Annual report of the trustees of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, at Harvard College, in Cambridge : together with the report of the director, 1865.

  • Museum of Comparative Zoology
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1866
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Credit: Annual report of the trustees of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, at Harvard College, in Cambridge : together with the report of the director, 1865. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [A.] • SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT Of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, at Harvard College in Cam- bridge, Massachusetts, By Alexander Agassiz, Assistant in Charge. As the report of the Museum Committee to the Trustees, together with the action of the Board of Trustees relative to the expedition now collecting in Brazil, is printed with this Report, it is hardly necessary for me to do more than allude again to the munificent aid given by Mr. Nathaniel Thayer to the Director of the Museum, for the purpose of jnaldng a thorough scientific survey of certain parts of Brazil, with the view not only of advancing the interests of the institution, to which he has been such a generous friend, by adding the immense collections to-be brought together to our stores, but also in the hope of giving Professor Agassiz larger materials for the solution of problems with which he has been identified from the commencement of his scientific career. How far the aim of the expedition is likely to be accomplished can be gathered from the statements presented by the Museum Committee concerning the progress of the Thayer Expedition; since that period later advices from Professor Agassiz show that he has been eminently successful in making collections, as pre- vious to his ascent of the Amazons no less than seventy-five bar- rels and boxes had been filled and were awaiting shipment at Rio Janeiro, Bahia and Pard. The unprecedented facilities offered to the expedition by the Brazilian government, as well as by the steam-boat and railroad companies, will contribute largely to its success and to the accumulation of collections. The Amazons Navigation Company, by placing a steamer at the disposal of Professor Agassiz, will enable him to make an exhaustive ichthyological survey of the Amazons and its tribu-