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REPORT OP NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1914. 



Smithsonian Institution — Contd. 

 serve collectiou, from the Burgess 

 shale of British Columbia (56877) ; 

 a cardboard sheet or " Tableau en 

 memoire du Colonel Laussedat," 

 containing illustrations of the the- 

 ory of " Metrophotography," pre- 

 sented to the Institution by Mr. 

 Emile Wenz, of Reims, France 

 (50896) ; " Good Luck" souvenir re- 

 ceived by the Institution from Col. 

 John W. Vrooman, Herkimer, N. Y. 

 (56908) ; specimen of Peripattis geayi 

 collected at La Chorrera, Panama, 

 by Mr. A. Busck (56938) ; personal 

 relics of Prof. Spencer F. Baird, in- 

 cluding instruments used in his in- 

 vestigations, and a damask napkin 

 used by Napoleon at breakfast on 

 the morning he left the island of 

 Elba, received by the Institution as 

 a bequest from Miss Lucy Hunter 

 Baird (57108). 



Bureau of American Ethnology: 8 

 fragments of pottery found in an 

 excavation at Swaffham, England, 

 and presented by Rev. Robert C. 

 Nightingale (55735) ; a small col- 

 lection of pottery fragments and 3 

 small beads, found in a shell-bank 

 near Port Arthur, Tex., and pre- 

 sented to the Bureau by Mrs. Bruce 

 Reid (55756) ; 150 Cherokee medical 

 plants collected by Mr. James 

 Mooney in North Carolina (55971) : 

 parts of 5 skeletons, 3 complete 

 skulls and fragments of 2 infant 

 skulls, from a burial cist in a cave 

 about 20 miles south of Grant, N. 

 Mex. (56134) ; 31 ethnological ob- 

 jects of the Cherokee and Catawba 

 Indians, collected by Mr. James 

 Mooney (56312) ; 6 photographs of 

 Aztec antiquities, purchased from 

 Mr. W. W. Blake of Mexico City, 

 Mexico (56609) ; an arrowpoint 

 found on the North Fork of the 

 Roanoke River, about 3 miles from 

 Blacksburg, Va., by Prof. Otto C. 

 Burkhart and presented by him to 

 the Bureau (56679) ; a stone phallus 

 from Mesa Verde, Colo., presented 

 to the Bureau by Mr. H. C, Lay, 

 Telluride, Colo. (56719). 



Smithsonian Institution — Contd. 

 National Museum, collected hy 

 members of the staff: Bartsch, Paul : 

 A crayfish and salamanders, from 

 Virginia (55901) ; lizard from Gar- 

 den Key, Tortugas (55921) ; shrew, 

 Sorcjp personatus ; cotton-tail rabbit, 

 Sylvilagus floridanus mallurus; 3 

 specimens of white-footed mice, Per- 

 omyscus leucopus noveboracensis ; 

 and 10 specimens of gi"ay squirrel, 

 Sciurus caroUnensis carolincnsis 

 (56401). Bassler, R. S. : About 500 

 si)ecimens of invertebrate fossils 

 from the Martinsburg shale and as- 

 sociated formations of West Virginia 

 (56020). Boss, Norman H. : A col- 

 lection of fossil cetacean material, 

 including a nearly complete porpoise 

 skeleton, a skull, several parts of 

 skulls and jaws, and vertebrae, from 

 the INIiocene marls near Chesapeake 

 Beach, Md. (56S36). Crawford, 

 J. C. : 169 Hymenoptera from Be- 

 thesda, Md. (55912; 55923). Gidley, 

 J. W. : Fossil mammals from a cave 

 deposit nenr Cumberland, Md. 

 (55774; 57040). Hrdlicka, Ales: 

 75 plants from Peru, including sev- 

 eral living Cactaceae (55666). Mer- 

 rill, George P. : Varietal forms of 

 peat from bog east of Pushaw Lake, 

 Penobscot County, Me. (55736) ; ig- 

 neous rocks from Freeport, Me., 

 and an unknown mineral from San- 

 ford, Me. (55861) ; specimens of 

 Clupea harengus, Scomber scombrus, 

 and Rhombus triacanthus. from a 

 weir at the southern end of the 

 Island of Springs, Sheepscot Bay, 

 Me. (55997) ; rocks and minerals 

 from a quarry west of Belmont 

 Park, near Leesburg, Va. (56069). 

 Miller, Gerrit S.. jr. : A small lot 

 of mammals, reptiles and crabs, 

 from Alabama and ^Mississippi 

 (56550) ; 4 plants from Mississippi 

 (.56733). Moore, Riley D. : 240 

 skulls and skeletons of the St. Law- 

 rence Island Eskimo, collected by 

 Dr. Moore under the joint auspices 

 of the Panama-California Exposi- 

 tion and the National Museum 

 (55869) ; Eskimo and Aleut skulls 



