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Tabic showing the total numher (f entries on tlie record hool<.s of tJic Smith- 

 sonian collection at the end of the years 1S61 and 1862. 



Skeletons and skulls — 



Mammals -._. 



Birds 



Reptiles ..^..--.. 



Fishus 



Eggs of birds 



Crustaceans 



Mollusks 



Radiates 



Fossils 



Minerals. 



Ethnological specimens 

 Annelids 



Total 



1862. 



4,750 

 5.900 



2(5,157 

 G,31l 

 4,925 

 C,COO 

 1,287 



10,000 



2,675 



2.100 



3, 725 



825 



109 



74,764 



LIST OF DONATIONS TO THE MUSEUM IN 18G2: 



Agassiz, Professor L. — Skins and eggs of birds from Labrador : specimens of 



Ilaeinulon. 

 Ahlmrsi, James. — Bat and crustacGans from South America. 

 Barnston, George. — Birds, fishes, &c., from Lake Superior. 

 Beadle, Rev. E. R. — Box of minerals. 



Beitel, C. G. — Minerals and furnace slags from Pennsylvania. 

 Bcrthoud, Dr. E. L. — Minerals, fossils, and skin of Lago/jus Icucurus, Pike's 



Peak. 

 Bertolet, Dr. P. G. — Sections of wood of trees of Pennsylvania. 

 Bickmore, A. J. — Living Vhceton Jlavicauda, from Bermuda. 

 Black7nan, Mr. — Series of specimens of prairie chicken or pinnated grouse, 



from youngest chick to adult. Also skins of other birds, insects, eggs, 



&:c., from Illinois. 

 Bland, Thomas. — West Indian shells. 

 Brandt, IT. — Nests and eggs from Fort Riley. 

 Brush, G. J. — Box of minerals. 



Buckncr, Dr. — Set of m.odels of edible fungi, prepared at Hildburgbausen. 

 Cardcza, Dr. — Series of choice minerals from Pennsylvania. 

 Carlton, U. S. A., General J. H. — Skull of rattlesnake, from New Mexico. 

 Carothcrs, Rev. A. G. — Collection of reptiles fi-om Martinique. 

 Chajnnan, N. IT. — Box of birds' nests, from Ohio. 

 Cochran, T. G.— Eggs of Night Heron. 

 Cook, Prof. George TI. — Fossils of Ngav Jersey. 

 Cooper, TT «^. — Fossils from the Isthmus of Panama. Cast of Megalonyx 



bones. 

 Coupcr, W. — Skins of Aegiothus, from Canada. 

 Cowlcs, P. M. — Insects from Cumberland Gap. 

 Dawson, Prof. J. W. — Postpliocene fossils, from Canada. 

 Dow, Captain J. M. — Mammals, birds, and other animals, from Nicaragua. 

 Skins of birds, and various alcoholic specimens, collected at sea between New 



York and Panama, via Cape Ilorn. 



