REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 7'.) 



ancieut capital of Turkey. From Dr. Peters were also received a 

 weaving-loom, card, and shuttle. 



ISLANDS IN THE INDIAN OCEAN, 



Mr. Hugh Fulton, London, England, scut, in exchange, a specimen 

 of Volwta auliea L. 



Mr. Isaiah Greegor, Jacksonville, Florida, presented interesting- 

 marine shells. 



KXJ ROPE, 



Dl'.WIAKh. 



From Mr. N. C. Gram, Dyrefjord, Iceland, were received two ladies 1 

 side-saddles, one marked 178!> and the other reported to be 250 years 

 old. 



From the Icelandic Natural History Society, through Mr. Benjamin 

 Grondal, president, were received, in exchange, portions of a woman's 

 costume, carved vessels for food, and other ethnological objects from 

 Reykjavik, Iceland. 



Dr. D. S. Martin, New York, transmitted two specimens of lignite 

 from Disco Island, Greenland. 



Messrs. Wyekoff, Seauians & Benedict. New York City, transmitted 

 a Mallig-Hansen typewriter from Copenhagen. 



From Mr. Henry Balfour, Oxford. England, were received, in ex- 

 change, archaeological objects. 



Mr. George F. Harris, London, England, sent a collection of Eocene 

 fossils, chiefly from the Paris basin. 



Miss Katherine Parsons, Washington, I). C. deposited a sedan 

 chair formerly owned by the family of Louis XIV. 



From the Royal Zoological Museum, Florence, Italy, through Prof. 

 Henry Giglioli, director, were received archaeological objects from 

 France. 



GERMANY. 



From Dr. William Eichhoff, Strasburg, were received in exchange 

 type specimens representing 100 species of Scolytida'. all new to the 

 collection. 



Prof. Dr. A. Nehring, Berlin, transmitted, in exchange, seeds of 

 Cratopleura helvetica Nehringi, C. AVeber, found in peat at Klingi. 



From Prof. A. Streng, Giesseu, were received minerals, in exchange. 



GREAT 15RITAIN. 



From Prof. George S. Brady, Sunderland, were received in exchange 

 specimens of British fresh-water Cyclopidse. 



