98 REPORT ON EXCHANGES. 



Transportation Companies. — The liberality of transportation companies 

 and parties interested in shipping hitherto extended to the Smithsonian 

 Institution in aid to the scientific exchanges, and thus far granted by 

 thirty-three companies antl foreign consuls in the United States, has, 

 during the past year, again been demonstrated by the addition of nine- 

 teen new firms, all desirous to further the object in question. These 

 new additions now open channels for free transmissions to the following- 

 named countries: Bahamas, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Den- 

 mark, Dutch Guiana, England (and all its colonies through their respect- 

 ive agents in London), Liberia, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Polynesia, 

 San Domingo, Siam, Syria, Turk's Island, Uruguay, and West Indies. 



These companies, granting free freight on all cases and parcels of ex- 

 changes bearing the Smithsonian stamp, are: 



American Colonization Society, Washington, D. C. 



Anchor Steamship Company (Henderson & Bro., agents), New York. 



Atlas Steamship Company (Pirn, Forwood& Co., agents), New York. 



Bailey, H. B., & Co., New York. 



Biddle, E. R., Philadelphia. 



Bixby, Thomas, & Co., Boston, Mass. 



Bland, Thomas, New York. 



Borland, B. R., New York. 



Cameron, R. W., & Co., New York. 



Compagnie Generate Transatlantique (L. de B6bian, agent), New York. 



Cunard Royal Mail Steamship Line (Vernon, Brown & Co., agents), 

 New York. 



Dallet, Boulton & Co., New York. 



Dennison, Thomas, New York. 



Hamburg American Packet Company (Kunhardt & Co., agents), New 

 York. 



Inman Steamship Company, New York. 



Merchants' Line of Steamers, New York. 



Monarch Line (Patton, Vickers & Co., agents), New York. 



Muiioz y Espriella, New York. 



Murray, Ferris & Co., New York. 



Netherlands-American Steam Navigation Company (H. Cazaux, 

 agent), New York. 



New York and Brazil Steamship Company, New York. 



New York and Mexico Steamship Company, New York. 



North German Lloyd (Oelrichs & Co., New York, Schumacher & Co., 

 Baltimore, agents). 



Pacific Mail Steamship Company, New York. 



Panama Railroad Company, New York. 



Red Star Line (Peter Wright & Sons, agents), New York. 



Spinney, Joseph S., New York. 



Steamship Line for Brazil, Texas, Florida, and Nassau, N. P. (C. W. 

 Mallory & Co., agents), New York. 



