APPENDIX II. 



List of Accessions During the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 



189G. 



[All accessions ■which are marked (A) consist of material obtainert primarily for exhibition at the 



Atlanta Exposition.] 



Abbott, Dr. William L. (Philadelphia, 

 Pennsylvania): Pen drawing of a 

 primitiA'e still in actual use by the 

 natives of the eastein coast of Mada- 

 gascar (28960) ; a large and interest- 

 ing collection from Madagascar, con- 

 sisting of ethnological objects, mammal 

 skins and skulls, birds' skins, birds' 

 nests, insects from Madagascar and 

 Kashmir, shells, alcoholic reptiles and 

 a snake skin, specimen of eel, onuisical 

 instruments, and a model of a dug-out 

 "lakana,"' illustrating prim-itive boat- 

 building in the region where it was 

 obtained (29967) ; a valuable collection 

 of ethnological objects and natural-his- 

 tory specimens, compri.sing mammals, 

 shells, eagles, hawks, and other birds 

 and a snake skin, from Kashmir (30743) ; 



A.BEL, J. C. (Lancaster, Pa.) : Arrow and 

 spearheads, drilled ceremonial objects, 

 and fragments of pottery (29543) ; 283 

 stone implements, arrowheads, frag- 

 ments of pottery, etc., from Harford 

 County, Md. (29684); hammer stones, 

 rude chipped implements, and other 

 objects (29875) ; grooved hammer stones 

 and 2 grooved axes (29965); hammer 

 stones, grooved axes, arrowheads, and 

 other objects from the banks of the 

 Susquehanna River (30129). 



ACHESON, E. G. (See under The Carbo- 

 rundum Company.) 



ACKLEY, S. M., Lieut. Commander, U. S. 

 N, (Navy Department) : Sjtecimens of 

 American Sole or Hogchoker, AchirKs 

 lineatus, and Sole or Tonguetish, Apho- 

 ristia lilagiusa (?), from the Kio de la 

 Plata. 30634. 



Adler, Dr. Cyru.s (Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion) : Facsimile of the Leicester codex 

 of the New Testament, the first Ameri- 

 can edition of the Hebrew Bible, and 



Adleh, Dr. Cyrus— Continued, 

 two photographs of papyrus of the 

 Septuagint (deposit) (29796); plaster 

 model of the Temple Tower of Babylon 

 (gift) (29805) ; 2 fragments (jf manu- 

 script of a Hebrew Bible, the book of 

 Joshua Haupt's j)olychrome edition, 

 Syriac New Testament, Sbadius Arabic 

 version of the Pentateuch, Syriac Old 

 Testament, 2 manuscript Arabic Bibles, 

 and a manuscript Coptic Bible (29813) 

 (J) ; piece of pottery found in the year 

 1891 in an ancient quarry near Jerusa- 

 lem (gift) (30144) ; Bulgarian coin (gift) 

 (30319); costume of a Moorish child 

 from Tangier (gift) (30567). 



Adler, Dr. Felix (New York City) : Eth- 

 nological objects and 50 fragments of 

 pottery from a cave, "Dos Caraiuos," 

 near Acapulco, Mexico. Exchange. 

 30206. 



Adam.'^, H. Q. (Grahamville, S. C), 

 through Miss Eva L. Kirk : Specimens 

 of ancient cord-marked pottery frag- 

 ments, obtained from creeks. 29547. 



Agassiz, Prof. Alexander. (See under 

 Fish Commission, U. S., and Explor- 

 ing Expedition, U. S.) 



Agriculture, Department of, Hon. J. 

 Sterling Morton, Secretary : Specimens 

 of Ctenotwnia variabilis, Stiles, 1895, 

 from Long Island, Virginia, and Ames, 

 Iowa (29663) ; ' 7 specimens of land and 

 fresh-water shells, representing 4 spe- 

 cies, from the Dismal Swamp, Virginia. 

 (29680);' type specimens of Andnja 

 americanaleporis, Stiles, 1895; Darainea 

 retraciiUs, Stiles, 1895; Davainea sal- 

 moni, Stiles, 1895; Andrya americana, 

 Stiles, 1895; and Moniezia ohlongicepa, 

 S. & H., 1893 (29936);! type specimen 

 of Baryssinns leguminicola, Liuell 

 (30047) ; ' 2 specimens of Zopherus costa- 



Deposit. 



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