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REPORT OF NATIONAL. MUSEUM, 1923. 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION— Con. 

 National Museum, collected hy 

 members of the staff — Contd. 

 a whale, 7 birds and 12 fishes 

 from Florida (69537). Baer, 

 John L. : Stone artifacts and 

 implements found along the 

 Susquehanna River, Pa. 

 (68613). Bartsch, Paul: Ship- 

 worms from Woods Hole, Mass. 

 (68789) ; about 15,000 land, 

 freshwater and marine mol- 

 lusks, 48 bats, a lizard, some 

 ectoparasites, a collection of 

 ants and 3 fungi from the West 

 Indies (70090). Bassler, R. S. : 

 2 slabs illustrating sun cracljing 

 and worm boring, 2 slabs of 

 blue phosphate, and miscellane- 

 ous collections of invertebrate 

 fossils from central Tennessee 

 (68709). Boss, Norman H. : 

 Cetacean from near Chesapeake 

 Beach, Calvert County, Md. 

 (69291). Foshag, W. F., and 

 Earl V. Shannon : 100 speci- 

 mens of minerals from old 

 mines in Carroll County, Md. 

 (68935) ; 80 specimens of rocks 

 and minerals from vicinity of 

 Leesburg, Va. (70023). Killip, 

 Ellsworth P. : 500 plants from 

 Panama (69085). Pennell, Dr. 

 F. W., and Ellsworth P. Killip : 

 5,413 specimens of Colombian 

 plants (69839, 69976, 70104). 

 Stejneger, L. : Plants, insects, 

 myriapods, spiders, fishes, crus- 

 taceans and worms, from Alaska 

 and Asiatic coasts of the North 

 Pacific ( 68912 ) . Walcott, C. D. : 

 Skin and skull of a deer, and 

 skin and skuU of a mountain 

 goat from Alberta, Canada 

 (69188). 

 National Museum, obtnined by 

 purchase 145 photographs of 

 British locomotives (68979) ; 

 143 plants collected in Mexico 

 by C. A. Purpus (69402) ; frag- 

 ment weighing 810 grams of 

 meteoric iron from Dungannon, 

 Scott County, Va. (68625) ; col- 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION— Con. 

 National Museum, obtained by 

 purchase — Continued, 

 lection of Yuma Indian ethno- 

 logical material (70192) ; speci- 

 men of American spikenard, or 

 Indian root, called " okadak " 

 by the Chippewa Indians 

 (69470) ; 150 plants from Mount 

 Longust, British East Africa 

 (68536) ; 100 plants from 

 Uganda (69597) ; collection of 

 ants (69136) ; Oriental and 

 Ethiopian bees (68639) ; 10 

 beetles (69134) ; 874 British 

 Guiana plants collected by de la 

 Cruz (70018) ; 271 British Gui- 

 ana plants (69519) ; chipped 

 hoe and clay concretion bearing 

 carvings (68797) ; European 

 files (129 specimens of Agro- 

 niyzidae) (68594) ; 133 plants 

 from the desert region of south- 

 ern California (69598) ; miscel- 

 laneous insects and 44 vials of 

 unidentified freshwater plank- 

 ton (69117) ; 820 European 

 horseflies (69388) ; Cretaceous 

 fossils from Alberta, Canada 

 (69150) ; Baxter oil print "The 

 Reconciliation " and 9 wood 

 blocks and 1 steel plate, from 

 which the print was made 

 (68638) ; specimen of cactus 

 (69846) ; photograph of the 

 earliest wood cut in the British 

 Museum (68711) ; 1875 plants 

 {Bryotheca baltica) (68909) ; 

 117 plants from Ecuador (69324, 

 69945) ; mass of meteoric iron 

 from Glasgow, Barren County, 

 Ky. (68617) ; ethnological mate- 

 rial from Formosa (70220) ; 113 

 plants from Venezuela (69684) ; 

 434 plants from South Africa 

 (69286, 69558, 69938) ; 4 skulls 

 and 1 skin of seals from Lobos 

 Island, Uruguay (69492) ; 60 

 fossil shells from the Tertiary 

 of Hungary (69923) ; archeo- 

 logical specimens from Ken- 

 tucky (70201) ; 14 plants col- 

 lected by Buch (70060) ; 244 



