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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1895. 



Howell, E. E. — continued, 

 precious opal from Australia (purchase) 

 (2882.5) "A" ; meteorite from Kisen, Ja- 

 pan, and a meteorite from Canon 

 Diablo, Arizona (purchase) (28925) "A" ; 

 meteoric iron weighing 573 grams, from 

 El Capitau, N. Hex. (gift) (29079). 



Howell, Joseph. (See under Agricul- 

 ture, Department of.) 



Howell, Thomas. (See under Agricul- 

 ture, Department of. ) 



Hoyle, William E. (See under Man- 

 chester Museum, Manchester, England. ) 



HuiusARD, Henry (Department of Agri- 

 culture) : Specimen of /I'anaa'sojiws, from 

 Crescent City, Fla. 29363. 



Hughes, Lieut. W. N., U. S. Army (Co- 

 lumbia, Tenn.) : Trenton limestone con- 

 taining Brachiopoda, Orthis testudinaria 

 and Orthis subaqnata. 28705. 



Hundley, O.M. (See under Dr. H. W. 

 Hill.) 



Hunt, Miss L. L. (San Carlos, Ari;;.): 

 Wood-boring larva of Prionus califor- 

 nicus. 28694. 



Huntington, W. (Washington, D. C). 

 through Washington Nailor: Stone 

 pestle marked with incised lines, ob- 

 tained from a cliff ruin on the Colorado 

 River at the head of Grand Canon. 

 Deposit. 29521. 



HuKTKR, Julius (St. Louis, Mo.): Three 

 lizards and a snake. Exchange. 28791. 



HuTTON, F. W. (See under Canterbury 

 Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand.) 



Idaho, University of. (See under Ag- 

 riculture, Department of. ) 



Illinois Wesleyan University (Bloom- 

 ington. 111.), through Prof. M. .1. Elrod : 

 Specimen of Swainsou's Hawk, Buteo 

 Swainsotri. 29076. 



Im Thurn, E. F. (Government Agency, 

 Northwest District, British Guiana: 

 Collection of plants. 28670. 



Indian Museum (Calcutta, India), 

 through Surg. Capt. A. Alcock, M. B., 

 superintendent: Small collection of 

 deep-water lishes from the Bay of Ben- 

 gal, consisting of Congromunvna squali- 

 ccps and nasica, Fhysiciilus argyro- 



Indian Museum — continued. 

 partus, Thyraitis hengalensis, Xeobythitea 

 'stvatiticns, IJaUentna fumosa, Aphoris- 

 tia trifasciata and Solea umhratills, also 

 crustaceans and corals. Exchange. 

 29030. 



Intercontinental Railway Commis- 

 sion (Washington, D. C), through 

 Lieut. W. W. Macomb, United States 

 Army: Butterflies, 3 spiders, and a 

 humming-bird obtained by Dr. W. C. 

 Shannon, U. S. Army, in Costa Rica. 

 28391. 



Interior Department, Hon. Hoke 

 Smith, Secretary (U. S. Geological Sur- 

 vey, Hon. Charles D. Walcott, Direct- 

 or) : Large collection of Ordovician 

 fossils from Wisconsin and southern 

 Minnesota, obtained by F. W. Sardeson 

 in 1890 and 1891 (28319); 5 slabs of 

 Upper Cambrian sandstone containing 

 trails of CUmachtichnites Yoiingi, from 

 New Lisbon, Wis. (28320); 15 thin 

 slides of Stromatopora from the Niagara 

 terrane at Littleton, N. H. (28448); 

 geologic Atlas of the United States, 

 folios 1 to 8 (28748) ; 5 boxes contain- 

 ing Middle Cambrian trilobites from 

 Mount Stephen, British Columbia, col- 

 lected by W. D. Wilcox (28854); speci- 

 mens of ore from Silver Cliff and Rosita 

 (Hardscrabble) mining districts, Wet 

 Mountain Valley, Custer County, Colo., 

 collected by Messrs. S. F. Emmons 

 and Whitman Cross, also illustrative 

 specimens of fluorspar deposits from 

 Rosiclare, southern Illinois (28866);' 

 2 specimens of barite with calcite from 

 near Preslej^'s, Colorado, 4 barite crys- 

 tals from Apishapa Bluffs, Colorado, 

 and 2 selenite crystals, collected by 

 Prof. G. K. Gilbert (28877); 48 speci- 

 mens of pyrophyllite, collected by H. 

 W. Turner (28907); (through the Di- 

 rector .and Prof. Samuel II. Scudder, 

 Cambridge, Mass.) 74 species of fossil 

 insects from the Older Tertiary strata 

 of Colorado and Wyoming (28921);- 3 

 specimens of cinnabar from Mercur 

 Mine, Mercur, Tooele County, Utah, 



'Paper published by Mr. Emmons on the subject in Trans. Am. Inst, of Mining 

 Engineers. 



-Fifty-three of these species are types and have been figured in Monograph xxi, 

 U. S. G. S. The collection contains 239 specimens. 



