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birds of South America and Alaska to John ( !assin, Philadelphia : — 

 Alcadas of North America to Dr. Elliott Coues, I . S. Army: — col- 

 lections of American and foreign reptiles to Professor E. D. Cope, 

 Philadelphia : — fungi from the Indian Territory to the Rev. M. A. 

 ( !urtis, I [illsborough, X. ( '. — unfigured species of North American 

 birds tn !».<!. Elliott, New York: — diatomaceous earths and deep- 

 sea soundings to Arthur M.Edwards, New York: — Lepidoptera 

 from various North American localities to W. II. Edwards, Coalburg, 

 \'a. — seeds of Boehmeria received from the Department of Agricul- 

 ture, to Dr. Earl Flint, Nicaragua: — plants collected in Ecuador by 

 the expeditioi under Professor ( )rton, to Dr. Asa ( Irav, ( Cambridge, 

 Mass. — miscellaneous specimens of North American insects to Pro- 

 fessor T. Glover, Department of Agriculture, Washington: — gen- 

 eral collection of birds of Costa Rica and Yucatan to George N. 

 Lawrence, New York: — American Unionidse to Isaac Lea. Phila- 

 delphia: — series of North American salamanders to St. George 

 Mivart, London: — American Diptera to Baron R. Osten-Sacken, 

 New York: — Lepidoptera of Ecuador and Yucatan to Tryon Rea- 

 kirt, Philadelphia: — plants collected in Alaska by various expe- 

 ditions to Dr. J. T. Rothrock, McVcytown, Pa.— ^birds of Buenos 

 Avres received from W. II. Hudson, ami a series of small Ameri- 

 can owls, to Dr. P. L. Sclater and Osbert Salvin, London: — mis- 

 cellaneous collections of American Orthoptera to S. ]I. Scudder, 

 Boston: — collections of American Hemiptera to P. R.Uhler, Bal- 

 timore: — American myriapods and spiders to Dr. II. ( '. Wood, 

 Philadelphia: — human crania from northwestern America and the 

 ancient mounds of Kentucky, also collections from the ancient shell- 

 heaps of Massachusetts and New Brunswick, to Dr. Jeffreys Wyman, 

 ( 'ambridge, Mass. 



" Few persons arc aware of the great extent to which this Smith- 

 sonian material has been used by American and foreign naturalists, 

 or the number of new facts and new species which have been con- 

 tributed to natural history through its means." 



Note M. {From p. 285.) 



OVERFLOWING CONDITION <>fi THE MUSEUM. 



"It is a question whether any museum in the world is in receipt 

 of so great an amount of material a- the .'National .Museum at 

 Washington; and were the rule of the British Museum to prevail, 

 it would be crushed by the weight of ii> own riches. The constant 



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