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APPENDIX TO THE REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



D. — Addressed packages received by tlie Smithsonian Institution, fy-e. — Continued. 



Washington, D. c. — Continued. 



War Department 



ColonelJ. G. Abert 



Professor A. D. Bache 



Dr. E. Coues 



Theo. Gill 



Captain J. M. Gilliss 



General Emory 



Mr. Glover 



Dr. F. V. Hayden 



Professor Hubbard 



General A. A. Humphreys. 



ColonelS. H. Long 



D. Smith McCauley 



Professor G. A. Matile 



Or* 



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6 



4 

 20 

 ] 

 1 

 24 

 2 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 



Washington, D. c. — Continued. 



T. Posche 



Captain John Rodgers 

 S. W. Simm 



H. R. Schoolcraft 



Dr. W. Stimpson 



W. A. Treadway , 



H. Ulke 



Baron Von Gerolt 



Captain Charles Wilkes. 

 John Xantus 



AVORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS. 

 American Antiquarian Society . 





Total of addresses . 

 Total of parcels 



273 

 1,522 



MUSEUM AXD COLLECTIONS. 



It is gratifying to be able to state that the interest in the subject of natural 

 history, which received so material a check in 1861, and showed symptoms of 

 revival in 1862, has continued to manifest itself still more strongly during the 

 year 1863. No better indication of this could be found than in the increase in, 

 the number of collections received by the Institution, which amounted to 264 

 distinct donations in 1863, while, in 1862, there were but 124. 



Among the collections received have been many specimens of great interest ; 

 some, the results of special explorations under the auspices of the Institution for 

 developing the natural history of portions of this continent; others, the sponta- 

 neous offerings of correspondents; and others, again, exchanges received in return 

 for donations of specimens on the part of the Institution. No additions have 

 pbeen made by purchase, the Institution not having funds at its command for 

 (this purpose. It has, nevertheless, been found that a given amount of money 

 can be better applied in meeting the expenses of explorations in particular 

 regions than in buying collections already made. The results thus obtained 

 are usually more varied in their character, and more important, from having 

 been accomplished under definite instructions, and with special reference to the 

 acquisition of facts and information additional to that which would be furnished 

 by the specimens themselves. It is not merely specimens of natural history 

 that are secured in the course of the several explorations, but information is 

 obtained respecting the habits of animals, the ethnological peculiarities of human 

 races, the meteorology, the physical geography, the geology of the country, &c. 



EXPLORATIONS. 



Among the explorations wholly or partially carried on under the auspices of 

 the Smithsonian Institution, and furnishing results of more or less interest, may 

 be mentioned the following : 



Explorations by Mr. Kennicoti. — A brief mention was made in the last 

 report of the return of Mr. Kennicott, late in 1862, after an absence of nearly 

 four years in the north, his movements 'while there having previously been indi- 



