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Amounts brought up, . 



Moses Grant, ..... 



G. H. Peters, ...... 



Samuel May, ..... 



Edward King (N. Y.), . . . m . 

 Total, 



$450 



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$70,450 00 



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25 00 



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$71,125 00 



[B.] 



To the Trustees of the Museum of Comparative Zoology in Cambridge : — 



Mr. President and Gentlemen, — When I appeared last spring 

 before a Joint Committee of the House and Senate, to solicit State aid 

 in 'behalf of a Museum of Comparative Zoology, I mentioned incident- 

 ally that it was my intention to present to such an institution, after 

 it should have been founded, whatever collections I may myself pos- 

 sess, that could be acceptable for its increase. 



It is now my desire formally to fulfil that engagement. 



Allow me to state in this connection, that since 1852, when the 

 collections I had made up to that time were secured for the Univer- 

 sity by a subscription raised among citizens of Boston, I have taken 

 charge of these specimens, and cared for their safe preservation by 

 providing for jars, alcohol, and the other means of keeping them in a 

 good condition, and also largely increased the collection by securing, 

 at my private expense, as many more specimens as I could up to last 

 year, when the Corporation, of Harvard College began to aid me by a 

 monthly allowance, until the movement was set on foot which has 

 ended in the establishment of the institution now in course of 

 operation. 



What I now offer to you for acceptance, is the collection I have made 

 since 1852, and any claim I may have upon the Museum for the care 

 of that part of the collection secured at that time for the University. 

 The sums I have paid in cash for making these additions to the 

 Museum, including the expenses for preserving the specimens belong- 

 ing to the University, amount to $10,000, not counting my travelling 



