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Oklahoma Territory. — Prom Rev. T. K. Voth, Darlington, was ob- 

 tained, by purchase, a tomahawk pipe. 



Ohio. — Mr. William II. MeGinniss, Xoungstown, presented 116 crys- 

 tals of selenite from Ellsworth, Mahoning County. 



Oregon. — From Dr. C. T. Cooke were received 2 skins of Steller's jay 

 (Gyanocitta stelleri), and a handsome nest of the same species, new to 

 the collection. 



Pennsylvania. — From Mr. R. D. Lacoe, of Pittston, was received the 

 first installment of his collection of fossil plants (known as the Lacoe 

 collection), presented by him to the National Museum. 



The Pennsylvania Railroad Company, through Mr. Joseph T. Rich- 

 ards, assistant chief engineer, transmitted a plaster cast of a bronze 

 table for the Bordentown monument, to mark the first piece of track 

 laid in the State of New Jersey, and also to commemorate the sixtieth 

 anniversary of the first movement by steam in New Jersey. 



From Mr. Edward S. Thompson, Thompsontown, were received 408 

 archaeological objects found along the Juniata River between Thomp- 

 sontown and Port Royal. 



Titus Ulke, Washington, D. C, presented rare specimens of coleop- 

 tera collected at Blue Ridge Summit. 



■From the U. S. Geological Survey, through Maj. J. W. Powell, 

 Director, was received a specimen of wavellite from Steamboat Springs, 

 Chester Comity. 



Rhode Island. — From Mr. George A. Lewis, Wickford, was received 

 an American eider (Somateria dresseri) in the flesh. 



South Carolina. — From the Wagner Free Institute of Science, Phila- 

 delphia, through Mr. Joseph Willcox, was received a collection of plio- 

 cene fossils from the Waccamaw River. 



South Dakota. — Mr. John II. Ainley, Rapid City, transmitted speci 

 men of hornblendic schist, showing free gold, from the Cross Mine. 

 Pennington County. 



From Mr. J. H. Caton, Rosebud Agency, was received a fossil turtle, 

 Stylemys nebraseensis, from Bad Lands, and impure opal from the same 

 locality. 



From the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass., were 

 received in exchange two lizards, collected by Prof. S. Garman. 



Texas. — From Prof. II. P. At t water, Rockport, was received a set of 

 eggs of Otocoris alpestris giraudi (new to the collection) and eggs of 

 Gardinali8 cardinalis and Mimus polyglotUis, selected to show extremes 

 in size and coloration, and forming a very interesting series. 



From the Department of Agriculture, through Prof. C. V. Riley, 

 were received 200 specimens of various orders of insects, collected by 

 Mr. C. G. Schaupp. 



Mr. L. G. Eakins, IT. S. Geological Survey, presented gadolinite from 

 Llano County. 



