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MUSEUM CATALOGUE. 



A task of much labor and of great importance yet remains to be 

 performed upon the collection. Every specimen should be marked 

 in some legible and indelible way, with ink or paint, or even with 

 the point of a diamond. It should bear a number peculiar to itself, 

 or not found on any other specimen of its own class. This number 

 should refer to an entry in a Catalogue of Accessions, where all facts 

 of name, collection, donation and value should be on record. Then it 

 will be possible to know at any time what the Academy owns, what 

 has been its increase, and what becomes of the material. This 

 work, once brought up, may easily be made to keep pace with the 

 growth of the collection. The present work of labeling and arrang- 

 ing leads systematically and directly to that, and will greatly facili- 

 tate its execution. 



DONATIONS. 



The donations of the year have been as follows : 



FLORIDA EXPEDITION J. W. Velie, collector, already mentioned. 



W. W. CALKINS 80 botanical species ; 12 birds, mounted ; I box of ores ; I box 



of pottery, from shell mounds; 3 boxes of fish, shells, and alcoholics. 

 E. W. NELSON 48 species of fish ; 24 birds, mounted ; 2 boxes of fossils. 

 Dr. J. W. VELIE 4 birds ; 1 1 species of eggs ; I fish ; 2 insects. 

 THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 82 specimens of fish, in alcohol. 

 HENRY K. COALE I mammal; 2 birds. 

 Dr. EDMUND ANDREWS i photograph; i cast. 

 S. C. CLARK 3 fish; i specimen of wood; i egg. 

 ARTHUR PEABODY i DOX of minerals and ores. 

 Dr. OLIVER EVERETT, Dixon, 111. 2 boxes of Lower Silurian fossils, from 



Dixon. 

 FRANK REILLY i fish. 



R. W. MdLVIANE I fish. 



C. N. HOLDEN, Jr. I bird. 



Dr. P. F. REINSCH i meteoric stone. 



A. D. DAVIS Flints and 4 species of minerals. 



GEO. P. WELLES 2 birds. 



