REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 75 



Amazon exploration are in course of examination by Mr. Cassin. 

 Mr. Meek has completed the labeling of the fossils of Captain Simpson's 

 expedition, collected by Dr. Engelmann. 



Although so much labor has been expended in the examinations 

 and investigation of the Smithsonian collection, a vast amount yet re- 

 mains to be done before it can be considered as entirely exhausted of its 

 novelties. Probably no collection of its size in the world contains so 

 many types of published species, and so many yet new ones yet unde- 

 scribed. This is especially the case in regard to North America, as 

 well as to many other parts of the world. Much desire is therefore 

 manifested by persons, about entering upon the preparation of mono- 

 graphs to secure the privilege of using Smithsonian specimens. 



PRESENT CONDITION OF THE MUSEUM. 



In the report for 1858 will be found an account of the most import- 

 ant collections forming the bulk of the museum of the Smithsonian 

 Institution. It was continued in the report of 1859, and I beg leave 

 to present at the end of the report a list of all the donations received 

 in I860.* 



Numerous specimens were received during the year from expeditions 

 referred to in the last report, as from Captain Simpson, Captain Rey- 

 nolds, Lieutenant Mullan, Mr. John Xantus, Mr. John Feilner, Robert 

 Kennicott, Dr. Bean, and others. 



These additions to the museum have resulted in the filling up of 

 many important gaps, and in replacing many defective specimens by 

 better ones. By the arrangements in progress for distribution of du- 

 plicates, and the removal from the building of what is neither worth 



* For convenience of reference, I continue the enumeration of collections, made chiefly 

 during certain explorations, from page 71 of the report for 1859: 



73. Collections made during the march of troops to Oregon, via Fort Benton, under Major 

 G. H. Blake, by Dr. Cooper. 



74. Collections made in the Gulf of California, by the party of Captain C. P. Stone. 



75. Collections made on the coast of California, by Dr. C. S. Canfield. 



76. Collections made in the Mackenzie river district, by Mr. B. R. Ross, with the coopera- 

 tion of other officers of the Hudson Bay Company. 



77. Collections made on the north shore of Lake Superior, by Mr. George Barnston. 



78. Collections made at Moose Factory, by Mr. J. McKenzie. 



79. Collections made in James bay, by Mr. C. Drexler. 



80. Collections made on the coast of Labrador, by Mr. Elliot Coues. 



81. Collections made in Greenland and Labrador, by the Williams College Lyceum of 

 Natural History. 



82. Collections made on the coast of North Carolina, by Dr. Stimpson and Mr. Gill. 



83. Collections made at Cantonment Burgwyn, N. M., on the Pecos, by Dr. W. W. An- 

 derson. 



84. Collections made on the Texas boundary survey, by Mr. J. H. Clark. 



85. Collections made in Puget Sound, by J. G. Swan, Esq. 



86. Collections made at the Tortugas, by Dr. J. B. Holder. 



87. Collections made in Cuba, by Mr. Charles Wright. 



88. Collections made in Minnesota, by Mr. J. M. Woodworth. 



89. Collections made in New Mexico, by Patrick Duffy, Esq. 



90. Collections made on the Labrador Eclipse Expedition, by W. A. Henry. 



91. Collections made on the Atlantic coast of the United States, by Lieutenant J. D. Kurtz 



92. Collections made in Chili, by Mr. F. Germain, through Don J. R. Peiia. 



93. Collections from Sable Island, by P. S. Dodd, Esq. 



94. Collections from Nova Scotia, by J. R. Willis and W. G. Winton. 



