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DONATIONS TO JAXl'ARY i, 1892. 



From O. J. Wilson, W. P. Anderson, Frank J. Jones, L. B. 

 Harrison, Jnlius Dexter and Robert Clarke: A fine collection 

 of East India Corals and Marine vShells, valued at S400.00. 



From J. Ralston Skinner: Several specimens of Fungus 

 (Astraeus hygrometricus), from Watch Hill, R. I. 



From The Cuvier Club: The D. H. Shaffer collection of 

 Shells, Minerals and Fossils. 



From Col. Jacob Bauer : Skin of a Catfish, tanned. 



From E. O. Hurd : Red Squirrel and Long-tailed Duck, 

 both from Minnesota, mounted. 



From Miss Bessie Owens : Texas Wild-cat, mounted. 



BOOKS AND P.VMPHLETS. 



From Hon. B. Butterworth : Reports of Smithsonian Inst., 

 1888-89; Bulletin of U. S. Fi.sh Com., Vol. VIII, 1888; Re- 

 port of Director of U. S. Geological Survey, Vol. I\'., 

 1888-89; Contributions to N. A. Ethnology, Vol. VI., Fourth 

 Annual Report Bureau of Ethnology, 1882-83 ; Reports of S. 

 P. Langley, 1889-90; Bulletin No. i, U. S. Board of Geo- 

 graphic Names; Bibliography of the Chemical Influence of 

 Light; Monographs U. S. Geol. Sur., Vol. X.; Tenth Annual 

 Report U. S. Geol. Sur.; Bulletins of U. S. Geol. Sur., Vols. 

 IV. and v.; Report of Sec. of Int., 1.S86-87, Vol. Ill, part 2 ; 

 Bulletins 14, 15, 16 and 17. U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey ; 

 U. S. Geol. and Geog. Survey of the Territories of Wyoming 

 and Idaho, parts i and 2, with maps ; Report of Explorations 

 made during 1888 in the Allegheny Region of \'irginia, N. 

 Carolina and Tennessee, and in Western Indiana, with an ac- 

 count of the Fishes found in each of the river basins of these 

 regions, by David Starr Jordan ; Suggestions for the employ- 

 ment of improved types of vessels in the market fisheries, 

 with notes on British fishing steamers, by J. W. Collins ; The 

 most recent methods of Hatching Fish Ivggs ; Notes on the 

 P'ishes collected at Cozumel, Yucatan, by Tarleton H. Bean ; 

 Ivxplorations of the Fishing Grounds of Alaska, Washington 

 and Oregon during 1888, by the U. vS. Fish Com. Steamer 

 Albatross; The F'isheries and Fishing Industries of the Tniled 



