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From Air. L. G. Eakins, of the Geological Survey, was received a 

 specimen of native gold in quartz from Potomac Mine Montgomery. 



Mr. C. W. Richmond transmitted a marsh hawk [Circus hudsonius), 

 and a long-eared owl (Asio wikonianm). 



Massachusetts. — Prof. William North Rice, Wesleyan University, 

 Middletown, Conn., transmitted rock and ores in exchange. 



Michigan. — Mrs. M. L. Narrin, Goodrich, transmitted specimens of 

 serpentine quartzite. 



Air. George W. Webster, Lake Helen, Fla.. sent !» species of land and 

 freshwater shells. 



Minnesota. — From the Bureau of Ethnology, through Maj. J. AY". 

 Powell, director, was received a collection of birch-bark scrolls and 

 mnemonic songs, obtained by Dr. W. J. Hoffman during tin' years 

 1887-88, '89 and '90, relating to the ritual of the Society of Shamans, 

 usually designated the '• Grand .Medicine Society. 1 ' 



Missouri. — From the F. S. Geological Survey, through Maj. -I. \V. 

 Powell, director, were received minerals collected by Dr. YY. P. Jenney, 

 in Aurora, Joplin and Sherwood. 



Montana. — From Prof. B. W. Evermann, of the U. S. Fish Commis- 

 sion, were received two specimens of Anabrus simpler II aid., collected 

 at Missoula. 



From the Fish Commission, through Col. Marshall .McDonald, com- 

 missioner, was received a collection of reptiles and batrachians collected 

 by the Commission in 1891, and specimens of iishes, including a new 

 species, collected during the summer of L891, by a Fish Commission 

 party under the direction of Prof. B. W. Evermann. 



Air. C. H. Hand, of Butte, transmitted through Messrs. Packard and 

 Alelville, of the V. S. Geological Survey, a specimen of granite with 

 native copper oxide, from Pice's Addition Mine. 



From Prof. A. D. Meeds, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, was 

 received an exceedingly fine slab of stone from the Fort Union Group 

 of southern Alontana, bearing the impression of eight fossil leaves, 

 among them a Populus, new to science. 



Mr. R. S. Williams, Great Falls, transmitted the nest and four eggs 

 of (reothhipis macgillivrayi, and nest and three eggs of Empirfonax fla 

 virentris, both of which are rare and valuable species. 



Nevada. — From Mr. Walter F. AVebb, Geneva, 1ST. Y., were received 

 15 eggs (5 sets) of Larus Cali/or ulcus from Pyramid Lake. 



Nebraska. — Prof. Robert Hay, of Kansas, sent a block of standstone 

 from the sandstone dyke in northeast Nebraska. 



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

 the Museum, the tootli of a specimen of Petalodm destructor, a carbon- 

 iferous selachian, collected by Mr. David A. Harrah. 



New Hampshire. — From Mr. H. P. Sharpless, Boston. Mass.. were 

 received two specimens of columbite from Wakefield. 



