LIST OF ACCESSIONS TO THE COLLECTIONS DURING 



THE FISCAL YEAR 1908-9. 



[Except whon otherwise indicated, tlie specimens were presented or were transferred by 

 bureaus of the Government in accordance witli law.] 



Abbott, William L., Singapore, Straits 

 Settlemeuts: An extensive and vain- 

 able collection of ethnological and 

 natnral history specimens obtained 

 principally in the southeastern part 

 of Borneo, including birds from the 

 islands in the Java Sea, among 

 which are several species new to the 

 Museum collection (49011) ; a large 

 and interesting collection of natural 

 history specimens, baskets, bark- 

 cloth, and other ethnological mate- 

 rial from the southwestern part of 

 Borneo (49G1S). 



Abrams, I.e Roy, Stanford University, 

 Cal. : Living plant Dudleya, from 

 California (50192) ; 600 plants from 

 the southern part of California 

 (50207: purchase). 



Academy of Natural Sciences, Phila- 

 delphia, Pa. : "Type of Thamnoplii- 

 his rirgatus (49552) ; 129 specimens 

 of humming birds and swifts 

 (50181). Loan. 



Adams, Charles W., Lovelock, Nev. : 

 2 samples of kaolin (49449). 



Adams, Hendrick L., Harrisburg, Pa. : 

 About 20 specimens of parasitic 

 Hymeuoptera ( 50031 ) . 



Adams, Richard C, Washington, D. C. : 

 Relics of the Delaware and Chero- 

 kee Indians, embracing a silver pipe, 

 silver tomahawk, war-club with sil- 

 ver plate, cedar flute with silver 

 plates, a wampum belt, and a Dela- 

 ware Indian war bonnet (49797: 

 loan). 



Adams, Wallace. Yuma, Ariz. : Head 

 ornament of a Yuma Indian (50060). 



Adler, Cy'RUS. Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion : Three bows from the Soudan 

 (49196) ; leather bag from North 

 Africa (49454). 



Aerial Experiment Association 

 (through Dr. Alexander Graham 

 Bell) : A series of 76 enlarged photo- 

 graphs vividly portraying the ex- 

 periments of Orville Wright with 

 the aeroplane of the Wright Brothers 

 at Fort Myer. Va., during September, 

 1908 (5024.3). 



Agriculture, Department of : 



Bureau of Animal Industri/: 

 Three colts — hybrids between a fe- 

 male donkey and a Grevy's zebra 

 (49115; 49209; 49244); skin and 

 skeleton of a female Grevy zebra 

 (49275). 



Bureau of Biological Survey: 2 

 specimens of cacti, Opuntia and 

 MamiUaria, and 1 Nolina (49043) ; 

 38 birds' eggs from Nova Scotia, 

 Maine, and California (49068); spec- 

 imen of cactus, Opuntia, from New 

 Mexico (40122) ; 2 living plants from 

 New ^Mexico and Chihuahua, Mex- 

 ico, collected by E. A. Goldman 

 (49138) ; 3 specimens of Lepidop- 

 tera (49169) ; 2 specimens of Mam- 

 iUaria from New Mexico, collected 

 by Vernon Bailey, and a specimen of 

 Echinocereus obtained by E. A. Gold- 

 man in New Mexico (49174) ; 2 spec- 

 imens of living plants, Opuntia, col- 

 lected in New Mexico by E. A. Gold- 

 man (49204) ; 4 plants from New 

 Mexico, collected by E. A. Goldman 

 (49236) ; 9 specimens of cacti col- 

 lected by Vernon Bailey in Arizona, 



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