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Not more than twenty-five cans containing alcohol were sent 

 out from the Museum during the past year. Thirty were sent 

 back, leaving about forty-eight individuals to whom cans for 

 collecting have been sent, which they have not yet returned. 



The thanks of the Museum are particularly due to the agents 

 of the Pacific Mail Steam-ship Company, to their President, 

 Mr. Allan McLane, to Mr. Hoadley, President of the Panama 

 Railroad Company ; to Messrs. Wells, Fargo & Co., Dabney 

 & Cunningham, Samuel Stevens & Co., Henry C. Brooks & Co., 

 James Bishop & Co., Loring & Shute, Burdett & Everett, 

 Rufus Wills & Son, Alpheus Hardy, Isaac Taylor, James M. 

 Barnard, P. L. Everett and George N. Lawrence, who have at 

 various times forwarded, free of expense, extensive invoices of 

 specimens. Captain James Anderson, of the Cunard steamers, 

 has kindly continued to take charge of the packages for our 

 English correspondents. We have to thank, also, the State 

 Department at Washington for the kindness with which pack- 

 ages intended for the consuls of the United States in foreign 

 countries have invariably been distributed. 



We are under obligations to the following individuals for 

 their interest in making collections for the Museum : — Messrs. 

 Charles Hale, Henry Edwards ; W. H. Dabney and Miss Olivia 

 Dabney, for their continued exertions in our behalf in the 

 Azores ; Messrs. A. S. Peabody, Alfred A. Reed, Joseph Heco ; 

 Antonia de Lacerda and Mr. Henry Sawyer, for their South 

 American contributions ; Theodore Lyman, Thomas Owens, 

 Michael Carroll, Dr. George B. Loring ; Messrs. P. Choteau & 

 Co., for assistance and specimens at various times; to Mr. F. 

 C. Hill the Museum is indebted for a valuable series of living 

 turtles from Louisiana ; to Dr. Viele, for specimens from Colo- 

 rado ; to William H. Anthon, Jr., for specimens from Batavia. 

 The Smithsonian Institution has made us several invoices of 

 their duplicates of North American specimens. Mr. Leonard has 

 sent us a few slabs of fossil tracks from the Connecticut River 

 Valley. Capt. N. E. Atwood has, during the winter, kindly taken 

 care of the head of the right whale left in Provincetown and 

 superintended its shipment to Cambridge, where it now remains. 

 Mr. Blanford, the Secretary of the Asiatic Society, and Mr. 

 Whitney have laid us under great obligations for their exer- 



