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Ward, C. W. Collection of bird skins and general natural history; from 



Florida. Accessions 13156, 13763, 13842. 

 Ward, Prof. H.A. Specimen of Auduboniaoccidentalis. Accession 1 2849. 

 Ward, William A. Specimen of living snake from Virginia. Accessiou 



13695. 

 Warsaw Salt Company. Three bottles containing samples of salt ; from 



Warsaw, N. Y. Accession 13677. 

 Washington, D. C. : 

 Biological Society. Living specimen of turtle; from the District of 



Columbia. Accession 13074. 

 Treasury Department : 



U. S. Life Saving Service. Thirty pieces of apparatus and four 

 boxes of exhibits, loaned for the International Fisheries Exhibi- 

 tion at London, England, 1883. Accessions 12947, 12948. (See 

 also under name of Henry E.Nichols.) 

 Light-House Board. Twenty models of light-houses, &c, loaned 

 for the International Fisheries Exhibition at London, England, 

 1883. 

 War Department : 

 Medical Department. (See under names of Drs. R. W. Sliufeldt, 



Henry C. Yarrow, and Hospital Steward Charles Ruby.) 

 Quartermaster's Department. (See under name of M. C. Meigs.) 

 Engineer Department (See under names of 0. E. Babcock, Peter C. 



Hains, and George M. Wheeler.) 

 Signal Service, U. S. A. A collection of twenty-three boxes, three 

 tanks, four kegs, and two bales of general natural history speci- 

 mens; from the Point Barrow Expedition, Lieut. P. H. Pay, in 

 charge, assisted by Profs. John Murdock and Middleton Smith. 

 (See also under names of W. B. Hazen, John J. McLean, and 

 Charles L. McKay (deceased). 

 United States Army. (See under names of Alfred H. Terry, E. Crau- 

 ford, Charles Bendire, W. L. Carpenter, and Stewart Van Vliet.) 

 Navy Department : 

 Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. (See under name of Dr. John F. 



Bransford.) 

 Bureau of Navigation, John G. Walker, chief of bureau. Seven pack- 

 ages of general natural history specimens ; from Greenland, taken 

 by United States steamer Yantic, Commander Frank Wildes. 

 (See also under names of H. F. Picking, John E. Winn, William 

 M. Wood, Francis Winsloiv, Jefferson F. Moser, and!/. G. Dressel, 

 A. A. Ackerman, and Ernest Wilkinson.) 

 Bureau of Provisions and Clothing. (See under names of Samuel 



W. Very and Henry E. Nichols.) 

 Bureau of Engineering. (See under names of George W. Melville, 

 William A. Mintzer and Robert E. Peary.) 



