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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1890. 



but the text has not yet beeu printed. This Bulletin is by Dr. G. 

 Brown Goode and Dr. T. H. Bean. 



In a subsequent section of this report will be found a statement of 

 the publications of the Museum during the year, and a bibliography of 

 papers by officers of the Museum, and other investigators whose writ- 

 ings are based upon Museum material. The authors of these papers 

 number 103, of whom 31 are connected with the Museum, 8 being hon- 

 orary officers. The papers number 448, and are distributed under the 

 following subjects : 



Subjects. 



Bibliography and biology 



Birds and birds' eggs 



Chemistry 



Ethnology 



Pishes 



Foods and textiles 



Geology 



Insects 



Mammals 



Marine invertebrates 



Mollnsks 



Morphology 



Photography 



Recent and fossil plants. . 

 Heptiles and batrachians. 

 Miscellaneous 



Total. 



By Mu- 

 seum of- 

 ficers. 



By other 

 investi- 

 gators. 



Total. 



6 





2 



8 



27 





29 



56 



18 





1 



19 



32 





8 



40 



37 





30 



C7 



2 







2 



30 





4 



34 



48 





23 



71 



8 





16 



24 



5 





2 



7 



10 





4 



23 







4 



4 



3 



3 



29 





8 



37 



5 





4 



9 



42 





2 



44 



311 





137 



448 



VISITORS. 



During the year the total number of visitors to the Museum building 

 has been 274,324, and to the Smithsonian building 120,894. The great- 

 est number of visitors in the buildings in any one day was on October 

 9, 1889, during the Knights' Templar Conclave, when 10,203 were reg- 

 istered in the Museum and 7,229 in the Smithsonian building. 



