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SANDWICH ISLANDS. 



The Museum has, by the aid and liberality of Mr. James M. Bar- 

 nard, been able to employ Mr. A. Garrett at the Sandwich Islands, for 

 the last two years, in making as complete a collection as possible 

 of the animals of that group of islands. He has forwarded to the 

 Museum a vast number of specimens of all classes of the animal 

 kingdom. This gentleman possesses great skill in the art of collect- 

 ing, and has added very much to the value of his collections by the 

 admirable colored drawings he has made from life of the different 

 animals he has collected. His long residence in the islands has well 

 qualified him for his task. 



SOUTH AMERICA. 



Captain Samuel G. Brooks, through Mr. James M. Barnard, has 

 mad® a special collection of Fishes on the Rio Grande, which have 

 proved very rich in Characini and Siluridee. Mr. Caleb Cooke has 

 just returned from a trip to Para, in Brazil, and has presented to the 

 Museum a number of specimens of fishes, reptiles, and Crustacea ; but 

 owing to his being there in the dry season, he was unable to procure 

 as many specimens as he would have done had his visit been earlier. 



WEST INDIES. 



From Dr. D. F. Weinland, the Museum has purchased the large 

 collection made by him at the island of Hayti. We have also received 

 a large number of Haytian specimens from Mr. Edward Habich of 

 Boston, and Mr. Albert Hilchenbach, U. S. Consul at Gonaives. Lieut. 

 Samuel R. Knox, U. S. N., has presented to the Museum a large num- 

 ber of Fishes, Reptiles, and Mollusks, from the island of Sombrero. 



GRAND MENAN ISLAND. 



Mr. A. E. Verrill has visited Grand Menan to collect eggs of birds 

 for embryological study. In this he was very successful, having pro- 

 cured more than 2,000 eggs, of many species, in every stage of 

 development. As he spent the whole summer on this island, he also 

 obtained numerous specimens from all the classes of the animal king- 

 dom, and prepared a large number of very fine skeletons of birds and 

 fishes, by placing the fresh specimens under sea-weed near low-water 



