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[[underlined]] United States [[/underlined]]
Missouri. 2
New Mexico. 8
Oregon & Washington 15
Platte River region 2
Rocky Mt. region 3
Texas 15
Upper Missouri region 11.
Utah 4
Wisconsin. 6.
Wyoming. 6.
Yellowstone River region 3
[[strikethrough]] Central [[/strikethrough]]

[[underlined]] British America [[/underlined]]
British America (including Canada &c) 25
Greenland 2

[[underlined]] Central and South America. [[/underlined]]
Amazon river region 2
Bolivia 1
Cuba 1
La Plata 1
Lower California 1
Mexico 7
Panama 2
Paraguay 3
[[end column]]
[start column]]
[[underlined]] Central and South America [[/underlined]]
Peru 1
West Indies 1

[[underlined]] Europe [[/underlined]] 
Denmark 1
England 2
Europe generally 5
Scotland 1
Switzerland 2

[[underlined]] Asia [[/underlined]]
Java 1
Siberia 1

[[underlined]] Africa [[/underlined]]
(none.)

Australia
(none.)

[[underlined]] World at large [[/underlined]]-
Collections of the U.S. Exploring Expedition.

[[underlined]] Miscellaneous [[/underlined]]
North Atlantic Ocean 1
Pacific Ocean 1
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By the assembling of so many collections from North America it is not surprising that the museum found itself in possession of a remarkably [[strikethrough]] full [[/strikethrough]] complete representation of the [[strikethrough]] fauna of the [[/strikethrough]] mammalian fauna of the continent.  "Thus of the known species of North American vertebrates," writes the Curator [[strikethrough]] in [[/strikethrough]] (now Secretary) as early as 1855, "there is scarcely one not already in our possession, while of nondescripts we have scores.  Among the mammals alone it is probable that the final result of a critical examination of the specimens will be the addition of over fifty species to the 

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