28 REPORT ON NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1886. 



tbe Australian Museum, Sydney. An extensive exchange of ethnologi- 

 eal material is being arranged with the ethnological department of the 

 Royal Museum of Berlin. Negotiations for an exchange of mammals, 

 birds and insects with the Musee d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, are in 

 progress. Thirty-five species of Jamaican fishes have been received 

 from the Public Museum of the Institute of Jamaica. From the Cana- 

 dian Geological Survey have been received 67 species of Cambrian fos- 

 sils ; and skeletons of Python molurus and Cercopithecus rufo-viridis, a 

 specimen of Pentacrinus and a set of marine invertebrates have been 

 sent in exchange. M. Charpy,* director of the Mus£e d'Anneey, An- 

 necy, Haute-Savoie, France, has sent four boxes of minerals, rocks, fos- 

 sils, and shells, etc., and an equivalent in Ohio and Cincinnati Silurian 

 fossils has been promised in exchange. The museum has sent to the 

 Auckland Museum, New Zealand, large collections of ethnological ma- 

 terial, bird-skins, ores, and minerals, and has received in exchange 104 

 specimens of New Zealand bird-skins. An offer of ethnological material 

 has been made to Mr. S. H. Drew, of Wauganui, New Zealand, in ex- 

 change for marine invertebrates, fresh- water shells and fossils. From 

 the ficole des Mines, Paris, has been received a collection of French 

 minerals, in exchange for which 71 specimens of United States minerals 

 have been sent. Dr. Julius von Haast, director of the Canterbury 

 Museum, Christ Church, New Zealand, has sent 7 fine specimens of 

 nephrite, and has received a set of marine invertebrates. Dr. von Haast 

 has promised to collect skeletons of whales and seals for the National 

 Museum, and has offered a series of New Zealand timbers, for which 

 ethnological material has been promised. Extensive exchanges have 

 been conducted with several of the musees under the direction of the 

 Ministere de PInstruction Publique, Paris. Six boxes of ethnological 

 material were sent in August, 1885, and a number of casts of Indian 

 heads in March, 1886, to the Trocadero Museum. The Minister of Pub- 

 lic Instruction has recently announced the transmission of 9 vases, from 

 the Manufacture Nationale de Sevres, 8 pieces of tapestry from the 

 Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins, and some specimens of tapestry 

 work from the Manufacture Nationale de Beauvais. An exchange of 

 birds, fishes, and shells is being arranged with the Imperial Zoological 

 Museum of the Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia. Negotia- 

 tions are pending with Dr. F. R. Jentink, director of the National Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, Leiden, Holland, for an exchange of mammals 

 from the East Indies and Africa, for American birds, reptiles, fishes, 

 and marine invertebrates. Collections of mammal skins and skulls, 

 materia medica, and reptiles have at various times been received from 

 the Kurrachee Municipal Library and Museum (James A. Murray, cura- 

 tor), in exchange for which 390t specimens of birds and 24 mammals 

 have been sent. 



* Deceased. 



t Two hundred and seventy-eight of these were transmitted in 1881. 



