11 MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. [Jan. 



Lacerda, from Brazil, the collections made at San Francisco by- 

 Mr. T. G. Cary, those of Mr. D. B. Van Brunt, of Acapulco, 

 of Mr. C. F. Davis and Dr. Sternberg, of Panama, of Capt. W. 

 H. A. Putnam, in Chili, of Mr. Gulich, in Japan. Dr. W. 

 Stimpson, Mr. J. G. Rich, the Aquarial Gardens, Mr. G. A. 

 Boardman, A. E. Verrill, Mr. J. A. Allen, and Capt. N. E. 

 Atwood have contributed valuable collections. Mr. H. A. 

 Pierce has presented to the Museum the collections made in 

 Russian Asia by Mr. A. A. Smith. Major J. G. Shute and 

 A. S. Bickmore have presented their collections made in 

 North Carolina. Cap*t. Anderson, of the Cunard service, has 

 continued to assist in facilitating the exchanges between the 

 Free Public Museum of Liverpool and our Museum. 



The Smithsonian Institution has forwarded to the Museum 

 extensive collections. In the way of exchanges, valuable 

 invoices have been received from the Jardin des Plantes, from 

 Professors Milne-Edwards and Valenciennes, Professor Kaup, 

 Professor Krauss, Professor Jan, from the Marquis de Folin, 

 Professor Poey, Senor de Elizalde, Mr. Parreys, and Mr. 

 R. Howell, of Nichols, N. Y. Special thanks are due to many 

 gentlemen who have forwarded many of these packages free of 

 charges for the Museum, more particularly to Mr. James M. 

 Barnard, to the agents of the Panama Railroad Company, of 

 the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, and of Messrs. Wells, 

 Fargo & Co. 



There have been received in all during the past year two 

 hundred and fifty boxes and packages from one hundred and 

 sixty different persons. 



It is my pleasant duty to remember, in this connection, the 

 grant of $10,000 by the legislature for the publication of an 

 illustrative catalogue, and to state also that the Gray Fund has 

 been partially applied to paying an instalment of the collection 

 of Dr. Konnink, and partly to defraying the expenses incident 

 to the reception and preservation of the specimens received 

 during the year. 



For many years past I have caused diagrams to be drawn to 

 illustrate more fully those specimens in the Museum, the 

 characteristics of which are not easily preserved in the usual 

 mode of exhibiting objects of natural history. Many animals 

 are so very small, that unless they are magnified, their peculiar- 



