70 REPORT OF NATIONAL .MUSEUM, 1892

Colorado.

— From

Mr. T. Charlton, Denver, w.eie received three teeth of extinctllama (Auchenia hesternd),

From

Mr.

Thomas

II. Jackson,

West

Chester, Pa.,

was

obtained, by purchase, a set of eggs of the white-railed ptarmigan [Lagopus ten- dinis).

Mr.

W. W.

.Jones, Silver('lift', presented specimens of cerussite and nadorite with cerussite.

From

Mr. S.

Ward

Loper, F. S. Geological Survey, were received specimensof

banded

jasperfrom

Canon

City.

Dr.William L. Ralph, Utica,N. Y.,presented two skins of saw-whet owl (Nyetala acadica),a flammulated screech owl (Megascops jiammeo-

lus), and a woodpecker (Dryobates villosits hyloscopus).

Maj.J.

W.

Powell, director ofthe U.S.Geological Survey, transferred tothe

Museum

minerals and rock showing" slickensides, collected

by

Prof. S. L. Penfleld.

Connecticut.

—

^Mr.S.

Ward

Loper, U. S. Geological Survey, presented aspecimen of angite rock from East Bock, and sent in exchange two slabs of shalewith rain-printsfrom

Durham.

From

Prof. William .North Rice,

Wesleyan

University, Middletown, werereceived rocks

and

ores in exchange.

The

Singer Manufacturing

Company,

Hartford, transmitted an old- styleSinger sewing machine,

and

one of the latest style of manufac-

ture.

District of Columbia,

—

^{Mrs. S. S.}

Cox

deposited the memorial vase presented to her

by

the

members

of the Life Saving Service of the United States in

commemoration

of the services of thelate S. S. Cox.

From

Mr. H.

W. Henshaw, Bureau

of Ethnology,

was

receivedafine set of

mounted

herbarium plants, representing the fauna Quercus, Aster,

and

Solidago, forming a very complete

and

valuable addition to thecollection.

From

Gen.

M.

C. Meigs, through his executors,

Montgomery

Meigs

and Mary M.

Taylor, werereceived medals, bronzes, and otherhistori- cal relics.

A

full description will be found in the accession list, Sec*

tionv.

A

revolving rifle of very early pattern, invented about 1835,

made

atBochester,

by

Billiughnrst,seven colored sketches, andtwenty- three pencil sketches

had

been previously transmitted

by

General Meigs.

Dr. E.

W.

Shufeldt,U. S.

Army, Takoma

Park, transmitted a model of a fossilbird,Archceopteryxmacrura,from Solenhofen, Bavaria.

Mr. CharlesAY. Richmond, ofthe

Department

of Agriculture,trans- mitted 3,000 birds' skins.

Florida.

— ^The

Florida Phosphate

Company.

Phosphoria. transmitted samplesof phosphate rock from variouscounties.

From

Dr. E.

M.

Hale, Chicago, 111,

was

received a snake, Osceola elapsoidea.

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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM,

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Mr. Alexander Lynch, President of the Bloomfield Kaolinand Phos- phate Works, Gainesville, sent specimensof kaolin.

From

Dr. William L. Ralph, Utica, N. Y., was received a

mounted

wolf, Canislepus griseoalbus.

From

Mr.

De

Witt

Webb,

St. Augustine, werereceived archaeologi- calobjectsfrom shell-mounds.

Mr.G-eorge Webster,

Lake

Helen, transmitted specimens^ofland

and

fresh-water^shells.

Georgia.

—

^Mr. J. C. Hart, Onion Point, through Mr. J. L. Black, Blacksburg, S. ^('., transmitted specimens ^of magnetic ores from the line ofGreen County.

From

the U.S.Geological Survey,through

Mai.

I.

W.

Powell, director, were received specimens^ofminerals.

/^//^>.—Maj. J.

W.

^Powell, director of the U. S. Geological Survey, transferredto the National

Museum

minerals collected by ^Dr.

W.

H.

Melvillein Mullan.

Illinois.

—

^{Mr. ().} Chanute, Chicago, presented a collection ofantique patterns ofrail-sections, maps,

and

other objects.

Indian Territory.

—

^{Mr.AY. H.}Holmes. U.S. GeologicalSurvey,trans- mitted 3 rudeimplements ofnovaculitefrom an ancientIndian quarry.

Indiana.

—

Mr. Frederick C. Test, U. S. National

Museum,

presented reptilesand batrachians.

From

Mr. Benjamin Vail,Washington. D.

C.

was received a trilobite

found 3miles west ofAurora.

Kansas.

—

Maj.J.

W.

Powell, director ofthe U. S. Geological Survey, transferred to the

Museum

specimens ^{of minerals from Galena,col-} lected

by

Dr.

W.

P. Jenney.

Kentucky.

— From

the V. S. Geological Survey, through Maj. J.

W.

Powell, director,

was

received a specimen ofchalcedony.

Louisiana.

—

^Mr.T.

Wayland Vaughn,

Mt. Lebanon.Bienville Parish, presented freshwatershells representing 11 species.

Maine.

— ^From

^theForest

^and

^{Stream Publishing}

^{Company, New York}

City,

was

received the head

and

tail of an Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) from the

mouth

of theCabbassacontic River, sent

by

Mr.

John

T. Richards, Gardiner, Me.

From

Dr. A. C. Hamlin, Bangor, were received in exchange 10 cut specimens oftourmaline

and

19 samplesof red

and

green tourmaline.

Dr.

W.

P.Jenney, TJ. S. Geological Survey, transmitted a specimen ofkyanite from

Windham.

Maryland.

— From

Mr.

James

E.Benedict, National

Museum,

were receivedspecimensof Gelasimus inma.c.

From

theLife-Saving Service.Treasury Department,

was

received a skeleton of Physeter macroeephalusjuv., from

Green Run

^{Inlet Life-} Saving Station, collected

by Cap

t. J. J. Dunton, keeper; also arare specimen of fossil crab, sea-horses and specimens of quartz, obtained

in the same manner.

OF

From

Air. L. G. Eakins, of the Geological Survey, was received a specimen ofnative goldin quartz from

Potomac Mine

Montgomery.

Mr. C.

W. Richmond

transmitted a

marsh hawk

[Circus hudsonius), and a long-eared owl (Asio wikonianm).

Massachusetts.

—

^{Prof. William North Rice, Wesleyan} University, Middletown, Conn., transmitted rock and ores in exchange.

Michigan.

—

Mrs.

M.

L. Narrin, Goodrich,transmitted specimensof serpentinequartzite.

Air. George

W.

Webster,

Lake

Helen, Fla..sent ^!» species ofland and freshwater^shells.

Minnesota.

— From

the Bureau ^of Ethnology, through Maj. J. AY".

Powell, director,

was

received a collection of birch-bark scrolls

and mnemonic

songs, obtained

by

Dr.

W.

J.

Hoffman

during tin' years 1887-88, ^'89 and '90, relating tothe ritual of the Society of Shamans, usually designated the ^'•

Grand

.Medicine Society.^1'

Missouri.

— From

the F. S. Geological Survey, through Maj. -I. \V.

Powell,director,werereceived mineralscollectedby Dr.YY. P.Jenney, in Aurora, Joplin and Sherwood.

Montana.

— ^From

^{Prof. B.}

^{W. Evermann,}

^{of the U. S. Fish}

^Commis-

sion, were receivedtwo specimens of

Anabrus

simpler IIaid., collected at Missoula.

From

the Fish Commission, through Col. Marshall .McDonald, com- missioner,

was

receivedacollection of reptiles

and

batrachianscollected

by

the Commission in 1891,

and

specimens of iishes, including a

new

species, collected during the

summer

of L891, by a Fish Commission party underthedirectionof Prof. B.

W. Evermann.

Air. C. H.

Hand,

of Butte, transmitted through Messrs. Packard and

Alelville, of the V. S. Geological Survey, a specimen of granite with native copperoxide, from Pice's Addition Mine.

From

Prof.A. D. Meeds, Universityof Minnesota, Minneapolis,

was

received anexceedingly fineslab of stone from the Fort Union

Group

of southern Alontana, bearing the impression of eight fossil leaves,

among them

a Populus,

new

to science.

Mr. R.S. Williams,Great Falls, transmitted the nest

and

four eggs of (reothhipis macgillivrayi,

and

nest

and

three eggsof Empirfonax_fla

virentris, bothof which arerare

and

valuablespecies.

Nevada.

— From

Mr. Walter F.AVebb, Geneva, 1ST. Y., were received 15 eggs(5 sets)of Larus Cali/or ulcus from

Pyramid

Lake.

Nebraska.

—

^Prof. Robert Hay, of Kansas, sent a block ^of standstone from the sandstone

dyke

in northeast Nebraska.

Maj. Powell, director of theU. ^S. Geological Survey, transferred to the

Museum,

the tootli of a specimen of

Petalodm

destructor, a carbon- iferous selachian, collected by Mr.

David

A. Harrah.

New

Hampshire.

— From

Mr. H. P. Sharpless, Boston. Mass.. were received two specimens of columbite from Wakefield.