LIST OF ACCESSIONS. 



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Post Office Department — Continued, 

 lows: Ordinary stamps, offset print- 

 ing, imperforate, three sheets of 400 

 3-cent stamps each ; ordinary stamps, 

 current series, three $2 stamps and 

 three $5 stamps, airplane stamps, cur- 

 rent series, three 16-cent stamps 

 (1,209 specimens) (62S01) ; United 

 States stamped envelopes, circular 

 die, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 cent denomi- 

 nations, on white, amber, buff, blue, 

 and manila paper, design of 1915 (6G 

 specimens) (62843) ; Belgian and 

 French Red Cross postage stamps in 

 triplicate (51 specimens) (63013) ; 

 United States postage stamps, in 

 triplicate, namely, 1-cent, offset 

 printing; 6-cent, air mail; and 13- 

 cent (63211) ; 3 specimens of the 

 3-cent Victory stamp, issued in 1919 

 (63388) ; postage of the Czecho- 

 slovak Republic issued in 1919 (16 

 specimens) (63443). 



PowEix, IMrs. W. H., New York City: 

 2 oil portraits by William H. Powell, 

 A. N. A. ; " Washington at Valley 

 Forge," and " Alphonse Marie Louis 

 de Lamartine." 1790-1864, painted 

 from life (62779, loan). 



Preble, E. A.. Washington, D. C. : 

 Specimen of wood turtle from Vir- 

 ginia (62744). 



Pretz, Harold W., AUentown, Pa. : 

 80 specimens of plants from Penn- 

 sylvania (63052, exchange). 



Prince, Prof. Edward E., Ottawa, Can- 

 ada : 2 specimens of crabs, Elamene 

 lacustris, from Lake Takapunza, 

 Auckland, New Zealand, collected by 

 the donor in September, 1914 

 (62745). 



Prince, Harold W., Detroit, Me. : A 

 type specimen of fossil pclecypod, 

 Grammy sia ( Grammy sioidea ) prin- 

 ciana (62957, exchange). 



Ramsden, Charles T., Guantanamo, 

 Cuba: 5 specimens, 2 species, of 

 crustaceans from Cuba (63454). 



Rand, Nathaniel D., Columbus, Ohio : 

 2 watches (63005, loan). 



Ravenel, W. deC. U. S. National 

 Museum : Service uniform coat with 

 insignia, breeches, cap, hat, leather 

 puttees, shoes, gauntlets, woolen 

 sweater and helmet, and leather 

 coat, worn by a second lieutenant. 

 Aviation Section, Signal Corps, 

 U. S. Army (62826) ; the certificate of 

 graduation of William deC. Ravenel, 

 jr., from the United States School 

 of Military Aeronautics, Princeton, 

 N. J., dated November 17, 1917 ; his 

 honorable discharge from the 

 United States Army as private, first 

 class, Aviation Section, Signal En- 

 listed Reserve Corps ; and his com- 

 mission as second lieutenant Avia- 

 tion Section, Signal Officers' Reserve 

 Corps, both dated April 25, 1918 

 (63277). Loan 



Red Cross, The International Com- 

 mittee OF, Geneva, Switzerland 

 (through Department of State) : 

 Collection of foreign envelopes show- 

 ing various types of stamps and 

 franks used during the European 

 War (93 specimens) (62932). 



Reed, F. M., Riverside, Calif. : 19 speci- 

 mens of ferns from California 

 (63074, 63177, 63253). 



Reid, Earl D., U. S. National Museum : 

 A series of otoliths (ear stones) dis- 

 sected from the heads of codfish, 

 haddock, whiting, weakflsh, red 

 snapper, black bass, j'^ellow perch, 

 rockfish, cero, and salmon, obtained 

 in the Washington market (63097) ; 

 58 pairs of otoliths (ear stones) dis- 

 sected from the heads of fishes ob- 

 tained in the markets of Washing- 

 ton, namely, shad, snook or sergeant 

 fish, black-spotted sea trout, pickerel, 

 silver jenny, spot, flounder, kingfish, 

 large mouth black bass, mullet, mul- 

 let sucker, yellow perch, rockfish, 

 and channel bass (63597). 



Reko, Dr. B. P., Oaxaca, Mexico: 243 

 specimens of plants from Mexico 

 (62713, 62875, 63077, 63596) ; 2 speci- 

 mens and 3 photographs of cacti 

 (62813). 



