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Barfsch, Franz. — Collection of mosses and algae, Austria. 



Becker, Alexander and F. White. — Large stereoscope and views. 



Bell, Hannah. — Indian stone relics, Allegan^^ county, New York. 



Bernay, Dr. F. T. — Collection of vegetable fibres, &c., Missouri. 



Berthoiid, Br. E. L. — Fossils, Indian relics, &c., Colorado. 



Briglmm d- Mann. — Series of corals, Sandwich Islands. 



Bisliop, N. II. — Skins and eggs of birds of Cuba. 



Blackburn, Charles and George. — Collection of birds' eggs, Iowa. 



Blake, W P. — Specimens of wool of mountain goat, Russian America. 



Bland, Thomas. — Collection of reptiles, spiders, &c., Inagua; 90 species of 



land shells, America. 

 Boardman, G. A. — Helminthophaga pcregrina ; sterna of birds, skins, eggs, &c., 



Maine. 

 Bolander, Br. H. N. — Collection of plants, California ; eggs of Grus canadensis, 



Sierra Nevada, California. 

 Bond, Dr. Thomas J. — Crotaphyhis in alcohol, Choctaw nation. 

 Brewer, Dr. T. M. — Types of eggs figured in North American oology, various. 

 Bryan, 0. N. — Box bird skins, fossil bones, &c. ; miocene fossils, Maryland. 

 Bulkeley, Colonel Charles S., (Robert H. Kennicott, William H. Dall, directors 



of scientific corps.) — 28 boxes of collections of the Russian Overland Tele- 

 graph Expedition, in all branches of natural history, collected in part by 



Bischofif, at Sitka. 

 Burton, Hon. A. A. — General zoological collections, minerals, &c., Bogota; 



sulphate of l)arytes, Kentucky. 

 Butcher, Dr. H. B. — General collection of birds, fossils, mammals, Texas. 

 Caldwell, B. — Box shells, Chappell island and Plover bay. 

 Canficld, Dr. C. A. — Three boxes zoological specimens, California. 

 Carmiol, Julian. — Birds, 23.3 species, seeds of palms, &c. ; mammals, shells, 



Costa Rica. 

 Christ, Bichard. — Box of birds' eggs, Pennsylvania. 

 Cla^y Brothers. — Collection of birds' eggs, Illinois. 

 Cotter, B. ^.—Birds' eggs, St. Michael's. 

 Cook, J. W. — Petrifaction. 



Cooper, Dr. J. G. — Nests, eggs, birds, reptiles, shells, California. 

 Crocker, Allan. — Numerous birds' eggs, ,&c., Kansas. 

 Csapkay, L. J., U. S. consid. — Carved wooden box, tobacco pouch, child's coat, 



drinking cup, cane, Hungary. 

 Dall, W. H. — General collections, North Pacific ocean, 

 Davis, Henry. — Indian relics and river shells, Iowa. 



Dayton, E. A. — Veitebra? of fossil saurian, opposite Aquia creek, Virginia. 

 Diehl, Israel S. — Wool of Angora goat raised in Ohio ; casts of Assyrian seals. 

 Dow, Captain J. 31. — Skin of tern, Veragua. 



Edmonds, Hon. J. W. — Stone axe, ancient mines of Lake Superior. 

 Edwards, Daniel. — Indian stoue relics, Genesee county. New York. 

 Endres, J. B. — Humming birds in skins and in alcohol, Costa Rica. 

 Fletcher, N. — Reindeer horns. Plover bay, Siberia. 

 Foreman, Dr. E. — Sco2)s asio, (young,) Maryland. 

 Freeman, Professor. — Collection of reptiles, insects, vampire bat, living achatina, 



fibres of blood-root, &c., Liberia, Africa. 

 Fox, Hon. J. v., U. S. N. — Three boxes minerals and metallm-gic specimens, 



Sweden. 

 Gibbs, George. — Specimens of limestone, Kansas. 

 Giraud, J. P. — Types of " 16 new species of Texas birds," Texas. 

 Glasco, J. M. — Grasshoppers, Texas. 

 Glover, Professor T. — Seeds of Bochmeria nivea. 

 Goulding, B. P. — Specimens of nickel and cobalt, Scotland. 



