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EEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1915. 



Bethel, Prof. Ellswoeth, Denver, 

 Colo. : 3 specimens of ferns from 

 Colorado (57320). 



BEUTENirtrLLEK, "WuxiAM, New York 

 City : 8 cotj-pes of gallfly, Rhodites 

 calif orn icns ( 57799 ) . 



Bezzi, Prof. Dr. M., Turin, Italy: 86 

 named adults of European, African, 

 Indian and Philippine muscoid flies, 

 together witli pupse of three species 

 (58062: exchange). 



BrBD, Henry, Rye, N. Y. : Paratype 

 each of moths, Papaipema humili 

 and P. silphii (58465). 



Birdseye Marble Company, Salt Lake 

 City, Utah: 2 polished slabs of 

 marble and 8 pieces in the rough 

 (57539). 



Blanchard, C. H., Salt Lake City, 

 Utah : Gold slide for watch guard. 

 Presented in 1862 by Capt. (after- 

 ward Gen.) Philip Sheridan, U. S. 

 Army, to Miss Kate E. Houghton, 

 who later became the wife of the 

 donor, Mr. Blanchard (57685). 



Blodgett, Mrs. Harriett E., Brock- 

 port, N. Y. : 2 bedspreads, made dur- 

 ing the early part of the 19th cen- 

 tury (58478). 



Bloss, Mrs. Frederick S., Troy, N. Y, : 

 An oil painting (.57620: loan). 



Blossburg Coal Company, Scranton, 

 Pa.: A lump of coal (57908). 



Blumenthal, Sidney, and Co., Inc., 

 New York City : 10 specimens of 

 cloaking and upholstery plushes 

 (57751). 



Boblett, Sam, Prescott, Ariz. : Teeth 

 of an extinct species of American 

 Pleistocene horse (57954). 



BoERiCKE, Harold, Vanadium, Colo, 

 (through Mr. Frank L. Hess) : 

 Roscoelite vein and sandstone from 

 Primos Chemical Company's mine, 

 San Miguel County, Colo. (58316). 



Bolton, Theodore, Washington, D. C. : 

 Korean horsehair hat and hatbox 

 (57304: purchase) ; 11 specimens of 

 halftones and rapid rotary intag- 

 lios from The Illustrated London 

 News (57864). 



BoNSALL, The Misses Ethel, Sarah 

 W., Elisabeth F. and Mary W. 

 (through Miss Elisabeth F. Bonsall, 

 Philadelphia, Pa.) : Relics of their 

 father, Amos Bonsall, a member of 

 the Second Grinnell Expedition in 

 search of Sir John Franklin, 1853- 

 1855, under the direction of Dr. E. 

 K. Kane (58128). 



BooNE, Miss Pearl L., U. S. National 

 Museum : 14 species of Miocene fos- 

 sils and 12 species of land and ma- 

 rine shells, from near Wicomico 

 Church, Va. (57457) ; about 100 

 .specimens of crustaceans, ascidians, 

 annelids and mollusks, from the west 

 coast of Chesapeake Bay, Northum- 

 berland County, Va. ^57804). 



Bordeaux, International Marine 

 Exposition of, 1907, Bordeaux, 

 France: Diploma awarded to the U. 

 S. National Museum in recognition 

 of its exhibit at the Exposition 

 (57393). 



BoYCE, A. L., New Dorp, Staten Island, 

 N. Y. : Specimen of " robber fly," 

 Erax sp. (57180). 



Boyd, Mrs. M. E., South Hanover, 

 Mass. : 28 kinds of modern laces 

 (58399: loan). 



Bradley, William, and Son, Long 

 Island City, N. Y. : 31 samples of 

 foreign and domestic marbles 

 (.58501). 



Beandegee, T. S., University of Cali- 

 fornia, Berkeley, Cal. : 32 specimens 

 of ferns from Mexico (57735) ; 205 

 specimens of plants collected in 

 Mexico by Mr. C. A. Purpus (58217: 

 purchase). 



Brassexie, Charles L., Orange, N. J. : 

 2 color-photographs on ruled-screens 

 (58334: loan). 



Bratjn, Miss Annette F., Cincinnati, 

 Ohio : 65 Microlepidoptera, includ- 

 ing cotypes of some new species 

 (57895). 



Breton, Miss Adela C, Philadelphia, 

 Pa. : A hand-colored engraving of a 

 mural painting of lower part of roof 

 (vault), south end of Inner Cham- 

 ber, Temple A, Ball Court, Chichen 

 Itza, Yucatan, Mexico (58033). 



