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Seventeen thousand nine hundred and seventy packages have been 

 received by the registrar, besides 20,824 volumes of publications. 

 One thousand one hundred and sixty-three packages contained material 

 for the Museum collections, and 1,236 supplies of various kinds. Three 

 thousand six hundred and fourteen packages were sent out. 



DISTRIBUTION AND EXCHANGE. 



Twenty-six thousand and four specimens have been sent out as gifts 

 or in exchange, and 12,177 specimens have been lent for study. The 

 gifts have consisted chiefly of rocks, minerals, marine invertebrates, 

 and casts of prehistoric implements, presented, in accordance with a 

 long-estal)lishcd practice, to educational institutions in all parts of the 

 United States. The distributions of all kinds are given in detail in 

 Appendix III. The following table shows the number of "lots'' of 

 specimens sent to each State and foreign countr}^: 



Alabama 4 



Arizona 1 



California 13 



Colorado 9 



Connecticut 10 



Delaware '2 



District of Columbia 18 



Florida 1 



Georgia 1 



Illinois 24 



Indiana 2 



Iowa 8 



Kansas 6 



Maine 2 



:\Iaryland 2 



[Massachusetts 32 



INIichigan 5 



[Minnesota 5 



Missouri 11 



Nebraska 1 



New Hampshire 3 



New Jersey 6 



New Mexico 6 



Nevada 1 



New York 46 



North Carolina 4 



Ohio 5 



Oregon 2 



Pennsylvania 19 



Rhode Island 2 



South Carolina 1 



Tennessee 1 



Texas 3 



Utah 2 



Vermont 4 



Virginia 3 



Washington 3 



West Virginia 2 



Wisconsin 4 



Wyoming 2 



Foreign countries: 



Argentina 1 



Australia 2 



Austria 7 



Belgium 1 



Brazil 1 



Canada 5 



Denmark 1 



England 24 



France 9 



Qermany 11 



Holland 1 



India 1 



Italy 7 



New Zealand 2 



Norway 1 



Russia 4 



Scotland 2 



South Africa 1 



Sweden 3 



Switzerland 3 



Among the more important exclianges received from establishments 

 and individuals abroad were the following: Co-types of Nectoinys 

 fiai'leppi from the British Museum of Natural History, London, 

 England; a collection of tishes, crustaceans, and echinoderms from 



