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REPOKT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1899. 



Ellis, J. E., San Francisco, Cal.: Lime- 

 stone used for makinji quicklime. 

 34292. 

 Elmer, A. D. E., Pullman, Wash.: Five 

 hundred plants from Idaho and Wash- 

 ington (33795) ; 225 plants from Wash- 

 ington ( 34931 ) . Purchase. (See under 

 C. V. Piper.) 

 Elrod, M. J., Missoula, Mont. : Land and 

 fresh-water shells and mollusks from 

 Montana, representing 9 species. 

 33926. 

 Emme, D. H., Wympsgap, Pa. : Fireclay. 



34195. 

 Emmons, S. F., U. S. Geological Survey: 

 Fifty specimens of fossils from Payte, 

 Peru. 35072. 

 English, G. L., & Co., New York City, 

 N. Y. : Three specimens of jeffersonite 

 with garnet, willemite, franklinite, and 

 calcite, from Franklin, Sussex County, 

 N. J. (34590); 2 specimens of triplite 

 and 1 specimen of lepidolite from Had- 

 dam. Conn. (34816). 

 Entvvisle, W. B., it. S. National Museum: 

 Regulation belt and buckle of the U. S. 

 Army, 1861-1865; 2 Minie rifle bullets, 

 from the battlefield of Winchester, Va. 

 35091. 

 Ettinger, Charles S., Jersey City, N. J. : 

 Kaolin from Texas. 34540. (See under 

 Frio Kaolin Mining and Improvement 

 Company, Dallas, Tex. ) 

 EusTis, G. H., Boston, Mass.: A remark- 

 able oyster from Charles River, INIassa- 

 chusetts. 34304. 

 Evans, Capt. R. D., U. S. Navy: Section 

 of plate, chain lockers, from the U. S. S. 

 Iowa, perforated by a Spanish shell. 

 34076. 

 Evans, W. II., Tusiloff, Alaska, received 

 through Department of Agriculture: 

 Small collection of insects, consisting of 

 about 75 specimens from Tusiloff 

 (34182); 2 plants from Alaska (34584). 

 Everett, Wesley. (See under Leslie 



Copper Mining Company. ) 

 EvERMANX, Prof. B. W. (See under Fish 



Commission, 1". S. ) 

 EvERMANN, T. B., Washington, D. C. : 

 Thirty dragon flies and butterflies. 

 34434. 

 Faber, John, Dallas, Tex.: Insect. 3391S. 



Fairchild, D. G., Department of Agri- 

 culture: Five hundred specimens of 

 Algje in alcohol and subtropical plants 

 from the Mediterranean region (33764) ; 

 collection of Javanese insects, a few 

 lizards and snakes from Buitenzorg, 

 Java, and the skin of a fruit-eating bat 

 from the botanical gardens at Buiten- 

 zorg (34330). 

 Fall, H. C, Pasadena, Cal: Three spe- 

 cies of Acmseodera, new to the INIuseum 

 collection. Exchange. 34692. 

 Fannin, John, curator Provincial Mu- 

 seum, Victoria, British Columbia: 

 Eleven birds' skins. 34093. 

 Farmer, MissS. J., Eliot, Me. : Collection 

 of electrical apparatus. Deposit. 34583. 

 Faxon, Dr. Walter. (See under Mu- 

 seum of Comparati^■e Zoology, Cam- 

 bridge, Mass.) 

 Featherstonhaugh, Thomas, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. : John Brown pike and a 

 Sharp's rifle. Deposit. 35097. 

 Ferriss, J. H., Joliet, 111.: Eight species 

 of land shells from Tennessee and other 

 localities (exchange) (34446); 15 spe- 

 cies of land shells from Arkansas, Ten- 

 nessee, and Indian Territory (gift) 

 (34833). 

 Fewkes, Dr. Walter. (See under Smith- 

 sonian Institution, Bureau of Ethnol- 

 ogy. ) 

 Fire Department, Fire-Alarm Branch, 

 Boston, INIass., received through H. S. 

 Russell, Fire Commissioner: Channing 

 & Farmer fire-alarm telegraph signal 

 box used in Boston in 1852; improved 

 fire-alarm telegraph signal box used in 

 Boston in 1867; fire-alarm telegraph 

 repeater used in Boston in 1852. 34714. 

 Fischer, C. F. Hermann, New Braunfels, 

 Tex. : Specimen of glauconitic marl. 

 35124. 

 Fish Commission, U. S., Hon. George M. 

 Bowers, Commissioner of Fish and 

 Fisheries: Pipe-fish, Fistularia tahar- 

 caria (33951); seaweeds (33993); mol- 

 lusks and marine invertebrates col- 

 lected on the Pacific coast of North 

 America in 1897 and 1898 (34060); 

 Tile-fish (34128); type specimens of 

 fishes, consisting oi Paraliparisrosaceus, 

 Bathylagus mUlen, and Ulocentra meadix 

 (34148); fishes from Lake Superior, 



