THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 41 



Georgetown, D. C. — 



Georgetown College 29 



Cincinnati — 



Observatory 12 



Columbus — 



Ohio State Agricultural Society , . ... 2 



Detroit — 



Michigan State Agricultural Society 8 



Ann Arbor — 



Observatory 4 



Madison — 



Wisconsin State Agricultural Society 26 



Colleges in different places * 117 



Various State Libraries 28 



Miscellaneous societies and individuals 508 



Total 1,445 



By reference to the preceding tables, it will be seen that the Insti- 

 tution acts as agent not only for parties in the United States and 

 Canada, but also for the University and Observatory of Chile. 



The facilities for conducting the Smithsonian exchanges have been 

 greatly increased by the liberal act of the mail line of steamships to 

 California via Panama, in carrying, without charge, its parcels for 

 the west coast of America. The line of steamers to Bremen has also 

 granted the same privilege. Messrs. Oelrichs & Lurman, of Balti- 

 more, as in previous years, have marked their sense of the value of 

 the operations of the Institution by making no charge whatever for 

 their agency in shipping from Baltimore the large number of boxes 

 sent to Bremen, and in receiving and forwarding others from that 

 port. 



b — Domestic Exchanges. 



The copies of volume VII of Smithsonian Contributions were dis- 

 tributed promptly through the following agents, whose services, as 

 heretofore, have been given without charge : Dr. T. M. Brewer, Bos- 

 ton ; George T. Putnam & Co., New York; J. B. Lippincott & Co., 

 Philadelphia ; John Kussell, Charleston ; B. M. Norman, New Or- 

 leans ; Dr. George Engelmann, St. Louis ; H. W. Derby, Cincinnati ; 

 and Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, Cleveland. 



Nearly all the parties to whom copies were addressed have already 

 returned acknowledgments to the Institution. 



A few copies of volumes IV and V of the History, Condition, and 

 Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States have been dis- 

 tributed in behalf of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. 



III.— MUSEUM. 

 A — Increase of the Museum. 



The year 1854 was a marked one in the history of the Institution, 

 on account of the magnitude and intrinsic value of the collections re- 



