SO REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, L892. 



From Messrs. Elkington & Company, London, was received an elec- 

 trotype reproduction of Tycho-Baehe's quadrant. 



Mr. A. E. Foote, Philadelphia, transmitted in exchange specimens 

 of anglesite and matlockite from Cromford, Derbyshire. 



From Mr. C. D. Walcott, U. S. Geological Survey, were received 

 eckinoids, specimens of flint, and the tooth of a shark from the creta- 

 ceous chalk of Croydon. 



From C. II. Pennypacker, West Chester, Fa.. were obtained, by pur- 

 chase, specimens of adamite and smithsonite. 



NORTH HOLLAND. 



Mr. Edward Lovett, Croydon. England, tramsraitted ;i curious old 

 Hint. 



ITALY. 



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

 Henry Giglioli, director, were received archaeological objects ami 

 spon gesi 



Dr. G. Frown Goode, Assistant Secretary. National Museum, collected 

 for the Museum twenty -three pieces of Savony faience. The potteries 

 have been discontinued for nearly two centuries, and the pieces are 

 principally of the 14th and 15th centuries, most of them being drug- 

 gist's vessels of a highly ornate character. 



From the National Museum of Anthropology, Florence, through Dr. 

 Paolo Mantegazza, director, were received archaeological objects. 



Mr. Charles de Struve, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipo- 

 tentiary, Russian legation, presented thirty-nine sheets of portraits of 

 Russians. 



Lieut. George F. Emmons, U. S. Navy. Sitka, Alaska, transmitted 

 a fish-knife obtained from a native Russian woman. The knife was 

 made in Siberia, and is a relic of ancient Russia. 



Mr. George F. Kunz, Hoboken, N. J., transmitted through Consul 

 General -I. M. Crawford, St. Petersburg, a collection of castings of 

 figures, set of Russian weights, samples of ores, and specimens of 

 sand from which the castings are made. 



From Hon. R. W. Turner, U. S. consul, was obtained a small cast 

 of a Phoenician tomb. 



SWEDEN. 



The geological survey of Sweden, Stockholm, transmitted, in ex- 

 change, specimens of Cambrian fossils. 



