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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Boston, April 9, 1874.
To the Honorable GEoRGE B. Lorine, President of the Senate.

Str :—The Trustees of the Museum of Comparative Zo-
ology have the honor to present to the Legislature the Report
of the Committee on the Museum for the past year, marked
[A]; and a copy of the Resolutions adopted by them upon
the death of Professor Agassiz, marked [B].

The paper marked [C] contains a list of the Trustees, offi-
cers and committees for 1874.

Respectfully submitted for the Trustees,

* MARTIN BRIMMER, Secretary.

4 COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. [Apr.

TAY]

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE TRUSTEES

ON THE

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY,

For THE Year 1873. .

Early in 1873 it became apparent that the Museum could
no longer be carried on with the means at the disposal of
the Curator; repeated assistance from the State and from
private sources kept the institution up to a standard of activ-
ity far beyond its own regular resources. As the time drew
near when retrenchment seemed inevitable, Professor Agassiz
made an appeal to the legislature far support, and with the
generosity which has always characterized their action towards
an institution in which the State of Massachusetts has so
great an interest, the legislature appropriated $25,000, on
condition that a similar sum should be contributed by the
friends of the institution towards its support. This sum was
at once subscribed by friends of the Museum, and the appro-
priation of the State secured. Soon after this a further sum
of $100,000 was presented to the Museum by Mr. Quincy A.
Shaw. These sums gave Professor Agassiz the means to re-
organize the Museum on a very extensive scale. Additional
assistants were employed, collections were purchased in every
direction, and a large outlay made to place in safety the valu-
able alcoholic collections stored in the cellar of the Museum
building. True to his policy of always using his present:
means asa lever for further improvement, nothing was laid up
for the future, and by the first of April next the Museum will
have to depend entirely upon its invested funds for its re-

1874.] SENATE—No. 200. 5

sources. This will entail a very material reduction in the
working force and running expenses, as the regular income of
the Museum is somewhat less than $15,000 annually, only
half the sum needed to carry on the present scale of opera-
tions.

The instruction given at the Museum has been in charge of
Professor McCrady, formerly of Charleston, S. C. ; he has
been assisted by Messrs. Faxon and St. John in he labora-
tory work. An important element in the educational features
of the Museum is the establishment of a Summer School of
Natural History on the Island of Penikese. From the terms
of the deed of trust of Mr. Anderson, the trustees of the
school are empowered to enter into such agreements with the
Trustees of the Museum and the corporation of Harvard Col-
lege as maybe most beneficial in promoting the teaching of
natural history.

The Museum is under great obligations to several volunteer
assistants who have taken charge of special departments. In
the first place, during the past year, Mr. L. F. Pourtales,
assistant U. S. Coast Survey, has continued, under orders of
the superintendent, to work up at the Museum part of the
results of the Hassler Expedition, particularly the deep-sea
corals and crinoids, the description of which is now in .the
press. During the summer he had charge of the yacht
“Sprite” at Penikese Island, chiefly used to show the pupils
of the Anderson school the process of dredging, and collect
specimens for their instruction. Having siiauted his position
on the Coast Survey on the first of October, he has since then
assisted Professor Agassiz in the general direction of the
Museum and. has made considerable progress in the arrange-
ment of the systematic collection of corals in the exhibition
room devuted to Radiates. Under his direction a fine collec-
tion of Foraminifera from the deep-sea soundings and dredg-
ings in the Gulf Stream has been selected and mounted by
Mr. James H. Logan of Jacksonville, Ill., at the expense of
the U. S. Coast Survey. He has also selected collections of
corals and fossils for the normal schools of the State, accord-
ing to Professor Agassiz’s plan. He has been assisted by
Miss Bradbury, and part of the time by Miss Hyde, in the
mounting of the specimens.

6 COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. (Apr.

Mr. Theodore Lyman has, since his return from Europe, |
been engaged in arranging the collections of ophiurans he
has brought together during his travels. The collection of
ophiuride and astrophytide is now one of the best in the
world, and may properly be said to have doubled in size and
value during the past year. Besides the collections of Prof.
Semper, made by him at the Philippines and presented by
Mr. Lyman to the Museum, a great number of species have
been received by donation or by exchange from the Jardin
des Plantes, the Museums at Stockholm, Copenhagen, Leyden,
Berlin, Pisa, Naples, Moscow, and from Professor Grube of
Breslau, Kélliker of Wiirtzburg, Dr. Fischer of Paris, and
Mr. Trois of Venice. Mr. T. G. Cary has continued to super-
intend the business of the Museum, which has of necessity »
greatly increased with the expansion of the establishment, so
that the numerous claims upon his time have greatly added to
his disinterested labors.

Baron von Osten-Sacken, now residing in Cambridge, has
kindly decided to take care of the collection of diptera. He
has himself, on certain most liberal conditions, deposited his
collections of diptera in the entomological department. Mr.
A. Agassiz has continued in charge of the echinoderms, and
has finished cataloguing the echini. He has added to his
department the greater part of the collection of echinoderms
made at the Philippine Islands by Dr. Semper.

Dr. Steindachner, who for more than two years has had
charge of the ichthyological department, has returned to
Vienna. The Museum loses in him an able and indefatigable
as well as devoted worker, who has done much towards
placing the most valuable, perhaps, of our collections in per-
manent safety.

The collections brought together by the Hassler Expedition
have been generally distributed to the several departments.
The principal addition made to our collections by donation,
is a magnificent collection of invertebrates from Mauritius,
sent to the Museum by Nicolas Pike, Esq., late consul of the
United States at Port Louis. An important collection which
it has been found necessary to suspend for the present, is a
collection relating to the domestic animals. Upon this work,

Prof. Wilder, of Cornell, and Prof. H. A. Ward, of Rochester,

1874.] SENATE—No. 200. 7

were engaged. Very instructive materials have already been
accumulated, much of which can be placed on exhibition at
once.

The materials of the Museum have been, as usual, freely
placed at the disposal of original investigators. The results
have either been published in the Museum publications or in
other scientific series. Prof. Smitt, of Stockholm, has com-
pleted his descriptions of the Florida Deep-sea Bryozoa, and
published the results in the Memoirs of the Stockholm Acad-
emy. Prof. Allman and Prof. Ehlers have both nearly finished
their reports on the hydroids and annelids of the Florida:
Channel for the Museum publications. To Prof. Kolliker
considerable material has been sent for his monograph on the
Halcyonarians.

In the entomological department Messrs. Cresson, Uhler,
Professors Frey, Zeller and Dr. Hagen have received assist-
ance from the Museum collections in preparing important
papers.

The Museum publications have been kept up with increased
activity. In the Bulletin, short papers have been printed
during the past year by Professors Allman, Hyatt, Messrs. _
Aller and A. Agassiz. To Mr. W.G. Binney the Museum is
indebted for the plate illustrating his communication.

Mr. A. Agassiz has published for the Museum, Parts I. to
III. of the Illustrated Catalogue, containing a revision of the
echini.

Mr. Bicknell has been mainly engaged in making sections
of crinoids, corals and mollusca.

Messrs. Reetter and Konopicky have been engaged in mak-
ing illustrations to accompany forthcoming publications of
the Museum.

In accordance with the wishes of Prof. Agassiz, a part of
his library (3,000 volumes) has been presented to the Museum
Library. ‘The remaining seven hundred volumes retained by
Mr. A. Agassiz have, together with his own library of about
twenty-five hundred volumes, been deposited in the Museum
Building. These important additions, with the books pre-
sented, from time to time, by Prof. Agassiz, will form, with
the existing library, an important nucleus for an excellent

8 - COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. —_—s[Apr.

natural history library, which will number about twelve thou-
sand volumes. |

It will hereafter be the main object of the committee of
the Museum appointed by the trustees, to see that the views
of Professor Agassiz so fully incorporated in the directions
he was accustomed to give'to his assistants* should be fully
carried out, and they hope.that his successors will faithfully
complete the plans laid out’with so much care and forethought
by the founder of the Museum. Thus only can they hope
to show to the public, who have thus far so generously aided
him, what his aims were, and to erect to him a monument
which will not only be a valuable historic record of the inter- .
pretation of nature by one of its most enthusiastic wor-
shippers, but a monument of a lifelong and disinterested
devotion to the best interests of science and of general edu-
cation. .

For the Museum Committee,

ALEXANDER AGASSIZ.

CAMBRIDGE, January, 1874.

* These directions will be printed in one of the forthcoming Museum Bulletins.

The reports of the assistants in charge of the various
departments are herewith submitted.

1st] SENATE—No. 200. | 9

Report on the Wieck: and Birds, by J. A. ALLEN.

The removal of the alcoholic specimens of mammals and
birds from kegs and barrels to copper cans, mentioned in the
last report as then in progress, was completed early in the
year, so that everything in the alcoholic series is now ina
safe and satisfactory condition. At the same time the cata-
loguing of the alcoholic birds and mammals was completed,
and the specimens systematically classified and arranged in
the most convenient manner for access. During the year the
labelling of the unmounted skins of both mammals and birds
has been finished, and the collection placed in systematic .
order. ‘The cataloguing of the collection of birds’ nests and
eggs has also ‘been completed. In this work important aid
was rendered by Mr. Ernest Ingersoll, whose time during the
past year has been almost wholly given to this work. The
labelling of the alcoholic collections is now in progress, as is
also the work of marking and cataloguing the osteological
material of the mammalogical and ornithological departments.
The alcoholic specimens and the skins may now be reported
as not only in a permanently safe condition, but as, in the
main, satisfactorily arranged for ready access for purposes of
study.

The most important additions to these departments.during
the past year, have been the collections received from the
Hassler Expedition, and a series of mounted skeletons and
casts purchased of Prof. H. A. Ward of Rochester, N. Y.
The former incltide about 250 human crania from Ancon, near
Callao, Peru; numerous skulls of Otaria and Arctocephalus ;
imperfect skeletons and skins of Arctocephalus and Auchenia,
and many specimens of both birds and mammals in alcohol and
skins. The alcoholic collection of birds includes over forty
penguins, of several species. One of the alcoholic skins of
_Arctocephalus Falklandicus has been successfully mounted by
Prof. Ward. Among the specimens purchased of Prof. Ward
are mounted skeletons of the giraffe, camel, lion, several spe-
cies of monkeys, and marsupials, of Castor, Hystrix, Bassa-
ris, Globiocephalus, Hydrocherus, Dasyprocta, Echidna, etc.,
and also of representatives of all the. principal families of

2

10 . COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. (Apr.

birds. The collection of mounted skeletons has been further
increased by the return of materials sent to Prof. Ward for
preparation. Mr. Kappeler has also added many fine casts
of rare or unique specimens of extinct mammals. To the
series of casts have been added by purchase casts of the
Glyptodon, of the remains of Sivatherium, of various species
of Hlephas, Mastodon, Rhinoceros, Bos, Castoroides. ete.

A portion of the cases in the large exhibition room having
been completed, the arrangement of the systematic collection
of mammals has been commenced, and in a few weeks will
doubtless be completed as far as our present limited space
will allow.

ADDITIONS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF MAMMALS.

By Donations.

AxaskKA Fur Company, five skeletons of Callorhinus ursinus, St.
Paul’s Island, Alaska.

ALLEN, J. A., three skulls of Cervus virginianus.

Bryant, Capt. Cares, four specimens of Callorhinus ursinus in
alcohol (8 quite young), from St. Paul’s Isl., Alaska.

Cuenery, W. W., Belmont, Mass., one donkey, in flesh.

Hasster Expeprrion, 60 specimens, 15 species, in alcohol; nu-
merous skulls and parts of skeletons of Otaria Arctocephalus,
Auchenia and of cetaceans; 250 human crania, from Ancon, near
Callao, Peru. ai

LinpDEN, CHARLES, two skins and several specimens in alcohol,
from Santarem, Brazil. is

Rocky Mounrarn Expepirion, two skins of Rocky Mountain
Goat (Aploceras montana), from Idaho Territory..

Scammon, Capt. C. M., Baleen plates of cetaceans of the Pacific
coast.

By Exchanges.

JrITTELES, Prof. L. H., one bat and one Putorius, in alcohol, from
Salzburg, Germany; skulls of Canis vulpus, Lepus timidus, Arvi-
cola amphibius, Scuirus vulgaris, Talpa europea, Vespertilio Dau-
bentoni, and casts of skulls of fossil Canis.

Marsu, Prof. O. C., New Haven, Ct., skeleton of Tapir.

By Purchases.
A large Ursus americanus, from Minnesota; skeleton of a fossil
elk, from ARCHIBALD Pripg. An extensive series of mounted skele-
tons and casts of fossils from Prof. Warp, and a few mounted skins.

&

1874.] SENATE—No. 200. 11

ADDITIONS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF BIRDS.

By Donations.

BLAND, oe New York, one Humming-bird.

Bryant, Capt. Cartes, one Golden eagle in flesh, shot in Fair-
haven, Mass., Nov. 21, 1873. .

Bucguin, A. L., South Adams, Mass., one white Leghorn cock.

Casot, W. R., Brookline, Mass., 71 skins, 62 species, 8 skulls
and sterna, from eastern Massachusetts.’

Ersecx, Dr. A. F., Warren Co., Mo., 9 specimens, 8 species,
from New Haven, Mo. |

Forrn, Marquis de, Bayonne, France, skins of Gallinago and
Numenius.

GRUHNER, Mrs., Concaptina, Chili, head of Albatross.

Hassiter Expepition, 80 skins, 35 species ; 22 dry eggs of Rhea ;
385 specimens in alcohol, 75 species, from various parts of South
America.

Hurcuins, J. C., U. S. Consul, Callao, Peru, 27 specimens (skins),
20 species, of Humming-birds, from Guayaquil.

INGERSOLL, Ernest, 154 specimens, 22 species, nests and eggs
collected at Norwich, Ct.

LINDEN, Cuartes, 210 specimens (skins), about 100 species,
chiefly from near. Santarem, Brazil.

Pike, Hon. N. , U. S. Consul, Mauritius, 7 skins of Phaeton, from
the Mauritius.

Scorr, W. D., Cambridge, Mass., 365 skins, 70 species, fiom,
various localities in Eastern United States.

Tripee, T. Marrin, 10 specimens of Junco; in flesh, from near
Denver, Col.

Wuirman, C. O., 7 mounted skins, 4 species, Penikese Isl., Mass.

YELLOwsTONE Expepition, (through Smithsonian Institution),
about 100 specimens, 40 species.

By Exchanges.

Kaup, Dr., 13 specimens, 12 species, from Pommern, Prussia.

Montes-pE-Oca, Rararet, 190 birds in alcohol, including about
100 Humming-birds, from Jalapa, Mexico.

Puiuiprl, Prof., Santiago, Chili, 6 skins, 6 species, Chili.

By Purchases.

69 specimens, 37 species, skins, from the Island of Tobago,
through Gov. R. W. Rawson; 26 mounted skeletons, from Prof.
Warp. A collection of nests and eggs and 32 skins, from Wis-
consin, and another collection of nests and eggs from Colorado,
through Dr. T. M. Brewer.

12 COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. Apr.

. Report on the Fishes, by Ricuarp Buss, Jr.

Since the publication of the last report, the work of trans-
ferring the alcoholic fishes in the cellar from kegs to copper
cans has been completed, and all of the Museum collection is
now contained either in glass jars or copper cans, numbered
and systematically arranged on the shelves of the fish cellar.

Dr. Edward Palmer of the Smithsonian Institution, has
recently gone over the whole collection of fishes in the
Museum, so that at present the collection is in as safe a con-
dition as is possible.

The Hassler, Brazilian and Garrett sdlidelkons were identi-
fied by Dr. Steindachner prior to his departure in June. I
have continued the work of identifying and cataloguing. In
this work I have been assisted by two special students,
Messrs. Murdoch and Brooks. Mr. Garman has been em-
ployed in carrying out the arrangement of the Selachians,
commenced under the direction of Professor Agassiz, who
had brought together a very extensive collection of that class
during the Hassler Expedition. <A student’s collection for the
benefit of those who desire to take a special course in Ichthy-
- ology has been commenced. This collection will embrace the
typical genera of each family, and certain jars of mixed speci-
mens for practice in determining generic and specific differ-
ences.

Among all the collections of fishes received during recent
years, none have exceeded in size and value that of the Hass-
ler Expedition of 1872. Embracing upwards of four hundred
species, many new to science, it includes representatives of
nearly all the marine fishes from New York to San Francisco ;
while in respect to the number of specimens it is only equalled
by that of the Thayer Expedition. Taken together these two ~
expeditions have given to the Museum a very complete rep-
resentation of the ichthyological fauna of South America.

The Museum is indebted to Hon. Nicolas Pike, United
States Consul at Mauritius, for several large and valuable
collections of Mauritian fishes, both dry and alcoholic. These,
in addition to former donations from Mr. Pike, make our
collection of fishes from the east coast of Africa remarkably
complete. A small but very valuable collection of fishes from

1874.] SENATE—No. 200. 13

Lake Baical, Siberia, has been obtained by purchase from
Mr. J. D. E. Schmeltz, Jr. From Dr. Francis Day we have
‘received a fine collection of types of his “Malabar Fishes.”
Mounted skeletons of fishes have been received from the
Vienna Museum; they have been on exhibition during the
past year. ,

The following additions have been received during the
year :—

By Donation.

HassLer Expepition, over 400 species and several thousand speci-
mens. |

Pike, Hon. Nicoras, three large collections from the Mauritius.

CaRLETON, Rey. M. M., a collection from Mooltan, Northern
India. ;

Lyman, THEODORE, 30 species, 200 specimens from Nice, France.

Snow, Rev. B.G., 35 species, 69 specimens from Strong’s Island,
Micronesia.

ELpErR, WILLIAM, 2 species, 18 specimens of Salmonide from the
Minas Basin, Nova Scotia.

Cotuns, G. H. and J. S., 5 species, 28 specimens from Omaha,
Nebraska.

Srurrevant, J. N., 10 species, many specimens from South
Framingham, Mass.

Warp, S8., 1 Tetrodon levigatus, 1 Micropogon undulatus, from
New York.

SUTHERLAND, J., 4 species, 4 specimens from Babylon Bay, N. Y.

PowE tL, S., 1 Ephippus faber, 1 Galeocerda arcticus, from New-
port, R. I.

Rocers, J., 7 species, 12 specimens from Wood’s Hole, Mass.

Crerk, A., 1 Caranx sutor, from New York, 3 Solea achirus,
from Port Monmouth, N. J.

Peirce, Pror. B. O., 1 Echeneis remora, 1 Tetrodon honckenii,
from the Pacific Ocean.

Assott, Dr. C. C., 10 species, 130 specimens from Trenton, New
Jersey. .

Jounson, Cart. P. C., and Pirxin, Dr. H. S., 39 species, 86
specimens from Honolulu and Hilo, S. I.

Ranp, , 3 species, 120 specimens from Lake Titicaca,
Peru.

CreEMAN, Tu. M., 8 specimens of Trichomycterus dispar, from
Oroyo River, 13,000 feet above the level of the sea; 4 specimens
of Haplochilus, probably a new species, from Chachuara, 8,000 feet
above the sea.

14 ‘ COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. [Apr.

By Exchange.
Day, Dr. F., 57 species, 60 specimens from Malabar, India.
Monrtes-pE-Oca,. RAFAEL, 10 specimens of Xiphophorus hellerii,
from Jalapa, Mexico.

: By Purchase.

Scumettz, J. D. E., Jr., 22 species, 44 specimens from Lake
Baical, Siberia. | .

Mitner, J. W., 30 species, many specimens from Sandusky,
Ohio. .

STEINDACHNER, Dr. F., a collection from San Francisco, Cal.

GREEN, SETH, several specimens and species from Western
New York.

By Purchase and Exchange.
Satmin, C. L., 79 species, 175 specimens from the North Sea
and the Elbe River.
Vienna Museum, 33 mounted skeletons.

Report on the Collection of Mollusks, by Joun G. ANTHONY.

During the present year considerable activity has prevailed
in this department, and much has been done to increase its
usefulness. |

During the earlier part of the year much attention was
paid to exchanges, and a vast amount of material was thus
added to our resources for augmenting the collection, and for
still further exchanges for future increase.

The number of packages received by exchange since my
last report has been twenty-eight, containing 3,266 species
and 37,717 specimens.

Our resources for exchanges have been largely increased
recently by the purchase of an extensive collection of shells,
made by the late W. Harper Pease, in the Pacific Islands.
This collection has only been in our possession for a few
weeks, and hence has been but partially examined, but even
that cursory examination has shown that besides adding sev-
eral hundred species to our collection, it will afford the means
of exchange, to a very great extent, by the large number of
duplicates it contains, especially of Partulas, Achatinellas
and other genera peculiar to the Polynesian group.

1874.] SENATE—No. 200. 15

Since the first of September, last, I have had the valuable
assistance of Professor Hamlin, late of Colby University, in
rearranging our entire collection of shells from the beginning.
Our progress has necessarily been slow, since much time has
been given to identification as a proper preliminary, and so
far scarcely a single species has been left without a name.

We have commenced, also, to arrange a series of useful
shells for supplying the several normal schools with the means
of instruction in our department, and hope to have them
ready by the close of the present year.

Among the boxes received during the year, was one from
R. McAndrew, since deceased, and it contained a very com-
‘plete series of the shells once belonging to W. H. Benson,
which, having been identified and named by him, possess
unusual interest, and many are his own species, and partake,
therefore, of the character of type specimens.

From Nicolas Pike, Esq., late U. S. Consul at Mauritius,
we have received, as usual, a large number of species and
specimens found in that region, and from no contributor have
we received more valuable or more desirable contributions.

Nearly all the other contributions were by exchange, and
have been duly paid for in the same manner. Among these,
however, we may mention one box of upwards of 500 species
from Polynesian localities, which was particularly desirable,
and renders our series from that quarter almost a complete
one. — nag ee

During the year we have sent.away, by exchanges, thirty-
seven packages, containing 4,647 species and 18,449 spec-
imens, leaving us indebted for only two parcels, received
within a month past.

The alcoholic mollusca have been in the charge of Mr. J.
H. Blake, who, with the aid of Dr. Palmer, las revised the
whole collection’, and has begun to arrange, systematically, ,
the whole collection for future convenience.

The large collection of cephalopods has been especially
selected for exhibition. The collection of eggs of mollusca
has been carefully examined, and is now in a good condition.

The most extensive invoice of alcoholic mollusca is that
of the Hassler Expedition.

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16 COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. — [Apr.

Report on the Articulates, by Dr. H. A. Hacen.

1. From Dr. C. A. Doury, in Stettin, Prussia, a large number of
named Coleoptera.—By exchange.
2. From Prof. L. Agassiz, Lepidoptera from Panama and
Acapulco, Mexico.—Hassler Expedition.
3. From Mr. Tu. L. Mean, of New York, specimens for the bio-
logical collection, Lepidoptera.—Presented.

4. From Mr. Fr. Sangsorn, Boston, specimens for the biological
collection.—Presented.

5. From Mr. H. J. Hussarp, Detroit, Mich., a large set of valu-
able biological specimens, all raised.—Presented.

6. From Mr. W. P. Austin, larvee of insects, from Utah.—Pre-
sented. 4

7. From Mr. Brann, New York, cases of Helicopsyche.—Pre-
sented.

8. From Mr. Rust, of steamer Lagos, a Mantis from Demerara.—
Presented.

9. From Mr. J. Saute, Woburn, eee ., insects for the biological
collection.—Presented.

10. From Mr. B. P. Mann, Cambridge, Mass., Cemostoma cofeella
for the biological collection.—Presented.

11. From Dr. Tu. F. Pertey, Naples, Me., a splendid lot of H.
Maja in all stages, from the egg to the imago; also rare Phry-

’ ganides from Maine.—Presented.

12. From E. Dryrorxe, Paris, France, a drains collection of
Longicorns Col., 4,500 species in above 7,000 specimens.—Bought.

13. From Mr. Pixs, U.S. Consul. at Mauritius, valuable insects.
—Presented.

14. From M. L. Lesqurrevx, Columbus, Ohio, insects from Ohio
in alcohol.—Presented.

15. From Rev. A. E. Eaton, England, 32 species of Ephemerina
in glycerine, types of his monograph.—Presented.

16. From Dr. Pitkin, U. S. Surgeon, Lepidoptera from Honolulu,
and Nicaragua.—Presented.

' 17. From Rev. M. M. Carteron, a very large collection of butter-

flies and other insects, dry and in alcohol, from Ambala, E. Ind.,

‘and from Koolloo, Sub-Himalya, above 10,000 specimens.—Pre-

sented.

18. From Mr. E. Konoricxy, insects from Montana, dry and in
alcohol.—Presented.

19. From Dr. H. A. Hacen, rare biological specimens from
several European museums.—Presented.

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20. Mr. W. M. Davis, from Cordova, Argentine Republic, an ex-
ceedingly rich and beautiful collection of insects of all orders, dry
and in alcohol, from Cordova.—Presented.

21. Prof. LL. Acassiz, insects of all orders, from Poe
Magellan Straits, Chili, Panama, Mexico,
Hassler Expedition.

22.. A large amount of insects in alcohol from joruieely arrived
collections now unpacked and distributed to the different depart-

ments.

23. From Dr. Lewis, Philadelphia, FA's sattaction of North
American Coleoptera, including the late Dr. Zimmermann’s collec-

ition from South Carolina, about 4,000 species named.—Bought.

24. From Mr. G. R. Crorcu, Coleoptera from San Domingo, 85
species; Australian Coleoptera including the aon Omma, 105
species.

25. From Mr. E. Scuwanrz, Breslau, Prussia, a set of rare Euro-
pean Coleoptera, 60 species.—Presented.

26. From a: H. Utxe, Washington, D. C., Coleoptera from
Alaska named, 7 species.—Presented. .

27. From Baron von Osten-Sackxen, Cambridge, North American
insects, some rare species.—Presented.

28. From Mr. T. Hensuaw, Cicindela Puritana and various
Dytiscidze.—Presented.

29. From Mr. P. S. Spracur, Boston, Mass., North American ©
Coleoptera new to collection, 4 species,—-Presented.

30. From Mr. J. Diwmock, Cyllodes and Donacia new to collec-
tion.—Presented.

31. From Mr. W. P. Austin, Cambridge, Mass., Brathinus new to
collection, 4 species.—Exchanged.

32. From Rev. M. M. Carreron, a very large collection of
butterflies from Ambala, Kooloo and Yalloree Pass (about 12,000
feet), above 10,000 specimens ; also Coleoptera and Hymenoptera
in alcohol.—Partly bought.

33. From 8S. W. Garman, Cambridge, Mass., a collection of
fossils from Humboldt River.—Presented.

34. From Dr. H. Hacen, Prussian amber, a large collection con-

cerning the different varieties of the amber and fossil remains con-

tained in amber ; also samples of the different strata, wherein amber
is found and paleontological remains of the strata; also a set of
amber from Sicily.—Deposited.

30. Insects in alcohol collected at Penikese Island in the
summer term.

36. From Mr. C. 8. Mryot, Boston, Mass., a collection of
Neuroptera and Hymenoptera from Massachusetts,—Presented.

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18 COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. [ Apr.

37. From Mr. R. L. Davis, Newtown, England, a set of prepared
European caterpillars and other objects for the biological collection,
above 100 specimens.—Bought. __

38. From W. C. Brecurer, New York, Coleoptera collected ,at
Fort Bridger, 300 specimens.—Presented.

39. From 8S. H. ScuppEer, Cambridge, Mass., Pseudoneuroptera
and Neuroptera from-the White Mountains.

Miss Harris and Miss Clark worked through the year in the
department, spreading about 4,600 butterflies and labelling
insects, and arranging Coleoptera for the collection. —

Mr. W. J. Hubbard, Mr. C. S. Minot, and Mr.’ A. Sher-;
rif worked through the winter and spring in the department,
partly for the collection, partly for their own instruction.

Exchanges are made chiefly with the naturalists publishing
materials belonging to the collection, and with several ento-
mologists in the United States and Europe.

The arrangement of the collection was carried on in an ex-
tensive way for the biological collection only, now far the
largest existing. It was the chief subject for study in my
voyage during the last summer. Several important collections
of this kind, bought by Prof. L. Agassiz, are very soon to
arrive. |

Since November Mr. G. R. Crotch has taken charge of
the Coleoptera. The mounting and arrangement of the large
Pacific coast collection, made by himself, is completed. To
accomplish this extensive work, the whole time of gentlemen
and ladies in the department was given. In the beginning of
March, Mr. Crotch was obliged to leave the Museum on
account of his poor health.

Mr. E. Schwarz, from Breslau, has been working since De-
cember in the department, has mounted the Pacific coast
collection, and arranged a large amount of alcoholic vials for
the biological collection. His collections of winter insects
for the Museum, around Cambridge, has given the surprising
number of about 400 species, mostly Microcoleoptera, a
number of them new for the North American fauna, even
several new genera.

Mr. Faxon has taken charge of the Crustacea. He has been
mainly occupied in making preparations illustrating the struc-

1874.) SENATE—No. 200. 19

ture of the class, and a good number of excellent prepara-
tions are already on exhibition. :

Our collection of annelids still remains abroad in the hands
of Professor Ehlers, but he is making good progress with
them, and in the meantime they could not be in better hands.

Report on the Paleontological Collections, by O. St. JoHN.

On the removal of the Paleontological collections to the
attic, occasion was taken to bring the invertebrate fossils into
more convenient general order, with especial reference to the
periods and epochs which they represent, and in a general
way their distribution has been further carried into classes
and subordinate groups; this arrangement extending through
the entire collection, from the Primordial to the Tertiary, in-
clusive. Some conception of their extent may be formed
when it is understood that they are contained in above three
thousand trays.

All vertebrate fossils, so far as they have been eliminated
(and, it is believed, little of this material remains in the col-
lections referred to above), have been transferred to the
charge of Mr. Allen. In like manner, the fossil fishes have
been collected together in the same room; so that, at the
present time, with the exception of the comparatively small
number of these remains now on exhibition, probably nearly
all the resources of the Museum in this department are lodged
in the same apartment and readily accessible.

Special work has been performed on the Devonian and Car-
boniferous divisions, and in the latter the final arrangement
of the Lamellibranchiata has been carried to an advanced
stage, and at this date the class is nearly ready for the exhi-
bition cases. In the progress of the work, much has been
_ accomplished towards preparing the other classes for a similar
disposition. In these two great periods, therefore, the col-
lections are ready for the more critical work of identification
and preparation for exhibition. I have been assisted by Miss
Cutler and Miss Atkinson in the prosecution of the work in
this department.

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During the past season, under the auspices of the Museum,
a critical examination of the stratigraphy of our carboniferous
formation was begun, with the view of determining the char-
acter of the physical conditions which prevailed during their
deposition, and how and to what extent these influences
affected the life of the successive epochs. Through the interest
of Mr. W. C. Van Horne, to whom our best acknowledgments
are due for the large understanding and aid which he so gen-
erously contributed towards furthering the undertaking, the
work was commenced in the St. Louis division of the Lower
Carboniferous, embracing a thorough study of the formation in
the environs of St. Louis, where it presents its typical devel-
opment and where especially favorable facilities are afforded
for its investigation. The result of the season’s exploration
was the acquisition of a valuable collection, presenting almost
a complete representation of the life-history of that particular
sub-epoch, exhibiting the chronological relations of the fossils
and many important facts bearing on their faunal association.
These collections are at present in process of arrangement,—
the method adopted intending to show the stratigraphic distri-
bution of the species. It may be added, that, a full record
of the operations of the survey was made, of which a com-
plete copy has been deposited in the library.

Accessions to the collections, extending back two years,
comprise the following :— rape

Leo LEsQuEREUX, Jr., a specimen of Conocardium from the Devo-
nian, Columbus, Ohio. , ; ;

E. A. Srrone, in exchange, miscellaneous fossils from the Upper
Helderberg of New York, and a collection from the Lower Carboni-
ferous formation of Michigan ; in all, 31 species and 175 specimens.

Wma. Exper, a slab specimen with crustacean trails, carboniferous
of Nova Scotia.

Capt. A. M. Harrison, U. S. Coast Survey, shells from bedch
deposits, Florida.

Prof. N. S. SHaxer, miscellaneous fossils, Post-tertiary, Martha’s
Viney ard.

Dr. G. A. WILLIAMS, in exchange, a fine collection of carbonifer-
ous fossils, comprising about 135 species and 2,500 specimens, from
the vicinity of Boonville, Missouri.

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Rozgt. Drinkwater, 65 specimens of English coal-measure fossils,
including some very interesting fish-remains.

J. M. ALLEN, in exchange, 25 specimens of Dictyophyton, from
the Chemung of New York.

W. R. Limpert, 20 specimens, representing 10 species of creta-
ceous fishes and molluscs, from Central Kansas.

O. Sr. Jonn, four cases of miscellaneous fossils, from the Creta-
ceous, Upper and Lower Carboniferous and Devonian formations,
Western States.

By Purchase.

Mr. Cuartes Wacusmutn, the magnificent collection of fossil
crinoids, the result of fifteen years’ arduous research, together with
‘a miscellaneous general collection of foreign and American fossils.

C. D. Watcorrt, a collection of Lower Silurian fossils, including
a valuable collection of Trenton Trilobites, from Trenton Falls,

New York.

Ricuarp Ratruewun, local collection of the fossils of the Hamil-
ton and Chemung formation, Central and Western New York.

Professor Hyatt has been engaged in arranging the collec-
tion of fossil Cephalopods.

Dr. Maack, who has had charge of the Fossil Vertebrates,
died during the last summer, from disease contracted while in
the Isthmus of Panama. His attainments in his special de-
partment were very considerable ; by his devotion to his work
he was gradually bringing the collections under his care into
excellent order. By his untimely death the Museum loses an
efficient ally.

22 COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. | (Apr.

Bias dead
In fElemory of
PROFESSOR ACASSIZ.

_ A meeting of the Trustees of the Museum of Comparative
Zodlogy was held at the council chamber at the state house on
Wednesday, December 24. His Excellency Governor Wash-
burn presided, and the Hon. Martin Brimmer presented the
following Resolutions :— ,

Resolved, That we desire to record our sense of the irreparable
loss which the Museum has to bear in the death of Louis Agassiz,
who conceived the plan of it, who made the first gift which led to
its foundation, whose thought directed its whole organization, and
whose enthusiasm, kindling the public feeling, created all its re-
sources.

Resolved, That much as we value his scientific achievements, we
value even more the disinterested devotion to science and education,
the high and broad aims and the generous sympathies which gave
him such beneficent power as a teacher and a man, and the fine
nature which made every one who knew him his friend.

Resolved, That the president of the Board be requested to send a
copy of these resolutions to the family of Mr. Agassiz, in testimony
of our sympathy and sorrow.

Governor WasuHsBurn then spoke as follows :—

Whether these Resolutions ought to be adopted without any
remarks of my own or not, I have but a simple word to offer,
and that is that I feel that the relations of Professor Agassiz
to the Commonwealth were such that we meet with an irre-
parable loss by this sudden stroke which has fallen upon us;
that it is not simply the position which he occupied as the
manager and the head of this institution, but the position
which he occupied was such that a gap has been made which
it seems to-day impossible to fill. I feel that the influence
which he has exerted in almost every department of science,
and particularly with reference to his own branch of the agri-
cultural institutions of this State, gave such impetus as we

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cannot expect to derive from any other source, and that his
influence and the power and honor which he conferred upon
those institutions and the State to which he belonged were
not by any means confined to our own domain, but extended
throughout the country, so that he was recognized as the
leading scientific man of the land, and perhaps few in the
world would be considered his equal, and if any are con-
sidered his superiors I do not know who they are. Certainly
we have felt that the work he has done for us was most valua-
ble; but I wish to say, in relation to the passage of these
Resolutions, that, as an individual, I have learned to admire
the energy and strength and the enthusiasm which he brought
to bear to all the subjects to which he gave attention. Asa
representative of the State I feel that a blow has come upon
us, and to-day we cannot see how it is to be obviated and
who is to fill the great gap which has been made.

SPEECH OF Hon. GEorRGE B. LoRING.

Mr. Presmpent :—I feel grateful to the accident of this
public station, for the opportunity it affords me to contribute
to the universal and world-wide expression of eulogy and
sorrow at the death of Agassiz. ‘The unbounded recognition
of his greatness, the deep lament caught up where he died
and borne by the circling hours around the globe, the rever-
ent tribute to his genius, the affectionate tribute to his great
love, all belong to that spontaneous outburst of grief and
adoration which mankind always bestows upon the great and
good. For ourselves, however, we have a closer duty to per-
form, a tenderer feeling to express, 2 more intimate relation
to recognize, a more sacred obligation to obey. When the
great naturalist passed away he -left in our hands the monu-
ment to his genius still incomplete, to the erection of which
he devoted the best years of his life, the best powers of his
mind and body, and around which centered his highest hopes
and aspirations. He made great contributions to science,
roused the cultivated thought of his day, opened many new
paths to knowledge, explored and completed many old ones,
was a great investigator and a great interpreter ;—but it was
in the Museum of Comparative pe that he proposed to
learn and record the profound lesson of creation, which he

24 COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. .~ [Apr..

gathered from the “heavens above, and the earth beneath, and —
the waters under the earth.” His designs with regard to this
institution were not only that it should be the largest and
most complete collection of the kind in the world, but that it
should be the most significant ; not only the most amazing to
the common eye, but the most conclusive and instructive to
the eye of science ;.not only the most carefully arranged, but
the most expressive and striking record ever made of the
processes pursued by an All-wise Creater in his handiwork.
With this masterly design. of Agassiz we have all been more
or less intimately acquainted,—some permanently, others
temporarily ; some through the medium of large liberality,
others by means of civil position; some from the initial step
all through its fascinating and radiant progress, others for an.
hour in the fullness of its prime; but all in such manner as
to know the ecstatic enthusiasm, the majestic intellect, the
untiring force, the keen perception, the vast memory, the
sweeping gaze, the almost divine comprehension, which the
great master brought to his work—and the gentle, and affec-
tionate, and elevating, and purifying influence which he exer-
cised over those who were fortunate enough to be connected
with him in his lofty service. ‘To be deprived of Agassiz as
an official associate is a grievous loss; to resign him also as a
friend and companion, is a deep and overwhelming sorrow.
When Agassiz came to this country, to commence this work,
which he has so sadly and so prematurely laid down, he
brought with him a contribution to American institutions
which has never been equalled. He came from the intimate
companionship of Cuvier, and Oken, and Martius, and D6l-
linger, and Schelling, to whom, as his teachers, he had
already, while a youth, opened his “little academy” at Mu-
nich, and with whom he established an early rivairy in rapid
investigation and analysis. He had been inspired by the
companionship of the great Humboldt, with whom he soon
learned to keep pace in the breadth of his survey, and the
grandeur of his explorations. His unanswerable arguments,
based on the glacial movements, had arrested the attention
of the scientific world. He brought with him all the scientific
honors of Europe; a member of the Academy of Sciences in
Paris; of the Royal Society in London; a recipient of the

1874.] SENATE—No. 200. 25

Monthyon prize, the Cuvier prize, the Wollaston Medal from
the Geological Society in London, and the Medal of Merit
from the King of Prussia. He brought with him the blood
of the Huguenots, and a character moulded under the influ-
ences of a Protestant clergyman’s home in the rural simplicity
and purity of the valleys of Switzerland.

He came here as a popular lecturer. The two first insti-
tutions which extended their hands to him were the Lowell
Institute and the Salem Lyceum—the former having invited
him hither with the temptation of its ample endowment,
and the latter having enlisted his services with that spirit of
earnest inquiry which had opened its doors to every pro-
gressive thinker from the day of its foundation. This was
his temptation here, and this his patronage.

We should remember, sir, that when this great man turned
his attention hither, he was familiar with the encouragement
lavished upon the great scientists of Europe. He had seen
Goethe provided with honor and royal companionship by the
Duke of Weimar, under whose genial influences he had found
time to develop his great scientific theory of the unity of
structure in the bony frame of all the vertebrates, and to lay
the foundation of the morphology of plants. He had seen
Humboldt almost overladen with the means of pursuing his
scientific travels and investigations by the crowned heads of
Europe, and at last raised to diplomatic honors by the King
of Prussia. He had witnessed the distinctions lavished upon
Cuvier, made Councillor of State, by Napoleon; royal com-
missary, by Louis XVIII.; Chancellor of the University,
member of the French Academy, Grand Master of the
University, baron, by Louis XVIII. ; President of the Coun-
cil of State at the coronation of Charles X.; grand officer
of the Legion of Honor; and Peer of France. But he knew
also that Goethe, in his genial, active, useful and distin-
guished of old age,” wailed like a distracted woman when
Napoleon approached Weimar and “spitefully used” Charles
Augustus; and that he afterwards accepted Napoleon’s flat-
tery and the cross of the Legion of Honor, because the great
conqueror had given Werther seven imperial readings. He
knew that he himself had corrected many of the errors of
Cuvier’s classification, based on the invariable character of

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anatomical structure ; because Cuvier, of whom it is said that
he was “the best of men, the most brilliant of writers, the
soundest of thinkers, the most far-sighted of philosophers,
the purest of statesmen, and the greatest naturalist of mod-
ern times,” grew dogmatical under the adulation of court life.
And he found it necessary, later in life, to apologize for the
bad taste of Humboldt who, while holding a place in court at
Berlin, “ criticized and satirized severely everything connected
with it.” The patronage, the splendors, the titles, and the
temptation of courts were all before him and within his reach,
when he came to America as a popular lecturer, educator and
investigator.

Now, sir, we are all grateful for the scientific wealth which
Agassiz brought to our shores, and lavished upon our people.
We admire the imperial march of his mind through all the
realms of philosophical knowledge. We accept the cosmical
laws which he found written all over the earth’s surface by
the moving glaciers; we follow his classifications, which
pointed out to each animal group its place in creation, and
made zodlogical order out of speculative and _ theoretical
chaos ; we are subdued into entire submission by that mental
power which could arrange the long and intricate and half-
hidden record of paleontology, and point out where this ends
and anatomy begins, in the great continuous line of a fossil
and living animal kingdom. The rapid and patient industry
to collect facts—the grasping and judicious comprehension to
classify them—the lofty survey which deduces the general
law,—who can measure the scientific genius of him who pos-
sesses all these faculties in healthy combination? These
Agassiz had, and more. | .

When he assumed the duties of a popular teacher, he also
took upon himself the duties of a learner—an untiring,
honest, unassuming searcher after truth. To secure knowl-
edge was his first impulse; to convey it, the next. _He was a
good teacher of youth, because he felt that every scholar had
a right to demand of him a thorough knowledge of what he
taught, and because he knew how to draw from the humblest
something worth adding to the store which he already pos-
sessed. He took part in public education, not because he felt
the high importance of what he was to bestow, but because

1874. | SENATE—No. 200. 27

he had an irresistible impulse to join hands with all who were
pursuing the paths of knowledge, and because he felt that his
own enthusiasm might operate as a new incentive to his asso-
ciates. Whoever has listened to his conversation with those
who surrounded him at agricultural and educational assem-
blies, must have been struck with the prominence which he
gave in his own inquiries for the views and opinions of others,
even of those who hung upon his lips, eager for the knowl-
edge which he might impart. And so he encouraged every
effort after knowledge ; was impatient of a pretence—but was
warm-hearted and paternal towards a genuine effort and a
reality ; was grateful to the farmer who stated a fact in em-
bryology drawn from observation; rejoiced over every suc-
cessful endeavor of the agricultural college ; could travel side
by side with the humblest explorer; and could at a moment’s
warning, with a wealth of knowledge and a fervid eloquence
unequalled, sweep away the fallacies of an antagonist. He
was indeed the genius of a scientific American ; for whether
engaged in the most elaborate investigations at the Museum,
or in discussions before the board of education, or in a popu-
lar lecture, or in a thousand-times debated question in the
board of agriculture, he always displayed the same modesty,
the same desire to learn, the same vast knowledge, the same
fascinating power of conveying his knowledge to others. The
influence of this unceasing effort and this manifold faculty it
is difficult to estimate. But we do know that he engrafted
science upon our republic, put it into all our colleges, intro-
duced it in familiar form to our people, gave existence to
scientific schools everywhere, sent his pupils into every
corner of our land, brought its mysteries into our schools,
brought the spirit of our rulers up to a just appreciation of its
life-giving influences, and taught the world that the tribute
which an educated people are ready to bestow upon their
great teachers and guides, cannot be eclipsed by the patron-
age of kings.

But there are those who cannot forget the influence which
Agassiz exerted by the force and quality of his character
alone. Actuated by high motives himself, he always appealed
to the high motives of others. He expected to be forgiven,
and so he was always ready to forgive. He carried with him

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an elevating and refining and cheering influence and an over-
flowing sympathy with his friends in all their joys and sor-
rows. His countenance beamed with the light of triumphant
endeavor, and with the warmth of a kind and generous and
understanding heart.

Carlyle says of Goethe: “A French diplomatic personage
contemplating Goethe’s physiognomy, is said to have ob-
served: ‘ Voila un homme qui a eu beaucoup de chagrins.’”
But no man could say this of Agassiz. His countenance bore
the marks of many joys. The calmness of great faith resting
on great knowledge; the consciousness of duties well per-
formed, of inquiries honestly made, of investigations candidly
pursued, of a purpose based on honor and right, of a desire
to shed light upon the faith of man, of a fraternal regard for
all the sons of men, of a belief in right as superior to author-
ity, of a lofty recognition of the grandeur of truth when
compared with the glittering accidents of life,—this gave him
an inspiring force and a charm which will never: be forgotten
by those who enjoyed his teachings. I dare not speak of my
own loss, but I may urge upon this board a faithful observ-
ance of the duties which the great founder of the Museum has
imposed upon it. And believing as I do, sir, that the Reso-
lutions express not only the sentiments of every gentleman
present, but also those of the great body of lovers of sound
learning throughout. the world, I trust they will be warmly
and unanimously adopted.

The Resolutions were adopted by a rising vote, and the
meeting adjourned.

1874.] SENATE—No. 200. 29

[C.]
TRUSTEES OF THE MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY,

1874.

THE GOVERNOR OF THE COMMONWEALTH,
WILLIAM B. WASHBURN.

THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR,
THOMAS TALBOT.

THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE,
GEORGE B. LORING.

THE SPEAKER OF THE HoUvsgE,
JOHN E. SANFORD.

THE SECRETARY OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION,
JOSEPH WHITE.

THE CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME JUDICIAL CouRT,
HORACE GRAY.

THEODORE LYMAN. ALEXANDER AGASSIZ.
NATHANIEL THAYER. JAMES LAWRENCE.
SAMUEL HOOPER. SAMUEL ELIOT.

MARTIN BRIMMER.

OFFICERS OF THE MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY,

1874.

His Excellency W1LL1AM B. WASHBURN, Governor of the Commonwealth, Presi-
dent.

THEODORE LYMAN, Treasurer.

MartTIN BRIMMER, Secretary.

SAMUEL HooPrER, JOSEPH WHITE, NATHANIEL THAYER, JAMES LAWRENCE,
Committee on Finance.

ALEXANDER AGASSIZ, SAMUEL ELIOT, THEODORE LYMAN, Committee on the

Museum.

30. COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. — [Apr. ’74.

A) PP ING Dia:

The following sums have been subscribed for the Museum
in addition to the regular income in 1872-1873 :—

Alex. Agassiz and Q. A Shaw, land on Oxford

Street, . j wo) OSL wel
Alex. Agassiz, for Bupiionngn ae 7,796 13
$17,110 84
In 1873,—
State grant (conditional on same amount being
raised by the Museum), . ; ; ; sola 25,000 00
Subscriptions in 1873,—
Former pupils of Prof. Agassiz Young Ladies’
School, . : : 3 . $4,060 00
Cash from friend, : : : 5,500 00
Q. A. Shaw and Alex. eae 6,937 20
Alex. Agassiz, for publications, etc., . ; ; 10308 57
Mrs. G. H. Shaw, ; : : } ; ; 5,000 00
Martin Brimmer, : ; : : 2 ; 2,000 00
| 33,798 77
Donation of Quincy A. Shaw May, 1873, . oy gh ade ok OG ta

Total for 1872-1873, . , . $175,909 61

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