REPORT ON THE SECTION OF FORESTRY IN THE 

 U, S. NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1890. 



By B. E. Feknow, Honorary Curator. 



Progress in the development of the collections daring the year has 

 been slow for various reasons. It had been expected that the material 

 used in the exhibit for the World's Exposition at Paris would be re- 

 turned and form a desirable basis and an acceptable beginning for 

 a systematic Museum exhibit. The bulk of the material, however, was, 

 at the request of the Director of the Jardin des Plantes at Paris, 

 turned over to that institution, and in this way not only the labor 

 bestowed upon its collection was lost to the Museum, but also the time 

 in waiting for its return. 



The accessions to the forestry collections during the year have come 

 from the Department of Agriculture. The material from the same 

 source used in the exhibit described in my last year's report, did not 

 receive any accession numbers, and is therefore included with the 

 accessions of this year.* 



Ace. 23584: Twenty-seven photo-lithographs, selections from the atlas 

 of illustrations accompanying the French Government report on " Re- 

 boisement et Gazonnemeut des Montagues " aud the Austrian report on 

 the same subject, exhibiting effects of forest destruction and methods 

 of reforestation, etc. 



Ace. 23585 : One section of Lirlodendron Tulipifera (Tulip Poplar), 5 

 feet in diameter, with historical chart of growth. 



Ace. 23586 : Two half sections of Picea Men.ziesii (Sitka Spruce), 2.311 

 metres in diameter, gift of the Northern Pacific Railroad. 



Ace. 23587: Two maps from the atlas accompanying the Tenth Census 

 reports, volume ix, on the Forests of North America, showing distri- 

 bution of forest areas and forest types. 



Ace. 23796: Large map of the United States (12 by 17 feet), showing, 

 in five shades of color, proportion of forest area in each state, and 

 localities of greatest density of forest-growth, by markings. 



Ace. 23588: Two hundred and forty colored plates, being illustrations 

 of the forest flora of the United States, from Andre F. Michaux's "Sylva"; 

 forming, together with an inscription, one of the exhibits at Paris; do- 

 nated by the Massachusetts Society for the Promotion of Agriculture. 



* These accessions were not administered upon until after July 1, 1890, and there- 

 fore the accession numbers allotted to them are not comprised in the series of numbers 

 for 1889-'90. 



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