Oct. 1898. Annual Report of the Director. 303 



SPECIAL ACCESSIONS. 

 (accessions are by gift unless otherwise designated.) 



AVER, EDWARD E., Chicago. 



Primitive wooden plow — Santa Fe, N. M. 



Bill of lading of the steamer Majestic from Natchez to St. Louis in 1834. 

 Receipt of money to apply on stock of the Hudson River Steamboat Co., 

 signed by Robert Fulton. 

 FIELD COLUMBIAN MUSEUM. 

 Purchases: 



Collection of Folk Lore of precious stones (purchased from George F. 

 Kunz, New York, N. Y.). 



DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION. 



(accessions are by gift unless otherwise designated.) 



BALDWIN, E. B., Naperville, 111. 

 I old high-frame bicycle. 



DRAKE, A. A., St. Thomas, Ontario. 



Wooden models of rails, etc., showing method of holding nuts on bolts by 

 donor's patented process. 



MELOY, E. S., Chicago. 



I Chicago &: Rock Island R. R. Line pass, dated December 31, i860. 



DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 

 (accessions are by gift unless otherwise designated.) 



ALSTON, G. C, Field Columbian Museum. 

 I raccoon. 



AMERICAN xMUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, New York, N. Y. 



I female buffalo skin and skeleton, i skin and skeleton of American buf- 

 falo, 4 Greenland seals, 6 walrus, i skeleton of Indian antelope, 8 

 monkeys, 14 carnivore, 6 opossums, 748 rodents and insectivora, skin 

 and bones of calf of American bison (exchange). 



ASHBY, J. H., Manager Union Stock Yards, Chicago. 

 I skeleton of domestic hog. 

 I skeleton of sheep. 



AYER, EDWARD E., Chicago. 



34 mammal skins, with their skeletons — Madagascar. 

 BAILEY, G. v., Field Columbian Museum. 



I squirrel, Spermophile. 



BEBB, Dr. M. S., Rockford, 111. 



Large collection of shells — Illinois and Ohio. 



BOSTOCK, FRANK C, Chicago. , 



I giant kangaroo. 



I fox. 



I badger, Coati mondi. 



I lizard, Gila monster. 



I lizard, Iquana. 



I alligator. 

 BOYER, LEWIS, Fort Bayard, N. M. 



I horned toad, Fhrynosoma cornutum. 



BRAGDON, C. E., 147 Fifth avenue, Chicago, 111. 

 I brown bat. 



