REPORT OF ASSISTANT DIRECTOR. 



13 



10. PROGRESS IN CLASSIFICATION AIs'D ARRANGEMENT. 



(a) Laboratory work and catalogue entries. 



On pages 27 and 28 of the Report of the Museum for 1884 is a detailed 

 list of the storage-cases and other furniture in use in the several lab- 

 oratories at the end of that year. There have been no material changes 

 or additions during the past six months. The laboratory cases are en- 

 tirely distinct from those used for the display of the specimens in the 

 exhibition series, and are of course not seen by the public ; but it is 

 safe to say that the accommodations provided in this respect are in 

 most cases ample for the requirements. Every available means is 

 being adopted toward supplying any deficiencies. 



The following table shows the number of entries* made in the cata- 

 logues of the various departments and sections during the first half of 

 1885: 



No. of 

 depart- 

 ment. 



n&. 

 in .. 

 iv .. 



Va. 



V b. 



VI .. 



VII .. 



VIII .. 



IX .. 



X .. 



XI .. 



XII a.. 



XII b.. 



XIII a. 



XIII b.. 



XIV ... 

 XV ... 



XVI ... 



Name of department. 



Last 

 entry in 

 m1884 - ' June, 1885. 



Last entry 



Total 



number of 



entries. 



Arts and Industries: 



Materia Medica 



Textile Industrie!* 



Foods 



Historical Eelics 



Ethnology 



American Prehistoric Pottery 



i Antiquities 



Mammals 



Birds . .. 



, Birds' Xests and Eggs 



I Eeptiles , 



' Fishes 



'; Comparative Osteology 



Mollnsks . 



Insects , 



Marine Invertebrates: 



53, 669 



53, 710 



47 



6.837 



7, 440 



5*1 



480 



547 



67 



75, 201 



75. 341* 



141 



74. 215 



76, 328 



2,113 



107, 505 



114,000 



ti. 435 



97, 685 



98. 110 



425 



14. 714 



15, 075 



361 



101,233 



104, 913 



3, GS0 



22, 148 



22, 35ii 





14. 066 



14, 148 



te 



36, 934 



37, 231 



297 



21, 622 



21, 972 



350 



5, 457 



121 



138 



17 



Crustaceans 



Worms 



Tunicates and Bryozoa 

 Eadiates 



Sponges and Protozoans 



7,280 

 8,91S 



880 

 1,032 



898 



8,608 



10,000 



1,760 



low 



Total 



Invertebrate Fossils (Paleozoic) 



Invertebrate Fossils (Meso-Cenozoic) . 



Fossil Plants 



Eecent Plants 



Minerals . : 



Lithology and Physical Geology 



Metallurgy and Economic Geology 



7,261 

 10, 127 



1,11U 

 5U5 



SI 



TO 



S2 

 347 



4,531 



14,274 



14, S« 



575 



13, 389 



13, 482 



93 



2,018 



2,055 



37 





23 



23 



45,217 



45, 84;; 



026 



36, 986 



37,471 



485 



( 59,281 



59, 290 



9 



^ 44,253 



44. 254 



1 



( 55,843 



35, 942 



99 



Grand total . 



3,796 



(b) Development of the exhibition and stud)/ series. 



The comparatively empty appearance of some of the exhibition halls 

 during the past six months is accounted for by the fact that collections 

 about 140,000 pounds in weight were taken from the halls 

 *An entry in many instances includes hundreds of specimens. 



