42 



Vols, pamphlets. 



Jay Library on Conchology, presented by Miss C. L. Wolfe 997 180 



Brecoort Library on Fishes and General Zoology, deposited by 



the President of the Board 2,083 1,599 



Scientific Works from various sources 576 293 



Library on Mining and Physical Geology, deposited by Clarence 



King, Esq 2,430 1,652 



Library of the New York Academy of Sciences, deposited for safe- 

 keeping by the Society 4,621 1,537 



Prof. Whitfield's Library on Palaeontology 352 381 



Prof. Bickmore's Library on Ethnology and Archaeology 908 4=20 



Total 11,967 6,062 



ARSENAL BUILDING, 



Near Fifth Avenue and Sixty-fourth Street. 



The collections exhibited here are such as cannot be placed before 

 the public in the new building, Eighth Avenue and Seventy-seventh 

 Street, for want of space. 



ENTRANCE. 



In the entrance, or the first floor, is a skeleton of a large Walrus, from 

 Alaska, deposited by the Park. On the south and west sides are Mam- 

 mals; on the north side a group, representing an Arab dispatch-bearer, 

 who, while crossing a desert on a swift-traveling camel, is attacked by a 

 lion and lioness. The lioness is represented as fatally wounded and 

 dying, her limbs already rigid, while the lion springs in fury upon 

 the Arab, who is attempting to defend himself with a curved dirk or 

 scimitar, and the camel, aware of its danger, turns its head toward its 

 rider and cries for help. This work was mounted by Edward Veb- 

 keatjx, of Paris, and received the highest prize at the Exposition of 1867. 



Passing up the northern stair-way we come to the 



SECOND STOEY. 



Along the east and north sides are Corals, Sea-fans and Shells. On 

 the west side, mounted Fishes, from the Maximilian Collection. 

 Northern case, lower shelf, an Eel 15 inches in girth; lower shelf, 

 next case, the blue Dolphin, which frequently changes its colors 

 when it dies. Next case, lower shelves, the Angel Eishes, con- 

 spicuous on account of their long fins and bright colors. Large 

 case, alligator 12 feet long, from Florida; Snakes and Lizards. Large 

 case, Turtles; unmounted Skeleton of Elephant; large Birch Trees 

 nearly gnawed off by beavers for their dams; large Nests made by Hor- 



