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Japanese musical instruments, two Japanese masks, porcelain ware, 

 and a palanquin were purchased from the First Japanese Trading 

 Company, New York City. 



The Tokyo Library and Tokyo Educational Museum presented a very 

 fine collection of Japanese plants. 



Jerusalem. — A shofar, or ancient Jewish trumpet, made of ram's 

 horn, was presented by David Sulzberger, of Philadelphia. 



An alabaster model of a Mosque iu Jerusalem was deposited by the 

 Rev. J. P. Newman, of New York. 



EUROPE. 



Austria. — The Royal Imperial Natural History Museum, of Vienna, 

 sent, through Dr. Aristides Brezina, a collection of meteorites, and 

 also sent in exchange one hundred and seventeen specimens of build- 

 ing stones. 



Three meteorites were received, in exchange, from Baron Brauu, of 

 Vienna. 



A collection of twenty-four bird skins was received, iu exchange, 

 from Victor Ritter von Tschusi zu Sckmidhoffen, of Salzburg. 



Chevalier Schmit von Tavera, minister from Austro-Huugary, pre- 

 sented an ethnological map of Hungary. 



Denmark. — A collection of fishes representing sixty-seven species, 

 from northern seas, was received, in exchange, from the Zoological 

 Museum of the University of Copenhagen. 



A silver cross of the " Order of Danenborg" was presented by Paul 

 Beckwith, of the National Museum. 



France. — The Musee d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, sent, in exchange, 

 one hundred and ninety-five specimens of modern and antique marbles 

 from Europe and Africa. 



The Musee de St. Germain, Paris, sent, in exchange, molds of 

 bronze implements. 



Thomas Wilson, of the National Museum, presented minerals from 

 Brittany. 



A collection of five hundred specimens of stone implements from 

 various localities of France was purchased from E. R. Reynolds, of 

 Washington, District of Columbia. 



Germany. — C. Kickhoff, of New York, sent samples of alloys from 

 Germany. 



A collection of bird-skins was purchased from Dr. I). Rey, of Leipsic. 



Great Britain. — From the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, was re- 

 ceived a collection of vegetable economic products, including textiles, 

 foods, gums, materia medica, botanical and ethnological specimens. 



P. W. Webb, locomotive superintendent of the London and North- 

 western Railway Company, Crewe, sent photographs of Trevi thick's 

 engine and boiler. 



