REPORT OF \ssisi \\ i SECRE DARY. L39 



Through its medium collections of living animals and other objects in- 

 tended for the Museum have been promptly forwarded, which might 

 have been injured by the ordinary methods of transportation. 



Six photographs of Hell Gate explosion were sent by Maj. W. R. 

 King, Willetts Point, New York, for exhibition at the Cincinnati Ex- 

 position. 



Dr. Edgar A. Mearns, U. S. Army, Fort Suelling, Minn., sent a small 

 collection of reptiles, fishes, and batrachians from Arizona. 



Dr. J. L. Wortman, U. S. Army Medical Museum, presented four liv- 

 ing rattlesnakes and a Bee-eating buzzard. 



Lieut. Col. S. C. Kellogg, U. S. Army, deposited a buffalo robe. 



Dr. John S. Billings, Curator of the Army Medical Museum, pre- 

 sented specimens of pottery and stone implements from old graves 

 in the mountains near Lima, Peru, and three pieces of pottery from 

 Ancon, Peru. 



Dr. R. W. Shufeldt, U. S. Army, stationed at Fort Wingate, New 

 Mexico, presented the following specimens : a hawk, a long-billed marsh 

 wren, a living rattlesnake, a pigeon hawk, field mice and pocket mice, 

 two bird skins, eight batrachians, and a skin of a western red-tailed 

 hawk. 



Capt. Charles E. Bendire, U. S. Army, has continued his valuable 

 service as Honorary Curator of the collection of birds' eggs. 



U. 8. Signal Ofice. — General A. W. Greely, Chief Signal Officer, sent a 

 specimen of flexible sandstone, collected by the signal observer at Char- 

 lotte, North Carolina. A Secchi meteorograph and two sections of Beck's 

 pantograph, and Myers' autograph telegraphic instrument were deposited 

 in the Museum, and have been added to the collection of scientific ap- 

 paratus. Photographs of meteorological records were contributed to the 

 exhibit of photography prepared by the Museum in connection with the 

 Cincinnati Exposition. Through the kindness of the Chief Signal Officer 

 a large number of correspondents and collaborators of the Museum 

 have been supplied with Mr. Lucian M. Turner's "Contributions to the 

 Natural History of Alaska." 



NAVY DEPARTMENT. 



The principal accession has been a collection of fifty-nine mounted 

 birds, transmitted by the TJ. S. Naval Academy, at Annapolis, Md. 



Several pieces of bronze and copper from the Washington Navy-Yard 

 were obtained through the kindness of Commodore M. Sicard, Chief of 

 the Bureau of Jrdnance. 



The Ordnance Office of the Naval Academy sent, through Lieut. 

 Alb.ert Gleaves, several photographs of a projectile in flight from a 

 Hotchkiss magazine ri lie. 



Through the courtesy of Commander C. F. Goodrich, several photo- 

 graphs of torpedo experimental work were obtained. 



