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the Museum, and have rendered valuable assistance in procuring con 

 tributions: 



U. 8. Coast <ind Geodetic Surrey. — Through Dr. T. G. Mendenhall, 

 Superintendent, was received a collection of insects, mammals, birds 

 skins, fishes, geological material, birds 1 eggs and a nest, collected by 

 Assistant J. E. MeGrath during his expedition to Alaska. 



('. 8. Life-Saving Service. — From this Bureau were received specimens 

 of quartz pebbles, 2 sea-horses (Hippocampus hudsonius), and a fossil 

 crab, collected at Ocean City life-saving station by Capt. J. J. Dun ton, 

 keeper, and also a skeleton of Physeter macroceplialm juv. from Green 

 Run Inlet, collected by Capt. Dunton. 



I', 8. Revenue-Marine Service. — From ('apt. M. A. Healy, through 

 Lieut. D. H. Jarvis, both of the steamer Bear, was received the skin of 

 a female walrus ( Odobaznus obesus), captured in Holy Cross Bay, Siberia. 



WAR DEPARTMENT AND THE ARMY. 



Several officers of the Army have contributed material to the Museum 

 collections, and very valuable assistance has been rendered by the 

 Quartermasters Department in connection with the transportation of 

 heavy material to Washington. 



Gen. M. C. Meigs, Quartermaster-General (retired), presented a 

 revolving rifle (in a mahogany case) of early pattern, invented about 

 1835, and made in Rochester, N. Y. 



A large collection of bronze medals, intaglios, antique stones, and 

 other objects of a similar nature were deposited in the Museum by the 

 executors of Gen. Meigs's estate, as a bequest from him to the Xational 

 Museum. 



Col. R. I. Dodge (retired), Sacketts Harbor, N. V., transmitted 4 speci- 

 mens of horse-fly (Gathophilus equi Fab.) and a Wasp [Pelccinm poly- 

 cerator). 



From Maj. William EL Powell, Fort Keogh, Mont., was received, 

 through Dr. 1). P. Wolhaupter, of Washington, D. G. a pipe belonging 

 to Washakie, an Arapahoe chief, presented to Maj. Powell by him dur- 

 ing the campaign of L876. 



Capt. Charles F. Bendire, curator of birds' eggs in the National 

 Museum, presented the skin of an American pipit [Anthus pensilvani&m) 

 from Lockport, X. V., a set of eggs of Tantalus loeulator from Yucatan, 

 and deposited a buffalo robe, lance-holder (rawhide beaded), and a 

 beaded quiver made of otter skin. 



Capt. John (1. Bourke, Fort Ringgold, Tex., presented a collection of 

 Guadalajara pottery, specimens of materia medica obtained from a 

 Mexican woman, samples of folk-medicine from Lower Rio Grande Val- 

 ley, and salt crystals from the Fl Sal del Rev Lake in southern Texas. 

 Capt. Bourke deposited three votive offerings, soles of the "guarachi," 

 or sandals used by the Mexican foot troops along the Kio Grande, a 

 throw ing-stiek, and a bird-spear from Mexico, 



