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Valuable collections have also been received through Captain Put- 

 nam, from the coast of China ; through T. G. Cary, Esq., from Cal- 

 ifornia ; through Dr. Wheatland, from Buenos Ayres ; through Captain 

 Webb, and also through Mr. Webb, United States Consul at Zanzibar, 

 from that locality ; through Captain Cheever, from Singapore and the 

 Cape of Good Hope ; through Captain Millet, from the Gulf of Arabia ; 

 through Mr. and Miss Dabney, from Fayal ; through Dr. Ranlett, 

 of Charlestown, from Cape Horn ; through Captain Harrington, from 

 the Rio Grande in South America ; through Captain Dillingham, from 

 the Cape of Good Hope ; through Captain Couthouy, from the Andes ; 

 through Professor J. Wyman, from South America ; through J. M. 

 Barnard, Esq., from Singapore ; through Professor H. A. Ward, from 

 Egypt ; through Lieutenant Preble, of the United States Navy, from 

 the Galapagos Islands ; through M. G. Dexter, Esq., from Japan ; 

 through J. M. Aviles, Esq., from Cienfuegos, in Cuba ; through F. G. 

 Shaw, Esq., from Nassau, and through Dr. Holder, from Fort Jeffer- 

 son, Florida. We are indebted also to Captain J. Anderson for valu- 

 able fossils from Malta and also from England. 



A number of students from Williams College have also presented 

 to us a large and valuable collection of Echinoderms, made by them 

 during a vacation trip on the coast of Labrador. From Mr. Allen, at 

 Key West, Florida, we have also received valuable and numerous 

 specimens ; and Dr. Worthen has sent us a fine collection of shells 

 from the Upper Mississippi; and Mr. Slack, a collection of birds from 

 Minnesota. Mr. Cutting of the Aquarial Garden, in Boston, has pre- 

 sented to the Museum all the valuable specimens that have died in 

 his establishment. 



An invoice is daily» expected from Zanzibar from M. J. Cook, Esq., 

 who has now been residing there for a year past, for the express pur- 

 pose of collecting ; and Mr. Muller in Australia, and Mr. Lucerda 

 from Porto Rico, have announced invoices from both these localities. 

 Mr. Theodore Lyman, now travelling in Europe, has sent several in- 

 voices of specimens to the Museum, and he is extending the system 

 of exchanges between our Museum and those of the Old World. 



The assistants of the Museum and the students of the Lawrence 

 Scientific School, who now work in the Museum, are constantly add- 

 ing to our collections during their vacations, and I owe special thanks 



