7C REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1892. 



Vermont. — Mr. C. 1). Walcott, U. S. Geological Survey, transmitted 

 specimens of contorted slate from Rutland County. 



Virginia. — From the Bureau of Ethnology, through Ma]. J. W. Powell, 

 Director, was received a collection of archaeological objects from a mound 

 in Rockingham County. 



Mr. Walter Morel and, Washington, D. C, sent a specimen of .Larimus 

 fasciatus, rarely found on our Atlantic coast. This is the second speci- 

 men so far recorded from Chesapeake Bay. 



Washington. — Robert Intram, esq., of Chenoweth, presented a speci- 

 men of centiped (Chomatobius ruber), a species now occurring in the Bast, 

 and a specimen of milleped, new to science. 



West Virginia. — From Mr. John R. Huddleston, Kanawha Falls, was 

 obtained, by purchase, a double-headed snake. 



Wyoming. — From the U. S. Fish Commission, through Col. Mel )onald, 

 were received 055 specimens of fishes, including Leuciscus gilli, a new 

 species, collected during the summer of 1890, by a Fish Commission party, 

 under direction of Prof. B. W. Evermann. 



Miscellaneous. — Prof. S. L. Fairfield, New Haven, Conn., presented 

 specimens of minerals from various localities. 



Admiral and Mrs. .lames E. Jouett deposited a dish and ewer of 

 precious metals, presented to Admiral Jouett for services rendered in 

 saving from shipwreck the British steamship Historian in the Caribbean 

 Sea in 1885. 



Mr. Robert Ridgway, U. S. National Museum, presented birds' 

 skins, consisting of selected specimens, each one remarkable for some 

 more or less marked peculiarity of plumage. 



From Dr. Leonhard Stejneger, U. S. National .Museum, were received 

 birds" skins, including a series of Sitta cassia, from various localities. 



The U. S. Geological Survey, through Ma.j. J. W. Powell, Director, 

 transferred to the Museum a collection of fossil insects, described and 

 figured by Prof. S. 1 1. Scudder, of the Geological Survey, in volume xm, 

 Hayden Reports ; fossil plants, transmitted by Dr. J. S. Newberry, of 

 Columbia College, to the Survey, and specimens of minerals from va- 

 rious localities. 



ISLANDS IX THE ATLANTIC OCI'.AX. 



St. Helena. — From Capt. W. H. Turton, P. P., Brompton Barracks, 

 Chatham, England, were received shells, comprising over 400 species, 

 a contribution of special interest and value. 



WEST INDIES. 



From Dr. John F. Chittenden. Victoria institute, Trinidad, through 

 Hon. William Pierce, U. S. Consul, were received specimens of Achirus 

 lineatus and Azevia n. sp. 



Mr. C. W. Cunningham, through Maj. J. W. Powell, Director of the 

 Geological Survey, transmitted samples of crude potroleum. 



