52 TENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF 



ciety, Moore, Morrow, Nichols, Shaw, Stevens, Sturm, Siicldey,T]iomp- 

 son, Trowbridge, Yaughan & Hayden, Tuley, Welsh, Wiirdemann, 

 Wyman. 



_BiV(fs._Bowers, Couch, Curtis, Cutts, Davis, Fitzgerald, Gulick, 

 Johnson, Kennicott, Napper, Postell, Pyhas, Shaw, Sturm, Suckley, 

 Tolmie, Trowbridge, Vaughau & Hayden, Wiirdenaann. 



Jleptiles. —Ahhott, Andrews, Anderson, Baird, Bridger, Curtis, 

 Cutts, Easter, Engelmann, Evans, Fitzgerald, Goldsboro, Hammond, 

 Howell, Jardin des Plantes, Kennicott, Kirkpatrick, Kirtland, Les- 

 quereux. Palmer, Patterson, Postell, Pybas, Sergeant, Shumard, 

 Spillman, Suckley, Trowbridge, Vaughan & Hayden, Ward, Weston, 

 Wormley, Wiirdemann, Wyman. 



FisJies. — Agassiz, Anderson, Baird, Casey, Clark, Cutts, Dayton, 

 Evans, Grant, Hammond, Howell, Kennicott, Means, Poey, Pvainey, 

 Shumard, Spillman, Suckley, Trowbridge, Vaughan & Hayden, Wes- 

 ton, Wormley, Wright, Wurdemann, Wyman. 



Invertehrates.— Burr att, Easter, Engelmann, Hammond, Lewis, 

 Neisler, Ravenel, Shaw, Totten, Trowbridge, Wilson, Wright. 



Plants. — Carleton, Eversfield, Glisan, Hilgard, Short. 



Fossils and 31inerals. — Andrews, Barnet, Dewey, Erwin, Foreman, 

 Karsten, Oakley, Pybas, Ravenel, Spillman, Thomas, Vaughan & 

 Hayden. 



Miscellaneous. — Raymond, Ringgold, Triibner. 



B — WorJc done in iJie Museum, 



Owing \o the very great number of specimens received weekly at 

 the Institution, the labor involved in unpacking, assorting, and la- 

 belling, has been very onerous, considerably greater than in 1854, 

 No arrears, however, have been suffered to accumulate, every collec- 

 tion on its arrival being promptly entered on the books of registry, 

 and appropriately ticketed, with date, locality, &c. In this labor, as 

 in (jrevious years, I have been assisted by Dr. Charles Girard, 



A considerable amount of taxidermical work has also been per- 

 formed within the walls of the Institution ; several hundreds^ of 

 skins of mammals and birds, and an equal number of skulls, having 

 been prepared. All such specimens as admitted of it have been regu- 

 larly catalogued on the books of the museum : the serial numbering 

 of prepared mammals having been advanced, during the year, from 

 351 to 1,200 ; of birds, from 4,354 to 4,425 ; of skeletons and skulls, 

 from l,2'r6 to 2,050. The entries of mammals and skulls have been 

 brought completely up ; those of several collections of birds havC; 

 however, been purposely deferred for the present. 



All the collections of vertebrata in the Institution (with the excep- 

 tion of the fishes) have, during the year, been re-arranged systemati- 

 cally on shelves or in drawers, so as to bring together all the speci- 

 mens of each species. Owing to the want of space, this could not be 



