LIST OF ACCESSIONS. 573 



Unwix, F. S. (See under Dr. Julius Neumann.) 



Van Deman, H. E. (Department of Agriculture). Specimen of black skimmer 

 (Ii Inj n chops nigra). 25754. 



Vaden, L., & Company (Washington, D. C), through M. I>. Knight. Two rude soap- 

 stone howls found while excavating <>n Connecticut avenue extended. 25764. 



Vail, Benjamin (Washington, 1). C). JTrilobite from three miles west of Aurora, 

 Ind. 25496. 



Vail, Judge Stephen. (See under Mrs. John H. Lidgerwood.) 



Vallance, Joiix. (See under Sigua Iron Company.) 



Varce, Clarence and Samuel E. (Brownsville, Ala.). Living specimen of alder- 

 blight. Pemphigus tesselatus Fitch. 25037. 



Vasey, Dr. George. (See under Department of Agriculture.) 



Velie, Dr. J. W. (Chicago, 111.). Twenty-eight fresh-water shells from Minnesota. 

 24961. 



Vaughan, T. Waylaxd (Mount Lebanon, La.). Seventy-five specimens, represent- 

 ing 11 species of fresh-water shells from Louisiana (24848); 5 specimens of Unio 

 aniens Cone (25102) ; specimens representing 3 species of Unio (25160) ; 23 species 

 of Eocene fossils (25473). 



Verbill, Prof. A..E. (See under Peabody Museum.) 



Vox Streeruwitz, W. (State Geological Survey, Houston, Tex.). Two specimens 

 of silver copper ores from Hazel Miue, El Paso County (gift) (24725); ores and 

 rocks from Texas (exchange) (25059); rocks and building-stone (gift) (25206); 

 rocks and ores from Texas; black mica and fossil wood (gift) (25482). 



Votii, Rev. T. R. (Darlington, Okla. ). Tomahawk pipe. Purchase. 25145. 



Wagner Free Institute of Science (Philadelphia, Pa.). Twenty-seven species 

 of land-shells from Jamaica, West Indies (24694); through Mr. Joseph Willcox, 

 collection of Pliocene fossils from the Waccamaw River, South Carolina (25522). 



Walcott, C. D. (U. S. Geological Survey). Four specimens of calcite from Smith's 

 Basin, Washington County, N. Y. (25191); contorted slate from near Wells, Rut- 

 land County, Vt. (25207) ; 5 echinoids, 5 specimens of flint and the tooth of 

 a shark from the cretaceous chalk of Croydon, England (25218). (See under 

 Interior Department. U. S. Geological Survey.) 



Walker, ERNEST (New Albany, Ind.). Plants from Kentucky and Indiana. 24673. 



Wallace, Mrs. Catharine (Melbourne, Australia). Fungus growth from New 

 Zealand, representing the genus Torrubia. 25599. 



Wallace, W. O. (Wabash, Ind.), through Dr. O. P. Hay. Snake, Tropodonotus lebcris. 

 25656. 



Wallingsford, W. W. (II. S. National Museum). Two horse-chestnuts used as a 

 charm against rheumatism. 24828. 



Ward's Natural Science Establishment (Rochester, N. Y.). Fruit-bat (Pteropus 

 lanigera) (type specimen) from the Samoan Islands (purchase) (24559); 6 alco- 

 holic specimens of bats (purchase) (24566) ; mounted and unmounted mammal 

 skins.including a moose, 2 specimens of wapiti, 3 mounted alpacas, a llama 

 and others (purchase) (24574); 15 skins and 8 mounted mammals consisting of 

 Felis colocolo (?), Lama paca juv., Lama glama, Lama vicugna, Chlamydophorus 

 truneatus, Putorious vison (mounted), Felis concolor, Aloes machlis, Cervus cana- 

 densis juv., Bison americanus, Cebus oapucinus, Cebus variegatus, Lutrafelina, Pro- 

 ciion caucrivorus, Capromys pilorides, Tatusia peba, Lutra brasiliensis, Rapalerosa- 

 lia, Mephitis mephitica, Pithecia nocturna (skins) (purchase) (24650); specimens 

 of fluorite, siderite after fluorite, barite, aragonite, opal, native mercury, 

 and kriinkite (exchange) (24762); specimens of calcite. pyromorphite, torber- 

 uite, hematite, orthoclase, realgar, orpiment rhodochrosite, columbite, fluorite. 

 sodalite, eudialite and prehnite (purchase) (24778) ; specimens for the synoptic 

 series of invertebrates (purchase) (24983); series of models of nervous, circula- 

 tory, and digestive systems of various invertebrates and vertebrates (purchase) 

 (25052); 4 skins of moles and 6 of shrews (purchase) (25133). 



