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Tohnan, J. W. — Collection of birds' eggs, Illinois. 



Toivnscnd, W. A. — Star tisbes, Plover bay. 



Tripp, T. Martin. — Nest of Empidonax minimus and other eggs, New Jersey. 



T/jkr, Eoberf. — Box of minerals, shells, and marine invertebrates, Great Britain. 



Van Tassel, I. — Skull of rabbit, &c., ISehring straits. 



Von Frantzius. — Skin of Cathanis, Costa Rica. 



Van Orman, J. — Indian pottery, Iowa. 



Van Patten, Br. C. H. — Birds and other collections, Guatemala, 



Walrfidd, Dr. — Polioptila phimhea, Sonora. 



Waller, Dr. B. L. — Living Menopa)nas and Trionix, Pennsylvania. 



Walton, Henry. — Tin ore, Missotui. 



Wari-cn, General G. K. — Box of ethnological collections and heads of antelope, 



upper Missouri. 

 Wheath')/, Charles M. — Land and fresh-water univalves, America. 

 White, F. — See A. Becker, 

 WJijimper, F. — Plants, Petropaulowski. 



Williams, Dr. J. A. — Two boxes named fossils and shells, Missouri. 

 Wilson, I). S. — 97 borings of artesian wells, Ohio.. 

 Wood, Dr. W. — Birds' eggs, Connecticut. 

 Wright, Charles. — Birds and nests, Cuba. 

 Wright, Major G. M. — Tschuchtschi skulls. Plover bay. 

 Zoological Museum, Berlin. — Collection of Ovis and reptiles, Europe and Asia. 



H. — List of the Expeditions and other sources from which, the specimens in the 

 Government Museum have been mainhj derived. 



1. United States Exploring Expedition, under Captain Wilkes, United States 

 navy, 1838-42. The collections made by this naval expedition are supposed 

 greatly to exceed those of au}^ other of similar character ever fitted out by any 

 government ; no pul)lished series of results comparing in magnitude with that 

 issued under the direction of the Joint Library Committee of Congress. The 

 collections made embrace full series of the animals, plants, minerals and ethno- 

 loo'ical materials of the regions visited, such as the coast of South America, the 

 islands of the South seas, &c. The naturalists of the expedition were Titian R. 

 Peale, J. D. Dana, Charles Pickering, W. Rich, J. P. Couthony, and W. D. 

 Brackinridge. 



2. Exploration of the Amazon and its tributaries in 1851-52, by Lieutenant 

 W. E. Herndon, United States navy. The collections made consist chiefly of 

 vertebrate animals and ethnological material. 



3. Exploration of the valley of Great Salt Lake, by Captain Stansbury, 

 United States ^rmy, in 1851. Collections in character much like the last. 



4. Explorations of the Zuni and Colorado rivers, by Captain Sitgreaves, 

 United States army, in 1851 and 1852, and the sm-vey of the Creek boundary 

 and Canadian Fork of the x\rkansas, in 1856, by Captains J. C. Woodruft' and 

 Sitgreaves, Dr. S. W. Woodhouse, naturalist. 



5. Presents made to the United States by the King of Siam and other for- 

 eign governments, deposited by the State Department. 



6. Exploration of Commodore M. C. Perry, United States navy, made while 

 negotiating a treaty with Japan, and the presents to the United States govern- 

 ment through him from the Japanese authorities. 



7. From Dr. D. D. Owen in his United States geological explorations in the 

 west. 



8. Indian paintings from the War and Indian Departments. 



9. L^nited States geological survey made in Iowa, Illinois, and Minnesota, 

 under Dr. D. D. Owen. 



10. United States geological survey, made on Lake Superior by Messrs. Fos- 

 ter and Whitney. 



