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Lieut. HarryC. Benson, Fort Walla Walla. Wash., transmitted nests 

 and eggs of Troehilus alexandri with skins of tlie same, sets of eggs of 

 Buteo swainsoni and Accipiter cooperi from St. Louis ranch, San .Joa- 

 quin Valley, California, and Santa Lucia Valley. 



From Dr. Edgar A. Mearns, Fort Snelling, Minn., were received birds' 

 eggs and skins, mammal skins, turtle, and forty-eight species of shells. 

 In connection with his work on the International Boundary Commission. 

 Dr. Mearns obtained for the Museum a collection of birds' skins and 

 eggs, turtles, and mammal skins, birds' eggs, birds' nests, rocks, shells, 

 fossils, mammal skulls, cocoon of bag worm, and fishes. 



Dr. J. IT. Porter, Army Medical Museum, Washington, 1). ('..trans- 

 mitted two human skulls, piece of hone, and 4 stone implements from 

 Rockingham County, Va. 



From Dr. R. W. Shufeldt. Takoma Park, I). C, were received birds' 

 nests and skins; model of a fossil bird, Archceopteryx macrura, from 

 Solenhofen, Bavaria; nest of prairie warbler (Dendroica discolor) from 

 Takoma Park; a skin of Wilson's snipe (Gallinajo delicata) from Fort 

 Wingate, X. Mex.; specimen of Carinifex Ne?vbergi, from the Equus 

 beds, Fossil Lake. Oregon, and a specimen of iguana. 



Dr. Timothy B. Wilcox. Fort Huachuoa, Ariz., presented a collection 

 of mammals, insects, reptiles, fishes, and birds,* and a living horned 

 toad. 



From Dr. Charles E. Woodruff, Fort Missoula, .Mont., through Mr. 

 Garrick Mallery, of the Bureau of Ethnology, were deposited thirty- 

 seven photographs pertaining to the Hoopa V alley Indians of California, 

 and presented a stone baking-dish obtained from the same tribe of Indi- 

 ans. 



From Rev. J. H. Potter, Fort Clark. Tex., was received a large speci- 

 men of fresh- water shrimp. 



Mr. Frank X. Holzner, Fort Snelling. Minn., presented specimens of 

 mammals and birds' skins. 



Mr. Charles E. Fosdick. of the War Department, transmitted a star 

 fish with nine rays. 



NAVY DEPARTMENT AND THE NAVY. 



Admiral Jouett and Mrs. Jouett deposited a dish and ewer of ''pre 

 cious metals," presented to the Admiral for services rendered in saving 

 from shipwreck the British steamship Historian in the Caribbean Sea 

 in 1885. 



From Lieut. George F. Emmons, Sitka, Alaska, was received a fish 

 knife made in Siberia, and preserved as a relic of the old Russian days. 



From Lieut. T. G. Fillette were received seven pictures illustrating 

 the Chinese idea of the war in Tonkin, and a showbill, ••Chiarinisshow 



* Dr. Wilcox was assisted in obtaining this collection by Miss Florence Wilcox, 

 Lieuts. J. A. Emery and Simpson, Dr. R. G. Ebert, Master Harry Ebert, Master Fred 

 Fowler, Master Glover Wilcox, and Mr. Leah, hospital steward, 



