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harji, assistant curator of the Indian Museum, and ;i report by Mr. 

 Samuel Merrill relating to sheep and wool in India; wool and woolen 

 fabrics from Chitteldroog and Davengire Tuluks in the Chitteldroog 

 district, Mysore Province, contributed l>y Mr. L. Ricketts, director of 

 statistics and agriculture in the Mysore Bungalore, also transmitted 

 by Mr. Merrill to the Department of State and transferred to the Na- 

 tional Museum. 



From Mr. R. M. Bartleman, of the United States legation at Caracas, 

 Venezuela, were received photographs of native scenery and other 

 objects of interest in Venezuela, also of the shores of the lagoon of 

 Lake Sinamaica, Goajira Lake dwellings, and a group of Goajira 

 Indians. 



Hon. Truxton Beale, United States consul. Teheran, Persia, transmit 

 ted to the Department of State, three molds of sculptures from Persep- 

 olis, which were transferred to the Museum. 



Consul-general .John M. Crawford, St. Petersburg, Russia, kindly 

 forwarded, through the State Department, a collection of castings of 

 figures, ethnological objects, iron ores, and sample of the sand from 

 which the castings are made, obtained by Mr. George F. Kunz, of 

 Hoboken, N. J., for the National Museum. 



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

 tiary, Russian legation, Washington, D. C, presented 39 sheets of eth- 

 nological portraits of the inhabitants of Russia. 



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

 three musical instruments, specimens of shells, and ethnological objects. 



Mr. William P. Pierce, United States consul at Trinidad, West Indies, 

 forwarded through the Department of State, in behalf of Dr. J. F. Chit- 

 tenden of the Victoria Institute, specimens of sole (Achirus lineatus 

 and Azevia n. sp.). 



From Mr. Harold M. Sewall, United States consul. Apia, Samoa, were 

 received a number of native musical instruments. 



Mr. R. W. Turner, United States consul, Cadiz. Spain, transmitted 

 a door formerly used in the convent of La Rabida at Palos, and a small 

 cast of a Phoenician tomb. 



From Mr. Alexander R. Webb, United States consul, Manila, Philip- 

 pine Islands, were received ethnological objects and musical instru- 

 ments used by the natives. 



Mr. Rounsevelle Wildinann, United States consul, Singapore. Straits 

 Settlements, transmitted a collection of Dyak and Malayan ethno- 

 logical objects, shells, corals, and musical instruments. 



TREASURV DEPARTMENT. 



The requests for free entry which have heretofore been extended by 

 the Treasury Department to the National Museum in connection with 

 collections from foreign countries, have as usual been complied with. 

 The bureaus named below have shown much interest in the work of 



