244 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1893. 



Maxwell, J. A. (Fulda, Minn.). Fragment of jiottery found on the shore of the 

 lake. 27060. 



Mead, C. H. (Sayreville, N. J.). Small collection of fossils from the Potomac for- 

 mation (26047); fossil plants (26075, 26118, 26192, 26311). Exchange. 



Mearxs, Dr. Edgar A., U. S. A. (International Bonndary Commission). The fol- 

 lowing collections have been obtained by Dr. Mcarns for the Mnsenm, while 

 engaged with the International Boundarj- Commission: Collection of mammal 

 skins, sknlls, rocks; 48 specimens, representing 38 species, of birds' skins from, 

 the Mexican bonndary (26022); 168 sp;'cimens, representing 53 species of birds 

 from New Mexico, 7 specimens of misiellaueons insects and myriapods, 4 eggs 

 of scaled partridge, 8 eggs of white-necked raven, nest and fragments of eggs 

 of the hepatic tanager, and a nest of the western wood pewee ; also nest of 

 Arkansas flycatcher from near the bonndary line between Mexico and the United 

 States, alcoholic specimens of fishes, reptiles, mollusks, mammal skins, sknlls, 

 boues, and horns (26371); through F. X. Holzner, fragments of pottery and 

 other objects of a similar character fonnd near cave-dwellings in the vicinity of 

 Camel Mountain, near El Paso, collected by Dr. Mearns and Mr. Holzner; frag- 

 ments of pottery, collection of birds' skins, fossil shells, ores and rocks, plants, 

 shells, birds' eggs, all collected as above stated (26499) ; stone implement " sinew 

 comb" from Mexican boundary line south of Bisbee, Ariz., 8 alcoholic specimens- 

 of insects, 261 specimens, representing 105 species of birds' skins, fishes, fossil 

 shells, fossil wood, alcoholic reptiles, rocks, shells, mammal skins, all obtained 

 irom the boundary line between ^Mexico and the United States and collected by 

 Dr. Mearns and Mr. Holzner (26608); 18 specimens, representing 12 species, of 

 birds' skins from Fort AVorth, alcoholic specimens of fishes and reptiles, and 

 collection of mammal skins and skulls (26689). 



Meder, F. (New York City). Eleven x>riiit8 (26728); soft-ground etching, " Th(- 

 Passing Storm," by C. A. Yanderhoof (26838). Purchased for AYorld's Columbian 

 Exposition. 



Melson, Henry (Crisfield, Md.). Piece of board Irom a house occupied by Kev. 

 Joshua Thomas at the time he preached to the British soldiers on Tangier Island, 

 in 1814. 26724. 



Mellichamp, Dr. J. H. (liluffton, S. C), through Prof. C. Y. Riley. Tubes made by 

 crustaceans, from May Ili\er, South Carolina. 25897. 



Melville, Dr. AY. H. (See under Interior Department, U. S. Geological Survey, and: 

 AVilliam Tate Taylor.) 



Mengel, Levi AY. (Reading, Pa.). Set of eggs of king elder, So)iiat€ria sjjecfahilis,. 

 from North Greenland; 2 sets of eggs of uiglit hawk, Chordeiles viryiiiianus;- 

 set of eggs of sharp-shinned hawk, Accipifer relax, from Berks County, Pa. 

 Exchange. 26687. 



Merck & Co (New York City), through Dr. D. AA'. Prentiss. Four-gramme speci- 

 men of pure Pilocarpine, Merck. 27019. (See under Dr. D. W. Prentiss.) 



Meiikiam, Dr. C. Hart (Department of Agriculture). Cap worn by a squaw 

 belonging to the Montagnais tribe of Indians, and iron tomakawk-blade found in 

 the grave of an Indian belonging to the same tribe. 26441. (See under Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture.) 



Meruill, George P. (U. S. National Museum). Fence-lizard, Sceloporus inididatus,. 

 and worm-snake Carphopltiops Heleiuv, from AA'^yandotte, Ind. (26176); onyx 

 marbles and rocks from Lower California, below San Quentin, and a sample 

 of fire-clay i'rom Elsinor, Cal.; tree-frog, Hyla re<iiUa and 8 sjiecimens of 

 niiscelhineous insects from the same locality (26319); specimens of cave-sala- 

 mander, Spelerpes maculicctudus, from Little A\\vandott Cave, Ind. (26423).* 

 (See under Prof. AA\ O. Crosby, AA^ H. Evans & Son, H. C. Ganter, Sal Mountain 

 Asbestus Company, Smithsonian Institution, U. S. National Museum.) 



■ This species, only recently described, is yet quite rare. 



