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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1914. 



Pelgbam & Meyer, Paterson, N. J. : 4 

 2-yard lengths of *' ratine bayadere " 

 ribbon (56929). 



Pena, Madame Carlos Maria de, Uru- 

 guayan Legation, Washington, D. C. : 

 6 fans (56522: loan). 



Pennsyi,vania, University of, De- 

 partment OF Botany, Philadelphia, 

 Pa. : 104 specimens of Scrophularia- 

 ceae collected in the southeastern 

 part of the United States by Mr. 

 F. W. Pennell (55753: exchange). 



Perth, Western Australia, Western 

 Australian Museum and Art Gal- 

 lery: 16 specimens of recent cri- 

 noids collected by the Australian fish- 

 eries investigating steamer En- 

 deavour (56958). 



Philippine Islands, Government of 

 the, Manila', P. I. : 



Executive Bureau: 12 postage 

 stamps of the Philippine Islands, 

 consisting of new color on old water- 

 mark paper, 26 centavos; and on 

 new watermark paper, 2, 6, 8, 10, 

 12, 16, 20, 26, 30 centavos, and 1 

 and 2 pesos — received through the 

 Bureau of Insular Affairs, War De- 

 partment (56715). 



Bureau of Education: Specimens 

 of 5 grades of knotted abaca and 

 implements for spinning and reeling 

 cotton and abaca — received through 

 the Bureau of Insular Affairs, War 

 Department (.57074: exchange). 



Bureau of Science: 481 plants, 

 chiefly cryptogams, from the Philip- 

 pine Islands (56049) ; 953 plants 

 chiefly from Guam and Indo-China 

 (56488). Exchange. 



University of the Philippines : Mis- 

 cellaneous invertebrates, including 

 mollusks (56397: exchange). 



Phillips, Ray, Broadwater, Va. : A 

 fossil crab (56876: purchase). 



Pierce, Henry Havelock, Boston, 

 Mas.s. (through Mr. George W. Har- 

 ris, Washington, D. C.) : Photo- 

 graphic portrait of a man (56590). 



Pittier, Prof. H., Bureau of Plant In- 

 dustry, Washington, D. C. : 875 

 plants, including living specimens of 



Pittier, Prof. H. — Continued. 



Cactaceae; 4 bats, about 20 insects, 

 1 crab and 2 snakes, all from Vene- 

 zuela (55780; 55784; 55806; 55875; 

 55963) ; 31 plants, including 12 from 

 the Vai'gas Herbarium and 16 from 

 the Ernst Herbarium, Caracas 

 (.55970) ; fruit head of ivory nut 

 palm, Phytelephas, from Panama 

 (56830: collected for the Museum) ; 

 20 living specimens of Cactaceae, 

 Hylocereus sp., and 2 bats, Micronyc- 

 teris, from Panama (56892; 56960). 



Pittsburgh Coal Company, Pitts- 

 burgh, Pa. : Coal mine model, re- 

 ceived at the close of the Louisiana 

 Purchase ExiDosition, 1904 (56153). 



Plimpton, R. S., Salida, Colo. : 5 liv- 

 ing specimens of Opuntia and Echi- 

 nocereus from Chaffee County, Colo. 

 (55695). 



Ponemah Mills, Taftville, Conn, 

 (through Clarence Whitman & Co., 

 Inc., New York City) : 5 specimens 

 of cotton and silk and cotton crepq 

 dress goods (57137). 



Porter, T. J., & Sons, Philadelphia, 

 Pa. : A series of small specimens of 

 raw flax and linen yarns, and 13 

 samples of fine English spun cotton 

 yarn wound on small cones (56526). 



Portland Society of Natural His- 

 tory, Portland, Me. : 7 specimens of 

 SoJemya torealis from 20 feet of 

 water in Portland Harbor (56451). 



Post Office Department : 28 sets of 

 specimen stamps, etc., 10 of which 

 are in triplicate and 6 in duplicate 

 (approximately 8,529 specimens), 

 received from the International Bu- 

 reau of the Universal Postal Union, 

 Berne, Switzerland (55665; 55733; 

 55815; 55885; 55920; 56019; 56098; 

 56241; 56303; 56463; 56502; 56533; 

 56612; 56712; 56793; 56841; 56964) ; 

 23 United States postage stamps, 

 consisting of 5 postal savings official, 

 12 parcel-post, 5 parcel-post due and 

 1 Panama-Pacific commemorative, 

 completing the postal savings, par- 

 cel-post, and Panama-Pacific series 

 (56097) ; a complete specimen set 



