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To Dr. Wood of Boston, and Dr. Saunders of Salem, veterinary 

 surgeons, the Museum is under great obligations for their interest in 

 the department of the Museum relating to the domesticated animals. 

 Both of these gentlemen are exerting themselves to secure for us the 

 animals that die under their charge, and also in obtaining the em- 

 bryos of our domesticated animals. Dr. Loring of Salem, and Mr. 

 William Bond of Boston, have also contributed much to this part of 

 our collection. 



I have not thought it desirable in this report to enumerate all the 

 invoices received by the Museum during this year, as they are too 

 numerous to be registered here singly. But all the specimens ex- 

 hibited in the Museum are provided with a label indicating the name 

 of the donor or the source whence they were obtained. This kind of 

 acknowledgment, equally attached to all the specimens received in 

 former years, is due to the interest shown in our Museum by a large 

 number of individuals who, having only had the opportunity of secur- 

 ing a few specimens, have yet taken the trouble of forwarding them, 

 while at the same time the large contributors, entitled to the same 

 distinction, may be gratified to find that their donations are dis- 

 tributed upon almost every shelf throughout the Museum. This plan 

 has, moreover, the advantage of being public and permanent, while a 

 report like this is not likely to be read by many. I would, however, 

 add that the Museum has received specimens by presentations from 

 one hundred and thirty different persons, and by purchase with the 

 Gray Fund, from eight others, and by purchase with the Subscription 

 Fund of 1859, from ten more. The number of boxes and barrels 



received amounts to 239. 



L. AGASSIZ. 

 Cambridge, 25th January, 1860. 



