1886.] NATmiAL SCIENCES OP PHILADELPHIA. 391 



ADDITIONS TO THE MUSEUM. 



Archaeology and Ethnology. Stuart Wood. Lapp baby-basket. 

 AV. S. W. Ruscbenberger. Spear-bead from Zanzibar, obtained in 1835. 

 Adele M. Fielde. Product from the silk-gland of Cecropia, Swatow, China. 

 W. H. Jones. Collections of Peruvian pottery, Esquimaux implements, 



shoes, fur suit, etc. Indian mask and figure-head, Alaska. 

 J. Collins. Shells from Indian mound, Tennessee. 



Mammalia. "W. P. Gibbons. Sciurus fossor, Thomomys talpoides from 



California. 

 M. Mattson. Lynx, Colorado. 



Birds. S. M. Brice. 81 North American birds, principally from the 



neighborhood of Philadelphia. 

 W. P. Gibbons. 5 species of California birds. 

 A. J. Garrett. Grex Tabuensis if), Pacific Islands. 



Eeptiles. W. W. .Tefferis. Vertebrae of snake. 

 H. C. Chapman. Bothrops airox, Martinique. 



Fishes (Recent and Fossil). A. S. Rowan. Vertebrae of Portheus (?), 



Cretaceous of Fort Randall, Dakotah. 

 A. M. Smith. Dicerobatis Japonica. 



"W. E. Meek. Petromyzon (male and female), from Cayuga Lake, N. Y. 

 W. P. Gibbons. Two uteri of viviparous fishes. 

 J. D. Casey. CarcJiarias Americanus, Townsend's Inlet, N. J. 



Mollusca. Wm. G. Binney. Helix HemphilU, Oregon ; PlanorUs Ucari- 



natus, N. Mexico ; Helix Cantiana, Quebec ; three species of Land 



Shells from the New Hebrides, Tennessee and Lower California ; Pom- 



jyholix costata, Oregon. 

 John Brazier. Twenty-eight trays of Land Shells from Australia and 



New Guinea. 

 C. Conemenos. 497 trays of land, fresh-water and marine shells from 



Greece and the Mediterranean Sea. (Pu.rchased by the Conchological 



Section. ) 

 William H. Dall. Operculum of Fasciolaria princeps. 

 M. Dollfus. 277 trays, Mediterranean shells, principally from the coast of 



France, at Roussillon, etc. (Purchased by the Conchological Section.) 

 Harry E. Dore. 26 species California marine shells. 

 John Ford. 3 marine species, Atlantic City, N. J. ; Ostrea horealis, Lam., 



Greenwich Bay, R. I. ; Area pexata, Say, Atlantic City, N. J. ; Ostrea 



Viiginica, Area pexata and Modiola tulipa, from Cape May, N. J.; nidus 



of Natica, and variety of Mactra aolidissima, Atlantic City, N. J. ; Helix 



hyroides and Succinea obliqua, Wissahickon Creek, Philadelphia ; Area 



pexata, Greenwich Bay, R. I. 

 Andrew Garrett. 96 trays of land, fresh-water and marine shells, mostly 



of the Society Islands ; 69 trays of Polynesian shells, 228 specimens. 



(The above both purchased by the Conchological Section.) 

 Wm. D. Haitman. Photographs of three new species of Partula; Veroni- 



cella Moridana, in alcohol. 

 Theodore Hermann. Five specimens of Spondylus princeps and 8. leuca- 



cantha from the Gulf of California ; Eburna lutosa, China. 

 Angelo Heilprin. Spondylus princeps, Var. 

 W. W. Jefferis. Vermetus lumbricoides, Florida, 

 Joseph Leidy. Modiola modiola, Kennebunkport, Me. 

 Wm. G. Mazyck. Helix terrestris, Charleston, S. C. (naturalized). 



