36 NINTH ANNUAL REPORT OF 



Waslmigton. — President of the United States 1 



State Department 3 



United States Patent Office 12 



Congress Library 7 



Coast Survey 6 



National Observatory 30 



National Institute 3 



Commissioner of Indian Affairs 1 



United States Naval Astronomical Expedition, Chili . 15 



Georgcioivn, District of Columbia. — Georgetown College 6 



Chicago, Illinois. — Mechanics' Institute 5 



Colleges in different places 19 



Various State librai ies 37 



3Iiscellaneous societies and individuals 543 



Total 987 



In concluding this portion of my report, I would beg to call your 

 attention to the zeal and fidelity with which the agents of the Institu- 

 tion in London, Leipsic, and Paris, have discharged their duties. The 

 thanks of the Institution are most especially due to Dr. J. G. Fliigel, of 

 Leipsic, whose efforts in llie great cause of tightening the bonds of union 

 between the literary and scientific men and institutions of the two worlds 

 are beyond all praise. ^ 



3. — Domestic Exchanges. 



The copies of volume 6 of Smithsonian Contributions were distributed 

 early in the summer, through the agents of the Institution in different 

 cities of the Union, as follows: Messrs. J. P. Jewett & Co., Boston; 

 Geo. P. Putnam & Co., New York ; Lippincott, Grambo & Co., Phila- 

 delphia; John Russell, Charleston ; B. M. Norman, New Orleans ; Dr. 

 Geo. Engelmann, St. Louis ; H. W. Derby, Cincinnati ; and Jewett, 

 Proctor '& Worthington, Cleveland. The services of these gentlemen, 

 involving considerable expense of time and trouble, ha\T, in every in- 

 stance, been given without charge. 



4. MuSEUiM. 



a — Increase of tJie Musenm. 



During no period in the history of the Institution have the receipts ot 

 specimens been so numerous, or valuable, as in the year 1854. Con- 

 tributions have been steadily flowing in fi'om widely remote regions, 

 many of which had been previously but little known. Expeditions, 

 both public and private, individuals and societies, have all aided in 

 gathering together what is now confidently believed to be the most 

 valuable collection in the world of many divisions of the natural histor}^ 

 of North America. Much has been done by parties aided directly to a 

 greater or less extent by the Smithsonian Institution, and much by per- 

 sons actins in an individual and independent capacity. The most im- 



