560 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1892. 



Palmer, Joseph (U. S. National Museum). Skin of field-mouse (Arvicola riparius) 

 (24560); 3 young meadow-mice in the flesh (24811). 



Palmer, William (U. S. National Museum). Two skins of common mole (Scalops 

 aquaticus), from Baltimore; skin of rhesus monkey (Macacus rhesus) (24565); 

 monkey (Chrysothrix sciurea) (25127); macaque (Macacus sp.) (25130); jendaya 

 paroquet (Conurus jendaya) from Brazil (25164); jumping-mouse (Zapns hud- 

 sonitis) from Balston, Va., in the flesh, collected hy Willard Burch (25184). (See 

 under (apt. \V. II. Cassell.) 



Park, J. T. (Warner, Tenn.), Four specimens of bronzed grackle (Quisculus quis- 

 cula ceneus). 2481 1. 



Parker, A. II. (Westbrook, Me.). Larva' of dytiscid beetle and carabid beetle, 

 alcoholic specimens of reptiles, skull of owl, Nyctale lengmalni richardsoni, alco- 

 holic crustaceans and echini, 4 birds' skins, specimens of mammals, shells 

 (25464,; 8 tortoises from Stroudwater River (25632). Exchange. 



Parker, Dr. T. Jeffrey. (See under Otago University Museum.) 



Parmele, Mrs. Theodore W. (New York City). Historical chart. 25558. 



Parsons, Miss Kathkrine (Washington, D. C). Sedan chair formerly owned by 

 the family of Louis XIV. Deposit. 25600. 



Patrick, Isaac (Crown King, Ariz.). Male specimen of Dynasies granii. 24915. 



Pattee, T. B. (Valley Springs, Cal.). Set of eggs of yellow-billed magpie (Pica 

 nuttalli) (25684)-; sets of eggs of Falco sparverius, Colaptes caper. Pica nuttalli 

 (25757).' 



Patton, W. (Cedar Creek, Mo.). Specimens of iron sulphide. 24674. 



Payx, Elias (Ties Piedras, N. Mex.). Sandstone. 25801. 



Payne, Robert H. (U. S. Geological Survey). Enamel picture on glass, transferred 

 from stone. 25093. 



Payne. Samuel (Washington, D. C). Monkey, Cercopithecua sp. 25682. 



Peabody Museum (Cambridge, Mass.), through Prof. A. E. Verrill. Specimens 

 of Panopeus crenatus, transversus and planus. Exchange. 25342. 



Pecos Red Sandstone Company (Pecos City, Tex.). Two 4-inch cubes of red sand- 

 stone. 25351. 



Pelkey, S. A. (Huntington, Oregon). Opal(f), collected by Dr. W. H. Melville, 

 U. S. Geological Survey. 25077. 



Pence, W. C. (Shenandoah, Va.). Iusects (24865, 25070). 



Pemteij), Prof. S. L. (New Haven, Conn.). Minerals from various localities, con- 

 sisting of lithiophilite, amblygonite, hureaulite, reddingite, triploidite, dick- 

 insonite, natrophite, fairtieldite, scovillite, rhabdophane (25202); spango- 

 lite from Tombstone, Ariz. (25421). (See under Dr. F. M. Endlich, George E. 

 Kedzie, Interior Department. U. S. Geological Survey, Tingley S. Wood). 



Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Complete steel tie with rail and fastenings 

 used on the load near Philadelphia (25532), through Joseph T. Richards, assist 

 ant chief engineer, plaster cast of a bronze tablet for the Bordentown monument, 

 erected by the Pennsylvania Railroad to mark the first piece of track laid in 

 the State of New Jersey, and also to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of 

 the first movement by steam in New .Jersey (25337). 



Pennypacker, C. H. (West Chester, Pa.). Five specimens of calcite from Bigrigg 

 mine, Cumberland, England (24787); specimen of adamite, sniithsonite from 

 Greece, and corundum from Ceylon (25453). Purchase. 



Penrose, R. A. F., jr. Specimen of spessartite from Llano County, Te^c. 25214. 



Perkins, F. S. (Madison, V\is.). Brass buckle of European manufacture, obtained 

 from an Indian grave near Oshkosh. 25744. 



Peters, Dr. John P. (New York City). Weaving-loom, card, and shuttle from Bag- 

 dad (25104); through I lr. Cyrus Adler, Turkish baker's tally from Broussa, in 

 Asia Minor (25808). 



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