7^2 Ri:i'ORT ON NATIONAL MUSliUM, 188G. 



" Va]i.ti;.\," t-lio (linmoml clnb; IVoni Japan. 



Dr. 1). BiiTiiUNE McCahtiok, W;i;sliingtoii, District of Colmiibiix. 17204. '86. 



(II, A) 



Chimney SwiF IS, Cliwtdra pclaf/ica (2 specimens). 



U. S. Fish Commission, Wood's Holl, Massaohnsetts. 1720.5. '86. (v, a) 

 Invertkbuatk Cri<:tack.ous Fossils, from Sononi and Pnohla, Mexico. 



SeriorAGUiLKRO, Mexican Geographical Exploring Commission, Mexico. 17206. 

 '86. (xiii, B) 

 Materia Medica, and chemical preparations. 



Dr. Theo. Sciiucharpt, Goerlitz, Germany. 17207. '86. (i) 

 Calciie, and calcite crystals with bitnminons coal. 



R. Ellsworth Call, Moline, Illinois. 17208. '86. (xvi) • 



Land and Fresh- water Mollusks, from Manitoba. 



Robert Miller Christy, Chignal, St. James, England. 17200. '86. (ix) 

 Trout, Salmo h-idens (!} specimens). 



\Vm. Montgomery, Verona, Missouri (through U. S. Fish Commission). 17210. 

 '86. (vn) 



Creast-pin, made of banded and moss agate, mounted with blood stones in silver. 

 Messrs. Harris AND Schafer, Washington, District of Colnmbia. 17211. '86. 



(XVI) 



F^GCiS of Archihuteo ferrngineiis, from northern Dakota. 



Capt. B. F. Goss, Pewankee, Wisconsin. 17212. '86. (v, b) 

 Larva of grasshopper, Hippiftcns discoidens, or H. pluvnlcoplcnis. 



G. D. Belt, Missoula, Montana. 17213. '86. (x) 

 Mannikin of an Arab; prepared in Paris under the supervision of the dinsctor of the 

 Trocaddro Musee. 



Jules Hebeut, 9 rue Henri Martin, Paris, France. 17214. 'S(^. (ii, a) 

 Opium-smoking Outfit, including pipes and other apparatus used by the Chinese. 

 This outtit has been in use and was confiscated by thi; poiiiu', in San Francisco. 



P.. Crowley, Chief of police, San Francisco, California. 17215. "86. (n, A) 

 Picture of a sniiset cloud, viewed from Taylor's Hill, Columbia, South Carolina. 



G. T. Berg, Colnmbia, South Carolina. 17216. 'S^. (xvii) 



Shell, Unio anodoiitoides. - 



Dr. W. S. Newlon, Oswego, Kansas. 17217. '86. (i) 

 Cotton, raised by slave la')or on the estate of the late J. Harvey Williamson, in Bc- 

 tliesda Township, South Carolina, in 1862. This cotton was packed before iron 

 ties came into use, and when no roping was to be had. Hickory withes were used, 

 and these are still in a state of good preservation. This is ^.robably the oldest 

 cotton in the world, and is certainly the only sample extant which was raised in 

 the manner peculiar to the hard times of the late war. 



W. L. RODDEY AND Co., Rock Hill, South Carolina. 17218. '86. (i) 

 Mkteoric Iron (37 grammes), from Gloriota Mountain, New Mexico. (Exchange.) 



George F. Kunz, New York City. 172K). '86. (xvi) 

 Wall Accretion. 



Colorado Smelting Company, South Pueblo, Colorado. (Through O. H. 

 Hahu.) 17220. '86. (xviii) 

 Diurnal Lepidoptera, a collection comprising many of the rarer American and 

 European Coh^optera. 



John B. Smith, U.S. National Museum. 17221. '86. (x) 

 Reptiles from Fort Custer, Montana. 



Capt. Charles E. Bendiuk, U. S. A., U. S. National Museum. 17222. '86. (vi) 



