198 PROCEEDINGS OF THE REGENTS. 



Paris, November 24, 1862. 



Dear Sir: Mr. Hermann de Schlagintweit has enclosed me this note for 

 you, asking me to add something as an introduction, which is scarcely neces- 

 sary, seeing that he is one of the brothers Schlagintweit whose labors in Thibet 

 and high India are so familiar to us. Those of the specimens I have seen are 

 highly interesting, and the fact that they were collected by the Schlagintweits in 

 person gives them a full guarantee. 



Your obedient servant, 



THEODORE LYMAN. 



" Munich, (Bavaria,) November 7, 1862. 



Dear Sir : Some days ago I had the pleasure of making the acquaintance 

 of Mr. Theodore Lyman, who gave me many interesting facts respecting your 

 Institution, and especially about your important practical and scientific meteo- 

 rological researches. He also gave me a most lively description of the extent 

 and the variety of the collections of the Institution. As he has kindly given 

 me an introduction to you, I take the liberty of addressing you this communi- 

 cation relative to such parts of our collections of ethnography and natural his- 

 tory as we are now about to dispose of. 



Of the objects mentioned in the accompanying statement, Mr. Lyman has 

 seen but few, but sufficient, I trust, to enable him to give you more particulars 

 as to their character if it should be desired, especially as he has had Professors 

 Kaup and Siebold's opinion of them. 



Besides the objects of natural history, I may mention the photographic col- 

 ored fac-similes of a great number of my water-color drawings, their number 

 amounting to 125, and including only such objects as are not among the plates 

 published in our atlas. Mr. Brockhaus has made several series for England, 

 one for Paris, and two for India, but has a few still remaining in his hands. 

 The price he charges is 70 thalers, or £10, for thirty views, or dG40 for the 

 series. Mr. Lyman has seen them, and will perhaps be good enough to let you 

 know in a few words how they are executed, as my description might too easily 

 be influenced by the fact that I made the originals myself, or worked over those 

 made by my brother Adolphe. 



My address for this winter will be: Dultplatz 10, Munich, Bavaria. 



With the expression of my most sincere consideration, I remain yours, 

 most truly, 



"HERMANN DE SCHLAGINTWEIT. 



Ethnography. — The objects are : 



Twenty complete skeletons, head and body, (put up,) of India Thibet, and Turkistan. 

 They include savage tribes of India, such as Gonds, Santhals, &c. Price of the original, 

 £20 to £J0 ; of a copy in natural size, color, &c. ,in papier mache, £5. 



Fifty skulls, without the body, from the same regions. Price of an original, £4 to £6 ; 

 of a copy in papier mache, £1^ 



I mention especially our collection of facial ca^ts, of which I send you the prices of copies 

 in metal and also in plaster. The metallic casts are better able to resist the effects of time 

 and exposure, but for a most careful reproduction of any detail the plaster copies can be 

 entirely relied on. Price in metal, 24 shilliugs ; in plaster, 4 shillings a cast. 



Zoology. — We have about fifty large stuffed animals, many in duplicate, anions which 

 are Bos grunniens, Equus htmionus, Asinus onager, male and female, Ovis argali, (;immon. ) in 

 facs, of nearly all the larger animals of Thibet, one to three specimens of each. Price of 

 each, £9 to £15. 



Of smaller animals, such as Cervus moschalus, the different ovine and caprine domestio 

 animals of Central Asia, etc., the price is from £2 to £G. Numerous skeletons of mammalia, 

 put up ; price, £2 to £5. Besides, skulls of Equus hcmionus, £5 ; of a rhinoceros, from 

 Bhutan Tarai, £8 ; of Ovis argali, £5, &c. An elephant skull, unusually large, with a 

 weight (198 lbs.) and cranial capacity of about 6,200 cubic inches, determined by filling 



