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birds of South America and Alaska to John Cassin, Philadelphia : 

 Alcadse of North America to Dr. Elliott Coues, U. 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. 

 Curtis, Hillsborough, N. C. unfigured species of North American 

 birds to D. G. Elliott, New York: diatoma*ceous earths and deep- 

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

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

 Va. seeds of Boehmeria received from the Department of Agricul- 

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

 the expedition under Professor Orton, to Dr. Asa Gray, 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 Try on Rea- 

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

 ditions to Dr. J. T. Rothrock, McVeytown, Pa. birds of Buenos 

 Ayres received from W. H. Hudson, and a series of small Ameri- 

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

 cellaneous collections of American Orthoptera to S. H. Scudder, 

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

 timore : American myriapods and spiders to Dr. H. C. 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, 

 Cambridge, Mass. 



" Few persons are 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 OF THE MUSEUM. 



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

 of so great an amount of material as the National Museum at 

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

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



* Smithsonian Report for 1868, pp. 36, 37. 



