42 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



uuies, and bis " AUi^emeiuo Naturgosclii elite dor Kadiolarion," vol- 

 ume 2, from the author; a full set of their publications for tlie year from 

 the British Admiralty; volumes 20, 21, and 22 of the Challenger Re- 

 port (Zoology) from the British Governmeut; a full set of Indian Govern 

 ment publications from the India ofiQce ; volume 1 of Lieutenant-General 

 Pitt-Rivers 's great work, " Excavations in Oramborne Chase," from the 

 author ; a full set of catalogues and handbooks published during the 

 year from the science and art department, South Kensington; See- 

 bohm's magnificent " Geographical Distribution of the Family Chara- 

 dridre ", from the author ; 110 volnmes and pamphlets of " Columbiana " 

 from Columbia College, New York ; a full set of parliamentary papers, 

 etc., for the year, from the library of Parliament, Ottawa, Canada; 

 volumes 2, 3, 4, and C of the *' Mission Scientifiqne du Cap Horn" and 

 other important Government publications from the Bureau Fraugais 

 des Iilchangey Internationaux ; a full set of all the results that have 

 yet been published of the scientific cruises of his yacht UHirondelle, 

 from Prince Albert of Monaco ; a fall set of Government publications 

 for the year from the Italian Government ; the memorial edition of the 

 "Botanical Works of George Engelmann," from Henry Siiaw, esq., Saint 

 Louis ; a set of the " Jahresberichte des Comites fiir ornithologische 

 Beobachtungs-Stationen in Oesterreich" from Victor Ritter Tschusi zu 

 Schmidhofien, Salzburg, Austria; the concluding volumes (volumes 4 

 and 5) of " Vega-Expeditionens Yetenskapliga lakttagelser" from Baron 

 Nordenskiold, Stockholm ; a large series of government publications 

 from the Governmeut of JSTew Zealand. 



ZOOLOGICAL PARK. 



Collections of living Animals. — It has been customary, ever since the 

 Institution commenced to form collections, that skeletons and skins of 

 wild animals should be sent here for preparation, so that a certain reg- 

 ular supply of such material now comes in without solicitation every 

 year, together with occasional live animals, which have been usually 

 sent to the Zoological Gardens in Philadelphia. It seemed to me worth 

 while to try the experiment of having all animals sent on alive when 

 this could be done without enhanced cost; and thus has been formed 

 the nucleus of a collection of living animals, which, though still small, 

 has attracted the popular interest in a very marked degree. 



It is understood that this interest, and the consideration that the 

 buffalo, the mountain sheep and goat, the elk, and other vanishing races 

 of the continent deserve protection at the hands of the Government, 

 was the cause of a bill which was introduced by Senator Beck to create 

 a Zoological Garden on Rock Creek, such that these animals might not 

 only form the subject of study, but be expected to increase as they do 

 not do in,ordinary captivity. 



I present herewith the amendment to the sundry civil appropriation 

 bill reported by Senator Morrill, of the Committee on Public Buildings 



