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REPORT OF NATIONAL, MUSEUM, 1923. 



COMMITTEE ON MARINE PILING 



INVESTIGATIONS, New York City 

 (through Dr. S. I. Kornhauser) : 2 

 rock boring mollusks from West 

 Rigolets Lighthouse, La. ; 3 speci- 

 mens and 2 dead shells of mollusks 

 from Point O'Woods, Long Island; 

 shipworm from Staten Island, N. Y. ; 

 2 shipworras from I'erth Amboy, 

 N. J. ; shipworm and several frag- 

 ments from Bayonne, N. J. ; 14 ship- 

 worms from Point Pleasant, Atlan- 

 tic City, N. J., and Newport News, 

 Va. ; 4 shipworms from Davids 

 Island, New York, and Barnegat 

 City, N. J. ; about 30 mollusks and 

 about 5 shipworms, all from Coney 

 Island, N. Y. ; several fragmentary 

 shipworms from Sandy Hook, N. J. ; 

 several fragments of shipworms 

 from West Sayville, L. I. ; a piece 

 of wood containing shipworms from 

 Point O'Woods, L. L, N. Y. : (68656; 

 68670; 68671; 6S717 ; 68727; 68731; 

 68773; 68799; 68800; 68816; 68819; 

 (through Col. William G. Atwood, 

 Director, New York City) ship- 

 worms from Jersey City, N. J., and 

 Mystic and New London, Conn. ; 

 about 12 boring mollusks from 

 Sneads Island, Tampa Bay, Fla., 

 and Mystic, Conn. (68889; 68966); 

 about 50 shipworms from New 

 York City, Hoboken, N. J., and 

 Guantanamo Bay, including the type 

 of a new species (69004) ; about 30 

 shipworms from New York, New 

 Jersey, Connecticut, Virginia and 

 Cuba (69364) ; (through Dr. Wil- 

 liam E. Clapp, Cambridge, Mass.) 4 

 mollusks from Tampa Bay, Fort 

 Dade, Fla. ; shipworm from Key 

 West, Fla. (69385, 69497) ; 20 ship- 

 worms from Shaw's Cove, R. I., 

 South Norwalk, Conn., Mystic River, 

 Conn., Westport, Conn., Fort Lafay- 

 ette, N. Y., and Porto Rico (69427) ; 

 8 shipworms from Fort Lafayette, 

 N. Y. (69468) ; 10 specimens of ship- 

 worms from New York and Con- 

 necticut (70126). 



COMPANIA DEL PETROLEO "EL 

 AGUILA" S. A., Tampico, Mexico 

 (through Dr. T. Wayland Vaughan) : 

 About 225 lots of Tertiary and Cre- 

 taceous fossils from northeastern 

 Mexico, representing about 500 spe- 

 cies (69736) ; 18 lots and 18 mounted 

 slides of Tertiary fossils from 

 Mexico (69737). 



('OMSTOCK, Dr. John A. (See under 

 Southwest Museum, The) : 



CONDENSITE COMPANY OF 

 AMERICA, Division of Bakelite 

 Corporation, Bloomfield, N. J. : 9 

 specimens of molded condensite 

 (69696). 



(^-ONGRESS OF THE UNITED 

 STATES, Washington, D. C. : Sword 

 carried by Maj. Gen. Richard Mont- 

 gomery, Continental Army, when he 

 was killed during the attack on Que- 

 bec, December 31, 1775, accepted as 

 a gift to the Nation from Miss Julia 

 Barton Hunt and deposited in the 

 National Museum by Joint Resolu- 

 tion of Congress, adopted February 

 22, 1923 (69626, deposit). 



CONZATTI, Prof. C, Oaxaca de 

 Juarez, Oaxaca, Mexico: 267 plants 



(6SS43, G8S82, GS95G, 69002, 69156, 

 69306, 69357, 69701). 



COOLIDGE, Kakl R., Hollywood, 

 Calif.: 279 beetles (69028). 



COOPER ENGINEERING & MANU- 

 FACTURING CO., CHICAGO, 111.: 

 3 brass printing plates, 4 printed 

 sheets and a photograph of the print- 

 ing press used in printing for the 

 blind (69818). 



COPENHAVER, Miss Maxine, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. : Specimen of bird 

 (troupial) (68879). 



CORCORAN ART GALLERY, THE, 

 Washington, D. C. (through C. Pow- 

 ell Minnigerode, Director) : Photo- 

 graph of the building occupied by the 

 Corcoran Art Gallery from 1872 to 

 1897 (69873). 



