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and support of government. A cabinet of comparative anatomy 
furnishes the means for useful collateral studies, subordinate to the 
general purposes of a Pathological Museum : hence, such cabi- 
nets are found in connection with most of the great Pathological 
Collections of Europe, and one has been commenced at the Army 
Medical Museum. 
The appropriations for the support of the Museum have been 
hitherto too limited to permit the expenditure of any considera- 
ble sum on the collection of comparative anatomy. The speci- 
mens enumerated in the following list were for the most part col- 
lected by medical and other officers of the army on duty at frontier 
posts. For the present, any increase of the collection can only 
be expected from such donations, which will thankfully be received 
from army officers or others, or from exchanges of duplicate spe- 
cimens, which, however, as yet are only possible to a very limited 
extent. 
Specimens presented need not be thoroughly cleaned and 
mounted. This laborious work is done in the Museum by Dr. F. 
Schafhirt, by whom the greater part of the specimens enume- 
rated in the following list were prepared. It will be sufficient, in 
the case of large skeletons or crania, if the flesh is roughly dis- 
sected from bone and the viscera, brain, &c., removed. The pre- 
paration thus prepared can be packed in a mixture of sawdust 
and salt, or simply dried, for transportation. Small animals are 
best preserved in alcohol, in which case an incision should be 
made along the middle line of the abdomen to give the alcohol 
access to the viscera. 
J. J. WOODWARD, 
Assistant Surgeon TJ. S. A. 
In charge of the Medical, Microscopical, and Comparative 
Anatomy Sections, Army Medical Museum . 
and of 
The Representation of the Medical Department U. S . Army, 
at the International Exhibition. 
