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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1890. 



CATALOGUE ENTRIES DURING THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1890. 



The catalogue entries made in the books of the several departments 

 during- the year amounted to 2S,293 in number. The following table 

 shows the number of entries made in each department. It must be re- 

 membered that a catalogue entry seldom refers to only one specimen. 

 Thus if fifty specimens of birds are contributed by one person, from one 

 locality, they are entered under a single catalogue number. In the case 

 of the Department of Marine Invertebrates, one entry often includes 

 several hundred specimens. 



Number and name of department. 



No. of 

 entries 

 dn ling 

 1880-90. 



I. Arts and industries: 



Materia medica 



Textiles 



Foods 



Animal products 



Paints and dyes 



Fisheries 



Transportation and engineer- 



Chemical products 



Modern pottery, porcelain, and 



bronzes 



Musical instruments 



Coins, medals, paper-money, 



etc 



Graphic arts 



Domestic animals (formount- 



II. Ethnology 



III. Oriental antiquities . 



IV. Mammals 



V. Birds 



(b) Birds' eggs 



179 



38 



08 



1 



11 



750 

 42 



5 

 20 



G20 



577 



Gt 

 1,469 

 3,471 



573 

 1, 739 



239 



Number and name of department. 



VI. 



VII. 



VIII. 



IX. 



X. 



XI. 



XII. 



XIII. 



XIV. 



XV. 



XVI. 



XVII. 



XVIII. 



Reptiles and batrachians 



Fishes 



Vertebrate fossils 



Mollusks (including Cenozoic 

 fossils) 



Insects 



Marine invertebrates 



Comparative anatomy : 



Mammals 



Birds 



Iteptiles and batrachians 



Invertebrate fossils : 



Taleozoic 



Mesozoic 



Fossil plants 



Recent plants 



Minerals 



Lithology and physical ge- 

 ology ---- 



Metallurgy and economic ge- 

 ology 



Total 



No. of 

 entries 

 during 

 18S9-90. 



705 



1,016 



124 



6,509 



89 



1,502 



346 



235 



29 



5,412 



*50u 



200 



24 



2,268 



504 



28, 293 



' Not actually recorded, although the material to be catalogued will fill up five hundred numbers. 



DEVELOPMENT AND ARRANGEMENT OF THE EXHIBITION SERIES. 



Owing to the already crowded condition of the exhibition halls, 

 there has been no opportunity of increasing very materially the exhi- 

 bition series in the several departments. 



A large number of specimens of foods and textiles have been mounted 

 in bottles and boxes, ready to be placed on exhibition when space and 

 cases are available. The collection of Paleozoic invertebrate fossils has 

 been labeled. The fossils from the Cincinnati formation of Ohio have 

 been rearranged by Prof. Joseph F. James. The crustaceans from the 

 Water-lime formation of New York, and from the Cbazy horizon of New 

 York and Vermont, have been relabeled, and, with much additional ma- 



