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in the British Museum, but this will shortly be done. At 

 the lowest computation the specimens must number 400,000, 

 and at the time when I assumed office in 1872 a liberal 

 estimate of the collection of birds and eggs would be 

 35,000 : it probably did not exceed 30,000. In the record 

 which I present to the Congress it will be seen that nearly 

 every great private collection in England has passed with the 

 willing consent of the owners into the British Museum, while 

 the donations of the great collections of Mr. Allan Hume, the 

 Marquis of Tweedale (presented by Colonel Warcllaw Ramsay), 

 Dr. F. D. Grodman, Mr. Osbert Salvin, Mr. Henry Seebohm, 

 Mr. Philip Crowley, and other celebrated naturalists, have 

 contributed to the renown of the British Museum. 



