REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 



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D — Continued. 



Washington, D. C. — Continued. 



Prof. Espy 



A. Ferguson 



Hon. Peter Force 



Dr. C. Girard 



Captain H. J. Hartstene 



Baron de Gerolt 



Captain A. A. Humphreys. 



Prof. S.S.Hubbard 



Prof. W. R. Johnson 



Lieugenant S. P. Lee 



Lieutenant M. F. Maury ... 



George W. Riggs 



Baron Osten Sacken 



Charles A. Schott 



H. R. Schoolcraft 



J. C. G.Kennedy 



John Xantus 



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Waterville, Me. 



Waterville College 



West Chester, Penn. 

 W. Darlington 



West Point, JV*. Y. 



Military Academy 

 Prof. Bartlett 



Williamstown, Mass. 

 Observatory 



Worcester, Mass 

 American Antiquarian Society. 



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Total of addresses 335 



Total of parcels 1,908 



By a comparison with the last report, it will be seen that the, total 

 number of parcels received for other parties in 1860, is about the same 

 as in 1859. Their bulk, however, is much greater, owing to the con- 

 solidation by the agents of the Institution, and by societies, of several 

 parcels to the same address into one package before transmission, as 

 advised by the Institution. The average number of parcels to each 

 address is nearly six. 



MUSEUM AND COLLECTIONS. 



Additions to the Museum and Collections . — During the year I860 im- 

 portant additions have been made to the collection of various species, 

 chiefly North American, and serving to render it nearly complete as 

 regards a large part of the fauna of the continent. Many new facts 

 in regard to the geographical distribution of species over its whole ex- 

 tent, and their habits, have been obtained, while carefully prepared 

 measurements, weighings, and other facts bearing on the physical 

 constants of animals, as called for in Mr. Babbage's article in the 

 Smithsonian Report for 1856, have been accumulated in great num- 

 bers in the labels and catalogues accompanying the specimens. 



The great bulk of material received has consisted of specimens de- 

 posited by the officers in charge of Government expeditions pursuant 

 to the act of Congress in relation to the subject. Next to these, of 

 collections made in equally or still more unexplored regions of North 

 America at the instance, or through the instrumentality, of this Insti- 

 tution, and involving not merely the addition of specimens, but accom- 

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