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Curator as follows : Skins of mammals, 17 ; bodies of mam- 

 mals, 3 ; mammals in spirits, 4 ; skeletons of vertebrates, 8 ; 

 parts of vertebrates, 13 ; skulls of vertebrates, 32 ; miscel- 

 laneous, 7 ; total, 84. 



The donors have been Drs. H. Bryant, W. Channing, W. 

 E. Coale, C. T. Jackson, S. Kneeland, B. S. Shaw and C. F. 

 Winslow ; Mrs. James Phillips, Rev. R. C. Waterston, Capts. 

 N". E. Atwood and Philip Howland ; Messrs. Wm. Beetle, 

 Brewer, W. H. Dall, W. P. Kuhn, C. L. Parker, H. A. Pur- 

 die, J. G. Rich, S. H. Scudder, C. A. Shurtleff, W. M. Thorup, 

 and Todd ; the Chicago Academy of Science, and the Ly- 

 ceum of Natural History, at Williams College. 



The Ethnological collection is temporarily displayed in the 

 deep cases of the north-western room, designed to contain 

 eventually the skins of mammals. It was founded only a 

 few years since, upon the gift of the Boston Marine Society, 

 which consisted of wearing apparel, models of canoes, etc., of 

 the Chinooks, and from Russian America ; various implements 

 of warfare and household utensils from Central America, the 

 Hawaiian, Eangsmill, Hervey, Feejee, and Navigator Islands, 

 fi'om the Papuan groups, the East Indies, and the Anamo- 

 Siamese countries, a small collection of Egyptian relics, and 

 African krisses of iron procured and forged by the negro 

 tribes. There have been added to this the collection formed 

 in this neighborhood by the late Mr. Thoreau, and bequeathed 

 us by him, consisting of stone implements of war and home of 

 the aboriginal inhabitants of New England. The most inter- 

 esting accession of the past year has been the series of casts 

 of ancient Mexican masks from the originals in the possession 

 of the American Philosophical Society, presented by the 

 Smithsonian Institution. Other donations have been re- 

 ceived from Mrs. James Phillips, Messrs. E. A. Brigham, W. 

 H. Dall, W. L. Parker, Dr. C. F. Winslow, and a com- 

 pany of gentlemen. In presenting his report the Curator 

 of this department offers the following suggestion for the 

 arrangement of a collection of this nature ; — a collection of 

 the handiwork of nations should be arranged according to 



