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Buack, G. F., New York City: Electro- 
types of Seotch and_other antiquities 
(44941). 
Buack, Gen. Joun C., Civil Service Com- 
mission, Washington, D. C.: Luna | 
moth, Tropha luna (461382). 
BuackrorbD, CHarues M., Staunton, Va.: | 
Long-sting, Megarhyssa lunator (46039). 
Buackiston, A. H., Flagstaff, Ariz.: Col- | 
lection of pottery, stone implements, | 
ana human bones from Casas Grandes 
Valley and Cave Valley, Chihuahua, 
Mexico(11152) ; shell and stone objects, 
bones, etc., from the same localities 
(11311). Loan. 
BiackmMar, estate of Gen. W. W.: Chair 
in which General Grant sat when sign- | 
ing thearticles of capitulation at the sur- 
render of the army of General Lee at 
Appomattox Court House, April 9, 
1865 (received through Geo. B. Knapp, 
executor) (45493). 
BLAKESLEE, A. F., Halle, Germany: 2 
specimens of fungus, Phycomyces nitens 
(45727). 
Bianey, Dwieut, Bar Harbor, Me.: 230 
specimens of mollusks from French- 
mans Bay, Me. (44712). 
BuLANKE, Cyrus F., St. Louis, Mo.: Piece | 
of a log which formed a part of the 
cabin built by General Grant in 1854 | 
(45490). | 
Buankinsuip, J. W., Bozeman, Mont.: 
500 plants from Montana (45232: pur- | 
chase ). 2 
Buumer, J. C., Washington, D. C.: 3 liv- 
ing specimens of cacti from New 
Mexico (45626); 146 plants from New 
Mexico (46014). 
Boarman, W. A., Cherrydale road, Fair- | 
fax County, Va.: Pair of iron tongs | 
found in 1862 on General Washington’s 
birthplace, Wakefield, Va. (46097). 
Bours, Miss Lucy Dix, Brookline, Mass. : 
Brick from porcelain tower at Mankin; | 
brick of solid tea (sometime used as 
money), and a sword made of per- 
forated copper coins (45436). | 
Boorn, P. L., Danville, Va.: Larva of | 
moth, Megalopyge opercularis (44855). 
Boswortn, A. §., Fishing Hawk, W. Va.: 
Fossil plants (44778). 
REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1906. 
BovutweE.., G. B., Monte Vista, Colo.: 
Specimen of tench, Tinca vulgaris 
(45771). 
Bownken, J., Stillwater, Okla.: Larva of a 
butterfly, Papilio sp. (46078). 
Bowers, SAMUEL, Bisbee, Ariz.: 51 cases 
of a bag-worm, Oiketicus townsendi 
(44731; 45392). 
Bowers, SrepHen, Los Angeles, Cal.: 
Specimen of coelenterate, Cenocyathus 
n. sp., from California (45148). 
Braptey, Mrs. N. D., Richmond, Va.: 
2 garden spiders, Argiope riparia (?) 
(44934). 
BRAINERD, Dwiaut, Montreal, Canada: 
2 types of new species and variety of a 
moth, Gortyna (44728: exchange). 
BRAINERD, Ezra, Middlebury, Vt.: 33 
specimens of violets from Vermont. 
(45809: exchange). 
BRANDEGEE, T. S., San Diego, Cal.: 3 
plants from California (45103: ex- 
change); 6 specimens of umbelliferous 
plants from Mexico (45400); 6 plants 
from California and Mexico, 4 of them 
collected in Mexico by C. A. Purpus 
(45717; 45878; 45951: exchange). 
Braun, Miss A. F., Cincinnati, Ohio: 9 
tineid moths representing rare species 
(45422). 
BraverMAN, M., Visalia, Cal.: 2 German 
passports (46020). 
BRAZILIAN CoMMISSION AT THE LOUISIANA 
PurcHaAsE Exposition: Ores and non- 
metallic minerals from Brazil (44636). 
Brewster, A. B., Koyukuk District, 
Alaska: Gold nugget (crystal) weigh- 
grams (45440); plaster casts of 
2 gold nuggets from Myrtle Creek, 
Koyukuk District (45515). 
BrimLEy BrorHers, Raleigh, N. C.: 5 
batrachians (46060: purchase). 
Brimtey, C. S., Raleigh, N. C.: 4 speci- 
mens of Chologaster cornutus and Cope- 
landellus quiescens from Ellis Lake, 
North Carolina (44673); eggs of Scaphi- 
opus holbrooki and larvee of Engystoma 
(45200); salamander from North Caro- 
lina (45259); 30 specimens of Orthop- 
tera (45546); tree-frogs and salaman- 
ders (45633); 2 salamanders from North 
Carolina (46059). 
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