Museum additions.] 240 [May 1, 



Labrador; two Fox skulls, skeleton of a Bat, and skeleton of a Rana, from Con- 

 cord, Mass., by Mr. H. Mann. Spirifers from an artesian well in Bothwell, 

 C. W., by Mr. H. A. Lawrence. Massive garnet, from Arrowsic Island, Bath, 

 Me., by Dr. A. S. Packard, Jr. Larva of Casstda aurichalcca, from South 

 Danvers, by Mr. Benj. D. Hill, Jr. Ore of Antimony, from New Bnmswick, by 

 Ml". G. A. Boardman. One hundred and twenty-five specimens of minerals and 

 ores, from Colorado, by Mr. C. J. Sprague. The skin of a large snake from 

 Cuba, and a Geotrupes, from Bristol, R. L, by Mr. E. C. Greenleaf. A lower 

 jaw and tibial bones of an Indian, from a mound in Fernandina, Florida; skull 

 of a pig from Fernandina, Fla. ; Coral from Florida Reefs; fossil Fish and Ceph- 

 alopod, from Mt. Lebanon, Syria; Eagle claws and skull of a skunk, from Wil- 

 liamstown, Mass.; clay burrowed by Termes frontalis Hald., from Salem, Jlass. ; 

 and two hundred and fifty specimens of Molhrsca in alcohol, from New Braun- 

 fels, Texas, by IMr. S. H. Scudder. Shell ornament, from the West Indies, by 

 G. H. Brown, M. D. Human foetus, by Dr. W. J. ]\Ien-iam. Six wild straw- 

 berries, from West Plymouth, N. H., by Dr. C. Pickering. Two hundred and 

 fifty vegetable substances and fruits, from Bombay, by Mr. H. H. Riinne. Two 

 specimens of Trichostema dichotomum var. rubellum, from Manchester, Conn., 

 by Mr. C. H. Olmstead. Five specimens of Algte, from Martha's Vineyard, by 

 Prof. Gunning. Thirty specimens of birds, from India, deposited by Mr. Horace 

 Mann. The bones of an elephant, by purchase. 



October 17. Two bones of ray, a hog-nosed snake, an embryo of a shark, and 

 three young crabs, from Cape Cod, by Mr. F. G. Sanborn. Twenty-three corals, 

 from the East Indies, by Capt. R. C. Adams. Cast of a skull of a small Hippo- 

 potamus, from Liberia, by the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. 

 A fragment of bone, from Oregon, by Dr. H. C. Perkins. A specimen of Blatta 

 americana, from East Indies, by Mr. C. Stodder. Nidus of Ichneumonidans, 

 from Jamaica, by Dr. H. Bryant. Twelve specimens of Gnaphallmn leontopo- 

 dium, from the Tyrol and Erzgebirge, Saxonj', by Mr. S. H. Scudder. Ten 

 specimens of fniit of Sandwich Island Palm, and three fungi, from the Ha- 

 waiian Islands, by Mr. H. Mann. Bark of Australian Cinnamon, and five spec- 

 imens of the fruit of Banksia, from Australia, by Dr. Ferd. JUiller. Four hun- 

 dred and fifteen shells, a barnacle and a stone adze, from the Hawaiian Islands; 

 eight corals and nine shells, from i\Iicronesia ; and five hundred and seventy-six 

 Mollusca, from the Marquesas Islands, by Rev. Edward Johnson. 



November 7. A stone sinker, used by the Indians, from Martha's Vineyard, 

 by Mr. J. C. J. Brown, Jr. Two lizai-ds. three spiders and three crabs, from San 

 Francisco, by Mr. C. A. Steams. A spider, from Bengal, by Mr. H. H. Ronne. 

 Flower-stalk of the date palm, from the Hawaiian Islands, by jMr. W. T. Brig- 

 ham. Thirty-four specimens of birds, mostly from Malacca, by Mr. N. P. 

 Hamlen. 



November 21. Skull of Felis domesticus, Boston, by Dr. F. H. Brown. Spec- 

 imens of Coscinodiscvs robustus. Auliscus codatus, AnUscus Hardmanimiits, Gly- 

 phodiscus stellatus, Actinoptychus splendens, Aci'moptychts nov. sp., and a Diatom 

 from California, by Mr. C. G. Bush. A Crustacean, by Mr. R. C. Greenleaf. 

 Three skins and two skeletons of mammals, from Belize, Central America, by 

 Dr. Henry Bryant. A mineral, from Colorado, by Dr. H. W. Williams. 



December 5. A fish, from the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, by Capt. N. 

 E. Atwood. 



December 19. Touchstones used by the old Italian goldsmiths for testing 

 gold, by Mr. Wm. Munroe. Three specimens of mollusca and eggs and one 

 Rav, from Nantucket, by :Mr. H. D. Child. 



January 2, 1867. Three Unionidoe and thirteen insects, from North Wren- 



