f========+================================================= |Number of species in the collection. | +------------------------------------------- | |Of which there are new to California. | | +------------------------------------- | | |Believed to be new, or undescribed. | | | +----------------------------- Class. | | | |Other Californian species | | | |not yet collected. | | | | +----------------------- | | | | |Total number credited | | | | |to California. | | | | | +----------------- | | | | | |Of which there | | | | | |are found east | | | | | |the Mississippi. ---------+-----+-----+-------+-----+-----+----------------- Mammalia | 32 | 10 | 3 | 45 | 77 | 14 Birds | 170 | 28 | 4(?)| 150 | 320 | 141 Reptiles | 36 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 45 | 0 Fishes | 58 | 16 | 16 | 75 | 133 | 0 Mollusca | 335 | 123 | 123 | 65 | 400 | 0(?) ---------+-----+-----+-------+-----+-----+----------------- Of Articulata and Radiata no statistics can be given for want of works especially devoted to the California species. From this it appears that, notwithstanding the large collections made by Government expeditions and by individuals, during the last ten years, which have been elaborately described in the Pacific Railroad and Mexican Boundary Reports, the Smithsonian publications, and various other works, we have been able to add materially to the known Fauna of California, and of the country at large, even among the highest and best known classes. Arrangements have been made for having the collections in natural history referred to the highest authorities in each branch, and portions of our materials have already been placed at the disposition of eminent men in Europe and the United States for examination and description.