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National Museum, administrative staff of the 28 



appropriations for the fiscal year 1889-'90 62 



bibliography of, for the year ending June 30, 1890 _ . . 681-716 



building, necessity for new 9 



Bulletins of the 684 



collections, growth of 20 



collections, sources of 17 



early history of the 4 



educational work of the 15 



future possibilities of the 6 



increase of material in the 7 



list of accessions during the fiscal year 1889-'90 to the 717 



necessity for a 5 



opening of, during extra hours 19 



organization and scope of the 17 



papers by officers of the 685 



Proceedings of the 684 



progress in work of the 5 



relations of, to Smithsonian Institution 11 



specimens in the 22 



staff of the 26 



visitors to the ' 20 



National Museum, Oxford, England, sent in exchange a Hindoo fire-drill. 88 



Navy Department, accessions from 97 



marine invertebrates received from 225 



Nebraska, accessions from 83 



Nevada, accessions from 83 



New Brunswick, accessions from 79 



New Jersey, accessions from 83 



New Jersey Historical Society, cylinder of first steam-engine erected on 



western continent, presented by 159 



Horn blower engine deposited by 83 



New Mexico, accessions from 83 



New York, accessions from 83 



Niblack, Ensign A. P. (U. S. N.), assistance rendered by 128 



Nicaragua, accessions from 79 



Noble, Hon. JohnW. (Secretary of the Interior), ethnological specimens 



deposited by 98 



Nordisk Museum, Copenhagen, anthropological collections in 125 



Norman, Rev. A. M., marine invertebrates received from 224 



presents crustaceans and echinoderms 90 



North Carolina, accessions from 84 



Northrop, Dr. John I., supplied with outfit 115 



Norway, accessions from 91 



Nuttall, Zelia, sent a set of Norwegian cart harness 91 



Oberlin College presents specimens from South Africa 78 



specimens donated by 127 



Oceanica, accessions from 92 



Ohio, accessions from 84 



Orcutt, C. R. , supplied with outfit 115 



Oregon, accessions from . 84 



Oriental antiquities , accessions to the section of 138 



report on the section of 137 



