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D — Continued. 





Number of 

 packages. 



New York — Continued. 



New York University. . _ ..______.__._ . 



7 



Philadelphia, Pa. — 



86 



American Philosophical Society _ _ . _ 



65 



Central High School of Philadelphia . 



1 



Pennsylvania Institute for the Blind . 



11 





4 



Isaac Lea .. . ... . . . _ 



8 



Dr. John L. Le Conte . . . . 



4 



Dr. Joseph Leidy ...... . . ....... 



12 



Providence, R. I. — 



Brown University ............ ...... .......... 



5 



San Francisco, Cal — 



California Academy of Natural Sciences 



17 



St. Louis, Mo. — 



26 



Santiago, Chili. — 



University of Chili 



6 



Springfield, 111. — 



Illinois State Agricultural Society 



1 



Washington, I). 0. — 



United States Patent Office ..... . 



68 



Ordnance Bureau 



3 



United States Coast Survey ............ ... 



41 



National Observatory.... ... . .... 



73 



Secretary of War 



3 



National Institute ... . . . .... 



2 



State Department . ..... . . 



1 



Corjgress Library .... ..... ...... 



15 



Lieutenant J. M. Gilliss, United States navy ....... 



16 



West Point, N. Y.— 



Military Academy ... .... 



3 



Worcester, Mass. — 



American Antiquarian Society. . . ....... . 



6 



Miscellaneous institutions . .... - -- 



261 



Miscellaneous individuals .... ........ .... .... 



221 



Total 



1,539 







MUSEUM. 



Additions to the museum. — Independently of the collections of the 

 Patent Office, transferred in 1858, and of which a more detailed notice 

 will be found on another page, the additions to the Smithsonian 

 museum during 1858 have been of great magnitude and importance, 

 in many respects exceeding those of any previous year, occupying, as 

 they did, more than 200 boxes, 20 kegs or barrels, and numerous 

 single packages of greater or less size. It is impossible within my 

 present limits to mention the contents of these in detail, and a general 



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