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Table showing the total number of entries on the record boohs of the Smith- 

 sonian collection at the end of the years 1861 and 1862. 



Skeletons and skulls... 



Mammals. .__. 



Birds 



Reptiles . 



Fishes . 



Eggs of birds 



Crustaceans - - 



Mollusks 



Radiates . . 



Fossils 



Minerals, 



Ethnological specimens 

 Annelids 



Total. 



IS (32. 



4,750 

 5,900 



26,157 

 0,311 

 4,925 

 6,000 

 1,287 



10,000 



2,675 



2,100 



3,725 



825 



109 



74,764 



LIST OF DONATIONS TO THE MUSEUM IN 1862. 



Agassiz, Professor L. — Skins and eggs of birds from Labrador: specimens of 



Haemulon. 

 Akhurst, James. — Bat and crustaceans from South America. 

 Barnston, George. — Birds, fishes, &c, from Lake Superior. 

 Beadle, Rev. E. R. — Box of minerals. 



Beitel, C. G. — Minerals and furnace slags from Pennsylvania. 

 Berthoud, Dr. E. L. — Minerals, fossils, and skin of Lagopus leucurus. Pike's 



Peak. 

 Bertolct, Dr. P. G. — Sections of wood of trees of Pennsylvania. 

 Bichmore, A. J. — Living Ph&ton flavicauda, from Bermuda. 

 Blachman, Mr. — Series of specimens of prairie chicken or pinnated grouse, 



from youngest chick to adult. Also skins of other birds, insects, eggs, 



&c, from Illinois. 

 Bland, Thomas. — West Indian shells. 

 Brandt, H. — Nests and eggs from Fort Riley. 

 Brush, G. J. — Box of minerals. 



Buckner, Dr. — Set of models of edible fungi, prepared at Hildburghausen. 

 Cardeza, Dr. — Series of choice minerals from Pennsylvania. 

 Carlton, U. S. A., General J. H. — Skull of rattlesnake, from New Mexico. 

 Carothers, Rev. A. G. — Collection of reptiles from Martinique. 

 Chajjman, N. PI. — Box of birds' nests, from Ohio. 

 Cochran, T G. — Eggs of Night Heron. 

 Cook, Prof. George II. — Fossils of New Jersey. 

 Cooper, Wm. — Fossils from the Isthmus of Panama. 



bones. 

 Couper, W. — Skins of Aegiothus, from Canada. 

 Cowles, P. M. — Insects from Cumberland Gap. 

 Dawson, Prof. J. W. — Postpliocene fossils, from Canada. 

 Dow, Captain J. M. — Mammals, birds, and other animals, 

 Skins of birds, and various alcoholic specimens, collected at sea between New 



York and Panama, via Cape Horn. 



Cast of Mcgalonyx 



from Nicaragua. 



