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APPENDIX TO THE EEPOET OF THE SECRETARY. 



Additions to tlie collections of tlie Institution. 



The total number of different donations in 'llie year has amounted to one 

 hundred and fifty-fiv'e, contained in two hundred and fifty-seven packages. 

 This number is not equal to that of some previous years, as shown by the fol- 

 lowing tables ; but the character of the collections received is in no way in- 

 ferior, and embraces much new and unworked material. 



Table slwwing the number of donations to tlie collections since 1859. 



Keccived in 1S59, of different donations, , 302 



1860, " 404 



1861, " 157 



1862, " 124 



1863, " 241 



1864, " 171 



1865, " 155 



The table of receipts for the year, however, by no means expresses the re- 

 sources in this respect of the Institution. 



In addition to the mechanical work of cleaning the specimens which were 

 exposed during the fire, and in restoring labels, &c., considerable progress has 

 been made in the identification and systematic arrangement of the specimens. 

 All the collections received have been unpacked, and proper labels of locality 

 and other items of personal history affixed, the different specimens placed where 

 they belonged, and those that would not admit of being immediately put in 

 hand for investigation, were boxed, labelled, entered in the record-book, and 

 stored where they will be readily accessible when wanted. 



Much of the labor done in connection with the specimens received during the 

 year, and to a less extent with those previously in the collections, has consisted 

 in the writing labels for the same, and entering them with corresponding numbers 

 in the record, books of the Institution. The following tables will show what 

 has been done in this respect, and a reproduction of a similar table from last 

 year's report will show what additions have been made. In further illustration 

 of the ):)rogress made in this work, I add also the records of two or three year's 

 interval since the commencement of the collections of the Institution. 



Table showing the entries in the rccord-boolcs of the Smithsonian collections in 

 1864 and 1865, as icell as various 2^rcceding intervals. 



1851. 



1855. 



1858. 



1.8G0. 



1862. 



1864. 



1865. 



Skeletons and skulls. .. 



Mammals 



Birds 



Reptiles 



Fishes 



Eggs of birds 



Cnistaceons 



Mollusks 



Radiates 



Fossils 



Minerals 



Ethnological specimens. 

 Annelids 



912 



3,700 



2,050 

 1,200 

 4,42r- 



Total. 



4,612 I 7,675 



3,413 

 3, 226 

 11,390 

 4,370 

 1,J36 

 1,032 

 939 



25, 506 



4, 

 4, 



20, 

 4, 



2, 

 4, 



350 

 575 

 875 

 683 

 975 

 425 

 979 

 832 

 308 

 705 

 132 

 550 



55,389 



4,750 

 5,900 



26, 157 

 6,311 

 4,925 

 6,000 

 1,287 



10. 000 



2,675 



2,100 



3,725 



825 



109 



74,764 



6, 275 

 7,782 



35,111 

 6,543 

 5,404 

 8, 700 

 1,287 



10, 525 

 2, 725 

 5, 4«7 

 4,925 

 1,048 

 110 



95,922 



6,609 

 8,416 



40,554 

 6,544 

 5,583 

 9,939 

 1,287 



18, 103 

 2,725 

 5,907 

 4,940 

 1,125 

 110 



111,847 



