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REPOKT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1915. 



Buchanan, Miss Mary S. — Continued. 

 President Zacliary Taylor, illustra- 

 tive of the costumes worn at the 

 White House during her father's ad- 

 ministration (1849-1850), consisting 

 of a dress and kerchief of sage-green 

 silk grenadine with border of Scotch 

 plaid in colors, trimmed with moss 

 fringe, a collarette of white lace and 

 black ribbon-velvet, a pair of black 

 silk mitts, and a fine linen handker- 

 chief with the name " Betty " em- 

 broidered in one corner (57687: 

 loan). 



Buckingham, Mrs. E. H., Chevy 

 Chase, Md. : A New Zealand carved 

 paddle (58336: loan). 



BxjLKLEY, Hon. Robert J., Cleveland, 

 Ohio: Nest of a hornet (58240). 



BiJLL Valley Gold Mines Company, 

 Salt Lake City, Utah (through Mr. 

 Victor C. Heikes) : A specimen of 

 gold in calcite (58382). 



Burke, J. J., Cloverport, Ky. : Wheel- 

 bug, Arilus cristatus (57467). 



Burt, Miss Elizabeth B., Washing- 

 ton, D. C. : A sextant and a survey- 

 or's compass (58359: loan). 



Busck, Augltst, Bureau of Entomol- 

 ogy, Washington, D. C. : Skull of 

 spotted cavy, Cuniculus, and skin 

 and skull of monkey, Cehus, from 

 Panama (58237). 



BuscK, Wilhelm. (See under George 

 Chestnut. ) 



Bush, B. F., Courtney, Mo. : 290 speci- 

 mens of plants from Missouri 

 (57140; 57960). Purchase. 



BusHNELL, Mrs. Belle, Washington, 

 D. C. : A porcelain match box with 

 bust of Benjamin Franklin on the 

 cover, from Paris, France (57850). 



Calcutta, India. (See under Indian 

 Museum. ) 



California Academy of Sciences, 

 San Francisco, Cal. : 452 specimens 

 of plants from California (57924; 

 58461). Exchange. 



California Asbestos Company, San 

 Francisco, Cal. : A 10-pound speci- 

 men of asbestos (57832). 



California, University of, Berkeley, 

 Cal. : 5 specimens of plants from 

 California (57715) ; fragments of 6 

 types of phanerogams, Chenopodia- 

 ceae and Amaranthaceae (57745) ; 

 a composite skeleton and 3 skulls 

 and lower jaws of Pleistocene dogs 

 from the La Brea, Cal., asphalt de- 

 posit (58435). Exchange. 



Callender, Miss A. B., Middlebury, 

 Vt. : 22 specimens of sedges, Carex, 

 from Vermont (57956). 



Cameron, H. F., Zamboanga, P. I.: 

 Photograph of a shark, RMnodon 

 typicus, caught in a trap on the 

 coast of the island of Cebu (58457). 



Cameron Machine Company, Brook- 

 lyn, N. Y. : A series of specimens 

 showing the various kinds of mate- 

 rials and shapes of packages pro- 

 duced by the Cameron slitting and 

 rewinding machine (58024). 



Camp, R. D., Brownsville, Tex. : Rep- 

 tiles, batrachians, mammals, a mol- 

 lusk and an insect, from Texas 

 (58170; 58337). 



Canada, Biological Board or. Pacific 

 Coast Station, Nanaimo, British Co- 

 lumbia (through Mr. C. McLean 

 Eraser) : 2 specimens of crinoid, 

 Florometra serraUssvma, collected 

 at Nanaimo (58500). 



Canada, Geological Survey of, Ot- 

 tawa, Canada (through Dr. E. M. 

 Kindle) : 23 species of marine shells 

 from the coast of Nova Scotia 

 (58165). 



Canal Zone, Board of Health Labo- 

 ratory, Ancon (through Dr. S. T. 

 Darling) : 9 snakes from Panama 

 (57554). 



Canfield, F. a., Dover, N. J. : A speci- 

 men of roepperite in weathered 

 manganocalcite, from Sterling Hill, 

 N. J. (57888). 



Cannon, Prof. George L., Denver, 

 Colo, (through Dr. O. P. Hay) : 36 

 bones of Pleistocene mammals 

 (57963). 



Cape Town, Union of South Africa. 

 (See under South African Museum.) 



