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nations has been made by Miss Catharine L. Wolfe, 

 the daughter of our late esteemed President, and will 

 be known as the " Wolfe Memorial Gift. 1 ' It consists 

 of a collection of shells numbering" 50,000 speci- 

 mens, and a valuable library of rare conchological 

 and scientific works, of about one thousand volumes, 

 both formed by Dr. John C. Jay, of Rye. The shells 

 are on exhibition in ten table cases, 4-? feet wide by 

 16 feet long, on the second floor, and the carefully 

 selected library may be used at any time by original 

 investigators in conchology. 



The Department of Entomology has received an 

 important addition in the gift from Mr. R. A. Wit- 

 thaus, Jr., of 8,000 specimens of American Coleoptera, 

 representing 2,000 species. 



The Smithsonian Institution has presented a com- 

 plete s«5te of all its publications, and a collection of 

 birds' nests. Many friends have also kindly remem- 

 bered us, and presented valuable specimens, among 

 which are a finely mounted skin and skeleton of the 

 Manatee, from Mr. D. G. Elliot, 



Since February, $13,000 have been subscribed, 

 chiefly by the Trustees, for the purchase of new and 

 attractive collections during 1874, and the Museum 

 has secured a complete series of sixteen skeletons of 

 the Moas, or Gigantic Fossil Birds of New Zealand, 

 the largest of which is over ten feet high. 



The Department of Anthropology has been increas- 

 ed by the purchase of Dr. E. H. Davis's collection of 

 Indian x\ntiquities, which contains many typical and 

 rare forms of pre-historic workmanship. 



A Department of Mineralogy has been added to 

 the attractions of the Museum by the purchase from 



