Vlll. DONATIONS TO MUSEUM. 



Forty-two specimens Rana halecina, from South Carolina. In exchange. 1 

 Phrynosoma orbiciUare, from New Mexico. Presented by W. H. Davis, Esq. 



One Goronella, from Texas. Presented by Capt. J. B. McCown, U. S. A. 



Calappa decora, from Beaufort, South Carolina. Presented by S. W. Mitchell, 

 M. D. 



Scomberesox Storei, Lumpus anglorum, Hemitripterus americanus, from New- 

 port, Rhode Island. Presented by Dr. Thomas Dunn. 



One Gunnelus vulgaris, from Newport. Presented by Mr. S. Powel. 



Eighteen specimens, 11 species of the genera Remipes, Calappa, Huenia, 

 Maeropthalmus, Goniograpsus, Etisus, Atergatis, Actaeodes, Pseudosquilla, from 

 Sandwich Islands. Presented by Mr. Pease. 



One specimen Neuroptera, 5 Orthoptera 6 specimens, 48 Hemiptera 113 speci- 

 mens, 13 Hymenoptera 15 specimens, 6 Diptera 8 specimens, 1 Arachnida, from 

 the Middle States. Presented by Dr. J. Leidy. 



Two Orthoptera, 2 Hymenoptera 5 specimens, from Newport, Rhode Island. 

 Presented by S. Powel, Esq. 



One Diptera, 1 Hemiptera, 3 specimens, from Kansas. Presented by Dr. W. 

 A. Hammond. 



8th. Three large specimens of crystallized quartz, curiously encrusted with 

 talc, from Pottsville, Pa. Presented by T. W. Yardley. 



Large fragment of fossil wood, from interior of China. Presented by Dr. McCar- 

 tee, of Ningpo. 



Fragments of fossil wood and turtle bones from the tertiary, from Beaufort, 

 South Carolina. Presented by Mr. R. W. Gibbes. 



A small collection of fossils, tertiary, and carboniferous, from the coast of 

 Chili. Presented by Charles W. Blake. 



Jaw of Edaphodon, from Green Sand, Camden county, New Jersey. Presented 

 by Edward Harris, Esq. 



I5ih. 4 specimens, 2 species fossil fishes, from Eocene, of Mississippi. 1 fos- 

 sil crustacean, from Eocene, of Mississippi. Presented by Dr. Edward Minturn. 



22nd. 1 Pituophis melanoleucus, from New Jersey. 1 Fish. Fragments of 

 curiously fissured limestone, from Burlington county, New Jersey. Presented 

 by S. C. Thornton, Jr., through Edward Harris, Esq. 



Specimens of Falco polyagrus, Cassin, from Rock Island county, Illinois, the 

 first specimen ever obtained east of the Rocky Mountains. Presented by Mr. J. 

 Dickinson Sergeant. 



■ Two specimens of Arvicola, and one specimen of Perognathus, from Chester 

 county, Pennsylvania. Presented by Mr. Joseph Watson. 



Seven specimens of birds from California, and one specimen from Georgia, 

 Presented by Mr. George Davidson, U. S. Coast Survey. 



Collection of 52 specimens of Birds, from Singapore. Presented by George 

 Suckley, M. D., late U. S. Army. 



