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APPENDIX TO THE REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



Tabic showing the total number of entries on the record-books of the Smithsonian 

 collection at the end of the years 1861, 1862, and 1863. 



1861. 



1862. 



1863. 



Skeletons and skulls... 



Mammals 



Birds 



Reptiles 



Fishes 



Eggs of birds 



Crustaceans 



Mollusks 



Radiates 



Fossils 



Minerals 



Ethnological specimens 

 Annelids 



Total 



4,459 



5,550 



23,510 



6,088 



3,643 



4,830 



1,287 



9,718 



1,800 



1,031 



3,500 



550 



105 



66, 075 



4,750 

 5,900 



26, 157 

 6,311 

 4,925 

 6,000 

 1,287 



10, 000 



2,675 



2,100 



3,725 



825 



109 



74, 764 



6,275 

 7, 175 



31,800 

 6,325 

 5,075 

 7,275 

 1,287 



10, 450 



2, 725 



2,550 



4,925 



875 



110 



86, 847 



LIST OF DONATIONS TO THE MUSEUM OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



IN 1863. 



Atkins, L. S. — Eggs of birds and shells from Ohio. 



Ainsa, J. — See Irwin. 



Akhurst, J. — Birds from St. Thomas, "West Indies. 



Baer, O. P. — Unionidse from Indiana. 



Baird, S. F. — Iron ore from Hanover station ; series of skins and eggs of birds, 

 mammals, fishes, and invertebrates, from Wood's Hole and Cohasset, Massa- 

 chusetts. 



Baird, Mrs. S. F. — Leuciscus, from Potomac river. 



Beadle, Rev. E. R. — Bergen Hill minerals. 



Bean, W. — Collection of annelids and cirripeds of Great Britain. 



Behrens, Dr. — -Insects from California. 



Berlin Museum. — 54 skins of birds of Central and South America. 



Bethune, Rev. C. S. — Skin of Scalops breweri, Canada. 



Blackman, Mr. — Skins and eggs of birds, Illinois. 



Blake, W. P. — Keg of fishes from Hakodadi, Japan. 



Bland, Thomas. — Spiraxis, from West Indies. 



Board?nan, George A. — Embryo Canada grouse in alcohol ; skins and eggs of 

 birds. 



Bouve, Thomas T. — Large crystals of beryl. 



Brass, W. — Birds, mammals, &c, Fort Halkett. 



Brevoort, J. C. — Fresh specimen of Zoarces anguillaris. 



Bruckart, H. G. — Insects from Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. 



Buckalciv, Hon. C. R. — Collection of birds of Ecuador. 



Burling, W. — Skin of Halicctus pclagicus from the Amoor river. (Through 

 Samuel Hubbard.) 



Carniol, J. — Skins of Costa Rican birds. 



Carpenter, P. P. — Fossils from vicinity of Moscow. 



Carpenter, Robbie S. — Skin of starling, Sturnus vulgaris, Warrington, England. 



Clark, Lawrenae. — A general zoological collection from Fort Rac, Great Slave 

 lake. 



Coleman, Lyman. — Seeds of Damascus thorn ; petrified wood from Cairo. 



Coleman, W. T. — Birds and eggs from Canada. 



Comstock, A. — Cuttings of California grapes. 



