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Murray, Coni^r Slcerritt, Corner Seelye, Admiral Jenkins, Comh^ L. A. 

 Beardske, Com'r George Dewey, Coni'r G. E. Belknap, WiUiam Bus- 

 sell, Mr. Quevedo. 

 Bureau of Navigation, Commodore Daniel Ammen. Specimens of 

 dredgings from tbe coast of California, United States Steamer 

 Tuscarora, Commander G. E. Belknap ; zoological and botanical 

 collections from the coast of Lower California, tbe Gulf of Cali- 

 fornia, and the Reviligigedo Islands, United States Steamer Nar- 

 rangansett. Commander George Dewey, coUected hy SurgeonWilliam 

 Evers; zoological, botanical, and etliuological collections, from 

 Palmyra and other Polynesian Islands, United States Steamer 

 Bortsmouth, Commander J. S. Skerritt, collected by Surgeons Wil- 

 liam H. Jones, and T. Hale Streets; nine specimens of bottom- 

 soundings from the Gulf-coast of Mexico, United States Steamer 

 Fortune. 

 Bolaris Expedition, Capt. C. E. Hall. One skeleton of polar bear 

 ( Ursus maritimus) from Greenland, collected by Dr. Emil Bessels. 

 Interior Department, U. S. A.: 



General Land-Office. See under tbe names of Surveyors- General L. 



Hardenhurgh and John Wasson. 



. United States Geological Survey of the Territories, (Brof. F. Y. Hayden 



in charge.) Four boxes of minerals itom Colorado, collected by 



Dr. F. M. Endlich. 



United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, {Brof. Spencer F. 



Baird, Commissioner.) Sixty boxes general zoological collections 



from Xoank, Conn., and vicinity, by Brof. A. E. Verrill, G. 



Brown Goode, and Tarleton H. Bean; one barrel of zoological 



specimens from Holyoke, Mass., collected by J. W. 2Iilner and C. 



D. Griswold; fishes from Waukegan, 111., collected by J. W.Milner; 



three boxes of Salmonidce from Sacramento River, Cal., collected 



by Livingston Stone; eggs of white-fish {Coregonus alhus) from 



Michigan, collected by N. W. Clark; eggs of salmon {Salmo salar) 



from Backsporr, Me., collected by C. G. Atkins; fifteen boxes of 



zoological specimens from Wood's Hole, Mass., and Cape Cod, 



collected by Vinal N. Edicards ; models of dory used on the coast 



of New England, and of drying flakes, from Portland, Me.; one 



model of fish-way from James D. Brewer, Muncy, Pa. 



Smithsonian Institution; Survey of the Colorado, [Maj. J. W. Bo well 



in charge.) Four boxes of fossils from Colorado. 

 Department of Agriculture, {Hon. Frederick Waits, Commissioner.) One 

 specimen of Menopoma alleghaniensis ; one bottle of reptiles. 

 Wasson, John, U. S. Surveyor-General for Arizona. One package of 

 minerals from New Mexico, and silver-ores from Santa Torreas mine; 

 minerals from Keystone mine, Arizona. 

 Waterhousc, Dr. A. A collection of butterflies from Chautauqua Co., 

 N. Y. 



