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Gilllss, Lieut. J. 3/., U. S. N. — Fossils Irom Caldcra, Chili. 



Girard, C. — Fishes from Maine. 



Guest, W. E. — Two heads of common deer, {Ccrvus Virginianits,) 

 skins of cross fox and otler. 



IlojiJiins, Wm. — Collection of fishes from Cayuga lake. 



IIo)j, Dr. F. B. — Fishes and reptiles from Racine, Wisconsin ; skins 

 of birds from Wisconsin. 



Jarvls, Dr., U. S. A. — Gold and silver ores from INfexico. 



Keller, J. S. — Geological specim(nis from Schuylkill county, Penn 

 S3"lvnnia. 



Kclsoj, W. — Cr>-stallized copper from Cliff mine. Lake Superior. 



Kennedy, Hon. J. P., Sccrctarij of the Navy. — Plants collected around 

 the Dead Sea by Captain Lynch, U. S. N. 



Kurtz, Lieut. J. D. — Large collection of recent and fossil shells from 

 the coast of Soutii Carolina ; shells and crustaceans, in alcohol and 

 dried, from Charleston harbor ; algae from the same locality. 



Lindheimer, F. — Fishes, reptiles, crustaceans, &c., from New Braun- 

 fels, Texas. 



Leivis, K. — Stone used by the Lidians in dressing skins, from the 

 fork of the Arkansas and Verdigris riveis. 



Marsh, Ho7i. George F. — Collection of shells, seeds, crocodiles' eggs, 

 &c., from Egypt. 



Marshall, B. — Tooth of mastodon, found thirty-five miles above the 

 mouth of Grand river, near Fort Gibson. 



Maury, Lieut. M. F. — Skin of young manatus, from the Amazon. 



Marcy, Capain B. B., and Caj^itain McClcllan. — Fishes, reptiles, and 

 insects, from Red river, Arkansas. 



Noj-wood, Dr. J. G. — Fishes Irom the Wabash river. 



Porter, Professor T. C. — Fishes, &c., from near Mercersburg, Pa. 



Prcscott, Dr. JVm. — Typical specimen of Coregonus novanglice. Lake 

 Winnipisiogee. 



Prince, George — Specimen of Chironectcs, Crustacea, and gulf-weed, 

 from the Gult Stream. 



Bnfi, Professor C. C., through J. F. JiUson. — Stone axes, arrow-heads, 

 &c., from Denmark. 



Badgers, Lieut. John, U. S. N. — Fish caught in sounding-line off 

 Cape Florida ; soundings from same locality. 



Bogers, Professor W. B. — Lifusorial earth Irom near Richmond, Vir- 

 ginia, and from Barbadoes. 



Buhl, F. — Skeletons of bat, Vesperfilio prninosus; of a fish, Taufoga 

 Americana ; skeleton of Coluber and skin of Ilarelda glacialis, from New 

 York. 



Saford, Professor J. M. — Fifty species of Unionida', fiom Tennessee. 



Sears, Alfred. — Tusk and tooth of fossil elephant, from diluvium near 

 Wheeling ; Lidian remains from a mound near the same locality. 



Shumard, Dr. B. F. — Plants and slu^lls collected in Oregon ; collec- 

 tion of reptiles from Mississippi. 



Stanley, J. M. — Porcupine (piills, as colored for maniificturing pur- 

 poses, by the Lidians of Arkansas; skin of Felis onca, or, jaguar, and 

 of Dicotylcs torepiatus, or peccary, from Texas ; interlocked horns of 

 two deer, Ccrvus Virginianus ; horns of ditto in the velvet. 



