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1881 



An important collection of Pliocene Peace Creek fossils from near 

 Arcadia, De Soto County, Fla., was presented by J. F. La Baron. 

 The collection was described by Dr. J. Leidy (Trans. Wagner Free 

 Inst., vol. 2, 1889). The type of Procyon sirmis from the Pleistocene 

 of California was collected and presented by L. Stone (Gidley, J. W., 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 29, pp. 553-554, 1906). 



1882 



Donations included : Vertebra of a whale, Miocene, Stafford Cliffs, 

 Va., presented by H. C. Harmon; fossil bones and teeth from Beau- 

 fort, S. C, from Mrs. J. E. Jouett; plaster cast of Rhmnplwrhynchus 

 fhyllums showing wing membrane was presented by O. C. Marsh ; a 

 box of fossil mammals, Myodes and Lagomys^ from Germany from 

 Prof. A. L. Nehring ; and a vertebra of a whale from Patuxent River, 

 Md., from T. J. Stone. 



188S 



A valuable collection of bones and relics from Kent's Cavern, near 

 Lamorna Torquay, England, as a gift from Lord Holdon, received 

 through William Pengelly, who was asked to prepare a treatise on 

 this subject to be published by the Smithsonian Institution. Other 

 donations were a tooth of Equus cabdllus from South Carolina, from 

 J. P. Caldwell: two boxes of mastodon, Equus, and Mylodon bones 

 from New Iberia, La., from William Crooks (Leidy, Joseph, Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1884, p. 22; Trans. Wagner Fre« Inst., 

 vol. 2, pp. 35, 1889) ; fossil fishes from Ohio from R. N. Fearson; a 

 fossil bone, tooth, and rib from Tampa Bay, Fla., from Elias 

 Hempstead. 



1885 



A collection of 20 species of Pleistocene animals from near Whites- 

 burg, Hamblen County, Term., collected by Ira Sayles (Hay, O. P., 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 58, p. 85, 1921) . ' 



A collection of 72 large boxes of fossil vertebrates, a portion of the 

 Marsh collection, was transferred to the Museum by the United States 

 Geological Survey. Bones and teeth of a Mastodon from the Pleisto- 

 cene of Kansas were presented by Dr. A. G. Chase. 



A small collection of Pleistocene fossils from near Rogersville, Tenn., 

 was presented by James W. Rogan (Hay, O. P., Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 vol. 58, p. 83, 1921). 



