LIST OF ACCESSIONS TO THE COLLECTIONS DURING THE FISCAL 



YEAR 1904-5. 



Except where otherwise indicated, the specimens were presented to the Museum or transferred in 



accordance witli law.l 



Abbe. Cleveland, U. S. Weather Bureau, 

 Department of Agriculture: 4 mollusks 

 {Pohjgyra albolabris var. major Binn.) 

 from Mount Weather, near Bluemont, 

 Va. (44153) ; 8 mollusks {LinnsEa and 

 Planorbis); concretion of ocher and a 

 fossil pebble (44270). 



Abbott, William L., Singapore, Straits 

 Settlements, Malay Archipelago : 19 boxes, 

 containing a collection of rare and valu- 

 able mammals, birds, birds' nests and 

 eggs, reptiles, mollusks, marine inverte- 

 brates, skeletons of mammals and birds, 

 brains of animals ; also ethnological mate- 

 rial, collected in Singapore, Mergui 

 Archipelago, German New Guinea, and 

 Lower Siam (43017) ; large collections of 

 natural history material and ethnological 

 specimens from Banka, Billiton, and 

 Karimata (44559). (See also under C. 

 Boden Kloss.) 



Adkins, William H. (See under C'hicka- 

 hominy Tribe.) 



Adler, Cyrus, Smithsonian Institution: 

 Facsimile of Thomas Jefferson's Bible 

 (44113). 



Afro-American Trading and Navigation 

 Company, New York City (received 

 through Department of Agriculture): 

 Plant from East Africa (43586: deposit). 



Agriculture, U. S. Department of, Hon. 

 James Wilson, Secretary. 



Biological Survey, C. Hart Merriam, 

 chief. 132 birds' eggs and 21 nests, ob- 

 tained in different sections of North 

 America (42997) ; 2 crabs and 3 cray- 

 fishes, collected by E. W. Nelson and 

 E. A. Goldman at Tuxtla, Mexico 

 (42999) ; 9 eggs of Mexican birds (43028) ; 

 egg of Curassow, Crax glohicera, and 

 nest of humming bird {Lampornis 

 prevostii) (43131); 36 birds' eggs and 6 

 nests, collected in Arctic America by E. A. 



Preble (43657); 5 mollusks, collected by 

 E. A. Goldman in California (44021); 20 

 mollusks from Texas, received through 

 Vernon Bailey (44022); 300 fresh-water 

 and land shells from Great Falls, Mont., 

 through Vernon Bailey (44111); 2 cray- 

 fishes from Sour Lake, Texas (44142); 

 land and fresh-water mollusks, collected 

 by J. H. Gaut at Sour Lake, Texas 

 (44154) : 19 birds' eggs, collected in Lower 

 Californa by E. A. Goldman (44281); 5 

 birds' eggs and nest of Scissor-tailed fly- 

 catcher, Milvulus forficatus, collected in 

 Texas by J. H. Gaut (44284) ; 7 birds' eggs 

 (44287): 12 land snails from Coronado 

 Islands, near San Diego, Cal., collected 

 by E. W. Nelson and E. A. Goldman 

 (44377); nest and 4 eggs of Parula 

 Warbler, Compsothlypis americana, col- 

 lected by H. W. Henshaw at Glen Echo, 

 Md. (44380) ; nest and 4 eggs of Grass- 

 hopper sparrow, Coturniculus savannarum 

 bimaculatus, collected in Nebraska by 

 Merritt Cary (44401); 8 birds' eggs, col- 

 lected in Lower California by E. W. Nelson 

 and E. A. Goldman (44402); 40 land 

 shells, collected in Texas by J. H. Gaut 

 (44447); 5 cacti, collected in Texas by 

 J. H. Gaut (44572); 45 shells from Pyra- 

 mid Lake, Utah, collected by Vernon 

 Bailey (44620). 



Bureau of Animal Industry, D. E. Sal- 

 mon, chief. Skull of a fox terrier (43351). 



Bureau of Entomology, L. O. Howard, 

 chief. 124 Lepidoptera and 25 Orthoptera 

 fiom Cuba, collected by E. A. Schwarz 

 (42944) ; isopod crustaceans (44122) ; sow- 

 bug from Berkeley, Va. (44262). 



Bureau of Plant Industry, B. T. Gal- 

 loway, chief. About 1,000 plants, reptiles, 

 insects, birds' eggs, mammals, and fishes 

 from Guatemala, collected by W. R. 

 Maxon (44279). 



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