40 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



Statistics of accessions to National Museum Collections, 1882 to 1885. 



Name of department. 



Arts and industries : 



Materia rnedica 



Foods 



Textiles 



Fisheries 



Animal products 



Naval architecture 



Historical relics 



Coins, medals, paper money, etc 



Musical instruments 



Modern pottery, porcelain, and bronzes 



Paints and dyes 



"The Catlin Gallery" 



Physical apparatus 



Oils and gums 



Chemical products 



Ethnology 



American aboriginal pottery 



Oriental antiquities 



Prehistoric anthropology 



Mammals (skins and alcoholics) 



Birds 



Birds' eggs 



Reptiles and batrachians 



Fishes 



Mollusks 



Insects 



Marine invertebrates 



Comparative anatomy : 



Osteology 



Anatomj 7 



Palaeozoic fossils 



Mesozoic fossils 



Cenozoic fossils 



Fossil plants 



Recent plants 



Minerals 



Lithology and physical geology 



Metallurgy and economic geology 



Living animals , 



1882. 



1883. 



4,000 

 2 1,244 



35, 512 



4,660 



44, 354 



50, 000 



3 33, 375 



1,000 



3 11,781 



40,491 



4,920 



47, 246 



65, 000 



3 14, 825 



3,535 3,640 4,214 



70 103 3, 000 



20, 000 73, 000 



100, 000 

 (Included with mollusks. ) 



4, 624 6 7, 291 



1884. 



4,442 



1,580 

 2,000 

 5,000 

 1,000 

 600 



200, 000 

 12, 000 



45, 252 



5,694 



50, 350 



40, 072 



23, 495 



68, 000 



400, 000 



4 151, 000 



s 200, 000 



7 9, 075 



14, 550 

 12, 500 



30, 000 



Total 193,362 



263, 143 



16, 610 



18, 000 

 40, 000 



1,472,600 



nsas. 



1 No census of collection taken. 



* Including paiuts, pigments, and oi!s. 



3 Catalogue entries. 



4 Professor Riley's collection numbers 15,000 spe- 



cimens. 



5 Estimated. 



6 Fossil and recent. 



7 In reserve series. 



