Report of the Naval committee to the House of representatives, August, 1850, in favor of the establishment of a line of mail steamships to the western coast of Africa, and thence via the Mediterranean to London; . Nearly all the largerorders were represented, forming, upon the whole, a verygood generic collection. A few eggs and nests were taste-fully arranged in the lower compartments of several of the birds were correctly named. In this hall werealso several mamme-ls and a few cases of insects. The next hall was devoted to Anthropology. Herewas a case of skulls (casts), showing th
Report of the Naval committee to the House of representatives, August, 1850, in favor of the establishment of a line of mail steamships to the western coast of Africa, and thence via the Mediterranean to London; . Nearly all the largerorders were represented, forming, upon the whole, a verygood generic collection. A few eggs and nests were taste-fully arranged in the lower compartments of several of the birds were correctly named. In this hall werealso several mamme-ls and a few cases of insects. The next hall was devoted to Anthropology. Herewas a case of skulls (casts), showing the form of thehead of different races; a case containing pieces of tannedhuman skin, and several alcoholic specimens of humanfoeta; two cases of human skulls with a few photos, show-ing types of Mexican natives; a skull in a case showingdifferent parts, a very good skeleton, and two mummies. In the next hall, beyond, was exhibited a fairly goodcollection of reptiles, fishes, etc. This collection wasrepresented by a number of alcoholic and stuffed I saw better stuffed fishes than are to be seen in manyof our museums in the United States, The alcoholic collection was very neatly and tastefully. ANTIQUITIES. 97 arranged. In the central cases were a number of exoticshells, mostly wrongly named. The hall devoted to theMollusca and lower invertebrates was in the worst conditionof all, as regards naming. In the Mollusca such errors asthe following were common: Cyp. talpa for C. exanthema. Murex erinaceus M. salleaniis. inflatns M. ramosus. <? haustellum M. brajidaris. triqueter M. erinaceus. The most ludicrous error was the following, in whichMurex brassica was named for a bivalve, Phina shells were wholly without systematic arrangement,bivalves and univalves being mixed in hopeless remainder of the collection consisted of mountedcrustaceans, sea-urchins, star-fishes, corals, and alcoholicspecimens of the lower types. In one of the cases was
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