r> REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, ls!»2. 



Mr. Alexander Lynch, President of the Bloomfield Kaolin and Phos- 

 phate Works, Gainesville, sent specimens of kaolin. 



From Dr. William L. Ralph, Utica, N. Y., was received a mounted 

 wolf, Canis lepus griseoalbus. 



From Mr. De Witt Webb, St. Augustine, were received archaeologi- 

 cal objects from shell-mounds. 



Mr.G-eorge Webster, Lake Helen, transmitted specimens of land and 

 fresh-water shells. 



Georgia. — Mr. J. C. Hart, Onion Point, through Mr. J. L. Black, 

 Blacksburg, S. ('., transmitted specimens of magnetic ores from the 

 line of Green County. 



From the U. S. Geological Survey, through Mai. I. W. Powell, director, 

 were received specimens of minerals. 



/^//^>.— Maj. J. W. Powell, director of the U. S. Geological Survey, 

 transferred to the National Museum minerals collected by Dr. W. H. 

 Melville in Mullan. 



Illinois. — Mr. ( ). Chanute, Chicago, presented a collection of antique 

 patterns of rail-sections, maps, and other objects. 



Indian Territory. — Mr. AY. H. Holmes. U.S. Geological Survey, trans- 

 mitted 3 rude implements of novaculite from an ancient Indian quarry. 



Indiana. — Mr. Frederick C. Test, U. S. National Museum, presented 

 reptiles and batrachians. 



From Mr. Benjamin Vail, Washington. D. C. was received a trilobite 

 found 3 miles west of Aurora. 



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

 transferred to the Museum specimens of minerals from Galena, col- 

 lected by Dr. W. P. Jenney. 



Kentucky. — From the V. S. Geological Survey, through Maj. J. W. 

 Powell, director, was received a specimen of chalcedony. 



Louisiana. — Mr. T. Wayland Vaughn, Mt. Lebanon. Bienville Parish, 

 presented freshwater shells representing 11 species. 



Maine. — From the Forest and Stream Publishing Company, New York 

 City, was received the head and tail of an Atlantic salmon (Salmo 

 salar) from the mouth of the Cabbassacontic River, sent by Mr. John 

 T. Richards, Gardiner, Me. 



From Dr. A. C. Hamlin, Bangor, were received in exchange 10 cut 

 specimens of tourmaline and 19 samples of red and green tourmaline. 



Dr. W. P. Jenney, TJ. S. Geological Survey, transmitted a specimen 

 of kyanite from Windham. 



Maryland. — From Mr. James E.Benedict, National Museum, were 

 received specimens of Gelasimus inma.c. 



From the Life-Saving Service. Treasury Department, was received a 

 skeleton of Physeter macroeephalus juv., from Green Run Inlet Life- 

 Saving Station, collected by Cap t. J. J. Dunton, keeper; also a rare 

 specimen of fossil crab, sea-horses and specimens of quartz, obtained 

 in the same manner. 



