber of specimens now iu the collection is less than that estimated in 1888-'89, owing 

 to the rejection of worthless material. 



t Including the Catlin Gallery. 



t Estimated on basis of receipts iu previous years, the curator being unable to as- 

 certain the growth of the collections under his care during the fiscal year 1889-'90. 

 These two departments are now combined under the Department of Geology. 



