DISCOURSE OF W. B. TA YLOR: ^x_ NOTES. 419 



birds of South America aud Alaska to John Gassin, Philadelphia : — 

 Alcadae of North America to Dr. Elliott Coues, U. S. Army •—col 

 iections 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.—diatomaceous earths and de^ 

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

 from various North American localities to W. H. Edwards, Coalbur^ 

 Ya.-^ seeds of Boehmeria received from tho Department of Agricul- 

 ture, to Dr Earl Flint NuMiragua:- plants collected in Ecuador by 

 tiie expedition under Professor Orton, to Dr. Asa Gray, Cambridge 

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

 lessor T Glover Department of Agriculture, Washington:— gen- 

 eral collection of birds of Costa Rica and Yucatan tS George N 

 Lawrence, New York : --Americah Unionida to Ifeaac Lea, Phila- 

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

 MivaH, London: -American Dipt^ra to Baron R. Osten-Sacken. 

 v!r S-i "iT u^P'^^^'^'f "^ ""^ Ecuador and Yucatan to Tryou Rea- 

 kirt, Philadelphia:-plant8 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' 

 iil".f^,--4°'^"?^^ "ly^apods and spiders to Dr. H. C. Wood 

 Philadelphiar-^human crania from northwestern America and the 

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



&brtd^,lTat"''^ ""'" ^''""""'' '^ ^^- ^'""'^y' ^^"-' 

 "Fewpersons are awar6 of the great extent to which this Smith- 

 sonian material had been used by American and foreign naturalists, 



Zt^ aT Z «V^r/^«V°^ °^^^ ^P^^^^« ^^"«h have been con- 

 tributed to natural history through its means." *i < . .' 



Note M. {From p. S86.) 



OVERFLOWING CONDITION OF THE MUSEUM. 



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

 ot 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 it a own riches. The constant 



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



