REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 41 



Statistics of accessions to National Museum collections. 1886 to 18S0. 



Name of department. 



Arts and industries: 



Materia medica 



Foods 



Textiles 



Fisheries 



Animal products 



Naval architecture 



Historical relics 



Coins, medals, paper money, etc. 



Musical instruments 



Modern pottery, porcelain, and 

 bronzes 



Paints and dves 



" 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 



Mollnsks 



Insects 



Marine invertebrates 



Comparative anatomy : 



Osteology 



Anatomy 



Paheozoic fossils 



Mesozoic fossils 



Cenozoic fossils 



Fossil plants 



Recent plants 



Minerals 



Lithology and physical geology 



Metallurgy and economic geology.. .. 

 Living animals 



Total 



1885-'«6. 



4,850 



'822 

 3, 063 

 lf J, 870 

 2,792 



1,002 



1,005 



400 



2, 278 



177 



500 

 250 

 l l97 



»659 



<500, 000 



25, 000 



1886-'87. 



5,516 



2877 



3,144 



10, 078 

 2, 822 



13, 634 

 417 



2,238 

 100 



500 

 251 

 198 

 661 

 503, 764 

 4 26, 022 



65, 314 



7,451 



55, 945 



44,163 



25, 344 



75, 000 



«460, 000 



<>500, 000 



4 350, 000 



10,210 



80, 482 

 69, 742 



7 7, 429 

 30, 000 

 18,401 

 20, 647 



48. 000 



2, 420, 944 



101, 659 

 7,811 



54, 987 

 548, 173 

 27, 542 

 100, 000 

 425, 000 

 4 585, 000 

 ■4450, 000 



ni,022 



84,491 

 70, 775 



8, 462 

 *32, 000 



18, 601 

 021,500 

 ■»49, 00U 



2, 666, 335 



1887-'88. 



5, 762 



3 «77 



3 3, 144 



3 10, 078 



3 2, 822 



14,640 

 427 



3,011 



3 100 

 3 500 

 3 251 

 3 198 

 3 661 

 505, 464 

 <27, 122 



108, 631 



8,058 



56, 484 



50, 055 



27, 664 



101,350 



455, 000 



595, 000 



515, 000 



11,558 



84, 649 

 70, 925 



10, 000 

 4 38, 000 

 21,896 

 22, 500 

 51,412 

 220 



2, 803, 459 



1888-'89. 



5, 942 



911 



3, 222 



3 10, 078 



2, 948 



3 600 



3 14,990 



3 427 



3 3, 011 



109 



3 500 



3 251 



213 



688 



506, 324 



28, 222 



850 



116, 472 



8, 275 



57, 974 



50, 173 



28, 405 



107, 350 



46-<, 009 



603, 000 



515, 300 



11, 753 



91, 126 

 71,236 



10, 178 

 38, 459 

 27, 690 

 27, 000 

 52, 076 

 491 



2. 864, 244 



1 Duplicates not included. * Estimated. 



2 Foods only. 6 2,235 are nests. 



3 No entries of material received during the year 6 Including Cenozoic fossils. 



have been made on the catalogue. 7 Exclusive of Professor Ward's collection. 



