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Colorado. — From Mr. T. Charlton, Denver, w.eie received three teeth 

 of extinct llama (Auchenia hesternd), 



From Mr. Thomas II. Jackson, West Chester, Pa., was obtained, by 

 purchase, a set of eggs of the white-railed ptarmigan [Lagopus ten- 

 dinis). 



Mr. W. W. .Jones, Silver ('lift', presented specimens of cerussite and 

 nadorite with cerussite. 



From Mr. S. Ward Loper, F. S. Geological Survey, were received 

 specimens of banded jasper from Canon City. 



Dr. William L. Ralph, Utica, N. Y., presented two skins of saw-whet 

 owl (Nyetala acadica), a flammulated screech owl (Megascops jiammeo- 

 lus), and a woodpecker (Dryobates villosits hyloscopus). 



Maj. J. W. Powell, director of the U. S. Geological Survey, transferred 

 to the Museum minerals and rock showing" slickensides, collected by 

 Prof. S. L. Penfleld. 



Connecticut. — Mr. S. Ward Loper, U. S. Geological Survey, presented 

 a specimen of angite rock from East Bock, and sent in exchange two 

 slabs of shale with rain-prints from Durham. 



From Prof. William .North Rice, Wesleyan University, Middletown, 

 were received rocks and ores in exchange. 



The Singer Manufacturing Company, Hartford, transmitted an old- 

 style Singer sewing machine, and one of the latest style of manufac- 

 ture. 



District of Columbia, — Mrs. S. S. Cox deposited the memorial vase 

 presented to her by the members of the Life Saving Service of the 

 United States in commemoration of the services of the late S. S. Cox. 



From Mr. H. W. Henshaw, Bureau of Ethnology, was received a fine 

 set of mounted herbarium plants, representing the fauna Quercus, 

 Aster, and Solidago, forming a very complete and valuable addition to 

 the collection. 



From Gen. M. C. Meigs, through his executors, Montgomery Meigs 

 and Mary M. Taylor, were received medals, bronzes, and other histori- 

 cal relics. A full description will be found in the accession list, Sec* 

 tion v. A revolving rifle of very early pattern, invented about 1835, 

 made at Bochester, by Billiughnrst, seven colored sketches, and twenty- 

 three pencil sketches had been previously transmitted by General 

 Meigs. 



Dr. E. W. Shufeldt, U. S. Army, Takoma Park, transmitted a model 

 of a fossil bird, Archceopteryx macrura,from Solenhofen, Bavaria. 



Mr. Charles AY. Richmond, of the Department of Agriculture, trans- 

 mitted 3,000 birds' skins. 



Florida. — The Florida Phosphate Company. Phosphoria. transmitted 

 samples of phosphate rock from various counties. 



From Dr. E. M. Hale, Chicago, 111, was received a snake, Osceola 

 elapsoidea. 



