Eliot, of Harvard University, and Professor Marsh t 

 President of the American Association for the ad- 

 vancement of Science, which are appended to this 

 report. 



The new arrangements, including the selection and 

 removal to this building of a very large part of our 

 collections, hitherto deposited in the Arsenal, and their 

 scientific classification, have required, during the past 

 summer and autumn, the exercise of a great deal of 

 care, labor and thought, on the part of the gentlemen 

 to whom the work has been entrusted by the Board : 

 and here, we would perhaps be considered as having 

 failed in our duty, did we not recognize in an especial 

 manner, the zealous co-operation of Prof. Bickmore, 

 and others, particularly at a period which brings to a 

 definite and satisfactory conclusion, the initial move- 

 ment in our history, with which they have been so 

 closely identified. 



The reptiles, fishes, corals, minerals and duplicates, 

 are still exhibited in the Arsenal, for want of space in 

 the new building, which contains the rarer and more 

 attractive specimens, displayed in cases that suitably 

 show their beautiful forms and colors, and invite criti- 

 cal scientific examination. 



The Anthropological department has received the 

 following additions. By donation : — from Mr. John 

 H. Pell, sixty articles of Indian dresses and arms ; 

 from Capt. J. H. Mortimer, a series of the implements 

 of the Esquimaux of Alaska ; from Mr. H. G. Marquand, 

 over two hundred pieces of Missouri mound pottery ; 

 from Mr. D. J. Steward, a collection of rude stone imple- 

 ments from Goshen, N.Y. : from Dr. Jacob Knapp, Louis- 

 ville, Ky., stone axes and arrow-heads. By purchase : — 

 several lots of Missouri mound pottery, from H. de Mor- 



