REPORT OF CURATOR AND LIBRARIAN. 



I have to report the following additions to our Association dur- 

 ing the year 1884: 



One specimen of silver ore from St. Nicholas mine, Mexico. 



Three specimens of copper ore. 



Specimens of fossils, chiefly Brachiopoda, probably of Silurian age. 



Specimen fossil leaf and shells, from Piatt Canon and Greeley, 

 Colorado. 



Specimen natural brick and porcelain or baked clay from Bad 

 Lands, Dakota. 



Specimen of actinolites. 



Specimen of Schistose rock. 



Some 150 specimens from line of Union Pacific railroad, pur- 

 chased for the Association by Rev. J. H. Chapin. 



Specimens of fossil fish from Middlefield, Conn. 



Four volumes of Astronomical papers of The American Ephemeris. 



Three volumes United States Geological Surveys. 



One volume Geology of the Comstock Lode. 



Transactions of Vassar Brothers' Institute, 1883-1884, Vol. 2. 



Annual Rej)ort of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution, 1882. 



Two volumes Government Atlas of the Comstock Lode and Washoe 

 District. 



ROBERT BOWMAN, 



Curator and Librarian. 



