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REPORT 0¥ NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1899. 



Maxon, W. R., U. S. National Museum: 

 Three ferns from Jamesville, N. Y. 

 (34380); plants (34681); fern (34685); 

 12 plants (34954); collection of insects 

 (35140). 



Maxson, H. B., Reno, Nev. : Ores, mar- 

 bles, and petrified wood. 34659. (O. ) 



Mayer Pottery Company, Beaver Falls, 

 Pa.: received through Dr. Walter 

 Hough: Eight specimens of colored 

 glassware. 34052. 



Meadows, E. W., Pamplin, Va. : Moth, 

 Choerocampus tersa Linnaeus. 34130. 



Means, T. H., Department of Agricul- 

 ture: Specimen of fuller's earth from 

 Quincy, Fla. 34534. 



MEARNs,"Dr. E. A., U. S. A.: Collections 

 of natural history speciinens and eth- 

 nological objects (33829, 33874) ; fishes, 

 insects, and shells from Fort Clark, 

 Tex. (34429); 5 beetles and 39 skulls of 

 manmials from Lexington, Ky. (34461) ; 

 birds' skins from Lexington, Ky., and 

 plants from Chickamauga National 

 Park, Georgia (34482); natural history 

 specimens from Texas and Georgia 

 (34611, 34676); moUusks from New- 

 port, R. I. (35062). 



Mearns, Louis di Zerega, Fort Clark, 

 Tex. : Fifty-six birds' skins from Texas 

 (deposit) (33880); 3 plants from Texas 

 (gift) (34083); skin and skull of Gray 

 Squirrel, Sdurus carolinensis (deposit) 

 (34483) ; 28 mammal skins and 30 mam- 

 mal skulls (deposit) (34706). 



Meek, A. K., Washington, D. C. : Twelve 

 specimens of fungi. 34874. 



Melford, Miss A. I., Washington, D. C. : 

 Three plants from New Mexico. 34145. 



Melville, W. P., Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. : 

 Four birds' skins from Angola. Ex- 

 change. 34907. 



Mercer, W. J. (See under Smithsonian 

 Institution, Bureau of Ethnology. ) 



Meredith, H. C. (See under Smithson- 

 ian Institution, Bureau of Ethnology. ) 



Merivale, Walter, Bridgeton, Barbados, 

 West Indies: Specimen of Merivale 

 manjak, or mineral bitumen, from Bar- 

 bados, West Indies. 34897. 



Merriam, Dr. C. Hart, Department of 

 Agriculture: Yellow Rail, Porzana 

 noveboracensis Audubon. 34415. 



Merriam, E. D., Conneaut, Ohio: Skull 

 of a Catfish, Ameirus laaistris. 33981. 



Merrill, E. D., Orono, Me.: received 

 through Dr. T. H. Bean: Three speci- 

 mens of Stickleback , Gasterosteus atkinsii. 

 34925. 



Merrill, Dr. G. P., U. S. National Mu- 

 seum: Drift bowlder from Lincoln, 

 N. H. 33832. 



Metcalf, J. K., Silver City, N. Mex. : 

 Seven plants. 34452. 



Meyers, Max, Sheridan, Mont.: Speci- 

 men of wad. 35108. 



Mexican Amola Soap Company, Peoria, 

 111. : Collection of yucca roots. 33887. 



Michelsen, Hon. Chris., received 

 through Capt. J. W. Collins, U. S. Fish 

 Commission: Model of the steamship 

 Merrimar, sunk by Lieutenant llobson 

 at Santiago. 34490. 



MiDDLETON, Mrs. J. J., Washington, 

 D. C. : Shell representing the genus 

 Anomla. 34462. 



Miguel, Jean, Barroubio, Herault, 

 France: Seven hundred and ninety- 

 eight specimens of European fossils 

 from the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, andCeno- 

 zoic horizons. Exchange. 34712. 



Miller, A. W., Portland, Oreg.: Ores, 

 building stones, ochers, and petrified 

 wood. 34654. (O.) 



Miller, B. D., Peterboro, N. Y.: Speci- 

 men of albinistic Red Squirrel, Sdurus 

 hudsonicus, from Peterboro, N. Y. 

 35160. 



Miller, C. L. (See under Smithsonian 

 Institution, Bureau of Ethnology.) 



Miller, E. E., Canton, Ohio: Plant. 

 34116. 



Miller, Gerrit S., jr., U. S. National 

 Museum: Plant (33742); 14 plants from 

 the District of Columbia (33913); 

 spiders (33923) ; skin of Coccyzus balrdi 

 from Jamaica (33931); small collection 

 of fishes from North Truro, Mass., and 

 from the Shenandoah River (33974); 

 snake from Maryland (33985); 2 plants 

 from Maryland (34085); 2 specimens of 

 bats {PipistuJlus stdijlavus and Lasiurus 

 horealis) (34095) ; 2 specimens of 3Ius 

 musculus and a specimen of Scalops 

 aquatieiis from Forest Glen, Md. (34189) ; 

 11 mammals (34290) ; snake from Mary- 

 land (34538); specimen of Night Hawk, 



