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tion the fresh arrivals. Specialists were also enlisted to work up each 

 department, identifying the old and describing the new. Thus some 

 of the most distinguished German naturalists were employed in this 

 great storehouse of Nature's wonders. Some of them even found here 

 opportunities for wider comparison of species than in the Royal Mu- 

 seums at home. 



In other cases material was sent to the highest authoi-ities in the 

 various classes. Profs. Kolliker and Spengel, for example, have 

 worked up the mammals ; Sharpe (of the British Museum) aud Drs. 

 Hartlaub, Finsch, and GriifFe, the birds ; Prof. Peters, the amphibians ; 

 Dr. Gijnther, the fishes ; Semper, the insects ; Dunker, Monson, Mar- 

 tens, and Garret, the mollusks ; Liltken, the echinoderms ; Dr. Kirchen- 

 pauer, Kolliker, and Semper, the ccelenterates ; and Dr. Ehlers, the pro- 

 tozoans. 



This plan, most liberally sustained, has resulted in giving the 

 Godefiroy Museum a high place among the cabinets of Europe for its 

 many type-specimens and novelties. The duplicates were freely dis- 

 tributed to institutions of science in the Fatherland, and to many 

 specialists beyond it. This munificence in thus aiding investigators 

 is a theme of praise among professional zoologists on the Continent. 

 Many of the discoveries among the lower forms of marine life which 

 have enriched German science during the last two decades may be 

 credited to the Hamburg storehouse. Rarely have wealth and liber- 

 ality been combined in a way more grateful to working naturalists ; 

 and never did science indirectly receive greater material benefit from 

 one not himself an investigator. For Herr Godefiroy is a merchant, 

 spending most of his time in his counting-room and at the Bourse, and 

 superintending cargoes which unite Hamburg with nearly every part 

 of the world. He visits his museum for an hour or two as a weekly 

 recreation, looking over the beautiful forms, and hearing from his corps 

 of workers their most noteworthy observations. It is a phenomenon 

 too rare in America ; nor is it common even in more intellectual 

 Europe to find commerce and science thus sharing the attention of the 

 same mind. A Berlin naturalist, who was in a position to know, told 

 the writer that Herr Godefiroy had for many years in the early part of 

 his enterprise expended not less than from six to eight thousand thalers 

 each year in procuring and working up his natural history material. 

 It was perhaps to lessen the burden of this outgo by an income, and to 

 make the institution in part self-supporting and therefore more per- 

 manent, that in 1865 (?) the founder decided to ofier for sale to Euro- 

 pean naturalists his stores of duplicate material already acquired 

 and daily coming in. For this purpose a carefully-prepared catalogue 

 of the Museum Godefi'roy was issued, with a detailed list of the 

 species in classified order, giving the author and locality, and the 

 catalogue number which follows the specimen when it goes forth. 

 This catalogue is in itself an almost exhaustive list of marine inver- 



