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yaiu/ Department — Continued. 



Bureau of Navigation {Commoclore W. D. Whiting, Chief of Bu- 

 reau). Specimens of ocean bottom taken by U. S. >S. Banger, Com- 

 mander J. W. Phillips, commanding, between San 13iego, Cal., 

 and latitude 34° N., longitude 137° W. 

 Bureau of Brovisions and Clothing. (See under names of Prt?/)«rt.<?/er 

 A. W. Bacon, U. 8. iV. Seeundernamesof Capt. L.A. Beardslec, 

 Commander H. K. Gorringe, Lieut. Commander Henry E. Nichols 

 Lieut. Samuel W. Very, and Master A. E. Bahcoclc.) 

 Bureau of Stcatu Engineering. (See under name of Chief Engineer 



W. B. Brooks). 

 United States Naval Academy. (See under name of Brof. Charles E. 



Munroe.) 

 United States Naval Observatory. Manuscript of Capt. Charles F. 

 Hall relating to his voyages and exi^lorations in Arctic America. 

 Interior Department : 

 Bureau of Ethnology [J. W. Powell, Director). Fifty-five packages 

 of general collections of ethnology from Pueblo villages in ISTew 

 Mexico, collected by James Stevenson, F. H. Cushing, H. J. Bid- 

 die, and others. (See also under names of B. L. Baclard and 

 James Stevenson.) 

 United States Fish Commission. {Prof, Spencer F. Baird, Commis- 

 sioner.) Ninety-two boxes of general marine and other collections 

 obtained by the steamers Fish Hawk and Lookout and assistants 

 along the Atlantic sea-board. (See also under names of H. C. 

 Chester, A. H. Clarh, J. W. Collins, T. H. Bean, George G. Daven- 

 port, V. N. Edicards, Charles E. Gilbert, Ernest Ingersoll, D. S. 

 Jordan, J. A. Kite, M. McDonald, S. J. Martin, W. F. Bage, L. 

 Stone, Thomas Taylor, E. H. ^yall:e, and W. A. Wilcox.) 

 United States Geological Survey {J. W. Poicell, Director). Twenty- 

 seven boxes of fossils collected by Prof. L. F. Ward in Colorado. 

 Waters, Bierre. Two bones from drum-fish {Haploidonotus grunniens) '^ 



from Washington. 

 Weaver & Corderoy. Box of clay, slate, and stone pipe; from In- 

 diana. 

 Wellington Brothers & Co., Boston, Mass. Box of samples of cordage. 

 Wells, J. E. Specimen of insect {GryUotalpa horealis) ; from Ohio. (For 



examination.) 

 Wells, J. G. Three boxes of birds' skins; from Grenada, West Indies. 

 West, John, Wesfport, Oreg. Samples of cans and labels used in i)aek- 



ing Columbia River salmon. 

 West, John. Weapon of bill-fish taken from the bottom of the brig 



'■'■ Meteor'''' of Alexandria, while on a voyage to Brazil in 187G. 

 Wharto7i, Joseph. Specimen of pure tin ; from Corueto, State of Du- 

 rango, Mexico. 



