USNM Curators Annual Reports: Department of Insects, C. V. Riley's Report, January - June 1885

Insects from the United States National Museum had been exhibted at the 1884 World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition in New Orleans, Louisiana. Charles Valentine Riley (1843-1895), curator of the United States National Museum's Department of Insects, includes a note about that effort in his departmental report from 1885. Join us in transcribing this to learn more about this and the working processing the department's accessions in the first half of 1885. For more information about the Archives' collection of the United States National Museum curators' annual reports, explore the finding aid on their website.