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REPORT OP NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1913. 



Peabody Museum op Natural History, 

 Yale University, New Haven, Conn.: 

 56 specimens of Mesozoic sponges, rep- 

 resenting 47 species (54341: exchange); 

 2 specimens of isopod, Idothea pelagica 

 and Cubans pisum (54839). 



Pearse, Dr. A. S., University of Wiscon- 

 sin, Madison, Wis.: 6 crabs from Na- 

 hant, Mass. (54765). 



Peary, Kear Admiral Robert E., U. S. 

 Navy (retired), Wasliington, D. C: 

 Special gold medal inscribed "The 

 Peary Arctic Club to R. E. Peary, April 

 6, 1912"; gold medal inscribed 

 "L'Academie des Sports k L'Amiral 

 Robert E. Peary, 1911"; and a trophy 

 (gold, silver and bronze design on oak 

 tablet) inscribed "Presented to Com- 

 mander Robert E. Peary, C. E., U. S. 

 N., Discoverer of the North Pole, April 

 6, 1909, by the Canadian Camp of New 

 York City, March 5, 1910" (55161: 

 loan). 



Pennings, G. J., Bahrein, Persian Gulf: 

 About a dozen cases of a bag-worm be- 

 longing to the family Psycliidse (54291). 



Pennington, P. M., Pattersons Creek, 

 W. Va.: 11 arrowpoints found on Big 

 Capon River, near Yellowspring, 

 Hampshire County, W. Va. (54761). 



Peradeniya, Ceylon, Royal Botanic 

 Gardens: Trunk of a Para rubber tree, 

 Hevea brasiliensis (54816). 



Perks, Mrs. Frank, Harrison, Cal.: Ab- 

 normal "double" egg of a domestic 

 fowl (55223). 



Phillips, Dr. Alexander H., Princeton 

 University, Princeton, N. J. (through 

 George F. Kunz): A series of carnotite 

 separations (55412). 



Pickett, Theodore J., Washington, 

 D. C: 9 Mexican antiquities (54670: 

 purchase). 



PiLSBRY, Dr. H. A., Academy of Natural 

 Sciences, Philadelphia, Pa.: 2 speci- 

 mens of Holospira from Texas (54638). 



PiNCHOT, Mrs. James W. (See under 

 Mrs. William Phelps Eno.) 



Pinckney, Edward Rutledge, Charles- 

 ton, S. C. (through Mrs. Julian James, 

 Washington, D. C, and Mrs. C. Albert 

 Hill, Charleston, S. C): A skirt and 

 Watteau overskirt of yellow American- 

 raised silk (54297 : loan). 



Pinckney, Capt. Thomas, Charleston, 

 S. C. (through Mrs. Julian James and 

 Mrs. C. Albert Hill): Christening robe 

 and mantle of Maj. Gen. Thomas Pinck- 

 ney, U. S. Army, born in Charleston, 

 S. C, in 1750; and an embroidered 

 coat and waistcoat worn by him as 

 ambassador to the Court of St. James in 

 1794, during President Washington's 

 second administration (54298: loan). 



Pinto, Dr. Carlos de Cerqueira, Pard, 

 Brazil: 3 small specimens of rubber 

 coagulated by the donor's smokeless 

 process (54819). 



Piper, Prof. C. V., U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture, Washington, D. C: Plant 

 from Washington (54317); 15 plants 

 from Oregon and a fragment of the type 

 of Sagittaria latifolia (54417); 14 plants 

 from Washington, collected by E. Bar- 

 tholomew (55211); specimen of Selag- 

 inella from Virginia (55377). 



Pirtle, Dr. G. W., Carlisle, Ind.: Speci- 

 men of Corydalis cornuta (54432). 



Pittier, Prof. H., U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture, Washington, D. C: 69 

 plants from Panama and Costa Rica 

 (54626); 16 plants from Panama, col- 

 lected by Brother Celestine (54860); 25 

 living specimens of plants, mostly 

 Cactacese, from Venezuela (55276; 

 55469; 55535: collected for the Mu- 

 seum); 4 living specimens of Pereshia 

 from Venezuela (55639). 



Pittsburgh, University of, Pittsburgh, 

 Pa.: 5 models of Paleozoic fishes and 

 crustaceans (55344: exchange). 



Pollard, James H., Denton, Md.r Ab- 

 normal egg of a domestic fowl (54531). 



Pollock, Mrs. John S., Washington, D. 

 C: Skin and skull of a ground squirrel 



(55475). 



