IJST OF ACCESSIONS TO THE COLLECTIONS DURING 

 THE FISCAL YEAR 1922-1923. 



(EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE INDICATED. THE SPECIMENS WERE PRESENTED OR WERE TRANS- 

 FERRED BY BUREAUS OF THE GOVERNMENT IN ACCORDANCE WITH LAW.) 



ABBOTT, Dr. William L., Philadel- 

 phia, Pa. : A collection of frogs, 

 lizards, and snakes, 15 bats, larva of 

 a moth, bird skin and a bird in alco- 

 hol, about 600 plants, and 2 frag- 

 ments of pottery from the Domini- 

 can Republic (69757). 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCI- 

 ENCES, Philadelphia, Pa. : Specimen 

 of the mineral rhomboclase from 

 Peru (69152) ; 23 specimens of min- 

 erals (69554) ; 196 plants from 

 Yukon (*69820) ; 3 plants from 

 Canada (69856) ; 4 beetles, including 

 4 species (70144). Exchange. 



ACUNA, Seuor Julian, Santiago de 

 las Vegas. Cuba : Beetle of the fam- 

 ily Buprestidae (70165). 



ADAMS, C. F., Kansas City, Mo.: 8 

 mosquitoes (689.34, exchange) ; 11 

 mosquitoes (69318). 



ADAMS, Paul .L, Knoxville, Tenn. : 

 About 50 mollusks from the vicinity 

 of Knoxville. Tenn. (69735). 



ADKINS, W. S., Tanipico, Mexico: 

 Pleistocene fossils representing 25 

 species, from an oyster bed seven 

 feet above low water of Panuco 

 River, El Humo Terminal, Tampico, 

 Mexico (69747). 



ADLER, Dr. Cyrus (See imder Mikve 

 Israel ) . 



ADUTT, A. Leon, Cliftonville, Mar- 

 gate, Kent, England: 5 photo- 

 graphic plates showing Confederate 

 States' envelopes from the Ferrari 

 Collection, Paris, also a souvenir 

 post card of the London Interna- 

 tional Stamp Exliibition, 1923, 

 showing a pair of New York Post- 

 master's stamps of 1845 (68600). 



AEOLIAN COMPANY, THE, New 

 York City : The first practical penu- 

 matic piano-player, invented by 

 Edwin S. Votey in 1896 (69233). 

 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT 

 STATION, Paramaribo, Dutch Gui- 

 ana (through Mr. A. Reyne) : 35 

 specimens of shrimps collected in the 

 irrigation ditches at Paramaribo, 

 Dutch Guiana, 6 fishes from trenches 

 of the open sewerage system of Para- 

 maribo, Dutch Guiana, and a flea 

 (balsam mount) (70143). 

 AGRICULTURE, DEPARTMENT 

 OF: 



Unrcnu of Animal Industrj/ 

 (through Dr. C. Dwight 

 Marsh) : 16 specimens of cacti 

 from Utah (68611, 68877) ; 6 

 plants from Utah collected by 

 Dr. Marsh (68631, 68990) ; 

 about 30 specimens of mollusks 

 from Guam (69202) ; larva of 

 a parasitic fly new to the Mu- 

 seum collection (69406); 

 (through E. A. Chapin) : 7 

 amphipods, 1 crayfish, a frog 

 and a tadpole collected by 

 W. B. Sheppard in northwest- 

 ern Wyoming, in the vicinity 

 of Yellowstone National Park 

 (69506) ; 12 photographs illus- 

 trating the manufacture of 

 dairy products (70208). 

 Bureau of Biological Survey: 17 

 beaver embryos in alcohol 

 (68693) ; 39 skeletons, 1 skull, 

 and 16 eggs of birds (68720, 

 69466) ; 785 specimens, repre- 

 senting 210 species of Diptera, 

 Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, and 



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