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Smith, James P., & <'<>. (New York City). Samples of Nelson's gelatines. 24900. 

 Smith, R. H. Kirby (Sewauee, Tenn.). Eggs of Tinamua robustus, Crypturm pile- 



atus, Geotrygon nwntana and Crotopliapa sulcirostria from Mexico. 25686. 

 Smith, U. C. (Philadelphia, Pa.). Specimens of Eupleura and Litorina litoreafrom 



Anglesea, N. J. 25237. 

 Smith, William G. (Loveland, Colo.). Nests and eggs of Empidonax pusillus, E. 

 difficilis and l'mx-nivs graminem confinis (!) (gift) (25407); striped gopher 

 (Spermophilus 13-lineatiis) and pouched gopher (Geomys bursarius) in the flesh 

 (purchase) (25818); through Captain Charles E. Beudire, U.S. Army, skin of 

 little llycatcher {Empidohax puaillus) from Colorado (gift) (25160). 

 Smithsonian Institution. 



V. S, Bureau of Ethnology, under direction of the Smithsonian Institution, Maj.J. 

 W. Powell, director. 

 Through Maj. Powell : Collection of birch-bark scrolls and mnemonic songs, 

 made by Or. W. J. Hoffman in Minnesota during the years 1887, '88, '89 

 and '90, relating to the ritual of the Society of Shamans, usually designated 

 the "Grand Medicine Society" (24984); collection of archaeological objects 

 consisting of 142 specimens of beads, fragments of bones, pottery and simi- 

 lar objects, obtained from a mound near Linville, Rockingham County, Va. 

 (25306); 370 ethnological objects collected by Mr. James Mooney from the 

 Kiowa Indians, Oklahoma Territory, purchased by the Bureau of Eth- 

 nology, and transferred to the National Museum (25718). 

 U. S. National Museum, under direction of the Smithsonian Institution, Or. G. 

 Brown Goode, assistant secretary. 

 Collected by Or. G. Brown Goode: Twenty-three pieces of Savona faience 

 (25355);* eight lamps, counters for game, costume of the Misericordia, two 

 wedges, distaff with photograph of spinner, Easter offering of bread and 

 hazel-nuts, photograph of a statute of vender of hazel-nuts and bread with 

 offerings, playing-cards, and various other articles (25771); t collection of 

 ethnological objects, ceremonial objects, costumes; musical instruments, 

 consisting of an ocarina, bone flute, flageolet, piffaro da pastoral chiariua 

 di ottone (clarionet of brass), zampogna (bag-pipe), piccolo mandola (man- 

 doline), salterio (dulcimer) from Florence and Rome (25819) ;t and a medal- 

 lion of Lucca dell a Robbra ware, etc., (25882). t 

 Collected by Messrs. W. H. and A. H. Brown : Six birds' skins, representing 4 



species from Angola, Africa (25702). 

 Collected by Mr. Romoyn Hitchcock: Samples of straw braid from Tientsin, 

 China; specimens illustrating the preparation of bristles; specimen of silver- 

 bearing galena from Monarch Mine, Field Station. ('. P. R. R., British Co- 

 lumbia (25499). 

 Collected by Mr. P. L. Jouy: Eleven specimens, representing 6 species of 

 birds' skins and a mud-turtle from Arizona (24528) ; 11 specimens, represent- 

 ing 6 species of birds' skins from the same locality (24537); 7 mammal skins 

 from Sonora, Mexico. 2 from Tucson. Ariz., a pair of horns belonging to 

 a Mexican deer, and 3 mammal skulls from Arizona (24572); small collection 

 of fishes from the same locality, consisting of <Hlu sp., Gild gibbosa, Gila 

 nigrescens, Cyprinus carpio, Cyprinodon macularius, and a few other Cyprino- 

 donts (245S5); shin of barn owl (Strix pratineola) from Tucson, Arizona 

 (21613); crustaceans, echini, worms and reptiles from Mexico and Ariz. 

 (24645); collection of fishes from Guaymas, Mexico, consisting of <;<>hiitx. 



* The potteries have been discontinued for nearly two centuries; the pieces are 

 mostly of the fourteenth and fifteenth century, many of them being vessels of a 

 highly ornate character, used by druggists. 



tPuvchased by Or. Goode for the National Museum. 



