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The North German Lloyd steamers, running between Bremen and 

 New York, of which Messrs. Gelpcke, Keutgen, and Reichelt, 84 

 Broadway, are agents. This line has carried 250 cubic feet for the 

 Institution at a single trip, without charge. 



The California steamer line, consisting of the Pacific Mail Steam- 

 ship Company, between San Francisco and Panama, (as well as 

 between San Francisco and the ports of Oregon and Washington 

 Territory,) of which Mr. W. A. Davidge is president; the Panama 

 Railroad Company, David Hoadley, president; from Aspinwall to New 

 York the line at first consisted of the United States Mail Steamship 

 Company, M. 0. Roberts, president, up to the 5th of October last, 

 when it was replaced in the route by the North Atlantic Steamship 

 Company, I. W. Raymond, president. The agents of this line, Mr. W. 

 H. Wickham, at New York, and Mr. A. B. Forbes, assisted by Mr. 

 Samuel Hubbard, at San Francisco, have also been very zealous in 

 their attentions to the interests of the Institution. 



Messrs. Adams & Co., through the superintendent of the southern 

 division, Mr. S. M. Shoemaker, of Baltimore, and the Washington 

 agent, Mr. A. J. Falls, have very materially aided the Institution by 

 a reduction of freights on heavy goods, and their remission entirely 

 on small packages. This has also been done by Messrs. Wells, Fargo 

 & Co. in California. 



The line of sailing vessels between New York and the west coast 

 of South America, belonging to Mr. Bartlett, 110 Wall street, has 

 continued to carry our Chilean exchanges free of charge. 



To Mr. Edward Cunard, of New York, the Institution is indebted 

 for the offer to carry a specified amount of freight from New York to 

 Liverpool by his steamers, free of charge — a privilege which has al- 

 ready, in part, been made use of. 



The Isabel steamer, running between Charleston, Key West, and 

 Havana, has also continued to carry packages free of charge, through 

 the liberality of the agents, Messrs. Mordecai & Co., of Charleston. 



Messrs. Russell & Jones, contractors of army transportation to 

 Utah, and through Kansas and Nebraska, have also kindly extended 

 the facilities of their line to the Institution. 



Considering the large amount of freight which some of the above- 

 mentioned lines transport annually for the Smithsonian Institution, it 

 will readily be understood how much they have assisted in carrying 

 out its objects, as, with a fixed income, the expenses of the ex- 

 changes and natural history operations conducted by the Institution 

 would be entirely beyond its present means. 



A. 



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