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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1915. 



MOSHANNON COAI- MINING COMPANY, 



Osceola Mills, Pa.: A lump of coal 

 (57910). 

 MosoNYi, Emilio, San Salvador, Cen- 

 tral America : Large jade ax from 

 Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, Central 

 America ; small stone chisel from 

 Ahuachapan, San Salvador ; and a 

 clay figure from Tepecoyo, San Sal- 

 vador (58276). 



MoxLEY, Geokge L., Los Angeles, Cal. : 

 50 specimens of plants from Cali- 

 fornia (58112; 58492). 



MoYEK, William J., Grand Junction, 

 Colo. : A specimen of carnotite and 

 1 of lignite partially replaced by 

 carnotite, from Grand County, Utah 

 (57901). 



Muck, Charles, Pasadena, Cal. : 3 

 specimens of aluminium-bearing min- 

 eral (58297). 



Munkoe, Miss Phoebe, New York 

 City (through Mrs. Julian James) : 

 AVidow's cap worn during the '80s 

 (57443). 



Murie, O. J., Portland, Oreg. : Ba- 

 trachians — Syla regilla, Rana au- 

 rora and Biifo woodhousei, from 

 Oregon (58270). 



Murk, H., Lillooet, British Columbia, 

 Canada : 25 Jurassic fossils from 

 British Columbia (57623). 



Murphy, D. J., American consul, Am- 

 sterdam, Netherlands (through Bu- 

 reau of Fox-eign and Domestic Com- 

 merce, Washington, D. C.) : Speci- 

 men of vegetable fiber, kapok, Ceiba 

 pentandra (57265). 



Musselman, M. E., Milton, Pa.: Luna 

 moth, Tropcea luna (57416). 



Myers, Mrs. Olive B., Thurmont, Md. : 

 Brocaded Chinese robe made for Em- 

 peror Hein Fung and taken from 

 the Yuen-Ming- Yuen, Pekin, when 

 that palace was destroyed by fire in 

 1860 by order of the English and 

 French allies (58429: loan). 



Nassau Stamp Company, New York 

 City : 116 United States postage 

 stamps of the issues of 1847, 1851, 

 1857, 1861, 1862, 1867, 1869, 1871, 

 1873, 1875, 1879, 1883, 1887, 1890, 



Nassau Stamp Company — Continued. 

 1895, 1898, 1901 and 1907, special 

 printings of 1875 and 1880, and post- 

 age due, departmental and news- 

 paper stamps (57517) ; 39 stamps of 

 the United States and Puerto Prin- 

 cipe (57675) ; 1,143 United States 

 stamped envelopes (57885) ; 389 

 foreign stamps, mostly 20th century, 

 French, Portuguese and Spanish 

 Colonies (58126) ; 19 United States 

 stamped envelopes and carrier 

 stamps (58132). Exchange. 



Natal Herbarium, Berea, Durban, 

 Natal, Union of South Africa: 102 

 specimens of plants from South 

 Africa (57241: exchange). 



National Academy of Sciences, 

 Washington, D. C. : Fragments of 12 

 meteorites (58216) ; a collection of 

 apparatus and photographs of as- 

 tronomical subjects, which were 

 used by the late Henry Draper, one 

 of the first to apply photography in 

 astronomical research (58310). De- 

 posit. 



National Association of Portrait 

 Painters (through Mr. Earl Stet- 

 son Crawford, secretary. New York 

 City): 27 paintings in oil (58036: 

 loan for special exhibition). 



National Rifle Association of Amer- 

 ica, Washington, D. C. : Swiss mili- 

 tary rifle, Russian military rifle, 

 French military rifle, British mili- 

 tary rifle, Mannlicher military rifle, 

 and Winchester rifle made especially 

 for target shooting (58330: loan). 



Nation.al Society of the Colonial 

 Dames of America, Washington, 

 D. C. : Dress sword of Baron von 

 Steuben, presented in 1794 to his 

 aid-de-camp, Col. William North, 

 and owned by his great-gi-anddaugh- 

 ter, Mrs. Francis B. Austin, Sum- 

 mit, N. J. ; lent through the Co- 

 lonial Dames of the State of New 

 York (58329) ; 3 2-tined forks of 

 the colonial period, presented to the 

 Society by Mrs. R. G. Hoes, a mem- 

 ber of the District Society of the 

 Colonial Dames (58420). Loan. 



