KEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1908. 



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PiTTiER, H., Department of Agricul- 

 ture, Washington, D. C. : 67 mosses 

 and 338 plants from Central Amer- 

 ica (47639: 47713) : 126 plants from 

 Colombia, South America (47732) ; 

 20 plants collected in Salvador by- 

 Carlos Reuson (47823) : 2 crabs, 

 P s e II d o t hcl I) h u s a cohancn.sis 

 (48097). 



Polk, George W., San Antonio, Tex. : 

 Silk badge of the Young Men's Na- 

 tional Whig Convention, held in Bal- 

 timore, May 4, 1840 (4S(»()1). 



Pollock, Miss A. L., Seattle, Wash.: 

 Nest of Puget Sound brush tit, 

 Psaltiipanis inininius staKratiis 

 (47874). 



Powers, Fr.\nk, Harshaw. Ariz. : Sil- 

 ver ore from World's Fair mines at 

 Harshaw (48322). 



PoYSER, W. A., Philadelphia. Pa. : 3 

 ferns collected in Pennsylvania 

 (48538: exchange). 



Preston. A. E., Los Angeles, Cal. : 

 Fossil sea biscuit, Asti-odapsis sp. 

 (4831.5). 



Prestox, H. B., London, England : 21 

 type specimens, representing 20 spe- 

 cies, of land and fresh-water shells 

 from Mexico. Central and South 

 America (48704: purchase). 



Pringle, C. G., Burlington, Vt. : 264 

 plants collected in Mexico (47.569: 

 purchase) ; living plants from Nuevo 

 Leon, Mexico (4762.5: exchange); 2 

 living plants from Guerrero, Mex- 

 ico (47681 : exchange) ; 10 living 

 plants collected in Mexico (47809) ; 

 31 Mexican plants (48237). 



Public Miseum, Milwaukee, Wis. : 

 Cast of a large stone ax from Illi- 

 nois (48675: exchange). 



Purpus. C. a.. Zacuapani, Puebla, Mex- 

 ico : Living plants, Olivcrantlius and 

 Echeveria, and seeds from Mexico 

 (47578; 47785: 47754); 70 living 

 plants from Mexico (479.39; 47971: 

 purchase) ; specimen of Sedum from 

 Orizaba, Mexico (48021) ; living 

 specimen of Scdastrum from Vera 

 Cruz (48182) ; seeds of Dahlia from 

 Mexico (48278) ; 9 living cacti, 

 Cercus, from Vera Cruz (48423). 

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QuAiNTANCE, A. L., Department of Ag- 

 riculture, Washington. D. C. : Type 

 material of Aleurodcs hotvardi n. sp. 

 from Cuba (47704). 



QuARTERMAX, OscAR F., Canaveral, 

 Fla. : Egg capsule of nurse shark, 

 Ginglymostoma cinatum (47814). 



Queen's T'xiversity. (See under 

 Kingston, (Jntario. Canada. ) 



Ralph, Mrs. W. L., Washington. D. 

 C. : 1,061 birds' egrs and 117 nests, 

 forming part of the collection of the 

 late Dr. W. L. Ralph (48683). 



Ransier. H. E., Manlius, N. Y. : 

 Plants, Botrychium onondageme, 

 from the central part of New York 



(48010). 



Ratiibux. Richard, U. S. National 

 Museum : Pair of Tower pistols with 

 bell mouths and brass barrels 

 (12368: loan). 



Reed, Edwix C. Concepcion, Chile: 2 

 photographs of a basking-shark, 

 CetorJiinus iHaximus (47890). 



Reed, Mrs. Elizabeth A., Chicago. 111. : 

 Shells and other invertebrate animals 

 from the keys off Sarasota, Florida 

 (48089). 



Reed, Fred. M., Riverside, Cal. : 2 

 specimens of living cactus, Opuntia, 

 from California- (48755). 



Reld, Mrs. Whitelaw, London. Eng- 

 land (received through Mrs. James 

 Pinchot) : Collar and pair of cuffs 

 of Venetian point, latter part of 

 XVIII century (48806). 



; Reuter, O. M., Abo. Finland : 20 speci- 

 mens of Hemiptera (48.338: ex- 

 change). 



Reynolds, Allen Jesse, Council Grove, 

 Kans. : Fragmentary impressions of 

 fossil leaves and associated rock 

 (47915). 



Rho.^ds, I. Milton, Edge Hill, Pa.: 

 Ilmenite from Edge Hill (47.565) ; 

 limonite geodes (48213). Exchange. 



Richardson, Mrs. Charles W., Wash- 

 ington, D. C. : Collection of English 

 and German porcelains and silver 

 (48.847: loan). 



