1886.] 



NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 393 



Asa Gray. 43 species of plants collected in British America by J. M. 

 Macoun ; 65 species collected by Gaumer at Cozumel I., on the coast of 

 Yucatan; 88 species from Northern, Western, and Central Asia and 

 Japan, by various collectors ; 76 species, mostly from Northern Africa 

 and Asia ; 52 species, mostly from Porto Rico. 



Isaac C. Martindale. Dalea plumosa Wats., new species from Chihuahua, 

 Mexico. 



Geo. Vasey. U. S. Department of Agriculture. 233 species of North 

 American grasses, many of them new. 



Thomas Meehan. 55 species of plants, mostly cultivated, and many of 

 tliem new to the collection. 



Thomas Meehan and John H. Redfield. 308 species of plants collected by 

 Dr. E. Palmer, inS. W. Chihuahua, Mexico, Aug.-Nov, 1885 ; 315 species 

 of South African plants, collected by Miss M. E. Cummings. 



Helen C. De S. Abbott. Trunk of Fouquiera splendens, from Lake Valley, 

 New Mexico. 



Mrs. E. H. Williams. 18 species of Chilian plants. 



F. W. Harvey. 18 species of plants from S. W. Arkansas. 



Thos. C. Porter. 24 species of plants from New Jersey and Pennsylvania. 



Joseph Leidy. Omitliogalum nutans, Wissaliickon, Phila., Garden scape. 



John W. Eckfcldt. 19 species of N. Ameiican Lichens. 



Miss Harrison, through Mrs. M.L. Owen, Springfield, Mass., Myriophyl- 

 lum Mppuroides Nutt. , from California. 



Isaac Burk. 4 species of New Jersey plants. 



H. C. McCook. Agave Sisalana, fine living plant in flower, from Florida. 



Josiah Hoopes. Flowers, leaves, and ascidia of Nepenthes distillatoria. 



Miss Fisher. Polygala incarnata, near Charleston, S. C. 



John H. Redfield. 402 species of plants collected by C. G. Pringle in 1885 

 in the border provinces of Mexico, mostly in Chihuahua ; 55 species, 

 mostly from Washington Territory and California ; 76 species from the 

 coast of New England ; 86 species, mostly southern and western, to 

 supply desiderata in the collection. 



Plants (Fossil). W. D. Hartmann. Fern (?) stems from the Triassic of 



Pennsylvania. 

 F. L. Harvey. Whittleseya micropliylla, sub-Carboniferous of Arkansas. 

 A. F. Gentry. Quatenary leaf im])ressions, Bridgeton, N. J. 

 S. D. Button. Plant impressions {Vexillumf), from the Devonian of the 



Catskill Mountains, N. Y. 



Minerals and Rocks. H. N. Dubois. Gibbesite. Poughkeepsie, N. Y. ; 

 Slickensided Medina sandstone, Delaware Water Gap, Pa. 



C. H. McCormick. Zoisite, Leiperville, Pa. ; kyanite, Chester Co., Pa.; 

 peacock-coal, Philadeliihia, Pa. 



J. D. Button. Sider te nodule, Sligo Junction, Pa. 



W. W. Jeflferis. Smithsonite, Mineral Point, Wis.; sphalerite, Joplin, 

 Mo.; bioiite, Delaware Co., Pa.; phlogopite, Burgess, Can.; moonstone, 

 Delaware Co., Pa.; euphyllite, Unionville, Chester Co., Pa.; selenite, 

 Lebanon Co., Pa.; aurichalcite, Laurium ('?), Greece; chesteitite, Ches- 

 ter Co., Pa.; siderite and hematite, Antweri), N. Y. 



J. T. Morris. Boulders from the Muir Glacier, Alaska ; garnet schist, 

 Stickeen River, Alaska. 



T. D. Rand. Concretionary weathering in gneiss, Radnor, Pa.; tiaji, 

 Radnor, Pa. 



S. Durliorow. Ferruginous earth, Bartram, Fla. 



H. Derousse. Rock from McElwain's oil well, Duke Centre, Pa. 



M. Hannah. Irish turf. 



W. B. Eltonhead. Limestone, N. C. 



