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cates of collections made in Venezuela, and at Guayaquil, by Messrs. Destruges 

 and Reeve. Duplicates also from the Smithsonian Institution from collec- 

 tions made in San Domingo, by W. Younglove ; in Navassa, by W. Raisin ; 

 and in Porto Rico, by Geo. Latimer; from San Francisco, Cal., and from 

 Vancouver's Island, made by A. W. Hewson. Also similar series from Arizona, 

 collected by Elliott Coues, M.D., and from Camp Grant in the same Territory 

 made by Dr. Canfield. 



In the same manner the Committee has received duplicates of the col- 

 lections of the Essex Institute, from Madagascar, Zanzibar and Western 

 Africa. 



There have been procured by exchange the large collections made by the 

 Orton Expedition to Equador and the Upper Amazon ; also collections from 

 the Cape of Good Hope, the Seychelle Islands, and from Surinam by exchange 

 with the Historical Society of Long Island. 



By presentation the Committee has obtained a fine collection from Beyrut, 

 Syria, which also embraced mammals and other objects; similar collections 

 from Bahia, Brazil ; one from Central America, and two from unusual local- 

 ities in New Grenada. Collections also from California and Lower California, 

 and from Owen's Valley on the boundaries of Nevada. Also smaller collec- 

 tions from Australia, Africa, Persia and other places in Asia. 



Of fishes there have been also numerous additions made to the charge of 

 the Committee. They have not received much in this department by the du- 

 plicates of other museums, but have been chiefly dependent on presentation. 

 In this way we have acquired large series of species from the Island of St. 

 Kitts, West Indies, from St. Croix, West Indies, and from the Coasts of Alaska. 

 Also from the rivers of South Western Virginia ; from the Alleghany River 

 above Pittsburg ; from the branches of the Missouri River near Leavenworth, 

 Kas., and from the Miami River, Ohio. All these are collections of considera- 

 ble extent. 



Smaller collections have been procured from Surinam, Central America, and 

 Mexico ; also from Beyrut, Syria, and from Newport, Rhode Island. 



The above collections, embracing a great number of specimens, were sorted, 

 bottled, labelled, and classified in the Museum by the Museum Assistant, thus 

 saving a great deal of time to the Committee, and enabling them to pursue 

 scientific investigations on such and other material. 



The Committee also congratulates itself on the benefits accruing to the 

 committee's department, through the employment by the Curators of a French 

 preparateur. Exclusive of numerous preparations in the department of birds 

 and mammals, the committee have now a series of skeletons of forty species 

 of Reptiles, and eighty of Fishes, obtained at rates far lower than by any other 

 means known to the Committee. At the same time the Museum Assistant 

 has received instruction in preparing skeletons and skins, thus supplying a 

 want which the Committees department and several other departments have 

 experienced for several years past. 



Which is respectfully submitted by 



Edward D. Cope, Chairman. 

 Robert Bridges. 



REPORTS OF THE CONCHOLOGICAL SECTION. 



BECOBDER'S BEPOBT. 



During the year ending Dec. 3, 1868, there have been elected two members 

 and four correspondents. 



The death of one correspondent, Rev. E. Johnson, of Waioli, S. I., was an- 

 nounced Nov. 5, 1868. 



Thirty-five papers have been accepted for publication in the Journal, by the 

 following authors : 



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