REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 



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D — Continued. 



New York— Continned. 



New York University .... 



PkUadelpkia, Pa. — 



Academy of Natural Sciences--... 



American Pliilosopliical Society — 



Central High School of Philadelphia 



Pennsylvania Institute for the Blind 



Wagner Free Institute - 



Isaac Lea 



Dr. John L. Le Conte 



Dr. Joseph Leidy 



Providence, R. I. — 



Brown University . 



San Francisco, Cal. — 



Califoruia Academy of Natural Sciences 



St. Louis, Mo. — ■ 



St. Louis Academy of Sciences 



Santiago, Chili. — 



University of Chili 



Springfield. 111. — 



Illinois State Agricultural Society 



Washington, D. 0. — 



United States Patent Office 



Ordnance Bureau 



United States Coast Survey 



National Observatory , 



Secretary of War 



National Institute 



State Department 



Congress Library 



Lieutenant J. M. Gilliss, United States navv 



Wesl Point, N. Y.— 



Military Academy 



Worcester, Mass. — 



American Antiquarian Society 



Miscellaneous iu.stitu tions 



Miscellaneous individuals 



Total 



Number of 

 packages. 



86 



03 

 1 



11 

 4 

 8 

 4 



12 



5 

 17 



26 



68 



3 



41 



73 



3 



2 



1 



15 



16 



6 



261 

 221 



1,539 



MUSEUM. 



Additions to the museum. — Independently of the collections of the 

 Patent Office, transferred in 1858, and of which a more detailed notice 

 will be found on another page, the additions to the Smithsonian 

 museum during 1858 have been of great magnitude and importance, 

 in many respects exceeding those of any previous year, occupying, as 

 they did, more than 200 boxes, 20 kegs or barrels, and numerous 

 single packages of greater or less size. It is impossible within my 

 present limits to mention the contents of these in detail, and a general 



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