DONATIONS TO MUSEUM. J 



Donations to Museum. 1859. 



Jan. 4th. Horns of the Rocky Mountain Sheep. Presented by Dr. T. G. 

 Richardson. 



A collection of Lizards and Serpents from Honduras. Presented by J. S. 

 Hawkins and J. L. LeConte, M. D. 



A collection of Reptiles from the Isthmus of Panama. Presented by Dr. 

 John Gallaer. 



Cones of Pinus pungens. From the Alleghany Mountains. Presented by 

 W. Parker Foulke. 



Jan. 11th. Canis occidentalis, Meles labradorica ; 30 skins, 25 species, 

 Birds. New Mexico. Presented by T. Charlton Henry, M. D., U. S. A. 



Nyctea nivea. Berks county. Presented by Dr. Bertholet. 



Two Numulites. Gizeh, Egypt. Presented by J. A. Slack. 



Three Palseotrochus, Emmons. Montgomery county, N. C. Three speci- 

 mens of Pyrophylite. Orange county, N. C. Presented by S. B. Buckley. 



Feb. 1st. Fine mounted specimen; the famous trotting Horse "Edwin 

 Forrest." Presented by James Hammill. 



An Emys, from Honduras. Presented by J. S. Hawkins and Dr. J. L. Le 

 Conte. 



Feb. 8th. Nearly entire lower jaw, fragment of the cranium, atlas, axis, 

 astragalus, and head of os femoris, of the extinct Hippopotamus of Europe ; 

 five bones of the extinct Horse, and one bone of the extinct Ox. Presented 

 by Isaac Lea. 



A collection of fossils from the permian and carboniferous rocks of Kansas, 

 described in the recent papers of Messrs. Meek and Hayden. Obtained by 

 purchase with part of the subscription fund of Messrs. T. B. Wilson, Joseph 

 Leidy, Joseph Jeanes, Thomas Harris, Isaac Lea, and Joseph Harrison. 



Specimen of elastic Marble. Pittsfield, Mass. Presented by T. B. Wilson. 



Two specimens Cursorius isabellenis. Africa. Presented by W. S. Vaux. 



Sternum and trachea of Grus americana. St. Simon's Island, Ga. Presented 

 by P. B. Wilson. 



Specimens of Bursatella and larvse of a Myrmeleon. From the coast of 

 Florida. Presented by P. B. Wilson. 



Three Cymothoa. Gulf of Spezzia. Lieut. Geo. H. Hare. 



Two vertebrae of Priscodelphinus. Miocene, New Jersey. Vertebra of 

 Carcharodon. Green Sand, New Jersey. Presented by Mr. W. M. Gabb. 



Skull of an Apache child ; do. of an Utah Indian girl ; 2 do. of Moqui 

 Indians. Presented by Dr. J. Letterman, U. S. A. 



Sixty species of plants collected in Wisconsin. Presented by T. A. Lapham 

 through Mr. Durand. 



March 1st. Tooth of Lamna, and a fossil shell. Piece of brown Coal. 

 From Switzerland. Presented by Mr. F. Dimpfels. 



Fragments of Sandstone, from Connecticut, with obscure vegetable remains. 

 Presented by Miss Mary Powel. 



Two specimens of native Copper. Portage Lake, Lake Superior. Two spe- 

 cimens of Mice. Lake Superior. From B. A. Hoopes. 



March Sth. Two Lesbia Gouldii. New Granada. Presented by J. C. Traut- 

 waine. 



Kinosternum Henrici, Le Conte. Gila river, New Mexico. Presented by 

 T. C. Henry, U. S. A. 



Gar Fish, Lepidosteus bison ? Caught in the Delaware river at Bombay 

 Hook. Presented by Mr. Andrew Vanderslice. 



