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the following States : Maine, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, 

 Indiana, Michigan, Tennessee, Virginia, and California; 21 

 boxes of iron ores from the Hanging Rock region, through 

 Messrs. Traber & Aubrey, Cincinnati ; a series of the iron 

 ores smelted by the Lackawanna Coal and Iron Co. ; a spe- 

 cially selected collection of the minerals of Missouri, from M. 

 S. Mepham & Bro., St. Louis ; three cases, 10 feet high, dis- 

 playing the coal and iron wealth of the lands along the route 

 of the South and North Alabama R. R. Co., through Prof. 

 Gesner, and 300 carefully prepared skins of the birds of the 

 Pacific Coast, from the Woodward Gardens, San Francisco. 

 From Japan has been received all her exhibit of building- 

 stones, rocks, ores, and clays, and one-half of her woods in 

 exchange for duplicates of our Mammals. 



A series of the fishes collected by Prof. Agassiz, on the 

 Hassler Expedition, has been received from the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge. The Anthropological 

 Department has been presented with an important series of 

 pottery and stone implements from the mounds of Mississippi, 

 by Prof. Whitfield, of Clinton. 



To the Library has been added by donation the Reports of 

 the Geological Surveys of Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio, and 

 through the Smithsonian Institution the publications of many 

 foreign societies. 



