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Aubrey H. Smith. Fruit of Torreya Oalifornica, California ; Nut o^Areca 

 Catechu,, from S. China. 



G. Howard Parker. Usnea barbata and Batrachospermum moniUforme, 

 both from Hammonton, N. J. 



W. A. Kellerman of Manhattan, Kansas. 23 species plants, collected by 

 him in western Kansas. 



Mrs. Fanny E. Briggs, Le Centre, W. T., through Thos. Meehan. 6 species 

 plants, from Washington Terr. 



Isaac Bulk. Trichinium exaltatum Buth., Cult., native of Australia ; Gor- 

 donia picbescens, L'Her., and Halesia diptera, Willd., both from Bar- 

 tram's Garden. 



Fossil Botany.— S. E. Paschal. Plant impressions, Triassic shale, 



Buckingham Valley, Bucks Co., Pa. 

 A. H. Smith. Wood, Gold Run Mine, Cal. 



Minerals. —Joseph Leidy. White fluorite, locality unknown. 



C. S. Bement. Topaz, beryl, clevelandite, apatite, zircon, montmoril- 

 lonite, columbite, fluorite and orthoclase, Stoneham, Me. ; curved 

 muscovite, Branchville, Conn. 



W. W. Jefferis. Melanite garnets, Frascati, Italy; blende, Santander, 

 Spain ; pyrite, Laucaster Co., Pa. ; sphalerite, Alston Moor, Cumber- 

 land, Eng. ; pyrite in calcite, Chester Co., Pa. 



J. Binder. 9 specimens of granite, Maine. 



W. B. Eltonhead. Corundum, Lehigh Co., Pa. ; graphite and, anthracite 

 in cast iron ; arsenio-pyrite, blende and quartz, Dakota ; muscovite, 

 Custer City, Dakota. 



J. Hartman. Siderite and hematite, millerite in hematite, Antwerp, N. Y. 



G. W. Fiss. Columbite, Amelia Court House, Va. 



J. Border. Mica schists, from marl-pit, Mullica Hill, N. J. 



J. G. Hiestand. Astrophyllite, celestite, barite and calcite, and zircon, 

 Colorado. 



J. Lea. Cancrinite, Chester Co., Pa. 



H. C. Lewis. Calcite with byssolite, Chester Co., Pa. 



W. Hoyt. Chalcopyrite, Chester Co., Pa.; volcanic ash, Krakatoa. 



W. H. Bates. Magnetite, Marion Co., N. C. 



A. R. McHenry. Pumice, Java Sea, near Krakatoa. 



H. J. Smith. Cassiterite, Rockbridge Co., Va. 



H. H. Fames. Azurite and malachite, Santa Rita Mts., Arizona ; silver 

 in chrysocola, Quijotoa Mts., Arizona; muscovite and uranite, Ash 

 Co., N. C. 



J. Struthers. A collection of agates, silicified and opalized woods, land- 

 scape and other marbles, fluoites, calcites, quartz crystals and other 

 minerals, from various localitrs. 



S. Wood. Fossiliferous boulder, Escuminiac River, Bonaventure Co., 

 Canada. 



Mr. Linn. Limonite (ochre), Montgomery, Ala. 



P. F. Brown. Vivianite Mullica Hill, N. J. ; byssolite in calcite, French 

 Creek, Chester Co., Pa. 



D. 8. Martin. Coal, Discoe Island, Greenland ; turba, Bahia, Brazil. 

 Mineralogical Section A. N. S. Barite, Cumberland, England ; apophyl- 



lite and calcite, Chester Co., Pa.; crocidolite. South Africa ; vanadinite, 

 Arizona ; strengite and cacoxenite, Giessen, Germany ; pseudomorphs 

 after sarcolite, Canada ; priceite, Oregon ; pseudocotonnite, Vesuvius, 

 Italy ; vesbite, Vesuvius, Italy ; dietrichite, Hungary ; struvite, Schem- 

 nitz; clausthalite, Sweden; menacannite, var. washingtonite, Litchfield, 

 Conn.; euchlorine, Vesuvius, Italy; muscovite, barcenite, Mexico; 

 bornite, Colorado ; schraufite, Bukowina ; cubanite, Cal. ; kjerulflte and 

 tschermakit, Norway. 



