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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919. 



Pelant, Chables, Czec'hoslovac Na- 

 tional Alliance, New York City : 

 Postage stamps of Austria, Czecho- 

 slovakia and Jugo-Slavia, issued 

 1916-17 (38 specimens) (63710). 



Penny, F. W., Pointe-a-Pierre, Trini- 

 dad, British West Indies (through 

 Dr. T. Wayland Vaughan) : A col- 

 lection of fossil corals fi-ora Trinidad 

 (63186). 



Perez, Gilbert S., Lucena, Tayabas, P. 

 I. : 75 specimens, 4 species, of shells, 

 including the types of 3 new sub- 

 species from the Philippine Islands 

 (62703). 



Perkins, Cecil F., Ogonquit, Me. : A 

 cluster of fish eggs, probably sculpin, 

 Myoxocephalus sp. (62640). 



Perry, Lewis E., U. S. National 

 Museum : Specimen ear of White 

 Leaming corn grown in Perry Town- 

 ship, Fayette County, Ohio (63039). 



Pester, Capt. L. C, Chicago, 111. : 

 Shed skin of a blacksuake, Coluber 

 constrictor (63693). 



Pfizer & Co. (Inc.), Chas., New York 

 City : 15 specimens of organic and 

 inorganic medicinal chemicals 

 (63208). 



I'HiLip, Hon. Hoffman, care Depart- 

 ment of State, Washington, D, C. : 

 Bronze statuette of Dionysius on a 

 marble base ; part of stone statuette 

 of an Egyptian lady or goddess ; a 

 Phenician iridescent glass vase 

 found in Syria and a Neopolitan 

 dressed terra-cotta figurine of a Kur- 

 dish porter at Cairo, Egypt (63520) ; 

 an oil painting " The Infant Jesus 

 and St. John," by Rubens (1633) 

 (63521, loan). 



Philippine Islands, Government of 

 THE, Manila, P. I. : 



Bureau of Science: 12 photographs 

 of type specimens of plants (62643) ; 

 5,600 specimens of plants chiefly 

 from the Philippine Islands (63185.) 

 Exchange. 



Philipse, Miss Catharine W., New 

 York City (through Mrs. R. G. 

 Hoes) : White cotton counterpane, 2 



Philipse, Miss Catharine W. — Con. 

 polonaise dresses (incomplete), and 

 a pair of white kid gloves, of the 

 latter part of the nineteenth century 

 (63025, loan). 



PiLSBRY, Dr. Henry A., Academy of 

 Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pa. : 

 15 specimens, 2 species, of mollusks 

 from Bermuda and California, topo- 

 types of Vertigo (62970) ; land shell, 

 Biclimvlus nigromontanus, from Pina 

 Blanca Canyon, above Oro Blanco 

 road, Pina County, Ariz., collected 

 by J. H. Ferriss (63708). 



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

 Agriculture, Washington, D. C. : 

 Type specimen of a plant, Yaccinium 

 coccineiim (02610) ; 5 land shells 

 from Moclips, Wash., collected by 

 the donor (62754). (See also under 

 M. W. Gorman.) 



Pittier, H., U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture, Washington, D. C. : 900 

 specimens of Venezuela plants 

 (63036, 63288) ; about 600 specimens 

 of plants from Venezuela (63184). 



PooLE, A. J., Washington, D. C. : Skin 

 and skull of a white-footed mouse, 

 Peromyscus (62747). 



PoPENOE, Wilson, Washington, D. C. : 

 Rubber poncho made in Guatemala 

 and covered with pure gum " Ule " 

 (63788). 



Pobterfield, Charles, Charles Town, 

 W. Va. : Daguerreotype portrait of 

 Alexander D. Bache (1806-1867) 

 (63317). 



Post, George, Sebastopol, Calif. : Col- 

 lection of obsidian chips and rejects 

 found beneath the surface near Se- 

 bastopol, Calif. (62802). 



Post Office Department: 10 sets of 

 specimen stamps, etc., in triplicate 

 (1,324 specimens) received from the 

 International Bureau of the Univer- 

 sal Postal Union, Berne, Switzei-land 

 (62632, 62736, 62884, 63060, 63060, 

 63134, 63332, 63490, 63577, 63779) ; 

 United States postage stamps, issue<l 

 in 1918 (21 specimens) (62700) ; 

 United States postage stamps as fol- 



