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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1895. 



Meakns, Dr. E. A. — continued. 



sp<»cies, from Arizona and adjacent 

 parts of California (28431); mammal 

 skins, 73 birds' skins from Arizona and 

 California (28443); mammal skins, 

 marine shells, 27 birds' skins, rejire- 

 senting 20 species, from Arizona and 

 California (28446); sea-urchins, barna- 

 cles, and a sponge, collection of birds' 

 eggs from southern Arizona and Lower 

 California, consisting of 42 specimens 

 and representing 11 species, botanical 

 specimens, 358 birds' skins, represent- 

 ing IIG species, from California, Lower 

 California, and San Clemente Island, 

 grooved ax nnd grinding stone from 

 Arizona, also 3 ;>'rinding stones from 

 California, land, fresh-water, and ma- 

 rine shells from the Aacinlty of the 

 Mexican boundary, mammal skins, 

 bats, a pair of horns, human skull and 

 piece of a horn, rocks (28510) ; mammal 

 skins, 337 birds' skins, representing 97 

 species from California, Lower Cali- 

 fornia (28540); cocoon of Tarantula- 

 killer, rcj>sis furmosa (28546) ; alco- 

 holic and dry mollusks from the Tia 

 Juaua termination of the Mexican 

 boundary line on the Pacific Coast, 

 alcoholic invertebrates from the Mexi- 

 can boundary, alcoholic reptiles, sea- 

 weed, alcoholic fishes collected along 

 the United States and Mexican bound- 

 ary, between Fort Yuma and the Pacific 

 Ocean, alcoholic mammals, alcoholic 

 specimens of Easahnn hUiuitatus, Say, 

 from San Clemente Island, alcoholic 

 birds (28661); 172 birds' skins from 

 southern California, Lower California, 

 and San Clemente Island (29197) ; sala- 

 manders and frog from Fort Myer, pair 

 of antlers of moose, Alces madilis 

 (29321) ; '^arthenwaro pipe from Moun- 

 tain Spring, San Diego County, Cal. 

 (29515). 



Meek, Prof. S. E. (Fayetteville, Ark. ) : 

 Fresh-water shells from Old River, 

 Arkansas. 28687. 



Meldrum, Mrs. W. II. (Newark, N. J.): 

 Cecropia silk moth with cocoon. 29379. 



Meucer, H. C. (Doylestown, Pa.) : Three 

 scrapers of quartzite from Bucks 

 County. 29376. 



Merriam, Dr. C. Hart. (See under Agri- 

 culture, Department of, and Dr. .John 

 Macoun.) 



Merrill, George P. (U. S. National 

 Museum : Contorted schist, trap dykes, 

 and weathered rock from Cape I'liza- 

 beth. Me. (28459); fibrolito schist, 

 pegmatite, and mica from North Gro- 

 ton, and mica in gangue from Alex- 

 andria, N. H. (28598) ; geological ma- 

 terial from Albemarle and Nelson 

 Counties, Va. (28674); asbestos and 

 associated rocks and miniu-als from 

 Alberton, Md. (28761) ; crystalline lime- 

 stone showing weathering, and pink 

 marble from Marl)]e Hill, Pickens 

 County, Ga. (28942); granite, fresh and 

 decomposed, from Stone Mountain, Ga. 

 (28960) ; collection of syenite (pulaskite) 

 and elajolite syenite from near Little 

 Rock, Ark. (28992); asbestos in lime- 

 stone from the west and lower bridge, 

 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, on Pa- 

 tapsco River, west of Alberton, Md. 

 (29509 ), collected by Mr. Merrill for the 

 National Museum. (See under C. A. 

 Sherman.) 



Mexico, National Museum op (City of 

 Mexico), through Prof. A. L. Herrera: 

 Three species of alcoholic fishes from 

 Vera Cruz, consisting of " Percado 

 'Roho," Joturiis (pichardif), " lllama," 

 Sicydium Plumieri and "Cuorepo," 

 Menidia HumholdUana. 28548. 



Miller, R. T. (Fond du Lac, Minn.) : 

 .law of black bear and scales from the 

 gill covers of a fish. 28591. 



Miller, W. (Grand Rapids, Mich.) : For- 

 eign postage stamps. 29216. 



Mills, G. S. (Hogansburg, N. Y.): Natu- 

 ral formation, resembling worked stone. 

 29192. 



Mills, Mies Lyra. (See under Agricul- 

 ture, Department of.) 



Mills, Robert A. (Chuluota, Fla.): 

 Stone ax from Orange Mound, iron 

 saddlebow from Saddle Mound, near St. 

 Johns River, and natural formation 

 resembling a worked stone implement 

 (28445); tapeworms taken from a 

 swamp rabbit (29061); adult tape- 

 worms from a specimen of Lepua j>«7m8- 

 tris (29084); tapeworms from rabbits 

 and from a specimen of Amia (29212). 



Milne -Edwards, Dr. A. (See under 

 Paris, France. Museum of Natural 

 History.) 



