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(2) Collections which have resulted from explorations carried oil 

 more or less directly under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion. 



(.">) Collections which have been obtained through, the courtesy of the 

 Department of State and the cooperation of United States ministers 

 and consuls. 



(4) Collections which have been obtained by naval expeditions, such 

 as the Wilkes exploring expedition, the Perry expedition to .Japan, 

 and other expeditions conducted by the Navy Department. 



(5) Collections made by the scientific officers of Government sur- 

 veys, such as the Pacific railroad survey, the Mexican boundary survey, 

 and the surveys carried on by the Engineer Corps of the IT. S. Army. 



(0) Collections made by officers of the Signal Corps of the U. S. 

 Army, stationed in remote regions. 



(7) Collections obtained by the U. S. Geological Survey. 



(8) Collections made by officers of the U. S. Fish Commission. 



(0) Collections resulting from expeditions conducted by other depart- 

 ments of the United States Government. 



(10) Collections resulting from explorations carried on by the Smith- 

 sonian Institution in connection with educational institutions or com- 

 mercial establishments. 



(11) Collections resulting from explorations conducted by private 

 individuals. 



(12) The collections made by the United States to illustrate the ani- 

 mal and mineral resources, the fisheries, and the ethnology of the 

 native races of the country on the occasion of the International Exhi- 

 bition at Philadelphia in 1870; the fishery collections displayed by the 

 United States at the International Fisheries Exhibitions at Berlin in 

 1880 and at London in 1883, and the collections obtained from various 

 local expositions — as, for instance, the New Orleans Cotton Centennial 

 Exposition in 1881 and 1885, and the Cincinnati Exposition in 1887. 



(13) The collections given by the governments of the several foreign 

 nations, thirty in number, which participated in the Philadelphia exhi- 

 bition in 1876. 



(14) The industrial collections given by numerous manufacturing 

 and commercial houses of Europe and America at the time of the Phil- 

 adelphia exhibition and subsequently. 



(15) The material received, in exchange for duplicate specimens, 

 from museums in Europe and America, at the time of the Philadel- 

 phia exhibition and subsequently. 



( Hi) Collections received as gifts, deposits, or in exchange, from indi- 

 viduals, numbering usually from 1,000 to 1. 500 each year. 



