120 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1889. 



E. M. Lewis, of Bed.loe's Island, presented birds winch bad been killed 

 by flying against the statue " Goddess of Liberty," in New York Har- 

 bor. 



J. M. Falconer, of Brooklyn, gave an engraving, " The Building of 

 Brooklyn Bridge." 



A lithograph of a landscape by Tudot was received from S. P. Avery, 

 New York City. 



A large collection of minerals, containing 1,371 specimens, collected 

 by S. L. Penfield in Jefferson, Louis, and St. Lawrence Counties, was 

 transmitted by the U. S. Geological Survey. 



North Carolina. — J. M. Spainhour, of Lenoir, presented a specimen 

 of asbestns. 



G. P. Merrill, of the National Museum, collected peridotite, chromide, 

 and nickel ores from Webster. He also presented photographic nega- 

 tives of views taken at Webster. 



The observer of the U. S. Signal Service at Charlotte sent flexible 

 sandstone. 



E. S. Bowers, of Webster, presented amethysts, two sapphire corun- 

 dums, and a brown star sapphire. 



Several fine mineral specimens were sent by D. A Bolman, of Bakers- 

 ville. 



William H. Gaskill, keeper of the Life-Saving Station, Cape Lookout, 

 sent a sunfish. 



Ohio. — From the Cincinnati Society of Natural History was received 

 a collection of bone, shell, and stone implements gathered from graves 

 in Madisonville. 



William H. McGinnis, Member of Congress, of Youngstown, sent 

 stone implements, flakes, arrow and spear heads. 



Coleoptera aud lepidoptera were donated by Charles Dury, of Cin- 

 cinnati. 



A large collection of stone objects and pottery, containing 4,710 speci- 

 mens, was deposited by Warren K. Moorehead, of Xenia. 



Thomas Wilson, of the National Museum, presented a collection of 

 bone, shell, aud stone implements from Anderson Township and Cler- 

 mont County. 



Selenite crystals were received from C. S. Mason, of Toledo. 



Carey Bell, of Utica, sent a stone axe. 



Oregon. — Livingston Stone, sent a specimen of fungus which was found 

 growing in a fir log near Clackamas Station. 



Three water lizards from Fort Klamath were received from Capt. G. 

 S. Carpenter, U. S. Army. 



Pennsylvania. — A specimen of stone pestle from Cohocksink Creek 

 was received from George W. Haig, of Philadelphia. 



The Zoological Society of Philadelphia presented a Sheath Bill aud a 

 Cockatoo. 



E. L. Pintard, of Philadelphia, deposited a file of the "Philadelphia 

 Photographer", 1867-1887. 



