82 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1892. 



From the Auckland Museum, through Prof. T. F. Cheeseman, curator, 

 were received in exchange botanical specimens, insects, birds' skins 

 and skeletons. 



The Otago Museum, Dunedin, through Dr. T. Jeffrey Parker, director, 

 transmitted specimens of crustaceans in exchange. 



Mr. Charles T. Simpson . U. S. National Museum, presented dried 

 specimens of Lepas liillii. 



MALAYSIA. 



From Mr. Victor A. Jenny, consular agent at Macassar, Celebes, 

 were received specimens of shells, ethnological objects, and three musi- 

 cal instruments, collected by him for the National Museum. 



Hon. Alexander Webb, United States consul, Manila, Philippine 

 Islands, transmitted to the Museum musical instruments collected by 

 him for the National Museum. 



Hon. Rounsevelle Wildman, United States consul, Singapore, Straits 

 Settlements, transmitted Malayan musical instruments and ethnologi- 

 cal objects collected by him for the National Museum. 



POLYNESIA. 



HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 



Lieut. T.G. Fillette, U S. Navy, deposited a cane of palm- wood with 

 handle made of a wild boar's tusk, gold-mounted, presented to him by 

 King- Kalakaua. 



From Mr. Scott B. Wilson, Heatherbank, Weybridge, Surrey, Eng- 

 land, was obtained, by purchase, a skin of Baillou's grosbeak [Loxioides 

 bailloui). 



SAMOA2S ISLANDS. 



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From Hon. Harold M. Sewall, United States consul, was received a 

 collection of Samoan musical instruments. 



From Ward's Natural Science Establishment, Rochester, N. Y., was 

 received the type of the flying fox, Pteropus lanigera. 



H.— COOPERATION OF THE DEPARTMENTS AND BUREAUS 

 OF THE .GOVERNMENT DUPING THE YEAR ENDING 

 JUNE 30, 1892. 



The National Museum during the past year has been the recipient 

 of numerous contributions from the different bureaus of the Govern- 

 ment, as will be seen from the following statements: 



DEPARTMENT OF STATE. 



From the Department were received specimens of Indian wool, woolen 

 yarns and fabrics; also samples of Indian wool, collected by Consul- 

 General Samuel Merrill, Calcutta, India, assisted by Mr. T. N. Muk- 



