562 REPORT 0»F NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1892. 



Purinton, L. W. (Beaver, Kans.). Specimen of badger (Jaxidea americana) from 

 Trego County. Purchase. 25132. . 



Putnam, Prof. F. W. (See under Mrs. D. B. Spenser.) 



Putnam, Mrs. William (Lyker's, New York). Specimen of cecropia silk-moth. 

 25015. 



Quelch, Bertram (Wilmington, N. C). Butterflies. 24870. 



Queredo, Alexander Samuel Lafone (Pileiao, Catamarea, Argentine Republic), 

 through Mr. George Salthouse, Fairfield, Liverpool, England. Fragments of 

 pottery. 25299. 



Quick, E. R. (See under Dr. O. P. Hay.) 



Quives, GEORGE A. (Washington, D.C.). Lizard. 25053. 



Rabbit, Samuel (Washington, D;C). Pouter-pigeon. 24836. 



RAGSDALE, George H. (Gainesville, Tex.). Marine shells from the west coast of 

 Mexico (24740); tail of cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) (25671). 



Ralph, Dr. William L. (Utica, N. Y.). Wolf (Cants lepus griseoalbus) (24575); skin 

 of Cabanis' woodpecker (Dryobates villosushyloscopus) from Colorado (24898); II 

 birds' skins, representing 11 species from San Mateo, Putnam County, Fla. 

 (25786); magnificent collection of birds' eggs, consisting of 1,630 specimens, rep- 

 resenting 194 species and 444 sets, several of which are new to the collection; 

 also 100 nests (25787); through Captain Charles E. Bendire, U. S. Army, 2 skins 

 of saw-whet owl (Nyctala acadica), skin of flammulated screech owl (Megascope 

 flammeolus) from Colorado (24851). 



Ramijo, M. Elmer (Lower Providence, Pa.). Fossil peutremites from Mt. Newman, 

 Va. 25058. 



j.amsay, Dr. Edward P. (See under Australian Museum.) 



Ramsburg, C. A. (Washington, D. C). Vertebra of fossil whale. 24692. 



Randall, F. A. ( Warren, Pa.). Fossils. Exchange. 25502. 



Ransdell, Master Harry. (See under Willie B. Tate.) 



Rathbun, Miss M. J. (Smithsonian Institution). Eighty-seven ferns, collected by 

 Mr. Richard Rathbun in Brazil, in 1877. 25404. 



Rathbun, Richard (U. S. Fish Commission). Small collection of Panopeus from 

 Brazil, collected in 1875-76. 25381. (Sec under U. S. Fish Commission, Miss 

 M. J. Rathbun.) 



Ray, GARRETT D. (Burnsville, N. C). Twenty-live specimens of kyanite in quartz, 

 5 specimens of garnet, 73 specimens of beryl, 8 specimenn of columbite, and 1 

 specimen of samarskite, collected by Mr. W. S. Yeates, U. S. National Museum 

 (exchange) (24917); specimen of prehistoric mica, also collected by Mr. Yeates, 

 from Ray's Mine. Yancey County (24995). 



Redding, E. L. (Organ, N. Mex.). Specimen of muscovite undergoing alteration. 

 25864. 



Regular Army and Navy Union of the U. S. Army (Washington, I). C), through 

 D. C. Biennan. National aide-de-camp. Badge and lapel-button of the Union. 

 25116. 



Retsof Mining Company (New York City). Sample of lump salt as mined. 24554. 



Rice, Mrs. Marie E. (Coryville, Pa ). Flint scraper. 24553. 



Rice, Prof. William North (Wesleyan University. Middleton, Conn.). Rocks and 

 ores from Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York. Exchan 25210. 



Rich, J. G. (Bethel, Me.). Two varying hares (Lepus americanvs awncanus) in the 

 flesh. Purchase. 25289. 



Richards, John T. (See under Forest and Stream Publishing Company. ) 



Richards, Joseph T. (See under Pennsylvania Railroad Company.) 



Richardson, W. D. (Fredericksburg, Va.). Thirteen specimens, representing 4 

 species of coleoptera, specimen of Adranes coccus, 2 specimens of Batrisus schaumii, 

 2 specimens of Batrisus ionce, and 2 specimens of Batrisus Virginia;. 25677. 



Richmond, Charles W. (Department of Agriculture, care of U. S. Consul, Grey- 

 town, Nicaragua). Three thousand specimens, representing 334 species of birds' 



