Mr. CRESWELL. Idesiro to say a very few words in support of this proposition. This collection has been an exhibition for the benefit of the Agricultural Dept for more than ten years past, and at the session of 1855 56 an appropriation of $10,000 was made to purpose but a portion of it, that portion of it which includes the birds. Gentlemen seem to regard this appropriation as something entire y unworthy of the consideration of the Senate. On the contrary, I have a very different opinion. It is not a collection of two headed calves and monstrosities generally, but it is a, scientific collection, arranged with the utmost care after a protracted life of hard work. Mr. Glover is a gentleman of acknowledged high position as an entomologist. He is acting in that tenacity in the employment of the Agricultural dept. He' was tor many years preceding his engagement there employed in the Agricultural College of Maryland). of his life to making this collection, an it is of the utmost practical utility, in my estimation. He arranges all substances that come within the scope of his investigations in a manner that will lead to the dissemination of the most valuable information. For instance, he takes up the subject of flax; he collects every specimen grown in the U.S or elsewhere; he arranges them aecordingto their proper names, and on he accompanies each with a card giving all the information he has been able to collect upon the cultivation of flux, its application to certain climates, the effects of certain soil upon it; he then gives all the products from flax and all the practical uses to which it can be applied. The object of his collection is that, upon application to the Dept, any person who may desire information upon any subject can be immediately referred under his arrangement to the matter upon which he desires to become conversant, and can there find in a very few moments all the information which the Dept has been able to collect on that subject. During the last 5 or 6 years his collection has been of great use in that way, and gentlemen have derived from it certain information that they could not collect, perhaps, underyears of labor elsewhere. His collection now occu ies 2 rooms of the Agricultural Bureau. this designed to form the nucleus of a grand museum ofagricultural and economic subjects; and I think, with my limited knowledge of the question, that no more appropriate expenditure could be made with reference to that Dept. It seems to me that it is only a modicum of what is due to the great interest of agriculture.