34 REPORT ON NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1885. 



It is to be regretted that better accommodations under a single roof 

 cannot be furnished for this work. 



Mr. Hendley made and painted a large number of casts of archaeolog- 

 ical specimens for display at the Xev Orleans Exposition, and also of 

 twenty- seven mound pipes. A series of experiments was also mada in 

 the use of cements in casting. 



(d) Photographer. 



During the six months 410 negatives have been added to the files; 

 of these 293 are ethnological, 43 of fishing-boats and fish-hatching sta- 

 stations, &c, and 74 mineralogical, lithological, osteological, and mis- 

 cellaneous. 



Sixteen hundred and six prints have been made, as follows: 



Ethnological and archaeological 1,002 



Mineralogical prints 87 



Fishing vessels, boats, &c 232 



Miscellaneous 2«5 



Three hundred and six cyanotypes, plans of cases, &c. (for distribu- 

 tion to correspondents). 



Sixty-one enlargements by electric light have been made, as follows: 



For the Department of Metallurgy 27 



For the Department of Fabrics i:> 



For the Department of Mammals 10 



For the Department of L ithology 2 



Of fish-batching stations, &c i> 



The numbering and filing of negatives has been completed to date, 

 and a sample book of photographs is now being prepared. 



Five pupils have been instructed iu the elements of the art of pho- 

 tography. Lieutenant Winterhalter has already done valuable work in 

 photographing the eclipse of the sun. Mr. Merrill has photographed 

 for his own department numerous stone quarries, mud cracks, drift 

 bowlders, &c. Mr. J. Templeman Brown has photographed a number of 

 fishing vessels, and Dr. Nash is now in Alaska with Lieutenant Stoney, 

 in charge of tbe photographic work of the expedition. 



(e) Artist. 



Mr. A. Zeno Shindler painted several life-size busts of Indians, mod- 

 eled by Achille Collin, sculptor; also, a large number of photographs of 

 costumes. He restored an ancient oil-painting of Constantinople, and 

 colored several casts of Indian implements for the Department of An- 

 tiquities. 



(/) Preparators in the Division of Anthropology. 



Mr. E. H. Hawley devoted a portion of his time to the completion of 

 exhibits for the New Orleans Exposition. 



