NOTES, ; 127 
The mounting and arrangement of the specimens is entrusted 
to the care of Mr. J. W, P. Jenks, A.M., a well informed prac- 
tical naturalist, and a most skilful taxidermist. Mr. Jenks was 
one of the party assembled by Prof. Baird, U. S. Fish Commis- 
sioner, at Wood's Hole, during the last summer, and spent six 
weeks in making full collections of the marine animals of that 
coast, so that this department usually so incomplete in our colleges, 
will be well represented at Brown. 
Amone the losses sustained by the burning of the Museum of 
the Chicago Academy of Sciences was that of * the State collection 
of insects, recently purchased by the State from the heirs of the late 
State Entomologist, Mr. B. D. Walsh, for two thousand dollars, 
but of great scientific value from the number of types it contained. 
“The Smithsonian collection of Crustacea, undoubtedly the larg- 
est alcoholic collection in the world, which filled over ten thousand 
Jars, and contained the types of the species described by Prof. 
Dana and other American authors, besides hundreds of new spe- 
= many of which were described in manuscripts lost by the 
e fire. 
ow The a aeS of the United States North Pacific Exploring 
Expedition, collected in great part in Japanese seas by the Secre- 
tary in 1853-56. which, besides crustacea, included in the last item, 
great numbers of annelides, mollusca, and radiata, most 
of which remain undescri bed, except in iise also lost. 
“The collection of the marine shells of the coast of the United 
States, made by the Secretary and his correspondents oe 
twenty a of dredgings and general research on every part of 
the coas Maine to Texas. Nearly ev poe — was illus- 
trated. by by specimens from every locality in which it occurs, not 
only on on own shores, mi on those of p Hens sad te the Arctic 
_ Sea, and in the Tertiary and Quaternary formations, showing the 
effect of mee influences, geological age, ete. This collection 
embraced about eight thousand separate lots of 
“The deep-sea crustacea and mollusca dredged in the Gulf 
_ ‘Stream by M. Pourtales, of the United States Coast Surv =] the 
-~ Years 1867, ’68 and ’69, which had been placed in the f the 
_ Secretary for descriptio 
-~ “The manuscript of the ———— Zoology of the North Pa- 
a cific Exploring Expedition u he command of Capts. Ringgold 
a rs, in 1853-56 ; the ites by the late Dr. A. A. Gould ; 
ibranchiate and Tunicate Mollusca, 
