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APPENDIX. 



Jltjjhth Annual Import, i8^6. 



The Hall Collection, which was purchased last year, has all 

 been safely received and is now securely stored in the new 

 building, in a room specially prepared for this purpose by the 

 Department of Public Parks. The locality and geological 

 formation of each individual specimen were carefully identi- 

 fied by Prof. Hall. The whole collection had been so dis- 

 tinctly labelled when it was gathered, and had been preserved 

 with such scrupulous care that this great labor progressed rap- 

 idly notwithstanding its magnitude. 



The donations to the Museum during the past year have 

 been numerous, and of especial value. The principal nations 

 of the world, and most of our own States, displayed at the 

 International Exhibition, at Philadelphia, collections illustra- 

 ting their mineral wealth and other natural resources. The 

 central location of our institution, at the commercial metrop- 

 olis of the nation caused these exhibitors to be desirous that 

 their specimens, gathered at great labor and expense, should 

 be displayed in JN e w Y ork, where they would be placed on 

 exhibition, and always seen by the great number of visitors 

 who frequent our halls from all parts of our own country and 

 from foreign lands. 



The following Governments and States have presented por- 

 tions of their exhibits : Jamaica, her entire exhibit contain- 

 ing a rich display of her tropical woods ; Bermuda, her 

 woods ; a part of the woods of Brazil, the Argentine 

 Republic, Mexico, the Hawaiian Islands, and Turkey / miner- 

 als from the Governments of Canada, Spain, Brazil, Tas- 

 mania, and New Zealand. Minerals and building stones from 



