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Worcester. — Antiquarian Society ] 



New Haven. — Journal of Science 14 



American Oriental Society 7 



Albany. — New York State Library 6 



New YorJc. — Lyceum of Natural History 13 



Ethnological Society 3 



Geographical Society 4 



Philadelphia. — American Philosophical Society 39 



Academy of Natural Sciences 25 



Franklin Institute 2 



Geological Survey of Pennsylvania 4 



Washington. — National Observatory 28 



Coast Survey 22 



National Institute 6 



Surgeon General 1 



American Association 2 



Congress Library 8 



Astronomical Expedition to Chili 4 



United States Patent Office 3 



State Department 2 



Georgetown. — Observatory 10 



Miscelkmeous, including libraries of States, minor institutions, &c. 755 



1,052 



6. Domestic Exchanges. 



The copies of Volume V. of Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge 

 intended for American institutions, were all sent off in May at the same 

 time with those for foreign bodies. As heretofore, they were distribu- 

 ted through the following agents who have made no charge for their 

 service: Messrs. J. P. Jewett & Co., Boston; George P. Putnam & 

 Co., New York ; Lippincott, Grambo & Co., Philadelphia ; Jolm Rus- 

 sell, Charleston ; B. M. Norman, New Orleans ; Dr. Geo. Engelmann, 

 St. Louis ; H. W. Derby, Cincinnati; and Jewett, Proctor & Worihing- 

 ton, Cleveland. Acknowledgments for nearly all have been already 

 received. 



NATURAL HISTORY. 



Increase of the Museum. 



The additions to the Museum during the year 1853 have been very 

 extensive, covering the entire field of natural history and ethnology. 

 Many of these consist of species altogether new to science ; while others, 

 though previously described, belong to forms of great rarity. The con- 

 tributions to our knowledge of the geographical distribution of species 

 have been of the most important character, the locahties occurring as 

 , they do over the entire area of this country. A very large proportion 



