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Curator, and by means of circulars and letters, con- 

 tributions from alumni and friends have been received 

 almost daily during all the twenty-three years of his 

 administration. The Zoological Gardens of New- 

 York, the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, the 

 Fish Commission at Woods Holl, and the Museums 

 of Harvard, Boston, and elsewhere, have all been 

 laid under contribution for their duplicate treasures. 

 Many of the finest and rarest specimens of Ornithol- 

 ogy he himself shot in the wilds of Florida. They 

 are all mentioned in detail in his annual reports to 

 the President of the University. In 1871 he states 

 that the collection in Rhode Island Hall numbered 

 some fifteen hundred specimens; in 1872, eight 

 thousand; in 1873, twenty-five thousand; in 1874, 

 thirty-four thousand; in 1877, thirty-nine thousand; 

 in 1878, forty-nine thousand. These figures give 

 only an approximate idea of its growth. Some of 

 the contributions have come from remote quarters of 

 the globe. Thus we find mentioned in his reports, 

 specimens of the various woods of Burma, neatly 

 prepared and labelled, from the Rev. Dr. J. N. Cush- 

 ing; specimens of Serpula, Pectens and Pottery, from 

 the Rev. A. A. Bennett, of Japan; and a unique and 

 valuable gift from the lamented Hartsock illustrating 

 the manners and customs of the natives in the interior 

 of Africa. From Horace F. Carpenter of Providence, 

 came a complete set of the shells of Rhode Island, 

 land, fresh water and marine; from Professor W. 

 W. Bailey an Herbarium, and specimens in Botany 



