The Central Pacific R. R. California.

The Pennsylvania Diamond Drill Company.

The Wisconsin Geological Survey, through Mr. E. T. Sweet. The Pacific Guano Company.

The Kentucky Geological Survey, through John R. Proctor, Secretary of the Survey.

Tennessee Centennial Commission, through Gen. J. T. Wilder. The Land Department of the Little Rock and Fort Smith R, R. The Selma, Rome and Dalton R. R. Alabama.

Some minerals also were purchased at favorable rates of Mr. Herbert R. Saunders and of Prof. A. E. Foote.

The most important addition to the mineralogical collections made during the year was in the purchase of the entire cabinet collection of Mr. Geo. F. Kunz, of Hoboken, N. J. This has not been received yet at the University, and is not enumerated in the following catalogue. In general it embraces a complete set of zinc and iron ores, and species, so far as they can be got in the locality of Franklin and Ogdensburg, N. J.; also a collection prepared by the late Charles Clifton, for Owen's college, England; also a general series of mineral species in excess of the foregoing zinc and iron compounds amounting to at least 125 species, with many duplicates. Fifteen boxes of this collection have been received. There are still about twenty more. No systematic attempt has been made to catalogue the zoological specimens. The following is a list of the geological and mineralogical specimens so far as they have been examined and labeled: