556 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1892. 



Meacham, Mrs. D. P>. (Cincinpati, Ohio), flint flake, lour arrow-points, and a shell 

 bead. Exchange. 25091. 



"Meakns, Dr. E. A., U. S. A. (Fort Snelling, Minn.). Shells, representing 48 speeies. 

 21840. 



"Meauns, Dr. Edgar A., I'. S. Army (International Boundary Commission, El Paso, 

 Tex.). Birds' nests and eggs; small eolleetion of lishes, consisting of Moxo- 

 stoma, Perca, Ictiobus, Clupea, Amiurus, Stisosteium, Lepidosteus, Haploidonotus, 

 Dorosoma, Ictalurus, Ambloplites, Esox lucius, Pomoxis, Anguilla, Lepomis, Etheo- 

 stiniKt, Umbra, Hybopsis, and Notropis) 110 birds' skins, representing 78 speeies; 

 mammal skins and skulls (25392); eolleetion of mammal skins and skulls, 

 cocoons <>f bag-worm (Thyridopteryx sp.), cretaceous fossils from El Paso, 

 Tex.; 76 specimens of birds' skins representing 27 species (25578); collection 

 of birds' skins, Hi specimens representing 2 species of birds' eggs, mammal 

 skins, turtles (25823) ; rocks, birds' nest, eggs, birds' skins, mammal skins, speci- 

 mens of Helix (25879). 



Meder, Ferd (New York City). Engravings, consisting of the Head of Christ, 

 Durer; portrait, Van Sichem; Philip II, II. Wierix; Miiller, Anton Graff; mez- 

 zotint of J. Ramsden, published January 1, 1791. Purchase. (25731). 



Meeds, Prof. A. D. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn.), through Prof. C. 

 \V. Hall. Stone slab from the Fort Union group of southern Montana, bearing 

 the impressions of several leaves, among which is a specimen of Popidus, new 

 to science. Exchange. 25292, 



Meigs, Gen. Montgomery C, U. S. Army (Washington, D. C). Revolving rifle, in 

 mahogany case, invented about 1835, made at Rochester, N. Y., by Billing- 

 hurst (gift) (24827); through Montgomery Meigs and Mary M. Taylor, exec- 

 utors of the estate of Gen. Meigs (bequeathed by Gen. Meigs and deposited 

 in the Museum), seal ring with intaglio portrait of Julius Caesar, an antique 

 stone; largesignet of bronze with stone engraved in intaglio; antique of Charon 

 and Achilles or ^Eneas; silver tureen, part of silver service presented by the 

 citizens of Baltimore to Commodore John Rogers in testimony of their appre- 

 ciation of the important aid afforded by him in the defense of Baltimore on the 

 12th and 13th id' September. L81 1 ; silver teakettle presented to ('apt. Montgom- 

 ery Meigs, U. S. Engineers, by the corporation of Washington, with a resolution 

 of thanks approved March 12. 1853, lor his report on the Washington Aqueduct, 

 presented June 9, 1854, by John W. Maury, mayor. Joseph Burrows, of the 

 board of aldermen, and A. \Y. Miller, of the board of common council, commit- 

 tee of the corporation; cabinet of coins, medals, and other objects, the cabinet 

 made of fragments of the wagons used by (Jen. Sherman in the campaign of 

 1864 and 1N65— including a collection of 137 colored glass reproductions of antique 

 intaglio gems; plaster cast of a Thorwaldsen medallion; gold-mounted antique 

 intaglio "Phebus in Chariot of the Sun:" 58 bronze and gilded medals, com- 

 memorating events in American and European history; 49 modern gold, silver, 

 and copper coins of England, Germany, Mexico, Italy, and Spain; 254 silver 

 and copper coins of ancient Greece and Rome; badge of the Union League 

 Club of. Philadelphia; medal given by the Grand Trunk Railway Company of 

 Canada to persons distinguishing themselves in its service; bronze medal 

 awarded to Gen. Meigs for the Cabin John Bridge by the Centennial Commis- 

 sion, 1876 (deposit) (25386); 7 colored sketches and 23 pencil sketches (gift) 

 (25469). 



Melville, Dr. W. H. (See under C. M. Allen, C. II. Hand, R. L. Hornbrook, E. F. 

 Lettrick, Philip A. Markson, S. L. 1'elkey. Interior Department, U. S. Geolog- 

 ical Survey.) 



* A further reference to the collections made by Dr. Mearns for the National Museum, 

 in connection with the International Boundary Commission, will be found in the 

 chapter on Explorations. 



