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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1899, 



MusEo MiciioACANo. (See under More- 

 lia, Mexico.) 



Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cam- 

 bridge, Mass. Received through Dr. 

 C. R. Eastman: Cast of an egg of a 

 fossiiostrich {Strufhiolithus chersunensis) ; 

 teeth of fossil fishes (Ceratodonts) (gift) 

 ( 33755 ) . Received through Dr. Walter 

 Faxon: 77 specimens of decapod crus- 

 taceans, representing 21 species (ex- 

 change) (34156); 90 specimens, repre- 

 senting 26 species of crabs (exchange) 

 (34789). 



Museum Public Library, Kansas City, 

 Mo., received through M. C. Long: 

 Electrotype of the Washington Peace 

 Medal, bearing date 1793. 34980. 



Museum Senckenbergianum. (See under 

 Frankfurt -am-Main. ) 



Nash, C. W., Toronto, Canada, received 

 through Dr. A. K. Fisher: Snake 

 {Stureria dckaiji) from Toronto. 34284. 



National Society of the Colonial 

 Dames of America, Miss Elizabeth 

 Bird Nicholas, Treasurer-General. Re- 

 ceived through Mrs. William Henry 

 Browne and Gen. Joseph Wheeler, 

 chair used by William Henry Harri- 

 son, President of the United States; 

 coat worn by Lord Fairfax of Green- 

 way Court, Va. ; bellows owned by 

 Elizabeth Bradford; silver candlestick 

 owned by the Delancey family; silver 

 spoon owned by the Cooper family; 

 silver teaspoon owned by Elizabeth 

 Langdon; silver salt-cellar without the 

 glass, 1745; 2 silver spoons owned by 

 William Byrd; china tea caddy owned 

 by Robert Carter; silver tablespoon, 

 1745, owned by William Byrd, and a 

 soup plate also owned by William Byrd 

 (34972). Received through Mrs. Wil- 

 liam Henry Browne, hand embroidery 

 on home-made linen woven by Mrs. 

 L. W. Knowlton; pastel portrait, on 

 vellum, of Hon. Oliver Wolcott, Paris, 

 1783 (35040). Received through Mrs. 

 Lucy Carter Trent, in behalf of the 

 Richmond branch of the society, col- 

 lection of historical relics consisting of 

 letter, glassware, silverware, etc. 

 (35082). Received through Mrs.Charles 

 Washington Coleman, autograph let- 

 ters and 2)apers of 13 signers of the 



National Society of the Colonial 

 Dames of America — Continued. 

 Declaration of Independence (35087). 

 Received through Mrs. Elizabeth Byrd 

 Nicholas, collection of historical relics 

 (35162). 



National Society of the Daughters of 

 the American Revolution. Received 

 through Mrs. William Lindsay: Piece 

 of the British ship Somerset; 3 let- 

 ters from daughters of Revolutionary 

 soldiers; order for payment of money 

 to General Lafayette; 3 dinner plates, 

 a frame and photograph (33792) ; coat 

 worn by Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, 

 on the occasion of his signing the Dec- 

 laration of Independence (34307); buff 

 silk embroidered waistcoat worn by 

 Copeland Parker, a descendant of the 

 Earls of Macclesfield, surveyor and in- 

 spector of the customs of the port of 

 Norfolk, Va., by appointment of Presi- 

 dent George Washington; wood from 

 home of John Hancock, Boston, Mass., 

 built in 1737 and destroyed in 1863; 

 letters, viz, from Anna Morse, Emily 

 Allen, A. I. H. Dyer, and members of 

 Old South Chapter, Boston, daughters 

 of soldiers of the war of the Revolu- 

 tion (34613); snuffbox used in the 

 Jones family, silver loving cup of Cap- 

 tain Parker, 2 cut-glass wine glasses 

 brought from England in 1750; coliMiial 

 miniature gilt portrait frame, pewter 

 tankard brought from P^ngland in 1639, 

 a pair of epaulettes owned by Gen. 

 Weir Smallwood, Revolutionajy A¥ar, 

 pewter candlestick brought from Eng- 

 land in 1750, colonial lantern brought 

 from England in 1750, oil portrait of 

 Susan Coates Jones (34731) ; 2 engrav- 

 ings, small gilded shield, block of wood 

 with 2 bullets embedded, found on 

 Cowpens battlefield, plate, cup, and 

 saucer (34743); collection of historic-al 

 relics (34851); blue and white china 

 platter with strainer (35137). 



National Geographical Society, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. : Harpoon head, taken 

 from a whale in Bering Sea. Deposit. 

 34838. 

 Navy Department, Hon. John D. Long, 

 Secretary: Received from Admiral 

 George Dewey, 2 brass trophy guns 



