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Worcester. — -Antiquarian Society 1 



New Haven. — Journal of Science 14 



American Oriental Society 7 



Albany. — New York State Library 6 



New York. — -Lyceum of Natural History 13 



Ethnological Society 3 



Geographical Society 4 



Philadelphia.— American Philosophical Society 39 



Academy of Natural Sciences 25 



Franklin Institute 2 



Geological Survey of Pennsylvania 4 



Washington. — National Observatory 2S 



Coast Survey 22 



National Institute 6 



Surgeon General 1 



A merican Association * 2 



Congress Library S 



Astronomical Expedition to Chili 4 



United States Patent Office 3 



State Department 2 



Georgetown. — Observatory 10 



Miscellaneous, including libraries of States, minor institutions, &c. 755 



1,052 



6. Domestic Exchanges. 



The copies of Volume V of Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge 

 intended for American institutions, were all sent off in May at the same 

 time with those for foreign bodies. As heretofore, they were distrib- 

 uted through the following agents, who have made no charge for their 

 service : Messrs. J. P. Jqwett & Co., Boston ; George P. Putman & 

 Co., New York ; Lippincott, Grambo & Co., Philadelphia ; John Rus- 

 sell, Charleston ; B. M. Norman, New Orleans; Dr. Geo. Engelmann, 

 St. Louis ; H. W. Derby, Cincinnati ; and Jewett, Proctor & Worthing- 

 ton, Cleveland. Acknowledgments for nearly all have been already 

 received. 



NATURAL HISTORY. 



INCREASE OF THE MUSEUM. 



The additions to the museum during the year 1853 have been very- 

 extensive, covering the entire field of natural history and ethnology. 

 Many of these consist of species altogether new to science ; while others,, 

 though previously described, belong to forms of great rarity. The con- 

 tributions to our knowledge of the geographical distribution of species 

 have been of the most important character, the localities occurring as 

 they do over the entire area of this country. A very large proportion 

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