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Pearce, Jason &., & Co. Basket of shell oysters; from Rhode Island. 

 Accession 12519. 



Peary, R. E., TJ. S. N. Fine specimen of coral attached to a crow-bar, 

 found in 6 fathoms of water at Key West, Fla. Accession 13478. 



Pena, H. D. Specimen of common frying-pan covered with barnacles 

 and large coral ; from Bay of La Paz, Lower California. 



Pengelty, William. Chest of fossil bones; from Kent's Cavern, near 

 Lamonia Torquay. Accessions 13075. 



Perry, N. H. Collection of sixty-four specimens of minerals ; from 

 Maine. Accession 13524. 



Peters, T. E. Specimen of insect; from Virginia. Accession 13257. 



Petroff, Ivan. Tobacco pouch and pair of buck mittens ; from Indians 

 of Alaska. Accession 12802. 



Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. Specimen of fruit of the double 

 cocoanut. Accession 13831. 



Phillips, Bar net. Pair of Turkish slippers, game of thirty-one, fresh 

 mackerel (Scomber scombrus), and specimens of the leaves and fruit of 

 the Ogeechee lime ; from near Savannah, Ga. Accessions 12757, 

 13066, 13350, 13711. 



Phillips, William, & Son, One slab each of Japan Sea, Northwest, and 

 South Sea whalebone. (Purchased.) 12825. 



Picking, Henry T., TJ. S. N. A nickel-plated working model of the Cour- 

 tenay automatic whistling buoy. 12836. 



Pierce, Eugene. Specimen of living water-snake ; from Virginia. Ac- 

 cession 13232. 



Pike, Nicholas. Alcoholic collection of reptiles and worms ; from Mauri- 

 tius. Accession 13444. 



Poey, Prof. Felipe, Valuable collection of alcoholic fishes, alligator, 

 sharks' jaws, and stuffed specimen of seal ; from Cuba. Accessions 

 134G3, 13561. 



Poole, George, Specimen of raccoon (Procyon lotor); irom Virginia. 

 Accession 13725. 



Potts, Edward. Collection of fresh-water sponges in alcohol and micro- 

 scopic slides. Accession 12752. 



Poicell, J. W. Collection of thirteen hundred and twenty-nine stone 

 implements, specimens of tufa and obsidian, six packages of rocks, 

 collected by the United States Geological Survey, two plaster casts 

 of the Grand Canon of the Colorado, and two of the Henry Mount- 

 tains, and sample of water; from Athbert Lake, Oregon. Acces 

 sions 12667, 12697,12931,12962, 13121, 13283,13618,13652, 13760, 13701. 



Powers & Weightman (Philadelphia, Pa.). Ten boxes containing a large 

 and collective exhibit of chemicals of their own manufacture. Ac- 

 cession 12787. 



Prang, L., & Go. (Boston, Mass.) A complete exhibit showing the 

 process and materials used in the art of lithography. Accessions 

 13100, 13125, 13168, 



