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DONATIONS TO MUSEUM 



In May and June, 1853. 



May 3d. 



Sixty-one specimens of woods, fourteen of birds, and a small collection of 

 shells, echinoderms and insects, from Texas. Presented by Dr. G. Engelmann, 

 of St. Louis, Missouri. 



Dryinus nasutus, Madras. Presented by F. Brown, Jr. 



Mounted skeleton of the great extinct Irish elk, (Megaceros hibernicus.) De- 

 posited by Mr. John Abell, of Limerick, Ireland, through Peter Wright & Sons. 



Fifty specimens of carboniferous fossils, from Greensburg, Penn. Presented 

 by Dr. A. T. King, through Mr. Cassin. 



Tyrannus nepeto ; Molothrus sericeus, from Lima, Peru. Presented by Mr. 

 Joseph A. Clay. 



Crystalline slag, from an anthracite iron furnace. Presented by Prof. S. S. 

 Haldeman. 



A large collection of marine shells from the coast of Lower California. Pre- 

 sented by Dr. A. L. Heermann. 



May 10th. 



Impressions of Encrinites, from Hampshire Co., Virginia. Presented by Dr. 

 Chas. Carter, through Dr. Bridges. 



The entire Anatomical Collection of the late Dr. Samuel George Morton, con- 

 sisting of 867 crania of Man, 601 crania of the inferior animals,* and all the osteolo- 

 gical, mummified and other specimens heretofore deposited in the Museum of the 

 Academy, and now presented by the following named gentlemen : Chas. Henry 

 Fisher, Thos. Biddle, Dr. Chas. D. Meigs, Henry J. Williams, Thos. T. I.ea, 

 John Farnum, John A. Brown, Wm. Welsh, Dr. George B. Wood, J. Francis 

 Fisher, David S. Brown, John B. Meyers, Lewis R. Ashhurst, Caleb Cope, 

 Richard D. Wood, J. Pemberton Hutchinson, Morris L. Hallowell, Joseph D. 

 Brown, William Piatt, Joseph Swift, Singleton A. Mercer, A. J.Lewis, Geo. W. 

 Carpenter, John Price Wetherill, John Cook, John Lambert, Robert Pearsall, 

 Joseph S. Lovering, J. G. Fell, Caspar W. Pennock, Samuel V. Merrick, James 

 Dundas, Henry Pepper, Richard Price, John Grigg, Joseph Jeanes, T. P. Rem- 

 ington, Henry Seybert, Thos. McEwen, Robert Swift, Jacob G. Morris, and 

 Wm. S. Vaux. 



May 24tk. 



Larus occidentalis, from Texas, and four eggs of the same. Presented by 

 Dr. Heermann. 



Leopardite . Presented by Mr. A. Jessup. 



Bubo virginianus (mounted.) From Mr. Jas. Mears. 



Two specimens of Exogyra costata, from the Chesapeake and Delaware canal. 

 From Mr. George Ord. 



Jtc7ie lAtk, 



Fossils from a Prairie, Tippecanoe Co., Indiana. Presented by Dr. C. D. 

 Meigs. 



Five coal fossils, from the South Joggins, Nova Scotia. Presented by J. W. 

 Dawson, Esq., of Pictou. 



Living specimen of Phrysonoma cornutum, from Texas. Presented by G. 

 W. Pagt^, Esq. 



A collection of Reptiles. From Dr. Rand. 

 - A collf^ction of S'V-'nty Mammal and Bird Skins from California and Oregon, 

 presented by Col. Geo. A. McCall. as follows : 



Mammals: Sciurus Douglasii, Tamias Townsendii, Spermophilus Douglasii, 

 Geomys rufe-cens, Lepus artempsia. 



Birds : Hypotriorchis columbarius, Tinnunculus sparverius, Elanus leucurus, 



Catalogue. 3d edition, Philada., 1849. 



