220 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1893. 



shofar or Jewish liorti (gift) (25947) ; 52 photographs representing religions scenes 

 ill Tnrkey, Syria, Egypt, Tunis, and Algiers (deposit) (25950) ; facsimile of a docu- 

 ment belonging to the Jews of Ccchiu India, Avritten in the Tamil language 

 (deposit) (25962) ; drum and staff used by the dervishes in Egy])t (deposit) 

 (26106); 3 Mohammedan talismans from Damascus (deposit) (26171). 



Agkicilturk, Dki'ahtmkxt of. Crayfishes fioiu North Carolina, Mississippi, and 

 Texas; Isopod jiarasitic on a shark, from San Diego, Cal. (26355); fresh-water 

 and laud-shells from California and Mexico, collected by Edward Palmer 

 (26386); guinea i)ig in the flesh, obtained by Dr. F. L. Kilborne, director of 

 Government Experiment Station, Bureau of Animal Industry, and transmitted to 

 the Museum, through ]Mr. Albert Hassall, of the Department; living guinea i)ig 

 (26910); crustaceans and starfishes obtained priiuii)ally from Texas (27002). 

 Throuii'li Dr. A. K. Fisher: Land-shells, representing 5 sjiecies. from Minnesota and 



Mexico (27113). 

 Division of Oruitholoijij and Mntnmulogii (through Dr. C. Hart Merrianij. Seven 

 hundred and seventy-four specimens, representing 46 species of reptiles and 

 batracbians, collected by the Death Valley Expedition in California, Nevada, 

 and Utah (deposit) (26017) ; land and fresh-water shells from the southwestern 

 border of the United States (gift) (26339) ; specimen of Microdipodopn niet/acejiha- 

 lus, and a specimen of Arvicola (Chilotuti) orctioHHs (gift) (26343) ; fish-crow (gift) 

 (26656). 

 Divif'on of Entomolutnj (through Prof C. V. Riley). < inc hundred miscellaneous 

 specimens of insects, collected in Texas by Mr. F. G. Schaupp (26239) ; 304 s])eci- 

 mens, representing 60 species of Calil\irnian coleoptera (among \vlii( h are 11 

 species new to the collection), collected by Mr. D. W. Coquillet (26422); 206 

 specimens, representing 80 species of coleoptera from southern California, also 

 collected by Mr. Co«iuillet (26.562). 



AlKF.X, J. B. (Breckeuridge, Minn.). Stone mallet used by the Indians for break- 

 ing butfalo bones in order to obtain the marrow for making " pemmican ; " col- 

 lected by E. Connolly. 26189. 



Alaska Commkrciai. Company (San Francisco, Cal.). Skin of sea-otter, £'n/(//rf'"''< 

 ?H/ri.v, with skull and bones of feet complete, olitained by the company and 

 purchased for the Museum exhibit at the World's Columbian Exposition. 26.526. 



Allkn, Dr. II. N. (Chicago, 111.). Twenty-seven specimens of Korean i>ottery, 2 

 bronze bowls, and a stone pot. Deposit. 27062. 



Allen, Ira R. (Fair Haven, Vt.). Five specimens of spessartite from Amelia Court- 

 House, Va. Purchased for World's Columbian Exposition. 26904. 



Allkn, J. S. (Chicago, 111.). Drum, sticks, and a rattle. 26632. 



Amkrican Turquoise Company (New York City), through Mr. John R. Andrews, 

 president. Specimen of turquoise in gaugue, and 7 cut stones of tur(|uoise 

 from the Cerillos Mountains, near Santa Fe, N. Mex. 26804. 



Andrews, Dr. E. A. (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.). Larval form of 

 conger eel, from Maryland (26046); ci-ab (Scuarma un(iu><tipes Dana) (26061). 



Andrews, Hexry W. (U. fe. (•(msul, Hankow, China), through Department of State. 

 Two si)ecimen8 of painted snipe, Rontvatnla beiuialcnais, from the Province of 

 Hupeh, and 2 buttertlies from the Province of Sgohuen, China. 26124. 



Andrews, John R. (See under American Turquoise Coini)any.) 



Andrus, W. J. (Hackensack, N. J.). La Fleche fowl. 26607. 



Angus, Jamk.s (West Farms, N. Y.). Six rude implements and a fragment of stea- 

 tite, from an aboriginal quarry at Johnstown, R. I. 26500. 



Anthony, A. W. (San Diego, Cal.). Nino eggs (3 sets) of Townsend's .junco, 2 eggs 

 (1 set) of San Pedro partridge, and 4 eggs (1 set) of Guadalupe house-finch, 

 with nest, new to the collection; also 4 eggs (1 set) of black-throated gray 

 warbler, with nest, 3 eggs (1 set) of black-throated sjjarrow, 4 eggs (1 set) of 

 Lincoln's sparrow, and 3 eggs (1 set) of streaked horned lark. Deposit. 26758. 



